Not-So-Long Distance... Sigh.
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Saturday, March 30, 2013
TURTLE IS TOAST
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Earlier this week I somehow ended up reading the Times Union blog of Chuck Miller - don't recall how I got there, but he does some cool stuff with film (yes you read that right) photography. He also mentions a twitter hashtag, #chuckishappy, which in the end I think is kind of neat - there's plenty of folks out there spewing negativity, nice to see someone contributing to the positive (even if it is on Twitter, one of the signs of our ever-growing narcisistic outlook and a harbinger of the eventual Apocalypse, right up there with Twilight and Justin Beiber.)
(Crud, now I'm contributing the to negativity. Blame it on a nutrient-deprived brain or just plain old irony.)
Anyway, as I was finishing my 2nd run of the day (read - hobbling to my car) I decided that #turtleistoast would be an appropriate hashtag for how I ended the day. All I can say is running 18.5 miles today (my longest so far this year!) was probably not the brightest thing I've done lately.
Turtle is toast.
JMH
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Earlier this week I somehow ended up reading the Times Union blog of Chuck Miller - don't recall how I got there, but he does some cool stuff with film (yes you read that right) photography. He also mentions a twitter hashtag, #chuckishappy, which in the end I think is kind of neat - there's plenty of folks out there spewing negativity, nice to see someone contributing to the positive (even if it is on Twitter, one of the signs of our ever-growing narcisistic outlook and a harbinger of the eventual Apocalypse, right up there with Twilight and Justin Beiber.)
(Crud, now I'm contributing the to negativity. Blame it on a nutrient-deprived brain or just plain old irony.)
Anyway, as I was finishing my 2nd run of the day (read - hobbling to my car) I decided that #turtleistoast would be an appropriate hashtag for how I ended the day. All I can say is running 18.5 miles today (my longest so far this year!) was probably not the brightest thing I've done lately.
Turtle is toast.
JMH
Friday, March 29, 2013
Thursday, March 28, 2013
SO LONG WINTER...
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Sure, I know it was "officially" spring a week ago, but today I packed my snowshoes and skis into the closet until next winter...
I must admit I have mixed feelings about this... I'm certainly looking forward to warmer weather and everything turning green again, but sometimes it seems like winter flies by way too quickly...
JMH
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Sure, I know it was "officially" spring a week ago, but today I packed my snowshoes and skis into the closet until next winter...
I must admit I have mixed feelings about this... I'm certainly looking forward to warmer weather and everything turning green again, but sometimes it seems like winter flies by way too quickly...
JMH
What Should Be Easy...
Thursday, March 28, 2013
... is never easy.
Take my trip to Midas yesterday, for example. I needed to have my snow tires swapped for my all-seasons and a wheel noise diagnosed/repaired. Three hours later all the work was done, except for a wheel alignment... which took another three hours and included replacing a tie rod.
Or take loading photos into a blog post... with all the advances Blogger has made, that should be cake... except many of those advances are designed to automate layouts as much as possible, and with my somewhat antiquated template many of those end up looking lousy. I know, I could move to a newer template - but I have yet to find one I like as much as the original! So loading photos involves more steps than it might otherwise - and sometimes repeated attempts to get the automated stuff to do what I want it to, or something close. I think I edited my post about our flight to Hilo twenty or thirty times... before I finally gave up, deleted the photos, and reloaded them from scratch using the HTML view, then cut and paste the HTML codes to put them where I wanted them.
Then again, if these are the worst problems I have, I should probably be thankful instead of griping...
JMH
Thursday, March 28, 2013
... is never easy.
Take my trip to Midas yesterday, for example. I needed to have my snow tires swapped for my all-seasons and a wheel noise diagnosed/repaired. Three hours later all the work was done, except for a wheel alignment... which took another three hours and included replacing a tie rod.
Or take loading photos into a blog post... with all the advances Blogger has made, that should be cake... except many of those advances are designed to automate layouts as much as possible, and with my somewhat antiquated template many of those end up looking lousy. I know, I could move to a newer template - but I have yet to find one I like as much as the original! So loading photos involves more steps than it might otherwise - and sometimes repeated attempts to get the automated stuff to do what I want it to, or something close. I think I edited my post about our flight to Hilo twenty or thirty times... before I finally gave up, deleted the photos, and reloaded them from scratch using the HTML view, then cut and paste the HTML codes to put them where I wanted them.
Then again, if these are the worst problems I have, I should probably be thankful instead of griping...
JMH
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
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Sunday, March 24, 2013
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Friday, March 22, 2013
A FOX IN THE DARK...
0.8 Mile Walk on the Erie Canalway Trail (Greece)
Friday, March 22, 2013
After sitting in airports and on planes for the past 16 1/2 hours I really wanted to get outside for a bit, even if it was in the dark, so Ann and I headed to Henpeck Park in Greece to go for a walk along the Erie Canal. We walked over to the Greece Canal Park landing and then headed back, because the wind was a bit vicious. Along the way we heard quite a few geese (and could just barely make them out down on the far side of the canal, which is drained for the winter) and more exciting, spotted a fox which came out of the bushes along the path, made its way down to the water, and ultimately swam the canal and disappeared up the other side. A pretty cool "welcome back"...
JMH
0.8 Mile Walk on the Erie Canalway Trail (Greece)
Friday, March 22, 2013
After sitting in airports and on planes for the past 16 1/2 hours I really wanted to get outside for a bit, even if it was in the dark, so Ann and I headed to Henpeck Park in Greece to go for a walk along the Erie Canal. We walked over to the Greece Canal Park landing and then headed back, because the wind was a bit vicious. Along the way we heard quite a few geese (and could just barely make them out down on the far side of the canal, which is drained for the winter) and more exciting, spotted a fox which came out of the bushes along the path, made its way down to the water, and ultimately swam the canal and disappeared up the other side. A pretty cool "welcome back"...
JMH
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