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Jul 15th 2009
Well, the first half of my vacation is pretty much over, so I figured I'd report on the trip out to Whetstone Gulf State Park on Monday.
The weather ended up being beautiful. We were a little iffy on going because of the forecast of rain in the afternoon, but the entire time we were out there, the weather was perfect. Sunny, but not too warm… excellent outdoor activity weather.
The activities ended up getting cut a little short. There's a trail that runs around the gorge that the park is built on and we were going to try that…but it ended up being a little too much to handle and eventually we turned back.
The picnic area was as awesome as I remembered, right next to the creek. The park was pretty much empty once you got away from the swimming area, so we found a nice shady spot next to he creek and settled in for the grilling of steaks, the eating of deviled eggs and the peanut butter pie that was made for the occasion. Hopefully we can wander back out that way some weekend for another picnic and to attempt one of the less aggressive trails…
It was a little weird going back there as I really haven't been out there for years. It was more a place from my early childhood memories and less an actual place. Naturally, the biggest thing was that the park seemed so much smaller than I actually remembered it. The road running through the park was much much smaller than I thought it was, thinking of it.
All in all it ended up being a pretty nice day. Like I said, hope we get a chance to wander back there in the future. Well, I will be back there in August probably, as we're doing a family meeting type thing there. Whetstone is the official campground of my moms side of the family, so it makes sense that's the venue for the gathering of peoples.
I took a couple more pictures, which can be found over here
Phew!
Jul 10th 2009
I just finished a majority of the new development on this large project that I've been doing for work. Just in time for my 4 day vacation. Woohoo!
I've been pushing up against this deadline (after sorta missing the first one. Oops) all week and I didn't know if I was going to be able to make it. But I spent pretty much all last night working on finishing up one section of the project at home and all day today getting the rest done…and it's done. Major stress level decrease.
The stress levels weren't helped at all though by the fact that the host of my personal website nopurpose.org was hacked Wednesday evening. This wouldn't be a big deal, since I don't really use the website for anything critical, except that I DO use the e-mail as my main account. So I've been without reliable e-mail for the past couple days.
I eventually decided I was going to jump ship to a different (more reliable) host that I've been using for several years already. And that I was going to move my domain's e-mail over to Google Apps. So now my main e-mail address is powered by Gmail pretty much. It's working pretty well so far. I've had it set up for 4-5 hours. It's pretty neat having gmail be your webmail interface.
Which clears the deck for a relaxing little vacation. My friends and I are going to go out to Whetstone Gulf state park on Monday. Whetstone is the source of a lot of childhood memories for me since my family went up there camping fairly often when I was younger. It's been a VERY long time since I've been there. But we're going up Monday to do some hiking and some grilling of steaks for dinner. Looking forward to that a lot. Also some other activities planned, but I've been looking forward to the trip to the park so much that the other stuff has slipped my mind…
I'll be sure to post some pictures from the trip up here later in the week.
EDIT: Oh, maintenance situation update. We got our oven fixed, thankfully. The leak situation still remains, but they're putting gutters up this weekend…so they say. I'll believe it when I see it, of course.
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