2014-05-24

Arnd

2014 Trip 2014-05-24

While today was not a workday at “the office” it was a workday aboard Zanshin and I got a lot of cleaning, laundry and general maintenance work done during the course of the day. Since I was anchored close to Prickly Pear Island and the winds had died a bit, I got the odd fly aboard and finally broke out some fly strips I’d purchased a couple of years back. They hadn’t held up all that well in storage and were not only discolored but I actually watched a fly walk across a portion of one (and it later tried to repeat that feat on a part of the strip which was still sticky, and perished).

I did finally finish honing my 3 razor blades aboard – the 2 Dovo blades are stainless (hint – “less” still means rust) and the one Wacker Jungmeister 8/8 Spanish head one isn’t, and it had indeed gotten several rust blemishes that I’ll have to figure out how to remove; at least the cutting edges weren’t affected. It turns out that I didn’t take any other pictures today, so I’ll post more than I should, compensating for the missing pictures over the past couple of days.

Original hosting provider breaks my old website

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.