The Frog Blog brings us a link to a slideshow highlighting the Spokane River Falls.
Our family visited Spokane often as I was growing up, but I have never seen the falls at full throttle. In fact, it’s damn impressive without water. This amazing outcrop, obviously shaped by water, with only a trickle dribbling over it.
Reminds me of one of those places that we went as a family, when we were still family.
Technorati Tags: Spokane, Spokane River Falls, Spokane River
I remember now why I got out of the hardware support business.
I am converting ZenWife’s old desktop into a computer for the boys. It took me nearly two hours to get it to boot properly. Then it hung trying to install Windows XP. So back to Windows 2000 Pro.
That appears to be working. Once I get Win2KPro installed, I will try to update it to WinXP.
I hate desktop support.
Technorati Tags: Old hardware, Windows 2000
Tom Mahon reminds us that Queen Elizabeth turned 80 today.
I’m a little less formal than Tom, so: Happy Birthday, Liz! Phil, give the lady a peck on the cheek!
PS: As a Canadian, she is still officially my head of state.
Technorati Tags: Queen Elizabeth II, QEII, Happy Birthday
I updated the GrabPERF database to the latest version of MySQL. Please let me know it you notice any unusual behaviour…
…from GrabPERF.
Looks like my brother Dave and I will be in different places in Europe at the same time. He is going to be in Warsaw (Ah! the ancestral homeland of our Family Name!) and I will be in London and Hamburg.
For those of you who track these things:
London – May 13 – 17 (evening)
Hamburg – May 17 (evening) – May 19 (evening)
For readers in those cities, leave a comment if you want to ply me with the local fermentation or distillation products!
I read about the Jimi Wallet on 43 Folders today.
I immediately ordered 2: one for me and one for ZenWife.
We have both pared ourselves down to the bare essentials already, and this is one more step in that direction. I can see it being especially useful when you are travelling, when all you really need is:
Now I will likely take the money clip out most of the time to hold my office key card, but put it back in for travelling.
A damn fine idea. Means I can stop carrying this 5 year-old Dell business card holder I have converted into my Wallet.
The only question: does it hold UK Pounds?
Technorati Tags: Jimi, Jimi Wallet, 43 Folders
Ok, I look like a refined suburban husband and father. But I grew up in a small town in the British Columbia interior.
Now, for those of you who grew up in small British Columbia towns in the 1980s, you know that the hair was Mullet-extreme, the car was a black Firebird “ThunderChicken”, and the music was a mixture of pop-metal, led by those Australian bad boys, AC/DC.
I grew in musical tastes and listen to so much now that to say I have a single musical taste is insane.
But I still have a weakness for AC/DC, as it was the subconscious soundtrack to my teenage years. So right now I have Back in Black, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, and High Voltage blasting through the living room. This is the one advantage to being home alone this week.
I think the dog has gone into hiding…
Technorati Tags: AC/DC, ACDC, mullet, 1980s, British Columbia, Firebird, ThunderChicken
It’s been a long weekend. But not in the three-day or holiday way.
ZenWife and the boys have been in Victoria since Thursday. And Wiggles and I have been having a very relaxing time. I have finally recovered from a long cold.
I know remember why I don’t live alone anymore. It seems like a great idea, but it is also a very lonely time.
Makes me appreciate the madness that my children bring to the house.
Technorati Tags: home alone, easter weekend
ZenWife and the boys reached Victoria safely…
…and SpareSon promptly threw himself in the fish pond.
Yes, I am living la vida lonely this week, but neither the boys nor ZenWife haven’t seen Victoria in a very long time.
Just me and the dog.
It turns out that my boss had an old Treo 600 lying around the house he wasn’t using. And it turns out that it was a T-Mobile Treo 600, not the Verizon crud that the company provides. And since the company upgraded him to a Verizon Treo 700 (which doesn’t work in Europe, much to their chagrin), he was gracious enough to allow me to use this device.
I say gracious. Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, I will restrain my comments on it’s appearance to this: I have seen objects that have been dragged down the freeway behind a car that have fewer nicks, dings and blemishes than this Treo 600.
But it works. Well.
I now understand how powerful the PDA|Phone combo can be, and why it’s so addictive.