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Sunday, December 2, 2007

New Car

Well we finally got a new car and got rid of the money pit dually. We got a Mazda CX-9 and we really like it. It's almost completely loaded. It has three rows of seats, Bose 275 Watt sound system, Navigation system and a bunch of other fancy doodads.
New Car


We bought the car at Earnhardt Mazda in Chandler, AZ at Ray and I10. One of the reasons I waited so long to get a vehicle is I absolutely hate the car buying experience with a passion. The only reason I went to this dealership is because through my work I was supposed to get a special no haggle price. That could not be farther from the truth. I haggled more than usual. I went through three levels of assholes playing dumb, my best friend, and a crybaby genius that just wanted to help me out. I don't want to spend forever typing the details, but if anyone ever reads this that is considering buying from this dealer please reply with a reponse to this post and I will be happy to fill you in on the details. I strongly recommend against buying from any of the Earnhardt dealerships. Their slogan is "No Bull" and that couldn't be farther from the truth. I was so pissed by the time it was over I couldn't sleep all night and that's unusual for me. I finally gave up at 3:30 this morning and came down to sit in my recliner.

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Oh Christmas Tree

We decorated our Christmas tree this evening. Lindsey came over to help. It was a lot of fun. The kids really enjoyed having her here.

I didn't realize how much I have been slacking on my blog stuff until I looked just now. I remember thinking about adding a lot of stuff, but I guess I haven't. I meant to add stuff about my most recent Wharton trip, but nope.

The kids are really looking forward to the holidays this year. We plan on spending Christmas in Wharton, TX with their Grandma. We haven't figured out how to get there yet, but we better figure it out soon.

Here are the pics from decorating the tree:
Christmas Tree 2007


There is also a brief movie in this album.

I should have a lot of updates this month with all the Christmas activities and all the pretty things to photograph.

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Halloween

Well the kids had a great time on Halloween. Justin stayed home to hand out candy. He's too old to go with us. Garrett was a Ninja and Alex was a Alien. They got a huge haul of candy. I've got a massive headache right now from eating too much.

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Homecoming Dance

It's the 2007 Homecoming for Desert Ridge High School. Justin has a date this year. Her name is Hannah. She is a freshman, while he is a junior. They are both in marching band. It has been a very busy day for them. Earlier today the band was at the Gilbert invitational competition. The pre homecoming pictures are below.
Justin's 2007 Homecoming Date

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Schnepf Farms

Last weekend we went to Schnepf Farms in Queen Creek Arizona. It's a family farm that has been in the valley for a long time and they have added carnival kindof thing to raise money. They have a fall/Halloween festival that's a lot of fun for kids. Every year they add a little more stuff. This year they have fireworks every night.

This year we made a scare crow. We are looking forward to putting it in the yard for decoration. We are getting a late start on our Halloween decorations this year. See pictures from Schnepf below:


Fireworks pictures are always lame and boring so I tried a video this time. Let me know what you think and if this video displays okay.


This kids got their costumes for Halloween. Below are some pics of Garrett with his Ninja costume. I couldn't get Alex to move fast enough to take his picture. I will get a picture on Halloween though. You can be surprised.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

I iz Smart

I took an eighth grade science test and got an 84. How bout you?
JustSayHi - Science Quiz
JustSayHi - Free Personals

Friday, October 5, 2007

MIA

Well, I haven't posted in a really long time. I seem to have lost focus and I have been busy at work and it's been way too hot to do stuff outside here. It's starting to cool off now. It's great.

Alex is in band this year and Garrett has given his trumpet a try. See below:

Tandi and the kids are going to NM to see the grand balloon fiesta. Hopefully she will bring back lots of pretty pictures. We are planning several fall/Halloween activities as well so don't give up hope. This blog isn't completely dormant.

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Wharton

Alex and I have completed another trip to Wharton. The main purpose was to help Mom get Dad's affairs in order. It's terrible that someone that has lost someone they care for has to go through so much legal mumbo jumbo. It's like torture for Mom.

The trip wasn't all work though. Alex and I squeezed in a little fun. We visited with family and shot various guns. It rained a lot while we were there. Seems to be all it does there these days.

