Welcome to my brain. It’s messy. It’s interesting. And it’s all connected if you stick around long enough. "Believe Nothing: no matter who said it, even if I have said it, except it agree with your own reason and common sense. Siddhartha Guatamo, the Buddha.

Just talkin’

sumpin a little different

(in honor of the holiday)

I’ve talked about my beliefs here a time or two.   I would like to point you to a post by Francis first,,, GO read please

I’ve said I am more pagan than christian, and a lot of that has to do with how the Roman Catholics absconded certain holidays to ease reforming the pagan religions.   Easter was spring rite, Hallows Eve was another,,, Saints day, same, you name, there is a pagan equivalant somewhere.   Not going to go into that too much, just pointing out that there were some things like that in the faith that made me begin questioning the integrity of the whole.  

Fact is, the whole argument is a negative assumption, not provable, not disprovable.   Too many points where witnesses outnumber the written facts, but, as Francis points out in that article; those that would be writing down the events were under different constraints, different motives, different GOALS,,,   Those that wrote the events as described in the bible and other records were the devote, and those that were not, might have been impelled to massage or outright quell the event ‘for reasons’,,,,

It wasn’t until I started diving into Quantum mechanics (and I am no expert by any degree, just an avid hobbiest at best) that I started to put some questions to myself that started to add up, along with the beliefs of the Christian faith to ‘THAT MAKES SENSE NOW’   There are still aspects that I take as “propaganda manipulation’ and I think I am justified in that since Religion in all its aspects is about as old as the human race is,,, some say the oldest profession ever (harlotry being the second,,,,)  And why not, those that were smart enough to scare the tribal leaders, but weak enough that they needed an edge; sure, make up some mumbo jumbo about spirits that do evil if you don’t do this,,,etc etc etc,,,,  

Funny how that works out to “maybe there IS a bit of truth out there”. Such as boiling water, or not eating pork,  We know now why those are correct, but back in 500BC, how did the clerics of the Jews know,,, Simple observation and deduction; then twist in a bit of starry eyed reverence and make it Taboo for relgious reasons,,,   Yeah, I might be putting some bias in my thinking since I hold little regard for organized religions. 

More wars, death and misery have come from the various religions over time.  Will again if things continue along certain paths,,,, The Crusades were never ‘finallized’ ya-know,,,,

But let me pass on all of that for a moment.   Let me tell ya how I started to ‘come around.’   The whole Quantum Cloud thing started making me formulating my theory that we are “interfaces” or, to parrot a movie “Avatars” of our quantum selves, that we visit this realm for lessons, or vacation, or something, but that, due to the nature of the physical, we can’t bring all of our aspects with us, like our REAL memories.  (and that explains some of the stories of very young children having “wierd memories” that they lose very quickly as they gain deeper harmony with the world around them.   I know there are ‘memories’ that I have, that ‘aren’t mine’ perse,,, Things that there is no way I could have experenced the events I recall, and details that can’t be ‘explained away’.  I won’t go into that here though.)

Now, we have this quantum cloud thing that is slowly being proven as fact, we know that the quantum do not ‘recognize’ time, or space like most particles and atoms, we know and have (mostly) proven and disproven many theories in quantum mechanics,

but there is one aspect that rings true across two places.   One is the research itself, the other is the bible.   THe deeper we look, the more we find and that rabbit hole looks to be infinitely deep.   There is a quote in the bible of “the deeper you look, the more you will find ME.”   (and apologies, I do not recall where that quote is ot to whom those words were intended, but I firmly recall hearing/reading them in my past.   Maybe someone more learned in such things than myself  can enlighten us in comments)

There is also the fact that more and more Quantum scientists, who usually start of as athiest or agnostic, become quite firmly Christian in short order,,,  I don’t think that is accidental, or conspiracy, I think they find “Faith” is the ultimate answer at the end of the day,

Why?  Because the more they uncover, the less the ‘rules’ work,,,   Something directs those particles to do what they do (and why the search for the “God Particle’ is ongoing.)  And that time and space are seemingly meaningless to the particles,,, Like Tachyons, that are ALWAYS detected BEFORE a nuclear reactor starts; almost as if it travels backwards in time,,,,  There was some discussion in a group of friends about creating a nuclear war sensor using tachyon dectecton. but was shot down fast, since the detection is usually in microseconds,,, thats too short a time frame to be of use against nuclear war,,,,

Let me make a suggestion, totally hypothetical on my part.   What if our history that we call ‘our history’ back to such and such a point, isn’t COMPLETE?   That there is lost knowledge from long before our written histories, (and there is evidnce of this in some of the Seven wonders of the world)   And that those that came before some collapse that didn’t make it thorugh to the pages we know, (like some epic flooding or something,,,) that was MUCH MORE IN TUNE with the quantum realm.   Look around for the Circle of Life markings, that show up with regular frequency, all around the world, in archeology.   

