Fred Ecks (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} fredx) wrote,@ 2006-12-12 11:09:00 |
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Cool find of the day
I was poking around to find the website of an author whose work is in the current Simple Living Network newsletter ( http://www.simpleliving.net ), and when I found it, I was impressed with what I saw. Check it out:
http://www.mishakennedy.com/
http://reallivingzine.blogspot.com/
http://www.mishakennedy.com/realliv
Nice work, Michelle!
In other news, I finally overcame a major blockage in my life. There's a ton of work to be done on the mast of the Lucky Duck (my sailboat). It's so much work that going up and down the mast to do it wasn't reasonable. Specialized tools like a blowtorch and grinder will be required. In short, I needed to drop the mast. I was intimidated as hell by the prospect. It's over three stories tall, and weighs probably 200 pounds. If it were to be irreparably damaged in the process, that would be the end of the boat (it's an old boat, not worth much of anything, and a new mast would be prohibitively expensive).
I put the project off for three months. Finally, I did it on Sunday. It was a lot of work, and high stakes. It didn't go perfectly as planned, but I got it done without significant damage. Yay! Now I'm looking at all the projects, and waiting for the rain to stop so I can get to work. :-)
The folks around me now see my sailboat with the mast laying down, and I keep having to tell them that yes, I did this on purpose! It took a period of hours, not seconds! :-O
I was poking around to find the website of an author whose work is in the current Simple Living Network newsletter ( http://www.simpleliving.net ), and when I found it, I was impressed with what I saw. Check it out:
http://www.mishakennedy.com/
http://reallivingzine.blogspot.com/
http://www.mishakennedy.com/realliv
Nice work, Michelle!
In other news, I finally overcame a major blockage in my life. There's a ton of work to be done on the mast of the Lucky Duck (my sailboat). It's so much work that going up and down the mast to do it wasn't reasonable. Specialized tools like a blowtorch and grinder will be required. In short, I needed to drop the mast. I was intimidated as hell by the prospect. It's over three stories tall, and weighs probably 200 pounds. If it were to be irreparably damaged in the process, that would be the end of the boat (it's an old boat, not worth much of anything, and a new mast would be prohibitively expensive).
I put the project off for three months. Finally, I did it on Sunday. It was a lot of work, and high stakes. It didn't go perfectly as planned, but I got it done without significant damage. Yay! Now I'm looking at all the projects, and waiting for the rain to stop so I can get to work. :-)
The folks around me now see my sailboat with the mast laying down, and I keep having to tell them that yes, I did this on purpose! It took a period of hours, not seconds! :-O
