After replacing what was certainly bad RAM on my server, it has crashed again. I don’t know why. I’m begining to suspect the motherboard again. The system is not very robust.
So: does anyone have reliability recommendations for motherboard manufacturers? Can’t be Intel (unless the sell boards for AMD chips!)
I have finally posted the dive pictures from our dive trip to Curaçao. I haven’t gotten around to publishing the land pictures yet, but will soon. After all – what’s a vacation/holiday for if not to work on things you don’t normally have time to work on?
I hope you are all enjoying your Christmas holiday today! I know I am. Don’t gorge yourselves!
And we’re back from Houston, where we got to eat some great food and see our families and a few friends. So I get to go back to work first thing in the moring. I guess it’s a good thing that I bought some new motorcycle gloves for winter riding as it will be quite chilly in the morning.
At least this is only a two-day work week for me and then there’s Christmas and a three-day week after.
Tonight, my company [Microsoft] is throwing a “Holiday” party [I’ll call it a Christmas party] at the Kennedy Center. I’ve never been there – at least not inside, but this is where the Washington, D.C. symphony plays and it’s rather big. Working for Microsoft certainly has its perks, and they are known for throwing big parties. In this case, Laura and I will be attending a pre-concert mixer and then a concert. I have no idea what is playing, but I’m sure it will be good.
This picture I have is from two years ago when I was travelling here while working for IBM and staying in a hotel in the area. I had lots more time to waste on taking pictures then! Well, I have the time, but I choose to spend it a little differently now.
Speaking of parties: what the heck is “dressy casual”? That’s what we were instructed to dress to.
Driving home this evening, we witnessed the first flurries of the season – and it’s not even Winter yet! It will be bitter cold tonight – in fact, it’s already down to 25 degrees. Luckilly, Laura will be letting me drive the car tomorrow so that I won’t get frostbite while riding.
This year will likely be my last year as a Continental Platinum member. However, I can still salvage Elite status by earning Silver. In order to do so, in addition to our trip home to Houston for vacation, I will be taking a day to make a run around the country.
Unlike last year’s run which took me to San Francisco, this year I will visit the Las Vegas airport as well as Newark and Houston. That was the cheapest flight. That will give me enough miles to be Silver for next year. I guess I have to give up Platinum [top tier] status, but the price of earning that is just way too high. Next year for work, I will be doing some travelling for training in the first three months, so I should earn a good chunk of qualifying miles then. Maybe I’ll even pay for a vacation flight… or not.
I’ve gotten most of the underwater photos processed and will be posting them soon. I had to delete quite a few pictures and even most that I post will likely only be to show what we did or saw instead of to showcase any excellent photo.
We might be selling our S80 on eBay. If you are interested in it and an underwater case, please let us know…
After returning from our vacation where it was 85 to 90 degrees all week long, we are now back in Virginia. This morning, I was anxious to ride my bike into work… that is until I realized it was 37 degrees outside.
Well, I still got on the bike and the ride was mostly pleasant. Of course, my fingers began to freeze about 30 minutes into the ride, but that’s normal for this temperature. This evening, though, the ride home should be much warmer – more like 60 degrees. PERFECT riding weather.
And now that I’m back, I have a lot of photo processing to do… again.
I’ve now updated the “Airports I’ve Been To” page to include Curaçao and bring the total to 78 I’ve transited through.
I even updated my world map, but the country is so small that there wasn’t even a red dot where it should be…
::: jeffphillips.org ::: 