Dave’s stuff

In amongst all the politics in the video blog over at AlterNet, there’s this little gem to cheer you up.

Update: the band in the video is OK Go.

I’m in the process of moving to a new server. Currently my old photos are off-line. They’ll be back in a few days weeks months.

Yep, I’m back in bonnie Scotland, and it’s pouring with rain. No surprise there. The trip home was completely uneventful. No problems due to any “terrorist threats” or anything like that. I’ll spend the weekend puting more photos up.

Elaine’s off shopping here in Banff, and I’ve found an internet cafe I can plug the laptop into, so I’ve taken the opportunity to upload a whole bunch of photos from earlier in the trip. There’s something for everyone in here - cars, flowers, architecture and, best of all, lots of tractors (for Russ and Westy). Some highlights of the road trip to the Rockies are in there towards the end too, including some sweet new star jumps. However, no time to annotate them all just now, I’ll do that another time.

It’s cold and wet here, and we can’t see any mountains. Bah!

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We were supposed to be in Jasper last night, but didn’t make it until today due to some car trouble. Either a dodgy fuel pump, or a tank of bad gas petrol. We limped from just outside Edmonton to Edson, where there was a Ford garage, the idea being we could get to the garage first thing the next morning.

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I’ve been trying to upload some photos at Elaine’s folk’s house using their 48k modem, but it’s taking too long. I felt it was very important to get the star jump one up there though, plus a few others. Russ has been complaining of being bored at work, so this (and the tractor) might cheer him up a bit.

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