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My Almost-daily Journal |
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| About I love trying out new things, especially when it comes to internet technology. I never really kept a journal, but it's something that I've always wanted to do. Now, everybody will get a chance to look inside my twisted, and somewhat-warped mind.
I've also subscribed to Audio Blog, so a few times a week, I'll leave actual voice blogs. Very cool!XML Newsfeed Previous Posts
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Saturday, August 07, 2004
Houghton Vacation - Day 3 The third day of vacation had a late start due to a longer-than-expected night out on the town... Some of the folks got up early and went to downtown Houghton to get some breakfast a place that was once called Maria's Deli. I ended up just going to the local Citgo and buying some lame, prepackaged sandwiches. Today's main trek was a day trip to Copper Harbor. I love that place! Jon and I both drove, splitting up three people per vehicle. We got stuck in a traffic jam on the way up, due to Michigan's on-going campaign to set out as many orange barells as possible. Once we got going, things were pretty smooth sailing. When we reached Copper Harbor, we made a pit stop at a scenic outlook that overlooks the Copper Harbor lighthouse. We took plenty of pictures of the scenery, and then headed toward our destination: Brockway Mountain. It took us about 25 minutes to get up, and 12 minutes to get down in our vehicles. Once up top, the rest of the crew grabbed a Mountain Dew, donned their Trek shorts and Klein underwear, slapped on their Red Hot Chili Pepper mountain biking socks, as well as their Speedo moisture-wicking sport shirts, and strapped themselves onto their $3000 mountain bikes. I was the support vehicle and could not keep up with them. Jon reached speeds of 47 mph on the way down, which to me was nothing more than a managed, out-of-control decent. At the bottom of the summit, everybody's brakes were 50% worn down to the nubs, and everybody's rims weighed 20% less. Steve and Peter went down again, and Steve reached speeds of 43 mph. It looked fun, and if there were no uphill climbs, I may have done the same, but I'd rather be a support vehicle than a rager. We all have our place and our priorities... I'm on vacation, I don't want to work. On the way back from Copper Harbor, we stopped in Eagle River at a famous restaurant called Fitzgeralds. I've never had shittier service in my life. The entire dinner took almost three hours. No silverware, no water, nothing. The waiter sucked. The service sucked. On top of the shitty service, we were treated like 2nd class citizens and thown outside in the sun. No umbrella. If they only knew that our combined networth was over $5 million and that our combined annual salaries were over $500,000, we may have been treated better. But we were wearing shorts and t-shirts, and we definitely looked that we were from out of town. I've always been a proponent of tipping, and tipping extremely well. My normal tip is 20% for standard service. I'll usually give a little more if the waiter goes out of his way. I think I've only left 15% twice in my life. Yesterday, I left 10%. Note to the world: if you're ever in the Iron River area, do not eat at Fitzgeralds unless you want to eat with your hands and cook the food yourself. Conversely, if you have three hours to kill, and don't mind asking five times for silverware or water, then Fitzgeralds is for you. When we returned to the hotel, we unwinded, then headed up to the Sig Tau house to meet the Friday night arrivals. We met few more people, put back a couple beers, and listened to some live music by some local folk singer. The night was short, and we headed back for a long summer sleep. Right now, I'm at the DJ booth in the Sig Tau house after finishing up our Alumni meeting. A motion was made for Peter and I that we are now lifetime dues paying members to compensate us for webhosting and our web services. It's a pretty token amount compared to the amount of work put into the site, plus the resources required by our server, but it was nice to get the recognition. That's all for now. If I have time, there may be one more update, but it'll probably happen when I get home. Ain't Skeered. posted by Dino at 11:31 AM (permanent link)
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