Relatively Average » Life http://www.relativelyaverage.com Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:14:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Driving in Arizona http://www.relativelyaverage.com/driving-in-arizona http://www.relativelyaverage.com/driving-in-arizona#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:46:28 +0000 athomason http://www.relativelyaverage.com/?p=125 There are plenty of routes to get from east to west in Arizona, but there is only really one method for getting north to south, unless you want to spend all day on the back roads. One of the drawbacks to this is that when there’s an accident that shuts the freeway down, you are just out of luck. Even GPS can’t help you when that happens.

Red means stop.

]]> http://www.relativelyaverage.com/driving-in-arizona/feed 0 Break dancers ahead http://www.relativelyaverage.com/break-dancers-ahead http://www.relativelyaverage.com/break-dancers-ahead#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:00:56 +0000 athomason http://www.relativelyaverage.com/?p=135 So glad they put up a sign.

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Meelah and her sneaky perch

]]> http://www.relativelyaverage.com/domesticated-hunter/feed 0 Seems legit http://www.relativelyaverage.com/seems-legit http://www.relativelyaverage.com/seems-legit#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:59:02 +0000 athomason http://www.relativelyaverage.com/?p=132 Who knows…they may be a very nice person.

]]> http://www.relativelyaverage.com/seems-legit/feed 0 Look ma, no site! http://www.relativelyaverage.com/hello-world http://www.relativelyaverage.com/hello-world#comments Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:35:11 +0000 athomason http://relativelyaverage.com/?p=1 Somehow I managed to corrupt my WordPress database, effectively sending me back to Go without collecting $200.

Awesome.

]]> http://www.relativelyaverage.com/hello-world/feed 0 Warbirds http://www.relativelyaverage.com/warbirds http://www.relativelyaverage.com/warbirds#comments Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:21:10 +0000 athomason http://www.relativelyaverage.com/?p=21 Spent the morning with a friend and his family at the Collings Foundation WWII aircraft exhibition while it was in Scottsdale.

Awesome airplanes, and nothing but respect for the guys who flew them. It was cool to hear some of the people around us talk about their parents or grandparents who used to build or fly these things back during the war.

B24 Tailgun

B17 Cockpit

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]]> http://www.relativelyaverage.com/warbirds/feed 0 Back it up or lose it http://www.relativelyaverage.com/back-it-up-or-lose-it http://www.relativelyaverage.com/back-it-up-or-lose-it#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:01:40 +0000 athomason http://www.relativelyaverage.com/?p=18 In a cruel bit of irony, today (or tonight, as this is quickly turning into an all-nighter), I learned the hard way to back up my stuff. Again. This lesson, of course, comes with the requisite “hindsight is 20/20″ disclaimer.

So, yeah. Make sure you back up your stuff. Either locally or on a back-up drive or on the web. And it probably wouldn’t hurt to have a back-up of your back-ups, either. I’m just saying.

Personally, I use Dropbox for an off-site online storage, a Western Digital portable drive for on the go, and a Maxtor 500GB drive to back up at home.

And yet somehow I still manage to lose my stuff.

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