Test again

 

help

kira’s test of blogging

hi people  I drew a birrd today

it is awesome!!!

check out my cool site!!!!!

--Bloody Lights-- - Bloody Lights

Test of Windows Live Essential Writer

 

This blog is just a test that I can use the program  “Writer” for updating our blog. We were unhappy with the clunky interface of blogspot so we are trying this. Let’s insert a photo…

 

 

 

Easy to copy and paste.

 

 

Easy to resize.

 

Easy to move around

   

 

                                           

 

Font choices easy to apply.

 

Easy to insert links:

This is a link to google

 

Will it do wrap arounf text easy?

 

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We’ll have to figure that one out.

Now… can we post. If you are reading this then we succeeded.

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"The Great Minnesota Meeting Place"
aka--the State Fair

Our two favorite activities: drinking all-you-can-drink-milk-for-a-dollar in front of the trash sculpture

City Girls in the Pig Barn

On our way to the top of the fire lookout tower...

Made it!
We are now members of the
Royal Order of Squirrels Adventure Club
:)

Our First Build

I refer to windows vista as the "Zen Operating System". You have plenty of time for meditation

when using it. For example, when starting your browser to write your blog, you wait ten seconds for the program to start. Then you wait another ten seconds and so on. I wondered during this period when I am wasting my life staring at an LCD - How many dollars does Bill Gates make each minute I sit and stare. The Zen-like answer came. Why not make Bill even more rich and upgrade to Windows 7? Lisa said OK. That was all I needed. However to handle all the bloat and mistakes of Gate's latest creation, I decided this time we would buy the top-end hardware to handle it. Top-end PC's run well over two grand. Too much. So we decided we would build our own computer.

Welcome to "Our First Build":

1) PROCESSOR: core i7 (950) -Quad Core (the latest series from intel but not the extreme)

2)MOTHERBOARD: ASUS Rampage Gene III (the best micro ATX at this time)

3)GRAPHICS: ASUS ATI HD 5770 (GDDR5! oooh)

4) STORAGE: Yeah, it's a solid state drive (too expensive for much though -128GB) Crucial

5)MEMORY: A-Data 6GB (3x2GB) for the triple mem of i7. Fastest mem around 1600

6)POWER: Rosewill Supply, 500W (not too much not too little - LED's are cool)

7) OS: Windows 7, uses the advanced multiple cores and hyperthreading - 64 bit.

8)And a case to put it all in.

This project is an experiment. If we get the latest technology will it make a huge difference in our computing lives? Can we construct a system that is exactly what we want and costs significantly less than one can buy? The parts above cost about 60% of the lowest priced online system I could find with the essentially the same components. We will update you when everything is working. The cost is about three times what I have paid for the budget PC's in the past. However if the performance scales as the specs might lead one to believe then the ratio of performance to dollar should be better (much).

Scenes form an "Irish Dance Feis"

Here are a few shots of the girls this weekend...

Karly's solo.

Kira kickin' it!

Karly taking a bow (front and center!)

Kira dancing "The High Cauled Cap".

"An Irish dancer looks just as good in the back as in the front."

(Kira is on the left)

Karly gearing up for the next dance.

Weekend over.

slán (goodbye)

Irish Fair 2010 "Running with the Celts"

We kicked off Irish Fair with a 1K (Kira, Karly, and Lisa) ....

and 5K(Dan) race.

Although Karly was FIRST the entire course, her sister (and some little boy) blew past her a few yards before the finish line.

Final stats: Kira-second place, Karly-third place, Lisa--fifth place(first adult, I might add!) Dan came in with a 26.5 minute finish.

First 5K at > 40 years of age

Race Day for the Minnesota Half Marathon and 5k. Dan did the 5k. Time 26.5 minutes (best out of one). The first pic is at the start of the race and the second is at the end. Dan aged 5 years in between.




And here is a pic of my support team. Kira is my stretch coach, Lisa is my photographer (can't see her) and Karly is my pep squad:

Done - 2605.4 miles

Re Me Do Do Sol

Devils Tower!

Its formation is still not completely understood. Obviously aliens have had a hand in this wonder. Roosevelt appreciated the significance and proclaimed it the first national monument.

We had a wonderful time at this isolated location. It was hot (but of course we had a pool). Lisa and I went bouldering on the scree at the bottom of the tower. (now aren't you glad you read the scree reference earlier) There is no path to the top without ropes. One of the first to make it to the top used a parachute to get there. However he never planned his decent and was stuck there nearly a week.

We stayed in a 8x10 ft cabin (shown below) directly on the Belle Forsche River. The campground was built on the set from Close Encounters (yes pop culture again).

The desert-like air was extremely clear at night and the milky way stretched across the entire sky.

Friendly biker dude takes our pic as we approach. Everybody stops their car when it comes into view - just like Richard Dreyfus!

Cabin on river next to Spearfish rock formation.

We saw a prairie dog colony on the roadside at Devils tower.

Did you know that prairie dogs carry bubonic plague? Stay away!

Bouldering on Devils Tower.

At the base. How did nature make those columns so regular?

Devils Tower is held sacred to many Native Americans.

It is an impressive natural wonder.