It’s been a Meh!nday

Only one ‘exciting’ revelation: Bossman informed me today that the new gate control motors are enroute. These are the heavier duty ones rated for 2.5 ton and 90′ travel. That should do the trick, fingers crossed.

And like I told him, “we’ll install the ‘old’ motors on some residential unit and they will be just fine. (which is what they were really designed for IMO)

B dropped in here on the blog last night and left his suggestion for what to do with Lizzy, and I had been considering that as well, What would really help at this point is to have her out of sight, out of mind, IE: in Frillin’ SC with sis where she and her S.O. can play the market place game for me (and yes, I will be giving them a percentage of the sale for their troubles.) IF, and only IF, she doesn’t sell by, oh, say, July of 2024, maybe even stretch that out to September, THEN, she goes under the knife and I make changes. Her hull is safe from me till then.

Shoulders are screaming at me today. Hefting rolls of wire strains things: I ain’t 20 anymore,,,, That grunt labor shit is for the birds and young bucks. My normal routine can be labor intensive too, but usually has much more brain activity involved, not so much BACK and BRAWN. At least I have muscle tone from all that paddlin’ to keep me from falling out.

At least I managed to get my hours in today. Much better than the one and half I made on Friday,,, (and I was the only one on the clock friday with heavy rains forcast all that day.) Off season can be a craps shoot for hours; grab what ya can where ya can is the rule of the game come winter time. If that means I am grunt labor to install fence line, so be it. (but I should be back on my regular rotation with the new motors coming in.)

Gotta tell ya,,, I don’t have much love for this time of year. Bachelor that I am, few friends, fam’s scattered about the entire country,,, Holiday seasons suck ass. That is why Lizzy was gnawing on my foreleg so much yesterday: my hind brain is looking for projects to distract the forebrain from self-pity and depressions. Toss in the world on a virtual razors edge of ‘sorta sane’ bordering collapse,,, Yeah, I need that distraction when the days are short and I have oodles of time before sleep engages me. Writing, yes, but I need physical activity as well; things to keep the forebrain occupied while the backbrain chews on the ideas to put into print. I am a pantser,, there may be research done, but there are no ‘notes’ prior,,, its all straight from the hip and cleaned up in editing. (Imagine I am the court recorder typing away while the drama unfolds, and that is how I write. The drama may be playing out in my head but the analogy holds.) Facttoid for ya: Wings was more than half written using my phone while at work at the Vault. I would have down moments between vaults to weld and I would tap out a couple paragraphs. That was written as blog posts or ‘radio series’ from the old days, and it evolved into a book. (and I dropped several chapters from the blog posts while editing because they just didn’t fit right. Still have them, of course, but haven’t found their spot in the puzzle yet.

AH, but what to do right now,,, Going into the months ahead, short hours of usable daylight (after selling them to others),,,

I has ideas, and Lizzy isn’t on that list. Lyssa either since what she needs requires warm temps to work properly (epoxy stuff, and she doesn’t fit inside) Then there is the option of re-skinning Duh!kee,,, That one is gonna get wild for sure with all the refinement of my Kayakeducation since she was built. Will need to order new skin for her, but that’s a bit down the road. (and the price came back down on those some, closer to what I spent when I built Serena.)

No, I ain’t ever gonna settle into ONE thing,,, My mind doesn’t work like that. Hell, I never read just ONE book; I usually have three or more open in various stages of completion, and I bounce from one to the other and never ‘hiccup’ the storylines, or information in technical stuff. Even with the kayaks, I am learning history of, building techniquies and material usage, all while learning more about paddling them, and working at a full time (ish) job and writing at night,,,

No wonder I am single with Katz,,,,, Krazy Kat Dood! ROFL,,,,

I’m tired. I’m rambling. and my brain is close to ‘shut’er down’ mode.

and its only 6pm (and dark as pitch outside,,,WTF? Hatez winter,,,,)

Here, have some stolen Meme’s, and I’ll get back atcha tomorrow,,,,,