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I seem to be in a writing slump as of late.

So much is going on at work that I really can't talk to anyone about. Very few people would find CALEA or dual ACL applications via Radius interesting. And really the number of people I can talk to about I/O memory upgrade requirements on a Juniper 1400 is easily countable on one hand.

Today I learned nothing. Not a darn thing. No life lesson's, no meaningful epiphanies, no parting of the clouds for the sun to shine through.

i'm playing around with online widgets....

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Today for the first time I finally beat the chess game on my cell phone. You wouldn't believe how hard that damn thing is to play.

- Baby dies in bucket of mother's own vomit. Sometimes the headlines just write themselves.

- I want everyone who knows me to be aware of this date.

- And finally, what happens to 50lbs of silly putty when dropped off a 7 story building. Not quite what you might expect.

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I just got a windows Vista RC 1 dvd in the mail today....guess I know what I'll be doing later on today/tomorrow.

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Well it's been over a year, but I finally moved the last Redback tonight in San Francisco.

Phew! What a pain in the butt that was.

I've been listening to a lot of Sirius Boombox lately, especially with all the work around the house I've been doing and I wish I could get that damn Lady Sovereign song out of my head. Damn british rap and it's slighty addictive accent.

oh lord, this is funny.

It's 4:15am...I think I need to go so sleep now. Very tired and obviously not making much sense

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Part of a continuing saga...you can find the previous parts here:
part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4

The next day, while our sore behinds were still recovering from the bicyling adventure we took, we arrived in Skagway. It was a cloudy and over cast day to begin, and we were also the only boat in town at the moment, so the whole place was deserted pretty much at first.

Interesting thing we learned during the course of the day. LIke 60% of the town were seasonal workers from all over, it was like some giant Great America theme part, and when tourist season was over most of the people boarded up everything and left. I can only imagine how creepy that place gets around December.

We had signed up for Rock Climbing and Rappelling in Skagway, so we got off the boat early in the morning and started the long walk down the pier looking for our "guide". One of the more unusual things about skagway is a lot of boats tag the rock face that's next to the pier. I mean, there was stuff on there from as far back as when I was in high school.

Anyway we found our "guide" and climbed into the omnipresent ford econo van's that every town seems to have and drove out to a trail on the side of the road. Then we got out and took this really cool little hike to where the rock wall was. After donning helmets, rock shoes, and a harness that emphasized my bulges we were ready to scale the craggy peaks. Since there were two guides, only two could go at a time. What happens is they tie a rope to your harness and basically keep that line taunt the whole way up, so that way if you fell...well you wouldn't fall. I'm sure you get the idea, you'll see the ropes in the pictures. Also, it's how you get down....basically once you get to the top and touch the chain, you lean back. Yes...lean back and they lower you down. I had a hard time with that part...leaning back from a perfectly solid rock wall isn't really in my programming.

After everyone gets a turn or two (depending on whether they want it or not) then the group heads up to the top to rappel down the side of the rock wall. This personally scared the crap out of me, but really it was a lot of fun. Jen had already been repelling in the past so she wasn't really excited about it. But I'm a cheap date :)

Once done, they gave some people the option to either rappel again or climb more based on what you wanted. Or you could get out of the stupid shoes and harness if you were so inclined. Then it was a quick hike back and a short trip to the boat. On the way Jen got some recommendations from the guides on what to do and where to go during the afternoon. It turned out to be great advice. After we got back to the boat, changed clothes a bit and freshened up a bit we headed back out to the local tourist lodge for a map of the hiking trails around the area.

We decided to go hiking on a trail called Lower Dewey, and boy I have to tell you it was pretty damn cool. Forget paying for expensive things, some of the coolest stuff you can do is free. But don't let the short lenght fool you, the real bitch here is elevation. You go up like 500 feet and it's a bear. Now here's the weirdest thing. So we get to lower dewey lake finally, and where sitting there in the middle of nowhere....total forest...but somehow I've got full bars on my cell phone. I literally sat there for 10 minutes talking to my sister in the middle of nowhere. It was a little surreal.

