- 07:39 I just saw the most dismal "Adult Day Care" bus - it looked like a prison work detail with a wheelchair lift. #
- 07:57 Really brilliant piece of noir-ish writing in the LATimes this morning about killings along the LA River. bit.ly/4UJLXz #
- 09:06 Got my hydration pack out of storage this morning, as well as a couple other things. I am officially ready to go. #
- 09:11 So I'm thinking the Peru trip is being renamed "2011: Year of Sailing" and will begin in January, year after next. #
- 15:55 Got my Ocean Enhancement Sticker and Spiny Lobster Card (fishing endorsements). I think I'm ready... #
- 20:18 Radio tested and charging, bkup gps ok, anchor checked, even have the spinnaker ready. I think I'm set for the biggest sailing wkend yet! #
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- 09:33 Got my camping gear out of storage in case I spend a night on the island. And left my hydropack! Dammit. Tomorrow... #
- 11:39 Best headline of the day: Galileo's missing fingers found in jar bit.ly/6l58Et #
- 15:11 Just reserved my campsite on Santa Barbara Island. If NPS reservations are any indication, I may have the entire island to myself. Rock! #
- 17:24 Just realized that on the sail to Peru I'd be passing the Galapagos Islands. Holy crap that's an amazing "stop along the way." #
- 20:07 @bobatchison Hah! There's a Rush Song for every purpose under Heaven, isn't there? ;) #
- 20:17 Now examining other possible stopping points between here and Peru. Guadalupe, Socorro, Clarion islands, Costa Rica, the Pearl islands... #
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- 12:43 Slept early and long last night. Really feel like poo today. Probably dehydration from sailing yesterday - barely drank anything all day. #
- 12:49 Sleeping in didn't help but being out in the sun again definitely is. #
- 13:06 RT @moonlightkiss02: "Windows needs to be more like linux!" - Kinda early to be this drunk, isn't it? ;) #
- 13:13 One lesson learned yesterday: Having an autotiller doesn't mean I can read while sailing. 1st time feeling seasick. Do not want. #
- 14:42 According to Amazon, I should have my VHF handheld by Wed so if I get set upon by pirates @ Santa Barrrrrrbara Island, I can call for help. #
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- 05:22 Checking weather and prepping the boat. Leaving within the hour. #
- 05:24 Yikes. Wind advisory but it looks like it's more Oxnard/Santa Barbara County. But gusts to 50mph. #
- 07:20 Fuel line issues on the new outboard. Back at the dock. Hope today doesn't turn into a maintenance day. #
- 07:21 really though: it's an easy enough fix - just have to wait for ship store to open. Maybe I grab breakfast first. #
- 07:30 Ahh. Brekkies! Ok, so I'm missing couple hrs of daylight that I could be sailing somewhere - but better to have the fuel line working right. #
- 08:10 Gahhh! I thought Ship Store opened at 8. Nope: 8:30. Tick-tock, people! Tick fucking tock! #
- 08:40 Misfitted fuel line fixed. NOW I'm off! #
- 08:58 Hell yes the autotiller is freakin GREAT. Just cruising down the channel, boat steering itself in a pefectly straight line. So awesome! #
- 09:09 This substantially increases my enjoyment. :) I can't believe how nice it is. It really is like having a quiet, obedient crewman. #
- 09:29 Absolutely gorgeous day. Light winds, calm seas, rolling swells. Pointed her out to sea under power while I plot course for Catalina. #
- 09:38 gah. Returning to the dock. This is why you do test runs I guess. Battery levels dropping too quickly, need to make adjustments. #
- 09:44 Nope - screw that. Just not staying overnight. Lovely day, autotiller is fine, it's just the chartplotter that's complaining. Battery 2mrw. #
- 10:38 Tweet failed earlier but I decided that today's a sailing day. I can do dockside maintenance tomorrow. #
- 10:39 Robot boat is full of win, btw. How I lived w/o an autohelm I'll never know. #
- 11:37 Large dolphin pod just came for a visit. Shot HD video of them. They hung out for a while but apparently had somewhere they needed to be. #
- 13:05 twitpic.com/qeoj5 - Sailing back, wing-on-wing. #
- 15:29 I'm baaa-aaaack! Great sailing day. Wish I could have done it overnight but this was mostly a testing day anyway. #
- 17:38 Came back and finished the electrical upgrade. 2 massive 6v batteries in series now power my electronics. #
- 17:40 Now... eat, relax, recharge (me and my electronics. Even my phone is dead!) #
