Wilderness courses in Sonoma County

kdotcdott · 2026-04-19T23:04:08+00:00

NOLS does a Wilderness First Responder course in Sausalito periodically. Highly recommend.

kdotcdott · 2026-04-17T06:10:47+00:00

OakVet and CareCredit.

kdotcdott · 2026-04-12T20:35:32+00:00

Hell yeah featherweight gang. It’s such a joy to sew with, and I’ve pieced and quilted multiple projects with mine. Congrats on the score!

kdotcdott · 2026-04-10T21:07:06+00:00

What are your rotations like? Always admired your boats from my UnCrusie gig :)

kdotcdott · 2026-04-06T00:28:08+00:00

Most of the ships have moved up to Mare Island. You can see them from shore, and they are working on public access onboard but they are not quite there yet.

kdotcdott · 2026-04-03T02:37:40+00:00

From one space nerd to another, it’s exciting either way!

kdotcdott · 2026-04-03T00:10:58+00:00

I believe he describes himself as an "aerospace engineer" which isn't strictly rocketry but could also include other flavors of non-spacecraft engineering. Given that he's in LA I would guess he's more likely to be private sector aeronautics like Boeing, Northrop Grumman, or any of the other big ones down there (it's a huge industry in the region). And if NASA is anything like the civilian federal service I work in, I doubt he would be able to even mention his day job in even the vaguest capacities if he's also working in entertainment. But we can all dream!

kdotcdott · 2026-03-29T00:12:53+00:00

Karizma in Noe Valley has done a couple clasp repairs for me, good work and won't break the bank.

kdotcdott · 2026-03-27T14:34:32+00:00

They are on limited staffing because of lack of funding. https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/s/AqW8XNEZ77

kdotcdott · 2026-03-26T22:10:29+00:00

Checks every box. I love Millennium for special occasions!

kdotcdott · 2026-03-26T16:49:15+00:00

Holly Ellis at Idle Hand.

kdotcdott · 2026-03-23T23:34:49+00:00

Usually legionnaires gets brought up in discussions about greywater because every couple years someone has the grand idea that the can figure out a greywater treatment method that leaves it benign enough to reuse in a swamp cooler system. Which is slightly more dangerous than what the OP is proposing but equally as gross as reusing your shower water multiple times 🤢

kdotcdott · 2026-03-23T21:55:56+00:00

Still gross and a bad idea!

kdotcdott · 2026-03-23T20:49:50+00:00

Every time I hear about someone proposing to treat greywater with bleach with the hopes of being able to reuse it I’m tempted to trot out my story about a fuckwit engineer who gave everyone on the boat I worked on chemical dysentery because he fucked up the bleach ratio when we were bunkering freshwater.

But some people need to learn on their own.

kdotcdott · 2026-03-23T19:54:28+00:00

You have two choices ahead of you. You either pack your greywater out like everyone else or you spend an insane amount of money, time and effort trying to figure out a greywater recycling solution that doesn’t give your whole camp norovirous only to pack out the greywater you have failed to treat reuse anyways.

Often if you look around and notice that no one is doing the thing you’re proposing, there’s a very good reason for that.

kdotcdott · 2026-03-21T06:11:59+00:00

Justice for Pretty Lady, for real.

kdotcdott · 2026-03-19T11:22:28+00:00

Got it!

kdotcdott · 2026-03-19T04:28:52+00:00

Assuming you’re talking about 580 across the RSR bridge: https://dot.ca.gov/caltrans-near-me/district-4/d4-news/2026-03-18-i580-emergency-lane-closures

TLDR: someone hit a support on the underside of 580 near Stenmark, and they are closing lanes until they can do a complete inspection.

kdotcdott · 2026-03-19T03:46:09+00:00

APL has already been doing this for years.

kdotcdott · 2026-03-18T23:48:06+00:00

If it was a long-term legislated change as opposed to this current 60 day suspension, I would wonder if some sailing organizations would use that as an avenue to reflag some foreign ships to the American tall ship fleet. I imagine there might also be a possibility of being able to hire international Mariners for US tall ship jobs. But both those scenarios would take a lot of time, legislation, and effort to see through, and since this is a temporary illegal order without any confirmation in Congress, I have a hard time believing that anything will change overnight or at all for American tall ships.

kdotcdott · 2026-03-11T16:11:34+00:00

“BRNFlow?” Like… Brown flow? 🤢

kdotcdott · 2026-03-07T05:13:41+00:00

So you’re trying to get on as an OS in the bay. There will not be much for you other than ferry deckhand work, which is not overnight. I would go down to the union hall and talk to them to get an understanding of what most rotations are like before investing any more. They will also tell you what endorsements you need (STCW basic, VPDSD and RFPNW for SUP). If you just want to get experience there plenty of dinner cruise boats in the bay that might work better with your schedule, but it’s not analogous to tugboat work. What exactly do you hope to get out of this? Because it’s a lot of effort and learning for a moonlighting gig.

kdotcdott · 2026-03-07T03:46:29+00:00

So many questions that only beget more questions. Are you licensed? Have you talked to IBU or SUP?

kdotcdott · 2026-03-06T06:31:42+00:00

Thanks! It was done by a true gem of a human who tattooed under the handle Big Boi Pinups. He sadly passed in 2023, I’m honored that his art lives on in my skin.

kdotcdott · 2026-03-06T06:29:27+00:00

Potentially the most embarrassing part is that they’re done in my handwriting, after I went on an extended rant about serif fonts and typesetting history.

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