There seems to be a lot of deer on the farm this year. We have been seeing them everywhere. Our farm is one of the few areas around that hasn't had all the trees stripped off.
Wharton Wildlife

Here's some pictures of Anthony, Peggy, and Alex. Alex and Peggy are modeling with Peggy's new New England Firearms 20 guage pump shotgun.
Misc Wharton

We took a couple videos of us shooting guns.
Shooting Vids

The pics below are pretty cool. When flying back into Phoenix we got delayed by a storm that hit Phoenix. I was hoping to get some pictures of a Haboob, but we just caught the tail end of the storm.
View from Plane

Friday, July 13, 2007

New Map

I have decided to create a new map of the farm using my improved skills with Google maps. I placed a permanent link to the farm map to the right with my other links.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Long Time

It has been a long time since a post. Tandi and the kids were on a very extended camping trip. They were gone for three weeks camping near Las Vegas, NV, Bullhead City, AZ, and Camp Verde, AZ. She and the kids had a lot of fun camping with her parents Jim and Tracy. They weren't really ruffing it. They stayed in cabins and rental campers in fancy campgrounds with activities and pools.

The week of the fourth Medtronic had a planned shutdown for the entire week. We were planning to spend the entire week in Texas visiting my family. We were scheduled to fly out Monday July 2, but Saturday June 30 Dad passed away from an extended illness. It was very upsetting of course. He was very ill but it wasn't expected at that time. Dad was in the recovery area in the hospital from a fall and pneumonia and we were hoping to have him back home in less than a week. His heart finally gave out though.

We spent the week of the fourth planning and attending the funeral. It was a simple service. It rained in Texas almost every single day we were there. The funeral was July 5th.

I am flying to Texas again the week of July 23rd to help Mom get affairs in order.

Dad will really be missed. I keep thinking of calling him to tell him things or ask his advice. During the week of the 4th I kept expecting him to walk into the living room from the bedroom. I could always count on him to tell me if I was doing the right thing.

Happy 5th Garrett

Well It's been a long time since a post, but this one is very important. We celebrated Garrett's 5th birthday the evening of July 10, 2007. See the videos below:
Garrett's 5th Birthday

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Water Day at Meridian Elementary

Today was a special day for Garrett. It is his second to last day of preschool and they had a Water Day. They played in sprinklers, little swimming pools, tossed water balloons, and stomped shaving cream. Pictures are below.
Water Day at Meridian Elementary PreSchool

Monday, May 14, 2007

A Major Award


Justin received a major award. He got it for the most improved Wind Ensemble student. Wind Ensemble is the highest level achievable in band at Desert Ridge High School. Not only did Justin try out and make it into Wind Ensemble, he also achieved first chair in the Alto Saxophones. Justin has also lettered in bed so he will be needing a jacket to attach his letter to or he will look really funny with the letter on a necklace.

Swim Season Begins

We used a pool cover to heat our pool up earlier than usual this year. The water was actually close to 90 degrees when we went for our first swim on Saturday the 12th of May. Sounds a little warm, but it was perfect considering the low humidity and breeze. The kids had a blast as usual. The chlorine level was too high because of the pool cover. I had forgotten about that issue. It was tolerable though. Some pics are below.
Swim Season

Sunday, May 6, 2007

Complete

The great swingset is complete. It's actually been complete since early last week, but I put the finishing touches on today. It turned out fantastic.
Swingset Completed

Monday, April 30, 2007

Construction Continues

We are continuuing to build the big swingset. It's more work than I anticipated and it's starting to get hot here in the desert. I didn't do anything during the week last week because I had a strange throat and ear problem.

The swingset is much taller than I expected. I hope the HOA nazi's don't hassle me. I hope we are done with the hardest parts. The roof and rock wall were time consuming.

We decided it would be really cool for the kids to have lights out there so maybe when Alex has friends over to spend the night they can sleep in the new fort part of the swingset. I am thinking about installing low Voltage landscape lighting. Even if kids don't play out there at night I think it will look cool.

Here are some pics and movies of the swingset plus a few shots of Garrett in an old halloween costume.
Swing Set Part Two and Caterpillar

Justified

When we bought our current house with a pool we were worried about Garrett around the pool. It has a fence and we keep it locked, but you hear about kids drowning even in that situation. Sure enough, not long after moving in, I was skimming the surface of the pool and Garrett fell in while right next to me. I will never forget the look on his face while looking up at me from under the surface of the water. He was okay. The worst thing was he split his lip on the edge and needed stitches.

That event convinced me beyond doubt that Garrett needed swim lessons and not the useless ones supplied by the city. We used Infant Swim Resource (ISR). It's expensive, but worth every penny. The kids get one on one training for just a few minutes each day. They quickly learn to flip on their back and breath and eventually flip over and swim in spurts until they reach the side.

