Well after about a billion years of waiting it is here…well sort of. It is announced. I watched some of the movies they have and it looks like they aren't messing with too much of a good thing. Gameplay looks about the same but instead of sprite animations we get real 3D.
So over the years there has been a lot of talk and about zero being done about mass transit in SE Michigan. SEMCOG keeps saying that it is feasible and has proposed a number of scenarios that could be combined. The idea of a AnnArbor – Detroit light rail is awesome. For $3 I could go from Ypsi to Ann Arbor and back. Thats less then what most people would pay for parking and gas.
We used to have one. In the 1890's the Ypsi-Ann interurban railway ran along South Road or the Electric Line Road, now known as Packard. The system was later connected to Milan, Jackson, and Detroit. After the 1920's it went bankrupt and the tracks were tore up.
Sometime this June we are planning a trip out east. It will be multi faceted and we will be stopping in Pittsburgh to visit my brother and Annie. From there we will head to NY and hopefully be stopping by Hemlock Canoe on our way to Saratoga Springs to see Anna, Phil, and Lil. From there we will head back through Canada and the plan is to spend a night or two at Kawartha Highlands Signature Site Park and get Eli (and Bridgit) some overnight canoe trip experience. Either before or after canoeing will will stop by the Canadian Canoe Museum and check it out. Then we will head back home.
This will be a seat-of-the-pants trip so we can remain flexible. Hopefully we will be able to fit all this stuff in the amount of vacation I have left.
So it's been a while since I have specifically about him so here it is.
We are well into foods. He has been having rice cereal for a long time now. The foods he has had now (in order of introduction): Rice cereal, oatmeal, avocado, sweet potato, banana, mango, peas, millet, yogurt, apples.
He is crawling around and last week started to pull himself up on furniture or your leg. Now he is working on mastering falling and is slowly moving along things once he has stood up.
Today I got a joost invite, and its pretty great. Joost is an online TV service brought to you by the same people who brought you Skype. I have watched a few things now, the quality isn't top noch, but its not bad. The downer, its not available for PPC Macs…yet. Oh, and like gmail was at the beginning its invite only, if anyone wants an invite let me know.
So Chaco makes some great sandals, and I have three pairs, and I have worn them all over the past week. The three pairs are each pretty different.
Z1 Uniweep (2005+ model) I got these on a end of season sale last year. These are supposed to be 20% lighter and it feels that way. They also combined two soles into one for these, though it seems more like the Terreno and less like the Colorado.
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Z1 Terreno It might just be because they are 5 years old not but it feels like they have more cushion on hard surfaces like concrete. Mine also have no tead left along the ball of the foot and the strap is almost worn through at the big toes, but I still love them. I will have to get these re-strapped and maybe re-soled.
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Z2 Colorado I am just going to come out and say it: I hate the big toe loop. Sometimes I don't notice it, but when I do it drives me crazy. I spend a lot of time with the toe loop pulled tight against the footbed. I do like the additional control the toe loop gives me when I am kneeling in a canoe. I also like the thinness of the Colorado sole, especially the flexibility when under a canoe seat.
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After this weekends paddling I looked at making a custom Google Map. I was originally intending to do just what we did this past weekend, but next thing I knew I started doing all of the Huron River that I have paddled. I am planning on adding pictures, but I don't have many on the river.
I am going to try re-paddle much of it this summer and maybe take some notes and pictures to add.
This weekend we paddled Ypsilanti. I have been looking at the map all summer and looking at the huge chunks of the Huron River that I have canoed, and also the fact that I haven't really done anything down river of Gallup park. So we started this weekend. Bridgit and I paddled the solo canoes and I had Eli in mine (he slept the whole time). We put in above the dam at Peninsular Park (aka the Paper Mill) and paddled up river to the bridge at Superior Rd and Back.
On Sunday we had a graduation party to attend at Riverside Park in Depot Town so I had Bridgit drop me off at the paper mill and I paddled down to Riverside. It was a great, quick paddle at 15 minutes. Water levels are pretty high and the river was moving at a good clip. I am not sure if I would want to do that in late August. the river was about 2-3 feet deep in most spots. The section isn't too technical. Things to watch for are: 1) a downed tree underneath the Forest Street bridge with the roots upriver in the center. 2) small rapids under the Cross Street bridge should be paddled on the left side of the river.
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So Bush decided to move Daylight Savings Time this year. My Mac did just fine and handled the change no problem. Windows on the other hand has had a few problems. If you aren't somewhat recent in your Windows Updates the changes don't happen. Which means your clock is messed up for a few weeks twice a year. Here is a small and quick fix to fix DST without doing a zillion Windows Updates.
One of the girls in this video is my co-workers daughter so I figured I would try and boost their stats.