Category: General

The committee at work…Star-Tribune, 24-Jul-2011

From the Star-Tribune, 20-Jul-2011

The rumors are flying that OS X Lion will be released today.  That’s great, but I need to upgrade my hard drive first; that 240GB internal drive I have just isn’t gonna cut it anymore.

The day got started late.  Since we didn’t finish the Trivial Pursuit game until 00:30 following a rendition of Happy Birthday to me at midnight and then lots of playing our favorite novelty songs for another half hour to each other, we really didn’t get out of bed until 10:00, then by the time I…

We arrived in Gorham, Maine about 11:45 for the 75th annual Lord Family reunion and visited with about 100 of our nearest and dearest.  Potluck lunch was great, and we visited with a bunch of folks.Later in the afternoon, we went up to camp on Sebago Lake for another dinner that couldn’t be beat; watched…

An uneventful day of driving yesterday.  We made it as far as Sturbridge, MA before we packed it in and pulled up to the Hampton Inn to catch a little shuteye.We did have a bird strike on the highway in Pennsylvania when it tried to fly across the freeway and didn’t quite get enough altitude…

With the state government shut down, there wasn’t much holding me back from going to the reunion, so I packed up my stuff and headed out yesterday at 08:30.In Wisconsin there was a little median fire that I passed just as it was getting started, and wondered what could have set it.  Then about 100…