Those unrecognizeable white smears in this photo are dots of ICE on my scooter seat when I left work tonight! I’ve never had to take frost off my scooter before and I certainly didn’t expect to have to do this in California. Weather.com says it’s 33 degrees. Jeesh!

At least I can feel my fingers again. Might have to ask Santa for some insulated gloves.

I know. I know. I shouldn’t complain… it’s probably great for Tahoe.

Good night all.

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I’m relieved that I … ok, file scavenger (great file recovery tool, BTW) was able to recover the last month of pictures we’ve been taking which includes quarter pipe ramp construction and christmas tree farm fun. They were mysteriously missing from the compact flash card. We’ll get them posted soon!

Major respect to file scavenger as it has saved my bacon twice now. The key abillity of this tool is scan the entire drive for files (vs. the easier undelete by unsetting the deleted flag). The first time the root of the file system of a failing hard drive got corrupted and over a 100GB of data appeared to be lost. A full scan recovered over 95% of the data. This time, it scanned the compact flash card and found over 1800 photos — luckily including the ones we couldn’t find before. I don’t buy much software as I am generally happy with open source software but this is one case where the money was well spent.

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