Major Computer Crash

The computer that we have downstairs blew a motherboard. This is the one that I do all my normal e-mail and banking and household stuff on. I thought that it was the power supply but it's finally dead. Now I just have to get the data off the disk......and buy a new machine.... and build it again! I need a freaking IT dept just for the house! So now I'm down to just four working computers........

Home Repair

Had a friend to the house who does cabinet work. We are thinking about having him redo our kitchen. We can't change the size of the kitchen so we are just going to get new cabinets and countertops and more things around.

Anyway I'm thinking that it's really going to be expensive and take a lot of time and work on our part.

Getting a jump on next weekend

My head was spinning after I landed and got home on Saturday. A good night's rest and I was ready to get working on the boat again. Marilyn and I went to Rock Hall and we fueled up the boat and cleaned it up from the last weekend we took it out. We left so fast the the flag was still flying off the stearn. I then calibrated the new battery meter and set up a new long range wifi adapter for the boat's computer. It should pull in signals while we are at anchor.

Rico's Rules of flight

If you can't carry it. It can't be considered a carry-on!

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--Rico Paolino

On the way home

Training course complete. Now I'm heading home. Scored a first class seat for the trip. Got books, gotta get some coffee for the trip.

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Out in the Bay

Instead of walking around San Fransisco. I went to the ferry building and got onto a commuter ferry and went to Larkspur. It was a 50 min ride and great views of the Bay Bridge, Golden Gate, Alcatraz and the city sky line. It was just an out and back and didn't cost much but was so worth it. I highly recommend it!

Stuffy nose.....

... stayed in my hotel room yesterday. Had a stuffy nose/ beginning of a cold thing going on. Strange thing on the flight yesterday. Some lady had a surgical mask on with surgical gloves and she set up a small shrine to the virgin mary and was constantly praying to it during the flight. Glad she was not my seat mate! I was on the other side of the plane.... wonder how she took the turbulance over the Serria Nevada.

Welcome...

.. to the Hotel California. Seems I can never leave! Back in San Francisco at my favorite hotel. I'm pretty tired from the flight. Tomorrow I'll be in better shape to go looking around. I got to find a what's happening in the area type publication.

Heading to San Francisco

I'm leaving tomorrow to take a class at the home office. I spending this weekend in San Francisco. I'm heading there early to make sure that I get there for Monday morning and to get over the jet lag. I hoping there will be a few fun things to do this weekend. I'll be back in my "home" in the financial district which is pretty bleak during the weekend. Now I know to head up to North Beach to find some life.

New Battery...Weekend Cruise

Roy and Marj cam down to the boat this weekend. We had a lot of fun but Saturday started with work. We got the batteries changed and we rewired the system to have a battery gauge. It took us more than 4 hours and we created a huge mess. But the batteries are in, we can see them geeting charged and we cleaned up the mess.
Sunday we went across the bay to Broad Creek on the Magothy river. It was nice and breezy great sleeping weather. Monday we went back across the bay. We had to get Roy back as he was going to Korea on Tues morning.

Getting ready for the weekend.

Going down to RockHall this weekend. Marj and Roy are coming down to stay for the weekend. I'm hoping there is going to be enough wind to do some sailing. First Roy and I are going to swap out the batteries. They are 110 lbs apiece! The goal is not to break anything, us or the boat getting these monsters on.

Still on front line support this week. Just two more days....two more days.....

Yearbook

Marilyn and I spent last night tearing the house apart looking for my high school yearbook. There is going to be a 31 year reunion this year for a few reasons. The school is now closed and it seems like there is a critical mass of people who got in contact on facebook. I wanted to show Marilyn what some of these people looked like waaaay back in the 70's. Can you say Welcome Back Kotter. It seems like my yearbook is a victim of time. Too bad, I could have scanned it and made a PDF of it to put it on line.