a horrible thing...i just looked at some pictures....some of dead children....so said so many people. I would like to say it is just a natural disater and there is no one to blame....but some how they should be able to see this.
peace to all of the area...I am sorry.
Thursday, December 30, 2004
Early out and skated... and birthday tomorrow.
Skatepark
Despite the wet look of the roads today, the park was dry. A couple ledgers were there and Josh the kid I have been talking to . i felt a little off today but, i still got my distaster rocks down and even fakie slid a few. With the new board I can now ollie off the jump ramp too.
early out
I think we are leaving shortly. i thought about heading back to the park but i may instead sing by CompUSA and check out a 1.99 sale on PS2 stuff.
Tomorrows my birthday...34. Happy Birthday to me.
Despite the wet look of the roads today, the park was dry. A couple ledgers were there and Josh the kid I have been talking to . i felt a little off today but, i still got my distaster rocks down and even fakie slid a few. With the new board I can now ollie off the jump ramp too.
early out
I think we are leaving shortly. i thought about heading back to the park but i may instead sing by CompUSA and check out a 1.99 sale on PS2 stuff.
Tomorrows my birthday...34. Happy Birthday to me.
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
A little warm air brings out the masses...
The Snow was pretty much gone today. The park was still wet but very skateable. The warm air brought the people out also. There were some cool guys skating the mini. The ledge guy was tehre I guess he wasn't the one who moved to SD. Man he can twist 360 ollies with out barley twisting. There was a kid there doing 360 mute airs off the side of the quarter pipes right into wet spots....goofey stuff going on. Anyway it was fun I got a bit more confidence in switch fakie rocks, maybe ill try slideing them tomoroow or doing a disaster. Lee said he may call me and meet me at the park tomorrow.
Candy
Man there is lots of candy here...good thing I've been skateing and DDRing. After the new year I am going to watch my diet better agian. i am holding at 172 right now.
The Ring
The Ring came today, yhea. I still gave them a 2 out of 5 and told the tale of the bad service.
Candy
Man there is lots of candy here...good thing I've been skateing and DDRing. After the new year I am going to watch my diet better agian. i am holding at 172 right now.
The Ring
The Ring came today, yhea. I still gave them a 2 out of 5 and told the tale of the bad service.
This weeks skating so far.
Oh Noo, Snow
Yep, it snowed Sunday night enough to cover the the park in a powdery snow. Since I was there on Monday I used the water-roller-mo-thing to clean off the mini and plowed some space near the ledge stuff. Tuesday I just had to dry off the ramp a little and it was fine as was the path I cut near the ledges. The rest of the park was still under snow. I skated with a guy that I have talked to and plowed some more snow before i left. he said that the guy I called Ledge Skater left for San Deigo...by, by ledge skater...aparently he owned a skate shop in ambler and gave my new skate budy a board before he left.
Micro center has a 60gig drive for 40bucks thats pretty tempting....
Yep, it snowed Sunday night enough to cover the the park in a powdery snow. Since I was there on Monday I used the water-roller-mo-thing to clean off the mini and plowed some space near the ledge stuff. Tuesday I just had to dry off the ramp a little and it was fine as was the path I cut near the ledges. The rest of the park was still under snow. I skated with a guy that I have talked to and plowed some more snow before i left. he said that the guy I called Ledge Skater left for San Deigo...by, by ledge skater...aparently he owned a skate shop in ambler and gave my new skate budy a board before he left.
Micro center has a 60gig drive for 40bucks thats pretty tempting....
Meet Tyson, the Skateboarding Bulldog!
If you watch the video on this site you will see that this is not just a joke site, the dog can push and ride a board.
Meet Tyson, the Skateboarding Bulldog!
Meet Tyson, the Skateboarding Bulldog!
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Xmas - 2004 report.
Xmas Eve Day
Well, we decided to take Ruby out. We went to Sarahs parents for the Xmas Eve Day. Presents were opened, G got to run around with Tabitha, I had a couple beers and we stayed for dinner. We were only able to get toys for the kids this year.
