Not for the data that you may dig up but for the time lines that you see. Like in the year 2112 oil will be at this level. 2112...!! ugh, I will just be memory in a picture and maybe a great grandchild of mine will have known me. It's so depressing...even G and my new baby will be long gone...god I have to finish this report...life sucks to a point...its a freaking trap...it's to much to think of. I have to slip back to the hear and now and be in the present, this is the time that counts. I need to be sure that G will have many happy memories of this time.
One day at a time, enjoy each and every minute and make people around you happy
I hav a new baby coming, I have Gryphon and Sarah. I will enjoy every day. I have skateboarding and Star Wars. In the end it doesn't matter but for now...it matters. Peace-=ccf=-
Saturday, October 30, 2004
Friday, October 29, 2004
Dry Ramp, Dry! and Scooting around with G
Dry Ramp, DRY!
It was raining this morning and on the way out to the car the parking lot was pretty wet. My routine has sunk in enough though, so I went to the park. The surface was soaked and the ramp was wetter than the other day. I took a pic or two and then decided I would rather get a work out trying to dry the ramp off than sit in the car. So, I grabed my blanket and started the drying process. 10 to 15 mins later and I was skateing. I did a couple grinds, but just palyed benieth the wet coping and deck :o) Good enough fr a good work out.
Skate Rug Rats
I hear some voices and look up to see about 8 young kids and a mother comeing into the soaking wet park. i think "Man these kids are going to get hurt...and mess up my dry ramp! But then they started riding down the fun box on the butts and haveing a great time :o) How fun. A couple even tried going back and forth on the mini. I think that some were Gryphons age. i think next summer will be a good time to see if he is into it. I'll just have to remember not to push him and just have fun and get back to what got me into it...raceing down the street on my knees and such.
Me and G out on the town
It was raining this morning and on the way out to the car the parking lot was pretty wet. My routine has sunk in enough though, so I went to the park. The surface was soaked and the ramp was wetter than the other day. I took a pic or two and then decided I would rather get a work out trying to dry the ramp off than sit in the car. So, I grabed my blanket and started the drying process. 10 to 15 mins later and I was skateing. I did a couple grinds, but just palyed benieth the wet coping and deck :o) Good enough fr a good work out.
Skate Rug Rats
I hear some voices and look up to see about 8 young kids and a mother comeing into the soaking wet park. i think "Man these kids are going to get hurt...and mess up my dry ramp! But then they started riding down the fun box on the butts and haveing a great time :o) How fun. A couple even tried going back and forth on the mini. I think that some were Gryphons age. i think next summer will be a good time to see if he is into it. I'll just have to remember not to push him and just have fun and get back to what got me into it...raceing down the street on my knees and such.
Me and G out on the town
Thursday, October 28, 2004
Skate Crack and Full Moon
Skate Crack
I noticed on my way to work that my griptape looked like it was cut on one side of my board. On further enspection it is a crack in the board that seperated the griptape :o( Riding on the tail feels very slushy. I can ride the board backwards for some time but I may have to slap the old deck together for me to make it untill Christmas.
Matching Groins
I irritated my groin today, enough to make me stop skateing for the day. When Sarah called she said hers was really hurting today too.
Full Moon
The SGG gang came over for the Moon last night. David took a look at but could not fix my modem in linux problem. Ever since I updated the kernal, my WinModem has not worked. Ron brought David a nice MB and a killer Graphics card. He said he had more. I was jealous and hoped he would offer me one... Lots of inscence and candles later and the house was a wreck again.
Icons Cause Problems??????
I was asked yesterday to refrain from using non-standard Icons on my iMac at work. They sited that they may cause network problems.... WTF!!!. They help to organize my desktop and work flow... A big Grrr. I told them I disagree with that but I would change them back. I hate those blue folders all over espiccially in my tool bar. I made every thing as small as I could and even positoined my desktop icons of the edge of the screen so all you could see is the words.... Ill take a picture.
I noticed on my way to work that my griptape looked like it was cut on one side of my board. On further enspection it is a crack in the board that seperated the griptape :o( Riding on the tail feels very slushy. I can ride the board backwards for some time but I may have to slap the old deck together for me to make it untill Christmas.
Matching Groins
I irritated my groin today, enough to make me stop skateing for the day. When Sarah called she said hers was really hurting today too.
Full Moon
The SGG gang came over for the Moon last night. David took a look at but could not fix my modem in linux problem. Ever since I updated the kernal, my WinModem has not worked. Ron brought David a nice MB and a killer Graphics card. He said he had more. I was jealous and hoped he would offer me one... Lots of inscence and candles later and the house was a wreck again.
Icons Cause Problems??????
I was asked yesterday to refrain from using non-standard Icons on my iMac at work. They sited that they may cause network problems.... WTF!!!. They help to organize my desktop and work flow... A big Grrr. I told them I disagree with that but I would change them back. I hate those blue folders all over espiccially in my tool bar. I made every thing as small as I could and even positoined my desktop icons of the edge of the screen so all you could see is the words.... Ill take a picture.
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Skatepark and Group B
Skatepark
So the skatepark was hopping today. The "poser bikers" were there along with a couple street skaters. There was also a fruit booter smoking a cig the whole time. he had a skate off so maybe he hurt his foot. i got in my normal routine.My ollies on the mini are feeling realy good. I'll have to see if I can float them above the coping. The "Tech Deckers" showed up and I get the feeling the one guy is pro. He had a brand new board. The board he had the other day was barely used. The kids saw him comeing and said its Chris so and so again... the bottom of his board had a name in hand writeing on it that said Chris and the last name I could not read. So if I'll have to do some research to see who he is.
Group B
Strep that is. Sarah's got it. So she will have to take anti-biotics during labor. kate said that she has never had a baby catch it and the lady she learned from said she has only seen one baby catch it. i think it should be ok. kate gave a guess that it was a girl to for the record.
So the skatepark was hopping today. The "poser bikers" were there along with a couple street skaters. There was also a fruit booter smoking a cig the whole time. he had a skate off so maybe he hurt his foot. i got in my normal routine.My ollies on the mini are feeling realy good. I'll have to see if I can float them above the coping. The "Tech Deckers" showed up and I get the feeling the one guy is pro. He had a brand new board. The board he had the other day was barely used. The kids saw him comeing and said its Chris so and so again... the bottom of his board had a name in hand writeing on it that said Chris and the last name I could not read. So if I'll have to do some research to see who he is.
Group B
Strep that is. Sarah's got it. So she will have to take anti-biotics during labor. kate said that she has never had a baby catch it and the lady she learned from said she has only seen one baby catch it. i think it should be ok. kate gave a guess that it was a girl to for the record.
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Different Books, Skate Park and other stuff
Gryphon Made A Holloween Book
G narrated a story to Sarah last night and she typed it up and broke it out on to pages for Gryphon. The pics are very cute so far. A summery of the book would be:
A boy gets chased by a T-Rex and a Sabertooth. While eluding them he finds himself trick-0r-treating inside of a haunted shark. The T-Rex and the Sabertooth continue the chase and Gryphon has to find a way to escape!
