Monday 22

Monday 22- I did my stretches; too dang cold and windy to do anything else.
Today’s Weather was: Temps of around 36 and 56 degrees, WNW winds at 13 to 31 MPH, humidity around 36 percent, cloudy skies here and there.
According to the National Weather Service: “Tuesday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 59. North northwest wind between 5 and 8 mph. Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 39. South wind between 4 and 7 mph becoming calm.”
Well I needed to sign and mail the insurance papers today and drive down to my mailbox before the mailman gets there and that is just what I did. But first I had to hookup my scanner to the Netbook. It’s running Windows 7 and I thought I’d have a problem getting it to run. I didn’t install the scanners software, I just plugged in the USB connection, it loaded the scanner right up and I was scanning the documents in no time, wow! Then I got everything together and jumped into the Gross Polluter for the twelve mile round trip to my mailbox.
I spent the next four hours when I got back or so going through all my old pictures looking for any of Bob Seeley. When I found them I’d copy it to another file that I’ll take to Marcie who needs them for Bob’s memorial this Saturday; I found around fifty or so pictures of Bob and transferred the file onto a Thumbdrive.
Way too windy for an evening walk and cold too! I read aloud from the textbooks: “Astronomy Today"; “The Cell: a Molecular Approach”, and then spent my time going through old college papers I had done over twenty years ago. They were mostly on astronomy classes I took. I was reading one that was about Intrinsic Variable Stars printed out from a computer that I didn’t remember writing and thought it may have been some professional research paper I had printed out: it read really well! Then I found the same paper handwritten by me! It was from my Independent Study in astronomy at El Camino College on Intrinsic Variable Stars. Ah what memories!
Andrew called telling me of this 40’ Piver Trimaran he found for sale for a decent price; he remembered that dream I had last week I wrote about. That got my interest and we talked about it for a while. Then I thought about it for a spell. Then I called him up later in the night to talk about it some more. He may go down where it’s moored tomorrow and have a look-see. I told him what to check out for and what questions to ask the seller. I know Pivers well because I lived on a 32’ Piver in Redondo Beach for many years out on the moorings; the picture you see to the top left is my old 32’ Piver Tri.
Then I did my stretches; practiced my guitar; wrote to my journal, posted it to the web, and called it a night.

Tuesday 23

Tuesday 23- I did my stretches and ran two miles; a lot warmer today than yesterday!
Today’s Weather was: Temps of around 39 and 58 degrees, WNW winds at 13 to 31 MPH, humidity around 31 percent, mostly clear skies.
According to the National Weather Service: “Wednesday: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 64. Light wind becoming south southwest between 14 and 17 mph. Winds could gust as high as 24 mph. Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 45. West wind between 10 and 20 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph.”
I did some work around the house and then called Marcie up so I can take that picture file of Bob Seeley I spent four hours on yesterday over to download it onto her computer. She was home this time so I went right on over. She wanted me to print them out for Seeley’s memorial this Saturday but I spent the next hour trying to get her dang printer to work. First it was unplugged. Then it wouldn’t print because the yellow cartridge was out of ink. I tried to bypass it to just print in black but it wouldn’t do it, dang. She’ll have to go and buy a new one.
I checked on a friend’s home who is on vacation and watered his plants and gave him a call from his house phone (he has unlimited calling) to see what he’s up to. He said he expects to be home by next week.
I went on my evening walk listening to Astronomy Cast lecture Ep. 170: Coordinate Systems. Stuff I already know but it’s good to have a refresher! If you don’t know alt-azimuth, right ascension and declination, arc seconds and arc minutes, this would be a nice lecture to listen to. I stopped by along the way to feed Princess an apple and a carrot.
I got back home and read aloud from the textbooks: “Astronomy Today" about Earth’s Magnetosphere, and Tides; “The Cell: a Molecular Approach” about detection on Nucleic Acids and Proteins- if I even understood one percent of this book I’d feel accomplished! Then I practiced my guitar.
I watched “NOVA: Megabeasts' Sudden Death” about how large animals in North America became extinct twelve thousand nine hundred years ago, and the present day theories that try to explain what happened. Most believe that a comet hit Earth wiping them out.
I did my stretches; practiced my guitar; wrote my column for the newspaper and sent it in; wrote to my journal, posted it to the web, and called it a night.