January 2010 - life at the Beach ClubO.K., O.K., O.K., now it's 'later'
in the month and life has returned to somewhat normal activities and
such - so here we are with some things to see / read-about / view / be
concerned about:
1.) The TriceQ seems to be making-up for 'lost-time' -with almost 200 miles this week - we're riding more and enjoying it more, though today's ride took me north of "Cove Road" - and it was SLOW SLOW SLOW with all the traffic, people with dogs on the side-walk, and intersections and what-not. - even though I rode almost 60 miles - it took me almost an hour longer than the 67 miles I rode on Monday (Monday's 'average' was almost 12 mph; today's was barely 10.5 mph) - and after 4-6 hours that little bit of difference really starts to make a BIG DIFFERENCE in the total miles travelled...
- ugh ugh ugh
- NEXT time I do a "LONG RIDE" it's going to be at Lake Okeechobee where I can really get some riding done - rather than all these 'interruptions'...
Monday's (18 January, 2010 = 67 miles) ride Wednesday's (20 January, 2010 = 58 miles) ride
Someone asked for a 'current' picture - not sure how they tell about current versus old, but here it is...
AND - Ms._May is getting closer to wanting / buying a small-frame trike - we'll see how that goes. We have several in mind, and the key is probably to find a dealer (or dealers) who have 'in-stock' the ones she would like to ride - try-out...
2.) yard-work - continues - did 15 trash-cans yesterday - about 4 hours of yard-raking (amongst other things) but - well - they emptied them all this morning - so now I have to work my upper-body, MORE, and fill them up again!
3.) Ms. May's working (still / further / more) on her 'Empty Bowls' project - blog-here.
4.) WEATHER: it was VERY CHILLY for a couple of weeks - and froze a few nights - then got warmer last Friday - and I went kiteboarding but the WATER was COLD... Went sailboat racing on Saturday (moderate temperature and a LOT of wind (for sailing (15-22 mph S / SSE))) - with some people from Tampa - ended up in second place for the day, not bad!
5.) Now studying for the "GROL (Wikipedia-Link)" test (General Radiotelephone Operator License) - Another FCC license that is a bit more 'involved' than the Amateur Radio license(s) that I already have. More electrical theory (and some laws and regulations) more electronics, more digital, some radar, and so-forth. This license will allow me to (legally) work on Marine and Aviation radios and fix them / trade-parts, and so-on and so-forth... I'm also going to work on the GMDSS license as soon as the book arrives - it's bought and paid-for but has been back-ordered. GMDSS Wikipedia Link here.
6.) Challenged by, now-a-days several attempts at electronics / de-bugging / corrosion prevention and recovery. - Hence the study for the two above licenses - though I suspect here in South Florida that 99% of problems are probably corrosion related and if one could solve / re-solve that particular issue, one could really generate some income... - Have found something called "X-Sealant-Gel" - which I HOPE will help me / others in another 12-30 months or so but only the passage of time will tell... This is a pretty amazing gooey-stuff - if you want the ...pdf on it's uses, specs, etc. - here it is.
It's SNOWING in Stuart (Saturday evening, 09 January 2010) and I did NOT repeat NOT go 200km on my recumbent tricycle today (in 43F and rain and wind!) -
- it's NOT a lot of SNOW - - it WILL NOT "Accumulate" on the ground - it WILL NOT STAY around - but it IS SNOWING (a tiny tiny bit)
- I noticed it when I went out to drag hoses around and turn-the-water-on (itsy bitsy) so it won't freeze pipes, pumps and water-softeners...
It's EARLY in JANUARY of the NEW YEAR,
- and we wish everyone out there a
These are a few pictures from when we spent the last few days of December 2009 in Miami, helping to run a VERY LARGE sailing regatta - The "Orange Bowl Youth (Junior Olympics)"...
While we were in Miami - and amongst the sailing and judging and other such things that we do while there, we managed to spend a couple of mornings riding our bicycles (and yes - Mr._Bill really does have a bicycle (with only TWO WHEELS?)). The picture(s) above are testament to his skill-set with only two wheels (no - he didn't fall down) as well as his and his huggly-bunch's skill-set with the iPhone's camera.
Since the iPhone is about the only thing small enough to carry-with-one on a bicycle - it's pretty handy, and with a little patience in cropping / moving around (grovelling around on the ground to get the framing and the white-balance correct) the iPhone's camera takes a pretty darned good picture...