Babies First Story
I read a board book, ehh, I forget the name of the book. it was about counting indian rabbits...I'll get the link, to the baby inside. We had done this for G also.
magic treehouse #12
We started on the 12th book of the series last night. We do about half a book anight. G is really enjoying them.
Angels done
We finished off angel last night. it was an odd season with an acceptable season ending wrap-up.
At the skatepark
I was hopeing to test out the ring volume of the TracFone at the park today but Sarah did not get my message to give me a call.
It was empty today, which was fun for me. I tried to hit all the stuff in the park. My ribs are still a bit tender so i didnt go to hard on the mini. Bailing out on the mini means jumping and the landing is hurty on the ribs. So I hit lots of board slides and got my couple smiths in. I also hit a couple low half-cabs and nollie to fakie on the mini. Anyway it was a good work out.
G narrated a story to Sarah last night and she typed it up and broke it out on to pages for Gryphon. The pics are very cute so far. A summery of the book would be:
A boy gets chased by a T-Rex and a Sabertooth. While eluding them he finds himself trick-0r-treating inside of a haunted shark. The T-Rex and the Sabertooth continue the chase and Gryphon has to find a way to escape!
Babies First Story
I read a board book, ehh, I forget the name of the book. it was about counting indian rabbits...I'll get the link, to the baby inside. We had done this for G also.
magic treehouse #12
We started on the 12th book of the series last night. We do about half a book anight. G is really enjoying them.
Angels done
We finished off angel last night. it was an odd season with an acceptable season ending wrap-up.
At the skatepark
I was hopeing to test out the ring volume of the TracFone at the park today but Sarah did not get my message to give me a call.
It was empty today, which was fun for me. I tried to hit all the stuff in the park. My ribs are still a bit tender so i didnt go to hard on the mini. Bailing out on the mini means jumping and the landing is hurty on the ribs. So I hit lots of board slides and got my couple smiths in. I also hit a couple low half-cabs and nollie to fakie on the mini. Anyway it was a good work out.
Monday, October 25, 2004
Tracfone is here and forgot my skate.
Well our Tracfone came in today. We are going to activate it tonight. I am also trying to get some other free minutes before I start it up.
No skate today
I was halfway to the park today before i remembered that my board is in the Stanza. i went anyway and sat on the bleachers and did a journal entry. I saw a guy slam hard on a bike coming out of a 360 over the spine and one of the "ledge skaters" was there. bummer for me.
No skate today
I was halfway to the park today before i remembered that my board is in the Stanza. i went anyway and sat on the bleachers and did a journal entry. I saw a guy slam hard on a bike coming out of a 360 over the spine and one of the "ledge skaters" was there. bummer for me.
Skate park on Friday.... and week end update.
We were wicked busy at work on Friday so I forgot to blog.
The park was a busy place as well. A bunch of bikers and skaters and "Crazey Mom". I Skated the mini until my groin pull got a bit to painful.
Tech Deck gang
A group of skaters I will call teh "tech deckers" because they do tricks that I only do with my TechDeck. At least one of them was probably sponsered. He had that eary control over his deck and you could feel his confidence. The "Ledge Gang" could only hope to be so good. The "tech deck" guys were doing the "Ledge Gangs" trick on the round kinked rail and more. All i had to do was see these guys walkning into the park to sense there skill. I was happy to sit back and watch these guys for the rest of my break.
Late Night
I stayed up Friday night till @4am and wrote out my papers for English class. I've learned some things from that class I just really don't like the class subject itself.
Winding Hill Farm
We went to a farm today for birthday for boy Sage. The farm does the whole Harvest Festival type thing. You can get a wagon load of people together for a hay ride and use of the grounds, including a fire pit and benches for $125. So we got the HayRide and enjoyed a very beutiful day there. Maybe I'll add some more on this Monday.
Rock Bottom
Rowan asked if I new a place to get pumpkin beer :o) Do I! The last time that Sarah and I went to Rock Bottom was, oh about 9months ago... it was Valintines day. Anyway, they did not have the pumpkin beer yet but we shared apitizers, stories and beer. It was a good time I think we will be able to have some good times with them. :o)
Eagles, Legos and Landmark
We did not have school today. That was very nice because every day I have to jump out of bed and take of to school or work, so it was nice to sleep a bit longer today. We did skip off to babies R us to exchange the defective humidifier and use up the rest of our gift card. Sarah went to a presentation of Landmark at Amy's. In the mean time G and I watched the Eagles win a close one vs the Browns and played legos. We also set up the birth pool when Sarah got home, very nice.
The park was a busy place as well. A bunch of bikers and skaters and "Crazey Mom". I Skated the mini until my groin pull got a bit to painful.
Tech Deck gang
A group of skaters I will call teh "tech deckers" because they do tricks that I only do with my TechDeck. At least one of them was probably sponsered. He had that eary control over his deck and you could feel his confidence. The "Ledge Gang" could only hope to be so good. The "tech deck" guys were doing the "Ledge Gangs" trick on the round kinked rail and more. All i had to do was see these guys walkning into the park to sense there skill. I was happy to sit back and watch these guys for the rest of my break.
Late Night
I stayed up Friday night till @4am and wrote out my papers for English class. I've learned some things from that class I just really don't like the class subject itself.
Winding Hill Farm
We went to a farm today for birthday for boy Sage. The farm does the whole Harvest Festival type thing. You can get a wagon load of people together for a hay ride and use of the grounds, including a fire pit and benches for $125. So we got the HayRide and enjoyed a very beutiful day there. Maybe I'll add some more on this Monday.
Rock Bottom
Rowan asked if I new a place to get pumpkin beer :o) Do I! The last time that Sarah and I went to Rock Bottom was, oh about 9months ago... it was Valintines day. Anyway, they did not have the pumpkin beer yet but we shared apitizers, stories and beer. It was a good time I think we will be able to have some good times with them. :o)
Eagles, Legos and Landmark
We did not have school today. That was very nice because every day I have to jump out of bed and take of to school or work, so it was nice to sleep a bit longer today. We did skip off to babies R us to exchange the defective humidifier and use up the rest of our gift card. Sarah went to a presentation of Landmark at Amy's. In the mean time G and I watched the Eagles win a close one vs the Browns and played legos. We also set up the birth pool when Sarah got home, very nice.
Thursday, October 21, 2004
Would you like some tender Ribs to go with your sore ankle?
Imagine standing on a 6 foot platform and diving to the ground, landing on your arm which is tucked against your ribs. No. No, its not something you would want to do. Or even be able to force your self to do. As i was doing a smith grind on the 6 foot high mini ramp i felt my back wheel slip and my back truck lock up on the coping. Now, normally i would just step out of this and be fine. This time I relised as I was diving to the flat bottom that my feet were not under me and...SLAM. My arm was ok but it pushed into my ribs and I thought i knocked the wind out of me. What ever happened my ribs are now sore.
