{"id":332,"date":"2007-06-12T08:56:16","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T08:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/2007\/06\/12\/no-witty-title-this-time-my-quote-file-is-elsewhere\/"},"modified":"2007-06-12T08:56:16","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T08:56:16","slug":"no-witty-title-this-time-my-quote-file-is-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/no-witty-title-this-time-my-quote-file-is-elsewhere\/","title":{"rendered":"No witty title this time, my quote file is elsewhere."},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, first post from the mountain.  <\/span>I wanted to post this about three days ago, but I’ve been real busy, so sorry about not writing in a while.  <\/span>Lots of things going on, which will take presidence in these posts, instead of the normal mix of events, links of interests and funny things from the web.<\/p>\n

On the way up to camp for the season, I stopped at the scenic overlook for the first time in all the years I’ve come up here.  <\/span>I took some pictures, so look for them when I get home and have the time to format them for a gallery.  <\/span>I stopped to grab a geocache (there is one on the way down the mountain too which I’ll get at a later date), and in the process, found a steak knife in the grass.  <\/span>Odd, yes, but not totally out of place I guess.<\/p>\n

Moving into the house was fine, I didn’t change a whole lot in my room, it’s cozy, and very functional, which is the most important thing really.  <\/span>Again, I’ll take some pictures and post them when I’m home and have the time to format them for a gallery.<\/p>\n

Speaking of which, I’m hoping Joomla! 1.5 comes out soon.  <\/span>I did some beta testing of it, and I like it a lot, although there were of course a few bugs.  <\/span>But the sooner it comes out, the more widespread it can be used\/tested which will provide more support.  <\/span>So hopefully it is released soon, everyone learns how to use it and updates extensions, then I come home and can update the site to 1.5 with minimal problems (and hopefully update the gallery software as well).  <\/span>We’ll see, chances are it won’t happen that way, since it would be most beneficial to me.<\/p>\n

Speaking of other technical problems, the last day before I came up to camp, I wanted to pop into URU to grab this month’s calendar spark…and of course, things blew up in my face.  <\/span>The new GameTap client decided to delete all my game data, and when I tried to redownload URU, it downloads it and then promptly deletes it.  <\/span>It is a problem that has been around for a while it seems, and I was talking with tech support for hours with no solution in sight.  <\/span>I’m actually pretty upset about it, and still haven’t heard back from the tech supervisors.  <\/span>Not that it would do me much good, I’m not at my computer anyway.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure if I wrote about it before, but I helped my mom pack up at Evergreen, which was a lot of fun, I’m getting good at covering bulletin boards with large sheets of paper quickly.<\/p>\n

Anyway, back to camp life: The first night I was here, Kevin took us out to dinner, which was very nice.  <\/span>We went to a place I hadn’t been before, Kurt’s I believe, it’s right before Lonestar if you’re traveling down route 40.  <\/span>Another first: I got to ride in the Escalade yesterday.  <\/span>I had incorrectly thought it was my first time inside a Cadillac, but then I remembered Mr. Rataic’s car.<\/p>\n

I was helping to clean out the Pathfinder Trading Post, and a bird got inside while we were loading the van.  <\/span>We eventually got it down to the game room, which has three doors to the outside, so I trapped it in there while we opened the outside doors.  <\/span>I kept flying around and almost dive bombing me each time it made a loop, I felt like I was “The Birds.”<\/p>\n

My monitor on my desk is really awesome, it’s on a swivel base, so I can turn it very easily without any problem.  <\/span>Maybe I’m just easily amused, I don’t know, but I like it!<\/p>\n

I’m getting the hang of the phone system.  <\/span>There are still a few quirks, but I’m getting it.  <\/span>I’m also generally getting more comfortable with my job.  <\/span>I’m still nervous, since there is a fair amount that has changed since I worked here last, but I enjoy the work, and I love the people I live and work with, so that makes all the difference.<\/p>\n

I did have a steak today, which is very strange for me, seeing as I usually only have steak at the Vigil Steak Breakfast at Spring Ceremonial, but it was dinner.  <\/span>We’ve had all kinds of fresh fruit, and lots of steamed broccoli, so I’ve been happy.  <\/span>I also had a great bowl of oatmeal this morning.<\/p>\n

Ok, one quick news story of interest: MIT has developed a way to transmit power wirelessly, even with obstructions in the way.  <\/span>It’s only about 40 percent efficient, and the materials needed take up a lot of space, but it is becoming a reality!  <\/span>There are news stories floating around about it, check it out.<\/p>\n

Tonight is Chaplain Jeff’s birthday, so happy birthday to him (in case he’s reading)!<\/p>\n

Ok, that’s it for now, I’m heading back into my script writing for Script Frenzy, I’m trying to stay on track, but I have a feeling I’m going to keep falling behind until the first week of program is behind us.  <\/span>Have a great one everybody!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok, first post from the mountain.  I wanted to post this about three days ago, but I’ve been real busy, so sorry about not writing in a while.  Lots of things going on, which will take presidence in these posts, instead of the normal mix of events, links of interests and funny things from the web. On […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelcrane.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}