August 2, 2005

My father and I got back from the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest 1.0 
on Sunday.  That was a fun time.  The show was held at Purdue 
University, where my father went to school.  The computer show itself 
was pretty good.  I had attended the two VCFs in Massachusetts, but they 
seemed to have a low turnout in comparison and were much too long.  I 
had my Rianbow set up and it served web pages flawlessly all day to a 
Linux client box.  It was cool.  I really didn't look too much at the 
other exhibits, but they all seemed pretty good too.  

The real fun of the trip was outside the show.  My father and I stopped 
at the Air Force Museum on the way to Purdue. That's got to be my 
favorite museum.  it's down in Dayton, and they have an incredible 
collection of planes.  We drove the rest of the way to Purdue Friday.  
We stayed right on campus in the Purdue Memorial Union.  My father 
showed me around campus, and we were able to find the dorm he lived in 
(Wiley Hall, i believe).  Saturday we ate in the memorial union and went 
searching for the house he lived in off campus, which we were able to 
find after he started to remember the streets.  we spent the afternoon 
at the computer show, but we also went to a bar, Harry's Chocolate Shop, 
that was actually there when he went to school!  Pretty sweet!  Sunday 
we woke up and made the trip back to Cleveland and he flew home.  All in 
all, it was a good trip.  I think we both had a lot of fun!

This week I plan on relaxing a bit now that I'm not rushing to get an 
exhibit ready for a computer show.  Just mowing the lawn and hanging 
out.  Nice.

Adios,
Jeff
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