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Here’s one more car for my motorphile Loyal Readers – a Mini Moke. What a great car. I’ll have to be on the lookout for one of my own. This one’s in Cannes. Or at least it was a few years ago when I was there.

I actually stayed home today! Of course, I worked for three or four hours, but at least I was here. I worked in my jammies, just because I could. Afterwards, I got a very nice haircut, took a hot shower, finished reading one book and made some progress on another, and did some open-blog surgery. Lots of the older posts were still referencing picture files on the old Gardenville website and/or Flickr. Now they’re all on Morrowlife. I know it doesn’t sound very impressive, but it took hours. And now I’m totally Flickr-free. It was kind of a pain to post the pictures in two places every day anyway.

Didn’t work on the trailer today. Sadly, it rained all day. Didn’t work on the back yard either. Didn’t do much of anything inside the house either. Same reason. I realize that rain is a fairly poor reason for avoiding indoor work, but it’s the best reason I have, so I’m going with it.

Time for the weekend to start. Maybe I’ll get to one of the other websites this weekend. See you on Monday.

Here’s a picture of the other six-wheeled racer I saw at the museum in France (NOTE: Blogger isn’t working right tonight, as usual, so the picture will have to wait until tomorrow). I don’t remember much about it, but I do recall it being somewhat less successful than the Tyrrell from Tuesday.

No post yesterday. Because of a scouting court of honor (Loyal Readers Numbers One and Two earned more awards than anybody else, of course – possibly more than everybody else combined), I went to church directly from work. Went directly from the CoH to my Wednesday evening meeting, which ended later than usual at 10:00. Since I needed to be at work today and didn’t finish my meager dinner until probably about 10:30, there was no post.

Felt really sick yesterday afternoon – probably something I ate, as usual. By today at lunchtime, I was eating again, and I’m feeling mostly fine tonight.

No work tomorrow! It’s off Friday. Woo hoo! I have a few hours’ worth of stuff to do on my laptop (prepare for my 10:00 meeting and check in and promote a bunch of software, for starters), but I’ll at least be at home. The intention is to work on the trailer, weather permitting. I need to repair any damage done by this year’s colder-then-normal winter, fix all the little nagging things I haven’t been able to get to, and do some pretty massive cleaning. Plenty to do there. I could look at the Sable’s brakes again if the weather won’t cooperate with the trailer job. Then there’s always some straightening that needs to be done around the house, not to mention the two large piles of books just begging to be read. Plus I have numerous video podcasts in the viewing queue. Plus all of my websites. Plus I always have a need for Great Photographic Art. Plus, plus, plus.

In the meantime, there’s bed. See you tomorrow.

Here’s one of my favorite racing cars of all time – the Tyrrell six-wheeler. That must the be only six-wheeled car ever raced, no? No! In addition to the cars described in the link, I’ll try to remember to post a picture of another such car from the very same museum in the near future! Watch this space. This picture was taken in a little auto racing museum between Cannes and Nice, France. They had a lot of cool cars in a relatively small space. Taken with my first (lousy) digital camera, as is evident.

Long ride to work today. On the upside, I got to listen to a lot of podcasts. I’m still working on the BYU-TV podcasts of their Book of Mormon discussion series. The quality is a little inconsistent, but I’m still enjoying it and effectively getting a highly-condensed version of BYU’s BoM class. Not recommended in TV form (boring!); highly recommended in convenient podcast form.

Happily, the drive home was much quicker. Of course, I stayed at work until 6:00 to make that happen, but it was still nice to travel a good portion of the way at full speed.

Flickr told me today that I’ve reached the free upload limit and have to start paying them if I want to host more pictures. I’m dropping the Flickr feed. Sorry about that, Loyal Readers. While I’m at it, I’m also killing the book club and links sections. I don’t think they’ll be missed. My Loyal Readers have more important things to do.

Did anybody ever read one of the book club books?

It’s supposed to rain here every day for the next week. We need the moisture, but that won’t do the commute times any good. I should probably actually start getting up on time. Yuck.

See you tomorrow.

How about another piece of Great Art from Monte Carlo? And barring that, how about a giant cat statue? Yes sir, we know what our Loyal Readers like. Photo courtesy of my friend Doug, in all likelihood.

No post last Friday. Sorry about that – I got busy. And the strange thing is, I’m not quite sure what I accomplished. Sure, Loyal Reader Number Four and I jacuzzified while Loyal Readers Numbers One and Two had some friends over to watch Nacho Libre (again). LRN1 told me he’s been invited over to another friend’s house on Friday night to watch . . . Nacho Libre (again). It’s a pretty good movie, of course, but is it that good?

No work on any of the websites over the weekend. It was just a non-electronic weekend. Except that my Palm crashed hard on Sunday. I had to do a hard reset, which wipes out all the data. I was a little worried about losing data forever, but the nice folks at Palm really do backups well. When I synced with my laptop after the crash, it restored literally everything, except for the few appointments I had entered since my last sync and my bookmark in the current Wodehouse book, which was easy to restore. Pretty cool.

Did a little work on the Miata on Saturday. Got the windshield washers working, the headlights aimed, and the ugly attempted repair on the passenger’s door cleaned up. Improvements, all. We also started digging the koi pond in the backyard! LRN1 worked some more on it today too. I got home after dark, as usual, but they tell me it’s looking reasonably deep by now. With a little joint effort and the judicious application of some money, I think we’ll have a nice pond before long. That ought to go along with the nice yard we’ll also have.

LRN2 and LRN4 went to a city council meeting tonight to help LRN2 finish up a merit badge. I hear it was interesting and pretty fast-moving.

Finally got around to reading the “advanced” manual for my new camera last night. Wow! That camera can do everything! The exposure control goes from totally automatic to manual shutter speed to manual aperture to manual shutter speed and aperture to automatic control based on the type of scene you’re shooting. It can do raw format, which can be edited in the camera or out. Jpeg pictures can be edited in the camera too. It can adjust white balance, color saturation, cropping, orientation, and a bunch of other things. It can print directly from the camera or via computer. Photos can be arranged into albums. Slide shows with various visual effects can be done by hooking the camera directly up to a TV. It can do nearly-infinitely adjustable time-lapse photos. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. I love that camera.

But I need to go to bed now. Sorry about missing Friday and thanks for your continued loyalty. See you tomorrow.

I couldn’t resist this one. It’s Timur again, of course, with one of his many friends. Kind of leaves you speechless, no? Photo courtesy of somebody at Baikonur.

Nothing much going on today. I got up, got ready, drove to work, worked, drove home, ate, took out the trash, finished reading an interesting article on the art of programming, and sat down to write. After that, I’ll probably read another article or two and go to bed. Same old same old.

There was an anomaly on Tuesday:

Gotta hate it when that happens. The word is the launch pad wasn’t damaged too badly, which is amazing. It’ll be interesting to hear what the failure investigation turns up.

Another week staggers towards the finish line. See you on Friday.