Moving forward and other notes

[kinzel]

Note 1:

Another trip to the car place in order, this one tomorrow early, and it may be a long one.

We're going to try to get the in-car location device.. in this case a very simple digital direction-header compass in the mirror -- fixed. Those of you familiar with my North by Northwest post after my trip to Montreal last year may recall the joy of depending on my system... when it failed.

Rather than springing for a GPS, we'll see what the car folks can do. I'd rather not add one more layer of complexity to my trips, and over the years I've been well served by compass-heading navigation. We, shall see. If this does not produce good results I may have to go to the GPS before I wander off on a solo reunion trip to Maryland in November.


Note 2:
Longevity is good, it adds flavor. It adds character. it adds ... complexity. There's that word again. This week the problem has been discovery of a series of SRM orders that have come in under the radar -- meaning I never saw them -- because they relied on cached pages. Yikes -- Paypal dutifully added the (postage-less) orders to the income, but since the catalog never saw them, it never generated a fulfillment or packing slip.

I thought the new system was simpler... but complexity is added because the web tends to hold everything ever HTMLed in gooey tender electric arms. And then, powie, a couple of orders from catalogs I'd distributed *several mainland Worldcons ago* which apparently were unearthed as result of people going home from Denvention and saying to themselves "Gee, didn't we have something from them around here?" So, while hurricane winds may be approaching (today is wonderfully blue!) we'll try to catch that stuff up.

Note 3:
http://www.stellarcon.org/home ...
wonder if I can borrow the countdown gizmo there ...

Note 4:
Hurricane Hanna, oh goody. Current tracking map puts the hurricane approximately in our lap sometime around Noon or 1 PM Sunday. Been awhile since I was in the eye of a hurricane.

Note 5: If I start my tomato extravaganza two weeks early next year ... we ought to be able to grow our own in the now identified tomato zone. In the past our total tomato output some years was zapped by early and unheralded frosts...

Note 6:
Lunch is over, back to work.

THIS JUST IN! BREAKING NEWS!

Note 7:
please bring the ape back...
http://www.wcsh6.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=92302&catid=2


v1.2 , thanks to jhetley, eagle eye, and missing apes

Comments

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Don't place too much faith in that Hanna (no "H") tracker -- she's been lollygagging around the north shore of Hispaniola for several days now, confounding the experts. I think she has a date with Ike, and is waiting for him to show up.

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but now they they they see something. My spellchecker insisted on Hannah .. we fix it now though.

[xinef.livejournal.com]

Latest NHC forecast for Hanna:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at3.shtml?5day#contents

Shows it as a tropical storm, not hurricane by the time it gets up your way, so not likely to be any eye left.

[6-penny.livejournal.com]

Try a little thing called a'Wall o'water on the Tomatoes. I used them with good effect. Actually got mine in the ground on Cape Cod at the beginning of March (with lots of freezes after. By the end of May when I would have normally been planting, they were coming through the tops. They also help with the cool nights at the beginning of the summer that really slow the plants down.