Or, “The Minnow Part II”.. I made use of prior knowledge (meaning, I spray painted OUTSIDE today… as shown in the first picture) to not have a “hazy” day like I apparently did today! Expect more pictures later on Tuesday as I will have the camera with me while the mood is set.
Making waves.. wow that was poor word choice!!!
The sharpie was sucking towards the end of writing this — I’ll fix it tomorrow.
The waves with a length reference. Again, couldn’t tape them on because the blue paint is still wet 
Now I have to get it in the building… somehow… undetected.
Sadly I don’t think my blog ever fully recovered from the massive server-rebuild some months back. I was browsing through the archives to some older posts (in the “Archived” category) and it seems I am missing some plugins and a whole slew of uploads. I will figure this out at some point. I am fairly certain that the files are online “somewhere”.. it’s just a question of pointing things in the right direction.
Thought I fixed all of this crap already — sorry guys!
So, here’s to hoping that the wrong eyes don’t browse this way in the next day or two 
Day 1 of 2 of the construction of the SS Minnow.. Got most of the way today, so here’s the photo-documentation!
Gotta have supplies…
The bow during early construction.
The SS Minnow during early construction with the “cabin” in place.
And now there is room for me in the boat
And now it doesn’t look like a diaper box
Bow and stern closed in, ready to be painted.
…4 cans of white spray paint later.
Cabin windows..
It’s pretty sweet IMHO
Part II will be tomorrow. I had to go through the “is the Minnow shipwrecked or not?” dliemma, and decided that boats are more fun in water than with holes on a beach. In my defense however, I did buy a sand-looking spray-paint just incase.. along with the obvious blue!
I guess this will not come as a shock to some.. I was once again whittling down my Microsoft-dependent applications, and eventually ended up back at the same “end of the road” that I usually found. I was very close to giving Windows the ole heave-hoe.. and quickly came back — Microsoft can thank Outlook for this transition back to the dark side.
I found several people praising Evolution (held up by the Gnome dev team and several Novell folks) on the win32 platform, and wanted to realistically use that en-lieu of Outlook. I still do believe in open source software, but I could never easily get Evolution to work in a Windows environment (despite a “proven” win32 installer).
I don’t want to come on and say Evolution sucks. I simply don’t know. I didn’t have a chance to properly evaluate without either suffering with a Linux livecd or in a native win32 environment. I also have a WinCE device that I plan to use in the near future that syncs much easier with Windows.
So, I am again planted firmly in windows-land. At least I am still using Firefox (although did install IE7 this afternoon for web development purposes).
I’m not a Yankee’s fan. I never have been and never plan to be. Even if I toyed with the idea, just living in New England is enough reason to silence those thoughts (for fear of my safety!). But, by now I’m sure you’ve seen/heard/read about Joe Torre leaving the Yankee’s. Found this article on ESPN.com that I enjoyed reading, and wanted to share:
Olney: Torre led the pinstripes with class
When moved into higher pressure and higher stress situations, I procrastinate with extreme tenacity. I have now been procrastinating for 3 hours, and there is no end in sight (see, I am writing this post adding time). I estimate that once I actually get to work, I’ll have an hour or two of crap to get through. Sweetness!
I guess it’s true after all — I don’t enjoy sleeping. Should be a really shitty day tomorrow. Stay tuned.
Ever since I moved north, I’ve become more and more excited about the prospect of getting back into downhill skiing. I’d been haphazardly looking for some old ski’s and boots for a decent price (I was hoping for $100-$150, since I know ski’s never EVER come cheap). I was at a rummage sale today while visiting some family and came across an old pair of skis in decent enough shape that they are still usable. They were a little shorter than I would have hoped for (the other pair available were definitely too long), but the price was right.
5 bucks.. skis and bindings. The irony is that I only had $3 on me I borrowed a couple bucks from someone and off I went.
Now to find boots! See you on the slopes!!!
It was a quiet drive on the way home from a friend’s place tonight. About 56 miles door to door, and I saw 12 cars (9 of which were on an interstate, which accounts for about half of the drive). Didn’t look up moon phases or anything, but it was disturbingly dark too.. silent, yet peaceful.
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse…
On my personal youtube page:
Hello planet earth, and welcome to the most ridiculous (lame) show ever… or something.
I started on my massive blog “renovation” this week, ground up WP install with a theme all my own and all the plugins and features that I’ve wanted for a while. Thanks to a quirk in scheduling (holiday weekend), I might have time to come to a reasonable “show off” point of the new kicks. stay tuned. if you actually are reading this, yay for you (yay-er for me?). more news on the new site and plans coming once I finalize everything..