The Salmon Route - Sunday October 25, 2009

Took the Maxum out for the first time today since May. Forecast was for rain in the afternoon. Got out at 7am from Oatley. Water was perfectly flat, no wind and no rain to start with. Went out across the bay heading for ocean. Swell was reasonable so went out a bit further than previous. On the way back, stopped in the middle of a maelstrom of fish flopping about, presumably feeding. Big buggers too. Got the rods out and had a bash.. lots of bites but nothing on hook. Followed the pack of what turned out to be salmon. The bubbling water where they fed was overseen by seagulls and pretty soon a small armada of fishing boats surrounded us and began following the pack. All around us people were pulling in fish after fish... big uns, mostly 60cm some as big as 90cm.. but still nada on the good ship Maxum. Luckily a passing fisherman took pity on us, offered some of his lures and some advice on how to bag em. Followed that, got bites but promptly lost hooks and snapped lines in the process of pulling them in. Eventually the same boat came back, admitted they had caught more than they could carry and offered us 2 of theirs.. So all was not lost. Came home with 2 60cm red salmon.. at least I think that's what it is...

Feedback and onward

So the feedback from the assessor was good. Suitably encouraged I fixed the problem areas and re-did the word 'grammar' check... I had kinda been working the 'ignore' option a bit much and decided it was time to understand what 'passive voice' really meant...
To infinity and beyond.. find agent... start next book... find time... find time ... find time...

Anxious to start

Witness, Wonder and Write.
No point writing about something you haven't seen or pondered and a lost opportunity if witnessing or wondering without writing about it.
Catherine has finished her assessment of iRecorder. Meeting Tuesday to discuss. Can wait to hear it and get on with iHuman.
Bought a lottery ticket - going to enjoy the thought of taking the $20mil- at least until the reality sets in of being just another contributer to the lucky bugger who does win it.
Took the WR250 for a buzz around the block. Love it. Need to change the oil sometime - clutch still sticky. Big ride tomorrow. Time to master the gears with m' boots on.
iHuman is going to be written with a lot more balls n bravado than iRecorder... not holding back.. can't wait to start....

Fiddling with Windows 7

Being a nerd, installed the Beta on 3 pc’s. 

This one bluescreens now and then, the others are fine.

Looks good and is easier to configure than Vista.

 

I think we’ll stay here.