G a little teary eyed about leaving. Pic with Heather and bogart.
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Back to work :: AAA :: Fall on my BUMM.
Feels like I just got out of the car :o)
Turns out an ad had an element turn a different color then it was supposed to be. This was an ad in the brand new first issue of Inside TV. When this happens they have to give a free ad out, thats some big time revenue (50K to 100k probably) missed. It went throught alot of people that missed it. I only did a file check on it. At that point you do not have anything to compare it against. I made the suggestion that we get back the folder with the advertisers artwork back when we do are final checks so we have something to compare it with.
Skateing ::
It was nice to get back on the board and sweat off some of the over eating of the weekend. I did fall kind of goofy. I went to do a 50-50 grind on the bench and the wheels sliped. The board went over the other side and I went down. i am not even sure what heppend. i may have bounced on the bench and then hit the ground or i went straight to the ground. I hit one buttock hard but over all it didnt hurt like I imagined a fall like that would feel like. My neck feels a bit tweaked so maybe that happened too.
AAA ::
We joined AAA today. Since we had to get the Tarus towed anyway and we have 2 used cars we figured it would be a good investment. $68 per year and I got them to tow the car today. Nice.
The car thing kind of killed the House Hunt but we may still look at that river house in skipback.
Turns out an ad had an element turn a different color then it was supposed to be. This was an ad in the brand new first issue of Inside TV. When this happens they have to give a free ad out, thats some big time revenue (50K to 100k probably) missed. It went throught alot of people that missed it. I only did a file check on it. At that point you do not have anything to compare it against. I made the suggestion that we get back the folder with the advertisers artwork back when we do are final checks so we have something to compare it with.
Skateing ::
It was nice to get back on the board and sweat off some of the over eating of the weekend. I did fall kind of goofy. I went to do a 50-50 grind on the bench and the wheels sliped. The board went over the other side and I went down. i am not even sure what heppend. i may have bounced on the bench and then hit the ground or i went straight to the ground. I hit one buttock hard but over all it didnt hurt like I imagined a fall like that would feel like. My neck feels a bit tweaked so maybe that happened too.
AAA ::
We joined AAA today. Since we had to get the Tarus towed anyway and we have 2 used cars we figured it would be a good investment. $68 per year and I got them to tow the car today. Nice.
The car thing kind of killed the House Hunt but we may still look at that river house in skipback.
Saturday, April 16, 2005
Code Cod :: Friday to Monday
Just notes to be filled out later:
Friday-
Late Start 10:30
Gas
Target
On the road
PA,
Jersey,
New York:: Stoped at crowded vince lombardi rest stop, hour longTraffic a GW bridge
RI :: half hour traffic for accident,
MAss:
Saturday
Breakfast
Tour of Coast Guard and boats
At the cold beach, loads of shells.
Down time
Sunday-
Walk at the indian reserve, saw crabs
G watched Land before time 6 via inDemand, we watched Curb (krazy Eyez killa) via iNDemand, A sex in the city episode, some of antoher show.
Monday-
G cried
Drive home left about 5 made a couple stops got home about 1 or 2am.
Friday-
Late Start 10:30
Gas
Target
On the road
PA,
Jersey,
New York:: Stoped at crowded vince lombardi rest stop, hour longTraffic a GW bridge
RI :: half hour traffic for accident,
MAss:
Saturday
Breakfast
Tour of Coast Guard and boats
At the cold beach, loads of shells.
Down time
Sunday-
Walk at the indian reserve, saw crabs
G watched Land before time 6 via inDemand, we watched Curb (krazy Eyez killa) via iNDemand, A sex in the city episode, some of antoher show.
Monday-
G cried
Drive home left about 5 made a couple stops got home about 1 or 2am.
Thursday, April 14, 2005
Took the Train, missed the phone, fixed the W4 and no skateing for me :o(
TRAIN:
Well with the CAR down for the count for now, I rode the train in. i relized it's been awhile since I had ridden it. $14 will get you 3 hours on the train. An hour and a half each way.... I usually try to fall asleep before I get to philly and then stay awake for the rest of the ride home or to work.
NO SKATE:
Well no skateing since i wouldn't be able to get to and from the park in a decent time...I guess I could have at least brought it and tried to go ...eh nah.
MISSED THE PHONE:
Well it turns out that my waver I have with FedEx not requiring a sig for things delivered to my house did not include when a sig is required by the sending company. So we missed the phone. I have to go fetch it from FT Washington when I get home tonight...
W4
i moved up my exeptions to 4 from 2 on my W4. It will mean a smaller return but more money during the year. Hopefully it works out ok.
Well with the CAR down for the count for now, I rode the train in. i relized it's been awhile since I had ridden it. $14 will get you 3 hours on the train. An hour and a half each way.... I usually try to fall asleep before I get to philly and then stay awake for the rest of the ride home or to work.
NO SKATE:
Well no skateing since i wouldn't be able to get to and from the park in a decent time...I guess I could have at least brought it and tried to go ...eh nah.
MISSED THE PHONE:
Well it turns out that my waver I have with FedEx not requiring a sig for things delivered to my house did not include when a sig is required by the sending company. So we missed the phone. I have to go fetch it from FT Washington when I get home tonight...
W4
i moved up my exeptions to 4 from 2 on my W4. It will mean a smaller return but more money during the year. Hopefully it works out ok.
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Cape Cod Natl Seashore Weather Forecasts on Yahoo! Weather
Oh great its going to be in the 40's in Cape Cod this weekend!!
It's going to feel like Summer by the time we get back here, and I just put away my winter jacket.
