• Strange behavior

    One of the things that greeted me upon my return to the office was our spare laptop sitting in my desk chair with a note that it was “dead”. Obviously, this is not what I wanted to see. So I tried booting the machine up, and everything seemed to be going along just fine, the…

  • Busted

    I see that Andy caught my debut posting over at the 2Guys2Cities blog last night before I even knew Michael had posted it up there! No, Andy, I was actually on vacation last week. I met Michael Lacy a few months ago and he suggested I do some writing for their site, mostly focused on…

  • Pictures, pictures

    I arrived safely back home from vacation yesterday, in time to spend the weekend with my lovely wife. I finished going through the pictures tonight and put up a couple of albums from this trip:http://www.mikemcbrideonline.com/gallery/Charlottesvillehttp://www.mikemcbrideonline.com/gallery/SkylineDrive-HarpersFerry Of course, I also finished up Finnegan’s pictures from this trip as well over on his blog. Speaking of pictures,…

  • Getting away

    Shannon chided me the other day in my own comments when I talked about the tech toys I brought on vacation, suggesting that I was missing the point of a vacation! Not at all Shannon. One, as you can tell, I’m not feeling the need to reply in a timely manner at all. 🙂 Two,…

  • Memorial Day

    It’s Memorial Day. Given that, it was only natural to spend some of the day at Appomattox Court House and then the D-Day Memorial in Bedford, VA. This picture was from the second stop of the day, and if you’re in the area of Bedford, I highly recommend it! More pictures when I get back…