Richie Kennedy | route56.com

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  • Did you ever have one of those days….

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    What was intended to be a simple one-hour project to move 5 users around turned out to take 3. One of those hours was spent on just being able to perform a software upgrade.

  • back home

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    hit the house at ~1:30 this afternoon. Came home to a smelly basement. Had to completly change the kitty litter and sweep the litter box room

  • Waning days

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    today, we returned to Elk Creek Station after having to check out of our first hotel for our second. We took the scenic route back to US 285 from Pine, which was a dirt road.

  • Jayhawks in Central City

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    Today, after picking up my KU hat that I left in Idaho Springs, we went over to Central City where my parents did a little gambling while my brother and I played video games. At lunch, we ran into a member of the Central City opera. He was a graduate of KU and observed my…

  • in the mountains

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    Today was spent enjoying the scenery of the mountains in southwestern Jefferson County, Colo. In particular, we stopped in to the small town of Pine, where a old high school friend of my mom is the proprieter of a bar on Jefferson County road 126 called the Elk Creek Station. We also took in the…

  • burnt toast

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    this morning, while having a contenential breakfast in the hotel, someone tried to toast their bread very dark. The burnt toast set off the fire alarm. My brother had to exit the hotel in his boxers. Better safe than sorry.

  • Ok, I think we’ve survived this one

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    We had quite a storm head through here, prompting a severe t-storm warning. Wind wasn’t that bad here, but we did get some rain, and they just issued a Flash Flood Warning. About half an inch fell during the first storm, another 2/10s has fallen in subsequent storms

  • blog update

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    I’ve did a little messing around with using syndicated RSS feeds from the National Weather Service, and a Yahoo! email list related to Dance Teams.

  • picture count

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    As of the end of Sunday evening, the picture count stands at 22,365. 357 shots have been “counted” since I went to the new Digital Rebel — $50 worth of film and processing with 10 36-exposure rolls at $3 and $2 processing per roll — not to mention time I would have to spend scanning,…

  • Digital Dive taken

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    As I mentioned yesterday, my primary camera got damaged. The cost to repair would be around $120 — almost as much as I paid for her. Therefore, I decided to “total” the camera. I was approved for $2,000 in store credit at Wolfe’s, and purchased a new Canon Digital Rebel XT which, together with a…