Alone at the park
I think this was the first day I had the park to my self since the first day. I tried some stuff I never did before. Nothing that was really new just basics that I never did. I never came out of the ramp and manualed on the deck or just flew out of the ramp on to the deck.
Alone at the park
I think this was the first day I had the park to my self since the first day. I tried some stuff I never did before. Nothing that was really new just basics that I never did. I never came out of the ramp and manualed on the deck or just flew out of the ramp on to the deck.
A little wettness never stoped me... and other stuff
from the Skatepark
Well, I took a chance and headed over to the park today. There were a pack of bikers and a guy with a rolling squeegee. The groudn was mostly wet and the mini had wet leaves on it and the bikers kept riding on the ramp, rewetting it. I considered using my blanket to sweep it off but figured the bikers just get it wet again. I sat in my car and did a journal entry for English class. About half way through my break a biker came and waas trying to dry the ramps and he was keeping the others off the ramps while they were drying. I jumped out and grabed my blanket and headed to the mini. I got the wet leaves off and scrubed at the wet marks. It dried pretty quickly and I ran the blanket along the coping and the edge of the decks. I hit some nice smiths and even got my stand up 5-0's a bit better. I did keep hitting a major ching in the coping where a bike lifted a little piece of metal. Thats kind of annoying. i know they need a place to ride too, but still.
Foot still hurts
I still ahve the ache write above my toe...when i walk my shoes bend right on that spot. It actually hurts more to walk then to skate.
Got the Tub
Well we got the birth tub today, paid Kate $100 and got the dang sign out of the house finally.
Well, I took a chance and headed over to the park today. There were a pack of bikers and a guy with a rolling squeegee. The groudn was mostly wet and the mini had wet leaves on it and the bikers kept riding on the ramp, rewetting it. I considered using my blanket to sweep it off but figured the bikers just get it wet again. I sat in my car and did a journal entry for English class. About half way through my break a biker came and waas trying to dry the ramps and he was keeping the others off the ramps while they were drying. I jumped out and grabed my blanket and headed to the mini. I got the wet leaves off and scrubed at the wet marks. It dried pretty quickly and I ran the blanket along the coping and the edge of the decks. I hit some nice smiths and even got my stand up 5-0's a bit better. I did keep hitting a major ching in the coping where a bike lifted a little piece of metal. Thats kind of annoying. i know they need a place to ride too, but still.
Foot still hurts
I still ahve the ache write above my toe...when i walk my shoes bend right on that spot. It actually hurts more to walk then to skate.
Got the Tub
Well we got the birth tub today, paid Kate $100 and got the dang sign out of the house finally.
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Rainy day, Homework and need a brush.
Rainy Day
no skateing today and it looks like rain for a couple days. That hurts even more that I forgot my board yesterday.
Homework
I have a ton of homework to do. i got some done today at lunch though.
Need a brush
I have to stop and get a foam brush to finish polyuerothaning the sign tonight.
Tracfone
Along with all the other stuff coming out of this paycheck we need to get a TracFone or something so Sarah can get ahold of me when the baby comes.... Just a couple weeks now.
no skateing today and it looks like rain for a couple days. That hurts even more that I forgot my board yesterday.
Homework
I have a ton of homework to do. i got some done today at lunch though.
Need a brush
I have to stop and get a foam brush to finish polyuerothaning the sign tonight.
Tracfone
Along with all the other stuff coming out of this paycheck we need to get a TracFone or something so Sarah can get ahold of me when the baby comes.... Just a couple weeks now.
Monday, October 18, 2004
No skateing, no dinner Today.
No Skateing
I forgot my board at home today :o(
No Dinner
Kyle is under the weather today so our Dinner plans are canceled.
I forgot my board at home today :o(
No Dinner
Kyle is under the weather today so our Dinner plans are canceled.
Weekend Update - baby shower
babyShower
Saturday-The baby shower that Rowan threw was great. The SGG gang was there excluding Ron, but Burton was there. Also Kate, the midwife and Grandmom and Aunt nancy.
She had a nice spread of food and even a cakeresembaling a belly and brests ;o) They made a laboring necklace, painted stones and a nice little memory book. Kate got called to a birth but, left a speacial bead for the necklace. All of the guests got a little votive to light when they got the word that labor had started. We took lots of cake home both in the belly and in containers. We received some gifts and Mark gave Sarah somethng that his great grandmother had made in like 1911.
Sunday-we went up to Sarahs parents. Her mother and sister took her out for lunch and made a belly cast. I watched G and the Eagles roll to their 5th win, 5-0 for the season so far.
I was made jealous as they , Sarahs parents, are going to give Vonage a try.
We tried yet again to make it through and episode of Angle that Sarah has fallen asleep through the last 4 times.
Saturday-The baby shower that Rowan threw was great. The SGG gang was there excluding Ron, but Burton was there. Also Kate, the midwife and Grandmom and Aunt nancy.
She had a nice spread of food and even a cakeresembaling a belly and brests ;o) They made a laboring necklace, painted stones and a nice little memory book. Kate got called to a birth but, left a speacial bead for the necklace. All of the guests got a little votive to light when they got the word that labor had started. We took lots of cake home both in the belly and in containers. We received some gifts and Mark gave Sarah somethng that his great grandmother had made in like 1911.
Sunday-we went up to Sarahs parents. Her mother and sister took her out for lunch and made a belly cast. I watched G and the Eagles roll to their 5th win, 5-0 for the season so far.
I was made jealous as they , Sarahs parents, are going to give Vonage a try.
We tried yet again to make it through and episode of Angle that Sarah has fallen asleep through the last 4 times.
Saturday, October 16, 2004
Skatepark and G wants to goto Bed early...
Skatepark
The rain stopped in time today to let most of the park dry up. There were some school age kids there and I saw one of the "Ledge Skaters" just watching. He may have skated after I left but there was big wet spots infront of the ledges. The other kids were skating the FunBox. I guess its ok if you like just hitting the stairs, railing and ledge just once. I swept the leaves off of the mini and stayed there most of the time. I pulled of a feeble and got some decent smiths. I want to do ollie to tails but I can't seem to figure out were to ollie at to get the tail around... Oh well, I may get to chances to skate on Monday. We have tentative plans to go to Kyle and Kristins for dinner and they said something about meeting at the skatepark first. Uhm, ok...go ahead and twist my arm. It would be cool to see Kyle on a board again.
Boys Night
Sarah went to a card swap thing tonight, so G and I had the whole night. We started to get into building lego submersibles and support boats. Then at like 7:30 G wanted to go to bed? He went in and got changed and we read the rest of MagicTreeHouse #8 and then read some of #30. Yhea big jump but the #30 was from the library and we could not find #9 in the house. he finnaly feel asleep and it felt like he had a minor fever.
