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December 2009 Vacation Trip 2010-12-09

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Today was not the best of days. There were power failures on both sides of the island and for some reason that killed traffic and I spent ages in the car (albeit with the A/C running and the radio blasting away). At the computer store they told me that the battery I had ordered for my Sony notebook wouldn’t arrive today as expected, and not be deliverable before Christmas, so I had to cancel that. Then, just at closing time I found out from Audrey at Electec that there was a a SNAFU and my part hadn’t been air shipped via FedEx but had been put in a container for delivery sometime in the far future. They had gotten it out of the shipment, but now I’ll be very lucky if it arrives on Friday in time to get installed (yeah, as if I am going to plan on that!) so with my luck nothing will happen until Monday and I really don’t want to remain here that long. I’ll find out more tomorrow – but I am running my main engine right now for an hour to charge up the batteries a bit (the alternator puts out 50A at 1000 RPM which isn’t too bad). The only thing that did work out well today was that the lettering for the boat was completed. Unfortunately, I had ordered one large set for the back and two identical smaller sets for the boom; but the big letters were far too big so I used one of the smaller sets and to make things worse I mangled the job and the lettering still has lots of bubbles.
Last night I tripped on the nonskid steps and bruised my right foot, it swelled up today and I have a feeling I might have pulled a tendon. I will need to sandpaper or replace the nonskid on the steps!

My old hosting company, who will remain unnamed although their name starts with “go” and the end rhymes with “baddy”, changed their software with little notice and the original SV-ZANSHIN.COM site stopped working overnight. 

Every.  Single.  Page. 

 

So I’ve transitioned to another provider. These original pages have been migrated, but all the formatting and other features are gone and the will still contain numerous display issues and formatting anomalies. 

The manual effort of conversion is too much and not worth the effort involved. Over 1000 blog diary pages like this one are going to remain in this condition. The pictures are full-scale, but won’t expand when clicked. But you can can copy them to view them in their original splendour.