Yep just before christmas Alan Meehan came to visit and measure up a pier for his observatory, so since I had a Pier and no home we measured up mine and what he needed. Thats when we got busted
. My darling wife came outside just as we had placed the eq6 on the pier looking at the height ( and of course the positioning in my yard for a observatory). She is a wonderful woman - but has the brain of an elephant - she never forgets (or forgives) and those words came haunting me - sure you can have an observatory right after you clean up the garage and your rooms up the back.
OK I admit that I am a horder, I don’t throw away much in computer gear (I still have a ISA controller card and 5 ¼” floppy drive), or astro mags, computer mags and the such. I have too much gear that I will be having a garage sale in the new year. Now must pluck up the courage to set the date and clean out everything. Geez I even have an electrostatic Mutoh IP510 pen plotter which is near new but 17 years old!!! Only used this 33 times
cost me $1700 now I would have to pay to have it removed!! I have my dad’s golf clubs, which I have only used once since his passing (7 years ago) so I admit I have a hording problem. Is there a cure, I don’t know but I have heaps of astro gear – so much so that I have no room to even get into the “office”. I have a pentium3 500 computer I have not used in more than 6 years, and another AMD 2400 with over a terabyte of storage I haven’t turned on for 2 years (I just moved into laptops and left it). So now I will hoard a few cardboard boxes and pack the good stuff in them for a garage sale and the rest of the “stuff” – pay council to mind them for me for eternity!!!
But I digress far too much. Look at this wonderful pier and its possible new location. I took up the offer from Steve Bain in 2006 and bought one – it is a wonderful hoarding prize!!! I hope to finally have this installed before this time next year Steve (if you are reading this). The model in the pics is of course Alan Meehan (I know you were all looking forward to a blonde babe in bikinis, but hey, Al looks better at night
!!!!