And what if some of that knowledge DID make it through and became religous teachings,,, such as the Chakras of asiatic medicine.   We DO KNOW that the Old Testament is taken from the Torah of Jewish heritage.  What we don’t know (but can make the assumption) is how much of that was orginially and STRICTLY oral traditon? and for how long?      What was lost in translation? How much was INTENTIONALLY lost in translation because some group didn’t like some aspect?  

No one knows.   I don’t believe anyone can know because any that would be guilty of such have been dust longer than  the tablets and scrolls ‘the word’ was taken from.

Keep the important stuff, cull the dregs,,, except someones definition of dregs might have held something important, that tied other things together, and the rot would spread,,,,,

And I digress,,,

What we know, and this is still growing: muscle memory is real.   ‘Gut instincts/gut feelings’ are real.   We know that what was thought of how the brain functions is woefully inadequate to explain what it actually does, and that its not just what is held within the cranium, but along much of that path as described in the Chakras.   Either the ancients were far better at physical observation than we (YES!) or they were privy to communications with God/Creator/Author/The Cloud, that we are not.  

and oh, you have no idea how that “why?” goes through my brainium in the wee darks,,,,,

Let me talk about the person that this day is in honor of, his death to be precise.    Died on the cross, laid in a tomb, rose from the dead, appeared before congregations of people (supposedly world-wide by some modern peoples beliefs.) than ascended to heaven.   

One thing that keeps coming back is how Christ, was not a solitary individual, but a TRINIITY,,, God, Son and the Holy Ghost.    That could be another way of saying “strongly connected to the cloud” in words to convey an idea that didn’t exist at that time.   Just my thoughts on that,   BUT, that many many witnesses of the events prior, the miracles, then the roll out of events after death,,,,   All could be explained by someone that was strongly connected to the quantum realms and able to manipulate the particles that have no respect of time or space, and that make up MATTER,,,,   If I had that sort of ability, Yeah, I could make water solid enough to walk on, or ‘create’ food at will,   I could see/sense illness and affect the causes of it and CURE the afflicted,,,,    I could stall the separation of the quantum chord and my body, so that I could reanimate it.  I would imagine the release of energy to do that would be strong enough to alter cloth so that it could form an image,,, (the shroud for those in question)

I can also see how some Groups in Power at the time would not want such word spreading to widely or at all. (the lack of records of a person  of Christs’ nature by the Romans who were meticulous records keepers.)  And that explains much of why the disciples were “outlaws” and treated as such when caught.     And maybe Christ was able to pass on some of his ability/nature/whatever it is, on to his disciples, so that they too, could effect miracles (and were recorded as doing such in a few cases)

Maybe what he taught them was that ‘This reality isn’t real, only your thoughts are,,,,”  

And that takes a HEADY amount of faith to transcend into.

So, lets make a small assumption that there is some meat on the bones of my hypothesis,,,,   WHAT IS HEAVEN?   WHO/WHAT IS GOD?  Where does ‘Hell’ fall into this line of thinking?    Start with the first one, and that one leads into the second, and THIS IS ALL MY OPINION, but it works for me and keeps my spirit/soul content,,, (faith!) 

Heaven is THE CLOUD, a Cloud of Quantum material that is scattered about the universe.  Its not ‘visible’, only recently been detectable, and no one knows just how big or dense or, well, nothing much known, and leave it at that.   BUT, if that cloud were consolidated thoughts of creatures, than the cloud is US,,,, ALL OF US,,, some more complicated than others, some less, some more intune with things, some fast, some slow: and when I say “US”, I mean every single human, furrie, fish, plant, and rock.  EVEN THE EARTH (though I have yet to figure out how that would work,,,,but Gaia does ‘vibrate’ and show long movements as if alive so to speak.)  “Heaven” would then be that cloud where we combine with the group, share our experiances, whiz about the universe and do different things as different sorts of beings. 