We were gifted with a DXG-308 Digital camera. It's a nice step up from our old polaroid camera. Krista made me a phat green winter hat and Heather and Adam got us Curb Your Enthusiamsm season 2. Gryphon got some big plastic building set and some art supplies....and some other stuff. Ruby recieved some nice cloths and a cool little blanket that Krista made.
Adam got his 12 iBook and Gary got a sword- Samari 3000, look it up. I forget what the other things were.
Xmas Eve Night
By the time we got home Gryphon was asleep. Presents were wraped and a note was left for Santa. Sarahs Ring never did come and an email from the company said that it shipped on the 21st while Amazon said I should get it between the 16th and the 22nd...grrr. i did have the sadarus book and the Eye Candy sock for here though.
Xmas morning
i think we got up @ 6:30ish. We opened stuff at a decent pace. Gryphon was hapy with his stuff ans Sarah was surprised that I got her anything. About 8ish we decide to take the plunge and head over to my parents house.
Xmas Day
Well my parents love to buy gifts. All kinds of stuff, i hope I can do this someday. There are always lottory tickets and candy and small gifts and large gifts. Besides some gifts certificates and books and cooking spices and all kinds of stuff there was the thing that Sarah and I have been asking for for a couple years now....Play Station 2!!! The slim design. Who hooo....I can see the chapter in Gryphons book when he gets older.... "The Year of The Playstation" We also got Tony Hawks THUG and Mortal Kombat. Gryphon ran around with Deven and played with his new Geo-tracks. We hung out untill about two. My cousin showed up and we scooted out.
Day After Xmas
We got another copy of Curb and the book I got for Sarah. I returned both of them and with the Visa Gift Card from Uncle Dave we got Dance Dance Revelution Extreme(DDR) and a dance pad. we traveled back up to her parents and played DDR with her sister.
Since then we picked upu another pad so we could both go at the same time. Its alot of fun.
I hope I didn't forget to much....
Well, we decided to take Ruby out. We went to Sarahs parents for the Xmas Eve Day. Presents were opened, G got to run around with Tabitha, I had a couple beers and we stayed for dinner. We were only able to get toys for the kids this year.
We were gifted with a DXG-308 Digital camera. It's a nice step up from our old polaroid camera. Krista made me a phat green winter hat and Heather and Adam got us Curb Your Enthusiamsm season 2. Gryphon got some big plastic building set and some art supplies....and some other stuff. Ruby recieved some nice cloths and a cool little blanket that Krista made.
Adam got his 12 iBook and Gary got a sword- Samari 3000, look it up. I forget what the other things were.
Xmas Eve Night
By the time we got home Gryphon was asleep. Presents were wraped and a note was left for Santa. Sarahs Ring never did come and an email from the company said that it shipped on the 21st while Amazon said I should get it between the 16th and the 22nd...grrr. i did have the sadarus book and the Eye Candy sock for here though.
Xmas morning
i think we got up @ 6:30ish. We opened stuff at a decent pace. Gryphon was hapy with his stuff ans Sarah was surprised that I got her anything. About 8ish we decide to take the plunge and head over to my parents house.
Xmas Day
Well my parents love to buy gifts. All kinds of stuff, i hope I can do this someday. There are always lottory tickets and candy and small gifts and large gifts. Besides some gifts certificates and books and cooking spices and all kinds of stuff there was the thing that Sarah and I have been asking for for a couple years now....Play Station 2!!! The slim design. Who hooo....I can see the chapter in Gryphons book when he gets older.... "The Year of The Playstation" We also got Tony Hawks THUG and Mortal Kombat. Gryphon ran around with Deven and played with his new Geo-tracks. We hung out untill about two. My cousin showed up and we scooted out.
Day After Xmas
We got another copy of Curb and the book I got for Sarah. I returned both of them and with the Visa Gift Card from Uncle Dave we got Dance Dance Revelution Extreme(DDR) and a dance pad. we traveled back up to her parents and played DDR with her sister.
Since then we picked upu another pad so we could both go at the same time. Its alot of fun.
