Chaosbutterfly

This has been a very long weekend, but it was fun for the most part. Dickens was a blast, I did spend most of it at the Elissa. We had sail training all day Saturday and all of it while in costume. We were trained on various masts this time and I was put on the Mizzen as usual. I guess due to all those times I’ve wound up on the mizzen during daysails. I must have spoken to a million tourists this weekend. I think the most distant tourist that came by was from Australia. I spoke to a few from Canada as well on Sunday that just happened to show up and were wondering around and asked about what was going on.

Heard a lot of hurricane stories this weekend, one in particular about someone riding it out on a sailboat in Payco Marina. That was the marina that wound up pretty much smashed up against the foot of the Galveston Causeway after the storm. The guy had apparently road it out by casting off his anchor as the storm had turned north and the winds were driving the waves over his bow. He had floated up and back and when the water subsided he found himself sitting in the parking lot and the rest of the marina and boats gone. Wow.

Thinking of boats, my old electrical problems are back. I’m still working on them and have when I’ve had half a minute in the dark when I have been home this weekend after Dickens. With any luck I should have dockside power back tonight. I just wish I was a bit stronger and crimping those 8 gauge wires wasn’t such a pain. I don’t have a wrench long enough to get enough leverage to bend those huge connectors down on those huge wires. I just need to rewire that whole starboard side. It’s a mess back there.

I also want to announce I will be getting my old www.chaosbutterfly.com site up and running soon. I decided to host it directly at GoDaddy.com where I have the domain. It seemed the cheapest option. I’ll be ftping the back up tonight to the new site. But my old email address now works again.