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End of the week.
2014-Sep-26, Friday 20:17I tend to giggle at the people who take social networking so seriously that they post pics of their meals.
Im in grave danger of becoming one of them.
Im on the last shuttle of the night to Berkeley.
I had a beer at happy hour before boarding.
The coach has wifi.
The last 2 days have been "infrastructure lockdown".
This means groups leave their usual areas, find some space like a conference room or something and kind of camp out together and clean up work queues.
3 in out group now ride the same shuttle and we start doing our thing just after 6 when we board the coach and the wifi comes up.
Some of the seatc face each other with table between.
This is helpful.
2 of us have the whole coach to ourselves tonight.
I feel like Onassis. (smirk)
Normally my edge network server queue sits around 2 dozen tickets.
Thursday AM I logged in to find it near 60.
Yesterday was hard. This afternoon, a conversation with Bulgaria sorted out a problem in Cairo (Well Giza actually) thats been bugging me for 2 weeks.
When I started, I tried all the food options.
Over the last week Ive settled on a good old tuna on rye, with a side of cheese and either sweet ice tea or lemonade.
After busing dishes, I get a sweet ice coffee, go out in the quad, and lay in the sun on a redwood bench for a half hour.
With headphones and 90 minutes of "The Ventures" loaded on the company supplied Android phone,
I just about float back to my desk. It puts the re in recharge.
Something is happening inside me, I dont know what, but it is.
Ive ALMOST become a "morning person" (Perish the thought!)
Wednesdays, I hit the burger shack.
The Wed special is a burger with a patty stuffed with bleu cheese & soroicha sauce.
Its amazing.
A few weeks ago, the Schoenstein Organ Co had its annual open house.
While they only made Theatre organs for about 15 years, classical & church organs have been made for centuries and are still made.
Schoenstein is the last pipe organ factory in the bay area.
After over 100 years, the company almost died, was rescued, left San Francisco for Benicia, and has gotten into markets its never been able to enter before.
The New York City church market is very hard to get into, and Schoenstein finally did.
They usually have at least 2 organs on the erection floor, and they have open keyboard, & refreshments. You can listen to people play, sip a soda and wander among the power tools.
Its a hoot!
The Schoenstein family turned a room into an archives/museum.
Among other things, they have samples of old parts.
They also unearthed some ancient office equipment that had been packed away since the factory left San Francisco.
Funny thing, I have a few boxes of stuff like that too.
What am I ever going to do with a belt type Dictaphone ?
My offer was accepted, so next open house, Im going bearing gifts!
I realized that this week Im walking down the street in t shirt & jeans, leaving the hoodie in backpack and Im comfortable at 5am.
Bizzarre!
Sherlock Holmes made the "Inverness" cape famous.
Thats going on is that this is a sleeveless long coat, which then has a short cape at the top to keep your shoulders warm, block heat from escaping up the neck and covers your arms.
Normally, you would wear the inverness cape over your proper jacket anyway.
I have a nylon one from a bagpipe band supply.
Thursday morning, we had what was promised to be a light drizzle, less than a tenth.
It was poring at 5 am when I left the house.
I tested the inverness cape. It worked better than expected.
I did wear the hoodie under it. Being sleveless, I flipped up the cape, put on the backpack and had the cape protect the backpack.
Other than arriving at BART with wet feet, I was fine.
After this, I would argue that the inverness cape is far more relevant that the theatrical niche it presently occupies.
At Scottish games, there is a vendor who sells coats of various types.
I should have stopped in on Sat because Sunday selection was down.
I did get a long coat, perfect for Dickens Faire thats a bit large for me.
Lynne Combes was in the next booth over and pointed out that 2 coats for $25, I couldnt go wrong.
Maybe Ill have it tailored, maybe Ill keep it big. I also got a modern Calvin Klein jacket as part of the deal and that one fits perfectly now.
The only bad thing is that both feet hurt at all the joints.
I love the walking Im doing despite the pain.
As promised, the orange juicer...
The problem is how to make LOTS of fresh squeezed OJ for several thousand people every morning and make it fast.
Rube Goldberg would have loved this machine (Google Rube Goldberg)
Oranges are dumped into the wire basket at the top a case at a time.
A rotating arm sweeps oranges into a wire chute.
The oranges come down the chute and drop into a recess on a wheel.
Another wheel with arms with bals on the end mesh with the recesses on the centre wheel.
The result is 1 orange completely juiced per second.
Very coarse pulp gets caught in a strainer that self cleans.
The juiced orange rhinds drop into a compost bin.
The juice still ends up pretty high pulp.
I have 2 tall glasses every morning.
