The pumpkin patch visit

October 23, 2011, 1:23 pm

We had a lot of fun accompanying Dan, Janet, and the girls to the local pumpkin patch farm. I took about 100 photos and got one shot of the two girls sitting together. They may be twins but they are independently minded.

Elizabeth & Carolyn sitting together for a change

This one is […]

October 23rd, 2011 | Category: Family | Leave a comment

Revisiting my computer backup strategy

October 20, 2011, 8:38 pm

Since my disk crash in November of 2009 and subsequent implementation of a disk backup and archiving strategy, I’ve had no further disk crashes. I have, however, followed my backup plan carefully.

OSX Time Machine runs hourly and allows me to recover past versions of files. For a while, I could go back over a […]

October 20th, 2011 | Category: Computing | One comment

My lost GPS is returned by NPS

October 19, 2011, 5:11 pm

Wow! I’m impressed. Grand Teton National Park returned my lost Garmin 62s via overnight FedEx on their nickel. That’s great service. Because its recorded tracks were intact I can (I think) reconstruct what happened. Here’s the deal.

Karen and I had completed a nice 5.5 mile hike to Taggert Lake. As I took off my […]

October 19th, 2011 | Category: Outdoors | 2 comments
 
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