There is now the option to view the genealogy family pages as PDF files. I hope that this will make it easier for people to save and/or print genealogy info from my site. I’m still playing with the formating and I’ll be adding some headers and footers, but all the info is presented in an easy to read format.

I updated the database with the big genealogy update this morning…

The weather was beautiful on Saturday at the coast. In the morning we hiked to Cape Disappointment and I shot about 250 photos of the lighthouse and environs. I’ll probably share some of the photos on this site in the future, but most will likely go into my stock portfolio. That’s the only time I used the camera this weekend, as I just wanted to relax and lugging 25 lbs of camera gear doesn’t make for a very relaxing time. We spent the rest of the day laying on the beach napping and listening to the ocean. The wind was really light, and it was warm enough that just light fleece jackets kept us warm out there all day.

The new air intake really made a difference while towing the trailer. I could actually let the transmission go into overdrive on level terrain with no problem. Now, I’m sure the headers and new exhaust will make a huge difference when they’re installed later this week.

I framed up my first professional quality panoramic print this evening. It’s a panorama of Guanajuato that I created while in Mexico during Christmas last year. More about it later…

I installed a K&N Generation II Fuel Injection Performance Kit on my truck yesterday. It’s not a hard installation, and it only took about an hour. The specs for my truck say that it will give me another 10-14 horsepower, and it certainly feels like it once the second butterfly valve on the throttle body opens up. We’re towing our new trailer to the coast this afternoon, so we’ll see how much difference it makes when pulling a heavy load.

Next week I’m having the entire exhaust system replaced: JBA Headers, Hi-Flow Cat, 3″ custom made pipes, and a MagnaFlow muffler. I expect to see an additional 50-60 horsepower from that upgrade!

I think this is really cool. A couple of days ago I discovered blogger. After only about an hour of tweaking, I integrated blogger into my site, so no more manually updating the pages with these updates. In addition, I can make the updates from any web browser anywhere, anytime! The archives won’t be switched over to blogger until I update the templates. I’ll work on that some evening next week.