Dunno what those machines cost, but Im certain they are worth every penny.
Wow, I posted twice in a week!
Im in grave danger of becoming one of them.
Im on the last shuttle of the night to Berkeley.
I had a beer at happy hour before boarding.
The coach has wifi.
The last 2 days have been "infrastructure lockdown".
This means groups leave their usual areas, find some space like a conference room or something and kind of camp out together and clean up work queues.
3 in out group now ride the same shuttle and we start doing our thing just after 6 when we board the coach and the wifi comes up.
Some of the seatc face each other with table between.
This is helpful.
2 of us have the whole coach to ourselves tonight.
I feel like Onassis. (smirk)
Normally my edge network server queue sits around 2 dozen tickets.
Thursday AM I logged in to find it near 60.
Yesterday was hard. This afternoon, a conversation with Bulgaria sorted out a problem in Cairo (Well Giza actually) thats been bugging me for 2 weeks.
When I started, I tried all the food options.
Over the last week Ive settled on a good old tuna on rye, with a side of cheese and either sweet ice tea or lemonade.
After busing dishes, I get a sweet ice coffee, go out in the quad, and lay in the sun on a redwood bench for a half hour.
With headphones and 90 minutes of "The Ventures" loaded on the company supplied Android phone,
I just about float back to my desk. It puts the re in recharge.
Something is happening inside me, I dont know what, but it is.
Ive ALMOST become a "morning person" (Perish the thought!)
Wednesdays, I hit the burger shack.
The Wed special is a burger with a patty stuffed with bleu cheese & soroicha sauce.
Its amazing.
A few weeks ago, the Schoenstein Organ Co had its annual open house.
While they only made Theatre organs for about 15 years, classical & church organs have been made for centuries and are still made.
Schoenstein is the last pipe organ factory in the bay area.
After over 100 years, the company almost died, was rescued, left San Francisco for Benicia, and has gotten into markets its never been able to enter before.
The New York City church market is very hard to get into, and Schoenstein finally did.
They usually have at least 2 organs on the erection floor, and they have open keyboard, & refreshments. You can listen to people play, sip a soda and wander among the power tools.
Its a hoot!
The Schoenstein family turned a room into an archives/museum.
Among other things, they have samples of old parts.
They also unearthed some ancient office equipment that had been packed away since the factory left San Francisco.
Funny thing, I have a few boxes of stuff like that too.
What am I ever going to do with a belt type Dictaphone ?
My offer was accepted, so next open house, Im going bearing gifts!
I realized that this week Im walking down the street in t shirt & jeans, leaving the hoodie in backpack and Im comfortable at 5am.
Bizzarre!
Sherlock Holmes made the "Inverness" cape famous.
Thats going on is that this is a sleeveless long coat, which then has a short cape at the top to keep your shoulders warm, block heat from escaping up the neck and covers your arms.
Normally, you would wear the inverness cape over your proper jacket anyway.
I have a nylon one from a bagpipe band supply.
Thursday morning, we had what was promised to be a light drizzle, less than a tenth.
It was poring at 5 am when I left the house.
I tested the inverness cape. It worked better than expected.
I did wear the hoodie under it. Being sleveless, I flipped up the cape, put on the backpack and had the cape protect the backpack.
Other than arriving at BART with wet feet, I was fine.
After this, I would argue that the inverness cape is far more relevant that the theatrical niche it presently occupies.
At Scottish games, there is a vendor who sells coats of various types.
I should have stopped in on Sat because Sunday selection was down.
I did get a long coat, perfect for Dickens Faire thats a bit large for me.
Lynne Combes was in the next booth over and pointed out that 2 coats for $25, I couldnt go wrong.
Maybe Ill have it tailored, maybe Ill keep it big. I also got a modern Calvin Klein jacket as part of the deal and that one fits perfectly now.
The only bad thing is that both feet hurt at all the joints.
I love the walking Im doing despite the pain.
As promised, the orange juicer...
The problem is how to make LOTS of fresh squeezed OJ for several thousand people every morning and make it fast.
Rube Goldberg would have loved this machine (Google Rube Goldberg)
Oranges are dumped into the wire basket at the top a case at a time.
A rotating arm sweeps oranges into a wire chute.
The oranges come down the chute and drop into a recess on a wheel.
Another wheel with arms with bals on the end mesh with the recesses on the centre wheel.
The result is 1 orange completely juiced per second.
Very coarse pulp gets caught in a strainer that self cleans.
The juiced orange rhinds drop into a compost bin.
The juice still ends up pretty high pulp.
I have 2 tall glasses every morning.
Dunno what those machines cost, but Im certain they are worth every penny.
Wow, I posted twice in a week!
