Beth and I traveled to Satartia yesterday with my parents and my Daddy’s two aunts. It is where my Daddy’s mother’s (Sadie Ryan) family is from, the Ryan side of the family. This tomb stone is my great-great grandmother’s. It is said that she is related to William Clark of Louis and Clark. I don’t know how she was related, but it is still interesting.

This is my Daddy and his two aunts, Gladys from San Diego, California and Bonnie from Richland, Mississippi.

Oh, Yeah, Tobi went on this little outing also!

Rhonda took these photos from the window of our room. That’s Deer Island that’s within swimming distance of Biloxi. A few weeks ago, we launched our boat just to the east of our room at the public launch next to the Hard Rock Casino. We think the area behind the water is a no wake zone, but the dude in the photo below doesn’t think so.

I really liked the Beau Rivage, although I would prefer a bed & breakfast out in the country somewhere…

We went down to the Beau Rivage with Skipper and Beth to see Jackson Browne in concert. Dude is 60 years old! One thing about it…there are no bad seats in that place.

Beth was the youngest person there who’s idea it was to attend the concert. She would have been the absolute youngest, no caveats, except for some folks who brought their grandchildren.

Before we left for Perdido this year, Farrah asked if I was all packed. I said yep, except for the electronics. She laughed, assuming I was 5 minutes away from being fully packed. Ah…wrong!

Here’s the list….

• Garmin nuvi 760 GPS with car charger
• iPod
  • iPod connector to TV
  • iPod car charger
  • iPod AC charger
• girl camera, charger, and connector
• picture transfer thing - transfers pics to iPod for further storage
• MStation Orb for docking iPod on AC power
• InMotion 600 iPod docking station (can run on batteries for the beach)
• portable harddrive by SimpleTech
  
• Flip video camera
• travel Airport Express (to create wireless from wired)
• APC Mobile Power Pack to charge anything with a USB interface - iPod, camera, RC cell phone, iPhone, etc.
• exercise iPod (Shuffle)
• Macbook Pro
• DefCon alarm for laptop
• travel mouse
• Monster ToGo travel power strip

Of course, my iPhone is a given with or without a list.

No posts lately. Not much going on, except Bruce went to New York for four days, Rhonda and Johnny went to California, and we are on vacation through the end of the month in Perdido. Seems like we could find something to post about…

At least we’re uploading pics by the score at my Flickr account.

I ran this morning for the first time since I hurt my back early in January. I packed only short sleeves for daytime and counted on a wearing a dress jacket when I went out at night. Unfortunately, I didn’t count on being outside running early in the morning…it was in the 40’s! After 10 minutes, I warmed up, but breathing in the cold air made my fillings ache.

I’m blogging this from the balcony overlooking the pool, bar, hot tub and 4th hole of the hotel golf course. Scottsdale is a really nice place! I ate at the Whole Foods Market where I had my choice of BBQ type dining, sushi, Pan Asian, hot buffet, seafood selections, etc…in the grocery store! I had a glass of Cabernet with my marinated beef strips. That sure beats the samplers I used to get at Kroger’s the last time I went in a grocery store…in 1983.

I’m out here at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess for a NAREIT Law and Accounting Conference. It’s both good and bad….good as in it’s at a great hotel with a 4 star Mexican restaurant (??) in a great city. Bad…as in Rhonda didn’t come with me this time as it’s spring break for Brad and this weekend is both Easter and Beth’s birthday. Also, bad as in the flight out here was really rough with 22 mph winds at takeoff and a bumpy ride all the way. Bad plane rides don’t really bother me, but all the folks around me were really suffering. It’s spring break for a lot of folks and both flights were completely full, with Delta taking volunteers to be bumped with a $400 travel voucher. The seats in coach were so crowded that I didn’t even get my laptop out on the almost 4 hour flight from Atlanta to Phoenix. I instead listed to “books on tape” (actually books on my iPod) and podcasts. I had planned to clean up old emails during the flight.

I have a pretty neat setup now for traveling with my Macbook Pro. I carry an Airport Express that I hook into the hotel’s Ethernet connection, then create a wireless network. With this setup, I can sit on the bed or balcony or anywhere close (even at the pool at the current hotel since my room is right over the pool) and still have internet access. If that doesn’t work, I carry a very long (30 ft?) Ethernet cable as a backup.

A family just came to get in the heated pool and the son did a jackknife without even testing the water…..I was that young once…