Recent events…

I finally feel like I’m back from Mexico. It’s been a week now and I’ve recovered from my jet lag. Actually this trip worked out well. Mexico City was 5 hours ahead of Hawaii (then 4 once they switched daylight savings off). Since I was on vacation I slept in to avoid the rush hour in the metro (or on the roads) which means, as I get up around 4am here, that I was actually getting up at the same time.
Once I got back I had to go back to work immediately and that was great as well. The guys at work kept up with all my stuff so I had nothing but routine assignments waiting for me. Thanks guys!
It’s always nice to come home and this trip was no exception. I loved Mexico City, but I live in Honolulu and…well…Honolulu is Honolulu.
I’ve had a lot to keep me busy now that I’m home. I had a lot of folks to say hi to after three weeks away. That included a very good friend who’d kept my moped for me while I was away. Thanks! She’s going to DF herself in the future, so it was fun telling her about my trip. The moped, btw, seems to work better than when I’d left it. It needed a vacation too. [Hint: when leaving a moped for an extended period, disconnect the battery, I did and had no trouble starting up three weeks later.]
I also decided to buy the latest version of Parallels for my Macbook. I haven’t used it since the first version and had taken Windows off my systems a while back. However I’ve had some situations recently in managing the other website I’ve mentioned where it’s been very helpful to have access to a Windows machine. It isn’t so much about file formats and the like which, over the years, have become easier to deal, but more about providing support. It’s a lot easier to help someone with a problem in Outlook or Word if you are looking at the same menus they are.
In any case Parallels has come a long way. It took sometime to install XP on it, but that isn’t Parallels fault, it’s all the fixes one has to apply to XP once you do get it going. Sigh.
The only other thing taking up my time was renaming my images. I’d used an unfortunate naming scheme for transferring images from my cameras to the laptop I had with me in Mexico (my Asus Eee PC 1000H – which worked superbly). In any case I had use a shell script repeatedly to rename about 2000 images.
You might not think it worth it if you look at the images, but since I wasn’t trying to make art, they are okay for me. I take travel pictures for the same reason I suspect most people do – simply to remember where I was and what I did.
Here’s a link to the uncorrected images. By that I mean I haven’t “fixed” the photos, simpy resized them for the web. Some will look much better with a little work. Most will look just as bad. 🙂

MEXICO CITY IMAGES BY DAY
I’ve been riding my bike, though I’ll admit that because of several luncheons I had to attend I didn’t ride to work every day. I should be back to that now though – thank goodness, I feel so much better when I do it.
That’s it for now. I’m back and I hope to get back into blogging regularly (that’s a note for Robin, my only faithful reader). 🙂
Aloha!