Long muddle-headed day,,,

The start at 5am to run south of Knoxville and return trip so I could get in SOME hours at the J.O.B.,,,, Then the brainium exercises of putting peices of metal together in a way in which they are useful,,,,,

My brain is beat,,, Body a bit too, but the brain is the grump in this chassis tonight.

Satyrday is looking to be refreshingly out of season, considering the season came out of nowhere and jumped us. Leaves are really starting to accept thier fates and falling fast, but there are still leaves in most of the trees,,, just starting to get thin up there and thick on the ground. I fully intend on taking Lyssa out this weekend and pushing some miles under her keel. Even laid a copy of my plans on a cheat sheet to hand off to Da, with orders to try and contact me FIRST before he goes calling in the calvary. I don’t expect problems, but there have been some mishaps lately, involving small, hard to see kayaks, (one the boat was cut in half by the prop of the offending fast mover) I don’t like the idea of being that sort of statistic, if ya know what I mean,,,, Now, not knowing a lot of details, I would say that “lack of education” had a LOT to do with some of these accidents. We may ‘by law’ have right of way since we are under human power, but there is this thing called “bigger than YOU” too,,,, Respect size and power, you’ll live longer,,,, I use caution when making crossings because I know they are moving fast, on plane and the bow is usually riding high and that means they have a harder time seeing forward. And its why I LOVE that ‘rape your retinas’ hat that B gave me; that thing will blind you at 10 yards and is visible for no less than a mile off. Every little bit counts.

The plan is for 15 miles of waterway, mostly hugging shoreline. Two decent crossings because I have no interest in whats up those inlets. (satellite imagry tells me , Meh! May hit them at a later date,,,) Early put in, take out when I get back, whenever that is (usual rate of travel, +20% for fatigue= gross estimate of 6 hours. Factor in lunch stops and just soaking in mamanature,,,, Figure 8.)

Alright, the brainium just formed a charlie horse figuring those rough numbers,,, time for bed. more tomorrows