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Here’s Loyal Reader Number Two walking down a hiking trail at last month’s campout. All that beautiful green undergrowth doesn’t look very California-y, does it? At least not like the California mountains. See if you can detect any Leaves of Three in there. They were certainly abundant. I’ve never been more motivated to stay on the trail.

Oh, dear. Loyal Reader Number One finally has his own server (see yesterday’s comments). Even if it’s just Old Moe‘s motherboard and has only 20GB of hard drive space, it’s still a server. The world will never be the same. Of course, he has always had unrestricted access to Larry, but that’s completely different.

Nothing else to report today. I’ve been exhausted all day and need to get up early tomorrow so I can go to the Girls’ Camp prep campout with Loyal Reader Number Four, so I’m off to bed.

Oh, I got the GPS today. It’s cool. As mentioned earlier, I wasn’t looking for a GPS system with a bunch of maps and driving directions (although I have certainly considered such a thing…). All I wanted was something that would give me my current location and help me get where I wanted to go. This does that very well, and the five buck price was right. Cheap as free.

No bloggage tomorrow. I’ll be at girls’ camp. I’ll try to use the Wonders of Blogger on Saturday. Survive without me for a day, if possible.

Off to bed. See you tomorrow.

Here’s a trail at Big Sur. This is another in my famous “looks like the camera wasn’t straight” series. I can assure you, however, that it was perfectly straight. It’s just a really crooked trail.

New Moe lives! We got FrankenMoe’s motherboard transplanted into Moe’s case tonight, as planned, and it’s working great! I had a little trouble getting the 100GB and 200Gb drives working – I believe it was caused by a marginal power connector on either the power supply side or the disk side of the 100GB. Fiddled with it enough to make it work, though. Hooray! It’s now running at a speedy 1600 MHz, as opposed to its former speed of 450 MHz. Big difference.

And that’s basically all I accomplished this evening. Had an hour-long meeting with my successor as Ward Mission Leader – training time. Also ate dinner.

I picked up the Honda early this morning. The new oil seems fine. No other changes.

One of my colleagues told me he purchased three working handheld GPS units at a garage sale this weekend for $5 each. I told him if he sees any more of them to get one for me. He said I can have one of the three and is planning to bring it to work tomorrow. I’m excited to get it. It doesn’t do fancy car navigation and that kind of stuff – it’s just a handheld unit, which is exactly what I want to try out geocaching. Maybe at our next campout!

That’s it for today. See you tomorrow.

Here’s another picture from the Big Sur campout in March. This little fellow (along with many, many others like him) was sunning himself along one of the hiking trails.

It’s just as I suspected. The Honda’s ready to be picked up, with nothing having been done to it yet. Both the sunroof switch and the transmission rebuild kit are on backorder. At least they changed the oil. I’ll get Loyal Reader Number Four to help me pick the car up on my way to work tomorrow morning.

LRN4 has spoken with both Loyal Reader Number Nine and her father this evening. Everything appears to be fine in both of their locations. She’s been having a little trouble finding her dad at home, so she’s glad to have finally gotten hold of him.

Time to do other things, like work on Moe. See you tomorrow.

Here’s one of those tree sitters you hear so much about, like all those idiots people at UC Berkeley. This is a particularly hardened one, determined to stay up there until his demands are met. Fortunately, he doesn’t have far to fall if it doesn’t work out.

Wait a minute – that’s Loyal Reader Number Two at this year’s Big Sur campout. Sorry about the confusion.

Well, I somehow missed it. Today is post number 501, so I wrote #500 on Saturday Friday. How did you like the big celebration? Sigh. I guess we’ll just have to wait for #1000.

The Honda is at the dealer for the night to have its transmission looked at once again. The good news is that Honda has formally acknowledged the six-speed transmission problem and has a kit to fix it, which unfortunately requires that the transmission be removed from the car and basically rebuilt. The parts are on backorder right now, but my car has to go there to get on the list. So it’s there. I’m also getting an oil change and a fix to a dashboard switch light while it’s there. A permanent fix is on the horizon, though.

Uneventful day otherwise. It was beautiful, sunny, and warm without being too hot. It’s supposed to be the same for at least the next ten days. Upper 70’s and lower 80’s. Not bad.

FrankenMoe lives! We bought a new motherboard/CPU/heatsink/fan/memory for LRN2’s computer when the old ones died. Loyal Reader Number One made the amazing discovery that LRN2’s old CPU/heatsink/fan would fit on the FrankenMoe motherboard. Since we suspected those parts were still perfectly good, he put them together and reassembled FM on the loft’s coffee table. It’s working! Although it’s currently too short on memory to install Ubuntu, I used it to run SpinRite overnight and it works fine. Plus, the old 20GB hard drive we have on it is in tip-top shape.

We now need to decide whether to disassemble Moe, cannibalize its memory, and put FrankenMoe into Moe’s case. Upside: much faster machine with much faster data transfers. Downside: none identified to date. Decision: we should probably do it.

In the meantime, LRN1 can put the FrankenMoe pieces into temporary storage now, I believe.

Time for home evening. See you tomorrow.

Here’s one of those spinny rides at Great America. Don’t you feel queasy just looking at it? I certainly do. I believe this one is called “The Vomitorium” or something like that.

Wonders of Blogger. It’s not that I didn’t have time Friday night. It’s just that I spent it doing other things. Mostly it was more Cocoa tutorials. And I also wrote a little program on my own. I wanted to learn how progress bars work. The book had a little information on the subject but not a tutorial, so I had to figure it out myself, with some valuable help from Loyal Reader Number One, who has been writing Cocoa programs for a while now.

Anyway, I didn’t blog last night. Not that it matters much right now. I don’t think much of anybody is actually reading the blog these days, and I don’t blame them. Not much of interest there. I’ll have to start generating some worthwhile content Real Soon Now.

Nothing else to report today. LRN1’s senior piano recital is Saturday evening. We’re looking forward to it and hope a few people will show up. I’m sure it will be well done and everybody who comes will enjoy it. And the refreshments are looking to be excellent.

Time to go. See you on Monday.