We did manage to meet some new judges and some new 'other-sailing-management-people'. One of the judges we met will come and stay with us for a while later this month while she races in a local regatta. That will be enjoyable and interesting.
Ms._May continues her US Sailing judging. She writes a blog about her experiences engaged in this activity.
Then in about a week Mr._Bill will, supposedly (weather (and other such things) permitting) kick-off his 'century' tricycle ride. A Century is 100 miles - and he's going to try to do this one around the bulk of Lake Okeechobee. We'll let you know how it all works out.
Ms._May will also be participating in some ceramic-arts engagements. and then in February we'll travel to help-out and yet another regatta.
These are 'hold-overs' from previous months...
From September-October - the "CNC09 Cycling trip: Our arrival back home in Stuart (on Monday, 5 October) (after a 13 1/2 hour - 760 mile drive, yesterday, in the RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN... from the "Cycle North Carolina - 2009" - 430 mile cycling trip from Blowing Rock to Surf City - entirely in North Carolina...
The "CNC09" - since it spanned September and October - has it's own web-page - so you can see that ' Here ' - It'll be 'new and different today (6 October) but I'll probably update it throughout the month as more things show-up...
On the hang-gliding front we have not been flying "that much" - but a good friend of ours from _Colorado_ went to a competition in _Arizona_, recently, and posted this video. It's only about 2 minutes / 10 seconds long but shows the tow-up, the circular motion that is so important, some gliders below him, and if you turn the sound up you can hear his 'vario' (the instrument that tells a glider pilot he is in a rising column of air) - typically called a 'thermal'.
Mr._Bill's best hang-gliding-flight (Ever) - see the FlightLog.Org web-page, here...
1.) The TriceQ seems to be making-up for 'lost-time' -with almost 200 miles this week - we're riding more and enjoying it more, though today's ride took me north of "Cove Road" - and it was SLOW SLOW SLOW with all the traffic, people with dogs on the side-walk, and intersections and what-not. - even though I rode almost 60 miles - it took me almost an hour longer than the 67 miles I rode on Monday (Monday's 'average' was almost 12 mph; today's was barely 10.5 mph) - and after 4-6 hours that little bit of difference really starts to make a BIG DIFFERENCE in the total miles travelled...
- ugh ugh ugh
- NEXT time I do a "LONG RIDE" it's going to be at Lake Okeechobee where I can really get some riding done - rather than all these 'interruptions'...
Monday's (18 January, 2010 = 67 miles) ride Wednesday's (20 January, 2010 = 58 miles) ride
Someone asked for a 'current' picture - not sure how they tell about current versus old, but here it is...
AND - Ms._May is getting closer to wanting / buying a small-frame trike - we'll see how that goes. We have several in mind, and the key is probably to find a dealer (or dealers) who have 'in-stock' the ones she would like to ride - try-out...
2.) yard-work - continues - did 15 trash-cans yesterday - about 4 hours of yard-raking (amongst other things) but - well - they emptied them all this morning - so now I have to work my upper-body, MORE, and fill them up again!
3.) Ms. May's working (still / further / more) on her 'Empty Bowls' project - blog-here.
4.) WEATHER: it was VERY CHILLY for a couple of weeks - and froze a few nights - then got warmer last Friday - and I went kiteboarding but the WATER was COLD... Went sailboat racing on Saturday (moderate temperature and a LOT of wind (for sailing (15-22 mph S / SSE))) - with some people from Tampa - ended up in second place for the day, not bad!
5.) Now studying for the "GROL (Wikipedia-Link)" test (General Radiotelephone Operator License) - Another FCC license that is a bit more 'involved' than the Amateur Radio license(s) that I already have. More electrical theory (and some laws and regulations) more electronics, more digital, some radar, and so-forth. This license will allow me to (legally) work on Marine and Aviation radios and fix them / trade-parts, and so-on and so-forth... I'm also going to work on the GMDSS license as soon as the book arrives - it's bought and paid-for but has been back-ordered. GMDSS Wikipedia Link here.
6.) Challenged by, now-a-days several attempts at electronics / de-bugging / corrosion prevention and recovery. - Hence the study for the two above licenses - though I suspect here in South Florida that 99% of problems are probably corrosion related and if one could solve / re-solve that particular issue, one could really generate some income... - Have found something called "X-Sealant-Gel" - which I HOPE will help me / others in another 12-30 months or so but only the passage of time will tell... This is a pretty amazing gooey-stuff - if you want the ...pdf on it's uses, specs, etc. - here it is.
