Yet More Snow
Server Repairs
Today I was working in a cupboard, (that is where the client keeps their server), repairing a disk array. Normally this is a couple of hours work, if you include the necessary backups, of course when you are working in a cupboard things never work out well. We eventually came up with a solution but it took nearly all day. So I have used my camera dozens of times today but for photographing screen shots, backs of servers, fronts of server, serial numbers, SATA drives etc etc.
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Super Bowl XLVI
It is a late night tonight as I am staying up to watch the American Football Super Bowl.
The game came complete with Madonna’s extravagant halftime show.
“Clik Clak” Stove
I have been using the meths burner from my Vargo Triad stove with my Crusader stove. They work well in this combination and it allows me to use cleaner meths fuel with the Crusader unit. I’d like to have a meths burner permanently stored in the Crusader case and was planning to make a drink can stove – but whilst walking last week I had an idea for an alternative meths burner.
A while back we had been given a small tin of mints as a business freebie and I thought it might make a good burner.
The lid design gives holes for the meths vapour to get out of the tin.
Time to experiment.
I filled the Clik Clak tin to just under the rolled lip – the tin is not as big as the Triad burner so I wanted to maximise the burn time – and then carefully clicked the lid on.
I put the tin and the primer meths (about 3mm deep) into the Crusader Stove fuel bowl, lit it, and put 250ml of water on to heat in the Crusader Mug with my metal lid.
It did work, the water just reached the rolling boil before the fuel ran out. The next test is to try it outdoors, rather than in the still air conditions indoors.
For my latest lightweight cooking gear set up – click here.
Sunday Walk
With plans in the future to walk the Southern Upland Way and the Speyside Way, I am planning to try and get a walk in every Sunday to keep my fitness levels up for the long distance walks. Most weeks it will simply be walking across the fields locally – as it is today.
