Who knows what I might see

Found this place in Sunset Magazine at the library and was thinking of staying a night in a cabin.
"Watch out for wildlife including elk, deer, beer, coyotes, mountain lions, moose and occasional big horn sheep."
Guess those Coors commercials aren't exaggerating about lager flowing right out of the Colorado mountains.

Last look around for a while

 

From Old Mine Trail about a 1/4 mile below Rock Springs on Mt. Tam. My favorite lunch spot on the mountain (even though the Theater is only 5 minutes away)

Travel Tech Talk

So Chris J, who runs a hiking group I frequent, came up with the solution to: how to get pictures from my point-and-shoot onto the interwebs with just a smartphone and no laptop with me. Buy a microSD with an SD card adapter, put that in the point-and-shoot, transfer the microSD card into the smartphone and upload via 3G or Wi-Fi.

It works. Also, it's cheap. With Amazon Prime I got a 16GB card with the adapter delivered for $11. That's over 3500 pictures at my camera's highest resolution; about 30 pictures a day for a 4 month trip without having to delete. Louis CK is right, "Everything's amazing and nobody is happy"

It's not the most elegant system for the camping days as the transfer with grimy, sweaty, or cold fingers might not be easy. But I don't have to take any cables or hunt for internet cafes. The one thing missing: auto-downsizing. I'd like to be able to take and store pics in 10M or 6M but upload to Blogger in a much lower res/smaller file.  I'll play with the software after I'm done cleaning the above mess.

Build high for happiness!

The post title is a reference to the original Doctor Who in perhaps its last half-decent episode.
The 1st photo is my storage bin.

 

The 2nd photo is the glass that should have gone in the dishpack box on the right in the 1st photo

The death of mirth

I'm wrapping family china finger bowls with pages from an old dube catalog

Test for travel

I've not gone anywhere yet. Boxes are still being packed, blogging tools still evaluated, friends still being visited.
Notice how he's scrutinizing every nuance of my face so he doesn't forget me.

It's less than 3 weeks to departure and I still don't know where I'm sleeping that first night out.

Rules for Dating

Rules for dating:

#1 - You are not allowed to have any rules ;)

#2 - No rhetorical questions. EX: "Is that what you're going to wear?" Just say, "My friends' dinner party is more formal than the outfit you chose. Please change into your blue blazer. You look better in that anyway."

#3 - Money is just money it doesn't mean anything. I'll offer to pay for whatever I suggest we do. If you offer to pay for something, don't be surprised if I let you because I don't like to sit around playing the "who pays" game.

#4 - (advanced stages of dating) Even if requested to do so, I will not cause you any physical pain or allow you to cause me physical pain. Also, I will not be bound nor bind you. (non-violent hair pulling and mark-free biting exempted after trust is established)

#5 - (advanced stages of dating) The conscious me loves sharing the bed; please come over here. The unconscious me is mostly into sleeping and having it's own side of the bed.

#6 - I'll open the door for you if I get there first but I will not expend copious amounts of extra energy to ensure I always get there first. Opening the door for you is neither a sign of chivalrous submission nor male chauvinism; it is only a courtesy.

#7 - If you've had one alcoholic drink in the last hour or three or more total, I will not let you drive.

#7a - If you've had two or more drinks, you're not even getting to first base. I only do well-informed consent. I want the woman to want ME; not to just want SOME.

#8 - There is no implied monogamy before the appearance of a nipple. After such an appearance, parties who wish to remain non-monogomaous must explicitly declare so and then later explicitly declare when they do want to be monogamous.

#9 - All rules may be voided by mutual consent (but seriously, I don't think I'm relenting on anything except #1)

#10 - If we're out at dinner and I'm boring; you can eavesdrop on the table next to us but you have to tell me if there is something interesting going on over there.

#11 - no cutesy-pie nicknames if you can still count the number of dates.

#12 - If it's dark out, I'm walking you to your car.


These are the "rules" but rules are by definition prohibitions and dating shouldn't be about what one is NOT going to do.