Sardine Factory, Monterey.
Ask me how many cables I’ve got with me. Go ahead, ask me. A lot, is how many.
Cellphone-computer, cellphone-12v, iPod-12v, iPod-computer (FireWire standard), iPod-radio (stereo mini headset standard), camera-computer, camera charger-110v, 110v-12v, 12v-3×12v, palm-computer (in case I even use the Palm!), computer-110v, GPS-computer (including serial-USB converter). Then there’s the solar panel, the second 12v deep cycle battery, etc. Oh, and the EL wire and its 12v driver and circuits (thanks, Janet!).
Sure, all this electronic gear simplifies my life. Uh, huh.
Ooh, the presidio here plays taps at 22:00. Very nice with echoes across the valley. Guess that means it’s time to stop messing with cables and get to bed.
(Morning.) …and of course if they play taps at 2200, they must play Reveille at 0600! Not too jarring, but not as pleasant as last night’s performance. Wonder if they have actual buglers or it’s just a recording. You may have heard the same place I did — that there are enough military funerals, mostly old retired folks, that there aren’t enough live buglers to play them, so someone came up with a device that looks like a bugle but has all the tunes pre-recorded so the soldier du jour just puts it to their mouth and pretends to play. How hard is it to learn to play Taps, really?