Anyone want to go see Eluveitie, in Baltimore at Ram's Head Live, on March 4, 2011? Awesome Swiss folk metal!

Within Temptation is playing Baltimore (Ram's Head Live) September 12th! Tickets go on sale Friday. Who wants to go?

So, Jenny and I have booked our cruise for this Christmas. And, at one of the ports, the activity I want to do is climb a (dormant) volcano. To prepare, this fall, I'm planning a few day-trips to area trails, preferably somewhat mountainous. Anyone have trails to recommend? Anyone want to come along on some Sunday this fall? I'm thinking of ( Read more... )

Jenny and I saw the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-132 yesterday. What an awesome sight!

( We took some video )

Jethro Tull!! June 8!! Wolf Trap!! I am _so_ there!

We (us and the dogs) went out and played in the snow. We got a few good pictures.
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I had a (mostly) good time at the concert. Good things were Eluveitie and Alestorm (as expected) and Kivimetsän Druidi (a fairly good Norse/Finnish folk metal band). From the Ashes of My Sins seems like an up-and-coming band with good potential. Vried was a bit heavier than I like, but pretty good. The subject matter of their songs ranged from ( Read more... )

Two of my newer favorite bands, Alestorm and Eluveitie, are playing at Jaxx, Nov. 12th (a Thursday). Who would like to go? Tickets are only $20 in advance, or $25 at the door. It's general admission, so we don't have to buy tickets as a group if you decide later.

*sigh* Sometimes this country makes me sad. If it isn't idiots protesting our "socialist" president, it's movie distributors not picking up an interesting sounding movie about Darwin, because it might be "controversial".

Ok... I should be asleep now, but I'm not. So, I thought I'd post an update.

As a temporary measure, I'm using my main home desktop PC as our replacement fileserver (and print server). For the most part, all I had to do was get a longer USB cable to run from the printer. I then installed the new 1.5TB drive we'd gotten at one of those computer shows ( Read more... )