Then we made a big decision...we decided instead of heading back to go around dewey lake. This was both smart and dumb. It was smart because it was cool...but it was dumb because it was hella hard. Once side of dewey lake is nice and large, with paths the size of bike paths that are obviously cared for and maintained. The other side of dewey lake however is not, the path get's down to about a foot wide at parts (when you can even see it) and it takes you over rocks, boulders, and just some down right crazyness. It was really cool :)

After that we headed into town, had a few beers and then back to the boat to collapse. It was a lot of fun, totally free, but really kicked my butt. Some better shoes would have really helped.

next time, glacier bay...

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Our honeymoon pictures can be seen here, and a slideshow is available here.

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I had really hoped to get to do a 5th post about our honeymoon today, but I just simply ran out of time.

So in lue of that I present these links as a temporary offering:

- A motorcycle rollercoaster. Yeah I didn't get it until I looked at the pics either, but now that I've seen it I think it's hella cool.

- Did you know that in some suburbs of Chicago, if you live in a townhome or any other multi dwelling unit you aren't allowed to own a grill? That's just crazy.

- Finally a wedding ring that reminds you your anniversary is coming up. At least in theory....sounds like a brilliant idea, I was wishing mine had an LED or something in it the other day so I could play green lantern see in dark places.

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So I was reading an article on Yahoo News today when an ad on the side caught my eye.

And when I say "caught my eye" what I really mean is annoyed me enough to make me look. Much like a very fat old hairy man in a speedo I was powerless to avert my eye's. The googles indeed, do nothing.

Here is a screen capture of the specific ad in question:

Now what you can't see in my capture is that the two sillouette's are dancing back and forth in the moonlight constantly. Back and forth like the front of K.I.T.T on Knight Rider.....they never stop shaking what their mama's gave them. Long after you and I pass from this mortal coil, these two will be so excited about their mortgage rates they will be dancing on your grave.

If you don't believe me, click this to see the ad directly.

Now I have a few problems.
1. The only way to only pay $1,698 per month on a $510,000 loan is to figure it for 50 years...and even then your going to end up paying 3x's the loan amount in the end
2. What the FUCK do two people dancing in front of the moon have to FUCKING do with a FUCKING mortgage????? What stupid mother fucking asshole signed off on this thinking that "hey, this speaks to our demographic, dancing nocturnal people looking for a mortgage"

I've been seeing these for a while, stupid ones like a bear holding a fish, or the one's where every scale on a snake is a different state for car insurance.

The simple fact that something thinks something like this was good enough to make me interested pisses me off. Not to mention that you have to be a fucking moron if you think your paying two much for your mortage. If anything your not paying enough. Low mortgage monthly payments are just a scam by the banks to keep you paying more on your loan so they can line their pockets with it.

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It's very rare when an artist you loved as a child still makes you laugh...I mean donny osmond? seth green? wtf...that's just to funny.

15 years later, and I'm still proud that I saw UHF in the theaters back in '89.

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Part of a continuing saga...you can find the previous parts here:
part 1
part 2
part 3

Next stop Juneau, but before that we've got a lot of sea to cover. Along the way you might see some things you normally wouldn't. Like tug boats transporting shipping containers or playful whales.

The next day we arrived in Juneau, and were welcomed with typical Alaskan weather. Pouring rain. We spent most of the morning walking around doing more touristy things and just sort of exploring the town. We had planned to buy tickets for the Mt. Roberts Tram, so we could go up the hill and see the view. But considering the weather we wouldn't have been able to see anything except cloud up there. So we basically just killed time until the afternoon when we had the Glacier View Bike and brew.

Now keep in mind, this entire time it's pouring rain. It turns out Juneau's annual rainfall ranges from 55 inches to over 90 depending on location. So needless to say we were a little curious about whether or not they were going to actually cancel the tour.

Remember that point I made in the beginning? If not let me recap; They don't get paid if they cancel, so things rarely get cancelled. So yeah, guess what we did. If you guessed went biking in the absolute pouring rain you'd be right. Now they give you rain gear, but really in the end....it's still pouring rain and your basically perspiring inside a hefty bag so your gonna get drenched nomatter what you do.

Now it wasn't all bad...honestly I really started having alot of fun once they got us off the roads, and onto the trails. Those where a hell of a lot of fun, there was this part where the trail had been basically washed out by water, and we had to convice this 60 year old guy to not chicken out and cross so we wouldn't have to turn around. And his wife was giving him shit about how everybody else wanted to go and he was being a wimp. The best part is later on the ride when she casually mentions how he had his hip replaced like just 2 months ago. YIPES!

