Well, at least my headache has gone.  Now I just have a sore spot where it once was.  But the winds are ferocious this morning and were all last night too.  Sleeping on a windy night is never very restful.  I had dreams of having to keep things from flying away of course.  And you wake up every time the wind dies down and then picks up again ( Read more... )

Blissful rain.  Cool breezes out of the North.  I love it.

Smells of fish, though.

=)

We got a Facebook message from a friend yesterday: "Want to have some geeky fun? Meet us at Point Udall at 6:50pm."

Point Udall is the Easternmost point in the U.S. But more importantly, it is east of the easternmost site of the VLBA, so human habitation kinda stops out there. At Point Udall, you can see a glow behind the hills to the west, ( Read more... )

I've told you about my breakfast companion. Here he is -- the Little Blue Heron:


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Well, it's not MUCH of a saga these days. Bob has been printing and printing. But, as I mentioned in an earlier post, in order to limp along this printhead, he has to clean it over and over again. And each cleaning requires a ton of ink waste. We thought ahead and ordered a new tank of blank ink on Monday. But this morning the old ink finally ( Read more... )

24 May, 2012 -- Departure Day. Desperately attempt to pack everything for two people for two completely different climates into one suitcase. Realise the broken wheel on my Rimowa case isn't going to take the strain of 50 lbs of clothing and switch to the old beater I moved to Japan with 25 years ago. (Wow! Has it really been 25 years ( Read more... )