Dad, Sailor, Programmer, Traveller
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
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
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.
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,
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
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
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
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 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
Today we went tubing for Mark's birthday. We decided to go some places new this year with just flour family. Normally we go to Soldiers Hallow up near Park City, but we wanted to check this place out. It was a pretty cool place called WasatchParc, and is
Today we went and did my Mom and Marks Christmas present to us. She got us tickets to a virtual reality wingsuit simulator. It was really really cool. We went down about lunchtime to Draper and watched a few videos of people that had done it. Then Nikki and I
Warren and I went after I got off work and got haircuts. It's been a while since I got a cut, so mine was really long. Warren's wasn't too bad, but he loves getting his cut. They had a big line, but luckily I