Archive for May 31st, 2009

• Offroading in Uwharrie Again

  Date: 2009.05.31 | Category: Jeeping | Response: 0

  I went with Andy and Bryan Garland to Uwharrie yesterday.

  This time I rode along in Andy’s Jeep so we could check out some of the trails marked “difficult” and “extremely difficult”

  We couldn’t make one of the difficult trails, nor the extremely difficult trail. We made everything else no problem.

  Here is the hill climb on one of the difficult trails, Dickey Bell. Sorry for the short video, my memory card was full. Next time I’ll take my 2GB card instead. Videos beat pictures for offroading.

• DC Heather Visits Again! (Finally)

  Date: 2009.05.31 | Category: Friends | Response: 0

  I’ve been sending DC Heather (from here on out known simply as Heather) reminders to come visit me. More accurately, I setup a cron job to send her emails periodically. It was a quick little bit of shell scripting that I enjoyed. Woo scripting things.

  I decided to make the messages more insistent, and hilarious / witty. Then all of the sudden out of nowhere Heather decided to come visit. This is after 4 years of failing to get her to come back down. Thank you shell scripting class. I now know another practical application of bash.

  She wrote up the entire story of the weekend. I can’t do a better job explaining all the events, so I’ll just link to her blog post about the NC Visit.

  I did manage to take a few pictures while she was here though. We had a pretty awesome and action packed time in the short span she was here.

  Here is the link to my Gallery of Heather’s Visit.

  Here is a link to Heather’s Gallery of her visit.

  We went to the Tobacco District and I made her “Make me a bicycle Clown!”.

  

  There were some fun water fall / fountain pictures:

  

  Baby Turtles at the Gardens:

  

  We had some Dinner with friends:

  

  And then back to Garland’s basement bar for some drinks:

  

  I left my camera in the car so I don’t have any good beach pictures. I didn’t get any awesome pictures of Heather racing my car around either.

  Now she’ll have a reason to come back