I set up my ham radio stuff to listen to an AO-51 Echo pass last night. I heard people, and I was ready to jump in with my call sign and grid square, but there wasn't much dead air, and the pass was over pretty quickly (AO-51 is a low-earth orbit satellite).

Photos from my tea circle's spring chakai have been up for a few weeks, but I hadn't as yet posted a link to them. Speaking of seasons, I recently learned that the Japanese vocabulary I'd learned for spring, summer, autumn, and winter don't exactly match up with Western seasons. 春, or spring, includes February, March, and April; 夏, or summer, runs from May through July; 秋, or autumn, is August through October; and 冬, or winter, includes November, December, and January. And speaking of Japanese language, I'll be taking classes downtown this summer with elwing2000.

The Chesapeake Bay watershed has been interesting me lately. I've been looking into watershed management volunteer groups, like Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and my county's "stream team" and conservancy. ACB organizes kayak eco-trips along some of the Bay's major tributaries, though I'll be out of the country during this years'. It might be fun to go kayaking (independently) along the shores of the Bay.

I don't understand how Firefox decides when to ask users if they want it to remember a password. On a recent Ubuntu installation, Firefox 1.5.0.3 has been failing to ask at most of the sites where other installations of it (similar versions), on different machines, have recognized the password field and prompted the user about remembering the password.