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I had to share with everyone that I saw this. A fine piece of Americana.

More Fractals

I've managed to render a few more images, the top taking almost 45 hours. These have both been resized for sharing, and the originals are in uncompressed .bmp files. Comments are welcome....

Surprise!

I can now say that April is quite adept at coordinating a surprise for me. With an almost flawless execution. To see what happened please follow this link to the web gallery.

As I get more pictures from people, or websites where they are posted, I will post/link them here.

Many thanks to those of you who made it, and the ones who also put effort to remind me how old I am.

Again, Thank You.

Volo Auto Museum

Today was a day spent with automobiles that were, for the most-part, older than me. It was spent with April, with our nephews joining us for lunch, chauffeured by their mom of course. We spent the whole day wandering through the displays, seeing a wide variety of cars you don't generally see all together like that. If by chance I had a little more $$$$$ with me, I might have purchased one or two [Yes, many on display are for sale!].

To check out the highlights, follow this link.

To check out the Museum's site, follow the link in the title of this post.

Monster Update! Ages Overdue!

I'm back!

News flash #1

We've Moved! April & I are now in Woodridge, IL.

It's been a few weeks of fun and moving. We hired movers to get the bulk of our items moved[Loved that!]. We spent the first 3 1/2 weeks without the internet. AT&T isn't the company they pitch in the ads. We spent 2 weeks just waiting to hear from them about why they couldn't hook-up/turn on our access. Comcast[though vastly more expensive], came through in 3 days, no problems, and we were zipping on the net in all of 20 minutes. The following day, we heard from AT&T, They can have a tech out here to actually look at the problem in 4 days [3 1/2 weeks from the original hook-up date]. Um, sorry, we went elsewhere.

For those of you keeping track of the addresses I've had, this is #12 since leaving high school. Only a few more, right?

News Flash#2!

Since the middle of January, I've been slowly rebuilding my desktop computer. Having four 500Gb hard drives arrayed to mirror 1Tb wasn't as stable as I'd hoped, and they crashed, one quickly followed by a second in less than a few hours[4 month old drives, which I am still trying to get replaced with Seagate]. This proved to only compund the lack of internet in the new appartment. It's up and running with an older drive, and a different disc setup will be used when the new drives arrive. Of course, when you rebuild a computer, you don't get parts to fix the problem, you get newer, better parts that don't have the old problems, and cost more. Upgrade while you make the changes! Well, I'm running a dual core now, wow. This also means new RAM, DDR3, which hasn't really come down in price yet[And I'd like to get 2Gb more]. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

News Flash #3!

Recurrent Corneal Erosion. Don't get this! A.K.A. Don't Scratch Your Eye! I've been experiencing this since about the beginning of November, and have had several painful episodes. According to my doctors [I've seen 6, I think, a few to be certain], the healing process can take 6-8 months. The trick is keeping the eye moist enough that it doesn't cause friction when you blink, thus rubbing your cornea against the eylid, which in turn causes cells of the cornea to break loose and roam the eye socket. Besides the blured vision, it's actually quite painful when it happens. Go figure.

News Flash #4!

Between episodes of eye and computer problems, I've had a fractal program passed along to me. I like fractals. "I Drew a fractal on a braken wall, I see you my friend..."-Seal The program of choice is called Apophysis, and is currently freeware. I have achived some remarkable results in only a few weeks. Here are two low res samples

Waiting at Bill Jacobs Volkwagen

It's time for April's Bug to get an inspection, and I sit waiting for her.

She was downtown reading for a radio station again. She has some fun, and expands her voice over potential with each reading.

That's it for today...

Catching up

It's been three weeks since my last post. I have been hindered by a complete loss of my hard drives [1Tb, mirrored]. If one fails, you get a chance to recover, but when two go, well, let's just say I have yet to recover any useable data. As it stands right now, things are getting back on track, with a different system in place, although I haven't gotten my replacement drives, yet.

Friday is the day we sign on our first appartment together, it will be a busy weekend. On a side note, should anyone be looking for something to do Saturday, we could always use a bit of help getting things moved, just pop me an e-mail.

So between getting my desktop up and fuctioning again, packing, and putting together a feasable plan with April for the weekend, it will be an interesting week.

More to follow soon...