Long day, lotsa rain and clouds

[altivo]

Downtown Sidney has some great old buildings, including a Louis Sullivan designed bank building. I really enjoyed Aero's radio collection, and we got his Alpha PWS running. OpenVMS installed, but he needs to get the license keys. Then we went grocery shopping so I could make pizza and salad, and played with toy trains. Or, I should say, quickcasey and loriana played trains while Aero and I watched. Back home tomorrow, then the weavers' workshop. Still have to sley that warp Sunday night.

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[ducktapeddonkey.livejournal.com]

*Grin*

Sounds like fun.

[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

I've heard that Sidney is a cool little city. I go by it a lot, but haven't stopped there yet. Dave was detoured through Sidney once due to a wreck on I-75 and he really liked it.

[saythename.livejournal.com]

VMS and Trains and banks...hmm.

[aerofox.livejournal.com]

Thanks for coming to visit, thanks for the radio, thanks for the pizza and best of all, thanks for helping me with my DEC Alpha! *hugs*

BTW, here is the picture I was talking about. ^_^

[altivo.livejournal.com]

Yes, I really should have had a camera. There are a number of noteworthy 19th century buildings there, including a high (and crumbling) railroad trestle just outside of downtown. You'd probably also enjoy the local diner, which has been in the same spot across the street from the Louis Sullivan-designed savings and loan since 1914. They even have a photo on the wall of their first customer back then. Of course, you may need your arteries reamed out after eating anything there, but what's a little pain in the name of historical research.

We all avoided the "Bush Burger," so named because George W. Bush had one there while campaigning in 2004.

[altivo.livejournal.com]

I've got that book about starting out with VMS right here and will mail it to you later this week. Let me know if you run into problems, and I'll try to help. I'll compile a list of useful links for VMS and Alpha information and get it to you soon as well. For starters, check out this one:

http://www.openvmshobbyist.com/

You'll find instructions there for getting those license numbers.

That's a good picture, thanks. I also identified the artist that I think did that badge from Eurofurence. It looks like Fluke to me. He's on Furaffinity and DeviantArt I think.

Oh, and thanks for the Variac too. I'll get some good use out of that.