Yes, I Drank the Kool-aid

After several weeks of arguing with my Windows 2003 server and the interoperability issues it now has with Mac OSX Lion, I bit the bullet or more appropriately drank Steve Job's kool-aid and spend the evening configuring my new Mac Mini server in my hotel room. Four hours from home and teaching a MikroTik class in Dallas, I was bored and angry that my Time Machine backups weren't working any more because Windows 2003 server's Appletalk protocol has not been updated. Blame it on Lion or blame it on me for still using Winblows as my server, whatever, it was time.

Off to the store I went and am now the owner of a Mac Mini (our new file server, contact server, calendar server, etc.) and a Time Capsule for our home backups. This is Mac heaven.

Since I didn't have a monitor, I jacked the hotel television (thank goodness for HDMI inputs)
hooked up the new mac mini and started downloading Lion server while my Time Capsule backed up my 15" Mac Pro and served up the wireless. This is Apple bliss!

Thank goodness I am able to watch a movie on my I Pad while I watch Lion install on my Mac Mini and type my blog on my MacBook Pro. Heaven I tell you!

Returning Home

Sad day returning home, coming from a place where every direction is beauty and the hot days are 80 degrees to 105 degrees and blick. Sorry Texas, love you but I am a mountain boy at heart. Time to get back to reality, work, duties, etc. but I forget these guys soon.

Eureka, It Happened!

With much anticipation, concern something would fall through and much anticipation, we closed today on the sale o my WISP. I am now a former WISP owner and glad to join those ranks. Truthfully, I will miss it as I created it, but with my 6 year attention span, it was time to move on.

The photo on the left is my mobile office in the motorhome, and all the closing paperwork spread here to there. It was a memorable experience doing this remotely away from the home and office.

We will hang here in Estes for a few days and then head back to hot old Texas. See you soon!

PS: Here I am celebrating with a cool one! Yes, strange facial expression and all.

Off to Estes Park Colorado

After a night in Kansas, it was time to move to greener pastures, but only after another thousand miles (gross exaggeration) of brown pastures, and into the foothills of Colorado. Wow, I can smell the mountain air already. Colorado is one of my favorite states, full of full and beauty.

In Colorado I have some business, basically the sale of my ISP, Wickson Wireless to JAB Broadband out of Denver. This was an unexpected blessing; mind you I had no reason to sell the WISP, it was profitable, manageable and a lot of work but the offer was right, the time was right and since i basically have a six year attention span for almost everything I do, it was overdue.

We arrived in Estes Park, Colorado where we will take aa few days R&R before I close the transaction on July 1. Don't expect any posts until after then, I will be enjoying God's beautiful earth, Colorado style!

Kansas - What's with this wind?

Kansas was as i I remembered it, flat. My Dad used to have a saying: "In Kansas you can drive for miles and miles and see nothing but miles and miles" and that was definitely true today. I will say that Kansas has good roads, my spine thanks you!
Spending the night in Kansas was a new experience. About 12 pm, the wind began picking up and within minutes it was gale force. I am not exaggerating. It blew so hard it rocked the motorhome like an earthquake. We got little sleep with the noise of the wind, whistling through the park like a hurricane. I won't be moving to Kansas any time soon.