So WHO/WHAT is GOD?   We are,,, even here, where we are but a miniscule part of our real selves, we make up a part of that thing called Heaven and Heaven IS God,,,,  WE were created in his image, and in doing so, we took a part of him as ourselves,,,, TO ABUSE THAT IS THE WORST SIN!!!  

Is that blasphemy?   Probably to some, but I find peace in it, and I have used it to ‘correct’ some wayward drogues I had the ‘pleasure’ of being in close contact with. Prefacing that idea as “we are all GOD, and we need to act as such” really seemed to hit them sideways with a clue bat.  That could be part of that ‘heady amount  of faith’ to transcend into.

Now, What the Hell is Hell?   Hmm,,,, First off, the whole idea of Hell really was what turned me off from the teachings when I was a kid.  For the preacher to say “God is unbridled love” then to follow it up with “but you’ll burn in hell for,,,,,”    Let me just say that a 6YO could see the fallacies and discrepencies in the teachings,,,,   Now, with that in mind, I do think GOD has some way of punishing us (we punish ourselves really) and that way is, IN SOME INSTANCES, Right here,,,,, On earth,,, we get tortured, torn, destroyed mentally and spiritually, RIGHT HERE< RIGHT NOW, at least some of us do.  I can think of one right now, that even though he knows the solution, can not back out of his personal Hell,,,,   He may go his entire life in that Hell,,,    And as a quantum being, that knows neither time nor space,,, that may seem like an eternity,,, OR even the blink of an eye, and I would imagine the CLOUD has some say in the perception.  So, yeah, I think in some ways, Hell is right here, right now, and those of us that seem ‘middlin’ in pain and discomfort are in the Purgatory side of things,   Learning some lesson that needs learned for whatever purpose,,,

And IMO, those purposes are to make us ‘closer to God’.  

And some of us have a long road ahead to that end.   Maybe even multiple trips ‘here’ to do so. (explains the reincarnation side of Eastern philosophies, no?)  

I think all religions older than ‘the birth of Christ’ have some merit and are tied together in some way shape or form.  Most of those after that fact are either factions of an older one, or some silliness created in a cave by some loser pedophile who was on the run,,,,  Most of the modern religions (like evangligcal baptists herebouts) seem twisted to me and really buried in dogma that contradicts the purpose of a religion.   My opinion, YMMV.

for your consideration.

And I will leave you with those thoughts for the day,

((as for the “Demons” and other agents of evil,,,, All I have to say on that is “They are real” and you only need to look around to find it in action.   That aspect is covered by ‘fallen angels’ and such: they are the same as us in fact, but warped maligned and dangerous to the GOOD,,,,))


Good vibes day,,, except for some gnats,,,

Home, late afternoon, finished fairing the repairs on Lyssa, and masked off her Gunwale lines.   A little acetone wipedown to get rid of greasy Dio and Grizz tracks and mixed up the epoxy paint.   4 oz first coat, and the shine is to die for.

Second coat, wanna get it on quick as the temps are starting to fall, another 4oz mix. (resin, hardener, white pigment) and start rolling it on.   That shine starts getting even better.

Go in house to take care of a download I had started and a small learning curve on a new to me piece of equipment (Cricut stencil cutting ‘printer’,   It has uses beyond making stickers, trust me.) (another Muchos Gracias out to B and T,,,,) Print out my first sticker (I did say ‘learning curve’,  ya gotta start somewhere.) and then go check on Lyssa.   

Well now.   Dammit,,,

Dropping temps, gnats came out and I now have a half dozen STUCK to Lyssa’s hull.   Other than that, I am quite pleased with the whole thing. But the damned bugs just made my job a bit harder,,,   Gonna let her cure for a couple days then wetsand her down with 1000 grit and buff her back to that shine I am seeing.   Maybe the only parts of the gnats that I have to deal with are their microscopic legs and that will be just fine by me.   I hopes anyways,,,,

Frillin’ bugs!!!  Hatez ’em!!!

