Wednesday, April 07, 2004
Liz,GBS, Tim...wow, names I haven't heard in a long time. It's like a high school reunion except without all the creepy overweight bald guys trying to convince you that they're still as virile as when they were 18 year old stud football players.
SJC Reloaded forced us to end the 2 years of inertia and go out and buy a new desktop yesterday. Our old system was similar to Terry's old 486, except that Terry didn't have kick his to get the hard drive unstuck to make it boot up. These are exciting times! I never realized that webpages load faster than 8 minutes per page.
Can we invite Tricia too? She left SJC once it started getting overcrowded. I haven't figured out how to do anything here except read and post (and it took me a while to realize that I was reading back into history instead of forward). The idea of posting comments to specific messages to help thoughts flow logically kind of amused me. It HAS been a long time. I recall that many of us never had thoughts that flowed logically back then. Mostly, you kept reading until after you skipped over certain posts (ok, Terry, Bruce, me) and things actually started to make some sense. But with respect due to those who 1. think before they post, 2. think logically before they post and 3. actually have a reasonable flow to their thoughts, I shall certainly take note of whatever tools that Blogger provides for this and certainly of how others in the Blog use them.
Tim, take the camera. I hate to agree with Bruce (on principle, mostly), but if you leave the camera at home and miss the killer photos, you're going to be disappointed. Family birthday parties are important, but you probably bought the camera for your adventures too, right? What's the point of having it, if you don't bring it with you? Even if it breaks halfway through your trip, you've still got half the pictures. Take the camera and the lenses you need. And take plenty of film. Film is cheap, right Terry? Take the camera and take lots of photos. When you're 103, you may not have the best of memory and you won't have that camera, but you'll have those photos. And they'll help you remember what you did when you were young and virile.
The best thing about SJC Reloaded? It's motivating me to go out and find new adventures and exploits, so I'll have something interesting to write about. Other than a trip to Chiapas and the surrounding region in Mexico last year, we've been kind of going to the same places, doing the same things. We took my parents and his parents on an Alaska cruise this summer, which the folks enjoyed, but is about as far from "adventure" as you can get ("comatose" is more like it -- although there were nice day hikes). Patrick, me and the senior citizen bunch. I don't think that will cut it on SJC, eh???
But it's almost 9pm. Time for my warm milk and slippers....
nite all...
Lori (ghost written by Grover)
SJC Reloaded forced us to end the 2 years of inertia and go out and buy a new desktop yesterday. Our old system was similar to Terry's old 486, except that Terry didn't have kick his to get the hard drive unstuck to make it boot up. These are exciting times! I never realized that webpages load faster than 8 minutes per page.
Can we invite Tricia too? She left SJC once it started getting overcrowded. I haven't figured out how to do anything here except read and post (and it took me a while to realize that I was reading back into history instead of forward). The idea of posting comments to specific messages to help thoughts flow logically kind of amused me. It HAS been a long time. I recall that many of us never had thoughts that flowed logically back then. Mostly, you kept reading until after you skipped over certain posts (ok, Terry, Bruce, me) and things actually started to make some sense. But with respect due to those who 1. think before they post, 2. think logically before they post and 3. actually have a reasonable flow to their thoughts, I shall certainly take note of whatever tools that Blogger provides for this and certainly of how others in the Blog use them.
Tim, take the camera. I hate to agree with Bruce (on principle, mostly), but if you leave the camera at home and miss the killer photos, you're going to be disappointed. Family birthday parties are important, but you probably bought the camera for your adventures too, right? What's the point of having it, if you don't bring it with you? Even if it breaks halfway through your trip, you've still got half the pictures. Take the camera and the lenses you need. And take plenty of film. Film is cheap, right Terry? Take the camera and take lots of photos. When you're 103, you may not have the best of memory and you won't have that camera, but you'll have those photos. And they'll help you remember what you did when you were young and virile.
The best thing about SJC Reloaded? It's motivating me to go out and find new adventures and exploits, so I'll have something interesting to write about. Other than a trip to Chiapas and the surrounding region in Mexico last year, we've been kind of going to the same places, doing the same things. We took my parents and his parents on an Alaska cruise this summer, which the folks enjoyed, but is about as far from "adventure" as you can get ("comatose" is more like it -- although there were nice day hikes). Patrick, me and the senior citizen bunch. I don't think that will cut it on SJC, eh???
But it's almost 9pm. Time for my warm milk and slippers....
nite all...
Lori (ghost written by Grover)
