Heat oil Stir fry Add salt Stir fry After the (vegetable) juices are almost out, cover it and simmer When it’s soft, add soy sauce, cover and simmer again Out of pot
— Dad
For spiciness, Add peppers when stir frying
Watermelon Peel Recipe
Well, it is cooked using the universal recipe just mentioned.
Separate out white part from green (discard) and red (should be eaten already normally)
Cook using Universal Recipe. Delicious!
Will upload picture of final product later today (it’s a bit darker with the soy sauce added, if you’re cooking by color)
I had some for dinner, and rate the recipe 5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
grave’s lighthouse. has a single mooring buoy! same day also did anchoring outside great brewster island, exciting doing it without depth sensor
puzzles
galactic puzzlehunt was a html5 feast, didn’t contribute much, still infancy of puzzle solving abilities
feeling: purposeless. goal to sail across the ocean. not really a purpose… just a goal. (intermediate: newport-halifax, bermuda)
media
read: Destined for War, Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?; marine accidents investigation branch
watched: The Imperial Coroner (ep 1- 31, three left), nautilus sailing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwV4eBAxWIY&ab_channel=NautilusSailing, cherry magic https://m.imdb.com/title/tt13243836/, annapolis book of seamanship (good)
listened: bbc more of less behind the statistics started back up!
on the list: captain ron, volvo ocean race, etc.
sailing
nautilus sailing – power of the computer! see in 3d, polished, etc. not dumb flash animations that don’t let you skip around… note: anchoring: include keel to depth sounder, and from bow to keel, and tide into anchoring calcs. (but also, with that much scope in anchorage, you would swing into other boats, so in practice use less than that). gybe- go ahead and center main completely before gybe. wing-on-wing — watch the main for crash jibe, and ignore the jib, it will behave correctly after a while. give way – port tack, and windward.
Nautilus Sailing cheatsheet:
https://www.youtube.com/c/NautilusSailing/videos
fashionable masking: got a black kn95 set, drew narwhal on it with sharpie
feel socially overwhelmed
world news
natural disasters: henan and germany flooding, the smoke blowing from canadian wildfires to boston, climate change is happening faster than I thought. and killing people. (but less than if we were less prosperous, without tech forecasting abilities). jeez. drowning underground in a slowly flooding subway car… T__T . myanmar military takeover, taliban …
covid
delta variant cluster even in 80% vaccinated provincetown. variant outbreak in vietnam, in nanjing china right after guangzhou under control. in australia. (not in new zealand) scary time.
also depressing to watch uk, canadian vaccination rates overtake USA despite our initial surge and early access to vaccines. also sad that i can’t participate
have engaged in such risky behavior with sailing, roommates. my roommates are flying basically every other week.
oh oops i already posted herman on the last post. oh well can’t hurt to have more cat
confirmed boba ice cream sighting in GA!
sailing a lot.
passing minot’s lighthouse at sunset https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minot’s_Ledge_Light
lightships
learned that nantucket (big red ship permanently docked) is a lighthouse-ship.
visiting nantucket, hours: april to november, saturdays, 10am to 4pm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_lightship_Nantucket_(LV-112)
coding
hack apps… as portfolio projects… feline feeling ai app???
source: bbc
sealife
boston harbor sealife. A sealion? Not sure!
fish jumping out of the sea…
wonder what big fish was chasing them??
watching moonrise in the middle of ocean. unreal. huge, red, initially looked like fire. can see all the texture on the moon in detail… (but could not capture on phone)
fire on the horizon?
whoa
it’s the moon!
time passing
i’ve circumnavigated the earth many times now, and acquired wisdom. didn’t think i’d make it here in undergrad, happy to be wrong.
hmart cake: only $42
gift from july/aug roommates! <3
feel thankful. splurged on cake: was delicious, no regrets on celebrating an milestone orbit
roommates have barely known me for 30 days, gave me a birthday gift 0: people are nice.
todo: harvard paystub check, pay for mass health, remove from ambetter
officially alive for three decades! didn’t think I’d make it ten years ago, but here I am. feeling grateful for that. here with a roof, stable financial situation, and living in peacetime. vaccinated and healthy. grad student living my sailing life. know how to take care of myself, have strong family and friend supports. have an even keel and not locked up.
roommates for 1 month even bought me a captain’s hat. a memorable 30th for sure!!
now just need to hustle! or find it in me to hustle, rather. hold on to wanting to be graduated before my next birthday. i think finally my life in boston is relatively settled and i’m done with major purchases (two lisabo tables, now just some stuff I think will be hard to find used — bamboo area rugs, floor futon / chairs). next time i need to remember mit furniture exchange!
