Spangler Hills Rally on the 10th of November brought standard rally fun such as PeeWee races and a Poker Run plus good food and good friends. I was invited by Wendy to come out and get some shots so here is one of them. Many more can be seen at my Rally featured gallery link on http://allyourpictures.smugmug.com . Hope you enjoy them!

Trying out a new filter required finding the appropriate style photo to make it work. In costume I think this one may bear further study.

Mother Cinnamon opens her robes and out rush the children...

So what does a photographer do on a lazy Saturday afternoon after his new technical aquisitions didn't work out like he wanted? Well, since the wireless printer server didn't serve, and the remote wireless hard drive server wanted to format his hard gotten library of 'everything', and the HUEY colorimeter made everything look green instead of the other way around, I did what any good techie would do...I experimented.

First, I took apart an available and formated hard drive that was old but still functional. this was tricky as finding all the screws (like those hidden under the hard to remove label) is tricky.
Second, I used my handy dandy external hard drive power supply to spin up the disk. Cool in and of itself, once I found out which wires I had accidently disconnected. Third, I asked myself...will it work? So I hooked up the USB port and started copying files to it. What do you know, it worked just fine.

So we watched some videos get copied to it and then played them. There were a few times near the end of the experiment that it seemed to be having problems. It may not last much longer but it certainly was an interesting adventure in techie-dom. My son thought it was very cool but he also thought the video we watched 'I love sky' was hilarious.