No, I don't work for Aperture Science.  

I just felt like posting that this blog is still alive and I have stuff to talk about.  My goals this summer range from geeky to mundane.  I plan on writing about the more geeky topics; the mundane ones are, mundane.

The short list of projects this summer include restoring a Neo-Geo arcade cabinent, a Star Wars pinball machine, and writing about the planning that I have doing for the home network.  In addition, I want to write about my experiences with bringing a lightweight photo gallery online for this site.  I am moving away from having the photos and pictures I have embedded in this blog and giving them a separate gallery for them to live in.  I decided to use the Gallery2 engine and I will write later how I came about to using that engine from the many others out there.

In addition, if I was not busy enough, I am going to write up entries about programming topics.  I need  to refresh my programming skills and I figured writing up lessons and explaining the topics will help me solidify my understanding.

This will be a very busy summer.

So my wife and I went for a hike out to Wallace Falls State Park.  I had a lot of fun!  Granted, the hike started out okay, but when we arrived at the lower falls viewpoint, we realized how out of shape we both are.  We had a choice of two hiking trails, the Woody Trail and the Railroad Grade Trail.  The Woody trail was only 1.8 (2.9 Km) miles long, but the change in elevation is 450 ft (137m).  In the end, the falls were beautiful and well worth the hike and the blisters.

Here are pictures of the falls.

So the website is pretty much online.  I'll be making tweaks as necessary.

But more importantly, the photos that I took at GasuKan on June 07 are now up.  You can find them here.

Enjoy!