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Archive for November, 2008

Skinny but tall house on 64th.

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Just a quick test of the Android application, wpToGo. I want to see if it plays nice with WP 2.6.5 and LJXP plugin.

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Just some photos and notes about the last couple days.

Thanksgiving with family and friends
Seattle Walkabout

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I will be updating the WordPress cms that runs the blog section of Cafe Arcane shortly.  Cafe Arcane will not be accessible during this time.  Sorry for the inconvenience.  It should be relatively brief.  See you soon.
Updated: WordPress updated.  Little bit of temporary hassle from some plugins (but that’s typical).

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Sorry about being a day late with this.  Been spending time with family, recovering from drive and generally enjoying the charms of Seattle with Pip by my side.
The last leg of our journey was relatively short in comparison.  We crossed out of Montana and into Idaho.  Although I-90 passes though a narrow point of the [...]

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Hit the road from Gillette with the intention of grabbing breakfast somewhere along the way, but things were pretty desolate and we ended up just snacking on the road and at gas breaks.  The country grows progressively more mountainous from Wyoming to Montana.
Once well into Montana its easy to see why people fall in love [...]

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Yesterday was a low mileage day as we succumbed to the innumberable tourist traps of South Dakota.
We apparently arrived in the height of South Dakota deer hunting season as we were hard pressed to find a pick up truck that was not adorned with some recent conquest.  We stopped at a little place called Al’s [...]

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Technically, we started from some place east of Saint Louis and passed through the city in the wee hours of the morning.  Taking I-70 west we made Kansas City stopping for breakfast and gas along the way.  Pip broke out the knitting on and off working on “the project”.
From Kansas City we headed north on [...]

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This morning I went outside of Pip’s apartment to start loading the car at 6:30am and was greeted by snow flurries.  Very pretty under the street lamps in the dark… until I found I could not get back in to the apartment (pre-access times).  I could not ring Pip’s phone either (it was on silent), [...]

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Yesterday I vacated my studio.  Apartment manager and I did walk through and signed off everything.  A completely painless process.  Looking at my loaded vehicle, I decided to ship one last box via UPS.  Frankly,  an under-packed car appeals to me more on a security and safety level.  Sent it ground, so I’ll probably beat [...]

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