From three amigos to two

Not a lot happening today. Once I dropped Ian off at the bus stop Patches and I were back at the camp. A little strange not having Ian around to talk to. A little one sided with Patch, though he constantly tries his little mind control games - what else is new. During the day I took care of several tasks including finishing up the blog about yesterday and there in lies the rub. I've (we've) become so accustomed to broadband internet that when I'm up at the camp trying quickly to take care of some things online with dial-up I could almost crawl up the walls waiting for a page to finish loading. Webpages now-a-days are loaded with so much extraneous background code and features that dial-up can barely function. I work and recreate online, get most of my news and music, on and on with my expectations when I navigate around the web. I spent an hour and a half this morning doing what I could do in fifteen minutes at home. Yeah, I know, what am I doing on the computer while away on a relaxing vacation. Just the way it is folks. On another note I finished up Peter Hamilton's "Judas Unchained" last night. Wow, what a finish to the two book story which began with "Pandora's Star". Both those books took me several weeks to work my way through. Today I started Neal Asher's "Prador Moon", I'm half way through that one now. It's apple and oranges, word count being the difference. Hamilton has created a saga, among several others, with so many characters and shifting storylines and then bringing it all together for a fabulous ending followed with wrap-ups to many of the major characters lives after the story's conclusion. Having Asher's book ready to go is just the ticket to close out my vacation. I may have been at the camp for vacation but a lot of the time has been spent a couple of hundreds of years in the future and light years away with the Commonwealth and then the Polity.

Ian's chariot to Portland

Boaters make their way pass the camp.


Patches is insistent, throw the damn stick!

Ducks enjoy sunsets also.