Yesterday, Garrett fell in again. He immediately flipped to his back and did just fine. It scared me and Tandi, but it was obvious he knew exactly what to do and could do it even with his heavy clothes on.

Monday, April 23, 2007

Construction

We have begun construction on a new swing set. It has turned into a very big project. We started Saturday the 21st, but it was slow going. I intended to get an early start, but it rained early Saturday. We needed to mow before starting and it was too wet. I decided to install a new sprinkler controller to pass the time until the grass was dry enough. I also got a new cordless electric drill to aid in assembly. Late Saturday we finally got started on the swingset. I don't know why the knuckleheads that make swingsets tell you to assemble them on a flat level surface. Even if such a thing existed there is no way a giant swingset could be assembled on one and then moved to the proper location in the yard. I have been taking my time to make sure I'm doing things correctly. You actually have to measure to assemble this thing. It's a pretty fun project. Justin has been a huge help. There are a million parts to this thing and he gets all the wood pieces and fasteners together for each step for me. Pictures of the first two days of construction are below.
Construction

I didn't feel like working on it today. I'm always tired on Mondays and I got myself an early birthday present.

The present is a Russion M44 WWII vintage rifle. It fires a 7.62x54R round. It's in really good shape. It came with a field kit including the dual chamber oil/solvent container. I can't wait to shoot it, but it may only happen once. I suspect this thing will have one hell of a kick.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

The Farm

I am playing with Google Maps. I tried to generate a map of the farm. I hope it works.

FARM MAP

Trip to the Farm

Alex and I went to the farm in Texas. We had a great time and really enjoyed seeing everyone. We shot over a thousand rounds of ammo, Alex learned how to mow with the riding mower, Alex popped fire crackers, we rode around the pasture at night spotlighting for animals, and much more. We were hoping to find hogs to blast while spotlighting but we didn't have any luck. We might have seen some, but they were too far away to make a clear identification. For all animal lovers out there, these creatures, as far as I know, are not native to the area and they are doing serious damage to the pastures. If they were left to grow unhindered they would destroy the place. We saw a lot of dear, raccoons, possums, owls, and miscellaneous other stuff. We didn't ride quads on this trip. It's hard to believe, but we were way too busy doing other stuff. The food was fantastic thanks to Anthony and Julia. We finally got to shoot Dad's new Henry rifle. It looks nice, but unfortunately that's the only nice thing I have to say about it. The videos below are from one of the shooting trips that Alex and I went on. They progess from left to right so try to watch them in order. At least the first time.
Shootin' Texas Style

The next set of videos are of Alex mowing and popping firecrackers. He really enjoyed mowing. He wants to be Bobby Boucher (water boy) when he grows up. ;-)
Alex in Wharton

I don't know why, but I have never taken any pictures of the gas well. At least none that I can locate. Here are a few of them.
Gas Well

Finally I was snapping pictures throughout the trip and they are below.
Misc Wharton Pics

Sunday, April 8, 2007

Alex's Easter Birthday

Well the weekend is finally coming to a close. This should be my last post. We topped things off by taking Alex to eat at Chili's tonight. Alex has been wanting something called a Fly Pen forever. Tandi noticed it was on sale for half off just when I was about to get the last of Alex's presents so I finally got it. It was normally $100 and that just seamed like too much no matter how fancy a pen it was. We also got him some snorkeling gear, a speedometer for his bike, and a freaky Ripley's Believe it or not book. See images below:
Easter Bday Fly Video

Easter Bday Pictures

Alex seems thoroughly happy with his birthday. That's hard to achieve, he is very picky and spoiled. He does get one last thing for his birthday. We are flying to Texas next Friday to visit his grandparents and other relatives. He is so excited he can hardly stand it. I am really looking forward to it also.

I really need some rest now. Alex already went to bed. He has AIMs tests tomorrow. That's AZ's standardized testing BS. Don't even get me started on that.

Easter

The kids had a great Easter. The Easter bunny came and gave them lots of cool stuff and hid a whole bunch of eggs this year. I think it was a record.
Easter 2007 Pictures

Easter 2007 Videos

We dedicated this morning to Easter and the afternoon to Alex's birthday. The next blog entry will have more pictures of Alex opening his presents.

