Camping delights

Y'know Jon, I just got done reading your blog about your camping trip with your family. Sounds fun. I just got back from camping with Kristin's family a couple of weeks ago and I'm going camping with Kristin this weekend. Of course, I can't give away the location of our camping ventures this weekend for in the [likely] event that Kristin should read this blog, she would find out prematurely where we are going. :)

Camping is a fun venture. Injuries always seem to come as part of the package. Hopefully, however, the injuries sustained are not serious ones but are ones that can be [fairly] easily laughed off. During my last camping trip, I sustained an injury, but not one with any loss of blood or skin. You see, when we go to Ferron for the annual Fink family reunion, we always bring lots and lots of ATV-type vehicles to go exploring on. Well, our family is the only one that brings motorcycles; the rest bring quads or side-by-sides. The motorcycles are more fun to drive than the more car-like quads and side-by-sides, but they do suffer from one drawback: they get stuck in the mud easier. Kristin's dad managed to get our "big" motorcycle mired quite badly in the mud during a long trip. When he and his son got back to camp, they recruited me to drive the smaller motorycle and help them see if they could get the bike unstuck. Well, to make a long story short, we couldn't get the bike unstuck so we decided to leave it on the mountain until morning. On the ride back to camp, I was trailing Kristin's dad and son, driving the small motorcycle. They were both on a quad. When I passed a certain tree, a bee came out and flew straight into my neck and stung me. Let me tell you, there's nothing like going 25 mph on a dirt bike and getting stung by a bee. Not wanting to lose my lead, I decided not to stop to remove the bee, so instead I simply plucked the bee and stinger out of my neck. As I was pulling the stinger out, bolts of pain were shooting up and down my neck. Suddenly, around a bend, a car came towards me. I had to maneuver the bike, remove the stinger and avoid a head-on collision all at the same time. It was fun.

So yeah, camping is a great thing. I can't wait to go again!

Now, I do have to put in a plug for a fairly cool software package. It's the CodeThat suite. It's for making cool JavaScript menu systems for web pages. I'm still trying to figure out how to use it properly, but the concept seems really cool. Caveat: you have to run the program as an administrator. Other user levels will not work with the program. The program is free for personal use on a single web site. Use beyond that scope requires purchasing the program (which can be expensive.)

Fortune: Look! Before our very eyes, the future is becoming the past.