Homework
I was able to finsih re-writeing my paper for my morning class before Sarah got home at like 10:45pm. She traded for some cards. Some looked like happy cards from a depressed mental patient. She recounted the days adventure with Sage and Amy and then she started to watch the Angle that she feel asleep to last night. I started catching up in my class journol and she fell asleep.
Positvie compliment
Peggy complimented me on haveing a very positive and good atitude. I deceded long ago that being negative just wasn't worth it. We have so little time here and why waste it being unhappy. Things may get hard sometime but you can almost always find something to be positive about and work out from there. I like to be happy...
The rain stopped in time today to let most of the park dry up. There were some school age kids there and I saw one of the "Ledge Skaters" just watching. He may have skated after I left but there was big wet spots infront of the ledges. The other kids were skating the FunBox. I guess its ok if you like just hitting the stairs, railing and ledge just once. I swept the leaves off of the mini and stayed there most of the time. I pulled of a feeble and got some decent smiths. I want to do ollie to tails but I can't seem to figure out were to ollie at to get the tail around... Oh well, I may get to chances to skate on Monday. We have tentative plans to go to Kyle and Kristins for dinner and they said something about meeting at the skatepark first. Uhm, ok...go ahead and twist my arm. It would be cool to see Kyle on a board again.
Boys Night
Sarah went to a card swap thing tonight, so G and I had the whole night. We started to get into building lego submersibles and support boats. Then at like 7:30 G wanted to go to bed? He went in and got changed and we read the rest of MagicTreeHouse #8 and then read some of #30. Yhea big jump but the #30 was from the library and we could not find #9 in the house. he finnaly feel asleep and it felt like he had a minor fever.
Homework
I was able to finsih re-writeing my paper for my morning class before Sarah got home at like 10:45pm. She traded for some cards. Some looked like happy cards from a depressed mental patient. She recounted the days adventure with Sage and Amy and then she started to watch the Angle that she feel asleep to last night. I started catching up in my class journol and she fell asleep.
Positvie compliment
Peggy complimented me on haveing a very positive and good atitude. I deceded long ago that being negative just wasn't worth it. We have so little time here and why waste it being unhappy. Things may get hard sometime but you can almost always find something to be positive about and work out from there. I like to be happy...
Thursday, October 14, 2004
Phone interview and a rainy day.
Phone interview
Well, the intervie went down as planned. It was very general. Here's who we are, what is your experiance, what classes are you taking...thank you we will be in touch. Maybe they are looking to give somebody an "in" to the IT industry. I guess we will see.
Rain
It's raining today, so no skating. The foot is still a tad swollen and hurts a bit but nothing to cry about.
I need to get back to my school work. Rewrite a paper, do some journel entries, do the readings and start on my project. Its getting close to the end already.
USB is Crashing Linux
My 64mb USB drive is crashing my system. i am going to try to reformat the drive and see how that works.
Well, the intervie went down as planned. It was very general. Here's who we are, what is your experiance, what classes are you taking...thank you we will be in touch. Maybe they are looking to give somebody an "in" to the IT industry. I guess we will see.
Rain
It's raining today, so no skating. The foot is still a tad swollen and hurts a bit but nothing to cry about.
I need to get back to my school work. Rewrite a paper, do some journel entries, do the readings and start on my project. Its getting close to the end already.
USB is Crashing Linux
My 64mb USB drive is crashing my system. i am going to try to reformat the drive and see how that works.
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
The CHUD.COM Message Boards - SPOILERS: Episode 3
The CHUD.COM Message Boards - SPOILERS: Episode 3 pics, krispy fried Anakin, and what lies beneath Sidious' hood...
I don't think I BlogThis!'ed yet. Tons of spoilers and pics of EP3 Stuff
I don't think I BlogThis!'ed yet. Tons of spoilers and pics of EP3 Stuff
Radnor Skatepark Today and other stuff.
Skatepark
The lady from the other day and her 4 kids were abusing the park like a playground were there when i arrived, Ill call her "lady4". Also there was the guy that goes over the hips and is pretty good, we will call him "HipGuy". Another new kid from Havertown a couple other skaters and some bikers came as i was getting ready to leave.
Bikers in Black
There must be some trend to paint your bike black. I think 90% of the bikes I have seen at the park have been all black. To go with that is a trend to die your hair black and wear all black and look sort of "grease monkeyish"...odd.
Bad Ice Cream good Ice Cream
We tried some Generic Safeway IceCream the other night. Sarah said it was nasty. It was 3 containers for 6 bucks so it was worth a try. I took it back and got Starbucks Coffee Ice Cream...oh my god. That is the smoothest coffe ice cream ever, yum.
I still havent heard back from HMS guy about our call tomorrow...
We watched dome Angel last night and then I just kept tinkering with Suse. I let YaST update Xine so I hope that dvd's still work. Sone I'll be cracking into the web program to start my Non-western Soc project.
The lady from the other day and her 4 kids were abusing the park like a playground were there when i arrived, Ill call her "lady4". Also there was the guy that goes over the hips and is pretty good, we will call him "HipGuy". Another new kid from Havertown a couple other skaters and some bikers came as i was getting ready to leave.
Bikers in Black
There must be some trend to paint your bike black. I think 90% of the bikes I have seen at the park have been all black. To go with that is a trend to die your hair black and wear all black and look sort of "grease monkeyish"...odd.
Bad Ice Cream good Ice Cream
We tried some Generic Safeway IceCream the other night. Sarah said it was nasty. It was 3 containers for 6 bucks so it was worth a try. I took it back and got Starbucks Coffee Ice Cream...oh my god. That is the smoothest coffe ice cream ever, yum.
I still havent heard back from HMS guy about our call tomorrow...
We watched dome Angel last night and then I just kept tinkering with Suse. I let YaST update Xine so I hope that dvd's still work. Sone I'll be cracking into the web program to start my Non-western Soc project.
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Radnor Skatepark Today.
Testing the Ankle
I was able to skate today. I took it easy didn't try anything big or new. i had no problems. My foot actually felt better just by putting on my sneaks. I guess because they are loser.
Bikers galore again. Man it is scarey to watch them launch over the spine. I noticed a regular pack of skaters. I'll call them the "Ledge Pack". They just skate the grind box, bench and rail. They do some of the killer tech stuff that you see in the videos, non of the flippy to grind stuff just the other techy grind stuff, and they can hit some good flatland flips.
If I end up getting that other job, it would be the end of my Skatepark Lunchbreaks...it is only down in KoP but it would, I think be to far away to make it worth it. :o(
I was able to skate today. I took it easy didn't try anything big or new. i had no problems. My foot actually felt better just by putting on my sneaks. I guess because they are loser.
Bikers galore again. Man it is scarey to watch them launch over the spine. I noticed a regular pack of skaters. I'll call them the "Ledge Pack". They just skate the grind box, bench and rail. They do some of the killer tech stuff that you see in the videos, non of the flippy to grind stuff just the other techy grind stuff, and they can hit some good flatland flips.
