From black-outs in the east to floods in the local neighborhood, from blaster worms to thousands of e-mails with sobig, it's been a long ass-haulin week and a half! Who would have thought our age-old battle with mother nature would one day come to a head with a battle with technology. If you feel paralyzed and stressed out waiting out a flood because you can't cross the street to get home, just think how you feel when your server is being bogged down with hundreds of e-mail messages all carrying malicious viruses to cripple, crash or bring down your system! All in a day's work. It's frightening to think that I would be immobilized without a connection to the Internet or to my mobile phone, but as long as we can still take a nice dip in the pool on a hot summer day and eat a slice of Red Ribbon Mango Cake topped with lots of creme, it'll give us a reason to put on a big smile. I can't wait for the long weekend and maybe a trip to the North Rim of the biggest hole in the world - the Grand Canyon.
I have mixed feelings about the Grand Canyon. On one hand, it truly is a marvel of nature for water to have shaped the earth in such a way. On the other hand, you get there, you look down into it, then go, "Oh. It's just a big hole in the ground that spreads for miles and miles." It does merit another trip - to the north end where lies the road less traveled. I've only seen it from the South Rim, as has 9 out of 10 of the entire population of the United States. So, it should be interesting and should look wildly different.
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