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WEEK 20 2020
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Saturday - Hot and windy, still. It's been stupidly windy all week. Gusts to 50mph sometimes.
Got a text from my brother M. He went down to Santa Clarita to feed turtles at a pond. Red-Eared Sliders he says. Apparently they come to people like ducks will, for food...
I don't know why I'm surprised, my own turtle does the same every morning.
Books So Far, 2020:
Friday - Hot and windy. Swamp cooler is working well.
The Keurig died, 4th one. I was joking aloud that "maybe it's the water" and then it occurred to me: maybe the coffee pods from 2012 aren't good for a machine? I know that the cocoa in particular turns into grit and syrup at the bottom of my cup. I don't think that is the issue here - it's clearly the pump, and the mix doesn't go through that (I don't think). Anyhow, I tossed it.
Thursday - Hot and windy.
I read an interesting post on transit times to Mars, to/from Earth. It's a bit surprising how, in particular, the small effect that delta-v can have on travel times. And, at the wrong times, even 7500 ft/sec doesn't do you any good.
I used to own a small book, Thrust Into Space, by Max Hunter. As I recall, at some delta-v the courses become almost straight, not curved. But I can't recall if it was 20,000 ft/sec, or 100,000 ft/sec. Definitely 5 or 6 figures.
Wednesday - Hot and windy.
Book #20 is Prince of Tanith, by Terry Mancour.
This is a sequel to Book #19, Space Viking, written by another author decades later. I suspect that the original authors (H. Beam Piper) writings are out of copyright (he's been dead for a long time), so maybe anyone can write a sequel if they want.
In any case, it's actually quite well done, the tone and style is very similar.
Mancour has does a couple of these sequels, and there are a couple by at least one other author.
Tuesday -Warm and windy.
In the afternoon I got a couple of calls from the Frontier tech. He was at the office, repairing my line. As I suspected, it was them screwing up there, rather than their insinuated problem on my end. And, in the evening, service was back. Yay,.
Monday -Windy.
I've been making some wind screens out of some old sheathing that I got from S. It's commercial stuff, about 10', so I can cut it into 2x pieces and it just fits under the top rail of the chain link garden enclosure. I had a little bit of tan house paint left, so I used it to paint them before assembling them with zip ties to the fence. When I had that done I found the wire ties... I really need to go through and clean the garage up again.
I'd like to do some more house painting, but the winds are ludicrous.
Sunday - Warm again.
I didn't go shopping in the morning for groceries, stocked up last week.
Trying to take it easy, my hands and joints are giving out.
I found some baseball game recordings on the Internet Archive: listened to Game 1 of the 1949 World Series. It was the Brooklyn Dodgers vs the New York Yankee's. Joe DiMaggio, Jackie Robinson, Yogi Berra, Roy Campanella..
