sprg.net .:. Michael Sprague of Asheville, North Carolina

Well, this is the big weekend. We closed on the sale of our house this afternoon, tomorrow we load up the trailers and Sunday we will make the 12+ hour drive to Asheville. June and I really, really appreciate the help of both of our families to make this big move. We will be renting a two bedroom house in the West Asheville area. We hope to soon have the second bedroom set up to accommodate guests comfortably so that family and friends that make the trek down for a visit will be able to stay with us and have a real bed to sleep on.

You have probably already noticed that I am now storing all of my digital photos on a website called flickr.com. As announced two weeks ago on the flickr blog, you can now order prints of photos from flickr. That means if there is one of my photos that you want a 4×6 print of you can get it either sent to you or for pick up at a Target store. The only catch is that you have to be a flickr user (requires a Yahoo! ID), and that’s not really a catch because you should be a flickr user anyway! I tried out the service and was real happy with the quality of the prints. There was not a Target near me available to pick-up so I did the mail order option.
So go sign up and enjoy flickr.

June and I took the weekend off and went up to Mackinac Island. The fall colors were right at peak for a large part of the drive as well. This was a great time to be on the island for shopping. Most of the stores were having sales at 40-60% off due to getting ready to close for the season.

The weather was cold and dreary, which we were expecting, but we didn’t quite dress warm enough. Long walks on the island weren’t as pleasurable as usual. I think I came back with wind-burn on my face.

Another disappointment was that we were looking forward to dinner at the Village Inn on the island, but they were closed for a wedding reception. We missed the planked whitefish and cherry cobbler.

We stayed at the Pontiac Lodge. It was our first time at that hotel. It was adequate, but the room was smoky. We still prefer McNally Cottage but they were already closed for the season.

All in all it was a nice getaway, but I think future trips will be in warmer weather with accomodations at McNally Cottage so that we will get the most enjoyment from the five hour drive.

October, 2005 - Mackinac Island 12

At work we got new Nextel i930 phones. They are Windows Smartphones with GPS support. You can get a java application from mologogo.com that will post your location to their server so others can see where you are. I have been running it on my phone.
You can see my batch of most recent locations on mologogo. In addition, the mologogo service allows you to add “friends” that you can see their location right on your phone running the app.