Well probably, here anyway, rather update this than the other one if you dont mind this wordpress “dia-ration”. This is here now. weill be there.
January
Sorting. Starting a clear out of the hoard. Part of the collection of oilfield pipe-tally books, from 1984, souveneirs now really, unused!
Sailed with my dad and brother from Geelong to Wyndam Harbour along with Magic and her crew- my cousin and her hubbie. Well, motor sailed the weekend really.
February
Been to a place called Lake George, bewdaful or wot? Most excellent place to stay, well Beachport anyway, but the lake shallow FLAT when windy and so Fast man, with the right gear and motivation and practise, will make 35 knots next time I get there, bet on it! First pic, water depth luck to be over your waist at the time, pic 2 of Conor speeding in a light wind in knee deep water east of 5 mile, the launching place
March
Done a Wooden Boat Festival or two March
Seen the folks a few times, and lent Le Derg to dad, he cannot see mum all that often, and so lonely I spose, the Derg is fine with him, I do miss the Derg a little at times- “walkies?!” grrrr. Seen sibs a bit between lockdowns. No Windsurfing speedsailing since March. I think. Kids doing ok, one been a at home jorno, two doing uni via internet, the cook trying out new things back home rather than London, poor bastard- will he ever grt back there? Me. Daily, Waiting for an Adelaide call for work, resting, spider solataire, checking the john hopkins US horror show death toll climb, reading a wee bit, railroad tycoon deluxe 1995 getting a workout, making sure the weather monitor works *
Redo the van, lot of time spent on the plastic pipe rack system for the boards sails and masts. After a few trips, Nah, rack ripped out, just stack the gear again and leave the new fridge out until Trip Time to LG!
“And So!”
April
= lockdown, trumps parastism extending putridness all over the west- wake up stupid yankees, stop me now, but social media over there has gone mad attacking “Dear Leader”. Good.
[august- well the yanks have not woken up to the totalatarianism or fascist state they may get in the next 12 months if the retard and vengeful orange mop stays in power by stooging the mailinpostalvotepeople and BS voter registration crap for the poorer classes- it is still an apocalyptic situation, to me anyway, over there]
10 April 2020
as per my FB post-
“Ah well, 22°C imby, sunny and the world is Very quiet out there. Great windy sesh coming and cannot make it to Sandy point for some speedsailing- grrr {lockdown, no essential exercise allowed or travelling}. Hope you all doing ok. Dunno what the ell the US admin is doing but it is “gonna win” the death toll, congratulations you slack white house MFs. whoops, sorry, it’s entertainment the wrong way buddies- ratings are as in. Really, “my poll numbers are up”. “No- wtf, get outta here you orange headed muppet retard buffoon, and your swamp gang”. Pity the people that are trying to get things done properly, and New Yorkers, ah man”
are we all locked to our screens? I am. Coffee time, legs stretch, thinking about next Job and household – jobs. Maybe- see below link to boatbuilding site.
I was about to go and check the mail, well sortta, but it’s that only friday in the world that is a real shutdown day.
No mail ijit!
Coming up in the slow freeze of time atm:
great site- pete’s fault https://www.acorntoarabella.com/
video making time
van convert
time planning- boat trip- phone
Just finishing off a small garage cleanout- last two boxes of SF mags. I first started reading and then buying Ananlog Science Fact and Science Fiction, Isaac Asimov’s SF mag, and Fantasy and SF magasines in 1979 when I started uni, workout that bookshelf length! I did not think anyone would want them so bye bye over half my lifetime’s reading material. Very sad to find out that the recyclers do not take books and magasines for recycling- straight to the trash pile! But, it is onlinenow so really no floods of tears. Sorta.
June
Don’t like to say but times are a changing, not off the block this last week, hopefully another project rears it’s head soon, the garden has been “shredded” but cannot dump the mess at the local dump or tip- “non-essential travel”? NOOO-
DONE- a month later! Two maybe three trailer trips, garden and electronic and clothes and Junk, but garden is as my wife rip would have said ‘OMG what have you done?!
To add to this, after above dumpings, there was another time between lockdowns over my birthday weekend, on another tidy up of old office and the workshed-ex-garage by the kids and their other halves where upon abouts another dumping trip was undertaken. Time shots did not work, but what a pile of crap. BTW a weekend of the kids at home, nice and tiring!!
Did I ever mention I am now a multi-prop drone pilot? Even got paid for some promotional drilling rig pictures last year while on a drilling job, most satisfying.
And also a model plane learner driver- just in case a fixed wing drone job cames up.
One trip to Sandy Pt, tiring, retreived by others to shore as too tired to lift sail in dying wind and the weight belt did not help.
anyways [as per Letterkenny]
May
finally got the bigger switch- a netgear nighthawk vintage bought 2016 also networked in the LAN the same fortnigh
[the lock down prevents use of the flying field to practice either the drone RPAS use or the fixed wing model dang- but have not got my ‘bronze wings’ yet- either not enough practise or not showing enough enthusiasm maybe, as newbies appear to get their wings after a few weekends- or is it anti-drone-use discrimination? oi- 😉 ]
June
A new yacht (2019) graces the water down at the little pond, and an updated older model [page down a bit more to July] sports a new rig, they are both most excellent little boats.
Spent time reparing or making sure two old portable CD players work and both twenty five years old- one had shit batteries ands ruined battery compartment so it only works on acdc power now, ouch, but has a line out jack- the sony one does not, but as a marvin example- both had the “hold” switch on, held me back ten minutes til I worked that out otherwise junked, did not want chuck out more bloody modern technology- I do hate that. Makes me think that my first di
ha another coupla jobs as diarised in the camera phone:
And so finally networked all the pc’s, old and older and all the laptops old and older including the old smart tv (not pictured) in the front office- small outlay on new little switches.
On the little lake with old yacht new sails July with the dji action cam:
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