A good part of the day today was spent with me being a good husband and going along to lunch with Penny. It was Pam’s birthday lunch and Penny’s birthday lunch and in accordance with Pam’s wishes we went Dutch. The reason I say I was being a good husband is that any visit with Pam is stressful. Penny is a good friend and although Pam stresses her Penny is always there for her. I knew lunch would be interesting. I went for Penny and because Pam wanted me to.
We ate at Tommy Bahamas. The food was good but over-priced. I had fish tacos. They came with a side of plantains in a pineapple coconut dip. We also all shared an order of sweet potato fries.
One other thing I did today was to open up the broken DVR. Lo and behold the 2 suspect capacitors were in fact bad. Hope lives that the DVR can be repaired. I desoldered and removed the 2 parts, went to Radio Shack and got new parts—and that’s as far as I got on this task today.
My job used to be preventing this type of systemic failure in equipment. You can imagine the consequences of a single part failing in a couple thousand missiles. We have had good luck with Panasonic electronics but they obviously slipped up in the design, testing or quality control on this DVR.
Today I finally took a walk. I went for a sunset beach walk. It wasn’t a gorgeous sunset day but I enjoyed my 2 hour walk. When I arrived at the beach the shore was lined with people fishing—more than I’ve ever seen here at one time. I think the Pompano are running. Maybe I should try my hand at it. You know, bring a book , toss out the line and just relax and enjoy.
We ate at Tommy Bahamas. The food was good but over-priced. I had fish tacos. They came with a side of plantains in a pineapple coconut dip. We also all shared an order of sweet potato fries.
One other thing I did today was to open up the broken DVR. Lo and behold the 2 suspect capacitors were in fact bad. Hope lives that the DVR can be repaired. I desoldered and removed the 2 parts, went to Radio Shack and got new parts—and that’s as far as I got on this task today.
My job used to be preventing this type of systemic failure in equipment. You can imagine the consequences of a single part failing in a couple thousand missiles. We have had good luck with Panasonic electronics but they obviously slipped up in the design, testing or quality control on this DVR.
Today I finally took a walk. I went for a sunset beach walk. It wasn’t a gorgeous sunset day but I enjoyed my 2 hour walk. When I arrived at the beach the shore was lined with people fishing—more than I’ve ever seen here at one time. I think the Pompano are running. Maybe I should try my hand at it. You know, bring a book , toss out the line and just relax and enjoy.
It may also be Cobia season because boats were cruising the shoreline fishing.
The sun was in and out of the clouds and it made for interesting lighting.
I walked to the jetties and there I found another group of a different type of fishers.
I took a bunch of bird pictures.
When I got back to the beach access there was a family there with a photographer taking pictures. It wasn’t a pretty day to do that. As I headed for the car a small party arrived—a couple with what must have been a pastor, a photographer and a violinist. I think they were getting married.
The sun did poke out as it set and I got this picture of the red ball before it disappeared behind the dunes.
Kitty Update--Everyone except Meredith is back.
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