Omnifarious: July 2007 Archives

We've been planning a week long camping trip with friends for about 6 months now. It's amazing how much you still save until the last minute, even with the best intentions of planning early. I'm still psyched about the trip though. There will be 6 of us altogether; Josh and Stacie are coming from Milwaukee, Adhamh is coming from Iowa and he will be bringing his girlfriend from Indiana. We're going first to Northern Wisconsin, to a wonderful campground that Alex and I have visited before (about 2 years ago). We also decided to avoid driving through Chicago and we're taking the ferry across Lake Michigan to Wisconsin. I'm looking forward to the 4 hours it will take to ferry across the lake where we can hang out on the boat and not be in the car (plus there's beer on board, gotta love that). The longest ferry trip I've been on is 30 minutes to Kelley's Island in Lake Erie, so this will be new for me. I love being on the lakes though so I am really looking forward to it!

We'll spend about four days in Wisconsin, everybody else will head home and Alex and I are going to camp by ourselves in the Upper Peninsula, not too far from Wisconsin. Then we'll make the trek home through the UP. I think it's going to be a great time, but I will not have access to the internet for about one week. I fear the state of my email when I return. I'll have to be vigilant about posting my pictures when I get home. The last week long camping trip we did we came home with about 200 pictures from the trip and it took me about a year and a half to finally get all of them posted to Flickr.

Me as a Simpson's Character
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I do realize that my blog posting has been lame of recent. It does seem that when I do finally get to blogging and end up writing more lame posts like this. I won't apologize for that though, that's just the way life and blogging goes with me sometimes.

First things first, I'm posting this in Word 2007! We'll have to wait until I'm done to see how well that works though. It was pretty easy to set up and I may just continue to use this to post entries. I tend to install too many blog apps that either end up not working or aren't exactly what I hoped they would be once I got them working.

I have received my new computer so hopefully there will be minimal complaining in the computer area (at least until 3 years from now until this one dies). I have a shiny new HP with all sorts of neat things and Windows Vista. Now that I've been using Vista for about a week or so I have to say that I do like it. At first I called it "cool and annoying at the same time" but it feels more like the "kinder, gentler Microsoft." The error messages seem a bit more helpful (if not a little too frequent). I've heard from others that it's slow, but this doesn't seem to be the case for me yet. I think it's snappy and I even like the nifty vista-like animations. I haven't had much of a problem running my old applications on it, but I've only been installing things as I need them. Now, I just need to keep it running this way and I'll be happy.

I did have a list of things I wanted to post about, but those are stored on my other computer, and I have been neglecting that one since I got the new one. One post I had in my mind is how to sync GPS tracking data with your digital images to auto geocode your pictures. I ran a little test a few weeks ago but I never wrote about that. The bummer is that the one utility that worked the best is only available for XP, but everything else runs fine on Vista...I suppose this is why I'm hanging on to my old computer.

If you don't see me around my blog this summer I'll probably be doing one of these things; geoaching, something for my class, working, camping (in August, yea!), more geocaching. We attended a geocaching event a few weekends ago, we'll be attending a least 3 more until September (not including our camping trip which will be week long geocaching with our friends). We're eagerly awaiting the Midwest GeoBash in Kendallville, IN, presently there are 915 people signed up to attend. That's a lot of GPS receivers in one place :)

What I really wanted to do this summer is some website maintenance; I've been meaning to update the site for some time now. Things never go the way we plan though, oh well.

Hopefully some real blog posts are on the way (I know I said that last time I posted a lame post).