Saturday, October 31, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
Traveling Sumary
We had a 10:25am flight from South Bend, IN to Cleveland, OH. 20 minutes after arrival we had a flight from Cleveland to Manchester, NH.
A few minutes after going through security at about 9:00am we learned that the Cleveland flight had been cancelled. The only other flight was after six pm and the connecting flight was early Saturday morning. Not much of an option.
The way we saw it there were two things to do. Have the airline rebook us into a new itinerary that sent us all over creation with multiple connecting flights, or rent a car and drive the 950 miles ourselves.
After a few minutes of deliberating we made a decision.
11 hours later we are in Liverpool, NY with 350 miles left to go.
Being in Liverpool we are hoping to get a chance to meet the Beatles. When we do I will post a picture or two.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention I caught the really bad cold Jenny had last week. Awesome!
(in all honesty, I am having a blast on this impromptu road trip my sweetheart and I are on.)
A few minutes after going through security at about 9:00am we learned that the Cleveland flight had been cancelled. The only other flight was after six pm and the connecting flight was early Saturday morning. Not much of an option.
The way we saw it there were two things to do. Have the airline rebook us into a new itinerary that sent us all over creation with multiple connecting flights, or rent a car and drive the 950 miles ourselves.
After a few minutes of deliberating we made a decision.
11 hours later we are in Liverpool, NY with 350 miles left to go.
Being in Liverpool we are hoping to get a chance to meet the Beatles. When we do I will post a picture or two.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention I caught the really bad cold Jenny had last week. Awesome!
(in all honesty, I am having a blast on this impromptu road trip my sweetheart and I are on.)
States Jen and I Have Been In
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Vermont
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Maine
New York
Wisconsin
Maryland
Pennsylvania
California
New Jersey
Indiana
Illinois
Ohio
Washington DC
Florida
New Hampshire
Vermont
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Maine
New York
Wisconsin
Maryland
Pennsylvania
California
New Jersey
Indiana
Illinois
Ohio
Washington DC
Florida
Interesting Day
Instead of flying to Manchester...
Jen is driving in Pennsylvania...
Have we had an interesting day!
Jen is driving in Pennsylvania...
Have we had an interesting day!
Thursday, October 29, 2009
The Journey to Indiana pt2
We made it to South Bend last night a bit after six. The hotel is nice. Jen just left for work. I am staying at the hotel, sicker than yesterday but not bad.
My plans are to get a DVD player working in Ubuntu, to finish the 4th Dark Tower book (almost there), and to hit the hot tub.
Here is our view from the second plane somewhere between Cleveland and South Bend.
Here is the view inside the tiny plane. We were in the last row.
And finally... You knew it was coming... The moon and (maybe) Jupiter(?).
My plans are to get a DVD player working in Ubuntu, to finish the 4th Dark Tower book (almost there), and to hit the hot tub.
Here is our view from the second plane somewhere between Cleveland and South Bend.
Here is the view inside the tiny plane. We were in the last row.
And finally... You knew it was coming... The moon and (maybe) Jupiter(?).
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Journey to South Bend
Our journey to historic South Bend is underway! We have made it from Manchester to Cleveland, OH.
Here we see the Manchester airport tower. Think of the movie Airplane... The tower? Rapunzel!!
Next we see our plane to Cleveland.
The weather pretty much sucks so far. Not the cloud cover below.
Here we see the happy couple in seats 14B and 14C.
Finally, for now, one of these three planes will take us to South Bend. Not the one in the foreground though, that one just backed out of the terminal.
That's all for now, see you in Indiana!
Here we see the Manchester airport tower. Think of the movie Airplane... The tower? Rapunzel!!
Next we see our plane to Cleveland.
The weather pretty much sucks so far. Not the cloud cover below.
Here we see the happy couple in seats 14B and 14C.
Finally, for now, one of these three planes will take us to South Bend. Not the one in the foreground though, that one just backed out of the terminal.
That's all for now, see you in Indiana!
Mini-Vacation
I'm not at work. I am off for the rest of the week. We are flying out later and staying a few days. As if right on cue... I'm getting sick.
Can I get a Woohoo?
Can I get a Woohoo?
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Camera Phone Fun
We're getting to the time of year when it is dark out during my drive home. You know what that means? More iPhone Astrophotography! I can see how thrilled you all are! Can I get a WOOOHOOO?
Here we see that the sun is not quite gone when I leave work. As the red sky at night (sailor's delight) shows.
But eventually the sun goes down and the moon comes up. If you click on this and look at the full size file you can see another object to the left of the moon. I think, but am not sure, that is Jupiter. So cool!
Just think, I am going to have a whole winters worth of wonderful pictures like this. Oh yeah!