And in my earlier post, I said that I was not going to get anymore water time before the double nickles day,,,,WRONG!!!!   Bossman texted me this afternoon and told me “labor day, take off muhnday”.    Dammit!   I knew it was but was hoping that it had slipped his mind and that we would get a day in.   Well, I could,,,except my job right now requires a second back to move the peices around with me.   If there is no one else showing up (and you know they won’t) I ain’t building that monster gate, SO, I take a lake day, OR I tear into Buff like a bad habit and have a truck down for a couple of days.   (I have intentions of starting on her after this upcoming weekend/birfday,, has plans with friends and don’t wanna F! ’em up,).  As of right now, Lyssa is ‘watching paint dry’ or cure as the case may be, Buff is piddlin’ stuff I can handle that won’t hold her up for days on end, and Domestic duties that happen every sunday,,,  So monday,,, 

yeah,,, get wet,,,

 

(notice no pics?   Yeah,,,  I’m home and the signal out here sucks big green greasy donkey dicks,,,,   When i was at the lake earlier, the signal was spot on and I was able to load that vid in just a few minutes, not DAYS like out here, or hours for a simple (reduced quality) pic,,,,)


Revelations,,,

And not of the biblical sort.   This post is about some random connections that hit me over the last 48 hours,,,   since someone I saw and the something they were doing,,,,   

First off, all of these indictments against Trump,,,  Total backlash is coming,,,   A couple of people here local, that hadn’t voted Trump, didn’t like him, and declined to vote the last run are now saying “I’m voting for him now since they are obviously scared of him, and that tells me they are up to no-good”. I have to believe that this is not just a ‘local’ thought process.   All of these indictments are to do one thing only, and obviously so:  keep him so tied up in legalities that he can’t campaign, but what they aren’t expecting is how much the vitriol they are pouring is flowing back on them, and when it ignites,,,,   WhoommmpFFFFF!!!!!    

I can’t wait, and my popcorn is gonna get stale, but its coming,,,,And I don’t give a rats ass if Trump gets the election or not, I want to see that fireball of demon-crap-tic peeps when it goes up.  And some of the Toadies on the Repugnant-can’t side as well, *cough*Mcconnell*cough-cough*

as for other parts of the Revelations I am in thrall to currently,,,  CBDC’s.   you’ve prolly heard the term, but let me define it for those not in the know: Central Bank Digital Currencies.   Basically, The Fed creating something like BitCoin and making it THE DEFACTO currency of the US, and doing away with ALL paper transactions.    Lots of credible fear mongering going on around that little thing “They” are trying to push out, but let me tell you right now, 

IT AIN’T GONNA HAPPEN.

And the why it ain’t?   War on Drugs/Mexican Cartels.     Clandestine Arms deals across the board.    I’ll start with the arms deals first, and from an angle you may not expect.   We are sending mad components of war to KraineFeld and Krew to combat Russia,,, Now if this were a legit war, which we had some skin in, (we don’t, Biden and Co. might, but the people of the US: nopes.) we would be ramping up our war machine BIG TIME.   I don’t see certain factories re-opening, I don’t see triple shifts at Boeing, and I DO read about them mothballing the Warthog,,,,   Let me tell you how DRMO works at the unit level, as far as I can remember (and BCE can concur or correct me here)  It’s time to get new gear, but your unit has too much already (there are accounts for this) so your command tells you to send ‘this many units’ to DRMO.   Now, you aren’t going to send your top of the line stuff to the scrap yard, HELL NO!  You find the rotten-ist crap you have, strip if whats still usable, “bag and tag” it with all the proper nomenclature and roll it out to processing.   The Unit gets FULL CREDIT for the gear as if it were new, and those credits are what get your new gear.

So we have entire sections of the DOTMIL right now being told to send gear to the front, (not quite DRMO, but close enough) and the ‘mechanics’ of the logistics work the same, Unit sends their crappiest stuff, Unit gets credit for “as new” gear.   

NOW, its shipped out to some country, might even get some retro-fits done to make it look nice for the cameras, but its still the rotten apple no one wanted.    Krainefelds peeps know this, know they haven’t the back infrastructure to support it, and sell it to whomever will buy it, and kick back a certain amount of the proceeds: “Keep the toys coming please”

Those last actions don’t happen with electronic payments, They happen in CASH, and that cash gets laundered around until it can be transferred into digital realms and passed on in large amounts without attracting ‘too’ much attention.  

Much the same as the way the Cartels work, or the kiddie traffickers, or any number of the other “Dark Arts” that are slowly coming to light as being much larger than Joe Six-pack EVER suspected.

The reason of this revelation: I bumped into someone I know from many many years ago at the lake  XXXXXXXXXXX.   Kinda surprised to see this person and his S.O.   They were playing with big water toys, and sporting out of state Registration tags on them.   But they weren’t straying too far from the ramp, at first.     We talked a bit, he still remembered how we met (and I am not divulging that for reasons you’ll understand in a moment, even talked about kayaks and stuff, and how he thought maybe he should get into kayaks more,    Then they took off around the bend.    I wasn’t following them, just paddling (No way I could have followed them if they were running fast) , but I ran into them again, and this time, it was with them tied off to a boat, and they were exchanging ‘items’, some from the boat, most from their toys.   

