Archive for the year 2009
Slideshow of Our EVRC Photos
Posted on April 11, 2009 by Ching under Flickr, Things to Do.
These photos were taken today at the Eagle Valley Raptor Center in Cheney, Kansas.
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Going to See the Orphaned Baby Owls
Posted on April 11, 2009 by Ching under Things to Do.
Jan, Brian and I (along with several people from work and maybe the Cannadys) are taking a road trip to the Eagle Valley Raptor Center in Cheney today. We are going to see the baby owls that were orphaned during the last ice storm. There was another news story about the owls again on KAKE.
We have a group of 20 or so people coming. Jan was able to arrange a tour for us. I’m really excited to see the baby owls and take some pictures, as are others I’m sure. Anyway, here’s the info if you would like to join us this afternoon:
Eagle Valley Raptor Center
927 North 343rd St West
Cheney, Kansas 67025April 11, 2009 at 2:00 PM
$5 per person, additional donations welcome
SHORT DIRECTIONS [via EVRC web site]: Eagle Valley Raptor Center is an easy twenty-five minute drive from Wichita on Kellogg (US-54). The overpass for 343rd Street is relatively new, and has very nice, large signs. The drive North on 343rd is only two miles, and EVRC is on the West side of the road.
LONG DIRECTIONS [via Ken Lockwood]: Coming from Wichita, get on Kellogg and head west as you would to go to the airport. Head west on Kellogg/54 Highway. You will go through West Wichita, heading west past the airport road which is Ridge Road, then Tyler, Maize and then the cross roads become numbered, starting with 111th Street West. You will enter the town of Goddard, which is about 8 miles west of the airport. Continue heading west through Goddard.
About 5 miles west of Goddard, you will pass the Garden Plain Exit. Go 3 more miles and you will see our exit, which is 343rd Street West. Exit 343rd Street and you will turn north, which is turning right. Go exactly 2 miles north of Kellogg. The last cross road you will cross heading north on 343rd St is 4th Street. We are the 3rd place on the left (west side of the road) north of 4th Street. You will see our 100 foot long wooden flight pen which has a netted roof on it. You will also see our pavilion, which has a big green roof on it. There are 2 signs at the front of our driveway. One says Wildlife Center and the other has our street address of 927 N 343rd Street W. Pull into the parking lot and park the bus in front of the pavilion facing 343rd Street, so the kids can unload directly into the pavilion.
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Carmen’s House is For Sale
Posted on April 10, 2009 by Ching under For Sale.
I promised Carmen that I would post her house on our blog. She recently put it on the market. Please check out the virtual tour and the official MLS listing also.
Let’s help Carmen get moved in to their new house before the baby comes!
Tell your family. Tell your friends. Tell your neighbors. Tell everyone you know! We need to get this house sold!
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Chocolate Painting at Exploration Place
Posted on April 9, 2009 by Ching under Flickr, Food and Drink.
These are pictures of Brian’s coworker/friend Chris Frank at the Death by Chocolate event last Saturday, April 4, at Exploration Place. Brian and I wanted to go, but the tickets were too expensive. =P
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Y2K Remix
Posted on April 5, 2009 by Brian under Blog, Family, Life, News.
My dad sent me a link to Wikipedia about a new computer scare. No, its not the Conficker Virus. It’s the Y2K scare all over again. This time it’s Y2k38 and it effects more than just the PC world. According to the article in Wikipedia, The problem affects all software and systems that store system time as a signed 32-bit integer, and interpret this number as the number of seconds since 00:00:00 January 1, 1970.
What does this mean to us. Probably nothing, I have a feeling that all the programmers that worked on the Y2K issue will resolve this issue as well. We have way to many smart people on this planet to allow something like this to happen. Below is a count down for those of you that want to bite your nails for the next 29 years.
For the rest of us in the real world, I think there are more immediate thing that we need to be concerned with. Things like the deteriorating climate due to the excessive use of fossil fuels, the failing economy, the link to child related illness due to pollution levels across the planet or for those really far reaching worriers, how about the proposed end of life as we know it by the year 2012 based on the Incan/Mayan Calendar.
Me, I am simply going to live each day and worry about the things that I can change. I try not to let things that are out of my control interfere with my every day activities. If I did, I probably would never leave the house.
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