Thanks to Ars geeks (and Kyle), I found WiFi in Holiday Inn and Kyle helped me fix a WebDAV related issue. Let me explain what this is and what this does: some of you might have accidentally/intentionally ran into this page. Until recently (as recent as 40 hours ago), I used to manually enter events (and edit if need be) in all the ICS (Internet Calendaring & Scheduling) files. Trust me, this is a very boring and tedious job. Kyle had explained that iCal in Mac can automatically update such a calendar and the best part of it was using GUI. So, over the last 40 hours, I managed to sneak in sometime and entered most events in iCal compatible way. But, I hadn’t done all the necessary configuration so that my Mac would talk to my webserver. Aping Kyle’s conf-files, I edited some parts of $SERVER_ROOT/conf/httpd.conf (check Note2Self for details) and upon entering the proper URL in iCal, it started working like a charm

Soon after this was done, we (LUGgers) started our journey back to remoteness. First stop, as planned, was at Tim’s (parents’) place in Montrose. Driving directions to this place are probably the easiest ones somebody will ever find - 1. Last house in Montrose on this street. I loved the interiors as well as the backyard and it goes without saying that I loved the coffee, strawberries, banana and pancakes Tim’s mom prepared. Chong (a.k.a. Tim) had just returned from Japan (after the Study Abroad program) and looked lot like a Japanese. Amidst lot of catching up (with some almost-succeeded attempts to kidnap the chongPOD) and some jovial fighting, I shot a video that can be used as ransom to get certain things done from Chong (BTW, if Chong’s mom is reading this, your son didn’t do anything bad). After having made sure that the house was intact, we started again towards remoteness. Driving in rain, mist and haze on much of I-75 and parts of US-41 felt like flying an air-craft, only at very low altitude and with slightly less turbulence. We all made it back to Houghton in one (individual) piece around 8.30 pm.

Adding to the goodness of the day, Pistons won game #1 of the play-offs. I don’t think I have enough energy left in me to do anything more tonight and like I had hoped before, the week ahead will be much better than the last one