Hi all--

I had a brief moment of shock and horror yesterday.

I mentioned these "new" Starrett micrometers in a previous note--
http://pdknz.live
journal.com/pics/catalog/952/289149

They have been lying on the windowsill for the last few weeks--sort of on
display, sort of because I don't want to banish them back to my shop.

Twice recently, someone has complemented the nice--wait for it--
"clamps."

It's surprising how much that hurts, but I guess it says a lot about--I
dunno--something.  Us or them, I guess.  Take your choice.

Digressing-- I may get to use the mikes again pretty soon.  I tried to make
a trip up river with my flood ride snowgo, and the engine seized up after
about 20 miles.  Sigh.  Burning down a snowgo isn't that big a deal--it
happens almost every year, but I'm concerned for my hermit buddy Andy, who
has one almost exactly like it.  Makes me wonder how he's doing in this
freaky warm weather.  I was lucky and didn't have to walk very far, but
still.

Digressing even farther.  The Iron Dogs went through Galena yesterday, and
are expected back about Thursday.  The Iron Dog 2000 is an annual snowgo
race that normally goes from Anchorage to Nome, then back to Fairbanks.
It's normal that they pass through Galena both ways, but this year they had
to move the entire race a few hundred miles north--

The Iditarod is coming along in a week or two, and they have the same
problem.  There's not enough snow in the entire southern half of Alaska for
the winter races because you people down south and east got it this year.
I can't even use the wood stove some days because the weather is too warm.

PK
Suffering from the sunny weather and the slings of irony.