Winter, as some of you may have surmised from reading my postings, is not the ideal time to paddle in my neck of the woods. Partly because there are no woods (unless you count orchards, we live in the 1/2 of Washington State that is decidedly *not* "evergreen") and partly because the lake upon the shores of which our lake house resides is frozen from November to March year after year. Except that this year it thawed out in February. Not only did it thaw out but Thursday and Friday of last week were magnificently warm and calm. Nearly 60 F which is balmy for around here in Feb. Unfortunately for me we had had an email server die a nasty death which required me to spend Wednesday and Thursday building and configuring a new one, adding users, and apologizing to angry clients. This was in addition to dealing with the usual problems network users have in their offices for which they pay me princely sums to solve. I remember thinking to myself on Friday that I should just chuck it all and launch the Nimbus and paddle. But I had work to do. Saturday or Sunday I'd paddle for sure. Saturday morning I had to be at a client's at 8am to finalize a VPN (virtual private network) setup and then I had to do billing til noon. That was about when it started to snow. And it snowed enough to make it clear to everyone that paddling was not going to be fun. That evening when I drove back to the farm to spend the night with my wife who was just back from shepherding local jazz students on a trip to the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival in Colfax there was 2 inches of snow on the ground and I had a difficult time making it up the hill to my driveway. Sunday (today) it warmed up to 38F. So I should have chucked it all on Friday when I had the chance. I'm an idiot. On the plus side, my wife and daughter visited a Goodwill Store in Colfax, Idaho and found an NRS paddling jacket for $4.99. They probably thought it was a cheap raincoat. So at least they're not idiots; they bought it. Craig Jungers Royal City, WA *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Subject: [Paddlewise] I'm an idiot! Craig wrote: > Unfortunately for me we had had an email server die a nasty death which > required me to spend Wednesday and Thursday building and configuring a new > one, adding users, and apologizing to angry clients. This was in addition > to > dealing with the usual problems network users have in their offices for > which they pay me princely sums to solve. I remember thinking to myself on > Friday that I should just chuck it all and launch the Nimbus and paddle. > But > I had work to do. Saturday or Sunday I'd paddle for sure. Craig, I'd love to be an idiot like you. You can fix anything, including computers/servers. I'm still learning to tie my shoes. Bradford R. Crain *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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