I hope I didn't forget to much....
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
Last Day before Christmas Vacation...
The Ring is still not here...Grrr. It is supposed to be here today at the latest by priority mail...
The stuff we got for G has also not been delivered to the house yet. They still have 2 days for that stuff. If we don't have that the tree will be kind of nekked.
I broke in the Oakley shoes today at the park today. Nothing new I just practiced the backside 270's 50-50s and the normal stuff. My new board comes tomorrow, yhea! I think Ill just skate the coverse untill they are good and dead, the Oakleys look cool. yhea thats kind of vain or weird but they have a different look than I have been wearing and I just want to [reserve it a bit or maybe buy another pair.
On the Horizon is christmas...I may be getting a MP3 player, no iPod mind you just something. Sarah may get a digital camera, which will mean we should also get a bigger hard drive. I would like to back up our files and the MP3s (@40gigs) and format the drives and reload XP. I would love to get even another 60 gig and put it in the emachine and use that as a media pc. I guess a 120gig drive would be better, we will see.
I took the final step to kill the addiction I had to Magic the Gathering ONLINE. I was going to go on and give my cards away but after i logged on and saw that I had over 1000 cards i just closed it and uninstalled the game. It's a ton of fun and I love the time that I played paper and online Magic but it takes time and money to play at the level I liked to play at.
Ruby is the cutestscoot ever :o) Of course so is/was Gryphon :o)
The stuff we got for G has also not been delivered to the house yet. They still have 2 days for that stuff. If we don't have that the tree will be kind of nekked.
I broke in the Oakley shoes today at the park today. Nothing new I just practiced the backside 270's 50-50s and the normal stuff. My new board comes tomorrow, yhea! I think Ill just skate the coverse untill they are good and dead, the Oakleys look cool. yhea thats kind of vain or weird but they have a different look than I have been wearing and I just want to [reserve it a bit or maybe buy another pair.
On the Horizon is christmas...I may be getting a MP3 player, no iPod mind you just something. Sarah may get a digital camera, which will mean we should also get a bigger hard drive. I would like to back up our files and the MP3s (@40gigs) and format the drives and reload XP. I would love to get even another 60 gig and put it in the emachine and use that as a media pc. I guess a 120gig drive would be better, we will see.
I took the final step to kill the addiction I had to Magic the Gathering ONLINE. I was going to go on and give my cards away but after i logged on and saw that I had over 1000 cards i just closed it and uninstalled the game. It's a ton of fun and I love the time that I played paper and online Magic but it takes time and money to play at the level I liked to play at.
Ruby is the cutestscoot ever :o) Of course so is/was Gryphon :o)
Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Skateing at last...
Well yesterday the skatepark was like the arctic tundra...frozen snow on the ramps and the rest was like a skateing rink. Today there was plenty of space to skate and hit the ramps. I spread some of the puddles out on the mini and it dried in about 5 mins. A bunch of kids/guys showed up. it sounded like most were from out of town and here for the holidays. A couple of them were really good smooth grinds and flips. Just thinking about my skateing:
On the mini: smiths, frontside rock, fakey to smith, fakey to spin to back 50-50 thing and other regular stuff. i hit some long frontside slides to fakie on the bar and was able to kick flip pretty easy. i hope the new board will make the flips easier, at least the tail will be strong and not chiped. I should be able to hit ollies of the kicker easier.
I did slam hard once. I was thinking about doing a smith on the spine and my body must have half attempted to do it. As i was comeing back down the ramp i noticed how smooth it felt and then, as i slamed into the bottom of the ramp on my hip, I relized that i was falling...ouch.
The Ring I got for Sarah still has not shown up. i am getting worried it says the delivery time is betweeen the 16th and the 22nd....hope it comes.
On the mini: smiths, frontside rock, fakey to smith, fakey to spin to back 50-50 thing and other regular stuff. i hit some long frontside slides to fakie on the bar and was able to kick flip pretty easy. i hope the new board will make the flips easier, at least the tail will be strong and not chiped. I should be able to hit ollies of the kicker easier.
