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We set out again to get some caches this today.  We got one and tried for another but didn’t find it.  Not sure if we are still having problems with learning out to use the GPS to find these items or if maybe if a muggler had got to it.  It was still a pretty good day and hopefully we will have better luck another day.

Tonight the Wheeler Family found our first cache.  Aramelle, Zachary, and I took advantage of the awesome weather today and the fact that I didn’t have to work to go out on our first Geocaching expedition.  Today’s find was just a quick trip over to a park in our subdivision right before dinner.  This was just a quick one we decided to grab to “start getting our feet wet”.  Assuming the weather holds through Friday as it is supposed to we are going to see if we can find a few more.  Check back up pictures of all the fun.

Cyberdrome is a SciFi story set in the future after a nanobot plague has hit the United States hard and forced the government to setup Utah as a quarantine zone to keep the infection from spreading.  Most of the story takes place in a virtual world setup in the computers at Cyberdrome where they run simulates and tests to hoping to find a cure.

Cyberdrome came up as a recommendation from Amazon because for people who had bought Daemon.  When I say it was only $.99 on Amazon I thought what the heck lets give it a try.  When I first started reading it I really thought I understood why the book was only $.99.

I thought that the story was very hard to follow in the beginning.  There was a lot of references to a characters past that the author seemed to talk about as if they were common knowledge.  It was almost getting to the point I was thinking that I had picked up a book in the middle of the series.  As the story got going it got quite a bit better.  I am still not sure it would be worth much more then about $5 on the kindle but still a pretty good read for $.99.

Joseph and David Rhea

Preview Chapters

Has it really been a week already?  Kind of interesting that I am hear now writing this post about the time I have been on Facebook when it was just a couple of weeks ago that I was still swearing I would never sign up.

I am not sure that I quite “get it” yet.  I know the point it just a social site for people connect, chat, and share videos/pictures.  What I don’t understand if the addiction that some seem to have for it.  I have found myself on it almost every night checking on what people posted and looking for new friends but I don’t feel the need to do so like I was going through with drawls from crack or something.  So far I have found the site to not be very user friendly.  A lot of the menus and options just aren’t very intuitive to me and it seems like there are links in several places for the same options but they do completely different things.

I am starting to find my way around more as time it going on and trying to get involved with comments and checking out what is going on with friends and family.  Still not ready to really give my website up as a place where I post pictures and videos though.

Been looking for something that we can get out and do as a family and I think I may have found it, Geocaching.  Nice thing is that it can get us out of the house a bit and explore places around the area.  Plus give me more of an excuse to buy/play with more gadgets!  It is a total win – win situation.

At first when I saw this trailer I thought the movie looked pretty cool.  The more and more I see it now I am starting to think that maybe it may very much suck but has some really cool special effects.  May check it out when it makes it to Red Box.

Zachary and I had some time to kill while Aramelle had an appointment.  So we went and spent some time at the Mall.  While there we found some little kid rides.  I wish the quality was a little better but all I had with me was my cell phone.

To go along with the new Bookshelf page I thought it would be good to post about a book when I have finished reading it.  This time it will be two books since Freedom is the sequel to Daemon and well I started the Bookshelf page after I had started reading Freedom.

These are the first two books written by Daniel Suarez who actually is an independent systems consultant to Fortune 1000 companies.  After reading them it is safe to say that I will probably be buying any of his future books at first site.

The story is about a video game designer that develops a computer program that spreads itself over the internet in attempt to take over the world.  This book is full of all sorts of twists and turns in it that at times it was hard for me to believe that Daniel was actually a computer consultant during his day job.  That did help to put some good technical detail in the story that only help to enhance the depth and intrigue of the whole plot line.

I would recommend if you decide you are going to give Daemon a try go a head and get both books at the same time.  After getting just a quarter of the way through the Daemon I knew that I was going to have to get Freedom to make sure I could just dive right into it once I had finished the first one.

Daemon Sample Chapters

Freedom Sample Chapters

From Daniel Suarez’s webiste

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Interesting story about Boise St.  I always knew there was something wrong with those guys.

Boise State among top offenders for criminal records