woke up to a grey and windy day

DaveNTL

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on Long Island Sound and I wanted to move today too! No, honest I did!

The weather forcasts here have been very good to date too.

If the computerised woman on the weather channel (she has an american accent and the only perceptable speach impediment she has is saying 'tived' instead of tide) says it's going to be cold this afternoon you might as well take the hammock down because it will be, but this she didn't predict.

So now I have to go and chat to the Marina Manager (this is the one who, when I called for a waypoint to his exact spot, told me to take Junction 6 off the I.95) and persuade him that not many regulars will be coming in this weekend and he's much better off having me here to watch out for his other customers valuable property.

I'll avoid telling him it's going to be F8 because I learned early with the directions that he isn't into nautical terminology. When I explained that waypoint was latitude and longitude, North and West, he said, "oh, I have something here! It says 'North 40 circle, 55 feet and 789 inches by West 73 circle by 29 foot 784 inches' "

Then there was a silence whilst I held the mouthpiece of the mobile phone and wiped tears from my eyes and he scratched his head and he pondered at there being so many inches in a foot. Maybe it's different at sea?

So now what to do with the rest of the day / weekend?

Tived Lady tells me it's going to be fine by monday and I believe her. She's allowed a bad day like anyone else.

I'll probably just check the lines and springs, stop the bloody halyard rattling, and go back to bed for a bit and read what Jack Aubrey does next on HMS Surprise. Then come back here and read some threads that normally consist of some well meaning question, followed by a well meaning answer, followed by the answer being totally condemned by someone who knows better due to having sailed since before they were born and having 3 university degrees on the subject.

I have the latest series of Six Feet Under on dvd too but I'm saving that.

I could have another session of 'rearranging cupboards so that I know where everything is' but last time I did that I lost my toolbag.

So, what would you do on a grey windy weekend?

I'll come back later to see your creative answers.

Now I'm off to see the Marina Manager. Last I heard he was sueing his primary school teacher for selling him short of inches in his feet.
 

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I would ask myself how we got ourselves into this mess in the first place (assuming that the act of birth is passive and outside our control).
I would then settle down to finding out how to get rid of the bloody EBay toolbar I foolishly downloaded halfway through a bottle of red and ever since produces popups inviting me to download an even newer version.
Then I would return to question (1) for a bit, then I might take my EPIRB to Central Park and toss it in the lake.
Similar sad grey day in central France. Being landlocked temporarily I am proposing to rub my milling machine down with an oily rag.
O tempora! O mores! O [oh really!]!
 

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I have been electronically tampered with and deeply resent it.
When I want to type in reggub backwards I don't expect a ydoolb computer to convert it into [oh really]
I shall now spend some time finding out what other expletives this gniddos forum sees fit to expunge.
 

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The Epirb in Central Park would be an interesting experiment. I inherited mine with the boat and I know the previous owner de-registered it from him, so I'm curious to know if anyone would come and rescue me if I needed it. Slack of me not to have done something about it yet but I've been busy. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

You don't want to be downloading ebay toolbars. Someone said you can never get rid of them. Yahoo toolbars are worse. The Jehovas Witnesses of the computer world.

It looks like the only way around the forum language censor is by word substitution. It is a load of holding tank content though.

It's still blowing F5 / 6 here and cold but there are quite a few people at the marina trying to find things to do on their boats.

I feel quite sorry for them because it's turned bad the last 3 weekends in a row now and then it's nice during the week. Poor workers. Someone has to do it.

I think I'll crack a beer and wave merrily at them from my warm pilot house. That'll cheer them up!

Still, the rain has stopped so my weeks supply of trollies fluttering up the halyard will dry quick. I might venture outside soon and bring em in.
 

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I always bake a cake on grey days. Preferably with lots of fruit and cherries. There's something about home baking that is very warming.
Later you can eat it with a big mug of tea. And if that doesn't cheer you I suggest a cup of chocolate laced with whisky or metaxa.
 
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