Connecting Flights are Now Officially Lame
Posted by Patrick on Monday, August 27, 2007Friday I flew up to the frosty north to meet up with Kate and hang out with her fam and my fam (sometimes together) and our friends, and it was a great weekend. We're very happy with our life down here amongst the tobacco fields, but we sure do miss those yankee's.
We've been flying a lot lately, more this year then any other for either of us. Being that we're frequent flyers, we're quick to locate the lowest fair available online. Saving money is good. There are two usual conditions of the lowest fair, one being that it's on US Airways, and the other being that there's at least one connecting flight involved.
There have been some horror stories about plane travel in the news lately, so my personal tale of the first - flight - being - late - and - requiring - me - to - run - at - full - bore - through - 3 - terminals - because - my - next - flight - leaves - in - ten - minutes - followed - by - sitting - on - the - ground - for - over - an - hour - because - they - couldn't - find - the - guy - to - back - the - plane - out - of - the - gate doesn't really compare, but it certainly made it a stressful trip.
I'm starting to think that paying a little more for a direct flight will both reduce the stress and running, make it less likely that we're flying on the lowest bidder, and probably get us to our destination faster. Either that or we'll drive.
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Home Alone
Posted by Patrick on Wednesday, August 22, 2007Kate's kicking it New England-style this week for some family fun.
Things have been pretty quiet around here. Tonight the cats and I are watching Hot Fuzz, and it's pretty funny. Not as good as good as Shaun of the Dead (which stars almost the exact same cast), but funny none the less.
Labels: flicks
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A Return to Moderately Consistent Posting
Posted by Patrick on Saturday, August 18, 2007The wave of technical difficulties having now passed (I hope), we can return to our normal posting routine. Here are some thoughts:
Hot
104 degrees again? I guess it is southern living. Central air is sweet. We went for a dip in the community pool last week and that was refreshing.
Lawn
Why does some of our yard have grass that grows almost two feet high in a week, and some not accept grass at all (just dirt patches)? The whole yard thing requires lots of learning. It'll be a fine day for western civ when robot gardeners come on the market. Then it will be a sad day for the same civilization when the robot gardeners join together and form a super-robot that enslaves the lazy suburbanites like myself. But it'll be good times before the great robot revolt.
Workin
My new job continues to be both rewarding (web design every day? yes please) and kind of intense. Lots of long days and learning. It's still a little weid to use Photoshop every day and not use Excel all day long. Allegedly they're replacing my 7-year-old G4 at work with a shiney new iMac, which is exciting.
Speaking of Webbish
Tonight I'm going to my first Raleigh/Durham Adobe User Group meeting, which I believe will be cool. Hopefully it will fill my noodle with knowledge and let me talk shop with some other designers in the field. When I try to talk about Typography with the cats, they generally just walk away. Moses will actually bite me on the leg when I talk about kerning.
Congrats
Congrats to my sister Kristen who just graduated with a master's degree in something so fancy and smart, I can't even begin to describe it with words.
500
Our five-hundredth Rockland-Ave.com post is coming up soon! Insanity!
Labels: Employement, family, The South, Weather
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Ongoing Technical Shenanigans
Posted by Patrick on Sunday, August 12, 2007I think the wave of aggressive pinging on our site has ended, but for some reason the hosting company was having troubles this week, so we were unable to post and comments were not working right. I'd love to move our site to another hosting company, but the current company is not so into the whole answering support questions and authorizing domain name transfers.
Labels: Nerdery
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Warm
Posted by Patrick on Wednesday, August 08, 2007It was 102 degrees outside today, confirming to me that we do in fact now live in the south.
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And... We're Back
Posted by Patrick on Wednesday, August 01, 2007Happy to be back after a few days of interwebish darkness. Somebody was repeatedly pinging our site's RSS(aka XML) feed file, somewhere in the neighborhood of thirty-thousand times in a month, and used up all our site's allotted bandwidth. Bandwidth is another one of those intangible metering measurements, kind of like how they bill you for natural gas. Much like torque, no one knows exactly what bandwidth is, but there is both a price and a limit on it.
So, I had to change our RSS feed address. It's lame to do such a thing, but I think it will help keep things operational while I dig around and find a more permanent way to stop the excessive pinging. Our new RSS address is:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/rockland-ave/YOsn
For those of you who don't know about the mystical time-saving goodness of RSS, here's a little info on it. Kate likes Google Reader for her RSS feed needs, and I've been way into Netvibes.com for the many sites I like to keep tabs on, but don't feel the need to spend hours a day checking for new stuff.
So, if you're a loyal Rockland-ave RSS subscriber, please update your feed link. We'll try to keep the lights on 'till through the end of the month.
Labels: Nerdery
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V.I.R.
Posted by Patrick on Sunday, July 29, 2007
This track is unlike an oval Nascar track (right turns!) or a straight-track and puts the spectator in the central area of it, so you can watch the action from many different places.
I think if I were a race-track-car kind of driver, I'd like to drive at a track like this. Lots of hill and sharp turns. It was a good way to spend a Saturday.
Labels: Automotive
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