I did slam hard once. I was thinking about doing a smith on the spine and my body must have half attempted to do it. As i was comeing back down the ramp i noticed how smooth it felt and then, as i slamed into the bottom of the ramp on my hip, I relized that i was falling...ouch.
The Ring I got for Sarah still has not shown up. i am getting worried it says the delivery time is betweeen the 16th and the 22nd....hope it comes.
Monday, December 20, 2004
Lets go free form...
Well the week in the Hospitol made me relise how much reality TV there is, how funny The Family Guy is, Futurama is still pretty good, there are some stupid cartoons on the cartoon network (maybe I am getting to old), I like the Yoh Gi Oh cartoon, not all Anima is good, and there is lots of trash programming on during the day.
Xmas
We got a nice charlie brown tree this year. G loves it so it doesnt matter. Our plans are still up in the air for what or where we are going. The original plan was:
Xmas eve- Sarahs parents
Xmas morning - our house
Xmas afternoon - my parents
Skate videos
I got another free netflix account and rented more skate videos. The best has been Yeah Right. Very good , the best I have seen for a long time. There is lots of skateing and no stupid pranks in the main part of the film. Another good one was Trans Worlds Reason/Feedback. Very good stuff there too. They have lots of scens of getting kicked out of places and lots of old Bam skateing along with a bunch of LOVE and FDR with a dash of the old Dust Bowl.
DVD-R's
I picked up a 25 pack of DVD-r's for $10 at Staples. That a very good deal and prices are dropping nicley for them. I burned the two skate videos. we also rented Spidey two but never watched it.
Xmas
We got a nice charlie brown tree this year. G loves it so it doesnt matter. Our plans are still up in the air for what or where we are going. The original plan was:
Xmas eve- Sarahs parents
Xmas morning - our house
Xmas afternoon - my parents
Skate videos
I got another free netflix account and rented more skate videos. The best has been Yeah Right. Very good , the best I have seen for a long time. There is lots of skateing and no stupid pranks in the main part of the film. Another good one was Trans Worlds Reason/Feedback. Very good stuff there too. They have lots of scens of getting kicked out of places and lots of old Bam skateing along with a bunch of LOVE and FDR with a dash of the old Dust Bowl.
DVD-R's
I picked up a 25 pack of DVD-r's for $10 at Staples. That a very good deal and prices are dropping nicley for them. I burned the two skate videos. we also rented Spidey two but never watched it.
Sunday, December 19, 2004
New Board and New Skate Shoes - Oakley Go Kart
I found these at Marshalls for $20. Wow are they comfy. I can finnally retire my old Airwalks and maybe even my Converse sneaks I have had for a many, many years.Google Image Result for http://www.jamesandjames.com/pictures/oakley/oakgokartblu.jpg
I also ordered a blank deck from TGM, its green this time 7.75x31.5.
I also ordered a blank deck from TGM, its green this time 7.75x31.5.
Friday, December 17, 2004
What Can Put Your baby in the Hospitol for almost a week...RSV
I never heard of it but Ruby had it and we got a week stay at the hospitol. More later.
RSV Info Center
RSV Info Center
Saturday, December 11, 2004
Added lots of extensions to Firefox.
Foxy Tunes-Adds controls for your music player, in my case WinAMp.
Gmail Notifier
A weather app that shows the weather in your tool bar.
A app that lets you right click and see the Blog this! option.
Firefox is pretty cool :o)
Gmail Notifier
A weather app that shows the weather in your tool bar.
A app that lets you right click and see the Blog this! option.
Firefox is pretty cool :o)
deviantART: madtagar
I am testing the "blog this!" extension for Firefox and bloging my deviantart.com page.
deviantART: madtagar
deviantART: madtagar
Friday, December 10, 2004
Thursday, December 09, 2004
Must...keep...posting...
My posting has slacked...I have to just put someting up or I may lose the itch to post...
I stayed home yesterday to help with a sick G and a crying R.
