They were a lot of help when a birthday party of 15 kids and parents showed up — the Amtrak people were friendly, helped with info, held luggage in baggage check and one fellow even handed out kiddie train books to teh little ones. Very nice!
How many sale emails did you delete today? I’m up to about 30.
will they eventually become realists?
Two cannibals are eating a clown, one turns to the other and asks, “Does this taste funny to you?”
can fix it myself, sure, but I contacted ‘reliable iphone repair’ and he hasn’t gotten back to me in a week!
Obsessing over old ideas that failed us is not going to make a better future — offer something original or shaddup — there is an energy cost to all this pointless electronic activity.
Both hatches are off the boat for painting, the cicadas and the water are keeping a rhythm, the air is temperate enough for shorts and a t-shirt on deck and life is good.
The warning sound on the inverter went off, and since I was laying down and trying to sleep, it went through me the way I’d imagine a siren in a biohazard lab would sound.
What the…? I immediately had my ‘jump to conclusions’ mat out and decided the damned inverter had already failed — at less than three months old! Damn, I threw out the packaging! I can’t return it! I have to buy a new one! Wait, that means I can get a better one! A 1500 watt model! I can run a microwave!
But then I turned a couple lights on and noticed they were dim. Shut one light off and the others brightened. Aha Watson! Deductive reasoning strikes again — the battery is weak and the inverter actually functioned correctly, warning me that the battery didn’t have enough power.
Damn! Now I have to buy a new battery! They’re a hundred bucks! And so on.
Perhaps not. I unplugged the inverter and shut off all lights and let the charger work for a few minutes. Then I plugged in the inverter which did not set off the Anthrax alarm, and my iPhone started charging again.
This is like the Green Acres scenario where they can’t run the dishwasher and the toaster at the same time, but I am thinking of taking the battery home, with the charger, and letting it replenish for a few days without drawing any power. We’ll see. This reminds me that I have to learn more about electrical and 12 volt systems — and that most learning on a boat is dictated by stuff as it happens.
