Spice Family Reunion

Entry posted by SpiceWare August 25, 2008

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Got back last night from the family reunion in Wisconsin. Weather was great, though all the Wisconsin folk were complaining about the humidity - while I was busy applying Burt's Beeswax to keep my lips from drying out

Took a lot of photos with my new camera, a Panasonic DMC-TZ5A(the A means it has the blue case, which looks much better in person than the pictures of it). Besides photos it also takes videos, up to 1280x720. There's 7 movies scattered amongst the photos.

The twins Mason and Logan were a handful - they'll be 2 next month on the 4th. I'm not sure how my brother & SIL keep up with 4 boys, though Justin(their eldest) helped out a lot.

Brandin(nephew 2) was sporting a mohawk when I got there, so I got him some hair color for it. We were planning to get blue, but they were sold out so he picked green instead. It glowed quite vibrantly in pictures if the camera's flash went off.

I picked up StarCraft BattleChest for Justin, and he's now addicted. He played on my MacBook while I upgraded their PowerMac G4 to Leopard. Had some issues with StarCraft on their system as StarCraft expects to be played on an Administrator account and Justin's on a managed account(parental controls). I figured out how to get it to work via sudo and wrapped it up in an Apple Script App so he can just double-click to start up a game. It took a while to figure out, so I'll be uploading instructions how to do it to my website later(I'm about halfway done with the page). By the time I left he'd finished the first 11 levels. We also played a couple games against each other.

The flights to and from were not much fun. On the way up the 7 am flight from Houston was delayed by an hour as the flight crew arrived late the night before(FAA requirements for rest came into play). Because of the delay I had about 10 minutes to catch my connection in Detroit, and of course we arrived at the extreme end of terminal A and my connection was at the extreme end of terminal C. I high tailed it over and thankfully the departure was delayed, so I had 30 minutes to catch my breath The return flight out of Central Wisconsin Airport was on time, but I had a 3 1/2 hour layover that was extended another hour. Since I wasn't in a rush, I was able to take a video of the really cool Light & Sound show in the tunnel that connects Detroit's terminals.