If I end up getting that other job, it would be the end of my Skatepark Lunchbreaks...it is only down in KoP but it would, I think be to far away to make it worth it. :o(
An email from HMS!
A New Hope
I got this email today:
Subject: Junior System Administrator Position at HMS
> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 18:21:05 -0400
> From: "Rob DiMarco"
> To: <_tagar_@yahoo.com>
>
> Chris,
>
> I received your resume a few months ago, both from
> Kyle Burton and by
> mail. I'm sorry that I haven't responded to you
> earlier, but it took a
> while for the position to be officially approved.
> I'd like to see if we
> can get some time to talk on the phone about the
> position, your
> experience, and what you are looking to do. I
> expect this call to last
> about 10-15 minutes. Good times for me are Wed.
> between 1 - 3 PM,
> Thurs. 9-10 AM or 2-4 PM, or Friday from 9-11 AM.
> Please let me know
> what a good time to call would be and what number I
> can reach you at.
>
> I have attached the job description to the email for
> you to review.
>
> I hope to hear from you soon.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Rob Di Marco
> Director of Software Development
> Health Market Science
> 610-940-4002 x122
>
> ATTACHMENT part 2 application/msword
name=2004_10_08_JuniorSystemAdministrator.doc
The only thing on the .doc that I havent done yet is install win2000.
I am going to come in late so I can talk to him on Thursday at 9am.
I did some quick salary searches. It look like anywhere from 32 to 60. I would love to get 40 but I'll take anything above what I am getting now.
I got this email today:
Subject: Junior System Administrator Position at HMS
> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 18:21:05 -0400
> From: "Rob DiMarco"
> To: <_tagar_@yahoo.com>
>
> Chris,
>
> I received your resume a few months ago, both from
> Kyle Burton and by
> mail. I'm sorry that I haven't responded to you
> earlier, but it took a
> while for the position to be officially approved.
> I'd like to see if we
> can get some time to talk on the phone about the
> position, your
> experience, and what you are looking to do. I
> expect this call to last
> about 10-15 minutes. Good times for me are Wed.
> between 1 - 3 PM,
> Thurs. 9-10 AM or 2-4 PM, or Friday from 9-11 AM.
> Please let me know
> what a good time to call would be and what number I
> can reach you at.
>
> I have attached the job description to the email for
> you to review.
>
> I hope to hear from you soon.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Rob Di Marco
> Director of Software Development
> Health Market Science
> 610-940-4002 x122
>
> ATTACHMENT part 2 application/msword
name=2004_10_08_JuniorSystemAdministrator.doc
The only thing on the .doc that I havent done yet is install win2000.
I am going to come in late so I can talk to him on Thursday at 9am.
I did some quick salary searches. It look like anywhere from 32 to 60. I would love to get 40 but I'll take anything above what I am getting now.
Monday, October 11, 2004
Radnor Skatepark Today and Stuffs Closed
Skatepark
Well some schools must have been off today because there were a bunch of younger kids all over the ledges today and a couple braving the mini-ramp. There were a couple decent teens but none of the ususal bikers and no Jose. I just watched from the bleachers. i could have sworn that my foot felt better by the minute and my board was calling me from the car :o)
It's Columbus Day
So the Credit Union was closed. so i have to wrtie a check for the rent...i hate checks.
Well some schools must have been off today because there were a bunch of younger kids all over the ledges today and a couple braving the mini-ramp. There were a couple decent teens but none of the ususal bikers and no Jose. I just watched from the bleachers. i could have sworn that my foot felt better by the minute and my board was calling me from the car :o)
It's Columbus Day
So the Credit Union was closed. so i have to wrtie a check for the rent...i hate checks.
Weekend Update
How's the Foot
Well the foot swelled up pretty good and I couldn't put much pressure on it. I thought my saturday was going to include a trip to the hospitol for x-rays. Satuday mornming I was able to walk on it again and the sharp pain was gone above my little toe. So its sprained and a bit swollen and hurts but i think I'll get by. Maybe I'll just go watch the action at the park during the week.
Saturday
In our "Never a Dull Moment" lifestyle norm, after class I get home to find that we are heading down to Rowan and Peters for a late Pancake lunch followed by a trip to G moms for a quick visit. By the time we get home its @4pm and we launch into cleaing the house up untill about 8'ish. We did also watch some Season 4 Angle and I figured out what YaST was for and let it update Suse.
Sunday
I skipped gong to see the Lost Boys of the Sudan at class as we still had alot to do before the midwives came. So while Sarah finished up the gowns I cleaned house and did laundry. Untill 3pm. Kate, the midwife, said that everything was looking good and she liked the sign, even though it was a bit yellow, and the gowns. I wish we could just give her some money also...but we will be jamming that into the next to paychecks. We ended the night off with some yummy Guacamole and Angle. I also got Xine working with DVD's somehow.
Well the foot swelled up pretty good and I couldn't put much pressure on it. I thought my saturday was going to include a trip to the hospitol for x-rays. Satuday mornming I was able to walk on it again and the sharp pain was gone above my little toe. So its sprained and a bit swollen and hurts but i think I'll get by. Maybe I'll just go watch the action at the park during the week.
Saturday
In our "Never a Dull Moment" lifestyle norm, after class I get home to find that we are heading down to Rowan and Peters for a late Pancake lunch followed by a trip to G moms for a quick visit. By the time we get home its @4pm and we launch into cleaing the house up untill about 8'ish. We did also watch some Season 4 Angle and I figured out what YaST was for and let it update Suse.
Sunday
I skipped gong to see the Lost Boys of the Sudan at class as we still had alot to do before the midwives came. So while Sarah finished up the gowns I cleaned house and did laundry. Untill 3pm. Kate, the midwife, said that everything was looking good and she liked the sign, even though it was a bit yellow, and the gowns. I wish we could just give her some money also...but we will be jamming that into the next to paychecks. We ended the night off with some yummy Guacamole and Angle. I also got Xine working with DVD's somehow.
Linux Stuff That Works - xine - A Free Video Player
xine - A Free Video Player
I'm not sure how. I think it's a combination of figuring out YaST and DL and installing lots of stuff but, Xine finally will play DVD's. Yea me...Now I can't get my AVI files to play with sound...
I'm not sure how. I think it's a combination of figuring out YaST and DL and installing lots of stuff but, Xine finally will play DVD's. Yea me...Now I can't get my AVI files to play with sound...
Friday, October 08, 2004
Fresh from the Radnor Skatepark...the big OUCH!!!
OUCH!!!
So i get to the park later today around 1:30. There are about 6 bikers 5 skaters and a pack of mixed newbs. I felt more balanced today so when people started trying to ollie off the kicker over a bike i joined in. i should have been able to pop right over but my enexperiance ollieing off the kicker was caueing me to abort my ollie just as ai took off. i hit one nice solid ollie over the tire an thought i was ready to make it next time. i went up and started to bail and landed on my front foot really wierd and sort of rolled my ankle and crushed the outside of my foot. needless to say it hurt like hell and still hurts. the sprained ankle doesn't worry me too much it's more the pain above my little toe. i guess Ill be hobbleing aroudn for while...that sucks...well at least I made it every day for the first week. Man this hurts.
