Last weekend was the end of a string of very busy weekends.   In the past month+ we’ve had: a trip to St. Louis (science center, galleria, etc.), memorial day picnic in Troy, 2 high school graduations, a birthday, and a wedding.  We’re hoping to stay around town this weekend, we’ll see how it goes.

I think that after a week and a half, it’s time to try and tame the jungle that is my lawn.  Between all of the rain, weekend events, and Ana’s birthday, I just haven’t had time to get to it earlier.  I’m sure it’ll be a blast.

As mentioned in my last post, we headed down to St. Louis  on Saturday to, among other things, see the OmniMax presentation of Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon.  We left springfield at about 10 ’til 8 in the morning and were parked at the Science Center at around 9:30, with tickets to the 10am showing.

The show was awesome, it looked amazing.  For the first 15 minutes that is.  That’s when the fabled Howerter Curse kicked in and the projector broke!  We couldn’t believe it, we just sat in our seats almost dumbfounded as they were announcing the refunds/vouchers.  We were able to get our money back, and spent the rest of the morning walking through the Science Center.

For lunch we brought sandwich-making materials and had a nice picnic in Forest Park.  The temperature in the shade felt about 15 degrees cooler than the blistering heat (for this time of year) we felt whenever we left the car – that combined with a good breeze made for an enjoyable lunch.
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Well the beginning of summer is upon us with Memorial Day weekend.  We have a pretty busy few days coming up – heading to St. Louis on Saturday with Jay and Katherine to visit the Science Center and whatever else we feel like.  Magnificent Desolation Walking on the Moon is currently playing at the omnimax and we preordered tickets for the 10am showing, so it’ll be an early start on Saturday.

On Sunday, Ana and I are headed to my grandfather’s house to visit with relatives.  We’ll be taking our Bocce Ball set with us and hopefully get a tournament going.  Based on how well everyone liked the game last time, it should be a lot of fun.

I also need to get my grass mowed at some point.  But that’s no fun.

We took our bikes out for a spin tonight, the first time this year.  We need to get into the habit of riding them a couple of times each week, it’s definitely great exercise.  The 11 miles tonight has my legs feeling a little tired!

Thanks to my anniversary gift from Ana, my new hard drives are on order and waiting to be shipped along with the necessary raid controller.  I also ordered a USB2 -> IDE adapter to attach my 20GB tape drive to.  I’m not sure what I’ll end up using it for now, but surely something will present itself.

In other news…

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