My pop and I decided to ride the scooters up to Halfway Dam (R.B. Winter State Park). When we got there, we noticed that all of the water was gone. Looks like it’s been gone for a few days.

There’s a small stream (Rapid Run) that is still trickling through the lake bed, but that’s about it.

I moronically forgot my camera, but took these with my phone. Sorry the pics are kind of crappy, not much I could do.

The reason that I heard was that they were going to make some repairs to the “south wall” and had to drain the lake to do it.

You can click the pic to make it slightly bigger and then click it again to make it slightly more bigger. Enjoy!

Weird, huh?

Here’s what it normally looks like…

Some folks have been unable to access my blog for the past couple of days. It would load about half way and a little pop up error thing let you know that “Internet Explorer can not load this page.” Click “OK” and it takes you to a blank page.

I didn’t notice this since I use Firefox and sometimes Opera. The only way you’d see it is if you use Internet Explorer.

The problem came from embedding a couple of YouTube videos. This shouldn’t be a big deal, but for some reason Internet Explorer couldn’t handle it and couldn’t load the page.

Well, I’m letting everyone know that it’s back up and running. Now, about 50% of you didn’t notice because you use Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc. But for some reason, 50% of you are still using Internet Explorer. What gives? It’s an awful browser.

Now, normally, I wouldn’t care how you access my site, I’m just glad you do. But if IE can’t load it when I post a YouTube video, it’s time for me to pay attention.

I personally use Firefox 3. I highly suggest you get it. I have mine all tricked out so that I don’t even see ads. No pop ups either. It’s great. I’ve not seen an internet ad for years. And that’s great for Myspace.

Funny story about that. A few years ago I was staying in the ashrama at New Vrndavana. At that time there were six or seven (maybe more) brahmacaris (celibate monks) living there. There was one public computer for the ashrama. They used Firefox, but didn’t have an adblocker.

Most of the devotees used MySpace, which had a bunch of ads for something called Tru. And whatever Tru was advertising involved many girls who were *this* close to being nude. Since it was mostly celibate monks using this computer, I asked one of the female residents, a friend of mine, if I could install an adblocker on Firefox so that the brahmacaris didn’t have to look at mostly-nude women.

Her reply: “Oh you can’t do that! Why do you think they’re on the computer so much!”

Oh funny girl. But I bet it’s true.

Anyway, this Firefox thing is a much better browser. And yeah, sometimes you need IE, so keep it, but I strongly recommend you change to Firefox (or anything aside from IE) for your web browsing needs.