As you know I’ve taken up radio control slope soaring usin my Caterbury Sailplanes “Eraser 60”. Well I have to say I’m getting better at it and feel a lot more comfortable up there. For example, my landings are less crashes and generally the plane stays the right way up. I’m not yet good enough to…
Wow. Slow Month.
Nobody has anything to impart? Is it just the fall “blahs”? (Spring “blahs”?!) It’s been bitterly cold here over the last week or so. Windchills down to the -38C range (about the same temperature in fahrenheit), so we’ve just bee huddled up trying to keep warm. I’ll give a little overview of the current goings…
Hot Water Tank Installed – No floods!
I spent the weekend getting all the parts and installing a new hot tub hot water tank. There were no real hitches, just a bit of a gas scare. It went like this: Walter (a neighbour) and I got the tank down the basement, disconnected everything, TURNED OFF THE GAS, then disconnected the gas lines…
Down Under Update
Terry has asked for a update missive from the lovely southern hemisphere. Lets start with the people …  Sam is just in the middle of his second year engineering final exams. He writes hismost difficult today (go sam ) something called materials and then has a week until thermodynamics. The kid knows how to live. We…
The Squid is up….for now
The server had a bit of a power supply meltdown this afternoon. I have it back up because I happened to have the right power supply in my crawlspace (what ARE the chances?!), but it’s hobbling and roughly cobbled together. Hopefully in the next little while I’ll get it up in a more solid fashion….