He’s now a mule.   And I bumped into them making a drop, and getting paid.

That’s not how I know of him.   We never worked for the same people, but we did contract in the same field, and our paths crossed several times over the years.   Not a friend, but certainly no enemy either, and even as I saw them making the drop, he waved “hi” and carried on as if nothing was out of the ordinary.   I did get the hairy eye-ball from those on the boat, but I kept on a-goin’,,,,,

These CBDC’s are never going to happen because those in power KNOW if they did, the games would have to stop.   You may be able to funnel funds around in power, but you can’t get the addicts to pay if the banks are in control of their money, and the base of all of these ‘DarkArts” is the guy on the street, paying cash for his fix,,,,  The mules want paid in large bills, thick stacks of them, and that won’t happen with some digital ones and zeros in a phone app,,,  

And think of all the pallet-loads of cash this country has shipped off to places like Affy, Iran, etc etc,,,   You don’t think that was out of ‘good christian charity’ do you?   Hell NO!, that was ‘here, lots of cash to buy stuff with” and “we’ll buy our stuff back so we can launder this mess the secretary of state has created’,,,,    Or something very similar,,,,

Again, I can’t wait for the fireball forthcoming,,, my popcorn will go stale and beer will get skunky before the show starts, but by GOD, it won’t go the way “They” keep pushing, and what comes next is going to be EPIC.   Dunno how long it will take, but I have full trust that it won’t be as fucked up as things are now.   The only downside: its gonna get really ugly between now and then…. People in power NEVER willingly relinquish it,,,,

And I find I am at peace with things right now.   I know pay-back is coming to those that thought they could steal what would have been given freely, if only they weren’t so self-centered and greedy.  

I want my country back, and it looks like we may get it: maybe a little battered and bruised from all the fun and games of late, but OURS,,,


Happy only starts the description

Yeah, this is the “glorify Lyssa” post that I can well believe a few of y’all saw comin’.   

How to describe the difference between two boats, of different materials but nearly identical design (nearly because the decks are completely different with only small tweaks below the water line,,,).  While I can’t describe things perfectly (my butt doesn’t know english and the translation gets a might garbled) I can describe the differences in performance at the water level,,,  Putting one (BJ) on edge, where you lift one knee and ‘lean’ (not really) in the direction you want to go (the boat leans out, you lean in,,,) does absolutely nothing without driving the paddle harder on the outside of the turn.  In the other boat, the same motion and she is taking that turn with grace and NO OTHER INPUT required.  Any other input only amplifies the motion or hinders it, depending on what it is.   Too much on the inside and she goes straight, more on the out and she is nearly spinning on her center axis.

Love the hell out of Blue Jean, and she has her forever home with me, but she is not Lyssa, nor is Lyssa her,,, two completely different characters with distinct differences that make for two very loved boats.   Lyssa is more like Lizzy in how fast she is, but more like BJ in how she handles things: Lyssa is more like a Standard Nordkapp when it comes to how she handles edge and leans.(Lizzy is an HM, with a fixed skeg/keel: straight tracking like a freight train). She fits the bill between Lizzy and BJ that I was looking for.  IF I were to use animals to describe them, I would say that Lizzy is that 8 month old colt, all abuzz with get up and go, skittish when bored, and ready to run, run, runrunrunRUN,,,   Blue Jean is that 5 year old, Amish raised mule that pulls the family around country roads and doesn’t spook at even the most obnoxious exhaust pipes.  Lyssa,,,The two year old mare that has good sense, but is still looking to play, and may play a game of ‘nip the behind’ when you least expect it, but is content to run around the pasture for fun. 

When I was doing the one crossing that had me a little goosed looking at it from the distance, I pulled the skeg back up because it was doing me a disservice being down.   Even at half-mast, it was grabbing the rebound waves and twisting me around towards the cliff face that I was trying to stay away from: with the skeg up, the waves were pushing the stern out, while the wind was cocking it ‘in’, and I was doing exactly what I wanted to do, which was travel a straight line along the cliff face and get to calmer waters. Skeg down the waves had more ‘push’,,,  I am learning the heck out of this boat and MYSELF again.   And that IS what I wanted in a fiberglass boat: growth.   That she punches waves in the face and laughs about it (they slap me back by climbing in my lap and making for a wet ride) is only a plus, (I do have concerns about her ‘pitch-poling’ in surf, and have read that this model is known for it: pitch poling is when the bow drives under so hard it impacts the bottom and ‘pitches you’ as if you were on the end of a pole.  Good thing we don’t really have surf around here,,,  Boat wake is the most I see,,, And Lyssa won’t be taken on white water, where that might be an issue.)