Got Cash?
I dont but G does. $60 from G-pop hamilton. I think he is getting new sneaks with some of it.
So i get to the park later today around 1:30. There are about 6 bikers 5 skaters and a pack of mixed newbs. I felt more balanced today so when people started trying to ollie off the kicker over a bike i joined in. i should have been able to pop right over but my enexperiance ollieing off the kicker was caueing me to abort my ollie just as ai took off. i hit one nice solid ollie over the tire an thought i was ready to make it next time. i went up and started to bail and landed on my front foot really wierd and sort of rolled my ankle and crushed the outside of my foot. needless to say it hurt like hell and still hurts. the sprained ankle doesn't worry me too much it's more the pain above my little toe. i guess Ill be hobbleing aroudn for while...that sucks...well at least I made it every day for the first week. Man this hurts.
Got Cash?
I dont but G does. $60 from G-pop hamilton. I think he is getting new sneaks with some of it.
No DVD's with Xine...next up MPlayer
Well after wasting two nights with XINE and following some very good instructoins I still can not get it to play DVDs. I did get it to play AVI's though.
Ill try MPlayer next.
Ill try MPlayer next.
No DVD's with Xine...next up MPlayer
Well after wasting two nights with XINE and following some very good instructoins I still can not get it to play DVDs. I did get it to play AVI's though.
Ill try MPlayer next.
Ill try MPlayer next.
Thursday, October 07, 2004
Fresh from the Radnor Skatepark
Holy biker park Batman!
Something was off for me today. My balance was off or something. Jose was there and another guy who was killing the hips and spine. Then the bikers started to show up. About 6 of them... It was about time for me to go anyway. Maybe I'll have to try a different time to go to lunch.
Something was off for me today. My balance was off or something. Jose was there and another guy who was killing the hips and spine. Then the bikers started to show up. About 6 of them... It was about time for me to go anyway. Maybe I'll have to try a different time to go to lunch.
Legos, Linux and Late Nights and other stuff
Legos
Another set of LEGOs came today from Heather. IT was a set that you could make deep see creatures from. Sarah had helped G put together the shark, which as really neat and had lots of moving parts. When she went to her Mom's Coffee, me and G put the Gulper Eel together to , as Gryphon put it, "give her Terror". I also sorted out the legos from the stuff that was not legos from the sets my mom found at yard sales.
Linux
I a little frustrated with Linux. I know I am going to give it more time. Once I get all the programs I usually use to work everything may get smoother. The internet connection seems slower to. Maybe I'l have to hook up the external and see how that goes.
Late nights
Between writing my papers for English and getting Linux up to speed I have been staying up until 2 again. I had really broke the habit and was getting to bed before 12.
More Cloths Than you Can Shake A Stick At
A neighbor, Erin-Seans Mom, brought over a couple tubs of unused cloths. Apperantly her mother keeeps buying cloths for Sean and they have tubs of brand new cloths that they could never use, so they are giving soe away.
DDR Recovery
Sarah is recovery nicely from her DDR injuries.
Another set of LEGOs came today from Heather. IT was a set that you could make deep see creatures from. Sarah had helped G put together the shark, which as really neat and had lots of moving parts. When she went to her Mom's Coffee, me and G put the Gulper Eel together to , as Gryphon put it, "give her Terror". I also sorted out the legos from the stuff that was not legos from the sets my mom found at yard sales.
Linux
I a little frustrated with Linux. I know I am going to give it more time. Once I get all the programs I usually use to work everything may get smoother. The internet connection seems slower to. Maybe I'l have to hook up the external and see how that goes.
Late nights
Between writing my papers for English and getting Linux up to speed I have been staying up until 2 again. I had really broke the habit and was getting to bed before 12.
More Cloths Than you Can Shake A Stick At
A neighbor, Erin-Seans Mom, brought over a couple tubs of unused cloths. Apperantly her mother keeeps buying cloths for Sean and they have tubs of brand new cloths that they could never use, so they are giving soe away.
DDR Recovery
Sarah is recovery nicely from her DDR injuries.
Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Radnor Skatepark Today.
More Bikes!!!
Eeek...I hope this isn't a trend. 4 bikes today. They take up so much room and I know they are going to warp the ramps where they transfer. And they are boring to watch all they do are airs over the hip, over the spine and back..no cool peg grinds. Oh well hopefully they are't there everyday.
They need a sign
They need a sign that says "Please keep young children off of the ramps and out of the skateing area". I had to inform a lady that her 3 year old was sitting on a ramp that was in being used and that her kid could get hurt. Duh...common sense to some.
Jose!
I meet a guy toady that I saw yesterday as I was leaving. He works at the Elementy School right here in Radnor. I guess we will be seeing more of each other.
Because of the bikers I wasnt able to work on much stuff. I did get some nice smith grind though.
Eeek...I hope this isn't a trend. 4 bikes today. They take up so much room and I know they are going to warp the ramps where they transfer. And they are boring to watch all they do are airs over the hip, over the spine and back..no cool peg grinds. Oh well hopefully they are't there everyday.
They need a sign
They need a sign that says "Please keep young children off of the ramps and out of the skateing area". I had to inform a lady that her 3 year old was sitting on a ramp that was in being used and that her kid could get hurt. Duh...common sense to some.
Jose!
I meet a guy toady that I saw yesterday as I was leaving. He works at the Elementy School right here in Radnor. I guess we will be seeing more of each other.
Because of the bikers I wasnt able to work on much stuff. I did get some nice smith grind though.
RPM success and G starts putting the letters together.
Oh so thats how you install RPM's
Duh, stupid me. I was trying to use YaST to install RPMs. Out of frustation I was looking through the KDE menus and found the RPM Manager, oh yhea. I remember using this the last time I was on my Linux adventure. So I start this puppy up and BAM, I've installed: Gstreamer, Amarok1.1, SuperKaramba, and qBrew (which I can't find) all up and running. So now I know...and knowing is half the battle.... things hsould get easier from here on in.
CAT, BAT, RAT, MAT....What do these word have in common?
They are all the first words that G is staring to put together by sounding them out. Our baby is learning to spell/read. Sarah said he wassounding out words from the Dr. Suess book "Hop on Pop"
Duh, stupid me. I was trying to use YaST to install RPMs. Out of frustation I was looking through the KDE menus and found the RPM Manager, oh yhea. I remember using this the last time I was on my Linux adventure. So I start this puppy up and BAM, I've installed: Gstreamer, Amarok1.1, SuperKaramba, and qBrew (which I can't find) all up and running. So now I know...and knowing is half the battle.... things hsould get easier from here on in.
