not dead, just resting.
A lot of things to tell. The basics: I'm living on a farmhouse that's between its allotment of students for the summer. I bike 3 miles to work and don't have an internet connection -- which I love! It's seemed imprudent for me to write at work, but perhaps here is an exception. I haven't got a car, but I got a sailboat! (free!) I'm also building a kayak, and a few other things you can check out at the website I'm using as a work log and to-do list. I've taken pictures and will post some soon, but again, I find myself spending very little time on the computer outside of work.
This housing is temporary -- next year I will be living directly on the lake , with a deck like you wouldn't believe. Thus, building boats. I will be living there with two friends, strong go players both (1d and 2d), and by the proverb, I must have known them for hundreds of years by now. Between the three of us, we'll have 7 or 8 boats - 4 kayaks, 3 sailboats. Matt has made two kayaks and a sailboat, and is in the middle of constructing a 2nd sailboat, a boxboat, and is constructing a Paradox. Jared can muster an old 420 of his families, and i've found a kayak and a sailboat. The beginnings of a good sized armada. We may even have a pennant for our motley fleet. Suffice to say that, if moving a boat back and forth from home to the water is not an issue for you, small boats are very, very affordable to build and sail, and mucking about in boats is an ideal way to spend a summer.
I'm getting a double degree from tech. I've completed the CS degree and the math minor, and that diploma is checked off. I need another 2 classes for the english major, which I can take from Cornell for free. So, i hope to work here through next spring, at which point, the Adventuring Coffer will be full (enough), I'll have graduated and will be a free man, at which point i have too many options to consider here. Build & sail a boat to the bahamas? hike the AT? Back to china? Bike tour? etc. Gadzooks, nothing with computers.
I've beenlistening to the books and four tet, plus abigail washburn, a bluegrass girl who traveled through china, "mississippi to mali" by corey harris, tim o'brien's "Cornbread Nation", other bluegrass, and all blues harmonica players i can get my hands on.
recently read :
Building Small Boats
Boatbuilding for Beginners, Jim Michalak
Fiberglass Boat Repair (and a bunch like it)
The Prophet Kahlil Gibran
Tanglewreck
Shogun, James Clavell
How Would a Patriot Act, Glenn Greenwald
Also, this, from boltcity, makes me happy:
Before i got this boat i could fit all my possessions in one car! What have i gotten myself into... It was free because I had youthful enthusiasm and the prior owners thought that this could compensate for my lack of experience. Hopefull they're right. Between this and building a kayak, I'm learning a ton. How to epoxy, how to rivet, how to work with HDPE and vinyl cement, etc. etc. It's good stuff.
Today i hope to get the powdered limestone for thickening the epoxy for the centerboard casing. We need to get the trailer fixed, inspected, and registered (??! ack!), by the 30th, so Matt can move his boat up here. Just what car we'll put the trailer on, we're not certain, as we don't have one.
This housing is temporary -- next year I will be living directly on the lake , with a deck like you wouldn't believe. Thus, building boats. I will be living there with two friends, strong go players both (1d and 2d), and by the proverb, I must have known them for hundreds of years by now. Between the three of us, we'll have 7 or 8 boats - 4 kayaks, 3 sailboats. Matt has made two kayaks and a sailboat, and is in the middle of constructing a 2nd sailboat, a boxboat, and is constructing a Paradox. Jared can muster an old 420 of his families, and i've found a kayak and a sailboat. The beginnings of a good sized armada. We may even have a pennant for our motley fleet. Suffice to say that, if moving a boat back and forth from home to the water is not an issue for you, small boats are very, very affordable to build and sail, and mucking about in boats is an ideal way to spend a summer.
I'm getting a double degree from tech. I've completed the CS degree and the math minor, and that diploma is checked off. I need another 2 classes for the english major, which I can take from Cornell for free. So, i hope to work here through next spring, at which point, the Adventuring Coffer will be full (enough), I'll have graduated and will be a free man, at which point i have too many options to consider here. Build & sail a boat to the bahamas? hike the AT? Back to china? Bike tour? etc. Gadzooks, nothing with computers.
I've beenlistening to the books and four tet, plus abigail washburn, a bluegrass girl who traveled through china, "mississippi to mali" by corey harris, tim o'brien's "Cornbread Nation", other bluegrass, and all blues harmonica players i can get my hands on.
recently read :
Building Small Boats
Boatbuilding for Beginners, Jim Michalak
Fiberglass Boat Repair (and a bunch like it)
The Prophet Kahlil Gibran
Tanglewreck
Shogun, James Clavell
How Would a Patriot Act, Glenn Greenwald
Also, this, from boltcity, makes me happy:
Before i got this boat i could fit all my possessions in one car! What have i gotten myself into... It was free because I had youthful enthusiasm and the prior owners thought that this could compensate for my lack of experience. Hopefull they're right. Between this and building a kayak, I'm learning a ton. How to epoxy, how to rivet, how to work with HDPE and vinyl cement, etc. etc. It's good stuff.
Today i hope to get the powdered limestone for thickening the epoxy for the centerboard casing. We need to get the trailer fixed, inspected, and registered (??! ack!), by the 30th, so Matt can move his boat up here. Just what car we'll put the trailer on, we're not certain, as we don't have one.