Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 5th, 2006
Back in Austin, yipee! Ah, my clean apartment, my clean kitchen, my clean rugs, my bed, and my downstairs neighbor’s yapping dogs. I got in about 1 PM and promptly went to sleep again. I dropped off four rolls of film this afternoon, so I should be ready to start selecting and scanning in pictures […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 5th, 2006
Somewhere in Texas. It’s rainy, my catnap at Fort Stockton did nothing, I’m still four hours from home so I gave up and got a seedy motel room. 1,100 miles at 75 miles per hour is 14.67 hours, easy right? Every time I’d recalculate the time it would put me 10 hours out, grr. Somehow […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 4th, 2006
Somewhere in California, I’m absolutely wiped. On the way back home I decided to try the route Google and my Garmin recommended, which was to go over to Sacramento, catch I-5 down to LA, and over to Phoenix. The idea was that it was faster, there’d be less curvy mountain roads and I wouldn’t be […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 30th, 2006
So there I was, sitting in a hotel room in Reno waiting for the parts store to open tomorrow so we can get a water pump for the Land Rover. BM has been a bit rough, it was very hot on Monday and has been windy all week long. Dust, wind, dust, wind! It was […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 27th, 2006
Phoenix. 1,005 miles in about 15 hours of windshield time. I was feeling pretty good (and still do) so I passed up staying in Tucson. This whole “we’re normally on mountain time, but we don’t do daylight savings so we’re on the same time as California” is silly. I should go over to Scottsdale and […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 25th, 2006
19 hours to go before I hit the road! I had abandoned my solar project because I was concerned with the cost and time, today I suddenly revived it. While I was picking up shipping blankets today at Harbor Freight, I saw they had a 45 watt solar kit for $250!@#$@ It had three 15 […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 25th, 2006
I got my Yaesu VX-7R today. Rigged up with the 50 MHz extension, I was flipping through the shortwave radio stations from my apartment. I managed to pick up Radio Nederland (very faint), Radio Italia, China Radio International, and some French station. Went outside and picked up 5-6 stations really clear. So awesome, it was […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 19th, 2006
I saw Snakes On A Plane tonight. I was expecting it to be cheesy, and it didn’t let me down. I laughed hard, a lot. The entire audience erupted into cheers when Samuel Jackson said his hotly anticipated line. After a while I got the idea they were going to use the rapper’s anti-bacterial lotion […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 14th, 2006
The Garmin update is being a bitch, two different PCs and it times out on update. It’s already erased the old maps, so it’s sort of useless at this point. Tonight was the first night I’ve ran in a while, four miles. I should’ve known not to lay off, it’s harder now. I bought 28 […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 7th, 2006
I made a quick weekend trip to Oklahoma to visit the parents. It was hotter and more meh than Texas, somewhere I have a photo of my thermometer reading 42 C (107 F). While I was up there I took advantage of the welder and built my brackets for the jerry cans. Finally got my […]
