Last weekend my friend Tim and I went up to the mountains for the weekend. We stayed up at the Grass Valley Sportsmans Lodge, and then helped them close it up for the winter. Every year they board up and drain all the water out of the pipes, so that when the snow comes nothing [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2008’
Nov 20
Trouble on the water
Just the other day the owner of the company that I work for announced that there will be a pay cut for every employee and lay offs as well. I ended up with a 10% pay cut, and on top of that I already took a 25% schedule reduction when I took the engineering job. [...]
Nov 12
Heading south on the Pacific
Today was our second full day at sea, on our trip from Oregon down the Pacific Coast to the San Francisco Bay. Seas have been rough, the winds high and every one has been feeling pretty bad. We’ve been averaging 12 foot swells and 30 knot winds most of the time, so it’s been slow [...]
Nov 09
Heading out tomorrow
In Portland tomorrow, we will be dropping off our guests, then heading south to the dry dock in Alameda, CA. This is looking like it will be quite a trip, the seas have been pretty rough over this route, and don’t look to be letting up any time soon. From the look of it we [...]
