Virtual Address

Happy the Yorkie

I live on a sailboat. The sailboat is tied to a dock. The dock is anchored by a gangway to the shore and moves up and down with the springs and neaps tides. There are several marinas located in San Pedro, California and the one where I am has a street Address. It has a Street sign and recently after a year the city fixed the street lights.

Lucky during the heat wave

: being such in essence or effect though not formally recognized or admitted 

• a virtualdictator

: being on or simulated on a computer or computer network 

• print or virtual books

 

• avirtual keyboard

 : such as

a : occurring or existing primarily online 

• virtual shopping

b : of, relating to, or existing within a virtual reality 

• a virtual tour

: of, relating to, or using virtual memory

: of, relating to, or being a hypothetical particle whose existence is inferred from indirect evidence 

• virtual photons

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I am not sure how my address became such. Years earlier (not sure as I forget important dates) I was corresponding with the Los Angeles and State of California and my letters kept coming backing as my address here in San Pedro was not legit.

Lucky the Yorkie asking for Ice

Today the Yorkie started barking as Rich (who says he is a surf God) came by the boat to asks if I had heard about a floating body. I had not, searched the Web but found nothing

today. He said he had heard about it from a friend that uses the App NextDoor. So I  tried to use the app again but as usual my address is not verifiable. So I went to their trouble shooting link and wasted an hour dealing with people who can't either type or read.

tent to block the sun

Rich the Surfer God just came by and said there was a floating body in the marina east of here and he personally talked to a security person. As one can observe my blogging often contains up to the minute reports.

The marina here asked liveaboards not to use the marina office as a mailing address so I got a post Office box at Fort Mac Arthur instead of the main post office in downtown San Pedro because it was then homeless center on Beacon Street.

So after I got my PO Box I filed a change of address with a forward from the marina to the PO. That forwarding is only good for one year. In January of this year I filed for additional coverage on my Kaiser insurance and because the form refused to allow a PO Box I used the marina address. 

Tongue out

Then three weeks ago Kaiser sent me three letters saying they were going to cancel my main plan because my address was not valid. I replied to all three then two weeks later received an invoice showing credit on the additional plan. I then drove to Kaiser member service and was told the additional coverage was cancelled because I didn't make any payments. I never received anything' Then after member services to the post office where I was explained after my forwarding had expired (one year) all mail to that address would be returned to sender. So Kaiser kept getting their invoice back marked "return to sender" but my account showed my other address of the PO Box which they failed to use.

During June I bought some batteries on Amazon which were never delivered (awaiting refund) and the seller suggested I search the local post office and seek out my carrier and try and find them.

Barbie

Not sure where my floating address will be next.

Now Where Did We Leave Off I Forgot

I just had a brilliant idea and before I could get settled in front of the keyboard it vanished. Not the laptop keyboard, the idea. This happens quite frequently. It is hard to keep track of keyboards, not the screens on the phone or tablet but the ones with hard keys. Not sure how many laptops I have gone through, or for that manner computers. Now I have two laptops: a Toshiba and a HP. The Toshiba was getting old and I ran across this deal on E-Bay and bought a HP. The thing runs Windows 10 but there isn't enough disc space for the OS. That is why it was so cheap. So for upgrades I plug in a 500 G external.

Monarch 

The HP is faster than the older Toshiba and this allows uploading from my Nikon's (Have 3 that work and another one that hates me). Not sure how many camera lenses I have and I have forgot where some of those lenses caps are.

Happy loves the park

It is easy to take too many pictures with the newer cameras and since I don't have a super fancy phone I must upload the camera data to a laptop then edit them and if I want to post any on Instagram I must transfer the files to my tablet since Instagram will only allow my laptop to view the app (no down loading) unless I buy a Window 10 laptop with a touch screen.

I tried connecting the two laptop using a USB cable but that doesn't work but I found several special USB cables made just for file transferring. Got a device on Amazon that will transfer files between PCs or Macs  Amazon Prime gave me a $20.00 credit with free shipping so the $18.95 cable cost be a minus $1.15. The cable (UGreen Data Link Cable) looks like a Blue Heron that tried to swallow a fish too big but it allows the connected laptops to share mouses and files. I can drag a file from one device across the edge of the screen onto the other screen. Pretty Cool.

Then another miracle happened: All of these bird watchers have these funny jackets with lots of pockets, weird hats and three thousand spotting scopes. Well three thousand dollars was just a little out of price range so I looked on EBay for some binoculars  At first I was not sure what I needed so after reading several bird watching guides from the Los Angeles Public Library I started Ebay searching again and found a vintage Bell & Howell for under $40.00. It is hard to tell from the pictures shown on the web but when they arrived I was dumbfounded (big word for me). Leather case, the warranty card enclosed and the two straps had never been used even the lens caps had apparently never been taken off. I now be an official bird geek.

As I probably mentioned earlier I read books using the Kindle application and they are free when I use my Los Angeles County Library Card. I have been trying for quite a while to find a copy of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring but can never locate a copy. Then it happen after being on the hold waiting list forever I got one. 

Happy on dock patrol

Her works are always  mentioned but I had never read it. I thought the thought the title was about a "Spring" in the woods (Walden Pond) where the waters killed everything but as I understand Spring is Silent because the birds no longer sing after Winter. So after three days of reading the book during today's early morning dog walk I saw the Rachel Carson Research Vessel heading South in the middle of the West Channel which is East of my boat. South, East, West (do pigeons have GPS) don't forget the Cardinal Points or the Cardinals flying.

Happy loves his blue rope

Yes I know the pictures shown here have nothing to do with the babbling in the blog but if I don't post dog pictures here I might not wake up in the morning after being eaten my two wild furry dogs. Dogs are sensitive and can get aggressive. In fact today when we got back to to our dock from walking to the beach about 9 AM the two shit heads caught a small crab poking out of a hole and could not figure out how to eat it. The crab fought the Yorkie with his claws extended and then hid under a gas can (some one had left out) Lucky the Yorkie hen knocked over the gas can (plastic) and chased the crab some more. Finally the crab jumped back in the water and left the two dogs  without seafood.