Not too much happened last week, it was mostly unpack from the LAN, prepare for the next excursion. As an addendum to my previous post though, winter definitely wants to come early this year. It didn't stick for more than a day or two, but it is coming.
I discovered something at work, I have never seen an ethernet cable with grease in it, but apparently burial rated ethernet is greased like this. Interesting, and really messy to work with since I am making a bunch of patch cables for a new patch panel.
I went to Krass' for a friendsgiving over the weekend. I decided to take the ferry because Amtrak has jacked up their rates to where they aren't really really cheaper anymore, despite the fact that the ferry is quite expensive on its own. The way down was quite nice other than the fact you have to drive through CT to get there.
That is a big cleat.
After taking in the water for a bit since I had almost the whole outdoor deck to myself, I went and whipped up some dinner and started to disassemble the conversion. I got the web of bungee cords that held the microwave and stuff on top in place taken apart. I can see out the back again.
The friendsgiving was a lot of fun, and there was a lot of cheese. Krass smoked some as well. He used cherry, which came out better than the applewood that I tried. I might have to try again.
Loki is getting long in the tooth, but still loves the attention.
Interestingly, there is still some color down on Long Island.
The ferry ride home was something else. There was a gale warning, and the water was rough and reflected that. Keeping in mind that this ship can hold at least 70 cars, so it is very big, the spray was reaching the passenger level above the car bay. The announcer on the PA system at the end was them kicking people off the outdoor decks.
I tried but failed to catch a video of the cars bouncing the ferry was hitting the water so hard. The boat was rocking really good too. I did get a video of that. For a ship that size, that is a lot of rocking.
I tried to get video of the waves, but it didn't really come out very good, and the wind pretty much drowned out my voice despite the phone being about a foot from my face.
There weren't a lot of cars on it though. Driving home through CT was only aggravating, it wasn't downright awful like normal.
I still need to make a decision as to when I am driving down for Thanksgiving. There is a possibility of heavy snow on Saturday (they keep going back and forth between rain and snow), and the latest report puts it on Friday, but if the weather is not going to allow me to work on the carport, I might drive down Thursday into Friday like I normally do. If I can work on the carport this weekend I might drive down Sunday night into Monday
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