Facebook Gets "In Your Face"

Facebook has always had "ads", but is it just me or are they getting a little more crude? Check out the graphic on the right showing an ad that appeared in my sidebar the other day.

Gee...I wonder what kind of work I can do at home that will make me some "serious cash"? Sounds interesting!

It's Almost Done

Well, it is another late night and I don't really have the motivation to write much - but Coco is getting closer to being finished. I'll let the pictures do the talking.





And now to get some sleep...

More Amping....Finally!

Todd and I finally got around to getting some more work done on the amp tonight. We have both been extremely busy with summer vacation, travel, and work-work but we are finally getting back to finishing off the current prototype.

We are now tolexing the cabinet and I must say it is going to look pretty sweet when it is done. It is late so I'll be brief - but when it is done there will be more I promise. Here is a teaser of what it looks like so far:



We're calling her Coco.

Rush Rocks Toronto

I just got back from seeing Rush at the Air Canada Center (or is it the Roger's Center now?) in Toronto. The music was awesome, the light show was awesome, and the audience was awesome. What a band. As it turned out, every member of the band I am in with my brother ended up getting tickets so we all got to see the show. It was pure music and none of the rock-star bullshit. You'd never hear "I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" out of Geddy Lee. In fact, they didn't communicate much with the audience at all but that was fine. It was all about the music anyway and that's just the way I prefer it. They seem to have a really good sense of humor as well (the South Park cameo was especially entertaining) and they come off as a bunch of down-to-earth guys. I'd love to go for a beer with them sometime and jam. ;)

I decided to take the motorcycle to Toronto tonight because it was such a nice day. The drive there was a little hellish with all the traffic and construction and I was very sweaty and tired when I finally arrived after almost 2 hours fighting traffic. The ride home was awesome though as driving back at night was the perfect temperature, and it was dead calm outside. It was quite a nice ride, even if my bike isn't all that comfortable, and it only took me about an hour.

Just Installed Cherokee

So after struggling with Jetty recently, I have decided to go back to basics and install Cherokee. Apache2 is so freaking complicated and bloated now, I have been using Cherokee instead as it is super-lightweight and super-fast.

Now I just need to add some web pages. ;)

The Drive Home

So, after our Disney vacation was over we began the looong drive home on Saturday. The first day was very smooth and we made it to a very nice (and very new) hotel in North Carolina that was right next to a winery. As it turns out, the hotel is owned by the winery and has a wine bar and everything. It was a very pleasant (and very brief) stay and we are thinking about perhaps going back sometime to stay and tour the winery. It would be a very nice drive in the fall after the trees have changed color.

Although, after our second day I'm not sure I could take that drive for quite some time. The second day seemed to drag on *forever* and right about 4:00pm I was sick of driving. We didn't get home until about 10:30pm that night. You can imagine how long those 6.5 hours felt...

The only good thing about the second day was the brief stop at the New River Gorge Bridge in West Virginia. Our CAA route actually told us to avoid highway 19 due to excessive speed enforcement, but we took it anyway because it was shorter. I'm glad we did because that was probably the most picturesque part of the entire drive. We stopped at the scenic rest area here and I took a few pictures.



After that it was just grinding away the miles until we were home. It's good to be back.

Day #5 - Magic Kingdom (again)

For our last day we decided to go back to the Magic Kingdom and re-visit some of the rides and attractions we missed in our previous visits. It was a pretty slow-paced day and there isn't much to report (and my motivation to post is waning quickly...).

We started the day with the Country Bear Jamboree. It was not what I remembered - but Drew seemed to enjoy it. We then went on a Jungle Cruise that was filled with non-stop (extremely bad) jokes and puns. We then headed over to Tomorrowland and on the way snagged a couple photos with Pooh and Tigger.



In Tomorrowland, Rhiannon and I went on Space Mountain and I thought my head was going to be knocked off the whole time by a rogue girder in the dark. We then watched the Carousel of Progress just to see if it was any different from 20 years ago (it isn't...we'll still be using voice activated ovens in the future) and tried to pick up a couple more rides on the way out (although Splash Mountain was shut down for the day - GRRR!).

That is about it. You can check out my Picasa page for pictures. Day five starts here.