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Mr. Bill's 'Blog' (Web-Log) about various and sundry subject(s)... There are, apparently, those who are interested in a 'blog-style' dissertation which is about 95% text (with some embedded links)

IF you want more 'graphical' input, then pictures can be viewed by going to other, more subject-area-specific web-links.

Here's a link to the main-page where you can pick a subject-area-specific link

updated:_Sunday,_27th_May,_2007:                It's been 'a while' since the last Blog-Style update:

basically what's happened is NOT MUCH:

SOME (3 short) flights at Quest Air - in Groveland, Florida...  - then the wind picked-up there in Groveland, and it was too windy to fly.

THEN - 4-7 days (depending on how you count them) of 20-30 knots of wind - here in Stuart, so the boardsailing and the kiteboarding has been EXCELLENT here - (boardsailing and kiteboarding updates at the 'main-page')- where you find subject-specific links.   - Anyway - I also participated at the new park at the west-end of the new Stuart Causeway bridge... - This new park was EXCELLENT - great place to go boardsailing - I haven't been kiteboarding here - but if the wind shifts it will be very good for both sports.

THEN - on 'about' Monday 28th May (Memorial Day) I'll most probably go up to Groveland for some more Hang Gliding - assuming the wind dies off (there) ???  I have about 5 web-sites that I review every morning - and so the confluence of all these should indicate what's happening here, there, and everywhere?

AND - on the evening of the 30th of May - Ms._May returns - so that will be a momentous event! -


updated:  Friday afternoon, 11 May, 2007:

from Domestic.html
AND NOW - Mr. Bill is back 'home' in Stuart, Florida - the yard definitely needs me (seems as though WEEDS have happened in my absence)...

HOWEVER, I went grocery shopping on Thursday morning (since the only thing in the fridge was a quart of soured-milk and some (Chinese) soup of Ms. May's that looked like some biology experiment (green, blotchy and such?!) 

So - Mr. Bill has made his own visit to the grocery store and made his standard breakfast on Friday Morning (amid Ms. May's phone-call) and what is NOT in the previously noted image is the FRESH Mango, the semi-fresh Pineapple and the banana(s)..   - ALL very tasty.  Tomorrow is cereal day - looking forward to more Mango too!

ALSO: found (for the second time (Lightning???)) a blown-fuse in the yard-watering-gadget.  But it's now got a new fuse and a lot of TLC (to say nothing of re-programming.

I WONDER, too, about weeds - why is it that 'weeds flourish' when we are away but the grass doesn't?

ANYWAY _ there was a meowling-cat here ( small ) or ( large )  when I returned home at about 12:30 a.m. on Thursday morning.   She's STILL TALKING and still hugging and still reading books with me!

from Hang Gliding page:
Spent quite some time researching hang-glider-2-meter-radio-antenna options today - some reading, some talking to radio-geeks & gurus and gurettes, some e-mailing, and so-forth - the bottom-line is this:

1.) Almost any hand-held radio transceiver (HT) will work 'in the air' (in the hang-glider) with (almost any) rubber-duckie antenna that comes with the hand-held.   The fact that you are airborne 'overwhelms' the opportunity for 'huge' antenna efficiency gains... The rubber-duckie that comes with the HT could be attached to the hang-strap (to keep it 'mostly' vertical with some BNC or TNC connectors and a piece of RG 58A / U coax cable but even this creates a minimal increase in antenna efficiency...

2.) HOWEVER, once you are on the ground - a 'vertical' rubber-duckie or more 'efficient' vertical antenna helps significantly - the 'most common' of these is a 'loaded' (coil-type on the base or in the middle) telescoping antenna which can be carried in the harness..

updated:  Thursday afternoon, 10 May 2007:
 
from Hang Gliding page:
From some of Ms. Aggie's cloth that I brought home from Hong Kong,  I made a 'weatherproof' bag   (or bigger-image) for Ms. May's hang-glider.  This is a 'prototype' bag that will (we hope) protect the really nice bag (and the hang-glider) from weather wind, bugs, sun, and other such 'pests' when we car-top-carry our hang-gliders

Still don't know where my new glider is - Supposedly I'll get a call today and it'll be delivered to our Hang Gliding place late this week or early next week...
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