Sunday, August 31, 2008

It's true

Okay, so we haven't necessarily talked too much about this, but we're moving to Alpine, Wy.

When we were at Janice & Bernie's wedding celebration in July, we found a house we liked and have it under contract.

It looks like all is going to go well with the closing, so we're getting movers ready to pick up our belongings in Michigan and Montana.

You can actually see it over my right shoulder in the picture from wakeboarding with Todd and Wendi. (it's the one with the red roof)


Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Packing Up

Sorting through a storage unit that you've never seen before to get it ready to be picked up by a moving company to take it across the country doesn't have to be boring.

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Twitter

Okay, so I always thought Twitter was a little silly. No one really needs to know what you're doing all the time.

However, a nice little tool Jott is switching to a pay service and there are a couple things that you can do with Twitter to replace some functions (for free).

Anyhow, I signed up to play around, so if you want to check it out you can look at our (well, my - we all know Jennifer isn't going to be into this) Twitter Page, or you can get it via RSS feed from that page or here.

Anyway, if you check it out let me know and I'll follow your tweets, to use the jargon of our time.

P.S. - Jott has left a couple functions on its free version, among them a feature that will read you your RSS feeds over the phone if you're bored. You can even have it read you a feed of your Gmail inbox.

Clean Slate

Okay, I haven't posted in a while & I'm sorry not to have kept people in the loop. Unfortunately we got a little behind in a couple places that didn't have easy internet access, and of course I wanted to keep going sequentially, but never had the time to catch all the way up.

So now I'll just start where we are, and once we get some pictures uploaded I'll try and go back and fill in some details.

We're in Tawas to see my grandmother Tini for one more night and to pick up sister Jen who was watching Lucy for us for a couple days. From here we think she'll take the Prizm for us so that we can be back down to one car and she can have some wheels.

Sorry we've been out of touch, but hopefully we'll be better in the future.

Cheers,

John

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Google Maps

Okay, so Jennifer and I haven't had this experience with our GPS, but a couple not too far off:

Google Maps

via xkcd.com on 8/10/08
Apparently Google assumes you're traveling during the ferry's normal operating hours.  We lost two hours circling that damn lake (to say nothing of the Straw Man).