Sunny Day Sail
We headed out for an early sail today.the wind was supposed to be fairly good, not great but good. It wasn't... We sailed for about 3 and a half hour, but mostly we just poked along at half a knot. We did get up to 3 during a few
Evening Walk
Today we had a normal day. Nikki subbed for a 5th grade class. I went and got a haircut after work then picked up pizza on the way home. After we ate we went on a walk up the trail, it was just under two miles. The kids rode along
First Day of Lagoon 2025
We went to Lagoon amusement park today for the first time this year. Warren hit 50 inches tall this year, so it was his first time being able to ride everything in the park. We had a good time, Nikki and I sat out on a lot of spinny rides
Rough Sail
I had some PTO to burn, so I took two days off while the kids were on spring break. Today, it seemed decent enough around noon that we decided to go sailing. The wind was out of the North at about 10 knots. This is generally not the best wind
Sailing day
We had some me decent wind for sailing today. We got out about two hours late, but that was of. After the last sail I purchased a new mainsheet, and today I tested it out. It was amazing, it was so much easier to handle and so much lighter than
Utah Hockey Club
Today we got to go see a Utah Hockey Club game at the Delta Center. Utah Hockey Club is Utah's new NHL team that we got this year. Normally tickets run hundreds of dollars, but they are selling limited views tickets through a promotion for $10 a piece. The game
Autodesk Fusion
I am working more on creating my wind direction sensor. I normally use Blender, but I feel like other applications are better at the precision work that I need. I watched a 20 minute tutorial on youtube, and got some basics down. I am not very good at it yet,
New Wind Vane Sensor
I am switching methods of angle sensing. After some testing, I think the rotary encoder has too much resistance to use for a wind sensor. I switched to a AS5600 Hall effect sensor, and have been playing around with it. It actually seems to be way better that the other
Pizza and Planning
I got home from work today and took a good nap. When I got up we decided to got to pizza pie cafe. The kids were thrilled, and Mark had wanted to go there anyways. It was really packed so it made it a bit hard to get what we
Trip Planning
I did some searching on project planning tools to plan for our sailing trip. I looked at a few different tools, and didn't find any that were a great fit. Asana was ok, but didn't offer some of the base things I needed. Monday was the same may. I think
More Homework
Today was pretty good at work. I got a lot done and am ready to move forward tomorrow. I have a few meeting, and should be pretty busy tomorrow. We worked on a big slew of Marks homework today. He is a little behind in a few things, but mostly
Mark's Singing Class
Mark started vocal for performances classes today. He didn't want to go was fairly angry we signed him up for it. But of course, he really loved it. He said it was a lot of fun and he can't wait to go back. Other than that it was a pretty