A Short History

Feb, 2010: Wifi card stops working.

March: Screen starts to die.

May: Laptop mailed in, returned with wifi good, screen bad

June-July: Laptop mailed in again, returned with screen better... then bad.

October: Screen dies completely

Another box is requested.

Mid October: Box never arrives.

Late October: Sony calls about box. I kindly tell them to stuff it.

November: Bring laptop to local repair place. Technician confident in cheap fix.

Late November: After three weeks I call. Finally told that to fix will cost $500 bucks (??). Try to charge a $50 diagnosis fee (for a diagnosis I gave them). I kindly tell them to stuff it.

December: Call Sony for box.

Mid December: Call because box hasn't arrived - "Oh, yeah,

sorry, we'll send it right away. Yes, that's the address we have."

Mid December: "Oh, right, no we'll send it this time for sure."

January 5th, 2010: "Oh........ um...... yeah......

We've been sending boxes to Alaska."

Januray 10th:

Now was that so hard?

to be continued....

Note:

I just realized that this blog has essentially become an adventure-reporting blog. I'm sorry. I'll try to mix it up in the future, ok? Ok.

Delta River: August in Alaska

Everyone except Mike (Sorry Mike) got two days off in Alaska about 2 weeks before the end of the season. Our purpose was to run the Delta from where it starts at Tangle Lakes until it reaches the Richardson Highway. This section is about 29 miles long, and is usually done over three days with a lot of beer and trout fishing along the way. We had neither beer nor time, so we were forced to do it in two.

We set off with mostly flat water and/or very shallow streams.

Picked a spot about 8 miles down river between two mountains for camp. There was no evidence that anyone had been there before. Like, ever.

Set off the following morning.

Portaged the only big rapids.

And lazily continued down the ol' Delta

And then prayed Alaskans were nice to hitch-hikers.

They were. The end.

PS. I think Scott has pictures of how we (mostly) fit two canoes, four guys and their stuff into a 15 passenger van.