Now, full admission, I have been in much taller water in other boats that did well. (Serena on Cumberland lake when The Ohio Navy was let out of lockdown in 2020,,). What we saw today was minor to that day, but the memory of how Serena handled the waves was “Right There”,  I even had the feeling I was still moving in waves when I hit the no wake zone (didn’t get motion sickness, just had that ‘things is moving, but they ain’t,,,” feelz going on.).  But, she had one thing Serena didn’t have: SPEED.   I checked in a couple of places and I could have her up to that 5 point sumpin mark in about 10 strokes of the blades.  I was digging hard to do it, but she did it anyways, and once there, I could let up a touch (still needed to power on,) and hold it close for a spell.  That is not fast,,,, Thats BLOODY FAST, and I am not sure Lizzy could match it (more boat to get up to speed.). Lizzy could hold it longer, but she had more mass to hold the inertia, and longer waterline.

and the other advantage of Lyssa vs Lizzy: easier access to cargo holds.   Larger hatches (that are now or will soon be weatherproofed)

One downside to today though;  My carbon fiber Greenland Paddle is taking on water these days.   Still quite functional, holds its own as a paddle, but after an hour, has gained weight: lifting 2# every stroke is a lot easier than lifting 5# every stroke.  and when you are lifting a paddle 1000+ times a mile, that adds up to “woOF!!!”.  I have another brand (not Chinee like my current one) but its sorta pricey and won’t be ‘gotten’ anytime soon, and the means is being set aside a little here, a little there.  And since I do not think I will have that new blade in hand for the SKAW, I am going to start making a set of wooden blades that I can splice into the CF loom of said current paddle and not have a paddle that incrementally gets heavier as I get more tired.   No rush, easy after work over a couple of weeks project, but one that today became “do this soonest” over other kayaky projects I have.  (and that front hatch leak was very minor, it can wait a bit.). If you don’t recall, the SKAW is a 13 mile race, open flat water (two 6.5 mile laps).  Don’t want to run in that with the handicap of a paddle that gains weight the more you use it.  

Hell, I’m single and an empty-nester: what else do I have to do on those nights when all the other stuff is either done or on hold for weather???

(debating on Lyssa/Lizzy for the race seeing how they are both fast boats and Lizzy is plenty stable, so long as you don’t stop moving,,,)

So, for the TL;DR crowd that scrolled down here to see if I had anything else to say: Lyssa is MY BOAT now, and our friendship grew in leaps and bounds on that lake today.  Very happy and all the trials and tribulations of getting her, to include the ‘fight with Da’,,, was worth it.


Been a touch bizzy

Just lettin’y’all know, I am still here, posting may be lite, mostly because there ain’t amuch to yap about,,,,

well, theres PLENTY to yap about, but is it worth sitting down and tapping out a post about the latest distraction, or some Cesna and the pilot passing of ‘sudden’ crashing in Virginia,,,  

Or the latest krazy that I am into,,,  Trucks and kayaks, trying to keep my Buffalo moving under her own power, and making an older kayak seaworthy again,,,,

or that I am getting 9 hour days in at the J.O.B. and that seems great, until you realize that ALL of that extra lucre needs to pay off debts that WERE getting knocked down until Buff decided to frag me and my finances,,,   She didn’t kill me, but all that headway I had made was splattered on the alley walls like so much gruesome grafitti.   Again, could have been much worse, but thanks to you guys, wasn’t,,,   Many thanks and I can’t say it enough…

As for the more hours thing going on at the J.O.B.,,  Most of it krew leading, and ‘putting out fires’…   Not fires in my shop, since I haven’t fired up the welder since sometime last week.   I need to check my shielding gas tanks, not sure I have any full ones that aren’t on the rig, and that needs rectified soonest since I DO have welding jobs forthcoming that will require more than one tank to finish.  (even though I run at barest minimum of flow since we no longer have a supplier close,, can only order once a week for scheduled wednesday delivery.)