Easter Birthday

Alex's birthday just happened to fall on Easter this year. This led to a very busy weekend and it's only half over. We decided to have a couple of Alex's friends over Friday night for a sleepover. We knew no one would come to a party on Easter Sunday and no one could come for a sleepover Saturday night. The friends arrived at about 5pm Friday and I took them to the movies. We saw Bridge to Terabithia. It was pretty good, but very sad. Alex's friend blurted out to the whole freaking theater what was going to happen. I won't say which one. After the movie we came back to the house for cake, ice cream, and a few presents. The boys stayed up until about 3:30am playing Wii. Both visitors left about 11am Saturday. That was a relief.

Here are some pics
Alex's 10th bday photos

and here are a few movies
Alex's bday vids

This is just the beginning. It is Easter morning as I am writing this. I got interrupted to go on an egg hunt. I've got a lot of pics and a couple movies from that. Hopefully I will get them posted later today. Since it is Alex's bday we are going to let him choose the agenda for the day. Right now he is playing Call of Duty on the Wii. Later he wants to eat at Chili's. I think the new Chili's by our house is open now. I wonder if it's safe to eat there.

Monday, March 26, 2007

Crash and Burn

For at least a week our main desktop computer has had serious problems. I haven’t tried seriously to find the cause until tonight. Also, for months now, I have wanted to get a special external portable hard drive to back up all my digital photos. I can’t afford to loose those. Digital cameras bring up a whole new set of problems. I finally bought the backup hard drive last night. I paid too much, but that’s another story. I was getting ready to use it on the disabled computer when I realized that the computer worked so bad I would have to fix it before I did anything else. I looked at this and that and made very slow progress because the system would hang up severely and I would have to wait a long time to regain control. The normal ctrl alt del did nothing. Nothing was sucking memory, using the processor, and the HD had plenty of space. I tried to run check disk, but it said it could not run. I tried a bad sector scan with the same results. What a useless error message. I tried to look at the system logs several times, but every time I tried the system was so slow I would get distracted and forget what I was doing. I mean seriously slow. I would bowl almost a full game on the Wii while waiting. I finally accessed the system logs and there were errors galore. The hard drive is failing. It has bad sectors everywhere.

Never put off backing up important stuff. Especially pictures. One HD crash can destroy all your memories just like a fire. I have portions backed up here and there. I think I have everything except the very latest on our old Dell computer and most of the latest is on my laptop. As I type my laptop is pulling files off the junk HD. I’m keeping my fingers crossed. The computer is useless to access with the keyboard and mouse, but I seem to be having pretty good luck over my network. If I manage to get all the stuff off the computer I think is important I just need to get what the kids need before I scuttle the drive. I’m not trying to rejuvenate it. It’s not worth the risk.

I have only had two HD’s fail in the past 20 years and both were in the past year. That’s very strange. On top of that I purchased a 2Gig SD card yesterday and it was defective from the start. I got another today and it seems to be okay. The last HD I had that failed was a Western Digital. I’m not sure what this one is. The backup drive I bought yesterday is a Western Digital as well. I think they have a pretty good reputation. I am hoping these events are just a fluke.

I better sign off and let my computer complete its file copying.

Sunday, March 18, 2007

Goodbye to Playstation

I've made up my mind. I'm done with Sony permanently. I am adding this post so that anyone I know can let me know if they want any of my old games or hardware. If they don't I am selling it to get money for Wii games. A list of what I have is below.




I also have several controllers, memory cards and a few other things. I have the eye toy for the eye toy game. If anyone that has given me any games wants them back let me know.

Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Big Surprise

We have had a big issue for weeks now. Our PS2 has completely konked out. The laser doesn't even come on. I didn't want to buy another Sony product. I'm fed up with them. Everything I have bought from them has broke including an expensive stereo and TV so I'm not about to buy a $600 PS3. The Xbox has some cool stuff but it is microcrud .... nuf said.

It was the start of spring break, Tandi was out of town, and I was home alone with the kids. What could I do that the kids would think was an absolute blast that wouldn't kill me. Then it struck me, A Wii.

I was concerned about their new style of controls, but I have never seen anything more reliable than Nintendo and they have always been great for kids. Tandi will even play Nintendo games sometimes.

We got it last Friday. The Wii is an absolute freakin' blast. After playing for a couple days I was so sore I could barely move. I'm sold on the new style controllers for sure. The game play is extremely realistic.

