On our second trip to the Fair, we convinced Ariella to skip the paid rides and head over to the train exhibit. Right next to the train was this beautiful sea of green. I had fun with these pics…
Ok… one train photo.
The Marine Star (Aquarama) got it’s first coat of paint in who knows how long. Someone was kind enough to cover up the grafitti that marred it earlier this year. The cool thing is they even managed to match the paint colors pretty well!
Here’s a photo I took early this morning. I really wanted to go and take it from outside, but the the lone 8 on the thermometer discouraged me. Still not a bad photo. (click for full view)
So, this is the weekend where I finally get to upgrade our internal Lotus QuickPlace environment (a system which I’m responsible for) to the semi-current 6.5.x release. We’re still running the ancient 2.0.8 version, which has been out of support for eons already. I wrote my original plan to upgrade this system to version 3…
Poor Dave Franczyk is having some troubles this week, due to his flippant use of the term “ethnic cleansing” in regards to the Catholic church consolidating parishes on the east side. Since music soothes, I thought I’d send him this virtual present. *snicker*
No, we haven’t disappeared off the face of the Earth. We have been watching Planet Earth, but that’s as inconsequential as what happened thousands of years ago before Sigourney Weaver. So here’s some stuff that has been going on: Condolences to Amanda’s friend Amy, who lost her grandmother this week Congrats to my sister, who…
Apparently, the latest path to saving the Earth is via screwing with the bacteria in a cow’s stomach, replacing it with a kangaroo’s. What the hell is this going to do to food packaging and grocery store isles? We’re going to need a whole new shelf to separate the organic, free-range, native bacteria beef from…