About Lyssa, the blood red kayak,,,   That hatch is fixed, but man, that was a mess to do.  They afix the hatch rings when the deck is not attached to the hull, and that makes the way they do it flat easy.   Since I am not going to seperate the hull/deck to fix one little ring (Oh Hell no!!) I had to make some strange and troublesome yoga moves.   That ring is now fixed but in doing it, I mucked up some of that work I had done on the skeg and now have to pull the seat pan, again,,,  sigh,,,  My addiction, my zen thing, and there is USUALLY a price to pay for such.  I am paying mine.   But the compartment holds 5psi for 30 minutes and no bubbles anywhere to be found.  (rear compartment still has a leak somewhere: she won’t hold pressure, but I haven’t found any bubble spots.  May be in the rear where the toggles are located, I hadn’t looked there,,, if so, I live with it, that area is complicated and near unreachable from inside.)

Buffalo is doing well for now,,,   Been working on pulling donor parts in the evenings when I am ‘watching paint dry’ on Lyssa.   I want everything off and ready for when I start to swap parts on the real deal because I don’t want to be without transportation for more than 48 hours at any given point.    Preferably 24 but I am a realist, I know engine/transmission swaps can be a DAYS affair, even with full shop access,,,   I have shade-tree(or carport if you prefer full honesty), gravel drive, and hand tools,,,  My one power tool is my dewalt impact driver (which rocks, but has limits,,,) and the rest is busted knuckles stuff (but Snap-on, Mac, and Cornwell,,,   Quality tools that have served me well for three decades,,, If ya wanna borrow them, its full price down with 95% back to you on safe returns.   Sorry, gonna protect those tools like they were me own fingers…)(and I found a local Cornwell dealer that isn’t an ass like the Snappy dealer, that won’t honor the handtool warranty…)

Gonna be long humpday, clocks are winding down today, even though I haven’t done all I intended to do tonight. Did take a big chunk out of them though…

more tomorrow, maybe early post before things take off on me.


Good and bad,,,

the bad: no work today,,, Asked if I should take the rest of the week off (I have a reason I desire this, later in post) and was laughed at, but that still means NO WORK TODAY,,, dammit,,,

I kind of expected it,,, Usual this time of year; schools letting out, fams headed out for vakay, businesses are changing up footing for summer,,. We usually drop off around this time and my custom work drops off comptetely,,, still, kinda sucks on the timing of things, seeing how I just recovered from a set-back that cost me (and you, and a very sincere thank you in order for those that helped fund Buff and mine’s recovery of Transpo,,,)

Thats life, move on,,,

So I came home and did stuff here, like trimming my weeds, placating kats because they despise the line trimmer,,,

And digging deeper into Lyssa. Fixed that leaky skegbox, and pretty much had to take her apart to do it. Nothing needed removed from the decks, but I did have to take apart the cable lines, and to get to the control box, I had to take out the seat pan. I even played and put the seat pan from the Necky Chattum in it, just to see. Didn’t like, felt like it raised my CG by 1/2″ or so. That makes a difference in ‘liveliness’ of the ride and Lyssa already feels spritely. anyywhooos,, the Skeg box was a simple fix, just needed to reseal the cable tube at each end, but to do that I had to take it all apart and clean the parts up so the sealer would stick. Funky design, and more complicated than I like, but it works and I figured out some tricks for the re-install.

And my added coaming worked out great. I haven’t tested it on water yet, but I did put the skirt on and did some serious wiggling around to try and pop that edge loose. Seems like its going to work. And its strong. Much stronger than I expected. I was able to pick up the whole boat by the coaming. I figured ‘if this breaks it, it was gonna break anyways’,,,, Held just fine. After I put everything back together I mixed up a thin batch of resin and pigment and ‘painted’ the repair area to smooth out my sanding mark and make it match the rest of the coaming better. You can still see it but its not as obvious.

And I put hip pads in her to ‘tighten’ the feel of the cockpit. I have such a narrow hind side, that even a 16″ wide cockpit feels loose to me. LOL Even though I am 6′, I have to use medium or low volume boats or I feel like I am wallowing in a bathtub.

