Late Wednesday night of our cruise, we arrived in Nassau, Bahamas – our first shore experience began shortly after. We docked around 9PM and were able to push our way out of the boat a half hour or so later. Everything was closed. Well, not everything. The Atlantis resort was open. We all piled in [...]
Filed under: Life News, Photography, Scuba, Travel on December 31st, 2009 | No Comments »
I hope you are all having a wonderful Christmas Day! Enjoy!
Filed under: Life News on December 25th, 2009 | No Comments »
After a somewhat inconvenient flight to Houston and a very pleasant dinner with my father at a wonderful Mexican place, Laura and I wake up early the next morning to be shuttled to meet Norma, Laura’s mom, for breakfast and the remainder of the way to port. That breakfast was to be the best we [...]
Filed under: Travel on December 22nd, 2009 | No Comments »
Today, we flew from DC to Houston for the first stage of our journey. It wasn’t so simple as it sounds. For some reason, there was enough terrible weather that we had to land half-way there in Knoxville to re-fuel. A very strong headwind made the trip very slow and costly. At least I an [...]
Filed under: Travel on December 13th, 2009 | No Comments »
Some of you may have noticed this morning when the blog was unavailable. As you can see, it’s back now and working properly. I guess that some of the “fixes” I put in place broke things over the weekend and I only now got it back up and running. It as almost completely lost. That [...]
Filed under: Site News on December 7th, 2009 | No Comments »
I bet you didn’t even notice, but we’re now running on Windows Server 2008 R2, which is 64-bit only. Yay! This is has been an ongoing project which I started a while back when 2008 came out. I wanted to migrate all the sites from 2003 to 2008. I got bogged down and then R2 [...]
Filed under: Site News, Technology on December 5th, 2009 | No Comments »
Yesterday, we received our first photographic backdrop. We’re fleshing out the studio and getting serious about taking more pictures. We’ve already done one shoot this month, but it was outside. Now, we can do good portraits inside. We even have another shoot scheduled for this weekend. So, without further ado, here is a shot of [...]
Filed under: Photography on November 20th, 2009 | No Comments »
No, not the U2 song, but Friday, I turned 40. It’s an eye-opening experience and I frequently wonder where the time has gone. I mean: I don’t FEEL 40… except after I work out too hard. This year, after saving up lots of money by selling off old books, I was given a gift card [...]
Filed under: Life News, Technology on November 2nd, 2009 | No Comments »
Upon arrival back from our trip to Houston, it was good to arrive back at the house to see that our basement work was complete. The wall was done and painted, the wall trim installed, and the door put in place. It looks like it was always there. Here are some pictures of the inside: [...]
Filed under: House, Site News, Technology on October 29th, 2009 | No Comments »
This week, we’ll be modifying our basement. We’ll be walling in a nook to contain all my servers and networking equipment. It’s the latest phase of getting our basement set up for photography. This will allow us to move all the excess computer equipment out of the main basement area into a closed room. In [...]
Filed under: House, Site News on October 11th, 2009 | No Comments »
