Cool. WordPress has a geotagging feature of the blog. Works really well with the phone. I’ll have to futz with it.
Posted from Glenwood Springs, Colorado, United States.
Nice. The garlic knots rule! Good pizza, met one of the owners. We didn’t get the family discount though.
So we swiped someones Internet and I’m blogging. We had quite an adventure this weekend. We did meet with the captain, and learned a bunch, but unfortunately had to use some of that knowledge.
One minute before my uncle gets here, I see a leaking faucet, so I try to tighten it. BAM it breaks, water all over. Now we can’t use the water until I fix this and no shutoff valve. So have to take the icemaker out to get to the valve (which didn’t exist, and I didn’t know that at the time). It arc’s the moment we get it out. The water or the corrosion caused the issue. So, off to West Marine, then Home Depot, then to another West Marine, 4 hours later, done. Then off to dinner to try and get some husband points back, we take the dinghy, have a great dinner. Done. Tomorrow it’s big boat time, off to Laguna.
We were .5 miles away from Huntington Beach Pier and the alarms start going off. High water mark for the bilge pumps. Damn, I forgot to turn them on, but why is there water? Sadie runs and checks, there is water in the bilge and when I check, a TON of water under the engine. DAMNIT. We ran back to the marina on one engine, Sadie did a killer job docking and we shut it off. An hour later the oil pressure alarm goes off (read, it’s been off for an hour, all power off to the boat). 20 minutes later of people looking at me scrambling, I find the switch and kill it. Call to the engine guy (who had just fixed something with the water cooling system), and he says, it must be some other pump you were supposed to fix. WRONG. He’s coming tomorrow. Sadie and I going to settle in and watch a movie. The boat is cool, but it’s screaming for some attention.
Sometimes I’m the manager, other times, I have to go do the work.
Soldered all the needed connections, now I need to start identifying the voltages, and then start to code. Might need Abbott’s help with the scoping piece…
Seriously, every time we travel I have a need for a rockstar. I need to create an iPhone app to find where you can buy one. It would be web/database driven and i could customize it for anything. Anyways, I want one and can’t find them. I even found them in London, which was set at 1.15 GBP. Why do I pay $3 at the gas station?
Ok, Sadie and I were discussing things when trying to find some munchies at the airport.
Its rant time.
No more milk chocolate, only dark. Seriously, stop making waxy crappy lame flavored stuff.
Do better planning. Its the old, your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency for me. Work is always an example here.
If you commit to do something, do it, don’t do it half ass. Work has me frosted because some people are doing a lame job and I have to keep apologizing for other peoples shortcomings. Lame.
Stop the drama. If you have a problem, deal with it, don’t hide behind lame excuses. Live with no regrets, you’ll feel a lot better.
I want to be able to take my dog with me more often. In London dogs are allowed in restaurants, and can ride the tube. Here my dog i a second class citizen, no restaurants, no work, not on buses. Lame. And to boot if you fly with them in the cabin on an airplane, you pay $75 each way, and the count as your carry on. Give them frequent flyer at least. You can carry a kid on for free, let’s be fair. Don’t get me started on how much more behaved my dog is then your 5 year old kid.
So now I see charges from banks to use automated things like online banking or “convenience” charges for online bookings. First we saved all the money by automating the people out of the job and now we are charged more for that. I’d pay the fee if the products were cheaper. What did the computers ask for a raise?
Why do people, with all we know, still not recycle things? And I’m not talking about hard stuff like tough plastic or small appliances, easy stuff like glass and aluminum. Hasn’t the world been doing this for like 30 years??!!
Why do we have delays in airplanes? And I’m not talking weather delays or broken planes, the plane is here and we aren’t moving. Was I a surprise that its here? Maybe it’s needing a raise or again a lack of planning? Make up some time in the air, step on it, it’s not like there are any cops up there.
Fiscal accountability. I’m not talking about the awful mismanagement of the country. I’m talking about normal people. Don’t have money? Stop spending what you dont have. Stop blaming the banks, and recognize that if you hadn’t had taken 60k in credit cards and then refinanced that ARM and not mortgaged yourself to the hilt, you probably wouldn’t be in this spot. And while we’re at it, don’t penalize me for being smart with my money and assume I am now the charity.
Rant done for now…
