I just returned from a long weekend in Colorado Springs, visiting my maternal grandparents and helping move some stuff out of the ancestral home and into the assisted living community where they’ve moved. It was nice to spend time with my mother and sisters on our old stomping grounds, and to see the house where I have so many childhood memories, but also sad to see it substantively emptied and facing sale.

I returned from Rome a week ago last Friday. I’ve been busy with work non-stop since then, so the detailed debrief post will have to wait until later this weekend.

I shot 1000+ photos, plus whatever Rebecca shot, and I even geocoded them all with the sweet geocoding feature in Google Picasa. Why, then, haven’t I posted them? Read on…

I awoke Monday morning to the soothing tone of one of my UPSs on overload. Upon further investigation, the culprit was the APC BackUPS XP 900 that keeps aenea my 1TG SATA RAID NAS box going.