We got up around our usual time and I had my usual breakfast. I processed three images for the blog, and discovered that the iPhone-like dragging in Photoshop CS5 is called "Flick Panning," and I was able to turn it off in the preferences. :) I also discovered that I can't Edit > Undo a Spot Healing Tool application. :( I did some computer work then processed some images for a stock submission. We packed up our computers and left around 11:35 in the Jeep.

We went to Mangia! in Idaho Springs for lunch around noon. It's a great Italian restaurant! I had Classic Lasagna and Minestrone Soup, and J had Minestrone Soup and a House Salad. The lasagna was great — not what I'd call "classic" at all. I think it was made with Italian sausage and it had lots of other herbs and spices to make it much better than your run of the mill lasagna — I loved it! J really enjoyed her soup and salad too. We split a piece of Tiramisu for dessert, and it was good.

We went to the Idaho Springs Public Library around 1:00 so J could use their Wi-Fi network to download iOS 4 for her iPhone. The Wi-Fi network was too slow for me, so I went online through my USB stick and the Verizon Wireless Broadband signal. After a while, I went outside and called my mother to give her some tech support for her new iPad. It was difficult to explain how to do some things because she wasn't familiar with some user-interface items. I was so confused by a question she had with Maps, that I said I'd call her back when I could look at the same App on J's iPhone. I went back inside the library and did a Buy-It-Now on a Membrane PCB Keyboard for my Palm Treo 755p on eBay. Then I worked up a blog entry.

I looked up Missing Sync for Android, a third-party sync program for Android-based phones and Macs/PCs, and saw that they now have full iCal and Address Book support as well as Fliq Notes support. Fliq Notes is an iPhone and Android App that is interoperable with Mark/Space Notebook, the Mac-based note program that syncs with the Memo program on my Palm Treo 755p. In other words, if/when I upgrade my phone to a Droid or iPhone, I'll be able to access all of the Memos and notes that are an important part of "my brain." :)

After J's iOS 4 download finished, I borrowed her iPhone and went out to call my mother to give her some more tech support for her iPad. With Maps running on J's iPhone, it was easy to answer her question about Maps on her iPad. We left the library around 3:50.

We went to the Western Convenience store in Idaho Springs to fill up the Jeep at $2.609/gal.

We returned to the RV around 4:25 and J started to install iOS 4 on her iPhone. (At the library, she had only downloaded it onto her Mac through iTunes.) She had heard that it would take about an hour to do the installation and was eager to get it done, and she wanted to be at her Mac while the installation was underway to make sure it went smoothly. I did some computer work and then installed the two new G2 guides in my Lee Foundation Kit. The Foundation Kit I purchased on eBay had two sets of G2 guides to hold two 2mm-thick filters, and one set of G1 guides to hold 1mm-thick filters. The G1 guides were pretty much useless for me, so I removed them and installed two more G2 guides so now I can hold three 2mm-thick filters. We left at 5:50 to head up Mt. Evans even though the iOs 4 installation wasn't done.

We stopped part way up between Summit Lake and the summit to photograph a group of Mountain Goats that included two kids. The kids played king of the mountain for a while, and we had lots of fun photographing them (below left). After a two-year old (?) goat started to play with the kids, the kids took off and the goats moved to another area. After they settled down there, a nanny started to take a dust bath, and her kid came over and nuzzled her (below right) — aw! Then the goats moved to the rocky cliff, and the backlit situation wasn't very interesting, so we left.


We continued heading up to the summit, and reached it around 7:30. There were some Mountain Goats at the top, including two kids of the year, and they were starting to head down the mountain. We left and got ahead of them. Unfortunately, they didn't stop where we set up. Because I was further down the mountain than J, and about halfway to the road after it switch-backed, J went back and got the Jeep and drove it down below where I was.

I continued working my way down the mountain, and the Mountain Goats stopped just before the road. The setting was a bit messy. After a while, one of the kids decided that it had had enough of the paparazzi and headed over to the cliff at the side of the mountain, and I was able to get some nice shots of it as it went by (left). We left and headed down the mountain.

We stopped at the Mt. Goliath Natural Area around 8:30 so J could check her voicemail using my phone.
We returned to the RV around 8:45, and J's iPhone update had completed and she was quite relieved to find that the iPhone hadn't been turned into a brick. I downloaded the images I took tonight then downselected them in iView. J played with her iPhone and set up her Apps in folders — one of the big new features in iOS 4. I received an email inquiry about my bat photo tour this August, and couldn't respond because the Verizon Wireless National Access signal was so weak. :(