Here we see that the sun is not quite gone when I leave work. As the red sky at night (sailor's delight) shows.
But eventually the sun goes down and the moon comes up. If you click on this and look at the full size file you can see another object to the left of the moon. I think, but am not sure, that is Jupiter. So cool!
Just think, I am going to have a whole winters worth of wonderful pictures like this. Oh yeah!
Magic!
I just noticed something...
I am boycotting Firefox today because it crashes on me all the time. Why does it crash on me all the time? Because my box here at work doesn't have the memory muscle to keep it running with lots of tabs open and lots of other programs running. My work computer is old. It gets the job done, but it is far from state of the art. I am not complaining, believe me.
So when I say Firefox crashes all the time I really mean that many programs crash all the time. My Firefox boycott is a combination of silliness on my part and a symbolic gesture to a computer that doesn't give a rats ass.
Today I am using Safari. Chrome is usually my second choice for browsing, but on this machine Chrome crashes whenever you think about looking at it. It is the least stable of my at-work-browser options. Safari is the next choice. Having said all this, it has crashed twice already today.
This, of course, has nothing to do with the actual Magic referred to in the title of this pointless post.
The magic has to do with the flash plug in.
The last time I used Safari I tried to run a flash app and I was told that the macromedia flash plug in needed to be installed. I tried to install it and it failed. Twice. So back to Firefox I went.
After posting the last blurb less than 10 minutes ago I noticed the Bruins highlight video I posted yesterday looked like it was available. I clicked on it and it played. Magically my flash plug in is working again!
It's like Harry Potter stopped by and wizarded it into shape!
Okay, exceptionally pointless post over.
Back to your regularly scheduled day.
Thanks.
I am boycotting Firefox today because it crashes on me all the time. Why does it crash on me all the time? Because my box here at work doesn't have the memory muscle to keep it running with lots of tabs open and lots of other programs running. My work computer is old. It gets the job done, but it is far from state of the art. I am not complaining, believe me.
So when I say Firefox crashes all the time I really mean that many programs crash all the time. My Firefox boycott is a combination of silliness on my part and a symbolic gesture to a computer that doesn't give a rats ass.
Today I am using Safari. Chrome is usually my second choice for browsing, but on this machine Chrome crashes whenever you think about looking at it. It is the least stable of my at-work-browser options. Safari is the next choice. Having said all this, it has crashed twice already today.
This, of course, has nothing to do with the actual Magic referred to in the title of this pointless post.
The magic has to do with the flash plug in.
The last time I used Safari I tried to run a flash app and I was told that the macromedia flash plug in needed to be installed. I tried to install it and it failed. Twice. So back to Firefox I went.
After posting the last blurb less than 10 minutes ago I noticed the Bruins highlight video I posted yesterday looked like it was available. I clicked on it and it played. Magically my flash plug in is working again!
It's like Harry Potter stopped by and wizarded it into shape!
Okay, exceptionally pointless post over.
Back to your regularly scheduled day.
Thanks.
The Day Before
Today is the day before we go away for a five day weekend. Not bad.
Of course, after having very quiet times at work over the last three work days I received an escalated issue this morning. I don't think it's a big deal, but sometimes I miss being a janitor.
I am kidding.
Still... I have tomorrow off, which means even though it is very early in the work day morning... I wanna go home!
Seven hours and 39 minutes until a mini-vacation! WOOHOO
(despite what the post time will say, it is actually 10:21am.)
Go Phillies
Go Bruins
Go Jenny
Of course, after having very quiet times at work over the last three work days I received an escalated issue this morning. I don't think it's a big deal, but sometimes I miss being a janitor.
I am kidding.
Still... I have tomorrow off, which means even though it is very early in the work day morning... I wanna go home!
Seven hours and 39 minutes until a mini-vacation! WOOHOO
(despite what the post time will say, it is actually 10:21am.)
Go Phillies
Go Bruins
Go Jenny
Monday, October 26, 2009
Monday Again... Crud
It's Monday. That sucks. I hate Monday. But... this week is a short week for me. Later in the week I am tagging along on a business trip my wife is taking. It'll be a long weekend for me, thanks.
How about some bad news. My predictions for the Major League Baseball postseason remain at 50%. Unfortunately. That means the Yankees beat the Angels to earn a trip to the World Series. Unfortunately. The Red Sox let me down. The Twins let me down. The Angels let me down. Now it's the Phillies turn.
