Seeking, seizing the Kingdom

Yesterday started with the previous post, while my wife slept soundly. She stirred about an hour after I made some coffee in the room. We didn’t get on the Boardwalk until about 12:30p, which put us at MGM Studios around 1p. Joy and I were on our own for the day. We had to catch the rides we didn’t have time for the night before, so we went on the Great Movie Ride, which features scenes from a lot of classic movies, many of which are old black and white movies, The Little Mermaid the musical, and Drew Carey’s “Sounds Dangerous”. (more…)

Joy and I got on opportunity to do something we’ve never done before… go on a vacation. My uncle and aunt had planned a trip to Walt Disney World for mid-October, that’s right about the time when the MN temps drop into the 50s and 40s during the day, while FL keeps a steady mid-80s spread. Joy and I had been there for our honeymoon, but that was 5 years ago, and there was so much we had forgotten, and so much more to take in. When we got the chance to tag along, we had to take it! (more…)

Today I delivered and set up my mom’s new computer. First real upgrade to the hardware in 7 (count them, seven) years, amazing. Anyway, after moving the power, telephone and data infrastructure, I started the beast up. After some fiddling with the X server settings, I was able to get the HDTV lit up. The beauty, the sheer largeness of the Ubuntu desktop on a very large screen. Mom wanted to stream christian videos to the TV. A very nice setup. Now we just need to get over the “my-goodness-everything-is-different” phase. Wish us good times!