Who would have thought that I would miss New England so much? I think this is the first time in my life that I am homesick. Not to the point that I am not having a good time here-the work is still good and the people here are still all cool- there are just things in New England that I miss. Being able to watch the Red Sox on tv everyday, going to Sea Dogs games and being able to see friends. Also, I didn’t pack very well when I came down here, I really only packed for a week.

I like it here, I like the lifestyle and I like the work. But I feel that something is missing. I am going to enjoy my last month here, but I am also looking ahead to spending a month or so in New England seeing people and doing some hiking.

I realized last night that working the peninsula is therapeutic. Riding a 6 mile stretch of beach, rocking out to music on my Zune, and no one around. Finding a turtle is an excellent break in the monotony of riding the quad.

I saw my first green turtle last night. Very different than the boring old loggerhead. First their carapace is considerably bigger than the loggerhead while their head is tiny. The first thing that came to mind when seeing the mini head was the goombas from the Super Mario Brothers movie.

So I am living here for the summer, working with the University of Florida. Interning really. So far my job consists of riding an ATV on the beach for 5 hours a night, under beautifully clear skies looking for turtle crawls. The season has been slow so far, I have spent most nights sitting in the back of the old blue S10, or laying across the quad staring at the stars and getting to know the milky-way. The bugs can get bad, they bother me most when I get one in the eye as I’m driving down the beach. Even still they do not disrupt the beauty of Cape San Blas.
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Hello again. I feel like I have been neglecting this blog-o-mine. I started another a while ago, just dealing with how I want to lose weight. I have been avoiding that one as well, so don’t feel bad.

Since the last time we talked I have finished my course-work at Colby-Sawyer College and I am currently at my internship in Port Saint Joe, Florida. It’s late/early so I wont go into it now. But soon, perhaps tomorrow.

After tomorrow I will maybe talk about some other stuff going on. Perhaps I’ll be reflective.

Rob, out

I went and saw Iron Man tonight.  It could be the best super hero movie ever, and it is in the top 3 in my personal list, maybe #1!   If you go see a movie in the next few weeks, go see this, or maybe Forgetting Sarah Marshall, that was good too.

Seriously go see this movie, it is a great movie.

5 out of 5

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I have been so lazy lately.  I should and will post more, promise…. right?

Thinking about seeing Iron Man tonight, I know GTA 4 was supposed to stop me from seeing it, but it looks good enough that I can leave GTA for a few hours to go see it.

Quick little update. If you are a nerd but also care about the environment like we are here at Bored Mind you probably struggle with wanting to have cool tech toys but using too much energy. This little app for your computer will help with this issue.

It’s called LocalCooling and you run it on your machine. It is very light weight, not intrusive at all, just sits in the tray. From what I gathered it will help to effectively power down parts of your machine when you aren’t using them for a period of time. It also gives stats on how much energy, how many trees you saved and so on. Check it out. Pretty cool! I’m using it on my much under used, but always needs to be on, work desktop.

The site hadn’t been upgraded in a long time, too long in fact. So with the release of Wordpress 2.5 I decided it was time to really update this thing. I had been worried in the past with plugins and other things not working, but with 2.5 it seems that most things had been considered and there is even an auto -update-plugin feature. With a little research and a bunch of backups I decided it was time to go.

I did the upgrade this morning and was surprised at how easy it went and how almost everything worked right away. There were only two issues, and only one was major. The smaller issue was compatibility with the FireStats plugin. It was not showing some information correctly and messing with the sidebar widget tool a little. After upgrading the plugin it all works perfectly now. The bigger issue and the one I am not too happy about is the Adhesive plugin which I had been using to keep regular posts at the top and all of my Twitter daily posts below that, as to not lose the regular posts in all my Twitter spam. This plugin does not work at all and all other alternatives to it seem to break Wordpress altogether.

My options now are to stop with the Twitter posts each day or to try to hack the code to get it to work. Seeing as how I’m 1.) really lazy right now and not wanting to look at code and 2.) probably losing RSS subscriptions by posting Twitter things everyday I have decided to just let it go for now and to stop posting Twitter things.

I think most of what is in 2.5 is not noticeable by the viewer of the site, most things are what I will see in the backend, but I’m sure there are performance updates and such that might make it run faster. At any rate, if you see something that isn’t working, let me know. Thanks.