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WEEK 17 2003
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Saturday 26 March 2003
Saturday - lots of trucks and cars on the road last night.
I was looking forward to an easier trip, Easter holidays being past, but
it was definitely busy on the interstate yesterday.
My dad makes real coffee, it's ready and waiting when I straggle out of bed
at 8 a.m. or so. And muffins! In return I recover his bookmarks that the
morons at SBC-YAHOO somehow deleted, and fix some of the font's on his laptop.
My brother Bob comes by and treats us all to lunch at the "Back 40" - this
time they had the good barbecue sauce, yummmm.
Friday 25 April
2003
Friday - in to work late, then a lot of discussion about
what jobs to run over the weekend - we are trying to see the forest, despite
the tree's, and it isn't as easy as you'd think.
Then, off work at lunchtime, and on the road to visit my Dad up in the bay area.
Thursday 24 April 2003
Thursday - dinner at the Royal Buffett, then God & Generals at the dollar-and-a-half theater. As my friend Tim said, "It really should have been called the Stonewall Jackson Story". We had two intermissions, since the film broke, and we all got a free pass to another movie to boot!
Wednesday 23 April 2003
Wednesday - if the cat, Riley, is pestering me, sitting
on the mouse as he often does; I can lower my head and gently butt him. He
will then find another place to sit, whereas if I just pick him up and move
him he will come right back. Cats.
As a consumer, I rock! According to that online ecology quiz, if everyone lived like I did, we would need 10.5 planets to support the current human populace. I have Dibs on Jupiter. And I don't think they know about my three cars, two gas powered lawn devices, and the gas barbecue!
Hmmm. Maybe that 10.5 planets was meant to be a bad thing....nahhhh....
Tuesday 22 April 2003
Tuesday - we had rain last night, and snow in the mountains around us. Driving into work was interesting.
Off to the northwest were the Tehachapi mountain slopes, lit by the early
morning sun, with patches of darkness from where bits of fog, floating off
into the valley obscured the early morning sun. There was a white glitter
from the snow, and the clouds/fog sitting on side of the mountains like a
thunderhead somehow brought down to earth.
The lake bed still has a lot of water in it. An article in the local paper
says that shrimp as big as four inches can live in it. They feed on, you
guessed it, the other shrimp. There are at least five unique species of shrimp
at home in the lake. At some point in the food chain I expect there must
be plants, who feed on sunlight and minerals.
Work proceeds apace. Much thinking, and trials of various things.
It is supposed to be cold tonight, 27F, including the wind chill. I seem
to recall someone coming up with a improved estimate of the wind chill factor
- I'm not sure that the news outlets have switched over.
Monday 21 April 2003
Monday - the weather has turned a bit overcast, and and there was even a little rain on the way home from work.
The doctor's office called, they are overbooked tomorrow, and would like
to squeeze me in next week. Well, okay. It's sort of nice not to be hurting,
or looking forward to being hurt, for a change. Not to whimper, there
are a lot of people much worse off than a stiff digit.
Gods and General's is back, at the local dollar theater. I may go see it sometime this week, time and energy permitting.
Sunday 20 April
2003
Sunday - not a lot to say. Did the wash, cleaned up around the house a bit, went down to Barnes & Noble for a bit.
My friends came back from San Diego and picked up their dogs - and one of
them (the smelly one, not the deaf one) didn't want to go. Their daughter
tells me that they went to a hotel ( Hotel Del Coronado? ) where there was
a fountain of chocolate. That's rather, well, decadent, don't you think. Apparently one dips strawberries in the stream of chocolate.
Personally I went to Der Wienershitzel for lunch; and finished off a bag
of stale Oreo's and some chips for dinner. I still feel hungry, perhaps a
peanut butter sandwich before bed is called for.
Picture of the Week
Photo Notes: This image is scanned from a picture
I took back in 1998 at the Port Townsend Wooden Boat Festival. It is a fun
festival - very busy and wooden boats are beautiful. They make many of the
plastic (fiberglass) boats leave for the festival, so as to free up space
for visiting wood boats. This boat is unusual in that it is square rigged,
which isn't often seen in vessels this small. It's probably a lot less trouble
than a standard sloop rig on a long downwind crossing.
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