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Ok, I have spent a few days trying to gather together my photographs so I can upload them to my website. I ran into a few difficulties. On Friday my hard drive decided to crash. It is still running, kind-of, but with intermittent and random failures. I bought a new hard drive but I want to get everything backed up off of my old one as best I can before I install it. I tried gathering all my photographs from the past two years between both my wife's camera and my own. I know I missed a bunch along the way but, nevertheless, the photo album is more or less representative of the past two years of my life, or at least the parts where I brought a camera and remembered to take a photograph. I have not annotated the gallery yet, that will take yet a bunch more time. I ran into another problem when I tried to upload the photo gallery. My ftp site seems to keep stalling out every time I load 15-20 files. So I have been uploading them piecemeal. Right now I have uploaded the entire H...
Ok, a lot of people have been wondering why I haven't updated my blog since my trip. I haven't updated it because I haven't had the time. My intention is to make a single, very large entry, that covers a lot of material. My primary goal is to upload a large photo-library of not only my trip but other activities in recent months. I did end up getting to Zurich and, yes, I did miss my tours. However, on Wenseday, which was my birthday, we ended up doing the tour I originally planned. We held our meetings on the train and at a cafe in Lucern. It was well worth it, because Mount Pilatus was breathtaking. I took many photographs which I plan to upload. However, the simple fact is, that when you take something which is so breathaking as the natural beauty of the Alps looking like they are floating in outer space above the cloud deck, and then try to cram it onto a flat photograph it does little to convey the majesty of the scene. My friend Simon and his lovely girlfriend was so k...
Sigh, I'm supposed to be on an airplane on my way to Zurich Switzerland right now. Instead I find myself sitting at home rather bummed out. I am supposed to be in Zurich on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of next week for a series of business meetings. So that the trip would be a little extra fun I booked it so I could be there for part of the day on Saturday and a full non-jet-lagged day on Sunday. I had two tours booked, one of the city of Zurich, that included a ride on the lake, and a big ten hour tour on Sunday was going to take me through Luzern and then the alps. Now I will be unable to use either tour and the money is non-refundable. Instead I'm going to frantically try to fly out tomorrow in a hellacious day of travel that will start early in the morning, have a six hour layover (if I'm lucky) and end up finally coming out of customs late in the morning on Sunday. And all of that, if I'm lucky enough to get there at all. Apparently there is a tropical sto...
I was searching the Internet this evening; bad idea. I was searching on topics related to Freemasonry since, afterall, that is the wacky religious cult that I have recently joined. Naturally I ran across lots of extremely negative material out there. Most of it from fundamentalist Christians. Again, no real surprise. What really freaks me out, and I never seem to quite get over this, is in the cases where these 'antis' use what I view as extremely uplifting and positive material as *evidence* that some organization is evil, bad, and wrong. How completely discouraging. You know, I have created a website that to some implies it has, at it's core, some atheistic philosophy. However, I have come to realize, with quite a degree of certainity over this past year, that I am most definitely *not* an atheist. I just don't agree with the definition of the word God promolugated by fundamentalist Christians. I have come to realize that I believe in my own definition of God ...