Cool and wet. REALLY damp. The sun does dry things out by about 4pm, but before and after that, it’s wet. On the plus side, it’s mid 70s to low 80sF during the day, and the sun is hot when it pokes through. In other words, pretty dang nice weather.
I spent yesterday trying not to do too much. Working on networking seemed like ‘too much’. Ate, played games, ate. Did some piddlefarting around. Split some firewood. Did some very small tasks on the dock and in the dockhouse.
Took the boat out for a spin with W driving. Pleasantly, it started right up. W changed out the fabric of the bimini top and I looked at some future small tweaks.
There is corrosion on some of the electrical system, I should install the isolation battery switch, a nav light wasn’t working (and now I need spare bulbs and fuses), and other small things.
Boats and boat related stuff are a whole ‘nother pile of stacks, tasks, maintenance, and knowledge. Yes, pretty much every aspect of life and prepping is, and here we went and added this whole new branch to the tree labeled “Boat stuff”. There is some overlap with “dock stuff” and “fishing stuff” as well as the more general “property on a lake” stuff. It adds capability too, and fits with the dual use nature of my prepping. Anything I do can’t negatively impact our everyday lives, and should have a dual use- normal life and prepper life.
I don’t always get it 100% right.
But I try.
Stack the usual, but try something new too.
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Hello. It’s probably Saturday morning in that weird liminal slice of space and time between Christmas and New Year that German speakers call “zwischen den Jahren” (lit. “between the years”).
It is like the human-scale manifestation of quantum reality. We are both particle and wave, a person in some kind of temporal and temporary Schrödinger’s cat’s box.
The normal rules and routines somehow don’t apply. Christmas cookies are no longer strictly rationed, as they were before the big day, and there are so many leftovers in the house that no-one needs to cook unless they want to. Work and other obligations can mostly wait, except feeding the chickens, children and other pets.
There is time for luxuries and fripperies. Lighting a fire, reading a book or three, watching a movie, munching a cookie or a slice of cheese, taking a walk, playing with boats*. Writing a letter to a distant or close friend, or maybe a book. Trying a new recipe, or even creating one. Fixing a few little things, but not starting mammouth projects. Nick calls it “piddlefarting”, which is about right.
Perhaps it is time to find out about breakfast, and to run a few errands, now that (most) shops and businesses have reopened. Or perhaps not. Perhaps it is time for a snooze.
Whatever you do, or if you do nothing, have a good day. Maybe write a word here to say you are alive and well, or alive and ill, or happy or sad or all of the above. Live in the liminal.
* “There is corrosion on some of the electrical system”.
Dielectric grease is your friend for boat electrics.
Mornin’ all, I haven’t posted for a while so thought I’d do a quick check-in, hope that’s ok.
Just ended my second year of retirement, one oddity is that my brain still wakes me up in time to go to work
Year has been spent doing IT support for my wife’s (small) indexing company and our local theatre group. My wife is going to be winding up the company over the coming year so that work should disappear and we should be able to do more trips in our little campervan.
Also been working with a local group that refurbishes laptops (mainly) for disadvantaged kids & people moving out of homelessness. We usually install Linux Mint Cinnamon or XFCE for lower spec machines – it’s amazing what it’ll run on, best so far has been a dual-celeron with 2GB RAM – not going to be playing games on it, but, it’s perfectly adequate for surfing, email, writing etc.
Coming up on the anniversary of my return to shooting (after a 50 year!!! gap) with my Gamo Phox air rifle and Weihrauch HW40 pistol (unfortunately no real boomsticks as this is the UK), it’s been great learning to shoot again and the people at the club are very friendly.
Wishing you all a happy and unalarming new year.
The dealers have their place in the system, but the manufacturers lost the ability to keep the dealers in check via financing floor plans and consumer loans post Covid.
Car paper was too easy to get until Tricolor imploded.
QE awaits with the new Fed chair, however. Easy paper will be key to building the infrastructure for the sex robots.