Spring Break

This is the first day of Spring Break for me, and I couldn't be more excited.

I'm not actually off the entire week. I plan to go in two days later this week as this is a great time to get some work done with no one around to bother me about a computer that isn't working or a software application that won't open. Still, I'm going to get some time away from technology for a week, and I'm looking forward to it.

I plan to

• Paint the basement
• Finish the bathroom project
• Clean the area in the back of our yard that the former home owner used as a compost pile
• Go to lunch with a friend I haven't seen in a few months
• Paint my bedroom
• Plant grass in the barren areas of our yard
• Paint the foundation of the house
• Spend some quality time with my wife

Of course, I probably won't get half of that done. In fact, I'll be lucky to get three of the bullets done, and I'm sure that when the end of the day Friday rolls around I'll be bummed about how little I got done, about all of the time I squandered doing nothing.

But I don't care about that now. I have a week of endless possibility stretching out in front of me right now. I might just do something...something...something AWESOME!

Cincinnati Nature Center

Yesterday was the first Saturday in quite some time that the girls did not have SOMETHING school related going on early Saturday morning, so the family was able to sleep in a little, and we were able to do a family activity that did not have to do with school. So we took off for the Cincinnati Nature Center, as we've done before in the past (see here and here). This time, though, for the first time, Lisa went with us.

And I'm glad she did because we got to see what I filmed on my camera and posted below. The woman in the video went around the Visitor's Center of the CNC asking people if they wanted to see her feed a snake. We didn't know she was going to try to feed the snake her finger!

Google Street View: The Other Side

I've written two blog posts about how nifty I think Google Street View is, including one post just a few days ago. It would appear that some stuffy Brits, though, are a little less in love with the service than I am.

On the other hand, the article confirmed what I wrote in my original post: that the photos had to be taken by multiple cameras mounted on a vehicle.

Click here to read the story.