So yeah, we’re back home (as of last night), but I didn’t write anything last night since I was a bit on the order of ‘don’t want to do anything but sit and/or sleep.’

So I didn’t. Sorry.

I also got a bit sidetracked tonight in working with pictures (and geotagging some), so I’m going to leave this post on the shorter order as well. But, I am trying something kinda cool with a picture that if I get some more time to work on it will display sometime in the next few days. That’d be neat.

Our weekend was pretty busy. We spent most of the day Friday getting things done around the house. I spent a few quality hours outside mowing the lawn, an activity from which I received a bit of a sunburn. Not to worry, though, after a day or two it’d all faded out to my normal tan. So nothing requiring anything more than some aloe vera gel.

The remainder of the long holiday weekend was spent at Beth’s folks’ place. In some ways it was nice to really not be doing much of anything, but in other ways it would’ve been nice to have some time to work on other projects here at home. Ah well, Kirstin got to meet her cousin Evan for more than a few hours and also got to see her uncle Josh for the first time. So that was cool. Also got to see some other people on Sunday.

We went to the Bovey Farmers Day Parade on Monday, which was pretty cool. It was a really large parade — I was quite surprised by that. I’ve got several pictures from it in a set over on Flickr.

We discovered a very nice Chinese restaurant in Little Falls on our way home on Monday (Labor Day). I was quite impressed with the place, and if we have time in the future (and feel like eating Chinese) we’ll have to stop there again on our long trek North. It’s a good place to stop, being roughly halfway between destinations. Especially with Kirstin now.

Today was back to the mill, which is always a bit difficult on the first day after a long weekend. It went alright — but just slow as one would expect. 🙂 I accomplished some neat things related to a pretty major database engine upgrade today, so that makes me feel a lot better about a track we’re shooting for to make the entire scalable system completely Vista compatible. The app itself has no issue with Vista; it’s actually the database engine that doesn’t like it (or cannot be installed, more appropriately).

Anyway, I’m really starting to yawn now, so I’m calling it a night. I’ll likely have a topic or two about which to ramble tomorrow. I’ve got some things I need to jot down to help jog my memory…

Until next time…

“Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

–MZ