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Save the Planet… er… wallet

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

The Expedition now has 175K miles on it and is getting around 12-14 MPG running back and forth to STL. Once a week I have to fill up and with our new lovely gas prices, this costs me about $100 per fill up.

So, I decided, it was time to “save the environment”!! <ok… save the leather wallet at least> I picked up a beautiful used bike. It’s a 2005 Yamaha V-Star 1100 with only 3500 miles on it. This should get me somewhere in the neighborhood of 40-50 mpg. Evan loves the bike and especially likes the flames.

By the way - You can click on each pick to make it larger.

Roland RidesSold on the Flames

…and Sailbay changes once again

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

After having my previous PHP Nuke site hacked for the umpteenth time, I am trying something new. Wordpress. Ok, so I really wasn’t keeping up with theĀ old site anyway, both on the backend and posting.

I have been using wordpress for Evan’s site for the last year or so, and nothing has happened to his, so either Wordpress is a bit more secure, or the hackers just haven’t found his site yet. I believe I was just hit by opportunistic hackers, so we will see what happens. Either way - Enough about the script kiddies…

I hope to be able to update this site a bit more often. Blog entries and the such are a snap to enter. I will play with it over the next several weeks and find the right theme, layout, widgets, plugins, gadgets, whizz-bangs, and flux capacitors to make this work well for my needs.

Until then… I am tired and off to bed. Early day today.