I managed to get Kates maching running. It turns out it was just the memory that was slowing it down. It only had 32mb. She ordered 256mb but, it sounds like they broke the memory stick. Those HP pavilions are a bitch to put memory into. The memory sounded crunchy and it wouldnt work in my machine. I gave her one of my 64mb chips from my machine and was able to get her going again. I ran Adaware SE, Avast Antivirus and may install Zone Alarm next time I am there. I made sure she could get on line and stuff. If she can get another 256 stick she should be in good shape untill she can get a new PC>
Rubys Dr. visit went fine. Her weight gain slowed and she only gained a couple onces from 9.12 up to 9.15. The Dr. didnt say much about the colic other than the usual she'll grow out of it. I hope it's soon because no matter what my intentinos are its hard to give G attention and help Sarah with Ruby too.
Sarah stoped by today with R and G for people to oogle over. it rained so I did nt miss skateing. Yesterday was a nice day though. I think its supposed to rain on the days I can skate until next tuesday. Supriseingly I was only at 172 on the scale. I'll have to work it back down after the holidays.
I signed up for a free 30 day netflicx account...again and another dvd mail rental place that does family freindly movies. I rented a buch of dinosaur dvds for G. It's funny they warn you of the discussion of Evelution in the dvd's :o) Its a religious based company. I rented a bunch of skate dvds from Netflix.
Movies: We watched Dodgeball last night and we saw Elf the other night. Both were pretty good.
I stayed home yesterday to help with a sick G and a crying R.
I managed to get Kates maching running. It turns out it was just the memory that was slowing it down. It only had 32mb. She ordered 256mb but, it sounds like they broke the memory stick. Those HP pavilions are a bitch to put memory into. The memory sounded crunchy and it wouldnt work in my machine. I gave her one of my 64mb chips from my machine and was able to get her going again. I ran Adaware SE, Avast Antivirus and may install Zone Alarm next time I am there. I made sure she could get on line and stuff. If she can get another 256 stick she should be in good shape untill she can get a new PC>
Rubys Dr. visit went fine. Her weight gain slowed and she only gained a couple onces from 9.12 up to 9.15. The Dr. didnt say much about the colic other than the usual she'll grow out of it. I hope it's soon because no matter what my intentinos are its hard to give G attention and help Sarah with Ruby too.
Sarah stoped by today with R and G for people to oogle over. it rained so I did nt miss skateing. Yesterday was a nice day though. I think its supposed to rain on the days I can skate until next tuesday. Supriseingly I was only at 172 on the scale. I'll have to work it back down after the holidays.
I signed up for a free 30 day netflicx account...again and another dvd mail rental place that does family freindly movies. I rented a buch of dinosaur dvds for G. It's funny they warn you of the discussion of Evelution in the dvd's :o) Its a religious based company. I rented a bunch of skate dvds from Netflix.
Movies: We watched Dodgeball last night and we saw Elf the other night. Both were pretty good.
Monday, December 06, 2004
Colic, rain and going to fix Kates PC
Colic is...
...not fun. Ruby cries and cries, it's sad. They say it can be caused jut from her temperment and getting used to just being alive outside the womb. Hopefully it goes away soon. At least I get to go to work although I wish I could be home all the time to help. G is starting to get a little rebelious since we have to pay so much attention to Ruby right now. I am sure it will pass...
No Skateing today
Its raining and I forgot my skate cloths anyway. I did go to Micro Center and foudn that DVD-R's have really dropped in price, 20 for $10,cool.
Kate's PC
Apperantly kate's PC is down for the count. Amber tried to install the new Memory that she bought in it. I told her to just try it by itself and even only just the old memory but it does not even post. I am going to go over and give it a good fDisk, format and clean install of windows.
Dads got DSL and...
my Dad beat me to highspeed internet :o( Not only that but he bought himself a nice Dell 2.8ghz with a LCD, printer faxer copier thing....oh well I guess I get to keep the PC i found :o)
...not fun. Ruby cries and cries, it's sad. They say it can be caused jut from her temperment and getting used to just being alive outside the womb. Hopefully it goes away soon. At least I get to go to work although I wish I could be home all the time to help. G is starting to get a little rebelious since we have to pay so much attention to Ruby right now. I am sure it will pass...