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- 06:51 Just got Voice Candy for Mac for free from tap tap tap. They just launched Voices for iPhone bit.ly/i56Un #
- 07:05 I can haz sail time nao? Noes? Y not? Wut iz this Fry Day thing? Soundz liek no fun. #
- 07:12 Foggy morning today! #
- 08:34 RT @SallyStardust Is it spa day today? What? No facial today? No massage? Damn you! - This is pretty much how I feel about today. #
- 08:51 While it'll be chilly and I'm expecting light chop all weekend, wind looks *solid*, night AND day this weekend. #
- 08:51 If that holds out, I may see Santa Barbara Island this weekend and actually *stay* next weekend. #
- 09:15 Wow. I can geek the fuck out AND sail? bit.ly/4Lvc5V Underwater robot camera... Three words for awesome. #
- 15:10 I guess when your net worth is estimated at about $2.7 billion, having a daytime talk show should really go stick it as a priority. #
- 15:15 @Defenestrator1 12 yr old me would be SO stoked about the pocket touch screen computer. That part was the future. Now where's my flying car? #
- 15:17 @SallyStardust Obviously, you don't understand how the tin cans + string thing works. You *have* to talk loud. They're MILES away! #
- 16:43 @BrentSpiner religion, politics, vaccines, music, hunger and baseball. #
- 17:55 I am about done with the week. Seriously wanting to get to the boat, stow stuff and make ready to set out at dawn. #
- 20:49 Somebody just told me I look like robert patinson. Not sure how to take it but millions of screaming girls can't be wrong. Right? RIGHT? #
- 21:32 I just decided to try to super cheap store-brand bourbon from Ralph's. Nothing complex, but drinkable. Perfect for bourbon+cokes. #
- 22:29 You know what I miss? The metal rims on Pringles cans that always made my mom afraid that I'd slit my wrist digging for chips and bleed out. #
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- 08:13 This weekend is probably a dry run for the big sail over T-giving. Catalina or maybe Paradise Cove. Any Angelenos join me for a 2-day sail? #
- 11:30 Neat: Lifeguards find massive, century-old ship anchor off Santa Monica Pier | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times bit.ly/3BLIbC #
- 20:53 bit.ly/106Ba - The Backup Bedside Gun Rack. #
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- 08:11 I may have to go here: Fondo Xilitla bit.ly/3NVCUD Surrealist architecture in the jungles of Mexico. #
- 11:37 At least I don't have to pay for tickets to the circus... #
- 12:12 RT @anakin78z @eddie_offermann xkcd.com/664/ - Hah! Dead on. #
- 14:09 @primatage Emo teenage vampires have it rough. We have to help in any way we can. #
- 15:03 You'd know that the one day I decide to install Ruby, that the gem server would be migrating DNS. Even patching my /etc/hosts isn't helping. #
- 18:40 RT @anakin78z: "Highballers Club, week 33 twitpic.com/q21d5 apple, cranberry, vodka and cinnamon" - This is Crockballers! #
- 20:59 Watching S1E8 of FlashForward and said "Hey! She's at Pt. Dume!" during the opening montage. Seeing my favorite spots on TV never gets old. #
- 22:19 It's hard to tell the difference, sometimes, between being grown up and being jaded. #
- 22:27 I was surprised I'd missed two eps of FlashForward. Just realized the one I'm watching is tomorrow's. #
- 23:13 Holy crap. What made me suddenly think of Killdozer. I had Intellectuals..., Burl, & Uncompromising War on Art. Still around *and* in LA. #
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- 07:12 It's a good morning. Awoke ~5:30, off walking the marina now. getting excited about next weekend when I get to test out the autopilot. #
- 07:18 @V6ughn Artists? Neurotic? The devil you say! #
- 07:22 twitpic.com/pveut - Hmm. This must be the spot! #
- 07:33 Is it just me, or is "Water's Edge at Marina Harbor" the most pointlessly redundant name for an apartment building ever? #
- 10:05 The Pirate Bay shuts down it's tracker. bit.ly/4t4PZ5 then explains why this doesn't affect anything. #
- 14:03 Need another big project, or something really mathematically challenging to dive into for a few days at least. #
- 14:08 @SallyStardust Hot: Check. Geeky: Check. I think this was made for you. #
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- 08:04 I just got a call from Elder Affairs to start processing the paperwork for my mom's assisted living waiver. This is a very good thing. #
