Author: KV4S

http://KV4S.com Amateur Radio Operator, Software Developer, Star Trek Online gamer. Game Handle: @Russell-KV4S

Warrior Dash 2010 – My first obstacle race!

The weekend of May 21st – 24th was a fun weekend all around!  About a month prior my brother sent me news of this race he was interested in called the Warrior Dash which was an obstacle coarse type race we both agreed to run it.
Since it was a long way away I decided to take Friday and Monday off and just make a long Atlanta weekend of it.  My family and I headed out Friday morning, we were in sort of a hurry since we had to be at the Georgia Aquarium just after lunch (it’s an impressive aquarium if you have never been).
We took most of the day Saturday to visit the outlets.
Sunday was race day.
Monday we hit the World of Coke tour before heading home.

On race day my brother and I were in the 3:30 wave. We got on the road around lunch time since it was about 2 hrs from Atlanta. We had just enough time to get to the camp ground and get our packets and such before the race started.
The obstacles consisted of a wall jump image , field of tires image , mud pit image , junk yard of cars image , logs in water image , tunnels image , wall climb image , cargo net climb image , run through a forest image , and floating platforms! image

 

Here are a few pictures from the event!

My brother and I jumping over the fire:
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Me in the Mud Pit:
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Here is our finisher photo! WE ARE WARRIORS AND VICTORIOUS!!
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Here is the aftermath… my clothes……
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Hotmail: Do you want us to hate you?

I just found out today that 2 of my hotmail accounts were basically reset.  When I logged on I had no email and no folders with my saved data in them. It’s like I had just created them.

1 of the 2 accounts just so happened to be the first email account I ever opened from 1999!  I lost a great deal of email with sentimental value.  It was also the first address with my old Ham call on it. I also lost many of my early ham radio contacts I had saved to that account.

I do seem to remember that you have to periodically log in to let them know you still use the acct, I guess it had been a while… that said this is horrible and it appears to not be reversible.  While I didn’t loose the address the data was really important to me as well.

Hotmail is probably one of the least popular of all the web based email services out there today, however, back in the day when that WAS the best option some of us signed up and are still loyal to the service.  I feel that loyalty was betrayed today.

If anyone knows of anything I can to to recover it please comment!

So frustrating!!

Tip: Setting up a Developer Machine w/ Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server

I ran into an issue when setting up a new machine with Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition.

The Management Studio was not installed??? with some digging on the internet there is basically an issue when you install sql express before the developer editon. Express is loaded with Visual Studio.

My solution was to completly remove sql server and visual studio.

For future reference I’m going to get SQL Server installed and patched before loading Visual Studio.

I hope this helps someone in the future (including myself).

Of coarse next is to work on SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2010. let’s hope that goes better!

UPDATE: I think you can also do a custom Install with VS and just not install SQL Express. I’m not going to test that right now though. 🙂

Alabama’s 2009 National Championship Celebration

January 16, 2010 I headed to Tuscaloosa, AL to meet my brother.  We wanted to do a little shopping before we got in line at the stadium so we shopped around on the strip but most all the retailers had the same gear. I got the official locker room gear from Nike.
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Once we were done shopping we stopped in at Buffalo Phil’s for lunch.
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The stadium gates opened at 12pm.  We managed to get in line early enough to be in the first 3,002 fans. Those fans were lucky enough to get on the field to watch the ceremony.

Once in, we still had to wait about 2 hrs before they started. They played highlights from the championship game and various other clips while we waited.

The speakers ranged from Mal Moore, Nick Saban, UA’s president, various players and coaches. Nick’s speech was the best when he said “it’s only the beginning!!

Congratulations to the University of Alabama on their 13 National Title, I’m a proud Alumni (2001)!! Roll Tide Roll!!

Here are some photo’s of the event:

Photo Album Link: http://l.kv4s.com/10swj

Update: This video was played at the statium!:

UA vs USC 2009

Last Friday I won tickets to the UA vs USC game from work.

I hit the road about 3:15pm, later on i made it to light on 280 about to get on 459 when  the state troopers stopped all the traffic for 3 or 4 buses to get on the interstate. I’m not 100% sure but I think that was USC.
We were stuck behind them until we got on 20/59.. they took up all lanes of traffic.

I took exit 79 and came into Tuscaloosa about 4:15. Tried to meet up with my brother for the longest time. Cell phones were very unreliable even at this time before the game.

Managed to meet up with him at his fraternity house across from the stadium.

About an hour to kickoff we headed to our seats.

It was a very exciting game, unfortunatly UA didn’t play as well as i expected but they kept it together to the end. I don’t believe i have seen that many flags in a game before!

Alabama won 20 to 6! Roll Tide Roll!!

I grabbed some photo’s of the game hope you enjoy!

Album link: http://l.kv4s.com/10mey