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WEEK 27 2004
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Saturday 3 July
2004
Saturday - drove up to Cayucos, near
Morro Bay, arriving early afternoon on Friday. I had some trouble sleeping, so I
arose just before midnight and tried to take a picture of the surf. Once my eyes
had recovered from the flash bouncing off the window, I turned the flash to off and took another, then went back to bed. With a lot of brightness filter applied, we get this:
Friday 2 July 2004
Friday - off to the beach for the weekend, so no posts for a couple of days...
In other news, Hubble has discovered a hundred new planets...
Cassini has successfully entered orbit around Saturn...and already stunning pictures are being returned.
Thursday 1 July 2004
Thursday
- down LA way, meeting with some people, then back here for dinner, then a quick dip in a pool and bed.
Wednesday 30 June 2004
Wednesday - back into the swing of things,
working away here. We may expand the aero modules some more - a lot of
work there, and then there is a paper due for September. No rest for
the wick......Hey! I resent that.
I smogged the Ford Probe today, so that I could register it again.
The mechanic told me that the turbocharger wasn't working. So,
naturally, I floored it afterwards - it works fine.
Maybe he's used to the immediate response of a supercharger? The online
registration worked well, once I'd waited a couple of hours for the
smog test to work it's way into the database.
After the side yard was cleaned, only the old (half melted) tv was left:
The lonely teevee, afterwards...
Tuesday 29 June 2004
Tuesday - my fathers camera is awesome.
Here is a shot of a CDF water bombing helicopter in flight, perhaps a
half mile away, cropped but otherwise unmodified:
Is there a housing bubble? This article says "no".
Monday 28 June 2004
Monday - heading back to Lancaster. First
I had to go to Richmond for a brief stop. I had lunch there, and took a
couple of pictures down at the marina. So that would be local street to the 680 south, to the 4 west, to the 80 south, to the Richmond Parkway, some surface streets for a few minutes, then it was south on the 880 until I reached the 101 south, then south on that until the state highway 46 east, which I took to the 99, the 99 south to the 58, the 58 east to the 14 south ( after surface streets and a stop for gas in Mojave) and finally home.
It was a long trip. I only take the State Highway101 occasionally - once every year or two.
There were nineteen messages on the answering machine when I got in.
Next time I need to read the manual on how to retrieve messages
remotely...
Sunday 27 June 2004
Sunday - the San Francisco Giants
redeemed themselves, crushing those insignificant Oakland Athletics
beneath their mighty heels. Strange seeing Barry Bond batting fourth,
as the DH. And I won my quarter back - that's the special Illinois
Comparative coin that I'd been forced to hand over on Saturday.
I'd put up a photo of it here, but wouldn't want to seem ungracious and unsporting. I'll just describe it instead...
The front is normal. The back is different: it has the outline of
Illinois on the back, with Lincoln jumping through it, like small town
football players jumping through a paper banner, and the John Hancock building. And sort sort of weird little thing in the upper left corner that probably means something to people there.
Lincoln seems to be carrying a purse - that can't be right, can it?
Perhaps I should have asked for an 'old' quarter.
Or 25 pennies.
We watched Galaxy Quest later in the evening. Funny thing:. it had Monk, er...Tony Shalhoub...as
Tech Sergeant Chen....er...Fred Kwan. Whatever. Amusing, but I've the
feeling that the DVD is missing a couple of small scenes - one where
Sigourney Weaver discovers that the computer will only talk to
her character...and...and...and I can't remember the other. More stuff with the
geek boys? Seems weird that they'd remove stuff from a movie before
creating a DVD though - maybe it's just my bad memory.
In other news: people keep calling me and saying that my peaches in the back yard are delicious. Hopefully some will still be there when I get back tomorrow!
Photo Notes: This
is a shot across the valley, this last week in Martinez, just after I
noticed the smoke. It's taken from across the valley, perhaps a mile or
two from the fire. No one was hurt, even the animals being successfully
evacuated from local ranches, and the fire was out in a few hours. A
dramatic pillar of smoke but not a lot of flame visible from my
location.
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