I just got a chance to post a few pic’s from a recent trip to Miami Metro Zoo. Great place. Forgot how much fun it could be. It’s definitely worth the trip if you haven’t been. I’d probably wait until it get’s a little cooler though…

Just click on the pic to take a look…

Ron

Ron

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R

So I was out in Albuquerque for Thanksgiving visiting my wife (she’s going to school out there don’t you know).

We decided to take a ride to the top of the Sandia Mountains on the Sandia Peak Tramway.

As it says on the website, it is “…the world’s longest aerial tramway…” that “… transports you above deep canyons and breathtaking terrain a distance of 2.7 miles“

So here we are riding the tram up the mountain and pass through a snowy coud bank.  We see the other tram appear through the clouds.  As the cable car got closer, we noticed smething a little odd about the tram.

Click on the picture to see more.  It’s a maintenance guy on the roof.  He was doing some tower maintenance and riding the trams to move from tower to tower.  Pretty wild.  That guy must have been freezing.  It was 20 degrees outside and it was just a little windy.

I thought I would only see things like this on Dirty Jobs…

R

Hi All,

I just posted a few more pic’s from my New York City trip back in October on the Flickr site.

Enjoy…

R

Hi all,

My Wife and I were in Boston in December for Christmas and a wedding (Congrats Andrea and Geoff). We had a great time and are looking forward to going back when we don’t have such a packed schedule.

Any who, as we were talking about the wedding, music, and romance in general, my Wife asked the “What’s the name of that song? You know the one” question. After getting a few clues and surfing YouTube to play a few possiblities, it turned out to be L.O.V.E. by Nat King Cole (or Frank Sinatra if you wish).

One of the clips we came across was so great I figured we should share it. Her YouTube ID is Po0ink. We think she rocks… Give it a play and see what you think. She also has her own YouTube User page.

Oh, I don’t know about anyone else, but lately I’ve been having odd issues with YouTube. Sometimes I play a video and all I hear is static/white noise. I can go back a few minutes later and the video plays fine. If you get that here, just try it again a little later. It’s well worth it.

R

Yes, its been awhile.  Again.  :-)  it’s been a crazy few months which turned into a crazy year.  I was just up in NYC for some personal business and had some time to take a few pictures.  Check them out just on the left side of the page or go directly to the Flickr site.

Hopefully I’ll get some time soon to update everyone on what’s been going on.  So much stuff, so little time. The wife is out in New Mexico going to school, bought some property out in Montana, doing more work on the house, and so much other stuff to talk about.

Hope everyone is doing well…

R

Yeah, it’s me…  It’s been awhile.  Been busy at work and it’s been consuming all my time.  Ever have one of those projects that just never ends???  No matter what we do, there always seems to be pitfall waiting or us. Bad estimates on work efforts, unforeseen problems that require calls to the manufacturer, different interpretations of the design doc.  You name it, it seems like we’ve run into it.

Anyway, enough about that.  There’s lots of other stuff to complain about…  Politics, the economy, oil prices, or my favorite topic… the airlines.

There’s all sorts of stuff going on with them.  Apparently, they are getting very sensitive.  To the folks in Salt Lake City, what did you do or say to piss them off?

It used to be that you could fly from South Florida to Salt Lake direct.  There were quite a few airlines that could get you out there.  From there you could hop a puddle jumper or small jet and make it to a variety of ski slopes and other outdoor recreation areas.  Not any more.

I was just looking for flights for a few trips that we wanted to take and I couldn’t find anything.  I went out to March of next year and there was nothing.  No one flies from south Florida to Salt Lake anymore. Occasionally, there is one Frontier airline flight.  But, the schedule is crazy.

Now you have to go through Atlanta, Houston, and other hubs.  That adds another few hours to the total flight time.  I used to be able to get out to Bozeman/Big Sky Montana by 12:30 in the afternoon.  2:30 if we took a slightly later flight.  Now we’re looking at 5:00 – 6:00 p.m.

It’s crazy.  With the ski season coming up, I can’t believe they’re not continuing the direct flights out west.  The flights were usually mostly full.

Guess it’s part of the changing times…  More on this tomorrow.  It’s late and I’m trying to watch something in Chinese.  The rewind button on the Tivo is getting quite a workout trying to keep up with the subtitles.  :-)

Until tomorrow…

R

There’s a few posts below to give you a quick look at the last few months.

R.