Congratulations to the winners: Fazin overall, Stirling in 2nd, Haf and Vhex tied for 3rd. (Updated per Haf’s comment).
Overall, the event was even better than last year. Well coordinated and executed, and a ton of fun. The food and drinks were good, the games and gamers even better, and a ton of fun was had by all. Except for Vhex placing for a second year in a row.
Sat. night’s pictures are up at my Flickr site, I’ll get them a group and link ’em tomorrow.
Here’s another favorite from the pictures so far.
Jenny, Jim’s (Fazin/eth0) wife sits down and spanks us all in her first time playing Flatout. Towards the end of the match she’s playing (and winning) as she answers a call on her cell phone.
Beginner’s luck!
Click the picture to see the notes on my Flickr site.
The morning events started with Fusion Frenzy on X-Box and Flatout demolition derby style.
I’m proud to announce I won (well, tied with Fazin) the Fusion Frenzy event.
Good thing as I sucked seriously at Lastetron last night and started the morning with negative points.
The BFG event is off and running and we’re having a blast. We played Whirlyball & Lasertron last night.
Here’s a shot of the first winners for Whirlyball.
I officially feel old – we bought a 2005 Toyota Sienna minivan Saturday.
With the baby on the way, that will make 3, and 3 kids do not sit comfortably in a row in the back of my 2000 Ford Explorer, which we traded in.
We bought the XLE Sienna, which has a bunch of features, including heated leather seats, JBL sound system, power everything, and worst of all, some minor woodgrain in the center panel and on the inside front doors. Not too much thank god, but we bought the car sight unseen, as they were quickly running out of 2005s, and it was one of the few left in the state with the features we wanted. It’s nice enough, and drives nice.
But I miss my explorer, and now have to drive my wife’s 2001 Ford Escape while she drives the minivan. She’s about as excited to drive the Sienna as I am the Escape.
Obligatory Escape photo:
As I mentioned two weeks ago, I’ve uploaded all the old photo’s I had to my Flickr.
It turned out to be just over a 1000 photo’s, with the most in the last two years. I had some good ones of Alex going back to 2001, and a ton of Zoe baby pictures.
They’re all uploaded, grouped in to sets, and I re-orded my set list to be in chronological order with all the kid photo’s.
I’ve added our Fourth of July photos, and we’re caught up in the present again.
Seems since I did the security update late last week, that one of the fixes changed the permissions on the file that controls the comments, so it errored out and wasn’t accepting comments.
That’s now fixed. For the record, the error was:
Warning: comments_template (wp-content/themes/default/comments.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in (wp-includes/comment-functions.php on line 28)
According to the to the fix on the WordPress Codex it required adding a line to the style.css sheet of a theme so it looked like:
/*<br />
Template: mad1<br />
Theme Name: No Named Art Seed
However, that didn’t work for me.
SSH’ing in, and going to my wp-content directory and typing:
chmod -R 755 themes/ however did work. I don’t know if it’s a permission error on the comments file itself, or the directories, but comments are back.
In related news, I’ve come across some of last years digital photo’s and am in the process of uploading them to Flickr, including the ones from Packer Training Camp last year. So some of the timelines will be out of date for a few days, as I upload them and I’ll finish ’em off with this past weekends Fourth of July photo’s to back in to real-time.
My favorite Packer photo is Robert Ferguson making a spectacular one-handed catch at full extension in the air:
There was a huge storm Monday night, and the sky was 3 different shades of colors.
Attached are two (attempted) panoramic shots of the sky from my backyard. Unfortunately, on both attempts, you can clearly see the stitching lines, but you can see the sky changing colors.
The big one above was made with Microsoft’s Digital Image Suite 10, and the second, smaller one below was made with The GIMP with just the first two photo’s.
I’ve grouped the last batch of photo’s updated to Flickr for easier viewing:
This is Alex’s 3rd year in organized baseball. Last year was the coaches pitching with a manual machine, this year is the first with kids pitching.
It’s amazing the difference a year makes. Last year in 7-8 year old, most of the kids had a hard time paying attention, hitting, throwing. This year, even Alex, who I don’t practice with enough, has shown tremendous improvement in the skills department.
He has a fun time playing, and is lightyears ahead of where he was. Tuesday night, the night the picture was taken, he was 3 for 4, including the hit pictured here.
I’ll group ’em on Flickr this weekend.
