Shipping delays again ...

I'm going to be unable to ship between June 15th and July 9th. I may be out of internet contact for several days at a time during this period. All orders received will be shipped in at least approximately the order received, some of that depends on whether they need to go through agriculture inspection or not.

And another Etsy Treasury:

'~~~~love chocolate~~~~' by thewhatnaught

Thank you Jennifer for my inspiration for this treasury!Enjoy the treasures from two of my favorite teams: Team Hilo Etsy & Buttonville Manor.

Chocolate Frosting ... GreenAcresCott... $5.00	Dotty Throw Pillow-... atthebrightspo... $30.00
Chocolate Beaded Em... gayhuntley $229.00	Eyeglass Chain in V... MRSButtons $30.00
Royal Poinciana see... hilobeads $38.00	Vintage Pressed Cop... redemptionart $65.00
Cake Slice Diecut J... YoungHeartWhim... $3.00	Button Necklace - V... singingblackbi... $45.00
A little bit of gla... MyTrueLoveVint... $5.00	PRICE REDUCED-Very ... Zeldasbuttons $8.95
Vintage flowers GrnpasPrecious... $3.25	Asian Bamboo Neckla... DesignsByRiko $31.50
Fruit of the Spirit... WallBling $40.00	Romanitc Cottage Ch... JoliesCutesies $20.00
Log Candles 2 Candl... doublebrush $12.00

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On a completely different subject: How to get a file from MS Works format to .pdf

With the circumstances being the following:

• You have a notebook that runs Windows, has Microsoft Works, a network connection, ssh (but you, like me, never spent the extra money for Microsoft Office/Word)
  
• You also have a Linux box that has Open Office that you can access by the same network
  

Do the following:

• Open your Microsoft Works file
  
• Open a file on a Linux box that you're connected to via ssh.
  
• Copy your file from the Microsoft Works window into the file on the Linux box
  
• Close the file on the Linux box
  
• Open Open Office on the Linux Box
  
• Open your file
  
• Copy from the file into the Open Office window
  
• Export as .pdf (call the file something that you can actually read read on Linux without having to mask spaces in file names, i.e.: NAME THAT FILE something that DOESN'T HAVE SPACES in the file name
  
• Transfer the pdf file back yo your PC (use an ssh file transfer window)
  
• You now have a .pdf file on your PC that doesn't have the capability of writing them.
  

I helped somebody do this earlier this week and I thought it might be beneficial for that person as well as possibly others to have this written down.

Catching up on Etsy Treasuries:

Not quite a disaster, but that's how the week started ...

Before what happened (or I knew about it) what I posted in the last two posts there was something that affected my weekend rather adversely. Saturday late morning I emailed the telescope system specialist at JCMT that one of the data disks was rather full. As I know very little about what can be deleted from these disks when that's all I could do at the time. The email I used to get from a cron job (automatic procedure) didn't happen either. A bit after midnight I reopened an old fault entitled "No space left on device" - after responding to a new fault that had been filed that night. A long email exchange followed, partly that night, partly the following days. Disk space got sorted out and for all I remember no telescope time was lost due to this. A bunch of people (me included) spent a bunch of time, partly due to confusion of what had happened - and it disrupted the weekend for all of us. It wasn't a real disaster but if we hadn't paid attention, for telescope productivity it could have been.

In more recent news, we just got an update from the UKIRT Board who issued a statement in response to the STFC - the UKIRT Board met in Edinburgh at the ATC at the same time this all happened. You can find the statement on the JAC homepage http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/ - or directly here:http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/UKIRT/news/Statement_from_the_UKIRT_Board.pdf

Note: The tags to this and previous posts aren't in the order I put them. They apparently get sorted alphabetically and I have no control over that.

Another treasury from the Lampwork Etc. Etsy Team follows:

'Handmade on A Sunday' by rosebud101

In all honesty, I don't know if these beautiful items were all made on a Sunday, but I do know that each one was handmade by the artist. Isn't that a nice thing to know?

