Not so bad as a hurricane but these Tropical Storms can cause some havoc. Eastern hemisphere of this thing went over us - the worst half. Sparrow weathered it well. Rocked to 30 knot winds and walls of rain. Rain flying sideways finds holes that rain falling more-or-less straight down doesn't - we have a couple leaks.

Only one boat broke her mooring and wandered off uptide. Duet grounded herself in a safe place and the Seaarc brought her back this morning. I see Duet safely rafted to a shrimp boat for now.

Lot of water in the streets but this is normal after the many millions of dollars spent after Irma to build hurricane friendly streets down there. Yea, right. Never used to flood at every drop of rain...

3 tornados touched down. No picks of the Meeting street one because they had all the streets blocked off by the time I got over there. Higher rent district got hit but mostly just trees. No mention of houses damaged.

Nearer me, heck in line-of-sight to me, something smacked the ground and only lasted a few hundred yards but did plenty of damage to trees. Cool how the trees are laid down in the same direction amidst trees snapped off 20 feet up. That was a lot of power applied real quick. It's posted property so I couldn't go in but you can see the path of vengeance.

And the 3rd made a mess of an RV park up by the base. Here are pics I pulled off the FB and an article from the DM. Several trailers went into the river and swept away.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9763483/Hurricane-Elsa-threatens-Floridas-northern-Gulf-coast.html

Lessa was terrified and foaming at the mouth for awhile. I just let her be and eventually Erin went into her cubbyhole and stayed with her. An bit after the last of the lightning I wiped Lessa's face and petted her. She started purring and then laid down for a snooze. They are fine now.

Aleksander Doba is a hero to many adventurers but unsung to most. An older man when he started doing great things in a kayak. Solo adventures not recorded anywhere but there are those who know that he just liked to see things from his boat. And then his 3 Atlantic crossings brought him a bit of fame. And a climb up the mountain. He didn't make it back down. Rest now, you've earned it, sir.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Doba

This is a grizzled old man content with his life.

https://explorersweb.com/2021/02/23/legendary-kayaker-aleksander-doba-dies-on-kilimanjaro-summit/

And another article.

https://lenexnews.com/aleksander-doba-who-kayaked-across-the-atlantic-dies-at-74/

Love being old enough to not need an excuse for my afternoon naps. As usual I make the berth as I get up. Sit at the bottom and spread the duvet(s when cold) from top to bottom. But today, I really had to pee. Got the top half and went off. A minute and a half later I come back to finish ... and find this. They do not want to move.

I now sit at the nav station looking at an unmade berth and am disturbed. Bah, cats!

My favorite meme of his mittens, so far. Also stolen from FB.

They have to celebrate with very fancy show chains

seent on twitler via fark

This morning I woke to the sound of birds twittering and 2 cats chittering at them. Sweet sounds of home. As I lay there, I got to thinking about Fibonacci numbers. They're all over nature from number of flower petals to, well, stuff. What do they look like?

When I got up, the birds flew away and the cats settled down to watch me. Time for their breakfast. Over coffee I wrote this and through the afternoon I've messed with it. My itch has been scratched now.

I don't know how to compile & run c programs in winders (64bit numbers would be nice) without installing an IDE (nope!). Instead, I pulled out an Arduino and came up with this bit of code. And played around with it .

I started with floats but modulus calcs don't work on them. Doesn't even compile. Also found that out-range-numbers display "ovf" instead of digits. That happened at iteration 46. Changed the data type to unsigned long and it compiled.

At iteration 40, I quit the program after 10 minutes and ~10 million modulus calcs. May run it over night to test those last 5 iterations. Took that bit of code out to see how far it would go.

It ran only a bit further before it went off the rails. No warning, just garbage numbers after iteration 44. D'oh, 4.8 billion is too big to fit in 32bits. (max <4.3B). So I learned a couple things and had fun.

I've noticed some of you have been having hard week. Here's to Friday evening improving everyone's mood! Cheers!

Naw. I'm gonna still use "kinja'd' when shit breaks in odd ways on these innertubes. I've used the word elsewhere and some folks seem to know what I'm talking about. If nothing else, for nostalgia purposes - let us never forget!

Back about 95, 96 the trucking co I worked for was negotiating for a new national phone service and system. When the vendors all offered free calling cards as gimmes. I got as many as I could. Probably ended up with a 6" stack; hunnerts of them. Took them over to the cop station and the shelter in L5P to give to the runaway kids.

Who the hell wrote that article? A stoned 14-year old? What a mess!

I love readin' this place. Thank you all so very much. Cars, lambos, watches, bikes of all kinds; just a wild mix of stuff. So when you mention liquor, I at least listen. A few posts back someone mentioned Jagermeister Cold Brew. Hum, that sounded interesting so I got a bottle. Not so interesting...

Someone else toasted Bailey's Irish Cream. Been hearing about it for decades but I don't know if I've ever had any. $33 a fifth!!! I pay $30, with taxes for a decent gallon of rum. So I got it. And by the shot, this stuff is absolutely delicious! Small sips.

And then I ran out of rum this morning. And I'm already too far in the bag to drive without a good nap. Grrrr. So I got to mixing these 2 aforementioned liquors. 2 parts Jagermiester to 1 of Baileys in a shot glass makes for a surprisingly good drink. No, they won't get me drunk but they are a tasty interlude until the sugars wear off and I can sleep again.

Carp, forgot the pic:

This is magnificent! Thank you for the article. And I recognize a lot of the buildings having worked and lived downtown so long.

Question I have is how long did it take you to put this together? I mean the sit down and edit time.

My version of Find Teh Kitteh: The eyes always give her away, though.

@trivet But but that is such a sweet little face to hide such huge murder claws under!

Amen to the wagon. I really love and appreciate my '01 Legacy L. Base model but it has all the stuff - A/C, power winders, cruise control. Maybe a 100 HP left in the J251 but it's enough to get us anywhere we want to go. Dead reliable. Cons: 22mpg, needs new struts on all 4 corners, ignition sw, L headlamp bulb, oil change.

Gotta love our kittehs! Sparrows mast is keel-stepped and exposed inside. I wrap it in Sisal for a scratching post. They wear it out annually. 6-months old on top, last years on the bottom.

@bbg2d Naw, yer good. In the heat of the summer around here it's often a choice of an afternoon pick-me-up of a Mean Bean or a cooling Strawberry Cream Slushie from Sonic.

@bicyclebuck said in Coffee additives:

Black with some sugar. Rowr.

Amen. Black as night, hot as Hell and sweet as love.

I've also heard that a pinch of salt can remove the bitterness of coffee though I keep forgetting to try it.

@beefchips Didn't know but was thinkin' it. Your cat is
trying to ask "What am I supposed to do with this thing?"

Whoa. I been thinkin' "That's a girl squirrel." this whole time. Something in the face; very narrow jowls? Anyway. glad you are enjoying this adventure.

Really like yer last pic. My girls accepted Max, a juvenile flying squirrel one of them brought into the boat, as a mate once I took her away and she got to heal a bit. They saw and sniffed her but no eating.

G'night, Pip. And thank you for the night watch duties you perform so well.