It's SNOWING in Stuart (Saturday evening, 09 January 2010) and I did NOT repeat NOT go 200km on my recumbent tricycle today (in 43F and rain and wind!) -
- it's NOT a lot of SNOW - - it WILL NOT "Accumulate" on the ground - it WILL NOT STAY around - but it IS SNOWING (a tiny tiny bit)
- I noticed it when I went out to drag hoses around and turn-the-water-on (itsy bitsy) so it won't freeze pipes, pumps and water-softeners...
It's EARLY in JANUARY of the NEW YEAR,
- and we wish everyone out there a
Happy New Year
- hoping for the best in the New YearThese are a few pictures from when we spent the last few days of December 2009 in Miami, helping to run a VERY LARGE sailing regatta - The "Orange Bowl Youth (Junior Olympics)"...
While we were in Miami - and amongst the sailing and judging and other such things that we do while there, we managed to spend a couple of mornings riding our bicycles (and yes - Mr._Bill really does have a bicycle (with only TWO WHEELS?)). The picture(s) above are testament to his skill-set with only two wheels (no - he didn't fall down) as well as his and his huggly-bunch's skill-set with the iPhone's camera.
Since the iPhone is about the only thing small enough to carry-with-one on a bicycle - it's pretty handy, and with a little patience in cropping / moving around (grovelling around on the ground to get the framing and the white-balance correct) the iPhone's camera takes a pretty darned good picture...
We did manage to meet some new judges and some new 'other-sailing-management-people'. One of the judges we met will come and stay with us for a while later this month while she races in a local regatta. That will be enjoyable and interesting.
Ms._May continues her US Sailing judging. She writes a blog about her experiences engaged in this activity.
Then in about a week Mr._Bill will, supposedly (weather (and other such things) permitting) kick-off his 'century' tricycle ride. A Century is 100 miles - and he's going to try to do this one around the bulk of Lake Okeechobee. We'll let you know how it all works out.
Ms._May will also be participating in some ceramic-arts engagements. and then in February we'll travel to help-out and yet another regatta.
These are 'hold-overs' from previous months...
From September-October - the "CNC09 Cycling trip: Our arrival back home in Stuart (on Monday, 5 October) (after a 13 1/2 hour - 760 mile drive, yesterday, in the RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN... from the "Cycle North Carolina - 2009" - 430 mile cycling trip from Blowing Rock to Surf City - entirely in North Carolina...
The "CNC09" - since it spanned September and October - has it's own web-page - so you can see that ' Here ' - It'll be 'new and different today (6 October) but I'll probably update it throughout the month as more things show-up...
On the hang-gliding front we have not been flying "that much" - but a good friend of ours from _Colorado_ went to a competition in _Arizona_, recently, and posted this video. It's only about 2 minutes / 10 seconds long but shows the tow-up, the circular motion that is so important, some gliders below him, and if you turn the sound up you can hear his 'vario' (the instrument that tells a glider pilot he is in a rising column of air) - typically called a 'thermal'.
Mr._Bill's best hang-gliding-flight (Ever) - see the FlightLog.Org web-page, here...
and-or see the track-log over Google Earth Image(s), here... small_image larger_image (1 megabyte)
Archived BeachWeb monthly site(s): Click here for a list of the archived months
Some people have asked, WHERE can I FIND, "X" - whatever the heck "X" is?; but in my case - these two things are being asked about...
The "Tire Changing Web-Page" and/or the VANC (VikingAsia (Networks and Computers)) Consulting) web-page.
AND / OR if you 'WANT' (or desire or need or have an 'urge' for something you don't see, then you can e-mail me at: bill@vikingasia.org
Archived BeachWeb monthly site(s): Click here for a list of the archived months
Some people have asked, WHERE can I FIND, "X" - whatever the heck "X" is?; but in my case - these two things are being asked about...
The "Tire Changing Web-Page" and/or the VANC (VikingAsia (Networks and Computers)) Consulting) web-page.
AND / OR if you 'WANT' (or desire or need or have an 'urge' for something you don't see, then you can e-mail me at: bill@vikingasia.org
updated: 19:30 p.m. on Wednesday, 20 January, 2010 - revID: 1c