So we travel 9 miles, and get to a stopping point where we return the bikes. Now the next stop is supposed to be Mendenhall Glacier, but you can't ride the bike down into that area. So here we are dripping wet, my glasses are fogging up every time I breath, and a little sore from riding for the longest time since I was 15. What do you think is next? It turns out they can't drive you down there, you have to walk 1/3 of a freakin' mile to go stare at a chunk of ice.....and when we got there, you couldn't even see the damn thing.

Yeah, that last part kinda chapped my hide. But at least we were heading to a brewery right? When we got there like 1/2 hour later, the sun started poking out and we headed inside for the free beer mecca we dreamed of. The inside of their tasting room was pretty cool, they had a shelf running around the room up top with all different beer bottles on it arranged by country. It really was cool, but their brewery tour was kinda lame. They don't actually let you out into it, but rather they have a room with windows that you stand in and they tell you about how beer is made. Which if your like us, you already know....so we left and went back to pound more free beer :)

Probably one of the best brews (no barley wines alas) was their oatmeal stout, it was very very drinkable. And if it was available locally here we'd buy it in a heart beat. They were very cool there, and it was obvious that a lot of locals like to hang out there for the free beer. Of course we didn't snap any pictures while we were there, after all we were focused on drinking....but they made it all back in the knick knacks we bought. Plus we bought some beers to bring back to the boat with us.

After that we piled back onto the boat, headed back to the room and changed from our wet soggy clothes into warmer, dryer ones and pretty much just relaxed by walking around and playing the occasional ping pong game. There are few things are fun as drinking beer and trying to play ping pong on the open sea.

Tomorrow Skagway!
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Our honeymoon pictures can be seen here, and a slideshow is available here.

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Ever hear of the expression "fell into a pile of shit, and came out covered in gold"?

That pretty much sums up today for me, I was helping my sister move some stuff into our basement for storage (hey it's free, right?) and one of the boxes was a garage kit for a central vacuum system.

Now I have a central vac, I've written about it a few times. I also have an access port in the garage, but don't use it often because using the house hose in the garage usually get's something on it that really stains it. I gush about central vac's because they're awesome, super cool things that everyone should have. Trust me, if you don't have one, you need one. Even if you don't think you do. I'm going to have to override you on this one.

So anyway, we're hauling stuff down and she casually mentions that she was going to offer it to me if I wanted it but she thought I already had one.

WHAT?!!? Hell no I don't already have one, and damn straight I'd f**king love one.

I was so happy, I spent a 1/2 hour vacuuming the garage for no reason. Just looking for random things to suck up :) Those spiders can kiss my ass, the garage is mine again.

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Today I fixed the AllData computer network I setup at my sister's shop, and I changed the oil in my car.

Now I plan on doing nothing but taking a well earned shower, and playing some Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition. Or maybe some Radiata Stories.....but some where, there will be anime.

Oh yes, there will be Anime. :)

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I'm running a little behind on things lately. I'm finding that really in the world there just isn't enough time to get everything done, and there aren't enough competent people to count on to help you.

Had I been more "free" I certainly would have posted about this yesterday. Some guy taped bacon to his cat.

Again......some guy took a piece of tape (assuming sticky on one side and not on the other) and used it to affix delicious, but uncooked bacon to his cat.

Yes, he took pictures, and yes he put them online. Your welcome. With 5 cats, I could have been 5 times more cool had I only thought of this.

Remember this from Brain Donors? Only the coolest portable computer ever!

And I swear to god, you need to go watch this quickly. Journey to the Disney Vault:

Damn you youtube...why must you make embedding videos soooo tempting and easy *shakes fist*

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Part of a continuing saga...you can find the previous parts here:
part 1
part 2

So there we were, smack dab on a boat for 7 days surrounded by strangers and with no clue on what to do next. We were just impressed that we could find our way back to our room at this point. And the problem currently at hand was how to eat.