I took a few videos to show you guys:
Wii Fun

We kept it a secret from Tandi while she was in Florida. She was really surprised. I will have to write a whole blog entry explaining everything this awesome machine can do. Tandi starts her new job tomorrow night so I'll try to work on that tomorrow.

Saturday, March 10, 2007

Partay Time

Tandi is in Florida visiting her parents and the boys and I are living the bachelor life. We are having an absolute blast. Of course we do miss Tandi, but I am keeping them very busy. I had a very special surprise for them that Tandi doesn't even know about and she or any of you won't find out what it is until she returns on Tuesday. In addition to that though we are still having loads of fun. Yesterday we went to the dollar store and stocked up on a lot of cheap junk to play with. Today we went to Williams Gateway airport in Mesa, AZ. They had an open house. The kids enjoyed seeing the military aircraft. It was really hot though. I'm afraid we are getting an early summer. I have actually been running the AC this weekend. Pictures from the airport are below:
Williams Gateway Open House

When we left the airport we tried to eat at Chick Fil A but everyone else had the same idea. It, and everything around it, were a madhouse. I don't know what the deal was, but we headed home to chill until our next adventure.

Around 5:30 we left the house to head to Organ Stop Pizza. I have been wanting to go to this place since we moved here. The whole place is a musical instrument. It was packed with people. Mostly our winter visitors (cue tips). Everyone enjoyed it, except I don't think it was exciting enough for Garrett. I got a few pics, but the digital camera didn't do it justice.
Organ Stop Pizza

Oh, BTW, I had to use my phone for all these pictures because Tandi took the camera with her to Florida. I was really wishing I had the camera today. She better bring home a lot of good pictures.

I'm exhausted. If anything here doesn't make sense that is why. I'm not sure what we will do tomorrow, but I'm sure we will think of something. Maybe the movies.

Friday, March 2, 2007

Evening at the Park

They are building several large neighborhoods all around ours. One of them has fantastic parks and the kids have been dying to play there. This evening I finally took Garrett and Alex. They had a blast. See some pictures below. Note the beautiful mountains in the background. We actually visited two of the new parks.

I also took a few movies with the still camera. In one I tried to give a kids view of the maze in one of the parks.

This has all created a new problem. I am out of web album space. I will have to pay to upgrade now. I'm not quite sure what to do or how to host future pictures.

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Frustration

Okay people I need ideas. Hits are down. This is my worst day yet. See the graph below:

How do I attract viewers. Am I just boring?? Don't answer that.

I got two cavities filled this evening. My mouth is very numb, but other than that it went very smooth.

Got a new printer yesterday. It's a Canon Pixma MP830. It's supposed to be really cool, but I haven't hooked it up yet. I'm too lazy.

Lets see, maybe I am boring. There was a spectacular crisis at work today. I can't talk about that though, and noone else would understand or care. It was a very interesting comedy of errors that let something very remote and virtually impossible happen. No matter how remote the possibility, if something can go wrong it will and at the worst time.

That's all for now. If you read this check my blog. ;-)

Saturday, February 24, 2007

New Blog

There is a new addition to the family blog series. Alex has pestered me enough to get his created. The link is included in my links. Unfortunately that is the most exciting thing going on. Tandi and I are both sick. Nothing serious, but we don't feel like doing anything. I added tracking code to my blog. I have added a hit counter at the bottom, but in addition to that I've added Google Analytics which provides statistics. I'm not sure if I like it yet. There is a link in my links if someone wants to try it themselves.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

The Point

We had a family outing this weekend. We stayed at the Point South Mountain resort in Phoenix. It's a great resort to take a family. They have an attached water park. It's nothing fancy, but it has water slides, a lazy river, a wave pool, and many regular swimming pools and hot tubs. The kids had a blast.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Death Wobble

February 15, 2008 Update
A lot has happened since I posted on the death wobble. I decided to post this update since people seem to be reading the death wobble portion of my blog. This truck is long gone. I did seem to get the death wobble fixed before getting rid of it. In my case there were two things that caused it apparentley. First bad tires (even though they were only about a year old), and second the tire pressure was too high (The amount of pressure I had in them was recommended by the tire company I bought them from). I traded the dually in for a Mazda CX9 and we love it. I know I mentioned how much I hate Fords and still do, and Mazda is part of Ford now. I am hoping this vehicle is more of a Mazda design and not Ford. So far it is fantastic and highly recommend it. It does only have 4,000 miles on it though.

