Ramblings
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Blackberries!
And a freshly painted insect house.
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Slip maintenance
I put Blue Opal on the slip this Friday gone, with the intent of cleaning off the worst of the growth on her, replacing the shaft anode, and replacing the main anode. Spares had already been acquired, so it should have been easy. Problem number one – I didn’t slip her quite right. I failed…
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Greenery
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Drying a camera
The club has a Hikvision camera mounted up high, looking out over the bay. We call it the Slipcam, because the main view is our slip and pontoon. Last weekend, the image went all foggy – it’s a unit that apparently doesn’t have any kind of fan or vent for condensation – and I picked…
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Garden things
The garden is doing well, bar one crop of potatoes that seemed to develop early blight. Those have been harvested, and will be turned into the accompaniment for lunch today. The strawberry plants are doing well, with ripe fruit appearing every few days. I’m not the biggest fan of strawberries (in a take it or…
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Eir F3000 (F@st 5366) pains redux
With Eir being unreachable via phone, I decided to poke the router they sent me, to see if I could tamper with the request that was causing issues. Basically, in the set of four requests that were XHR’d over to the router, I wanted to drop the first one. First stop, a tick in Firefox’s…