Islands and Hard Drives

We just got back from a great trip to the San Juans. As usual, one of the greatest things about it was getting home. I am not sure we are cut out for 9 hours in a mini-van. Still, it was great over there. We just relaxed and had fun with the kids. With our own private beach, we just hung out for hours, making sand castles, batting rocks into the water, and searching for crabs and other things in the sand. Each night, we would put the kids to bed and relax on the porch...well, not really, each night we would put them to bed about 20 times and cringe on the porch as Michael screamed, Sarah yelled that Ryan was annoying her, Rachel kicked Ryan...well, you get the picture. Still, the sunsets were wonderful and the quiet, when it finally came, was delicious. It was sad to leave.

Have you ever prayed over your hard drive? Upon returning home, we discovered that our hard drive had called it quits. I don't know why. They should warn us. Something like "please back up your data, in a 3 days, I will be gone, and so will all your precious email addresses, talks, letters, and of course, the obligatory Quicken finacials. The last one we really have no excuse for, because it reminds us to back up every time we use it, but, who ever does that when they have a perfectly good hard drive. I should learn some time.

Did you know that Robert, of Robert's Rules of Order fame, has a rock? It is here in the picture. He build a fortification (Redoubt) on top of a hill on San Juan Island and this rock was right next to it. So they stuck a plack on it. This was well before the book. And, from what I have read in the book, this rock is about as interesting as the book. But maybe I missed the exciting parts.


I guess that is enough for now. Thanks to all those who left comments on my blog to egg me on to a second posting. I have to go work on my faith concerning a certain hard drive.