Trip to the Top of the Universe - Kremata to Lalande 25224 - A Learning Curve
17 Dec 2020Trickyhicky
If you happen to read this logbook and expect it to be smart, professional, error-free and clear of expletives then I am sorry but you are in the wrong place, there will be cock-ups galore along the way and plenty of swearing. There will also be lots of shit and giggles as well as low points.I hope to update as frequently as possible but real life and the trouble and strife do sometimes get in the way.
Warning
If you hope to find someone to troll the again sorry, I don't care what you think I'll just blank you. But if you have helpful advice then I will rip your arm off and take it with both hands, because I want to learn and improve. My advice to probationers was "There are no silly questions" and it's better to make a mistake with sweat around to sort it out".
Being a retired Black Rat (UK Traffic Police Officer) on the south-east coast of the UK I have had my share of scroates try to have me over and they found out the hard way why I earned the name Trickyhicky. Nope, they didn't get twatted unless they hit me first.
As you may have already realised I have a special language. No Jargonese here, just plain old Tricky Speak. If you need to know a meaning then please ask and I will gladly explain, as I said there are no stupid questions here.
Today we went Tier 3 here, so why not take a virtual trip I thought. So I am planning a trip to visit the "OUTPOST PLANNED FOR ‘THE ROOF OF SPACE" following the story that some Multi-billionaire Zachary Rackham is constructing a permanent outpost at the farthest system above the galactic plane. So I thought let's have a look and use it as a training package and I will be a wimp and start this in SOLO. https://www.elitedangerous.com/news/galnet/article/outpost-planned-roof-space
I am a returnee from the original Elite back in the early '80s and '90s. Floppy Disk by the hundredweight, a box containing the game that you park a bus in and all on the Amiga 500. Silly little joystick, clunking great big mouse and an ineffective keyboard, well by today's standards.
I have been in Horizon for about three weeks now on the Solo side of things learning the billy basic's
I envisaged this Trip will take a bit of time to complete, and for it to be a learning curve. ..............................................................What I didn't expect was that on Day 1 the plans of the first stage copied onto spreadsheets for my system jumps which I had spent at least 3 hrs exporting to Excel from Galaxy Plotter #galaxyplotter (Big shout out to the guys behind this) and fiddling with it would go tits up at the end of the session and delete five sheets of work. So now I need to try and recover all that data and start again. What a Twat I am.
NOTE TO SELF: Keep f******G Backing Up Tricky or you'll get lost in the big black.
Okay, it seems that Excel had a wobbly and only saved one Sheet, the last one with minimum data and not even considered for design yet. The other two which took three hours to collate have sailed off into the ether. So I am now going back to Galaxy Plotter (again big shout out to the team over there) and re-downloading the searches I completed.....Hang on a minute they will be in my downloads file....... yup there they are. Right, now to start the finalised design in excel. But not now it 00.34 and I need to go to my pit.
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This is Trickyhicky in Black Rat IV signing off.
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