Business Trip

In the off-season when there aren’t any kids around at the pool of this condo complex on the oceanfront of Folly Beach, the seagulls have a good time.

The original plan was to wait until after dinner and going out to take a couple Post Office photos, but everything when awry when I suggested stopping and taking one or two because we were going to pass right by them. Seven Post Offices later we arrived at the hotel in Charleston.

That wasn’t the first time our plans strayed either. We had picked a couple places where we were going to go for a nice long walk in the woods, the first being Givhans Ferry State Park, where there was a 5 mile loop trail around the perimeter. When we opened the trunk at the park Donna asked, “Where’s my hiking boots?” “Oops.” I was wearing mine and somehow forgot to pack hers. All she had was a cheap pair of sneakers to walk in and after calling me a knucklehead, she gamely started on the hike with me. It took us a bit to find the beginning of the shorter loop trail, which according to the map off the net, led to the longer loop. We never did find a connection and after talking to the ranger it turns out it wasn’t a great loss, because that big loop wasn’t really a trail, it just followed an old forest service road.

Started up, went down, back up, still up.
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Let’s Do The Time Warp Again

When the Losties left on the Island started jumping around in time I have to admit I was intrigued, I’m a sucker for a time travel story, but after last night it was almost too much, like too much cheesecake can be too much of a good thing.

Sort of seemed like they are doing it to show how clever the writers and producers of the show are. See how smart we are? Remember way back in episode X of season X when character A did that thing in the jungle and there was what appeared to be a throw away comment to soon to be dead character B? Didn’t seem like much at the time, but now, in season 5 episode 4, it is a major plot point that lays out the story arc for character C.

Well I’m hooked now, so, I say:

It’s so dreamy, oh fantasy free me
So you can’t see me, no not at all
In another dimension, with voyeuristic intention
Well-secluded, I see all
With a bit of a mind flip
You’re there in the time slip
And nothing can ever be the same
You’re spaced out on sensation, like you’re under sedation
Let’s do the Time Warp again!

Started up, still up.
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Who Is This Woman?

Not too much time, TDTVS is on in a couple minutes. After tons of typing in cryptic commands in three attempts to get the wireless to work under Ubuntu, I did it, but only after running some temporary commands. I was then led through more typing to make it permanent. When I rebooted, it turned out to have been anything but permanent. I tried the temp fix again and it would have worked, but the thing that turned out to be permanent was the wrong WEP code that I had entered last night it seemed to be preventing me from logging in.

I may just have to reinstall Ubuntu from scratch again. Or maybe I should see if I can find a different distro that does support this wireless card.

Started up, still up.
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Intrepid Ibex

No time for posting I’m too busy monkeying around with a distro of Linux, Ubuntu 8.10. I’m in for some serious fun as it doesn’t recognize the wireless card in the Dell laptop I’m installing it on.

Back to the command line in a terminal window (those weren’t the days), Step 1 get and install some drivers:
sudo apt-get install cabextract
wget ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp34001-34500/sp34152.exe
cabextract sp34152.exe

At first it didn’t install because it didn’t recognize the command ‘cabextract’. When I got that working I couldn’t complete step 2:
sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf

Didn’t recognize ‘ndiswrapper.’ I did discover that it will connect to the internet if I plug in the cat5 cable straight from the router. Tomorrow I’ll figure out this wrapper thing.

Started up, still up.
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The Geography Of The Sexes

WOMAN
Between 18 and 22, a woman is like Africa, half discovered, half wild, fertile and naturally beautiful!

Between 23 and 30, a woman is like Europe, well developed and open to trade, especially for someone with cash.

Between 31 and 35, a woman is like Spain, very hot, relaxed and convinced of her own beauty.

Between 36 and 40, a woman is like Greece, gently aging but still a warm and desirable place to visit.

Between 41 and 50, a woman is like Great Britain, with a glorious and all conquering past.

Between 51 and 60, a woman is like Israel, has been through war and doesn’t make the same mistakes twice, takes care of business.

Between 61 and 70, a woman is like Canada, self-preserving, but open to meeting new people.

After 70, she becomes Tibet, wildly beautiful, with a mysterious past and the wisdom of the ages…only those with an adventurous spirit and a thirst for spiritual knowledge visit there.

MAN
Between 1 and 70, he is like Iran, ruled by nuts.

Red Shirt

Although originating in Star Trek, the term “redshirt” has been used in commentary on other action adventure stories, particularly serialized television. As a plot device, redshirts are most commonly used on shows which focus on characters who are prominent members of a larger group. In terms of plot function, redshirts serve to highlight the danger of a situation without forcing writers to sacrifice lead characters.

February is National Heart Month and this coming Friday is Wear Red Day 2009 to support the fight against heart disease in women.

For whatever convoluted reason our company nurse decided to pass around a memo last week to try and get everyone to wear red today, Monday, February 2nd and in spite of what happened to Frogurt while wearing a red shirt in last week’s episode of TDTVS…

…I took my life into my hands and wore a red sweater to work today. Obviously because I am home sitting on the couch in a yellow shirt, nothing bad happened to me on today’s “away mission.”

Started down, went up, still up.
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87,000 Pieces Of Spanish Moss

We traveled straight to Florence on the interstate to have breakfast with Donna’s cousin (Hi Laurie) and came back entirely off of it. Last night we looked for someplace along the return to catch a walk in the woods, Pointsett State Park fit the bill perfectly. While trying to follow the photo copied trail map we came to where we thought was our additional loop and started along it. It took us about a 1/4 mile before we were positive we were following the park’s border fire break and turned around. Sure enough, about 50 yards down the rejoined trail, there was the plainly marked Hill Top Loop. We are definitely going to make a return trip to this park the next time we are over this way.

Somewhere southwest of Columbia the (recently sponge bathed) Emperor passed through the 87,000 mile mark.

Started up, went down, still down.
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