My vacation week comes to an end tonight. Brett and I had a wonderful sunny and hot week in New England. We spent the week with our pal Rich at his beach house in Old Lyme, Connecticut and two nights in Provincetown. The weather was perfect with no rain. The heat could have been turned down some but did not prevent us from having a…
i cannot guarantee that she’ll hold up
The title of this post is a quote of Montgomery Scott from the original Star Trek series. If you are a Star Trek fan, you know that Scotty was constantly worried that the Enterprise would somehow fall apart when Kirk ordered him to “give it all we got” to escape from a nearly inescapable situation. This post is a somewhat long look back on my…
covered bridges and maple leaves
Brett and I had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend. Friday afternoon and Saturday morning were busy times with us catching up on yard work and painting the deck. Oh how I hate that deck! I have about 70% completed; with just the bottom level sides to paint. We moved the deck furniture back Sunday evening and enjoyed a nice picnic this evening before the thunderstorms…
winding down in vegas
I have been in Las Vegas for two CA software conferences since last Friday. I am pretty tired at this point. It has been a long week with long days. I hardly got to enjoy the 90 degree sunny weather that Vegas offers. Yesterday at lunch I ventured out of Mandalay Bay and had lunch at Chin Chin in NY NY, one of my favorite…
My Top 10 Techie Buzzwords for the Week
I am at CA World, a large tech conference in Las Vegas, this week with about 8,500 geeks. It ain’t a pretty sight 🙂 Anyway, after my first three days of keynotes, speeches and the such, I’ve come up with I believe are the top 10 buzzwords for the conference. I thought I would share them with you. I won’t give you the meanings. You…
a little of the great alleghany passage
Our weekend getaway came to an end today. It was a spectacular ending. The wind died, sun shone brightly and the temperature rebounded to the 60s. Our destination for the day was Cumberland, Maryland and the Great Alleghany Passage. On our way from Hagerstown we stopped at the Sideling Hill Pass visitor’s center in the Alleghany Mountains. The view was spectacular on this clear day….
our raid on harpers ferry
Today we continued our weekend getaway in Western Maryland. We woke this morning to a sunny, cool and windy Sunday morning. After studying the C&O Canal Trail options, we selected a ride relatively close to Hagerstown. We decided to ride the trail starting just east of the Antietam Battlefield to Harpers Ferry. The car ride to Antietam was quite beautiful. This area of the country…
another year older
Today was my birt day. Brett and I are spending the weekend in Hagerstown, Maryland visiting our friend Aaron. We had decided to take a spring weekend trip to celebrate the occasion. The weather was perfect today, sunny and 75. We are cycling the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Trail that follows the Potomac River from Cumberland, Maryland to Washington D.C. Today we cycled the trail…