Sunday, 11Feb07
Highlights: Eggery, USS Midway tour & downtown SanDiego, Coronado, in bed by 4:30 (canx movie plans), up by 10pm
Up at 2am, I got to work on 2 major projects, backing-up all the files on my laptop (78GB worth), and ironing all my clothes. My laptop was moving like an arthritic 80 year old man,,, frequently freezing or not-responding, taking forever to open files and documents! Ahhhh!
Computers do strange things when their memory is just about tapped out (like crash). I experienced that once before, filling my first glorious 4 gigabyte hard-drive with 1,000 Napster songs. ha ha. Good times. A feat I accomplished over a dial-up connection too. Whew.
Anyways, worried that my lappie was about to have an electrical heart-attack, I was happy to back-up EVERYTHING. Which involved buying an external hard-drive yesterday. The pics & videos I’ve taken over the last year filled up over half the memory. After backing it up, I axed it from the laptop and freed up all that essential memory… like a high speed diet, taking a bulky, overweight 790 lb memory board down to a fit 200 lbs!
Well, it didn’t exactly work as smooth as planned. So a quick phone call later to my friend Cathy, the computer guru, I had an appointment to bring both of my computers in for a look.
In the meantime, Uncle T woke up & we headed off to breakfast again at the Eggery.
Uncle T, after being good-enough to drive my truck across the country, (Boston to San Diego) in the middle of winter… is with me until Wednesday night.
It’s fun hanging around my uncle. He’s a colorful personality, and one who is very interested in history & technical gadgets. For having spent 3 years in the Air Force, he is a bottomless well of stories about those years (= The USS Midway was a great next stop on our San Diego tour. This is the 2nd time my uncle has ever been to San Diego… he was loving it.
USS Midway is an aircraft carrier that served from 1945-199… something. It wasn’t here when I left San Diego in 2004, but after decommissioning, it was brought back here as a living museum. In my opinion it’s a great way to show people a slice of what life is like for military guys on a ship the size of an aircraft carrier.
I’ve done 2 deployments on amphibious ships, and have experienced much of the lifestyle they’re talking about, twice. It’s impressive, but like Pensacola in August, it’s better to visit than live there. Uncle T loved it.
Highlights: Eggery, USS Midway tour & downtown SanDiego, Coronado, in bed by 4:30 (canx movie plans), up by 10pm
Up at 2am, I got to work on 2 major projects, backing-up all the files on my laptop (78GB worth), and ironing all my clothes. My laptop was moving like an arthritic 80 year old man,,, frequently freezing or not-responding, taking forever to open files and documents! Ahhhh!
Computers do strange things when their memory is just about tapped out (like crash). I experienced that once before, filling my first glorious 4 gigabyte hard-drive with 1,000 Napster songs. ha ha. Good times. A feat I accomplished over a dial-up connection too. Whew.
Anyways, worried that my lappie was about to have an electrical heart-attack, I was happy to back-up EVERYTHING. Which involved buying an external hard-drive yesterday. The pics & videos I’ve taken over the last year filled up over half the memory. After backing it up, I axed it from the laptop and freed up all that essential memory… like a high speed diet, taking a bulky, overweight 790 lb memory board down to a fit 200 lbs!
Well, it didn’t exactly work as smooth as planned. So a quick phone call later to my friend Cathy, the computer guru, I had an appointment to bring both of my computers in for a look.
In the meantime, Uncle T woke up & we headed off to breakfast again at the Eggery.
Uncle T, after being good-enough to drive my truck across the country, (Boston to San Diego) in the middle of winter… is with me until Wednesday night.
It’s fun hanging around my uncle. He’s a colorful personality, and one who is very interested in history & technical gadgets. For having spent 3 years in the Air Force, he is a bottomless well of stories about those years (= The USS Midway was a great next stop on our San Diego tour. This is the 2nd time my uncle has ever been to San Diego… he was loving it.
USS Midway is an aircraft carrier that served from 1945-199… something. It wasn’t here when I left San Diego in 2004, but after decommissioning, it was brought back here as a living museum. In my opinion it’s a great way to show people a slice of what life is like for military guys on a ship the size of an aircraft carrier.
I’ve done 2 deployments on amphibious ships, and have experienced much of the lifestyle they’re talking about, twice. It’s impressive, but like Pensacola in August, it’s better to visit than live there. Uncle T loved it.
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