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Here are Loyal Readers Numbers One and Two posing with . . . umm . . . I have no idea who that is. But I’m sure he’s world famous somewhere. Picture taken at Lockheed Martin Day at Great America.

The Blog is Back! We had a great vacation – very relaxing. Very, very relaxing. We went to bed early, got up late, and spent a lot of time reading. Much, much more information will trickle out. Also, I hope to publish something on the HRVA.

But first, we went to Great America, as documented above. Upside: only Lockheed Martin people and their families were there, so the crowd was pretty upscale. Also, the lines were shorter than they might otherwise have been. Oh, and the food was much better than last year. Downside: most of the good rides were closed. We had a good time anyway.

How nice to hear from Loyal Reader Number Twenty-Three! I didn’t think you were reading. You’ll have to send a picture or two from Mexico for posting on the Blog.

Oh, and in answer to your question, no site ID is required. If you have a Google/Blogger account, you can use that to comment. If you have an OpenID anywhere, you can use that. Or, you can post anonymously, although I prefer you use either your first name or your Loyal Reader Number even when you use that option. Except for my good old friend Anon, of course.

Time for bed. Campout information starting tomorrow. See you tomorrow.

Here are the contents of my refrigerator during one of my trips to Baikonur. Now that’s healthy eating! Not to mention Great Art. You know how all those other artists paint pictures of bananas and apples? Well, I take pictures of Oreos and pudding. And Spam.

The work week is over and now we get busy. We’re scheduled to go to Great America tomorrow. The forecast for foul, cool weather still has us unsure whether we really want to go. Final decision tomorrow morning.

Sunday will be as hectic as they’ve all been lately.

On Monday, we leave for Big Sur! A great time is guaranteed for all parties, or double your camping back. Sadly (for my Loyal Readers), there will be no bloggage. So this is the last post until Monday the 24th. Try to survive without me. And don’t forget to come back.

Of course, Loyal Readers are encouraged to amuse themselves in the comments section while I’m gone.

See you in a week.

Here’s the basement at the Philadelphia railroad station, down where they keep the tracks. Taken on one of my several trips there when we lived outside of DC.

Okay day. It rained this morning and the traffic was wretched. Got there late, so I made up for it by leaving early. It’s been a nice afternoon at home. I really needed that.

Actually, I really need to spend a week camping. Can’t wait for Monday.

Moe is officially working! I’m transferring all its old files back over to it now. My machine says it will take another 287 hours. I’m hoping that’s an overestimation. By at least a few hours.

Loyal Reader Number Two and I have been watching Zoolander on TV. Very amusing.

I just checked again and it’s down to 80 hours now. I’m hoping it’ll be done by morning.

Checked again. Down to 71 hours.

Okay, I’ll stop checking now (50 hours).

See you tomorrow.

Here are Loyal Readers Numbers One and Twelve communicating. Not so well.

No post yesterday. I was trying to get Curly’s email program changed back to mail.app. It took hours to figure it out, but I finally got it done by deleting all of its preferences and emails. It strangely was able to remember all of its email accounts, which was really a good thing. I copied all the emails from Entourage and we’re good to go. Very frustrating problem that was, though.

I’m also test-driving iWork. I simply won’t pay Microsoft’s asking price for Office for Mac. Not even the student price.

Juggernaut update – I’m at $2.02. Last time I checked, I believe I was at $2.01. So the juggernaut rolls on. Keep those clicks coming, Loyal Readers!

Little else to report. I’m in the middle of trying to update Moe’s BIOS, which is a risky operation at best. It might kill him outright. On the other hand, it might fix him. On the other hand, it probably won’t change anything. Time will tell.

Drove the convertible home with the top down. It was light for the entire trip, and I didn’t have to roll up the windows. Spring is coming! Or I guess it’s here already.

I’m off to work on Moe. See you tomorrow.

Here’s Loyal Reader Number Three with our favorite item from the wedding in Las Vegas the other day – the chocolate fountain. Every home should have one of these. It was a little messy (especially the way I used it), but it produced the results.

LRN3 sure looks nice in a suit, doesn’t he?

Extremely Short Shrift tonight. We got kind of a late start to Home Evening, and then jacuzzified for activity, which always takes a little extra time. Not that we’re complaining – we love to do it.

Fine weekend. Sunday was extremely busy, as usual. Saturday was quite the opposite. Got a couple of non-memorable things done (as reported on Friday’s blog) and spent some time relaxing. Ahhh.

Started working on a little Mac application that will eventually read image files (such as digital photographs), reverse the bits in each pixel, and save. Got the idea from an article on steganography, but that’s not exactly what I’m doing. My idea is just to see what such files will look like (I think they’ll look like noise, but we’ll see – I’ll post some examples after the tool is done) and to actually get some Mac programming experience beyond canned tutorials. It’s been quite an eye-opener. The learning curve is steep, but not nearly as bad as pre-OS X Mac programming was. It’s quite easy to make something pretty.

Chatted with the Loyal Readers about the business during jacuzzification. We’re concentrating on two projects right now. One is Waterlogged and the other is Loyal Reader Number One’s CRM communications enhancement tool. I think it has definite possibilities, so it needs the appropriate level of attention. I think Waterlogged is ready right now for Beta testers, and we’re going to try to get some. It still needs a few features and a lot of CSS magic, but those can come during the beta testing phase. We need to publish some software!

Time for bed. See you tomorrow.