It’d had been a full year since I’d been to Catalina. Labor Day to Labor Day. After getting a late start, and buying a new battery for the boat, we had a very calm and pleasant boat ride over. Here are some pictures! My father The pelicans were out in force, flying around, then swooping down [...]
The LA Times is reporting that Rupert the Swan is dead. O.C. Patrol Boat Kills Harbor’s Black Swan – Los Angeles Times While I never liked that bird (having been attacked by him a few times, and seen him attack others many more), it is still a shame. Black swan with a red beak moving [...]
Fishermen Are Rescued After Months Adrift – Los Angeles Times That’s a version of Gilligan’s Island I would never want to be on. I’m just surprised they stayed alive for so long. Just some very very lucky fishermen.
Found a good deal at Fry’s today. A 150 dollar red tagged 20 cubic foot freezer. We’ve been looking for one to store frozen squid for use as bait, and I’ve found freezers for 300 bucks for a 15 cubic foot chest freezer, or 400 bucks for a 15 cubic foot stand up freezer. I [...]
Oh my. Twelve days since my last post. I must be getting lazy. But not too much has been going on in my end. Work and scouts and that’s about it. I got to buy 330 pounds of frozen squid on Thursday for the boat to use as bait. Kicker was, the bait company closes [...]
As many of you know, it’s been hot lately. So what better idea, than taking a speed boat out on the water for a few hours? We put 60 gallons of gas in the boat, put in at Long Beach, then set out for Palos Verde. We continue on, a total of 35 miles to [...]
Newport Harbor Museum Will Move to Balboa Fun Zone Location – Los Angeles Times Well, the Balboa Fun Zone will be going away. Turned into a museum. I know attendance there has been down, but this is still a sad time. I shall need to go down and enjoy the last little bit before this [...]
I’m just not focusing well at work this week. Understandable I guess. Still, it’s irritating, not to be at my usual rapid pace. Spent Sunday and Monday night down at the beach, visiting cousins and a few other people. I didn’t know that the happy hour at the Harborside restaurant in the Pavillion on Balboa [...]
Ok, I’m going to do a second round of whale watching. Saturday, March 18th at 1pm. The trip will run from 1pm to 4pm, with the Liberty leaving promptly at 1pm. I have organized a SomethingAwful.com Goon meet for the trip, and I’d like to get more people involved too. If you’re interested, drop me [...]
Ok. It’s late. it’s 1am. That’s very late for me, even on a Friday night/Saturday morning. But finally, since I started working on it at 10pm, I figured out how to have working effectivity dates in Filemaker. not a big deal? It’s a huge deal. Now I can track my changing costs (such as fuel) [...]
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