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I slept in until 9:30 - what a luxury! I took the computer down to the breakfast room, and worked on the previous two days of the web site. It takes about an hour every day, and I really pay for it if I get behind. I upload all the pictures from the camera, and select which ones I want. Each picture is cropped and/or re-sized to snapshot size, then re-sized again to thumbnail size. I upload the track log from the GPS, and download the next couple days worth of detail maps. I generate a map from the track log, drop that into the drawing program, and crop it. I actually generate at least three maps at a time - current day, previous day, current week, and sometimes previous week. Writing the text requires the most thought, so it usually comes last. I have a perl script that generates the html files from the text and images. Then I review the finished product in a browser, and make any changes or additions that seem necessary. I pack up all the new or changed files, upload them to the web server, and unpack them there. It's a lot of little steps. Anyway, Dan finally woke Andy up at 11:30, about the time I was ready to upload to the web server. With that done, we went downtown for brunch.
We wandered around the mall a bit, having the American consumer experience, and eventually wound up at the movies, watching 28 Days Later, a low-budget English zombie film. Parts of it were filmed in London; Andy saw his old pub, his old office building, and possibly even his old flat.
I'm ready to go home now. I've biked over 2700 miles, and I've been away from home for over 5 weeks. Parts of it are still fun, but I could do with fewer corn fields, and more...anything else. That's what was so great about yesterday - it was only 2/3 corn fields. Two weeks and counting (and I know Ohio and New York have corn fields). |
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Another lazy rest day.
There are two brew-pubs across the street from each other, and
apparently a third around the corner somewhere. Ironically, all three
are chains - Alcatraz, Ram, and Rock Bottom. It's getting almost as
bad as the Irish pub business - you get the brew-pub kit, which
includes the equipment, the recipes, the decor, etc. But the beer is
pretty good, and it's fresh.
We had dinner next door to Alcatraz at the St. Elmo, a 101-year-old
steakhouse with a lot of high ceilings and dark wood. We all went for
the $40 32-oz porterhouse, although Andy was the only one who finished
it. It was really good, but I felt like such a pig.