After walking around for a while and watching the scenery as the boat left the harbor and headed out to sea we found our way to the buffet in the front of the boat. Now let me explain something here....they have little places to get food and drinks during the day strewn about the ship, but you won't get anything out there more major than a burger and some fries. If you want a real meal you have two choices. Either dress up and get fancy (which usually requires a reservation well in advance) and eat downstairs, or you can slum it at the buffet. Guess where we ate?

The buffet on this boat was located on deck 14, right in the front of the ship. It allowed for a pretty nice view (front seats are hard to come by, old people covet them) but guess what part of the boat is the most affected by the waves? If you said front I'd have to agree with you. But that aside the buffet was actually pretty damn cool, and I was surprised at the number of vegetarian meals they had (if you eat fish that is). And the real rub is they serve the same food as downstairs, just without fancy scenery.

The only thing that really bothered me about this before you could enter, they had this automated antiseptic gel dispenser thing that you "had" to use to clean your hands. Now you didn't "have" to, but otherwise you got a nasty look from everybody. The only real problem I have is I just don't like them cause they feel weird...but whatever....it kind of ties into my next point.

When you take bread/rolls....take them from the back. You wouldn't believe the people that molest those things and they always do it to the front ones.

Anyways, so onto Ketchikan.

At Ketchikan we had signed up for kayaking. We took a bus out along what I think was the only road and to the location where about 10 of us got out and went down to the boat house to sign forms and put on silly looking things that would save us if we tipped. Although I think I looked quite smashing in my spray skirt :)

After that we piled into the kayak (they were two seaters) and we headed out across the bay to eagle island.

Kayaking is cool, but probably something you need to do more than once to be good at it. In a two person kayak the back person has little feet pedals to control the rudder, and honestly I didn't think I did such a good job steering. I couldn't really get a feel for the "middle" so it was like we just made letter z's all around. But let me tell you, eagle island does live up to it's name. There are so many eagles up there in Alaska they're like pigeons almost. It's a little crazy honestly. While we were milling about in a little cove a baby eagle came out onto a branch of it's nest and spread it's wings...which are like 4 feet probably. Oh...another thing, the water is super warm because it comes up from Hawaii on a current, so we're kayaking in the middle of Alaska, but the water is like 60 degrees.

Pretty much we rounded the island and headed back to the dock. It took about 2 hours probably....I was surprised my back wasn't sore the next day. All I can say is we didn't fall in, so that makes it a success :)

Back in town, we walked around the area doing touristy thing like buying magnets and t-shirts. We also found this really awesome little kettle corn place while walking around. And then we ate lunch at Annabelle's Famous Keg and Chowder House. Now I wouldn't say it was Famous, but I must admit to enjoying the chicken tenders very highly. Plus their beer selection wasn't that shabby. Ironically, there were like 5 people with laptops there around us....and I was very jealous of that :P

So afterwards...emboldened by a few beers, we initiated plan "sneak beer on the boat" and headed to a nearby liquor store and proceeded to put the 6 pack of Full Sail Ale IPA on the bottom of our legally purchased knick knacks. Once through security (which still annoys me) we happily patted ourselves on the back with our devious success at not having to pay $3.50 a beer for Beck's (god help you if you want a Guinness). It was later on the cruise, in Juneau, that we learned that 6 packs are fine to bring on. So thank god we didn't take the prison house approach to sneak them on...*ow*.

Part 4 to come tomorrow....maybe...we'll see how busy I am.
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Our honeymoon pictures can be seen here, and a slideshow is available here.

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My witch hunter robin dvd arrived broken from netflix saturday.....of course I didn't notice until I sat down and was ready to watch it tonight :(

On the bright side, SciFi is airing Tremors tonight....best movie of the 90's....I love that stupid movie.

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So today I had planned on writing part 3 of our honeymoon trip, but not only did I not have time, I finally finished a little side project I've been working on.

I made a coat rack.

Basically, I've been wanting to make one for a while. At my mom's house we had one that came from my grandparents house. It was a wood shaker peg kinda deal. What I really wanted to do was make one that would look a little more modern, but give me a place to hang my coat during the winter. Especially when I knew i'd be leaving again soon.

So I had some spare quality wood left from our work on the pilasters, and I found some hooks at a local store called Menards that I liked. Now I already knew the stain, it was going to be Minwax Special Walnut 224. Jen's quite fond of that color, and I like it too.

