We’re back, a day ahead of schedule due to the awful weather that we’ve been having this summer.  We woke up to wet ground, managed to run out for a quick breakfast, check out, and do a bit of shopping before the sky opened up.  The rain never stopped; it pretty much rained the entire 3 hour drive back to camp, almost never letting up.  Upon returning to camp, we decided to pack it up and head home rather than sit through another rainy camp evening, but not before a stop at the Turning Stone on the way home.

My girlfriend fared much better at the casino this evening, pocketing $50, compared to my loss of $10, lest I still have my 5 souvenier bottles of wine from vacation to look forward to over the coming weeks.  It’s nice to be home though, even if a day early, but it won’t go to waste.  The grass is so long it would be easy for one to lose their car should they venture off the pavement.  If the weather isn’t condusive to yard work, then I suppose I shall start work on the social networking project I have in mind for Boardoo.  More on that later.

Finally, I apologize for not posting as often as I wanted; for some reason moBlog decided to stop working altogether, and for no apparent reason.  I have a couple other neat photos to share, but not before a good night of catch-up sleep.  Cheers!

Today we wound up being more active than originally planned afte a morning shower curtailed plans to rent a boat for the afternoon.  Unfortunately when the rain hit, we found ourselves nearly a block away from the hotel, sans umbrellas.  The irony of it was painfully obvious since not even a half hour had passed since we paid for another night at the Townhouse motel.  At least I could take comfort in knowing that the decision to stay came from a unanimous verdict from our entire party.  So, to our backup plans we went; the first activity being a stop at the Olympic Ski Jumps.

Now, I’m no stranger to visiting the jumps with this being my 3rd time, but this time a chair lift ride was included.  The views were spectacular, although the cloud cover varied throughout the entire time we were there.  Tomorrow marks the end of our short escursion with a few activities in mind before our return back to camp. 

It was tonight while posting these pictures that I decided that the 50MB of storage that we were including with the starter plan was not all that great, so I’m going to change it effective immediately pending another review.  Free blogs will now get double the space; 100MB and that change includes all existing blogs as well!  Just another reason why I hope that you choose to start your blog here.

The first day finished off on a much nicer note than it started…  It wasn’t looking good for a while with on and off rain for most of the journey.  By the time we reached the Wild Center, the sun was already starting to poke out from behind the clouds.  If you love the outdoors, I would highly recommend a visit to the museum.  A mere $15 buys you an incredible journey for the entire family.  I can’t recall a more family friendly museum; kids are actually encouraged to touch things and even take them home!

  

I love taking pictures, especially when I’m on vacation in the mountains.   The outstanding photo handling abilities of Wordpress was one of the reasons I chose this platform for our new blog offering.  But for someone who is known for taking gigabytes of pictures in a single day, I know that as nice as it is, it’s not enough for a serious picture taking fanatic like myself.   I’ve been looking at various photo site packages like Gallery 2 and Coppermine as a potential offering here at Boardoo.  What would you like to see here at Boadoo for your photos?   I would like to get your opinion.

We are finally on our to Lake Placid and a planned stop at the Wild Center; Adirondack Natural History Museum in Tupper Lake. I have a feeling that we are going to have a wet week if yesterday and today are any indication.

Blue Mountain Lake

On the bright side, we made it to Blue Mountain Lake!

And so another year’s vacation starts and it is raining hard here in the Tug Hill.

Camp in the rain!

Which reminds me, support respone times will be a little slower for the next few days since we are both away. Rest assured though, we are still “minding the store” plus I plan to post occasionally throughout our long weekend too.

This is a test of an application called moBlog which allows members to post to their blogs from their smartphone or pocketpc.

Do you want your own blog that you can customize as you like, like this one?  Then I have good news for you as I have just finished putting the finishing touches for the beta launch of Boardoo Blogs! which is the same service that powers this blog.

Boardoo Blogs! offers free Wordpress powered blogs with no limits on posts, comments, links, etc, and you also get 50 MB of space for uploading pictures, videos, and other files for posting in your blog!  Best of all, I’m giving you all of that, plus a selection of 150 hand-picked Wordpress themes to choose from, and a personalized subdomain for free!

Here is the Signup Link Just follow a couple steps to get your blog activated and you will be blogging in minutes, I promise!  One more thing, if you already have a Boardoo Free Forum, you can actually put your blog under your forums subdomain!  Unfortunately our order system won’t allow you to do that during signup, so to start with, pick a temporary subdomain and then open a support ticket indicating you wish to have your blog and forum share the same subdomain.  My staff will take care of the rest.

Happy blogging!

Welcome to “What’s new, Boardoo?”; News, rumors, and other musings from Boardoo’s founder.

My plan is to use this space to communicate what is going on behind the scenes at Boardoo, including new projects, stuff we’re planning, or just some random ideas we’re considering.  There is a lot going on behind the scenes at Boardoo, and this will be our way of letting you know!

We have a lot of great projects in the works, including a phpBB upgrade, a major social networking expansion, and image hosting, and a few others that are still in the planning stages.  I personally look forward to providing more details as these projects come closer to completion.  In the meantime, I hope you enjoy your stay here at Boardoo.