Well, it was that time again. Upgraded my blog software. Security updates, bug fixes, and all that jazz. I also took the time to upgrade my sidebar to the new dynamic blocks. Basically, nothing changed as far as you can tell without comparing code. So boring, blah blah blah.

Happy news! The upgrade fixed the problems I was having adding pictures to my posts. So, I should be able to do “daily” pictures more often.

Twitter evidently picked the same night to do upgrades. They’ve been down for a while now. Hope they come back before morning.

Update on what I’m doing this week. Just programming a Point-Of-Sale app that hopefully I can get finished quickly. For the geeks, I’m doing it in XUL with RoR serving up the webservices.

Last week/weekend at PUC–for graduation–went great. I got to see quite a few friends and make some new ones. Stayed up till 5 one morning playing video games and watching a dumb/frustrating movie, while hanging with friends that were guarding our sound system. Setup was quite easy and it ran smoothly. Set up and tear down was on quite hot days, however. When we were tearing down, we had to stop every half hour or less and drink a lot of water. Someone had left behind Red Hots; so, that helped re-energize us as well. We packed all our gear after grad and made it over to Soquel that night. Dropped off all our gear and finally headed home on Monday.

This week I’m calling the Hobbs’ house home and this weekend I’m headed over to the Curtis’. Then I think I’m back here for a few days and on Thursday we are all headed back to Soquel with more gear and will be there for about 4-5 weeks. Hmm, since I’ll be there so long, I might actually visit the boardwalk. I’ve never actually been there in season. Well, I should get som sleep.

cheers!

While in Yountville, we found this frog/toad resting under travel trailer’s tire. It must have thought it was a good spot to spend the day.

I’m going post and picture crazy! Back on April 19th, we did some hazard burning at Jim’s place. This is something I’ve never done before, so I decided I would mention it. For those that it has been a regular part of life, ignore me. I got a kick out of it. I was dragging branches and across the property using the lawn mower. Cutting them up with a chainsaw and burning ‘em. I actually was dragging branches for most of the day before as well. It’s hard to believe that all the stuff we put on that fire burned down into that pile of ashes. Fire is pretty amazing. Well, once we finished, we decided that since we had a fire, we needed s’mores. So I’ve included a couple pictures of roasting marshmallows and a s’more that I made. Well, tons of fun for a “city boy”.

cheers!

I’ve finally gotten a little not lazy and uploaded a new one. I’m also including one that I never posted about.

That is actually a picture of the tree that a piece of plywood was hanging from that I featured in daily pic #21 - painted.

This is my mystery project. Some people might be able to figure out exactly what is pictured, many won’t. Please post any guesses in the comments, I’m curious what you think.

cheers!

I just decided that I shouldn’t wait as long as last time to post. So here’s what I’ve been up to: programming. Yup; that’s pretty much it. I spent the last weekend and week at my grandparents place–they rock!–just programming. I’m working on a point-of-sale system for campmeeting and got surprisingly far. I must hand it to the guys that developed Rails. It makes programming so much easier.

So, enough geeky stuff for now. I did take a little bit of time out to watch a couple movies with my grandparents. The first was Bonhoffer. Incredible story, but it seemed very abbreviated and you didn’t get to see much of what he actually did before being imprisoned. The other one that I can remember seeing was “Hello Dolly!”. I gotta say that I love Barbra Streisand in that movie. The other movie I love her in is “What’s Up Doc?” She plays a similar character in both movies that is just so much fun to watch.

Well, hopefully I can get some relaxing done this weekend, but I kinda doubt it. I haven’t been here in about a month and probably most people forgot that this is my home base. For that matter, I almost forgot. I hope all things are well with you, be you family, friend or stranger.

cheers!