Author: griffey

Today I took my first caving trip with the Sewanee Outing Program, to Grapevine Cave. It’s just off a part of the Domain called Lost Cove…not a huge cave (no one seemed to know a length, but I’d guess maybe a mile…probably less). Very nice though for a first trip. I’d call it an intermediate level trip, with LOTS of crawls, but very few squeezes. Very active, but not a lot of drip formations. Not sure if that’s due to a sandstone cap or if the cave is just young. Throughout the entire length, I probably only saw a dozen or so speleothems.

The interesting thing to me was that I was able to keep up with the 18 year olds IN the cave without issue. The climb out (several hundred feet of elevation in very little horizontal distance) was nasty, though. I felt pretty good, seeing as how I’m now almost double their age.

I’ve avoided political discussions on my blog, if only because they have a tendency to become vitriolic under certain circumstances.

But this is just unbelievable.

“It’s absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we’ll get hit again and we’ll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States.” – Dick Cheney

For the Vice-President to equate voting for the republican party with preventing terrorism is just vile. Lewis Black said it best when he said “Dick Cheney? I met Dick Cheney. I’ve never stood so close to evil.”

First we had the GmailFS, a hack which allows a Linux sytem to use Gmail space as its file system.

Now we’ve got Gallina, a Gmail based blogging system.

Google can’t possibly like this…it’s incredibly clever, but supplying free server space AND bandwidth just seems sub-optimal for them.

So we went car shopping last weekend, planning on hitting a few dealerships and seeing what kind of deal we could find.

The first stop was the Honda dealership in Chattanooga, where we were shown lines and lines of Honda CRV’s (the car that I had been sold on from the start…great reviews, good resale, last forever). After I asked for the “best price” they’d give me, I was shown a price a couple thousand below the MSRP on the car. Pretty good, I thought…except I’d done my homework. Thanks to Edmunds and Kelly Blue Book, I knew the invoice on the car, and that they desperately wanted rid of the 2004’s.

I countered with a price a couple hundred above invoice, and they agreed….so we are the proud owners of a new Honda CRV.

This is our first ever new car, so it’s a pretty cool thing for us.

Or at least Xeni does! I’m currently in Indy, enjoying the late night nearly asleep part of GenCon, posting from a random computer in the convention center.

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