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Bad news (but with Bonus Canoe)
Oct. 29th, 2010 01:47 pmKip's and my laptop was stolen yesterday. Kip had been taking it to work regularly, and it was stolen out of his office. Apparently a few other laptops were stolen from the college area the same day, so we're suspecting a ring.
We've run around and changed all the passwords on everything we might have accessed from that computer. Kip has made a full report to campus security and to the local police. We took the serial number to the local pawnshop and asked the proprietor to call the police immediately if it turns up.
So for now we'll be on Eve one at a time (which probably means I won't play Eve much.) We could replace it, but it would basically wipe out everything we've saved this year--and *my* laptop is about five years old at this point, which means it may not last much longer either. So ...
Well. Maybe we can cut back on expenses some more. We just got the house insulated so hopefully the heating bills will be lower this winter. That should help some. But I keep looking at the things I was debating buying with my fun money and knowing they're way out of reach now.
In happeir news, the first coat of varnish on the outside of the hull dried in the normal amount of time, so I put a second coat of varnish on yesterday evening. The second coat was harder to do because I had to go pretty much by feel--it's hard to tell the wet varnish from the dry. I think I did a pretty decent job, and it sure looks nice in the shop, at least. And putting it on as thin as it will go seriously reduces the drips and runs, so I'm pleased about that.
Today I crawled under the upside-down hull and sanded in a few spots you can't see very well when the hull is right-side-up, then vacuumed the boat, turned it right side up, and vacuumed it again. Then I varnished the inside, with the trim, plus the thwarts (which I took out to make getting at the inside of the hull easier.) I also varnished a couple of spots on the seat that seemed to need touching up.
About 5:30 this evening I should be able to cane the seat, and possibly put a second coat of varnish on the inside of the boat. We shall see. In the meantime we finally have a dry day so I should putty some more cracks in the driveway.
We've run around and changed all the passwords on everything we might have accessed from that computer. Kip has made a full report to campus security and to the local police. We took the serial number to the local pawnshop and asked the proprietor to call the police immediately if it turns up.
So for now we'll be on Eve one at a time (which probably means I won't play Eve much.) We could replace it, but it would basically wipe out everything we've saved this year--and *my* laptop is about five years old at this point, which means it may not last much longer either. So ...
Well. Maybe we can cut back on expenses some more. We just got the house insulated so hopefully the heating bills will be lower this winter. That should help some. But I keep looking at the things I was debating buying with my fun money and knowing they're way out of reach now.
In happeir news, the first coat of varnish on the outside of the hull dried in the normal amount of time, so I put a second coat of varnish on yesterday evening. The second coat was harder to do because I had to go pretty much by feel--it's hard to tell the wet varnish from the dry. I think I did a pretty decent job, and it sure looks nice in the shop, at least. And putting it on as thin as it will go seriously reduces the drips and runs, so I'm pleased about that.
Today I crawled under the upside-down hull and sanded in a few spots you can't see very well when the hull is right-side-up, then vacuumed the boat, turned it right side up, and vacuumed it again. Then I varnished the inside, with the trim, plus the thwarts (which I took out to make getting at the inside of the hull easier.) I also varnished a couple of spots on the seat that seemed to need touching up.
About 5:30 this evening I should be able to cane the seat, and possibly put a second coat of varnish on the inside of the boat. We shall see. In the meantime we finally have a dry day so I should putty some more cracks in the driveway.
