beautiful

looks like a nice bunch of people to hang out with

:)

my son and I are going gorge hiking next weekend (weather permitting!)

Yeah, they are a good bunch of people. This is the 40+ of CNY meetup group. The lady standing next to me (Janet) is an absolute pisser! She's also from NYC and has a real heavy accent. The guy next to her is her bf. Real, real nice guy. Very quiet and calm. First time I met him. He invited me to come down and hunt when rifle season opens in the southern zone. :-)

The lady seated across from me is very nice too. She's also in the outdoor adventure meetup group I belong to.

Heheh, we did have an incident with our waitress. She must have been having a bad day. First she comes to our table just as we were seated. Didn't ask if we'd like to order drinks first. Just went right into her menu and specials spiel. She seemed put off we needed more time.

So she proceeds to get our drinks and then vanishes for way longer than is usual. When she returns, we order, however the woman sitting next to me (it's her first meetup) is very confused as to what she wants. So the waitress works with her for a couple of minutes, helping her with the decision. She settles on Chicken Fricassee.

Now when our food arrives she decides she doesn't want or like Chicken Fricassee at all. She looks at my dish, Angels in Heaven, an angel hair pasta dish with prosciutto ham, sun dried tomatoes, pine nuts, baby spinach and various herbs and spices, and decides that's what she really wants. Doh!!!

So she asks if she can have her dish changed. The waitress is very rude, explaining in quite a loud voice how that's just not possible. She's flustered and annoyed, and makes no bones about it.

She finally gives in, but when she brings it out it's almost half the portion size of mine, with only one or two sun dried tomatoes. Heheh, the drama continues!!! We ended up asking for the manager, and they eventually made the situation right.

Now since the inn is part of the state park, we got the park admission back for eating there. So Janet snaps a picture of the waitress returning with the cash, and captures both her and her gastronomical advesary in the frame. Hehehe:

http://www.dailystrength.org/people/562127/photos-videos/0

We do have fun!

Wow, Bug Alert! Need to take out a defect and create a Service Request to fix a problem from the server migration!

When I posted the link to the picture of the waitress returning our admission fee, it changed the link in my OP for the group picture. Oops!!

no, its your waitress, I just looked.

Yeah, but look at the link in my OP. It's no longer the group picture, but the waitress picture. Weird...

Oh, I understand now. All new uploaded photos end with a last node of /0. So the group photo was /0 when I uploaded and copied the link. The link in the OP is still /0, but now the waitress photo is /0.

Okay, cancel the SR! :-)

If I were the designer, I'd have the sequencing reversed, however while that seems to make sense I'm sure it's done this way for perfomance reasons.

I take that back!!! It's more overhead to reshuffle every single last node everytime a new image is uploaded. It's a usability consideration for scrolling through the photos. Newest to oldest when scrolling through the photo album.

Still, it's a very common practice to copy & paste URLs, so doing it this way is a fairly major design flaw. They should keep the original last node and have an alternate index for presenting in newest to oldest order in the album.

Heheh, don't mind me. It's just the systems analyst in me.

So happy you had a great time!! I love Letchworth!! My great outdoor adventure yesterday was off roading in my Jeep through the swamps of Cicero...LOL But..I did manage to keep the exhaust manifold ABOVE water this time :)

Wow, I didn't know there was a place in the swamp open to motorized vehicles?

I scouted the swamp last year for hunting potential. Went in next to the Bridgeport Rod & Gun club. Walked a good portion of it over the course of the day.

It's pretty cool!

Oh, and well done on keeping out of the deep end! ;-)

I'd like to do that too, but I ain't taking my shiny and unscrathed Silverado in a place like that just yet! Heheh, maybe after I get a few parking lot dings and scratches, but that might be a while as I'm one of the crazies that parks where no one else does.

I get envious everytime Namaste ;posts about her weekend Jeep activities :)

So JoyRide, are you a Wrangler or CJ kind of girl?

Or is CJ a type of Wragler, or vice versa?

On another note, when my dad had his own business installing hydraulic lifts, he had a 1950s circa Willy Jeep converted into a backhoe. It had a steel deck on the back where the backhoe was mounted, solid tires to handle the additional weight and a Chrysler small block engine, which gave the oil pump additional oomph to power the hydrualic pistons.

It was a really cool vehicle, and could be used in the smaller service stations found in NYC where a more traditional and much bigger backhoe would never fit.

Like this only green:

http://oldcarandtruckpictures.com/Jeeps/1952WillysPick-up.jpg

Oops, this is it to a 'T', sans steel deck & backhoe! Looks like it was a 1947 model!

http://www.4-the-love-of-jeeps.com/images/1962WillysPU5small.jpg

Wow, good memories there! :-)

A CJ is a Wrangler...old school style :) I have a WJ that is worn and loved... I cant part with her, although I have my eyes on that new 4 door Wrangler..military style :) Jeep just came out with the new Pentastar engine this year, so Im waiting for them to work the bugs out. Besides... my baby girl is already worn in, dinged up and scratched..and Im not sure how I would want to put a new one through THAT swamp. :) Perhaps I need to pick the two of you up for an off road adventure!! JASG... thats what off roading is all about...pick a road and just go off course!!