Second Gen (2003-2016, 2016- )
While I’ve been away on a short but richly deserved holiday, Gen X at 40 HQ has been busy installing what our executive has described as technology. We trust we are adding some of the finest technology available with the hope of bringing you better blogging to meet the dynamic demands of the future.
I am looking at this my site on hotel internet set at 800 x 600. Does anyone else leave their setting there nowadays? [I have been amongst the Amish so am using words like “nowadays” nowadays.] At this setting, the photos look worse than Obidiah’s boy Jerimiah did after he fell into the manure pile.
It being an exceptionally clear evening, I went up to the roof and did the binocular trick looking south and this is some of what I caught. Above, over Simcoe Island, a laker and a lighthouse. The light may well be the East Charity Shoals Light I saw from Cape Vincent facing fairly straight west from there. Correction: This is a lighthouse on Pigeon Island about 4 miles south west of the nearest tip of Wolfe Island and 4 miles northwest of the East Charity Light. The Laker route is quite far south as well, staying beyond the US boundary. I’d estimate the Pigeon Island Light would be about 20 km from here and that Laker about 25 km. Here is the entire photo taken through the binoculars.
Above, over Simcoe Island, the plume at Nine Mile Pt, NY, near Oswego. The nuclear plant would be about 75 km straight south of here. See this article on the search for the plume. Here is the entire photo taken through the binoculars. You’ll notice that the actual 543 cooling tower is under the horizon.
Above: this view again over the west tip of Simcoe shows islands on the horizon which may well be Main Duck Island and its neighbour to the left whose name I do not know yet. The gap between the islands is about 35 km south south west of here. Here is the entire photo taken through the binoculars.
Above: One more. I think the white thing is the East Charity Shoals Light which would be about 22 km south south east of here. Below is a blow-up of that portion of the photo.
And below is a US Coast Guard image. I need to get out the compass one clear day to check all these guesses.
Off to hit I-81 tomorrow morning down through central New York heading to the Pennsylvania Dutch region when O’Sammy burps and up go the security levels. We can expect an extra minute delay at Cape Vincent.
We shall not be deterred. We shall convert currency and shall seek out the hots and BBQ. If that makes me and mine a target of whack-jobs, so be it.
What better way to celebrate the 1,000th post than a picture from after last weekend’s 2-1 victory by SFA Div. 2’s Greenock Morton over the hated neighbouring SFA Div. 1’s St. Mirren of Paisley (Ed.: acht, ptweie, spit). I have enjoyed watching a match at each of their home grounds but if your Dad’s from Greenock you ought to be a Morton fan. More photos here. Discuss the obsession here.
Expect lighter posting for the next while with holidays and the death of the Dell’s high speed access at home. We all need a wee kip and a nip for the 1,000th – have one for me.
My friend and my former insurer (don’t knock it – it wroked for Charles Ives) has written a wonderful short essay about a last moment with his father and the brevity of life. At a mere 41, watching the growth of my kids hit second gear, I already know this is coming and could try to frame it myself but Craig wrote it so well.
Sam Adams Cream Stout. One fine beer available at Watertown, NY.
