We drove to Redding (CA) to be in the path of yesterday's annular solar eclipse. It was totally worth the drive! We watched it from Manzanita Lake in Lassen Volcanic National Park. There were quite a few people there, but it wasn't out of control. (Apparently the group at Whiskeytown got a bit rowdy. Glad we drove further ( Read more... )

I like it! You can set up a routine and just go. The trainer is WAY less annoying than the Wii Fit one -- at least so far (and you can turn down the chattiness, I checked ( Read more... )

So this is somewhat magical, at least until I find out how they do it ( Read more... )

It's mostly a lot of fun.
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I has a new monitor. This one works! Oooooooh. It's HUGE!

Time to install some games. Or maybe dinner. How'd it get to be almost 9:00 already? I'm not even the one playing!

Well, the new computer is set up and seems to work okay. The new monitor, not so much.... sigh, at least we have a spare.

Hmph, though. If there's one thing I love more than going to Best Buy it's going *back* to Best Buy with an open box of poopy monitor that doesn't work.

Bah. Age of Conan crashes on my poor old laptop. Oh well, shopping time!