A river runs through it

Last week in St. Louis, the Meramec River flooded from all the rain that had fell on southern Missouri the week before. Near where I work, the Meramec makes a bend in Fenton, here are some pics from the area. This area is where Anheuser Bush has a conference Center and Soccer Park. The road at the end is Vemell Rd. and is used by east bound traffic to get to the north side of I-44. Now they have to go further east on 44 to do it.

More are available here Flood pics at Flickr.

Hiking and Friends

(video links are slow because they don't stream, wait for it...)
Went down to Lane Spring Campground in Mark Twain National Forest, near Rolla, MO, to visit with some friends and take a hike. It was a good time. George and Julie were there with there dog Sophie, as were Rachel, and Kim (sans Jonathan) with her daughter Erin.

We all took a little walk down to the spring. Definately a cold spring. We then went back to the camping spot to have a bite to eat and socialize. Very relaxing.

See Julie walking Sophie

Sophie drinking

Martha and I went off and took a hike while others napped or took a trip to WallyWorld for air matresses.
Here are some pics from the hike.

After the hike we went through the booty George and Rachel returned with. Time for more socializing and eating.

Heres a link to George inflating an air mattress
Kim reading to Erin

Kim brought this soup called Taco soup. It was delicious. Nice and spicy and very filling. Mmmm.

On the way home, there was this roadside attraction. Not really sure it was an attraction, but its something you don't see everyday.

Some Pics While riding the Katy Trail

Heres some pics I took while riding the Katy Trail.

The colors have not been altered. It was really that green ;)

Here's some pics from my business trip

I had a business trip to install our manufacturing system at a new client of ours down in Mobile, Al.

The trip went like everyother install. It started out looking good, and by the end, though successfully installed, was approaching cluster F@*!$ status.
Tuesday night, we left and had dinner and just went back to the hotel. Everything is just fine.








Wednesday started out so boring as we were going through the training manual, I was emailing friends asking what they where doing. But then we went todo hands on training, and a few things munged up the works and had me trying to figure out what was going on. (in the end, a bad .psd file and a problem writing to a samba share were ironed out).







Thurday, we figured we needed to be leaving them at 12:30 to catch our flight at 2:30, but that time came and past while fire fighting. We got it all straightened out and was on the road by 1:15. luckly the airport is neither far away, nor big. It has a whole seven gates.

While on the business trip I took some pics. The fog had rolled in Wednesday morning, so I got some great (I think :) shots. Here are the best I think.