Bryan Strawser

Red Sox 3, Angels 2

Tampa, you’re next….

To all of the military service men and women who serve today - who have served - and who will serve - you have my thanks on this Veterans Day 2005.

Pictures from my 2005 visit to the World War II Memorial.

Completely unexpected to me, the new Powerbook arrived around 8:15am yesterday morning. Pretty impressive since I had ordered it on Thursday, it was in China on Saturday, and made it to my doorstep on Tuesday.

I’m not complaining, mind you, just impressed.

So here’s some pictures of the unpacking & process:

I used Apple’s transfer process to move over all of my applications and settings from my 3 year old Powerbook over to the new one. Took about two hours in total and I was up and running. Nothing needed to be reinstalled from scratch.

So far, very very happy with the new machine. Really enjoying the fact that the screen isn’t wobbly like my old broken one was.. the lighted keyboard rocks as well.

More to come….

Chap recently reminded me through one of his posts about this man:

A very long time ago, I described him as quite possibly the bravest man that I had ever seen.

I just hope that if the time ever came, that I would have the courage to do as he did.

Wash:

• The hurricane is Bush’s fault - it’s because of Kyoto and Global Warming!
• The levees are Bush’s fault - it’s because the Southeast Flood Control Budget was cut a record $71.2m!
• The slow FEMA response is Bush’s fault - it’s because he appointed someone with no disaster management experience the head of FEMA!
• The slow National Guard response is Bush’s fault - it’s because all of the Louisiana National Guard is in Iraq! BRING THEM HOME NOW!
• The….. is Bush’s fault…. it’s because….!

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So predictable…

And now for some scotch.

Too tired and busy last night to post the final update on the 1400 mile drive, but here is the update.

I made it to Woodbury, Minnesota around 430pm CST yesterday, having followed the path below:

One sees many interesting things on a 1400 mile drive, but the only one I took a picture of was outside of Madison, Wisconsin at a rest area. It’s the Wisconsin Law Enforcement Memorial:

I’ve now bought the new washer and dryer and a new grill - looked at some other things and have much to do. Closing is tomorrow at 10am.

You might have also heard of that bitch, Katrina? Yeah, thought you had. That’s on my mind too tonight.

Pulled out of Boston’s Nine-Zero Hotel this morning at 5:45am EST, pulled into the Residence Inn in Toledo Ohio about 7pm EST. The cat managed to not puke until we got to the hotel, so that’s an improvement over what has happened in the past.

Here’s the map for you Google Geeks out there:

It’s about 774 miles - I drive a 2004 Honda Civic Hybrid, and averaged 40.4 MPG for this trip, so my fuel used was only around 19.16 gallons so far.

In fact, at 500 miles, I took this picture with the Treo 650:

Now for pizza, some old James Bond on the telly, and out the door by 6am for the remaining 660 miles to go to the new home in Minnesota. Closing is Monday morning….

As seen in Detroit’s Metro Airport last Friday: