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Home Sweet Home

We arrived home just a couple of hours ago - and boy is it good to be back in the land of no humidity. Julie's skin is itching already (it loves humidity) and mine is loving life. I don't plan on detailing all the blogging events I missed, but since nothing earth shattering appears to have happened - it looks like it was a good time to relax and get away. There are, however, some things worth mentioning:

• These CSS Tabs are wicked cool and at first glance, I think I can create a tabbed menu for struts-menu with a bit of CSS and the ListDisplayer.
• The pseudo-class selector :hover can be used on a paragraph to create a cool effect and I might have to use it... someday.

It's good to be back - and was one of the most relaxing vacations I've ever had.

Animal Planet Live

At the beach

My two ladies.

7th inning stretch

At the game

Nice seats eh?!

In line...

At the Yankees game.

In the city

Grand Central Station

I'm outta here!

I leave for the airport in less than 5 hours. First I'm off to New York for my Grandpa Joe's funeral, then I fly back to Denver on Sunday and hop on a plane on Monday for vacation in Florida. I'm kindof disappointed my laptop didn't make it back from Apple in time for this trip, but it's probably a blessing more than anything.

Not having a laptop, my productivity addiction will go unsatisfied (but my stress level will subside) and I'll likely feel out of touch with Java and technology when I return. However, I hope that I turn into my old self on this trip - whom I affectionately refer to as Montana Matt. An easy-going, low-stress guy who doesn't care about much outside of family, friends and having a good time. I'd like to smile a lot, quite worrying about work, and forget about all the open source projects that need releases. I plan on laughing a lot, sleeping in every day, and tipping back a few pints with family and friends. I probably won't be reading any blogs, but I do plan on doing a little mophoto-ing.

See you in a couple of weeks - normal operations will likely resume around the end of the month.

[Montana] Great Photo

This picture was taken in the Bitterroot National Forest in Montana on August 6, 2000 by a fire behavior analyst from Fairbanks, Alaska by the name of John McColgan with a digital camera. Since he was working while he took the picture, he cannot sell or profit from it so he should at least be recognized as the photographer of this once in a lifetime shot.

Our new Tivo

I gave Julie a Series 2 for her birthday today. We set it up and now it takes 4-8 hours while it downloads and programs itself. Pretty cool. Spendy though - the Home Media Option is another $100, and if I want broadband access (which I do), I have to buy a Wireless USB Adapter. Oh well, we figure to have it for a long, long time and we love our last one. Julie was pissed that I spent more than $50 on her birthday present, but bit her toungue because she got mad at the last Tivo I bought her and now thinks its the best birthday present ever!

On a side note, I discovered that Tivo Central Online (the site to remotely program your Tivo) is Powered By Struts - sweet!

Update: I just got the following e-mail from Julie. I guess you could say that she gives the Series 2 a thumbs down.

i think we should return tivo. i don't think it's better than the one we have now. you can view another show while recording but only if you switch the channel on the tv and watch regular tv w/out tivo. it just seems like a lot of money for no/few more options. maybe we should wait a couple years for the technology to progress.