No Skateing today
Its raining and I forgot my skate cloths anyway. I did go to Micro Center and foudn that DVD-R's have really dropped in price, 20 for $10,cool.
Kate's PC
Apperantly kate's PC is down for the count. Amber tried to install the new Memory that she bought in it. I told her to just try it by itself and even only just the old memory but it does not even post. I am going to go over and give it a good fDisk, format and clean install of windows.
Dads got DSL and...
my Dad beat me to highspeed internet :o( Not only that but he bought himself a nice Dell 2.8ghz with a LCD, printer faxer copier thing....oh well I guess I get to keep the PC i found :o)
Friday, December 03, 2004
2004 News Corp Global Excellence Awards
2004 News Corp Global Excellence Awards
Cool, I won an award from work. Im not sure who nominated me (maybe i signed up myself :o) My name is on the page Chris Faulkner. Can't wait to sell...I mean see the artwork I won.
Cool, I won an award from work. Im not sure who nominated me (maybe i signed up myself :o) My name is on the page Chris Faulkner. Can't wait to sell...I mean see the artwork I won.
Thursday, December 02, 2004
Ruby's pics at work...
Ruby's Pics
i took some pics of Ruby into work today. Of course everybody (ok, well the Girls) gushed on them.
Skate Park
A sign at the park said that the winter hours were 1pm to dusk... :/ I dont get it. Why 1pm? Oh well, i got there at 12:40 and skated. I am such a rebel :op It was empty untill about 120 and then a bunch of decent teen ledge skaters came, and some bikers. I felt really good today and pulled some Frontside rock and rolls. I cant wait to get a new board, my tail is starting to really chip up and get short. I had the urge to not come back to work...
I almost forgot. Yesterday it satarted out raining and by the afternoon it was super windy and the sun was out so the mini dried up nicely and I got to skate in the wind storm.
i took some pics of Ruby into work today. Of course everybody (ok, well the Girls) gushed on them.
Skate Park
A sign at the park said that the winter hours were 1pm to dusk... :/ I dont get it. Why 1pm? Oh well, i got there at 12:40 and skated. I am such a rebel :op It was empty untill about 120 and then a bunch of decent teen ledge skaters came, and some bikers. I felt really good today and pulled some Frontside rock and rolls. I cant wait to get a new board, my tail is starting to really chip up and get short. I had the urge to not come back to work...
I almost forgot. Yesterday it satarted out raining and by the afternoon it was super windy and the sun was out so the mini dried up nicely and I got to skate in the wind storm.
My feet are getting wet...
Abandone Ship!!!
TV Guide layed off 69 people today, 2 from our department. My feet are getting wet, I think the ship is sinking.
My new project for the New Year is finding a new job.
TV Guide layed off 69 people today, 2 from our department. My feet are getting wet, I think the ship is sinking.
My new project for the New Year is finding a new job.
Wednesday, December 01, 2004
Back to the Grind...
I am gettting a post together to catch up what was going on during my two week Baby Vacation, but untill then I should get back to regular posts.
Skatepark
I've skated every day this week. i can feel some weight sneaking back in and I need to work it off. The park has been kind of quiet so far this week.
new Cloths
I got some new cloths from old navy. Size 33/30s and medium shirts. It probably the first time that a medium has fit me nice for a while. Now when I put my old cloths on I feel like I am drowning in them.
Sims 2, Krack
I got the sims crack to work last night. The only problem is that build mode does not work. I am going to try another crack tonight.
Skatepark
I've skated every day this week. i can feel some weight sneaking back in and I need to work it off. The park has been kind of quiet so far this week.
new Cloths
I got some new cloths from old navy. Size 33/30s and medium shirts. It probably the first time that a medium has fit me nice for a while. Now when I put my old cloths on I feel like I am drowning in them.
Sims 2, Krack
I got the sims crack to work last night. The only problem is that build mode does not work. I am going to try another crack tonight.
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