CAT, BAT, RAT, MAT....What do these word have in common?
They are all the first words that G is staring to put together by sounding them out. Our baby is learning to spell/read. Sarah said he wassounding out words from the Dr. Suess book "Hop on Pop"
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
10/05/04 Skatepark
This is not a play ground and Bikes!
A lady, heh, a lady she probably wasn't much older than me... Anyway she had 4 kids. One on a bike maybe 7 to 10, one a scooter about 6 or 7 , and two yougner girls just running around like it was the kiddie park. It didnt bother me to much but they shouldn't be in the skatepark. The kid on the bike is ok..
A couple other skaters showed up and put the ledges and "Box of Terror" to decent use. i just stuck to getting my basics down on the mini-Frontside smith, backside 50-50, fakie slides, ollies. Two bikers showed up and were able to flow around the mini ramp-hip-spine setup. i can see that the mini ramps are going to get warped from the bikes landing. Even the Bikers had an awkward time with the "Box of Terror". i bet bladers can flow the park pretty easily too.
I would say that I get a decent 40 mins of skateing..pretty cool. The prospect of skating every day is really good for me...mind body and soul. STAY.
A lady, heh, a lady she probably wasn't much older than me... Anyway she had 4 kids. One on a bike maybe 7 to 10, one a scooter about 6 or 7 , and two yougner girls just running around like it was the kiddie park. It didnt bother me to much but they shouldn't be in the skatepark. The kid on the bike is ok..
A couple other skaters showed up and put the ledges and "Box of Terror" to decent use. i just stuck to getting my basics down on the mini-Frontside smith, backside 50-50, fakie slides, ollies. Two bikers showed up and were able to flow around the mini ramp-hip-spine setup. i can see that the mini ramps are going to get warped from the bikes landing. Even the Bikers had an awkward time with the "Box of Terror". i bet bladers can flow the park pretty easily too.
I would say that I get a decent 40 mins of skateing..pretty cool. The prospect of skating every day is really good for me...mind body and soul. STAY.
Lets see if this works. rpmseek.com
rpmseek.com - The search engine for Linux rpm and Debian packages
This is where I am going to try to get RPM's from. I'll report back tonight after I try them out. I got the Amarok and Ogle rpms.
This is where I am going to try to get RPM's from. I'll report back tonight after I try them out. I got the Amarok and Ogle rpms.
Getting Amarok and Xine to Work
Sometimes getting Linux software to run is like bakeing bread...from scratch, includeing planting the wheat...
Amarok 1.1
So I finnally notice that I am getting an error messaage and that I need to install something called
Taglib so, I am doing that now.
I am also DLing gStreamer and plugins.
Xine
I tried to watch a DVD ad nope you cant do that with out working for it in Linux so now I am trying to update Xine to a version that will play DVD's.
So i am DL:
Xine-ui
Xine-lib 1rc6a
I think I am sticking to RPMS...man after installing all this stuff, still nothing works. Sometimes it feels good to do it the long way but, somethimes it is just frustration...
Amarok 1.1
So I finnally notice that I am getting an error messaage and that I need to install something called
Taglib so, I am doing that now.
I am also DLing gStreamer and plugins.
Xine
I tried to watch a DVD ad nope you cant do that with out working for it in Linux so now I am trying to update Xine to a version that will play DVD's.
So i am DL:
Xine-ui
Xine-lib 1rc6a
I think I am sticking to RPMS...man after installing all this stuff, still nothing works. Sometimes it feels good to do it the long way but, somethimes it is just frustration...
Monday, October 04, 2004
Giggleberyy Birthday, Amarok and Skate Stuff.
The main thing that Is Frustrating about Linux
For about 2 days now I have been obsessed with getting Amarok 1.1 to work. I have tried the Suse RPM and the ./configure,make,make install way.
I cant seem to get YAST to give me the RPMs as an option to install. The one thing I haven't tried is a command line RPM install, I'm not sure of the command to use. I did install the KDE3.3 via command line RPM but I found the exact command to use on the net.
I was able to ./configure,make,make install but, I can not find the shell script or exe to start the program. I even did a search for it.
So the quest continues...
Gigglebery Birthday
Wow, if you are young in heart (and body) and you have some money and a child having a birthday, I would highly recomend Gigglebery Fields. This place is fun. It has a 3 story 6 level obstical course. The kids can run full speed through while the adults have to hunch and dive through little holes and climb stuff and "man I never got enough of the climbing things at Sesame Place and Chucky Cheese type stuff. And to add to the frenzy the bottom level has thousands of foam balls that you can vacumm up and head up to the 2nd level wear there are blasters to load them in and shoot them around.....Uhmm, Gryphon had fun too :o)
We played some games that You can win tickets on and Sarah pulled some muscles DDRing at 8 months pregnent.
Sudie and Gary brought Lunch and we ate outside. Gary was kind enough to bring an Extra Beer! :oP
We got home and there were messages on the answering machine with birthday wishes for G. My parents came over and brought Pizza for us. We opened presents and ate the ocean scene cake that sarah made. G loved the Kids dinosaur excavation kit. It should keep him working for a week or so.
Skate Stuff
Sunday after school found us going to my parents house for a Tastefully simple party. I was able to get away to the UP Skatepark. It was very busy and I slamed hard once which stoked my little fear factor for the reast of the day. It was really croweded also with lots of little kids too. Nt that the little kids should not be able to skate its just that they need some direction so that they don't just stand in what little flow the park has. It was fun none the less. the park is starting to show signs of wear and tear.
Speaking of parks--
I went to the brand new Radnor park today at lunch. it's as bad as I thought from my last post. The mini-ramp is fine. It's not hard to screw up. I wouldn't mind it being a little lower but I'll get over that. It's the fun box, or "Box of Terror" as I would refer to it that not right for the park. It looks like a piece that would go in the middle of ohter pieces of a large skatepark set up. From the bank that hips up to the mini you can only hit the middle of box, which is a bank with two grind boxes and stairs and hand railing on the other side. If they would have at least exchanged the steps for another bank it would give you a chance to ollie over the box. On either side of the ledges there are banks that are about a foot and a half wide and you cant hit them from the bank. They should have gotten a smaller fun box and put a bank or a quarter pipe on the other side of that so that you could work the park... Well the mini should be fun, they have some rails, picnic table, and a grind box to use also. And there is really no place for the younger kids to learn. the thing in the middle is dangerous for everyone...
Fire Drill!!!
I was talking to Sarah and our Fire drill went off here at work. I grabed my stuff and headed out. it turns out that it was a mechanical failure in the water pressure something or other.
For about 2 days now I have been obsessed with getting Amarok 1.1 to work. I have tried the Suse RPM and the ./configure,make,make install way.
I cant seem to get YAST to give me the RPMs as an option to install. The one thing I haven't tried is a command line RPM install, I'm not sure of the command to use. I did install the KDE3.3 via command line RPM but I found the exact command to use on the net.
