Then, we were able to see my dad again, just before flying home, and we spent most of the day at home since we all were busy and it was snowing fairly hard outside.
Our departure day, with remnants of snow from the previous day.
So, this weekend qualified as excellent early season conditions: nice powder (although not as dry and fluffy anymore) and enough of a base that we only somewhat damaged our boards as opposed to severely damage them :) (I took my rock board, so no biggie). I convinced my friend Johannes to stay at kirkwood (I found a one bedroom at kirkwood on VRBO for $320/night, or $107/head, which isn't cheap but was damn convenient :) (the owner gets credit for driving the keys over to us that same evening as we had only finalized our plans friday evening)
Saturday was actually a nice bluebird day while sunday was colder and snowy but allowed for more powder. Deep palisades was actually quite good already, although during the traverses there were some unavoidable quite rocky sections that I had to just jump or fall from as they were unridable.
The only downer was that I was riding my old rock board with step in boots and had left my brand new vans boots in the car, and they somehow got lost/stolen some time during the weekend. Grumble... On the plus side, Jennifer had a good time and made good use of the time off work and worries at home :)
the rocks were everywhere, often hidden right under the snow
Johannes was a fairly decent boarder and I didn't have to wait for him much :)
the chute skier's left from Corniche, still hard to ride down without scraping on rocks
we had snow/rain the entire way back
After some debugging, I opened the said speaker, and found that the magnet attached to the tweeter (by nothing else than magnetism), had detached itself from the tweeter and grafted itself onto the magnet of the lower speaker, messing with the sound somewhat.
I just put the magnet back where it belonged, and the sound setup completed.
I'm just impressed that Audyssey was able to detect the subtle sound difference due to that magnet in the wrong place, and that it reported it back to me :)
The only thing that router was missing for me was usb serial support so that I could monitor booting of my other PC server and/or debug the server remotely if networking goes down, or whatnot. I wanted to keep a config where I had two internet facing hosts I could ssh into, and use any of the two to get to my internal network, as well as use one to get the boot messages from the other one.
The problem was that dd-wrt didn't have usb-serial support, it was doable but the bits were missing. I also wanted to make a contribution to the folks who do the dd-wrt software, so I put out bounty to get usb serial working and it was fixed and added with 24H, woot!
And I'm sure when dd-wrt started out, people wondered why you'd want to replace the firmware on a router that came with already working and written firmware, kinda of why I initially wondered why some guy in sweden thought it would make sense to write a new firmware for the archos mp3 player back in the day (and later I found out how it turned out to be awesome).
Not the end of the world, although I'd have been happy to play with the receiver last weekend.
Tracking number XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Reference XXXXXXXXX
Ship date Nov 24, 2008 Shipment ID XXXXXXXXX
Estimated delivery Dec 2, 2008 Destination XXXXXXXXX
Service type Home Delivery
Weight 35.0 lbs.
Status Delivery exception
Date/Time Activity Location Details
Nov 29, 6:17 PM Delivery exception SAN JOSE, No attempt made, delivery scheduled for
2008 CA next business day
8:31 AM On FedEx vehicle SAN JOSE,
for delivery CA
7:22 AM At local FedEx SAN JOSE,
facility CA
3:47 AM Departed FedEx SACRAMENTO,
location CA
12:54 Arrived at FedEx SACRAMENTO,
AM location CA
Nov 24, 10:08 Arrived at FedEx LEWISBERRY,
2008 PM location PA
7:00 PM Package data
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PA