Rhode Island is the shiz.

I was up in Narragansett a couple weeks ago for the "Blessing of the Fleet 10 mile Road Race" and like usual, the weekend was sublime. There's something about RI that I love, but can never quite put a finger on it. In any case, here are some select pictures from the weekend.

Nelson Rocks

I went camping this last weekend up in the shenendoah, and on Saturday we made our way over to a place called Nelson Rocks Preserve. It's a pretty crazy rock formation, but what really attracted me was the fact that they have had a via ferrate course in place for a number of years, and I've been dying to check it out. Apparently it's the only one in america, and one of three in north america. In any case, it was first rate. I discovered that heights don't bother me one bit, but they sure do bother some of my friends.




To give a sense of scale, here's a suspension bridge that was probably 150 or so feet off the ground about 1/3 of the way up the course.




And here is that same bridge seen from the top of the headwall (highest point of the course).



So, it was somewhat of an exciting afternoon. You can check out more pictures on smugmug.

- Matt

god, this is more work then i thought.

But I'm going to get a little more religious about it. I've been pretty busy the past 3 months, and a lot of things have happened, but it's time to freshen up the site a little. Maybe add some details on some projects, update the old portfolio, even add a picture or 3.

Here's what I did last weekend.. My wife decided that having a big pile of wood stacked next to the house and covered with a blue tarp was no good, so this is the result of that conversation:

29 Years of age.

<sigh>. For realz, I am old as hell. I don't even want to think about next year. But my wife got me a sweet ass birthday present.



The Dewalt DW618PK. I'm gonna start carving up some wood like Norm Abrams, son.

blocka.

Not too much going on lately. I've started working on a couple technical articles, hoping to get them up on alistapart... We'll see tho, I never have much faith in my writing.

Anyhoo, I went bungee jumping about 2 weeks ago, and finally got around to putting a picture up yesterday. It was somewhat weaksauce, seeing how the platform really wasn't that high at all, but exciting nonetheless.


Also, I didn't realize until I was halfway down that the shoulder harness was really going to dig into my screwed-together collarbone, and my scream went something like "MAAAKEEIIIIITTTTRAAINNNNNOHHHHCRAAAAP OWWW MUTHA #$*@#$$#@".

Life Lesson learned: Don't bungee-jump headfirst if you're wearing a shoulder harness and have a screwed/plated collarbone.


That's all I gots for now.

Toodles!

cards showed up

Thinner then I thought they would be, which is disappointing. Other then that, I think they look pretty good, and the printing and finish is straight-up quality. Now I just need someone to give them to? What the.

/big/south/is/official

Sarah and I went down to the DMV this morning and got our TN licenses. I guess I'm officially a southerner.



These licenses look like they would be really easy to make fakes, right? MD and PA were no joke, all sorts of holograms and such.