- 16:54 I'm amused when generally techie people mistake the size of the box under their desk as a measure of performance. #
- 17:10 @anakin78z That's it. I'm bringing in an excessively clacky keyboard. That will ensure my technological superiority. #
- 18:38 Watching Dexter. W00t! #
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- 10:10 Little girl on set: You have purple hair? That's cool. Purple's like my fifth favorite color! #
- 13:55 :( The guy whose boat's next to me let it get taken by the marina. He'd neglected it so I'm not surprised. Still - I hope she finds someone. #
- 14:33 Pretty annoyed that gmail, google voice and google wave all have the same email-style interface but aren't accessible from the same place. #
- 16:57 AutoTiller IN-FUCKING-STALLED! YEAH! This boat now has autopilot! #
- 16:59 @PowerLlama Thank you. I've never wanted to bring that up - but it's VERY true! #
- 17:40 I put my toys away like a good boy. I was gonna go out and play now but I think I'm too tired. #
- 18:28 I drink a lot more Captain Morgan's since I took up sailing... #
- 18:42 Watching first ep of Vampire Diaries... Does it make me an old fart that I think daywalking vampires should seriously suck a nut? #
- 20:31 It's gonna be in the 40s tonight. I think I need another blankie. #
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- 06:47 On my way to shoot in Van Nuys. The Great Marcusio is gonna be awesome. #
- 13:23 Shooting on #TheGreatMarcusio is going well - but there's a good reason studios build entire neighborhoods on their backlots. #
- 14:21 Looked around marina this morning: MANY violation tags. Silly to have 30amp cables from 15A plugs w adapters but that may be what they want. #
- 18:38 Day 1 (for me, Day 3 for the rest of the crew) of #TheGreatMarcusio shoot went off well. Up & at 'em bright and early again tomorrow! #
- 19:48 Watching "UP". As of about 11 minutes in, it's the most heart-wrenching Pixar movie ever. What the hell? #
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- 07:29 Got up at 6. Nice morning for a walk. Visualizing code this morning: anxious to write something that'll be better than I thought it would be #
- 10:22 New: chartplotter & sonar, autopilot, dinghy, outboard, fuel system, battery, charger... I went kinda nuts, didn't I? me=poor now. #
- 10:24 RT @SallyStardust I have two cases of free beer - I may have to drink it. - This is what friends are for. To help you in your time of need. #
- 12:15 Ahhh, productivity. So early in the day to finish something cool. #
- 14:03 NomNomNom. Tummy very full. #
- 14:32 twitpic.com/pegb9 - Rachel is a glass destroyer. #
- 14:53 RT @moonlightkiss02 I feel violated. - Yeah, sorry about that. #
- 14:53 Lunch was good. Writing documentation this afternoon. #
- 15:05 Writing documentation is a sort of insurance against calamity. ie., I get hit by a bus or unexpectedly decide to take a job in New Zealand. #
- 17:15 I can haz no werk nao plz? kthxbye. #
- 18:17 All of my biggest Sizzle-based tools are documented now. Only a few dozen Maya tools to go... #
- 19:00 Ack. Marina left me a violation warning tag for having an undersized/unsafe power cord. No, it's not really a marine cord... Ok, fine. #
- 20:03 RT @V6ughn Holy crap its the stinkin Wonder Twins. - I didn't know what you were tweeting about earlier... but whoa! It is! #
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- 20:07 RT @anakin78z Highballers Club, Week 32 (this time for realz) bit.ly/4kqbwi #
- 20:10 I should try to sleep earlier tonight. DST has made me less motivated because sunrise happens at 5am and it's dark before I'm off work. Ass. #
- 20:15 Family Guy's "Hannah Banana": Hannah plotline dragged after they went all King Kong, but loved the Evil Monkey storyline. #
- 20:17 Oooh! I almost forgot: New episode of "V"! #
- 22:47 There are rumors that my movies are financed with Nazi gold. And it's true! But somebody has to do SOMETHING with it! #
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I was waking up before sunrise every morning and watching the sun come up...
But now - now the sun is up at 5am - and I don't officially start work until 10. So getting up at 5 is *nuts* unless I have a real project to focus on in the mornings. I'm a little bleary in the mornings, so jumping right into something technical like the scripting book I'm working on isn't going to happen at that hour.
