In my revisit to the Daily Update archives, I noticed that I used to muse long and poetic about media that I was consuming. It slipped my mind that I used to even write e-mail movie reviews. I regret that I have no idea what happened to the backup files for my mid to late 90s web site. Due to that loss, those reviews are…
May 22, 2020
Walking along the cliffs of Laguna Beach remind me of summers in Elementary and Middle school when we would spend a few days at my grandparent’s timeshare. Sometimes you just need to relax and listen to the ocean. We were told it was the end of the bioluminescence in the waters of Orange County, but I didn’t see anything…
May 20, 2020
I wrote a quick link post six years ago about Mount St Helens and I won’t repeat post the links (especially since I just validated them). However, I will present more of a personal story about this volcano. Mount Saint Helens exploded when I was 7 years old and I remember it vividly. Even though we were living in Southern California (I think – it…
May 18, 2020Spent the better part of a week going back through the Daily Update in an effort to update the Flickr links as I am getting ready to delete my old account and host the files locally. There are still a few large Flickr posts I skipped over (especially in the Flicker heavy mid 2000s.) that I need to go back and redirect to the new…
May 17, 2020In the list of lockdown things to do, I finally crossed one off of the list. I was able to finally get the Europe 1996, 1997, and 1998 photos uploaded, edited, added captions, and keywords to my new local photo gallery. With that, everything from 1996-2010 is now hosted locally. I still need to go through remaining galleries that were imported and add some additional…
May 6, 2020
One of the re-scanned photos that are going to debut in the all-new Trip Diaries, now with select photos in the entries. This was taken of Salzburg Castle after we finished the Sound of Music Tour and were waiting to go back to Munich.
April 28, 2020Last night, I stayed up way to late but made progress in finally downloading all of my Flickr galleries to my local web site. My intent is to finally leave Flickr after 15 years. Originally, with the flux and server problems of my site, I wanted to have my travel photos somewhere else so it could be accessed by others and generate traffic. Unfortunately Flickr…
April 25, 2020
It was hot today, but we managed to get in our 7 mile ride just after sunset. Sky was beautiful and despite the bugs on the river we made good time.
April 24, 2020
It’s the 50th anniversary of Earth Day today and to celebrate let’s talk about all of the incidents of animals taking over cities now that most of the humans on the planet are in some sort of reduced activity or stay at home order. I’ve seen some reports of sheep taking over a McDonald’s in Wales and a jellyfish in the Venice canals. Even more…
April 23, 2020It’s been over a month since the shelter in place order was issued for California to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus, Covid-19 which led me to work from home. Basically except for errands to get food, groceries or go to the mailbox, I really haven’t gone anywhere. I tend to be someone who stays at home normally, but this is getting ridiculous. I…
April 21, 2020