I was able to ./configure,make,make install but, I can not find the shell script or exe to start the program. I even did a search for it.
So the quest continues...
Gigglebery Birthday
Wow, if you are young in heart (and body) and you have some money and a child having a birthday, I would highly recomend Gigglebery Fields. This place is fun. It has a 3 story 6 level obstical course. The kids can run full speed through while the adults have to hunch and dive through little holes and climb stuff and "man I never got enough of the climbing things at Sesame Place and Chucky Cheese type stuff. And to add to the frenzy the bottom level has thousands of foam balls that you can vacumm up and head up to the 2nd level wear there are blasters to load them in and shoot them around.....Uhmm, Gryphon had fun too :o)
We played some games that You can win tickets on and Sarah pulled some muscles DDRing at 8 months pregnent.
Sudie and Gary brought Lunch and we ate outside. Gary was kind enough to bring an Extra Beer! :oP
We got home and there were messages on the answering machine with birthday wishes for G. My parents came over and brought Pizza for us. We opened presents and ate the ocean scene cake that sarah made. G loved the Kids dinosaur excavation kit. It should keep him working for a week or so.
Skate Stuff
Sunday after school found us going to my parents house for a Tastefully simple party. I was able to get away to the UP Skatepark. It was very busy and I slamed hard once which stoked my little fear factor for the reast of the day. It was really croweded also with lots of little kids too. Nt that the little kids should not be able to skate its just that they need some direction so that they don't just stand in what little flow the park has. It was fun none the less. the park is starting to show signs of wear and tear.
Speaking of parks--
I went to the brand new Radnor park today at lunch. it's as bad as I thought from my last post. The mini-ramp is fine. It's not hard to screw up. I wouldn't mind it being a little lower but I'll get over that. It's the fun box, or "Box of Terror" as I would refer to it that not right for the park. It looks like a piece that would go in the middle of ohter pieces of a large skatepark set up. From the bank that hips up to the mini you can only hit the middle of box, which is a bank with two grind boxes and stairs and hand railing on the other side. If they would have at least exchanged the steps for another bank it would give you a chance to ollie over the box. On either side of the ledges there are banks that are about a foot and a half wide and you cant hit them from the bank. They should have gotten a smaller fun box and put a bank or a quarter pipe on the other side of that so that you could work the park... Well the mini should be fun, they have some rails, picnic table, and a grind box to use also. And there is really no place for the younger kids to learn. the thing in the middle is dangerous for everyone...
Fire Drill!!!
I was talking to Sarah and our Fire drill went off here at work. I grabed my stuff and headed out. it turns out that it was a mechanical failure in the water pressure something or other.
Friday, October 01, 2004
Fear of something has always held my skateing back.
So I was out at my little spot today skateing and I decide to try the gap between parking lots. The top edge is a very low curb and the bottom is a high curb. It drops about a foot and half and is about 2 to 3 and half feet wide. All it should take is a couple pushes and a half decent ollie to float over it...I can't let go my fear of, fear of , fear of what? That is my question. I must have some fear of dropping from heights while my moving. Its not just the dropping I guess. All the things that I could never force my self to do while skating always concerned ollieing down something. maybe its the landing and rolling away...I dont think I'm afriad of falling. Stairs, I could do small sets of stairs 4 or 5. I bet if that top curb wasn't there I could do it. After the first couple times I did handrailing boardslides i could never push my self to do them again. Another thing I could go fast and far off of lauch ramps but I could never ollie with tom much confidence off of them. Give me a bank and I could ollie the hell out of it. Again going off a ramp you have to go up and then drop below the top of the ramp but , wtih a bank you are only going back down as far as the top of the bank. At the saketpark recently i was finnally able to make my self ollie from bank to bank over the pyramid ramp. its just an odd thing. It holds me back. It held me back today...
Skate park update
I drove by the park today and got a better look. Besides the missing ramp to keep the flow going I noticed just how scary the "fun box" is going to be. Its steep and the ramps on the edges are very narrow and the middle one has steps on the other side. Eh, looks like I'll be getting better at mini-ramp riding.
Skate park update
I drove by the park today and got a better look. Besides the missing ramp to keep the flow going I noticed just how scary the "fun box" is going to be. Its steep and the ramps on the edges are very narrow and the middle one has steps on the other side. Eh, looks like I'll be getting better at mini-ramp riding.
Layed Buffy to rest, Killed Austin Powers 3 and got stuff for G
Bye, Bye Buffy
We finished up Buffy last night :o( we only ever watched parts of the first season on TV. When Sarah's parents started to get the DVDs and pushed them on us we became hooked. I guess the most shocking thing about the last episode was Anya Dieing. I knew she died but the quick slashing, almost cutting in half nature of it made me draw my breath. I guess we have to wait to see the last season of Angel before we get to see how spike comes back to life or death...
Austin Powers 3
If you liked the first movie and liked or didn't like the 2nd then you really won't like 3rd movie. We just turned it off. We felt embaressed for every one in the movie. 'nuff said.
Present shopping for G
We stepped out to get some stuff for G last night. He is really exited about these books called "Magic Tree House".
Magic Tree House Series
Step into a world of adventure—go back in time or to distant lands with Jack and Annie! From France in the Middle Ages to the prairies of America to the Moon, Jack and Annie make history fun by taking you right there!
We also picked up a kids card game called "CHOMP". It looks like you have a hand of fish cards and the bigger fish eat the smaller fish with a couple twists, I think he will love it :o)
Lets see, e got him Nemo plates and a plastic Nemo cup. Then we went to 5Below and got him some candy and a little plasitic sling shot that shoot foam balls. Sarah is planning on getting him an egg that you chip away to find a dinosaur.
We finished up Buffy last night :o( we only ever watched parts of the first season on TV. When Sarah's parents started to get the DVDs and pushed them on us we became hooked. I guess the most shocking thing about the last episode was Anya Dieing. I knew she died but the quick slashing, almost cutting in half nature of it made me draw my breath. I guess we have to wait to see the last season of Angel before we get to see how spike comes back to life or death...
Austin Powers 3
If you liked the first movie and liked or didn't like the 2nd then you really won't like 3rd movie. We just turned it off. We felt embaressed for every one in the movie. 'nuff said.
Present shopping for G
We stepped out to get some stuff for G last night. He is really exited about these books called "Magic Tree House".
Magic Tree House Series
Step into a world of adventure—go back in time or to distant lands with Jack and Annie! From France in the Middle Ages to the prairies of America to the Moon, Jack and Annie make history fun by taking you right there!
We also picked up a kids card game called "CHOMP". It looks like you have a hand of fish cards and the bigger fish eat the smaller fish with a couple twists, I think he will love it :o)
Lets see, e got him Nemo plates and a plastic Nemo cup. Then we went to 5Below and got him some candy and a little plasitic sling shot that shoot foam balls. Sarah is planning on getting him an egg that you chip away to find a dinosaur.
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