How'd it go today?

[stikine]

Drove through the boat yard a bit ago... always busy in there. A few photos, but nothing too special. We have a 150 and 300 ton boat lift that the harbor department manages. Boats come from all over to get hauled out and serviced. Small specialized businesses lease space in the yard to work on the boats.

 

[stikine]

 

[FireFighterZero]

Daniel had a good day.

A local fellow gave him a hat that was his own sons hat when he was little.

His son committed suicide two years ago in May.

I was one of the first on the scene....I was ahead of his parents.

The boys mother died from pancreatic cancer a month ago.

Fellow has had a hard couple of years.

He really enjoyed giving Daniel the hat.

 

[stikine]

Yeah, can't like that Jim but it is great that you can participate and be a positive player. And Daniel of course.

 

[flushcut]

I remember that event Jim. Must have been a rather emotional gift giving.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Lynley won Grand Champion Jr Showman with her two year old.

 

[Bodean]

Love the 4H!

Yesterday did a side job first one since leaving ArborMD.
i absolutely reduced the crap out of some decent sized Agrifolias.
Knowing they had been hat racked previously for view prune made it easier on my ethics.
Made my 5 notes and on my way by Noon.

Ran 10 miles yesterday and 12 today... little whooped. Hats off to the daily climbers.

 

[FireFighterZero]

22 miles?

Was something chasing you?

 

[lxskllr]

Just got stung on my leg at least three times by a wasp. Felt something on my leg, so I pulled my cuff up. While I was looking, I felt something hurt a little over on my leg. While I'm exploring that, I feel something else hurt, and I'm thinking WTF?!?! Jump up, get ready to pull my pants off, and a wasp drops out the bottom. I won that encounter. Whacked the shit out of it with a stick, and there's wasp pieces all over the floor. Asshole...

 

[FireFighterZero]

Poor little bugger.....

 

[FireFighterZero]

Trigger warning for the peaceful tranquility non scardycat crowd.

We are at the Demo Derby.

It's hot, loud, action packed and most likely heavily armed.

 

[Bodean]

im such a Meth head that if I don’t wear myself out w work or running 50 miles a week I get into trouble, start running my mouth, fight w my wife and cause havoc... the daily lashings keep my ego in check... if not it’s idle hands and homicidal suicidal feelings start bubbling up. So I run.
Too old to work myself silly anymore so I run and ride bikes w the young one.

running is my church of later days and better lays.

 

[Mellow]

Poor little bugger.....

I see what you did there.

 

[lxskllr]

I went to a demo derby once. It wasn't as much fun as I imagined it would be. Everything was slower than expected.

Laying around with my phone, I was looking to see if there were any new interesting survey programs for it. I'm pretty particular about not installing non free software, but I make an exception for work stuff. I found a program that purports to allow you to map assets reconciled with a pdf plan. Using an external gps receiver they claim gives cm accuracy. That would be amazing for me, especially doing stuff like limits of disturbance and topo. A receiver is about $5k, and the software is a 30 day trial. Dunno what it costs after that. You have to register to use the software. I left it on my phone as a reminder, and I'll give it try when I get some free time using the phone's gps. If it works well, I might try nailing down total and recurring costs, and buy a gps rig for work. If the total cost is only around $5k, that would be worth the expense for a huge hassle saver.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Omg...that sounds way cooler than a demo derby.....

 

[lxskllr]

Well, it's all relative. Using that gps system on the stream restoration jobs I did, would have saved a huge amount of time and effort, so the relative fun would be greater than Jimi Hendrix coming to life, and putting on a free concert just for me.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Was just teasing you some.

My favorite thing is dung beetles and hazardous chemicals.

 

[stikine]

Not so good, went out to troll up some silver salmon but the damn kicker (trolling motor/backup) for you non-mariners, quit on me.

 

[lxskllr]

Didn't do much today. As soon as I got in the office, and boss said the secretary's computer was dead. I went and looked at it, and confirmed it was indeed dead. Power went out Friday, and it appears it took the power supply with it. Ordered another one, and that should fix it.

Did an easy foundation cert, went back to the office, and upgraded my computer. I should have waited. Virtualbox isn't available for it yet, and I spent the rest of the day trying to get wine or qemu working as a replacement. No success. I need a virtual machine(with win 2kpro) for a single ancient program to communicate with my data collector. I can work around it, but it's much slower, and more of a pita. I'll keep playing with it as I get time. It would be nice doing it with in house tools. I've also thought about running it through wireshark to see if I can figure out what secret sauce they're using to speed up transfers. I should be able to do it natively in debian if I could figure it out. Company's long gone, so I can't ask anyone.

edit:
Oh, and I paid my gas & electric bill today. My $500 payment last December lasted til now. Pretty good I think.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

New client kept growing the job. Took my larger dump trailer thinking too much trouble to chip and haul out chips when it should all fit. Ha! Little crown raise turned into 3 more trees. Told him I'll come back with the chipper next week. Out by noon 30.

 

[gf beranek]

That's cheap electric. Where do I sign up?

 

[lxskllr]

I don't even know how to find what the real rates are. I just looked, and it looks like I'd have to download a few documents and apply math to see what the actual cost is. I have budget billing, so my usage gets estimated and smoothed over the year. I guess ideally, it's $0 when it gets reconciled, but I used to end up with a surplus by ~1.5 months of payments. With their newer non informative bills, I don't even know what it is. They could be screwing me I guess, but it seems about right.

My bills are low due to primarily heating with wood in the winter, and my ac is set to 80° in the summer. My tree collection blocks *a lot* of the sun that would cause my ac to run more, so it doesn't come on much. I'd estimate my total ac usage for the season is equivalent to what my neighbors use in a hot week.

edit:
I was poking around the site to see if I could find real rates, and ran across this graph...



It's interesting that I used 252% more gas than the efficient neighbors. I wonder where it went? My heat isn't even on at that point, so that leaves the water heater, and stove. I don't even really use my oven. I do all the baking type stuff in a toaster oven. I do like hot water. Might be long showers. September is about when it starts getting cool enough that a long shower feels good,

 

[treebilly]

Had a decent day even though it rained most of it. Big silver maple in a tight drop zone. The path out really sucks. Some of the boys got into a yellow jacket nest. Finish off the brush tomorrow and the big wood Wednesday. Everyone is whooped including me. Been a while since I did 10 hours on Spurs with out a crane

 

[Bodean]

Another terrible Monday.

 

[SeanKroll]

To the park for a bit.