Author: Ryan

Driving Nice

Yesterday I made the 80 minute trek to University of Wisconsin – Stout to pickup my brother Paul. When I left home to head over I was going to listen to my iPod. But, it died–I forgot to charge it. Great. So, instead I listened to the local classic rock station KQRS. They were doing this thing where they are playing their entire catalog of music alphabetically. All I heard both ways, for five hours, was the letter L. But, there are some pretty cool songs in the letter L. Continue reading “Driving Nice”

Minnesota Ice

Today was my first full day back home. It was a relaxing day with a nice lunch downtown with a former employer and hitting up Costco later in the afternoon. I have passed the Costco disease onto my mother. She is now infected. I still have Christmas shopping to do, I just hope that it isn’t that bad out when I go. However, for today when I headed downtown it took a little bit of time than usual. The traffic was moving, albeit slow, the entire way downtown. Continue reading “Minnesota Ice”

Gallery Added

Since I needed a place to add my digital photos online I went looking for something to manage them for me. I took a look at flickr for a while and I decided that since I was paying for this webspace that I might as well use it. But, I do really like flickr. Maybe I’ll take another look at it one day.

In its replacement, I found a package on SourceForge called gallery. It runs on only PHP; no MySQL needed! So far, it has been working out pretty well for me. My only concern is running out of space with all of the pictures that I have on my PC (*insert snicker on how I don’t have that many*). As with all of the other content on this site, I just need to find a place for this and what I want to use it for. But, for now, you can check out the link in the navigation, or click here.