Upcycled Sweater Co... gailjoseph $125.00	Abstract Hammered R... silverriverjew... $47.00
Naos Glass - Lily P... Na0sGlass $15.00	Blue Boro Bubble Im... MagpieGlasswor... $10.00
Shattered Rainbow D... LeslieDanaDesi... $24.00	Lampwork Glass Bead... MitosisGlass $23.00
Bead Hog - SRA Gell... Gelly $50.00	Loribeads - Freedom... loribeads $12.00
Pink Floral Snail L... nlcbeads $25.00	Hand Painted Card, ... KayTStudio $1.50
White, red and gree... hilobeads $20.00	Copper Hammered Hea... lhughesdesigns... $35.00
Handmade murrini CO... ErikaNooteboom $5.50	Watermelons - lampw... DesignsbyKUrat... $24.00
Handmade Lampwork G... rosebud101 $30.00	Purple Floral Handm... SolarFlareCrea... $40.00

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- reformatted by the blog author.

RIP Richard Crowe

Professor Richard Crowe of the UHH Physics and Astronomy Department was fatally injured in Arizona this past weekend. You may have read about it in the paper if you are local to here or to the accident. Richard wasn't a close friend but he was a friend alright. Our daughter and the older of his two have been friends since preschool. Not always close, but as our daughter put it to me today "if I don't see her ever again so be it, but I want her to always be happy" (names intentionally omitted). This is how I feel too, about all of the Crowe family. Richard was fatally injured in a horrible accident in Arizona in tour of the Canyon de Chelly. Another person/couple who were on this same tour is/are writing a blog and is/are doing a very good job of it. There are a few pictures - no blood - and a very good description of what happened. You can find the first of the articles about this horrible accident here: https://otrwjam.wordpress.com/2012/05/29/the-accident-at-canyon-de-chelly/ My condolences to the family.

Been a while ... - the real death of UKIRT? and JCMT?

... and I'm afraid the sequel(s) to "adventures in plumbing" will have to wait. And I intend to post disasters chronologically backwards here (none of which involve immediate family). Right now I feel like I've been hit with a mental baseball bat. We had a staff meeting this morning where the Chief Executive of the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) announced that the STFC will only continue funding UKIRT until September of 2013 and JCMT until September of 2014. It makes no sense to me at all to close either, and especially not to close UKIRT a year before JCMT as UKIRT has no more funding already and piggybacks on JCMT's funding (yes, 2 telescopes for the price of 1 - out director Gary Davis came up with that and it's working out great - so far. Where "so far" is longer than UKIRT is to remain open from now by the STFC's planning). You can read the press release here: http://www.stfc.ac.uk/News%20and%20Events/39092.aspx As just about always, another Etsy treasury included, woth a lot of lampwork - and I absolutely love that blue cat: (and you won't believe how many spaces I deleted out of that generated (not my script) html code - it may help that I sortof speak html though)

'Blue & Brown' by nlcbeads

No fantastic description, letting the wonderful collection speak for itself!

Upcycled Sweater Co... gailjoseph $125.00	European Charm Bead... AmySimsDesigns $15.00
Handmade Flower Pow... PrimaDonnaBead... $40.20	Horse head lampwork... ArsonStudios $20.00
Aqua Spiral Pool La... ninaeagle $15.00	Mini Spacers Denm G... rosebud101 $10.00
Mixed natural color... hilobeads $18.00	Cat Handmade Lampwo... TeriPersing $12.00
Beer Bottle Beads -... ArsonStudios $15.00	Cellini spiral neck... amusebeads $148.00
FORGET-ME-NOT - Fla... FlamingFoolsLa... $10.00	Beaded Bracelet wit... beadbijoux $85.00
Marbled Latte - Han... MysticCaravan2 $14.00	Tidepools - Lampwor... GlassGalore $12.00
Brown Dog Lampwork ... maybeads $16.00	Glass Lampwork Bead... MitosisGlass $26.00

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