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darkwolf1071, Sasha, and kids, wooisme and I decided to check out a Mabon gathering up by Milwaukee. We got to see some nifty parts of downtown Milwaukee that I've never been to before. I haven't spent much time in our large neighbor to the north since Gencon moved and I stopped helping my parents run the games library, and even then I never saw much of the city itself. I was much younger then and never went very far beyond the confines of the convention center.
I saw a few places I want to go back to to climb and photograph, like the high foot bridge that runs under a higher highway bridge, and a long switch-back staircase up a steep hill, both of which seemed open to the public. But, despite my plaintive barks, we continue past them to the park wherein stood the building that was home to the gathering.
The park was a very pretty one and I took a couple of pictures of the beautiful willows overhanging the nearby stream. The building, on the other hand, looked something like a cross between an miniaturized airplane hanger and a repurposed cattle barn. The gathering itself wasn't quite what we expected either. As I put it to my mate, it felt much like being in the dealer's room at a convention on Sunday afternoon when half the vendors have packed up and left and the only patrons there are the ones who just have nowhere else to go. Some of the vendors had neat things like the hand made tie-dyed clothing that I spent a while browsing through, but for the most part things were not terribly original or interesting. Though it was fun to wander through, it wasn't long before we decided to continue on our way.
From there we moved on to a playground that sat atop a steeply declining embankment overlooking Lake Michigan. The kids busied themselves on the jungle-gym and slides while the rest of us conversed with the pleasantly cool lake breeze washing over us. Before too long, I got up to explore the grounds and take a few photos. I'd run over to the edge of the embankment and looked the sixty or so feet down to the shore and seen a hillside full of beautiful flora, inviting sandy beach, and enticing ruined piers jutting perhaps fifty yards into the deep blue water. This called for personal investigation!
This was a really pretty park and I'd like to come back again. I was so touched to find the couple who had brought blankets all the way out to the end of one of the fenced off piers and had snuggled up together to watch the water. Now that's a date. I want to see more of Milwaukee too. I'll have to find excuses to get up there more.
I spent a little while today taking the guts out of a double-wide computer case that I took home from work, gave toposicat, and then brought home after he didn't want it and I realized I could use it. It's got sixteen, count them, sixteen front accessible 5ΒΌ bays that I'm going to populate with a couple of hot-swap SCSI backplanes that I've scrounged from a couple of servers that were scrapped; one Proliant ML530 and one Dell Poweredge something-or-other. With a little bit of Dremel work, some nuts and bolts, and a wood block or two, I'll have a case that will hold twelve or fourteen 80 pin SCSI drives. This is going to become a backup and storage box.
For now, I'm going to print out a help desk job ad with a hospital in Pleasant Prairie. I'm going to write a cover letter for my resume on the way to work tomorrow wherein I hope to <corporate-speak> leverage </corporate-speak> my experience with a company in a similar industy into a decent closer-to-home job.
Good night!
darkwolf1071, Sasha, and kids, wooisme and I decided to check out a Mabon gathering up by Milwaukee. We got to see some nifty parts of downtown Milwaukee that I've never been to before. I haven't spent much time in our large neighbor to the north since Gencon moved and I stopped helping my parents run the games library, and even then I never saw much of the city itself. I was much younger then and never went very far beyond the confines of the convention center.I saw a few places I want to go back to to climb and photograph, like the high foot bridge that runs under a higher highway bridge, and a long switch-back staircase up a steep hill, both of which seemed open to the public. But, despite my plaintive barks, we continue past them to the park wherein stood the building that was home to the gathering.
The park was a very pretty one and I took a couple of pictures of the beautiful willows overhanging the nearby stream. The building, on the other hand, looked something like a cross between an miniaturized airplane hanger and a repurposed cattle barn. The gathering itself wasn't quite what we expected either. As I put it to my mate, it felt much like being in the dealer's room at a convention on Sunday afternoon when half the vendors have packed up and left and the only patrons there are the ones who just have nowhere else to go. Some of the vendors had neat things like the hand made tie-dyed clothing that I spent a while browsing through, but for the most part things were not terribly original or interesting. Though it was fun to wander through, it wasn't long before we decided to continue on our way.
From there we moved on to a playground that sat atop a steeply declining embankment overlooking Lake Michigan. The kids busied themselves on the jungle-gym and slides while the rest of us conversed with the pleasantly cool lake breeze washing over us. Before too long, I got up to explore the grounds and take a few photos. I'd run over to the edge of the embankment and looked the sixty or so feet down to the shore and seen a hillside full of beautiful flora, inviting sandy beach, and enticing ruined piers jutting perhaps fifty yards into the deep blue water. This called for personal investigation!
This was a really pretty park and I'd like to come back again. I was so touched to find the couple who had brought blankets all the way out to the end of one of the fenced off piers and had snuggled up together to watch the water. Now that's a date. I want to see more of Milwaukee too. I'll have to find excuses to get up there more.
I spent a little while today taking the guts out of a double-wide computer case that I took home from work, gave to
posicat, and then brought home after he didn't want it and I realized I could use it. It's got sixteen, count them, sixteen front accessible 5ΒΌ bays that I'm going to populate with a couple of hot-swap SCSI backplanes that I've scrounged from a couple of servers that were scrapped; one Proliant ML530 and one Dell Poweredge something-or-other. With a little bit of Dremel work, some nuts and bolts, and a wood block or two, I'll have a case that will hold twelve or fourteen 80 pin SCSI drives. This is going to become a backup and storage box. For now, I'm going to print out a help desk job ad with a hospital in Pleasant Prairie. I'm going to write a cover letter for my resume on the way to work tomorrow wherein I hope to <corporate-speak> leverage </corporate-speak> my experience with a company in a similar industy into a decent closer-to-home job.
Good night!
