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[warthog9]

So for all of you who actually still follow my exsistance I thought I'd give you an update so that you know I'm not dead yet. I'm alive, doing fairly well, and things are going well. I ended up going back to the farm last month and going to the last extended family High School graduation for roughly 18 years. It was a good trip, got to see some great family that we still aren't entirely sure how we are related but we know we are releated and that's just that! It was a good trip, the corn is coming in really well.

Quick side note: I'm sitting here watching the Barbeque episode of Elton Brown and it just told me happily that Bucaneer actually comes from 'he who barbeques' isn't that amusing? I love the food network!

Anyway Brian D. has been out here the last couple of days as I got him hooked up with a pretty sweet interview with Rob M., my old boss from Orion. The whole thing looks like it's going to turn out well, now I just have to finish convincing him that moving out here is a GOOD thing. But I fully realize that this is going to be anything but a simple decision, particularly complicated by the fact that he's looking at moving across the country and he needs to discuss and ponder the whole thing with his wife. I would love to see them out here but I also know that it might not work out for other reasons. To the best of those two no matter what!

So we've been doing the touristy stuff the last couple of days, went to frys, the Computer History Museum (we got a tour co-done by Steve Russell the gentleman who created the first computer game - Spacewar!), Sharffenberger Chocolates (did the tour and ate their chocolate), Did Fisherman's Warf, saw both the silverized guy and the man who hides behind the bush in San Francisco, went to and trapped all around Alcatraz, saw Lombard Street, ate at Boudin and rode on a cable car. All in all a good weekend.

Though a quick point of math concerning Lombard street that Brian D. and I are asstonished at. Given that Lombard street (at it's curviest section) is 433.33 feet long linearly (Google maps + a ruler ( 6.5 inches / 3/4 inches ) * 50 feet). Also given that Lombard street is at a 27deg angle ( Wikipedia ) and given that cos(27deg) * 433.33 SHOULD be the height of the street, that works out to be 386.102826851 feet tall. That's a HUGE drop over that distance. It's a rather amazing sight really, though I'm not sure I would ever drive it.

Anyway it's like 12:22am and Brian D. flys out of here at 6:20am or some ungodly hour like that so i need to crash so I can drive him to the airport. Hopefully I'll be picking him up from the airport again in a few weeks, but we'll see. Out.