As far as the other Ford I had dead in the driveway with a leaking intake manifold gasket, I replaced the engine for $5,000. I don't use it much now, but I wanted to keep at least one truck and even though this is a lot for a repair it's still cheaper than a new truck. If our teenager ever gets his grades up I will let him get his license and drive this truck.

********** end of update *************

What's that you say? Well I can tell you this, the name describes it perfectly. Imagine driving a 1 ton dually down the road and all of a sudden it violently starts shaking so bad you are sure it is going to fly apart. I can't give it an extreme enough description. You would have to experience it to understand. Arthur was with me as a witness. I think it scared the crap out of him. Just remember if I die inexplicably in that truck... sue FORD!!! When we returned from lunch I Googled "Ford F350 violent shaking". There was a lot of hits. People seem to experience this with large heavy vehicles and they have named it the death wobble or death shake. A slight bump in the road and a tap on the brakes or turn of the steering wheel sets it off and it WILL NOT STOP until the vehicle drops to a low speed. I think I had to slow to 10 - 15 mph. The steering wheel shakes very violently and there is little control. The truck shook so hard it took out one of the turn signal lights.

I have been planning to post this truck for sale on auto trader for some time now. I sold the trailer I pulled with it months ago. Now I am afraid to sell it to an individual. I'm afraid I could be sued. I might just trade it in. Now I have to decide what to buy. I had made up my mind to get a Toyota 4 Runner, but now I want to look into Nissan first. I am done with Ford. I have another Ford F150 sitting in my driveway broke down for over six months. Leaking intake manifold gasket destroyed the motor. I'm still not sure what to do with that truck. It may be over $5,000 to repair. I might just donate it. It was a good truck while it ran.

Fords are expensive dangerous junk. How can a person with the cost of vehicles nowadays even consider buying American if this is what they produce. Arthur and I are going to see if we can reproduce the death wobble and video tape it. If it works and I survive you will see it here.

Sunday, February 11, 2007

Pure Terror

You know what it's like when you realize you have really screwed up. That horrible realization, that sinking feeling, and that incredible yearning to be able to wind back time. But you can't, the deed is done. Your stupidity has won out again. I'm a very meticulous person and I'm very careful no matter what I do and I think that just makes these feelings ten times worse. I'm not used to them.

I opened my wallet to get my debit/check card to get gas this afternoon. The family and I were going for a little drive and maybe to eat. I remembered for once that tomorrow is my turn to drive in the carpool so I needed a full tank. Wait where is my card, oh I must have given to Tandi. She never gives my stuff back. No I didn't give it to her. Panic rising. Where was I ... panic panic... I was at the mall last night ... searing panic. I was hungry, the kids were noisy, the mall was crowded, my blood sugar was low. I bought a clip for my cell phone. No that wasn't it. I went to the ATM by the food court. Oh nooooo .... oh my stomach .... the ATM. That had to be it. How could I be so stupid. Where is the phone, give me the damn phone. I call the bank. They want my card number. I don't have my fu**ing &^#%$&@**$&$^ card you assholes I just pressed the lost card number. Finally managed to report the card stolen. Oh now what, my mind is racing. My stomach hurts, my chest hurts. There was a large amount of money in that account. Some stupid teenager has probably bought a lifetimes supply of jeans and comics and crack. I have to get home now and log into my account.

The account is just a couple hundred bucks less than when I checked yesterday. It doesn't always show transactions right away. Is an ATM/check card insured? It is a VISA. Only time will tell. Tandi called the mall. Two cards have been turned in and neither are mine. The person at the mall says the ATM will shred any card that isn't removed within two minutes.

Only time will tell if I am bankrupt. There is a daily dollar limit on that card, but I don't know what it is. I have spent up to $700 in a day without a problem.

I can't believe I'm such an idiot. I'm always paranoid about losing something from my wallett. Every time I take it out of my pocket I always do a quick inventory. I need a beer.

sp

Monday, February 5, 2007

The Beginning

Time for me to get in on this blog stuff. The main motivation is I have some snow movies that are too big to email. This gives a handy spot to link people to this stuff. Maybe, that is. Some people apparently have trouble with bookmarks.



I am sure I will be hear or here ing about my blog looking like cw's, but this template was the only one that didn't look gay.



Tandi is cooking chicken fried steak for dinner tonight and I'm really hungry. I'm getting disoriented.


See the sledding videos from the weekend below.