Zorbing
My wife and I went to New Zealand back in 2004 and loved it. LOVED IT! I was looking through some old photos and stumbled across this one:
Becky and me Zorbing in Rotorua, NZ
Ah... good times! It makes me want to go again. I just checked out http://www.zorb.com/zorb/locations/ and found that they have a location in the US! We'll need to plan a trip to Tennessee soon. 
If you aren't familiar with Zorbing, the basic idea is that you climb inside a gigantic plastic ball and then roll down a hill. It is a blast.
Yet Another Ubuntu Upgrade
So Ubuntu 11.04 was release a few weeks ago and I decided to upgrade this weekend. In prep for the upgrade, I backed up my laptop onto my external portable hard drive that I may need (my home dir, and a few other things in /etc, some cronjobs, etc.). I then did a clean re-install from CD. In the past the ugrade-in-place has taken a long time, and was not completely problem free. Whereas the last time I did a clean re-install it was pretty much problem free- except getting all my personal files/configuration/settings the way I like them all back took some time. So that is the same approach I decided to take with this upgrade.
root@spencer-laptop:~# cat /etc/modprobe.d/wlan.confoptions iwlcore led_mode=1
Saw Paul Simon in Concert in Seattle
My wife and I flew to Seattle April 14-17 so we could go to a concert. :-) We went to see Paul Simon as he kicked off a new tour, and we went to the first concert of the tour. It was at the WAMU theater, which is part of Qwest Field in Seattle (Qwest Field is where the football team Seattle Seahawks play).
crazy love
afterlife
rewrite
love is eternal sacred light
so beautiful or so what
only living boy in new york
I know what I know
that was your mother
father and daughter
50 ways to leave your lover
kodachrome
diamonds on the souls of her shoes
slip slide and away
hearts and bones
the obvious child
train in the distance (? not sure)
gone at last
love and hard times
encore 1:
sounds of silence
(? can't remember)
here comes the sun (beatles cover)
late in the evening