http://www.markandleslie.com This is what you came here to see Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:46:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.markandleslie.com/2008/10/01/just-checking-in Obama announced his running mate this morning and held a kickoff rally at the Old State Capital building in downtown Springfield. It was about 88 degrees outside the crowd, and I'm sure well into the 90s in the crowd.  Folks were dropping like flies from the heat.  But plenty of paramedics ... http://www.markandleslie.com/2008/08/23/obama-biden-2008 1. Brake Light Switch 2. Moon Roof Pinch Sensor (twice) 3. Moon Roof Air Spoiler (it just went missing one day) 4. Seat Heater Computer 5. Seat Heating Element 6. Fuel Lines, Heat Plates 7. Right Rear Window Gears (stripped) 8. Mystery Fuse For Rear 12V Socket Car age: 4 years.  All repairs were done at the dealership ... http://www.markandleslie.com/2008/08/09/passat-repairs Four years have passed since we all were here.  It seems that Moab changed a bit more than we did. We arrived in Moab on Sunday and went almost immediately to our old camp site.  Unfortunately a fire within the last four years kinda decimated all the folliage, leaving the camp ... http://www.markandleslie.com/2008/06/20/moab-trip-2008 The most prominent feature in Edinburgh is the castle, which sits atop a volcanic core.  The core is all that remains after glaciers stripped away the rest of the mountain.  It's a naturally fortified position, which made it that much more difficult for the Scots to retake after the ... http://www.markandleslie.com/2008/05/26/edinburgh-castle We landed in Scotland on Sunday.  Leslie managed to sleep a bit on the plane while I caught up on all the movies I had missed from the last six months.  Having not slept, or not much anyway, we decided to hit the town immediately. Hamish and Heather picked us up ... http://www.markandleslie.com/2008/05/25/landed-in-scotland Leslie was up in Toronto, I had just arrived home that evening from San Francisco.  I had trouble sleeping with the jet lag and an empty house.  But I did manage to nod off around 2am only to be roused by the shaking and the noise at 4:37. This was not ... http://www.markandleslie.com/2008/04/18/earthquake-illinois Another dive, another sea turtle. He's probably thinking something similar about me. I spotted this one near the Playancar Deep reef off the shore of Cozumel, Mexico. http://www.markandleslie.com/2008/03/03/sea-turtle I synced my contacts and calendar from Outlook, that's represented by the orange i assume. In blue, most of my playlists are on there, but the entire collection of music, currently 23 GB, will not fit. My photos, in yellow, scaled down to iPhone resolution and sit there ... http://www.markandleslie.com/2008/01/27/whats-on-my-iphone This is a Gerbera Daisy and it was suffering from mold on the leaves. I did some research online to figure out if there was a spray or something I could put on it. Sure enough there was, but what I also found intriguing was the suggestion of ... http://www.markandleslie.com/2008/01/18/plant-mold