Ulmus Jefferii

Happy New Year!

I had a great time back in NC and 2 days in Atlanta. Now it’s time to get back to work. And start planning 2009. It looks like I have already allocated all of my vacation time. But that’s fine with me because it requires a ski trip to Lake Tahoe, my parents coming to visit the southwest, a trip to Istanbul and Cyprus, and two trips to NC one in summer(wedding reception at Big Butte) and one for the Holidays.

This week I’m going to be getting my beer brewing kit. I want to make sure I have room for it my already overcrowded apartment.

Speaking to one of my brothers, I realized that I am not using my iPhone to it’s full potential. There are really only a few apps that I use regularly. So I am looking at the apps in more detail for ones I will actually use. So far I have found vlingo which works quite well. I may feel like using the iPhone while driving is not so horrible (well still only at red lights).

An interesting, but maybe not so useful app comes from instamapper. Which also segues into my hike in Ventana Canyon yesterday. Because of the steady rise in the terrain and the great line-of-sight to Tucson, I had reception for most of the hike. And so you can see a rough route of the hike.

Thanks to a coworker, I found out Hulu.com has all of Arrested Development available. I hope if you are reading this, you know that arrested development is one of the best series ever. Unfortunately, this now means I am rewatching it again. There go many hours of my conscious life.

In other news, my iPod mini up and died after about four years. Here is the culprit.

Luckily for around $70, I’m getting a 32GB Compact Flash drive(solid state) and a new battery.

Finally, I hate the traffic that goes with Christmas shopping.

Clearly too much has happened Since April when I was still in grad school in Atlanta. Now’ I’m in Tucson, we have elected a new President (thank you) and the economy is all over the place (although mostly down).

But really the motivation for this post is to get back to posting regularly….So I begin with a screen shot from an episode of Law & Order

Isn’t that the most awesome IP address EVER?