Hiking Through Life

Virginia Beach Fun

We went to Virginia Beach in June and had a good time introducing Emily to the Atlantic Ocean. We only stayed one night so it was a short trip but it was fun. We got lots of good pictures and a few good videos. One of them I almost feel bad posting online but it is pretty funny once you get past the shock of it. We stayed in a nice hotel over looking the beach. Come to find out Marriott gives a pretty good military discount. We got 40% knocked off the room rate. They had a really nice pool but Emily Kate wasn’t to interested in swimming.

So here are the videos, make sure you watch the top one first…

To check out the pictures from our trip on our Shutterfly Album page click here. The pictures are only available to people who know me. If you know me you and want to view the pictures on that site just let me know and I’ll send you an invite.

Operational Again

So if you read my post from May 24th you know I was having some trouble with my Mac. Well, the averted disaster turned into major disaster. The hard drive completely failed. It would not even mount. For you non-techies when a drive will not mount it is like having a cowboy and horse together but the cowboy can’t get on the horse. And the cowboy is no good without his horse. Just like a hard drive is no good without a CPU (Central Processing Unit). So, for the record: I purchased this Mac in October of 2007, had to have it replaced in March of 2008. The reason for that replacement is unknown. The computer was just a lemon. Even the “geniuses” at the Apple Store couldn’t figure out what was wrong with it so they decided to replace it at no cost. Thank goodness I purchased Apple Care. Everything was just peachy (besides the very annoying internet connection issues which is another story) until the hard drive failed. So, in my 18 month relationship with Apple they’ve replace my entire computer once and my hard drive once. The hard drive was only 14 months old. Doesn’t seem right. I will say this though, most of what I have read about hard drives is that they are somewhat finicky because sometimes you’ll get one to last 6 years and sometimes you’ll get one that only lasts 6 weeks. Ahhh… the wonders of technology.

I’m usually pretty on top of getting pictures posted of Emily at the beginning of each month… but that is difficult to do when your computer is not up and running. I should get them posted in the next couple of days.