Monthly Archives: January 2006

Big River in Orleans
BG sent a picture of the high river so I thought I’d post it here with some comparison photos. You can click on the photos for a larger version.

I took this May 04 from the house looking downriver.

This is from 12.26.05 looking across the river at the house, right before we left after Xmas.

This is the photo that BG sent. You’re looking downriver toward the house. Wild, eh?

email oof
I had this spam filter thing set up and it worked great but at some point in the last couple weeks I had a paranoid moment because I hadn’t gotten any email at all and suspected my filter was haywire. [It made sense at the time.] So I turned it off. Suddenly my spam went up about 1000%. When I went to reset the filter how I used to have it, it was gone [obviously the gaping hole in user’s technical skills]. So I set up this other kind of filter and email went to zero again, including test messages I sent myself (from another account). I’ve gone back and turned this off.

Meanwhile, if you’re still reading and you sent me a message yesterday or the day before, I probably didn’t get it and you probably didn’t get a bounce notice. Could you send it again?

This is a post for all the people who have heard of Orleans but have never been there or wonder what it’s like.

This links to a site with road trips for motorcycles. This link is Highway 96 and surrounding roadways. It has lots of great photos and maps of the area. Enjoy.

I started out looking for links to weather and road conditions because they’re getting a lot of rain down there. I tried to call and got no answer and no machine which means no power. Bummer.

Happy New Year
We watched a fantastic movie last night: Nowhere in Africa. It won the foreign film Oscar in 03 and is a beautiful film. It’s about a Jewish family that moves to Kenya right before WWII. We both loved it.

I used to have this thing that I called nervous stomach. It was from a combination of eating and drinking too much and I would wake up in the middle of the night and feel sick and be unable to sleep. I would sip a little alka seltzer or ginger tea and read or watch TV and after a couple hours I could fall asleep and I’d be fine in the morning. This used to happen a lot but I can’t remember the last time it happened.

Until last night.

And I don’t think I drank or ate too much so I don’t know what the magical formula is but I woke up at about 11:57pm (of course) and my stomach was lurching all over the place. I made some ginger tea and listened to the fire crackers and then read my book for 2 hours before I fell asleep. I have just enough of a cough to wake me up every two hours so when I finally woke up I was a bit bleary eyed and had a slight twinge of a headache. Somehow I couldn’t let the rest of the world go through it without me.