Jeff Billimek’s Journal

I set my alarm for 6am so I could get an early start today. Unfortunately I snoozed my way to 7am before waking up. Since I was running late, I moved quickly. I packed up my backpack with my camera, two protein bars, a banana, my book, my PDA, my cell phone, and my tripod. I also put the foam shoe inserts in my hiking boots.

After a quick bowl of cereal I was out the door and on the road by 8am. The drive up to Helen was uneventful and I arrived at the Raven Cliff Falls trailhead parking area at 10am. Because it was supposed to get warm and sunny today I changed into some shorts in the parking lot before hitting the trail.

I took my time on the way into the falls taking lots of pictures. Most of the shots I took were in the shade so I had to use the tripod. I finally reached the falls at 12:30pm. I climbed up to the top of the cliff and stayed there for about half an hour. It was a perfect day to be hiking. I was sitting up very high with the sun beating down on my back and it was around 65 degrees. It was perfect. The soothing sound of the waterfall and the fresh mountain air was certainly worthwhile.

While I was sitting up on top of the cliff, I jotted down some new personal tasks in my PDA:

-Develop long term home buying strategy.
-Investigate KSU photography course.
-Rip all CDs and convert existing music to wma.
-Website (turing) cleanup.
-Implement backup strategy for freeside.

I headed back to the car at a much faster pace than I went in. I ended up getting back to the car at 2pm. The drive home was frustrating because on I-85 north of Atlanta was an accident and I was stuck in traffic for a while. I stopped by the Best Buy on Ashford-Dunwoody to see if they had the Microsoft Bluetooth wireless keyboard/mouse combo. They didn’t have it.

Before going home I stopped by Famous Dave’s to pick up some BBQ for dinner. I ordered the BBQ Pork sandwich to go.

When I got home I ate dinner and started ripping all of my CD’s. It’s a slow process. I also tried to download a song I heard that I really like: Coldplay - Clocks. Unfortunately all of the copies I managed to find have some annoying pops in them.

I also reorganized my photo album by year and uploaded some of the pictures I took from today.