So pretty much all I had to do was figure out the dimensions. I cut the board to 3' based on the available space, and then inset the hooks 4" from each end. That left 9 5/16" between each hook in the center. Beyond that it was a pretty simple matter of borrowing my neighbor Tim's router (thanks Tim) and using a 3/8" round over I had along the edges. Also I drilled 5/16" recessed holes on the ends for the screws and used some mushroom caps to hide the screw heads.

That's pretty much it.....oh yeah, and I did one coat of varnish just for the heck of it. Just a stupid little thing an 8th grader could have done.

PS. Lesson learned....denatured alcohol is no substitute for mineral spirits for cleaning up....trust me.

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I wasn't able to do it using an .htaccess file, since it seems that the mod_rewrite feature was disabled on the server. Now the cool thing was that I was able to cobble something together with PHP.

So right now I'm only allowing a few sites to hotlink...mostly ones that I frequent. Now if you've posted here and have a site that you've used some images from I'm not against adding you to the allowed list. Just drop me an email. Just as long as you aren't pulling to much data....I mean really...70%..wtf mate?

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So I was going over my stats page today, trying to see what traffic was coming from and why, when I did some math.

70% of my montly bandwidth (bandwidth, not hits) is hotlinking. Hotlinking is where you call an image from a server directly, bypassing the html page in which it was embedded.

Here's the top 3 violaters:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm 34.5%
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/54575 13.2%
http://club.chinaren.com/74143745.html 8.6%

Man I gotta do something about that today....that's just crazy. No wonder I"m pumping out 40gb a month

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Ok so in our last update we had just gotten on the boat....

Once up the gangplank we went through security and headed down to our cabin, where we meet out steward Sidor. A steward is basically a community butler for the most part that has a certain # of rooms under his charge. Towels, mints on pillow, you name it he's on it if you need it. And let me tell you, they must check the rooms like 20 times a day, cause I swear it was like shoe elves were hiding in that room. You'd step outside, remember you forgot something and head back in and Bam! fresh towels and a clean toilet. On second though maybe I should have checked under the bed to make sure he wasn't hiding there :)

You can checkout other pics of the room on page 2 of our photo gallery.

So once we stopped by the room (and keep in mind the luggage hadn't arrived yet, it was 2pm and they usually have it there by 6pm...so thanks to no carry on we had no toiletries or anything) we proceeded to start to wander around trying to get our bearings. Now here's the funny part, somehow while walking around we were both surprised at how nobody was there. I mean it was like a ghost ship. Well it turns out that there was a mandatory "safety drill" going on, that everyone on the ship knew about except us apparently. So we caught the tail end of the "if the boat sinks we're screwed but here's how your put on the lifevest" speech....execpt we were the only ones without our life vest because they were in our room.

How we missed the memo, I'll never know.

Anyways, after all this there's what is called a "captains launch party" up on the lido deck (level 14, basically the top of the boat) where they have little cafeteria pizza places and a burger grill all setup around a pool. They also have guys walking around pimping this horrible tacky little neon color plastic "collector" hurricane glass full of some type of rum bowl drink....for like $5 bucks. So basically every one's up there...and they do these awful little contests with line dancing and silly games that I'm sure are great fun if your 5 years old or 67. There was a literal congo line towards the end.....there's even video proof of it. Which brings me to another point. Photographers and videographers....during the big events they are all around like flies on shit. I mean it's there job right? yeah but guess what ....I don't really want to be on a DVD that I will never buy, because seeing myself for 20 seconds smiling and waving isn't worth the 2 hours of other people I don't know I'd have to wade through. Same thing for $19 dollar pictures of us.....hello? I didn't bring a digital camera for the hell of it ya know. We honestly, consciously spent time avoiding areas with them in it. Was probably more fun than the game of Marco polo that was going on down below anyways.

So after milling about randomly and waiting for our luggage to arrive so we could change contacts and stuff like that we eventually started leaving dock.

We walked around a bit outside, but soon were hit with a very simple but necessary question. Where do we eat and does it cost anything?

Part 3 to come tomorrow....
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Our honeymoon pictures can be seen here, and a slideshow is available here.

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Ok, we don't have all the pictures yet of the wedding and stuff, so I'm going to break with my standards here and write about the Honeymoon first.

