Dancin' Feet

This weekend I moved this blog from .Mac here to Blogger. The ability to make entries without using iWeb is really important to me. This got me thinking that the return of thin clients is just around the corner. I'd bet that sites like Google documents and spreadsheets will see more and more traffic until they become the de-facto standard.

C was really ill on Thursday but started to turn around on Friday. Fever, runny nose, cough. He's feeling pretty human now but still has a juicy cough. Now K has it. She took to her bed yesterday and stayed home today. Guess I'm next :(

K overnighted the RJ-45 connector to Spring Garden on Wed and I called them on Friday to make sure they got it. I spoke to a woman (either John's or Ken's wife) who said she hadn't seen it so I gave her the tracking info confirming delivery. She said she'd look for it. I have the feeling that the boat will be launched very late this season.

Hillary F told Kevie that the consultant had finished her work and that we had a strong case to proceed against the JC school district. We agreed that we'd forward the retainer and her office would file the complaint. Now we're really into it!

On Saturday we went to New Milford to witness The Dancin' Feet. I enjoyed it but missed all of Stephanie's dance because I was trying to take pictures. I probably should have used a wider angle but was worried that you wouldn't be able to recognize her. I'll know better next time.

We got an early morning phone call from LGN which I ignored thinking that it would be a request to bring her home. After 2 more messages we learned that her TV remote had stopped working so C and I went to Harborview to re-program the thing. Didn't have any tape to secure the battery cover so I know the prob will recur. Just a question of when.

The Milones came over later in the day and K made a Chili recipe that she got from an acquaintance at work. I thought it was great but she spent the night with bad heartburn. Susan brought home made cookies and Vic tossed a salad. All in all it was a feast. Andy and Mark introduced C to Club Penguin and it has become the top priority activity.

Enhance and debug

K and C spent Tuesday in Millville to take care of the Car and clothes washer.


The bracket that holds the plug for a trailer electrical connection had fallen off the undercarriage and was welded back on by Foschi. They looked at the cruise control that had ceased to function when they replaced the ABS computer. We thought that it was caused by something done during the last repair but no such luck.


The welding and the diagnostics came to $70 and he recommended that we get a used cruise control module but that will have to be ordered. It doesn't seem practical to make a Millville run just for the cruise control so it'll probably be taken to the dealer in Jersey City.


K stopped by Spring Garden to check on the boat's progress. We're expecting the engines to be tuned, zincs replaced, bottom painted, and the radar to be installed. T

Indiana

We left the house at 4:30 to catch a 7 AM flight and had the roads to ourselves. C has been worried about flying ever since we told him we were going which is hard to understand in the face of a recent successful Orlando flight. After we took off and made the banking turn to the west he was happy to be on the plane and let us know that he had surpassed all personal expectations in the brave and daring department.

K and I dozed on the plane but still felt sleep deprived when the plane landed. There was an announcement that Chicago time was an hour earlier than New York so we felt we had time to burn. We accepted an invitation to stay the night with Tari Haff but I waited too long to cancel the hotel reservation and got stuck with the full tab. Thinking that we could salvage some utility from the reservation we headed to the hotel for a short nap. Once we saw the time in the room it became clear that Ft Wayne time was the same as New York and that we didn't have the extra hour we thought we had.

The GPS had us twist and turn over so many country roads that I had no idea where we were but we arrived around 3:00 without getting lost. We might have been the last ones to get there.

There were many familiar faces and many that I just drew a blank on. It really helped that Kevie had license to go up and ask, "Now, who are you?" Butch was being very stoic and such a gentleman. He greeted everyone, made smalltalk, and asked asked after Louise. More pictures are here.

Several of us took a walk to see the cottage that Al and Lucille had when we were kids. As soon as we walked over the rise I recognized it. It was easy to remember being 12 and rowing around the lake with Mike and swimming at the public beach.

We spent Saturday night with Teri and Jim at their lake cottage. Warm hospitality and good conversation.

Got on the road early and made it back to Midway with few troubles. Christopher asked when we were coming back; a sign that he had a good time.

Stopped at Harborview to see my mom as it was Mother's Day. I thought she would be brimming with questions about the wake but she wasn't. I don't know if she forgot or just got the days mixed up but we gave her the blow by blow.

Conversations with Mom

Told my mom last night that we were going to Alene's wake and asked if there was anything she wanted to pass along. She told me to give them some popcorn. I'm never sure if she actually hears what I'm saying.

Weekend in Review

This week C complained about the buttons sticking on his trumpet so they gave him one with better buttons but it was in rough shape. So Saturday morning we went to Regional Music in Millville and rented a newish trumpet. There's been a lot of tooting since.

K and I were sitting on the starboard rear facing seat eating lunch when the rotten wooden support collapsed. I showed it to Ken and his idea was to screw the seat frame to the fiberglass and and put a leg under it.

The transom door has scraped the jam since we got the boat so the fiberglass contractors took it last weekend and I'm thinking he intends to move the hinges.

There was plenty of evidence that they had started work on installing the radar. Cables and boxes everywhere. Ken told me there's a warning in the instructions not to run the radar cables close to the VHF antenna cable and that the installer is having difficulty finding an alternate way to run the cable. We left them the laptop and a patch cable.

A couple of years ago one of the neighbors in the boat yard recommended Collinite Insulator Wax and we've used it as a second coat but buffing has always been a problem. This season the entire hull was waxed with the Insulator Wax except for the starboard side under the lip which was done with Marine Wax from the Spring Garden boat store. K says that wax was SO much easier to buff.

I used full strength Simple Green cleanser as a teak stripper for all the trim on the port side seat/cabinet and it worked but didn't do the same job as Te-Ka. K stripped the teak on the gunwale with Te-Ka.

Wake and re-acquaintance

Alene's obituary in the Marion paper said that there would be no service but I got an email from her daughter, Teri Haff and there is going to be a gathering at her house in Silver Lake on Saturday the 12th.

We've decided to go.

Dinner at Taboon

Vic and I went to Taboon on 52nd and 10th. The food was Mediterranean and tasty. We had a tzatziki appetizer and I had lamb kabobs.

Afterwards we walked and smoked our way down to the west village and had drinks outside at the Cowgirl Hall of Fame. Good fun.