Back in the Saddle Again...

After a wonderful relaxing long weekend in Hawaii I must have spent half the day catching up on emails!  I couldn't resist the $118 each way to Hawaii on Aloha Air so I snuck in this little getaway before the traveling madness begins for me again! If you have an inkling to visit Hawaii, do yourself a favor and get on their mailing list - they'll send you emails with their great specials.  The airline is efficient, you can get assigned seats, and the price was definitely right!  I kept searching for a "catch" with a price like that, but there isn't any (although the airplane food was pretty bad - but that's usually a given anyway!).  Hey - I sound like I'm in sales for Aloha Air!

We used hotel points to stay in a beautiful ocean front room at the Sheraton in Kaanapoli.  Although we had a great view, we were on the ground floor - which at first we thought was a great advantage - we could walk right out onto our own little patio and grass - overlooking a cliff...but then I remembered that where there is the beach - there are bugs...and we had a few of those in our room - Yikes!!! I will spare you the ugly bug stories...(although I did have quite a wrestling match with a cockroach in the bathroom - he eventually lost).  Ok...so I can tell I'm not selling the Sheraton to any of you...

If you do end up visiting Maui, on the Northwest side of the island - I'm happy to provide you with some dining info (sans bugs - I promise)...

We went whale watching and did manage to get one decent picture (out of about 20 - no future in nature photography for us!)  So here you go...

The whales are so beautiful and amazing...we could even see them from our room!  (and so could the bugs).  And here was our last shot of the trip (in the Maui airport).  I admit to being a vacation loser to post an airport shot...what can I say?  Craig is sitting much closer to the camera...he looks like Gargantuan Man (hey - the airport waitress took the shot...what do you want?)

On to an AutoCAD Hip Tip on saving your Workspace via a Startup Switch:

My good friend and previous AUGI Board member (one of my favorites) - Robert Bell sent me an email with his FAV startup switch that was introduced in AutoCAD 2007 - it saves a specific workspace.  Refer to my earlier posting to see how to set up startup switches...

/w              Designates which workspace in the loaded CUI files should be restored on startup.

and some others to whet your appetite!

/p               Loads a specific profile

/v               Opens the selected drawing file and zooms to a specific view

/ld              Load the specified ARX or DBX app.  (be sure to include the complete path info)

I'm off to Portland tomorrow to meet with the Autodesk Manufacturing folks...I can hardly wait!