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Monthly Archives: October 2008
Zoo Time
Jeffie had to cover a shift at the Library on Saturday, so we took advantage of her being off on Friday to head to the Zoo. If was a real nice Fall day. Since the temperatures were down, we had hoped that the animals would be more active.
That didn’t really happen, but everyone had a good time anyways. Ghouls at Grassmere (The halloween programs) kicked off Friday night, so they were doing all of the setup for that. The kids really enjoyed that, although both of the parents weren’t above holding trick or treat at the zoo ransom for the kid’s good behavior.
We’re going to head back tonight! Updates to follow.
Gallery Integration
Something weird is going on with the Gallery -> WordPress integration. Pictures appear to be fine (or at least I can’t make them fail). WPG2 doesn’t seem to be liking the album links however. I’m tired of trying to fix this right now.
If you can’t get to the albums, or they just bring up a blank page, go here: Gallery
If everything DOES work for you (like the album links in the side bar) PLEASE drop a comment to let me know I’m completely insane now.
Thanks,
Greg
Polk Place Fall Festival
Just a little out of order, but hey, I’ve got to make that vacation last as long as I can!
We got back from Destin to find an order form for the Community Fall Festival… 4 days later. It seems EVERYTHING is moving quicker than it used to. Aren’t these things supposed to be closer to Halloween?
Finally…
One of the main reasons photo’s haven’t been coming quickly from this trip to Destin is pretty simple.
There are a LOT of them. And I’m doing my best to prevent this from completely overloading both the site, AND the viewer. We found out pretty quick that looking at 400 images of the same thing can get pretty boring pretty quick. So, I’ve been spending a fair amount of time sorting through images, and trying to choose the best ones, that represent what was going on the best.
It’s almost that time of the year…
It’s the most Magical time of the year…..
And yes, that’s a shirt hanging behind her. Didn’t have the opportunity to site prep.
Ok, so maybe a LITTLE breaking the rules…
Hey, I lasted 2 posts, right?
But this one needs more than one picture. I am going to try to keep it to one story, and put photos as needed.
When we go to Destin, it seems that one of the priorities is to get some good food. For me, that means getting something decent that doesn’t smell like the sea, while everyone else gets Seafood. Hey, you’re on the coast, take advantage of it.
Destin did not have a good culinary representation for us this week. One of the establishments (which will not be named to prevent Google from giving advertisements) appeared to have exactly one fryer, used for both fish sticks and chicken (Chicken tenders, Macaroni and Cheese, and Cheese Sandwitches seem to be the kids ONLY dietary requirements), as well as a distinct lack of any type of Oven. A temporary setback, I’m sure, but not reassuring when you order and are then informed on what you can’t have.
I can’t say that any of the food (besides William’s Chicken tenders of the sea) was bad. But neither will I say it was really good.
Except.
Jovian Rising
In one of the greatest oddities of the entire trip, I was awake to see sunrises every day in Destin. Now, this doesn’t seem overly remarkable, except that I am one of the original night owls. For me to be AWAKE at 6:00am would be cause for great concern. For me to do so, WHILE on Vacation, well, that’s just mind boggling.
Of course, when you consider how lovely the sunrises are when you are on the beach, it’s pretty easy to get up for them. More times than not, Jeff and I would get up, head down to the Gulf’s edge, and watch the sun come up. Kids still asleep, and just the sound of the waves while watching the colors change. I’d have the tripod setup and just click away while talking and watching the rise.
The Vacation is over….
And we’re going to do this a bit differently this time. Ordinarily, I’d go in, and drop three hundred plus pictures into Gallery. The server would choke trying to generate thumbnails, people would look at 10 pictures, and it’s over.
Not this time.
We had a blast of a time, and there was a significant amount of wear placed on the shutter of my camera. 50+ Gig of photo’s. That’s a pretty significant hurting on the laptop’s hard drive. Not to mention it’s going to take a significant amount of time to sort through those pictures, tag them, and process.
So, I’m going to try something different. I’m going to upload one picture at a time. Some will have commentary, some stand alone without further comment from me. I’m going to try for one a day. They will undoubtably be out of order, as I’ll do things as I see them. Eventually, the server load is going to happen, as I’ll still end up loading the Gallery, but that will probably wait a bit.
So, without further ado…
Goodnight from Destin
There was a wonderful quarter moon over the Gulf tonight.