And she is ready for the weekend. B and Fam are at the lake already, and why I was ‘hoping” that Bossman and Son would be willing to let me ride out a week,,,, Oh well. Not this time and I do need the income, so I ain’t complaining about that, just the fact that I am off on a weekday and essentially ‘on hold’,,, Itsux,,,

So, when I do get the chance to head out (likely friday eve) I am only taking Lyssa with me. Not enough time to play with multiple boats and I want even more time in her yet, preferably out of the No Wake zones,,, and now that the skirt holds, time playing with rolls. I already have a feel for her speed, (fast, but not as fast as Lizzy) And yup, I could take her to the lake or river today, but I would rather give that sealer 24 hours to cure up without strain,,, All that pulling stuff apart to get at the culprit,, naw,,, let her sit


Thursday EoD mind dump

Probably gonna get tagged with that title but so what.,,  (EoD, end of day,,, or Explosives Ordinance and Demolitions,,,  end of day in this case)

Wandered over to BCE’s place and found he had posted an early post (as he is on the road for the day headed to his mountain home away from home) 

Been keeping my thoughts to meself over many things, but sometimes, there comes a point where ya gotta say your peace, and this time, BCE pulled that rabbit out of the hat and 

Have to absolutely without a doubt agree with this’un,,,,Stopchop

And I got to thinking of that definition of ‘mental disorder/insanity’: that insanity is defined by society, and those that step out of that definition are ‘Insane”.   Its all subjecttive,,,   The Aztecs would be considered insane in todays world, total homicidal maniacs: yet in their society, ripping the still beating heart out of a (rapidly dying) still alive person was considered a religious event, to be shared and celebrated.  We would be considered ‘bug nutz insane’ for thinking otherwise.

That subjective thing,,, its also called “A MAJORITY”, and to those people like the one that will not be linked, Dylan Mulvaney,,,, Y’all ain’t a majority despite your getting inordinate amounts of press coverage.  Last I read, y’all don’t even make up a full percentage point,,,   What you are is a useful tool for those that wish to destroy a country without firing a shot on it, and you are their tool to humiliate THE MAJORITY into surrender mode.   Hope that gives you a warm and fuzzy feeling, knowing that in reality, you are ‘the useful idiot’.   AH, but then your actions show your delusional realm and we shouldn’t expect you to understand what happens to all the useful idiots when the game makers ‘win’,,,

So, yeah, Chop it off or KNOCK IT OFF, and let the adults take back over dammit!!!   We are all getting a little tired of the bullshit gaslighting that such types help feed.   

End of Day, end of week for me, start to the weekend.   Plans made, but not sure I can attend to them or not.  Buffalo is being her ‘you got money, I want new parts‘ self again.   Like I expect otherwise, considering she has near 300K on the odo,,   Just gets a little old after several weekends of wrenching,,,  I may say to heck with it, and push the limits and go play instead.   Gonna reach out to the others and see how the land lay there.

And I have a conundrum taking place in my skull as well.   Short version, Found another kayak (and the peanut gallery groans,,,) fiberglass version of one I have been eyeballing since before I picked up Lizzy, and the price is right, BUT,,,   I would have to sell Lizzy to make the deal doable without killing my finances with blunt force trauma.   I have the Vizcaya that needs moved as well, but that would only alleviate the financial pain, not equalize it.   

Most of y’all know that Lizzy seemed to be ‘divine intervention’ and I keep hesitating on making the call due to the way I acquired her.   (Dio, its JUST a boat,,,). yup, that thought keeps passin’ in the forebrain, then the hindbrain jumps and starts screaming about ‘bad karma’ and other krazy things,,,    

And I know how this plays out,,, I put Lizzy up for sale, and the day that I sell her, that other boat gets sold out from under me, and I am looking again,,,  That seems to be the luck I have.   Happened two (three?) years ago with a P&H Sirius,,,  Sold the boat I wanted to part with to buy the other, and boom, it was sold to someone else,,,  

OR—   I go ahead and make the buy, then am sitting on Lizzy for months and months and months, trying to get my financial house back in order,,,,

Tough call,,,

And I may do a reach out and offer ‘Earnest Money” to hold the boat.   Not sure how that would pan out, or if the trust department is strong enough (in this day, trust is fleeting unless close friends.). The only reason I am even considering it right now is with how well work is going for me,,,  We hit our dry spells, but right now I am going pretty well, even with a four day work week.   That may not hold after the summer months,,,,

sad panda Dio, wants and needs aren’t all the same thing, and I DO know better than pushing for wants over needs, 

What I want is what I’ve not got, and what I need, is all around me,,,,,

I’ll figure things out and while I may not be happy, I will be content,,,   Guess that’s all any of us can ask for in these days, no?