K.C. Trip addenda
Oct. 27th, 2003 11:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterA couple of things about the trip that I forgot to mention in earlier reports:
On my way up to K.C., just after I'd turned north onto I-71 off of I-44, I saw a fellow walking along the side of the road. I was going so fast I just barely had time for a glimpse, but it was a man walking along the side of the road with a big wooden cross slung over his shoulder. The cross had a little wheel affixed to the bottom of it, and seemed to have a backpack slung on it, too. When I happened to mention this fellow to my Dad when I was driving home, he told me that this is apparently a really famous man who walks all over the world with that cross. I did a websearch and I found a site for a man named Arthur Blessit who's been doing that since 1969...I don't know if it's the same guy, but it sounds like him.
Now I kind of wish I'd done what I had half a mind to at the time, and found an exit, turned around, and came back to see what he was doing and to talk to him. Apparently my seeing him was a pretty rare encounter, as peripatetic as he is. It would have been interesting to speak to someone with such deep dedication to the Lord that he's been carrying that cross around for 34 years.
Another thing, of less import, was how I ended up being online over the weekend. After hitting the hotspot at Union Station on that first day, we went back to Travis's place and I booted up my computer...and I was instantaneously on the Internet. I had been a little worried, since Travis used WEP encryption on his own network and I hadn't yet been able to get my laptop to access a site with WEP on it. But I didn't look a gift horse in the mouth...
Then, on Sunday evening, when I wanted to share some songs over the network to Travis, we tried to get a network connection to his computer...and we found that I was on somebody else's wireless network...one that had kept the default router name of "wireless" and not turned on encryption or authentication, so my Wallstreet automatically detected and hopped onto it as soon as I booted it up. (Funny thing how those OS X third-party wireless drivers won't display a list of detected networks for you to choose from...but will hop onto one automatically if it thinks you've used it before.) So all that time...I'd been using someone else's Wi-Fi.
Well, time to finish unpacking the car and get in to work. Back later.
On my way up to K.C., just after I'd turned north onto I-71 off of I-44, I saw a fellow walking along the side of the road. I was going so fast I just barely had time for a glimpse, but it was a man walking along the side of the road with a big wooden cross slung over his shoulder. The cross had a little wheel affixed to the bottom of it, and seemed to have a backpack slung on it, too. When I happened to mention this fellow to my Dad when I was driving home, he told me that this is apparently a really famous man who walks all over the world with that cross. I did a websearch and I found a site for a man named Arthur Blessit who's been doing that since 1969...I don't know if it's the same guy, but it sounds like him.
Now I kind of wish I'd done what I had half a mind to at the time, and found an exit, turned around, and came back to see what he was doing and to talk to him. Apparently my seeing him was a pretty rare encounter, as peripatetic as he is. It would have been interesting to speak to someone with such deep dedication to the Lord that he's been carrying that cross around for 34 years.
Another thing, of less import, was how I ended up being online over the weekend. After hitting the hotspot at Union Station on that first day, we went back to Travis's place and I booted up my computer...and I was instantaneously on the Internet. I had been a little worried, since Travis used WEP encryption on his own network and I hadn't yet been able to get my laptop to access a site with WEP on it. But I didn't look a gift horse in the mouth...
Then, on Sunday evening, when I wanted to share some songs over the network to Travis, we tried to get a network connection to his computer...and we found that I was on somebody else's wireless network...one that had kept the default router name of "wireless" and not turned on encryption or authentication, so my Wallstreet automatically detected and hopped onto it as soon as I booted it up. (Funny thing how those OS X third-party wireless drivers won't display a list of detected networks for you to choose from...but will hop onto one automatically if it thinks you've used it before.) So all that time...I'd been using someone else's Wi-Fi.
Well, time to finish unpacking the car and get in to work. Back later.