Month: October 2008

Car Photo(s) of the Day: a Two-fer.

Rainy Day E-type

The Annual Rain Festival (October-May) has returned to the Pacific Northwet. As such I doubt I’ll be driving the Jaguar much over the next several months. Oh well. The above shot was taken actually far from the Pacific. It is Frank Filangeri’s (I hope I spelled that right) S1 E-type OTS. Taken on the very wet New England 2000 Vintage Rally over eight years ago. My how time flies.

Just so that all that grey doesn’t get you SAD I’ve got a sunshine shot that can provide us with a little guessing game:

Lovely seaside, or lakeside, road?

I love this shot and love this spot. It evokes memories of places in England for me. So where is it? As many of you know, this car has driven many places all over this country. East coast, west coast, and all the way across. Is that the sea, or is it a lake? It could even be a big river or a reservoir! Could be Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, Nova Scotia, Ohio, British Columbia, California, Idaho, Alberta, Montana, Washington, Oregon… or could it be someplace in between?

Take a guess of where this road might be located in the comments.


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John got it: Ebeys Landing Road on Whidbey Island. Very close to home… due west of my house by a short distance as the crow flies (and the crows do fly around here!) but a bit of a drive. Worth it though.

Thanks for playing everyone!

Site Maintenance.

Today is my 45th birthday. I’m celebrating by quaffing a bit of bubbly, processing some waste veggie oil into BioDiesel, and upgrading WordPress here on my website. Be patient while I perform this task. Be back soon!

Update, Monday: Well… that was fun! It seems I broke it for a while. Rog was right, I should have slowed down on the drinking and sped up on the RTFM’ing! 😉

The site didn’t break for any of you (except a few display items) but I managed to lock myself out of all the admin functions for about 18 hours. Logging in just sent me into a loop, as did doing a password reset… or even manually editing my user entry in the SQL database. Finally 9at the suggestion of one of my staff late last night (Thanks Josh!) I yanked all the site plugins and blew away my user passwd in SQL. That did the trick. I logged back in, was able to complete the upgrade, then went to bed. Finally fixed my passwd via a normal reset this afternoon and it seems all is well. I’ll start re-plugging my plug-ins again when I have some time.

Thanks for you patience and birthday wishes!.. speaking of which Sue & Nick took me to The Keg with my free birthday dinner coupon. I had a great steak (with bleu cheese & garlic… which woke me up later!) and some awesome wine.

Car Photo of the Day: Autumn run.

Here’s a nice shot. IIRC this was the very first time I actually opened the door and stuck the camera out the bottom for a shot. It was taken on the Mille Autunno rally about this time four years ago. In fact I’m pretty sure it was exactly 4 years ago today.

We were driving around the Sierra Nevadas with a group of old cars. I’m pretty sure this was taken as we rounded the west shore of Lake Tahoe.