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Posted by mchayes
Feb
21
2009
We had a fun trip up to Granite Peak. I didn’t take many pictures, so I got behind on the Photo-A-Day thing. But I’m back and am going to start posting those again.
I think the most memorable part of the trip happened Friday night. After Google Maps and GPS units led at least 3 cars in the wrong direction (ours included, luckily it led us close enough that I knew the way from there), the third lost truck got stuck in some ice. Note: the house we stay at is out of the way, however, it is not in an area that looks like the woods from “Blair Witch”. We had an interesting time getting the truck unstuck. Everyone that went to help (like 7 of us), fell on the ice. There was a bump on the head, and a finger shut in the tailgate (Sorry Tony). Also, it’s only about a block up the road beaten path (and only 2 or 3 times that was said). Luckily Leah had a tow rope, we found a chicken grate and my truck had enough traction with that. It ended up taking us 2 hours to get the other truck out of the woods.
Funny thing to note is that the path it was stuck on was mostly 1 car length wide and only got wider at a few spots. It was very woody and pretty dark. And I ended up backing my truck up down it quite a ways.
I will not be uploading any pictures for the next 3 or 4 days. I’ll be taking photos and should have them up as soon as I can.
I’ve started a secondary blog. The secondary blog is a photo-blog. I am trying to update it daily. It is going to be slightly difficult or me, as I am using it to force me to use my camera as well. So if you find this type of thing interesting, you can follow it at http://www.jedirogue.com/photoblog/ . And maybe, I’ll be able to use it to help me post more often on here.
Well, here’s the update on the truck. Its fixed and has been delivered to the house this morning. Now I just have to get the new stereo installed.
Well, it definitely could have been worse. Looks like I should get the truck back mid-January. Total damages look to be around $4100.
I am very impressed with Apple’s Time Capsule. Last Saturday, I had a hard drive fail in my Mac Mini. I had it backing up to my Time Capsule. I got a new drive yesterday and used the Time Capsule image to restore everything to the drive. I could not be happier with the results. The Mac Mini is now back up and running exactly as it was 1 hour before the hard drive failed. All I have to say is awesome.
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Posted by mchayes
Apr
18
2008
Well, here’s my story from this morning’s surprise. I woke up. I heard/felt the headboard shaking and then looked at Oscar. Oscar looked at me with the “I didn’t do it” face. So of course, I thought he had done something and didn’t think anything more of it. And because I can’t normally see a clock from where I sleep (bad vision and all), I didn’t even try to see what time it was. It wasn’t until this morning driving into work that I heard on the radio, “Did you feel the earthquake last night?” I guess the blame doesn’t go to the dog (at least this time).
I guess I now know how I am going to watch the Illini home basketball games this year. I just got season tickets to all the games. This should be fun.