In this picture, you’re facing South-SouthEast. If your line of sight is 12:00, the wind is blowing from 2:00 towards 8:00. As the water falls down the spillway, you can see where the wind is blowing some of it back up into the lake as spray. This would not be a good day to be out on the lake in a small boat.
And yes, MrsDoF was worried about my proximity to the spillway. But I was in a secure spot, she just worries too much.
The Carnival Of The Elitist Bastards is out. I am just beginning to read through, and it’s a great collection. Enjoy!
Friday ended well, with installing the last of the VOIP phones in our multimedia consoles. By the end, I was getting pretty fast at it. But there’s no ‘road’ to ‘take the show out on’ because they’re all installed now. So I guess I can forget how I did it.
Saturday I just worked on bikes, rode a fixed-gear bike for the first time, practiced on my new unicycle, and wrote a book review. In the late afternoon began several hours of torrential rain and high winds, but MrsDoF spotted it on the weather forecast, which gave me a chance to cover the window wells and keep it out of the basement.
But then Saturday night I crashed with a lot of body pain, which persisted into early Sunday. Feeling better now. No, we don’t know what it is, and it never happens at the doctor’s office no matter how many wires they hook up.
Today MrsDoF and I went out to the lake to enjoy the really, really windy day (we’re geeky that way) and then I came home and did cardio and practiced some more on my uni. Swiped a parabolic antenna dish out of a trash pile, with the intention of making a fractal UHF antenna and mounting the whole works on a motorized platform in the attic. Ordered a copy of Watchmen from Amazon.
I think in balance, I’ll call this a weekend.
Gorgeous photo! Well worth the (minimal) risk. Nice, relaxing weekend you had there.
I wish to hear more about this unicycle.
If you’ve never read Watchmen, hold on. You’re in for a seriously interesting time. Put it like this… had it been a novel, we’d be in Pulitzer territory.
I wish that bloody pain of yours would present itself for proper diagnosis. But I’ve noticed that medical problems have much in common with cell phone woes, funny noises in the engine, and misbehaving children: they’ll be constant problems until you have someone who knows how to fix them available, and then they behave like perfect angels.
There must be some sort of universal law there.
What uni did you buy? Great picture.
Thanks Dana & Gruntle! Sometime I’ll write a post about art and risk. A photographer I once knew was killed getting a picture, and it’s a subject worth exploring.
I’m looking forward to Watchmen.
I looked at buying a used unicycle but new ones on eBay are really cheap. It’s a Torker LX 24”. I’ve been watching YouTube videos on how to learn to ride it. So far I can get on it, and balance for about three seconds. My goal is to be able to ride it around campus and around town. And more broadly, to get back all the balance I had before my accident. Maybe more.
Yeah, one of the reasons I learned to love ya is that you pull me to the edge of my comfort zone.
Although that wind surely was blowing strong.. .
my own pictures are up
~~love and Huggs, yer Missus
Dang man, one hell of a weekend. I can’t wait to visit next time so I can see ya ride that unicycle.