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Wednesday was my first time in downtown Portland and boy has it made an impression. While looking for a lunch shot with Kevin and two folks we meet at the light rail (Wil and Dave), we walked by someone just as they were doing an ipecac skit. Except it wasn’t a skit. Then while eating lunch, we see a man and a dog crossing the street when his dog just suddenly stops and… um… takes care of business in the middle of the street as the oncoming traffic light turned green.

First impressions… interesting city.

It’s a couple days ’till RailsConf and not only did I decided to write in my sorely neglected blog but I also decided, for some strange reason, to reload my laptop. Brilliant!

Well, there are several reasons for reloading the old MBP.

1. free up some space on the pitifully small 100GB HD
2. install BootCamp so I can play my one turn per 24hrs in Civ 4.
3. clear the financial data from my laptop before traveling with it.

As if all the craziness associated with going to a conference on the other coast for about week wasn’t enough.
I backed up my HD onto an external HD using Carbon Copy Cloner… just in case. First bit of fun was discovering I had the wrong set of install disks (not for the Mac Book Pro). I’m still working on the reload, but things are working out well so far. I still need to figure out how to transfer over my old Address Book and Key Chain, but things are looking good.

After I’m done with this reload, maybe after getting back from RailsConf, I need to make a Carbon Copy of my drive so I can easily get back to a fresh start.