A few days ago the sysadmin at the National Capital Freenet emails me to ask if the news system relies on any files in the /, /usr or /var partitions, because he wants to upgrade to the latest and greatest Solaris and doesn’t want to blow anything of mine away. I said no, I don’t think so. Ok, he tells me, I’ll be doing that on Thursday.
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Category: Activities
Pimp my …. KAYAK?
I’m working on a decoration for my kayak. Preliminary sketches here and here.
It’s supposed to be a loon, but it looks more like a merganser to me. Actually, that design is too similar to the one I copied – I’m going to be changing the interior of the body some as soon as I figure out how to make smoothly curving lines in Photoshop.
I miss my kayak
I went out today to the back yard for a little while and sat in my kayak. And cried.
I think that in spite of the pain, I’ve got to get out for a few minutes in it. Not for long – I don’t want to get too painful. But I’ve got to feel my own kayak beneath me on the water.
Mixture rich, boost pump on, beacon on, fuel….paid for?
Today on the way into work I was thinking about my next flying club bill, specificially the fuel credits part. And I realized that I never saw a fuel slip at the FBO on Sunday. And then I realized that I’d given them a credit card for the car rental on Saturday, but never given them a credit card on Sunday. Oh, I thought, what are the odds that Vicki paid for the fuel while she was inside waiting for me to pre-flight. Probably not good, since I never mentioned it to her and so she probably assumed I took care of it.
Luckily, the “Weather on your cell phone” service I signed up for has FBO phone numbers on it, so I was able to look up the phone number, call them, apologize profusely and give them my credit card number all on the walk across the parking lot to work.
Have I mentioned recently…
…how glad I am that I have an instrument rating.
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