But now I'm hitting snooze and sleeping in. Not a *lot* - I'm still at work by 9am, maybe earlier... I still get a little bit of time in the morning to myself but... it's not very productive. Not like before. I'm not up and at 'em by 6 or 6:30.
So I'm charging the battery for my HD camera. I don't know what I'll end up doing - but an early morning Venice beachside wander might make for an interesting video exploration.
- 00:05 I should seriously be asleep right now. I don't do the late night thing any more. If this continues, I'm gonna head to Venice for a drink. #
- 10:48 Agreed! RT @anakin78z ... karmic koala is a total and utter FAIL. ... Come to think of it, so is Lenny. Linux, you're doing it wrong. #
- 20:21 Californication with Peter Fonda? Awesome. I really hope he recurs. #
- 20:22 Easy Rider. #moviesineverwanttoseeremade #
- 20:32 Kathleen Turner is so freakin' awesome on Californication this season. Easily the most vulgar character on television. #
- 21:07 I wrote some cool code today. Far more than a day's work I think. Tried to explain it to someone earlier but it's hard to get what it's for. #
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- 06:32 Fell asleep earlier and woke up later than usual. Damn - I *was* beat! #
- 12:44 Calbi=yum. Korean tacos ftw! #
- 17:50 I'm really want Nic Cage to do another great movie. Sorcerer's may be cute & fun, but I mean another Adaptation or Leaving Las Vegas. #
- 21:49 @Defenestrator1 Probably time to start a ruckus! #
- 22:10 The # of things I use stickyback velcro for on the boat in insane. Anything small I don't want to lose gets stuck to a bulkhead or ceiling. #
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- 08:02 Wait... That actually *worked*??!!?!?!?! Drunk guy opening a bottle of wine by hitting it against the wall. bit.ly/T25xq #
- 12:24 New fuel tank installed! New 15amp charger installed! Motor angle adjusted! #
- 14:21 Mmmm. Cafe Mermaid tuna melt = Yum. #
- 14:34 The 'new' battery has shorted cells - I can't get it to charge above 8.5v. The guy I got it from is swapping it out for me. #
- 14:36 Not looking forward to pulling it though. Fucker is heavy and there's no "lift with your knees": it's down in a storage well. #
- 16:47 Hoisting the dinghy, stowing things, waiting on guy w/ battery. NEED a shower like RIGHT NOW. #
- 18:23 Showered & back at the boat. Feel human but achy & exhausted. That Manuel Labor guy has it hard - glad I don't have to be him all the time. #
- 18:40 RT @anakin78z Pictures from Brittania lunch on Friday: bit.ly/2QM3t3 - There's one of me in there! #
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- 08:16 Ow. headache. A little too much drinkydrinky last night. But hey, phone says no late night drunk texts so hey, not bad! #
- 08:22 @V6ughn Guy didn't read the shooting-spree handbook. You're s'posed to hole up somewhere then shoot yourself, not go to your mom's house. #
- 08:48 Just saw the cutest, tiny water bird paddling along next to my boat. Kept diving under and popping up somewhere else. Adorable! #
- 09:09 Crap. I think I have a special part I'm going to have to order. #
- 14:22 Got a 2nd marine battery, a light 4 the dinghy, getting a new outboard for Thoreau, and giving Emerson the 2hp that's currently on Thoreau. #
- 17:33 Best experience *ever* dealing with someone off Craigslist. The new outboard runs like a charm. Looks nice too. Pictures tomorrow. #
- 18:06 twitpic.com/op8bq - Emerson has her own motor now, and a stern light for safety at night! #
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- 08:46 I CAN HAZ RAYMARINE AUTOTILLER NAO PLZ? #
- 09:44 My autotiller is on the boat, ready for me to install tomorrow morning, cable to connect to my chartplotter comes in tomorrow! #
- 11:12 Really freakin' excited to have the autotiller now. Can't WAIT to get it installed. It's a quick install too! #
- 11:56 twitpic.com/oig41 - The dumpster violinist. Describes his playing as much as his location. #
- 13:25 Apparently I should watch "Wolf Hound" - reminder to check it out! #
- 15:35 Very disappointed that I didn't know the Orlando engineer who went on the shooting spree. I was sure I knew exactly who it was. #
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- 14:18 twitpic.com/oemh9 - Aaron & I had a stressful working lunch. #
- 21:11 Finally watching "V". Morena Baccarin and Alan Tudyk: It's like a Firefly reunion. Morena is wicked hot with short hair. #
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