The World Series will be a match up between the New York Yankees (aka Satan's favorite team) and the Philadelphia Phillies. In a word: Go Phillies. (that's two words) I am a Phillies fan through and through... for the next four to seven games at least. But, again, having said that, again, the Yankees will beat them. That's my prediction. No one is going to beat the Evil Ones this year. The Yankees will win it and probably quick. I'm not even sure I want to give the Phils a game. I think the Yankees in four or five. I HATE THE FRIGGIN' YANKEES!
Last year I had a free Yahoo fantasy hockey team. It lead the league from very early on right up until the last week of the playoffs when I got beat in the finals. Damn it. This year I have another team and after blowing out the first week's opponent and holding the top spot in the standings I am now in 7th out of 12 teams after three weeks. Crud. Suckville.
The good sports news however, is the Bruins appear to be righting the ship. They had a dramatic come back win over Ottawa Saturday night. Watch the highlights. Watch and see for yourselves that Tim Thomas is once again, "The Man."
On the happy news front Jen is feeling much better. Because of her sinus infection last week the kids stayed with their father over the weekend. It was a definite bummer not having them, but it was necessary to keep them from getting sick. On top of that, we are going to be away during our regularly scheduled time this week. That sucks. So Jen and the kids' father changed the schedule for this week so we get them tonight and tomorrow. That is very good. I miss them and will be very happy to see them. They are probably both a foot taller than they were last week.
If by some chance you are from South Bend, Indiana and know of fun things to do that do not involve college football or catholic schools please leave a comment and clue me in to the good stuff. Thanks.
Go Phillies
Go Bruins
How about some bad news. My predictions for the Major League Baseball postseason remain at 50%. Unfortunately. That means the Yankees beat the Angels to earn a trip to the World Series. Unfortunately. The Red Sox let me down. The Twins let me down. The Angels let me down. Now it's the Phillies turn.
The World Series will be a match up between the New York Yankees (aka Satan's favorite team) and the Philadelphia Phillies. In a word: Go Phillies. (that's two words) I am a Phillies fan through and through... for the next four to seven games at least. But, again, having said that, again, the Yankees will beat them. That's my prediction. No one is going to beat the Evil Ones this year. The Yankees will win it and probably quick. I'm not even sure I want to give the Phils a game. I think the Yankees in four or five. I HATE THE FRIGGIN' YANKEES!
Last year I had a free Yahoo fantasy hockey team. It lead the league from very early on right up until the last week of the playoffs when I got beat in the finals. Damn it. This year I have another team and after blowing out the first week's opponent and holding the top spot in the standings I am now in 7th out of 12 teams after three weeks. Crud. Suckville.
The good sports news however, is the Bruins appear to be righting the ship. They had a dramatic come back win over Ottawa Saturday night. Watch the highlights. Watch and see for yourselves that Tim Thomas is once again, "The Man."
On the happy news front Jen is feeling much better. Because of her sinus infection last week the kids stayed with their father over the weekend. It was a definite bummer not having them, but it was necessary to keep them from getting sick. On top of that, we are going to be away during our regularly scheduled time this week. That sucks. So Jen and the kids' father changed the schedule for this week so we get them tonight and tomorrow. That is very good. I miss them and will be very happy to see them. They are probably both a foot taller than they were last week.
If by some chance you are from South Bend, Indiana and know of fun things to do that do not involve college football or catholic schools please leave a comment and clue me in to the good stuff. Thanks.
Go Phillies
Go Bruins
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Thatsallota Pictures
All of the wedding pictures are now on Flickr. All 1100+ of them. Now I have to go through them all and make the pictures that are kid-free public so anyone passing by can look at us and be jealous of how happy we are together. Muahahaha!
Evil scientist laugh aside, I can't really just use the bulk permissions updating tool that Flickr was so nice to give us because it only shows thumbnails of the pictures you are working with and... well... kids are small and it's easy to miss them sometimes... actually often times. So I have to go through it one image at a time. That should take me until 2014 or so.
I'll get there though.
Evil scientist laugh aside, I can't really just use the bulk permissions updating tool that Flickr was so nice to give us because it only shows thumbnails of the pictures you are working with and... well... kids are small and it's easy to miss them sometimes... actually often times. So I have to go through it one image at a time. That should take me until 2014 or so.
I'll get there though.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Probably the Most Noteworthy of Our Wedding Pictures
The most memorable wedding pictures are usually the ones that involve clown noses.
Wow
Wow do we have a lot of wedding pictures. So many that my laptop actually shut itself down twice during the process.
The last batch should be going up now and then I have to tag 'em and label them and create a set. After that I will make the kid-free images public and post a few here.
Before that happens, however, I am going to take my bride out to lunch.
The last batch should be going up now and then I have to tag 'em and label them and create a set. After that I will make the kid-free images public and post a few here.
Before that happens, however, I am going to take my bride out to lunch.
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