As you’ve probably guessed, dear robots and spiders and lurkers (oh my)… we’re home. We pulled into the driveway at about 430pm today, after putting a little over 3800 miles on the nice Silver Beast we rented. David did all the driving and deserves about a month of back rubs. And more.

Our last wild-ass guess on pictures uploaded: approximately 1.3 GIG of images. I’ll be doing a lot of re-sizing of the ones I already used in posts – I didn’t have a lot of time to fool with them, but they will be a more manageable size soon. Then there will be a lot of culling, cropping, fixing and uploading to do. We both took multiple images of things a few different ways – “hey, it’s not film, so go for it” was the mantra – so not everything will go into public galleries.

I never did get the moblog thing working the way I wanted, so Crash Test Goofy stayed in one of my bags after we left Estes Park. It’s a fun curiousity, so I may end up adding a sideblog for it to live in.

One other book that I found handy and nice to look at: the National Audubon Society Field Guide to Wildflowers, Western Region. It’s organized by color and shape with great photos in the front half, and has extended descriptions and information and drawrings in the back half. It’s the narrow version with the plastic cover, suitable for sticking in a backpack or beating a small scorpion to bits with.

Not that I had to use it for that, but it would be conveniently solid and heavy, and easy to clean afterwards.

I don’t have much to say one way or another on the big news in Blogville this week, namely the Moveable Type kerfuffle, which seems to be winding down now. Stupid Evil Bastard’s take on it eased my mind. Although we have 2 authors here, David’s blog is inactive (awww) so I’d still qualify for a free-for-personal-use upgrade to version 3.0 if and when I feel the need for it. However, most of the changes are aimed at developers and MTHaxorGods so I can wait until the next “real” update comes along, or keep going with this version while it’s stable.

There’s other blogging fish in the sea – it seems that for the non-hax0r bloggers out there, Blogger.com’s revamped (and still free) relaunch came at an opportune moment. And Moveable Type’s own TypePad is affordable for the hobbyist-blogger, too.

I’m sure if I had convinced an institution or a business to do a large group blog for free, and then found out it would require a friggin’ huge fee to upgrade it, I’d be hacked off, too. But for now it’s not an issue, and I’ll continue screwing around with MT… such as playing with macros, some of which I got working this week.