Just got back from Minado, an all you can eat Sushi and Japanese food buffet. So good, it’s painful. I just finished fixing BOTH of my computers, my desktop had a nasty virus I tried to remove for two days, and couldn’t resolve, so I ended up re-installing Windows XP. The same day I got the virus, my laptop screen stopped working, and I had to have Dell come and replace it. What are the odds of both of my computers having issues at the same time, for the same duration?
The past few days I have been geocaching like crazy with J, we found a total of 19 caches in the past week. Thats a pretty impressive number. J just got started caching and he liked it so much he ran out and bought a GPS already. Looks like its going to be a long summer of caching!
For those of you who are wondering how much insaneness effort finding a cache, and Geocaching in general takes, look at this image overlay of the path I took to find a cache today. The funny thing is that about 20 minutes into looking for this cache, I realized that I had dropped my keys, and I ran off towards the top of the screen looking for them. Let it be said that I didn’t find the cache, but I will be going back with all intentions of finding it. Perhaps earlier in the day, when I have a few hours of sunlight on my side, and I don’t drop my keys, I will have a little more luck.
So I was out caching today and I reach up to scratch my leg, and I noticed that my keys were not in my pocket, where I had put them a mile back while looking for another cache. I freaked out and ended up re-tracing my steps over a mile in the thick forest, and found them. I call it being very lucky, because I was over 10 miles from home and it was getting dark fast. If I didn’t notice that I had dropped them before I headed back to my car, I would have been in real trouble. I wanted to get eight caches today, but ended up only getting two. It’s funny now that I look back on it, but at the time I was really scared. I got all disoriented, and if it wasn’t for the compass on my GPS I would have probably walked the wrong way, and ended up somewhere in someones back yard, or falling off a near by cliff in the dark. Lesson learned, get something to tie my keys to my body.
Sometimes I wish the weekend wouldn’t end. Maybe it’s because Christa is gone until 10:15PM Mon-Wed, or maybe its because I know I have a ton of projects due next week at work. Either or, I vote to have a three day weekend every week. I feel I would be much more productive after three days of rest and relaxation. I found 7 Geocaches yesterday, which is an all time high for me. After all is said, I could still use another weekend day. Happy Monday everyone!
Our pug Junior is just about a year and a half now, and he has been crate trained for his whole life. Christa has been bringing it up that she thinks it is time for him to sleep in our bed at night. I am beginning to think the same thing, especially when I see Junior jump up into the bed and lay down when I am using the computer, etc.. I am considering buying a liner for my mattress just to be safe, you never know if he will want to claim the bed as new territory. Does anyone have experience making this transition? Have any funny stories about your dog relating to your bed (I know what your thinking sicko! 
)? I really need to know what I am getting myself into before I take this leap.
See more pictures of Junior HERE, the third section is devoted to him.
I just hid a new Geocache in Cohoes, NY. The name of the cache is “Easter in Cohoes”, because I hid it today (Easter). I think of it as my own little Easter egg hunt! The coordinates are: N 42° 46.452 W 073° 43.358. It is a small 35mm film canister and it is hidden near a local school. Here is a link (reguires login) to the cache details page. I walk my dog by this area almost everyday and I have been meaning to hide a cache here for some time now. It is a good geographic location, because about half way in between two other caches in the area. Don’t know what Geocaching is? Goto Geocaching.com and read up on it. I promise, you will be hooked after you find your first cache! Happy Easter!
EDIT: So it turns out that I placed the cache on school property, and this is a big no-no in geocaching. I will be relocating it, and will update the coordinates soon!
I had a pretty interesting conversation with a fellow environmental engineer at my company today, while we were driving to a site for some inspections. I started asking him what his thoughts on renewable energy were, wind energy specifically, and the conversation leaded to global warming. In the brief time we talked, I gathered that he was very anti-global warming, and his opinion was that it is a very exaggerated theory. He was talking about weather trends and how if you simply look back 10 years, you can see how the earth was actually at a cold point, because of sun spot migration, and other naturally occurring phenomenon. I don’t know what to say about global warming because I have not done enough research on the matter. I agreed with a lot of what he said, but I would like to get some more opinions on the topic. What are your opinions on the topic of Global Warming?
After that I brought up the topic of Carbon, and how I felt it was a growing problem, and he concurred. He was telling me about carbon sequestration efforts (planting trees and other plant life to offset carbon usage), and how he felt that these efforts in combating carbon emissions would never be sufficient to have a significant impact on our efforts to dispose of carbon. I agree with him on this point, because I see the sequestration programs as a “feel good” solution to the problem. What I mean is that most people in higher positions know we can not combat carbon emissions easily, because we are so addicted to oil, and also because of vested interests in the oil industry, and they need to do something to make the public feel better about driving SUV’s and burning oil byproducts for energy. Welcome to America….
I got this in an email today and it made me smile, so I thought I would share.
President Bush said each of us is getting a $600 tax incentive. It was supposed to be $800 but was lowered due to budget issues. If we spend the money at Wal-Mart, it goes to China. If we spend it on computers it goes to India or China. If we spend it on gas it goes to the Arabs. The only way to keep the $ here is to spend it on beer, gambling, and prostitutes.
I’m Eliot Spitzer and I approve of this message…
I saw this on Reddit.com and thought it was pretty funny, seeing as how I design fire suppression systems at my job.
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