I’m about to leave for the second of three overnight Adventure Ed trips, but I wanted to let everyone know that I have officially booked flights and I will be in the New England area from Thurday the 20th of December until Christmas. I leave early morning on the 25th and I have dinner with the family on the Eve, but the rest of my time is pretty open. If you want some, lemme know. I’m also not opposed to some big group shindig thing, some music, a movie, whatever, so feel free to try and plan amongst yourselves. I should have Mom’s Nissan van most of the weekend, so I’ll be mobile and based out of Dudley.
Monthly Archive for November, 2007
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two large arcade style DDR dance pads in the dance studio of one of the high schools I work in. I peeked inside. There’s handrails and everything.
just testing ability to post via eMail… but people like this little drawing by Mark, so I’ll leave it up, I guess
hacked… something about world writable folders, lots of accounts, not just mine. I didn’t even know I had any world writable ones. I had to go through and change them all and then test things to make sure everything still worked. I’m still doing it now, actually. After I post this, I gotta see if it worked and see if all the logs worked and then experiment with posting from the phone again. It took a lot of time and effort because my backup wouldn’t quite restore correctly. Had to kinda build a place for the site from scratch and then import it in piece by piece. Anyway, I think it’s all back now.
Thankfully this happened early Saturday morning, so I was completely distracted by the fact that I was going to see They Might Be Giants. It was a great show and brought back a lot of memories of some good times. Unfortunately, driving to a show in Chicago is worse than driving to a show in Boston. We learned our lesson though (took an hour to find parking). Next time, we’ll take the train in from O’Hare or go out early and make a day-long event out of it. They almost wouldn’t let Sarah in because she had her Diana camera with her. But she convinced them that it wasn’t going to take any high quality videos of the band, that it was basically a toy, and they let her in. The venue was cool, nice balcony seats and a few benches throughout the floor area. We were there a little too late to snag a seat for ourselves… again, lesson learned. It was a real treat to see them with the horn section. I do kinda miss the Eric and Graham/Hal days, but the Dans are good, there’s no denying it. The banter was as witty as ever.
Enjoying my day off, so far. The tentative plan was to catch up on all the TV shows we’re behind on. We’ll see what really happens once Sarah gets up and we get motivated (or don’t 
). Got another Adventure Ed overnight this week (and next week). There’s pictures from last week’s trip on the gallery (mostly taken by the kids). There’s more staff lined up for this week, so I should be able to take more myself.
it’s cozy… has a fireplace in a big common room. The heat is a bit much in the little bedrooms, once you close the doors. It’s also fun to tell the kids we’re “staying with a hairy friend” when they ask where we’re sleeping.
stack of camp mattresses. I totally forgot to take any ropes course pics for blogging.
Tomorrow night is the first Adventure Ed overnight. The camera is coming and I should be able to take plenty of pics, since there’s only 25 kids coming to this one. Hopefully I’ll remember to do post a moblog entry or two. I also just added the last few weeks worth of photos to flickr… some in-class adventure ed shots, some of an all day day care program I worked and some from a wander Sarah and I took earlier today. You can see most of them here. Enjoy
Last night, after a little issue with the scanner and a reinstallation of some drivers, a couple of my programs were acting weird, so I rebooted, and right after logging in, my screen went black. It seemed like the system was running. I managed to blind reboot it once. I couldn’t log in via VNC, though, so I knew the video drivers weren’t running correctly. I tried reloading the original Dell drivers, but it made no difference… still went black. Removed the video drivers and I could log in just fine… though I can only deal with giant chunky 800×600 for so long. At some point I found out that the user account I set up for Sarah could log in just fine with the Dell video drivers loaded… so that led me to believe there was some sort of software/driver thing going on. I couldn’t figure out what was causing it, though. I tried disabling everything I could think of, and it still went black on my username. So I refocused on the video drivers, tried a couple different ones and a couple methods of completely removing the old drivers… but still no luck. Finally, I tried these Omega drivers and they seemed to do the trick. I dunno how well hooking the laptop up to the TV is going to go, the next time we want to watch something I downloaded on the big screen, but at least I’m not computerless anymore. There’s a bit more fear, as time goes on, that this laptop will just plain die, one day soon… regardless of the transplant/replacement of most of its innards.
There was also a threat of canceling the Adventure Ed overnight for one of the schools because of some new electronic filing system that all trips have to go through and some CPS paperwork and legal department bull… but I guess they finally worked it all out today. We got the go ahead this afternoon. We were on the verge of coming up with some sort of concelation day for all the kids who had signed up. They were still signed out of their classes and stuff, so they were technically ours for the day, but we probably would’ve been restricted to school property. I’m glad that didn’t end up happening. The high ropes experience is really a key element in my mind.
Psyched that I got the mophoblogging going again. I was doing that stuff back in early 2005 (via Livejournal). I’m pretty sure moblogs and that term existed then, but I wonder if I could’ve coined mophoblogging, or snagged a related domain name or something.
A Dunkin’ Donuts with a counter and stools? Reminds me of Main st Webster, before the remodel (no cigarette machine). i should’ve asked if they had mugs.
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