General Jackassery

You know it really stinks when you have to turn your computer over to the Information Management people and they decided to keep it until the get good and ready to do something productive with it. They’re supposed to be changing out the operating system on it and updating the software because the government has this irritating policy where they test new software to death before they decided to actually implement it. By they time they upgrade to that software they’re already behind and the newest software has come out. So, they’re “working” on loading XP Pro on my machine and have been working on it since Thursday afternoon. It doesn’t take THAT long to load software on a machine!

Oh well, we leave for Tampa on Wednesday evening. Mo and I went and picked up the boat from Maaco this morning and there’s some relatively minor work that needs to be done on the interior of the boat before it can be called finished also so clear coating to do where the boat was resting on the stands when it was clear coated. I’ll be posting pictures of my cross-section sometime soon, I’ve had help building it, but the concept and the majority of the labor in construction goes to me, I’m pretty proud of it. We currently have to finish building the boat stands and the base for the cross-section, fill and sand the inside of the cross-section and the boat and have Tidwell put the vinyl lettering on the outside of the boat and the trailer and we’ll be ready to head to Tampa!

I would really like for some of these guys to get a chance to see Nationals and have that experience, but the other half of me would really like for this season to be over and us all to get our lives back. It was really nice to have the summers off and I’m kind of looking forward to working on my house and my garden and yard and bidding fair well to the concrete canoe!