For the honeymoon we decided to go on an Alaskan cruise aboard the Coral Princess. This one lasted about 7 days with 3 stops along they way for off shore activities. So basically what happens is when you give them a down payment they send you a book of offshore activities to go through and what you can do in every port. Helicopter rides, tours, trains, dog sledding...etc, you name it and it's probably in there somewhere. Most ports have what I would call an "extreme" activity and a safe one (ie. for older people) like a tea garden, or mountain train ride. Oh and let's not forget the popular "gold digging" ones and of course whale sighting.

So we went through the book and balanced fun vs. money. I mean for example....a helicopter ride to a glacier sounds awesome doesn't it? But the $500 dollar price (each) kinda of takes the sheen off it a bit. Or another one like the back country jeep safari sounds cool until you realize you have to share the driving with 3 other people. 2 of which you probably don't know.

And there's a few things we actually learned on the trip (our first cruise) that in hindsight we got lucky on. Let me break it down for you:
- Alaska...not the sunniest place. Rain and clouds are common.
- Rain and clouds, not the best things for helicopters and planes. Those events can and do get cancelled. Sure your money get's refunded, but there goes your day.
- Anything else is fair game. These tour companies don't make money by cancelling stuff, so even if it's pouring rain you can bet your still gonna be going biking....in the cold pouring rain. Same goes for rock wall climbing.
- Every town has the same stuff, just with different names. A lot of the stores by the docks are seasonal and owned by the cruise lines. When cruise season is over they shut down...kind of like Great America.
- You can bring beer back on the ship. We didn't think so at first, but we were able to get a couple of 6packs back to our room no problem. This helps with the $3.50 bottles of becks...total ripoff, but what can you do.
- The buffet serves the same food as the fancy rooms downstairs...just in a more "old country buffet" style.
- Bring a jacket that is wind and water resistant. Jen bought us both a Wind Challenger Fleece from L.L. Bean, and we would have been dead without these. They're amazing at stopping wind, and even though they are not water proof, then are as water resistant as you can get without being water proof. Really highly recommended.

So...the day after the wedding we started packing for the trip. Of course this was 2 days after the FAA or whoever placed a ban on any carryon's that have fluids and liquids. The only thing we both wish we had packed were a pair of jeans. See we thought cruises were going to be all fancy and stuff so I brought dress slacks and fancy shoes that I never really used.

Now the way we did it, we let the cruise book our flights (something we regretted later) so we ended up going from Ohare to Minneapolis, and then hopping on a plane to Vancouver, BC. This is probably a 6 hour trip total, and here's the best part. When you land in Vancouver you have to pass through customs to get into Canada. After standing the longest line I've ever seen (although pretty quick) your allowed to pass and look for the princess cruise lady holding the sign. Now, since we forgot to put the Princess luggage tags on our bags we had to give our checked luggage to her once we picked it up. But that's not the best part. After that you get on a musty smelling bus that is going to drive you through downtown and to the dock where the boat is. To get on the boat you have to go through customs again. So we went through customs to get into Canada so we could go through customs to get out of Canada. Nice.
After all that, you have to check in so you can get your little swipe magnetic card that will basically be your everything. let's you on the boat, off the boat, charge things to your room, etc. And then finally, they let you head up the gangplank to get on the boat. But not before they take a picture.

Because everyone want's a picture of them right after they've been travelling all day....

Part 2 to come tomorrow....
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Our honeymoon pictures can be seen here, and a slideshow is available here.

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There has been some hardware ghosts feasting on the server, so if my site goes down that means you won't be reading this.

So why am I explaining here....where you can't see it if it's down? Meh....

- John Steward and Stephan Colbert presenting on the 2006 Emmys. Pretty funny little deal actually.

- Remember that scene in Meet the Parents, where Di Nero's character said that Mr. Jinxy couldn't have flushed the toilet because he was a cat. He was wrong.

- My cubicle. If you sit in one, go watch it.

- Watch ever South Park ever. Sounds like a good way to kill a night to me.

- Weird online clock, kind of reminds me of a slide rule.

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Apparently the site went down again, so I'm just sitting tight until I hear from the Admin as to whats up.

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things have not been good lately, so if you've emailed me in the last 3 days or whatever.....yeah, um I didn't get it.

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