I really needed to go out on the lake today. I felt like I needed to
go, but I didn't feel like going. I went anyway, hoping that I'd feel
better once I got out. On one hand, I'm glad I went, on the other it
wasn't exactly fun.
We put in at a boat ramp we hadn't used before. Its located further
west on the lake than Upper Barton Creek, our usual spot. I liked it
much better. It has less boat traffic and much more room to launch.
We can even drive the car to within feet of the water. There's no
need to lug the loaded kayaks down slippery ramps and over rocks.
The water was even higher today than it was when we went out last
week. It makes finding a place to beach and have lunch or answer the
call of nature a little harder than usual.
Today was my second day out wearing my
Mukluk's.
While they are wonderful at keeping water out, they also excel at
keeping water in. I'm going to have to find some way to keep my feet
dry. No one wants to get
stinkfoot.
December 27, 2006
Heath and I headed out to the lake today to take advantage of the
strangely warm weather. While the air temperature was a very
un-December 71, the water temperature was 48.
We packed lunch and hoped to find a nice sandy beach to get out and
eat. The water level was much higher than usual and the beaches just
weren't there. We wound up just eating in out boats.
Around 2:30, I got a text message from that evil bitch
Nagios telling me that things were
not going well at the datacenter. I didn't hear it, or else I would
have stopped, but it was buried in my drywell inside of a drybox. It
looks like I'm now in the market for a real GPS. The text message
somehow interrupts my GPS software. Get a text message, no more track
recording. That is unacceptable.
Today started off with a nice paddle and ended in a paniced run to the
datacenter.
December 17, 2006
