Sean and Thomas found a flyer on a bulletin board a AUM for LAN parties! There's an outfit up in Clanton just starting up called Lanifesto who plan on doing them monthly, it seems. The next one is Halloween, so we're packing up the van and heading up for 12 hours of fun.... They'll be playing some Half-life 2mods, some Unreal Tournament 2004, and a Quake 3 mod too. I got UT2K4 reloaded yesterday, now I have to bring up the old AFCEA Montgomery game server so we can all get the patches and mods off of it. We haven't been to a LAN party in almost Four years, so it should be a real treat, even if I can't remember how to play the games. I haven't decided if I want to take my fog machine yet... :)

Been a while, I know... Alabama Amateur Open disc golf tournament was this past Saturday, 3 October. I was the Tournament Director, and was pinging about it for quite a while... Everything went okay; around 30 people signed up and played. Thanks to Robyn, we had Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, orange juice and coffee for breakfast, and Pizza Hut Pizza for lunch between rounds. I came in 2nd in my division, and Robyn was 2nd in hers, and Sean was 2nd in his as well! Everyone seemed to have fun, maybe we'll be able to get more folks down for our next tournament... I'll try to get some photos put up in a gallery, or at least a link. I didn't take any because I was way too busy, but someone else did, I just have to find out where they posted them.

Metallica concert in Atlanta Sunday night, didn't get home until 3:15 in the morning. I had a hard time getting up for work Monday after that paltry 2 hour nap! Concert was great, though. Robyn, Thomas, Sean and I drove up, met Chris and Amanda there, and took in the show. The four of us in our car hit the Landmark Diner before AND after the show.... Great Ruebens, Chocolate milkshakes, and Cheesecake too !!

Not much news, except football is almost here!! 10 Days and counting, so head on over to the Football Pools website and get signed up before the season starts!!!

We're back from S.C., a weeklong stay at Edisto. I'm sure both my readers are happy I'm back and blogging again. I just wish we could've stayed longer (about 50 years). The vacation was relaxing, Sean and I went to Charleston one day to play disc golf while Robyn relaxed, and on Saturday Robyn and I went down to Botany Bay WMA (formerly Plantation) while Sean took it easy. Loads of Pictures from Botany up in a sub-gallery of the Vacation.

I didn't get a chance to work on the CarPC as much as I wanted. Actually, I chose not to, forgetting to carry a LAN cable with us severely limited my connectivity! I received my Visteon HD300 radio a day or so before we left for the beach, so I took everything along with us to the beach to play with just in case of rain. It didn't rain much, but I did break it out for a day or so, "just 'cause". I managed to hit a wireless Access point for about an hour when I first brought up the PC, but that didn't last and I really didn't feel the overwhelming desire to "sneakernet" the files I needed from Mom's computer. It would've been nice to get the nGhost stuff set up, but I'll work on that soon. As soon as I do that and get me an amplifier to drive the speakers, I can actually install it in the Sylvia!

Of course, things go wrong when you're away... Leaving two of the kids at home while we were gone for a week wasn't the ideal situation, but it was unavoidable. As I had expected (dreaded), we got home and there were situations needing our immediate attention...

So, the seedlings have been moved outside for the remainder of the summer, and now I have a spare camera... I can't decide whether to build it a small shelter so I can set it up off the side porch to keep an eye on my peppers ( tomato hornworms, you know) or hide it somewhere inside to spy on the kids while I'm away... Being the trusting soul I am, I'll probably opt for the former; unless I run out of time before I leave on vacation, what with preparing the Disc Golf course out at AUM for the Tourney on Saturday, and the Biscuits baseball game Friday night, and the Tourney itself on Saturday, and C.J. coming in Saturday night... Guess the kids should be on their best behavior for a while! ;)