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Fanny packs are better protected from pickpockets by camouflaging them as a bun in the oven. HA!

Today marks the day that we first met two years ago at Atrias in Warrendale PA. Since then a lot has happened. It seems so long ago now.

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So I found out today that my Adata 4GB CF cards are waterproof. Add to that detergent-proof, dryer-proof, getting hit with zippers and jeans proof as well. One of my cards survived the entire trip through the wash and dryer with all the data on it perfectly in tact. Sweet!

If you are interested, and you should be if you use CF cards (not Eric though, as he is using girly-man SD cards) here's the info on them and the price.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820211047

Most cameras do not take advantage of the high-speed functions of some of these cards and are limited by the size of the buffer on their cameras or by the firmware loaded on them. These are 120X speed which has shown to be plenty for me with my Nikons. So, buy em up I say!

Well I am typing to you now from the keyboard of my HP laptop. It now has a new hard drive. I bought it today and installed the OS on it. The old drive is going into an external enclosure so I can access all my old files via USB. So far so good. It just sucks having to track down all those drivers.

I'll tell you more later and have an update for you about our trip to San Francisco later on.

Yes, it's time for another update from the guy who can't seem to stay on top of the blog thing. I started these things up and was gung ho when it came to fixing up the servers them and all. But, I am the one who can't seem to get the time to put my 2 cents on here. Michele is really good at keeping her's updated.

I any case, my laptop has had a fatal run-in with a variant of the sasser worm which has rendered it unable to boot past the windows login. It got violent when I tried to remove it. No biggie though, just an annoyance really. I need to yank the hard drive and back up the data on the second partition and then it's scorched earth for the puppy. Just a re-installation...of everything I stuck on it in the past two years. Feh!

The Jeep has had some upgrades as well. The air box has had a face-lift where I removed the entire front face of it to increase the air flow to the throttle body. It works great. I am now toying around with building a chiller for the air box that will cool the air before it goes into the filter. Even if it's only a drop of 10-20 degrees from ambient it will be a boost in efficiency and horse power.

It will soon be getting a few inches added to it in the suspension and later on some larger tires. nothing monster truck, just an inch or two larger than what is on it now. The rocker panels will be cut out completely and replaced with rock rails. The frame will get an upgrade too.

Thanks to the welder I will be building a new rear bumper for the Jeep with a tire carrier as well. And, my good old roof rack will be coming back. I'm designing it now.

My friend Tim, who I worked with at CMU, and his wife now have a baby daughter, Sophia. I will post the pic I was sent when I get my laptop working.

And, Michele and I are headed to San Francisco this weekend for our anniversary / honeymoon. We never got a honeymoon. Things went pretty fast once we got married. This past year has been something else. Getting married alone was huge but with moving across the country and getting new jobs added to it, it's been exciting and interesting. And, through all of it I am ever so happy that I have had Michele to experience it with. I love Michele and I don't know what I would do without her. She is the best thing ever to happen to me.

We'll be eating our cake when we get back on Monday.

Till then, bye bye yall. I'll type at ya later.