Cape Cod Natl Seashore Weather Forecasts on Yahoo! Weather
It's going to feel like Summer by the time we get back here, and I just put away my winter jacket.
Cape Cod Natl Seashore Weather Forecasts on Yahoo! Weather
Tracfone #2, Taurus didn't start, and new tricks
Now that we have opened up the money in the bank again we went ahead and ordered another Tracfone. I would have liked it the other day when the car died. I had it overnighted so we can get it before our trip.
I got the same deal as before: 100 minute card + refurbished phone for $30. Plus the $15 for overight and taxes comes to about $48. Then if I use the other account to refer this account i will get another 100 minutes for each phone.
So:
Phone: Free (at least $30 new in the store with 20min card)
100 card: $30
20 units for signing up online: @$10
100 card: Free from referal for the new phone. (reg $30)
100 card: Free from referal for the old phone. (reg $30)
Possibly 2 more 40 cards from the coupon books: $20 each.
So it's at least $130 worth of stuff, and maybe more for @$48 with shipping.
The car
The car didnt start last night so we have to tow it to a garage. :o( We will see if a new used car is a better buy than fixing this puppy.
Skatepark
I hit the grind box today and relized that I can do Krooked Grinds and front side 5-0's but just can't land them yet. Another fun thing I did was to hit all the elements in the park with out falling or using my feet or hands to push. I started off pushing(maybe tomorrow I'll try to start by dropping in. I pushed to the picnic table, hit a backside boardslide. Turned to the flat bar did a small frontside slide. Ollied onto the grind box. road of to hit a frontside slide on the bench. Did a hairpin turn and tic-tac'd to get some speed and hit the jump ramp. i took a sharp right and taced over to the spine ramp. I pumped both sides and then road to the other side, pumped those and angled off to the mini. Pumped both walls and headed to the funBox bank. Off the bank and hit the mini-ramp bank. From there i hit the round rail with a board slide and curved around to ollie onto the bench of the wooden table that somebody hauled into the park.
I got the same deal as before: 100 minute card + refurbished phone for $30. Plus the $15 for overight and taxes comes to about $48. Then if I use the other account to refer this account i will get another 100 minutes for each phone.
So:
Phone: Free (at least $30 new in the store with 20min card)
100 card: $30
20 units for signing up online: @$10
100 card: Free from referal for the new phone. (reg $30)
100 card: Free from referal for the old phone. (reg $30)
Possibly 2 more 40 cards from the coupon books: $20 each.
So it's at least $130 worth of stuff, and maybe more for @$48 with shipping.
The car
The car didnt start last night so we have to tow it to a garage. :o( We will see if a new used car is a better buy than fixing this puppy.
Skatepark
I hit the grind box today and relized that I can do Krooked Grinds and front side 5-0's but just can't land them yet. Another fun thing I did was to hit all the elements in the park with out falling or using my feet or hands to push. I started off pushing(maybe tomorrow I'll try to start by dropping in. I pushed to the picnic table, hit a backside boardslide. Turned to the flat bar did a small frontside slide. Ollied onto the grind box. road of to hit a frontside slide on the bench. Did a hairpin turn and tic-tac'd to get some speed and hit the jump ramp. i took a sharp right and taced over to the spine ramp. I pumped both sides and then road to the other side, pumped those and angled off to the mini. Pumped both walls and headed to the funBox bank. Off the bank and hit the mini-ramp bank. From there i hit the round rail with a board slide and curved around to ollie onto the bench of the wooden table that somebody hauled into the park.
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
The car wants it share of the Money! and going to CapeCod.
Well the car has spoken up and wants its original cut of the refund money. That will most likly kill our house search for now.
What would we have done had we jumped on something and then the car dies? Car repairs were in the orignial refund budget anyway as were paying down the Credit Cards, maybe we can get back to that plan. Regroup and then try again next year.
The skate park has been quit the last two days(at least while I am there). I finnally remembered the trick to long board slides. i was not tweaking the back of the board frontwards. As soon as I started doing that I was able to slide the whole flat bar.
We are going to Cape Cod the weekend to visit Heather and Adam. It should be a good time.
Sarah really enjoyed the Dawn and Drew Show. I am going to save up any of there Podcasts from this week plus RadioTiki's pod cast for the ride to Cape Cod. I think it would be fun for me Sarah to do a podcast.
What would we have done had we jumped on something and then the car dies? Car repairs were in the orignial refund budget anyway as were paying down the Credit Cards, maybe we can get back to that plan. Regroup and then try again next year.
The skate park has been quit the last two days(at least while I am there). I finnally remembered the trick to long board slides. i was not tweaking the back of the board frontwards. As soon as I started doing that I was able to slide the whole flat bar.
We are going to Cape Cod the weekend to visit Heather and Adam. It should be a good time.
Sarah really enjoyed the Dawn and Drew Show. I am going to save up any of there Podcasts from this week plus RadioTiki's pod cast for the ride to Cape Cod. I think it would be fun for me Sarah to do a podcast.
MIT’s USB-controlled LED dancefloor - Engadget - www.engadget.com.
This thing is pretty cool. I would be neat to have a smaller version to hang on the wall and pulse to the music, with wireless usb of course.
MIT’s USB-controlled LED dancefloor - Engadget - www.engadget.com.
MIT’s USB-controlled LED dancefloor - Engadget - www.engadget.com.
Sunday, April 10, 2005
We arrived a couple minutes late to start the whole group mini-golfing but Amy talked the attendents into letting the ,now crying, kids be able to golf. We didnt have to pay either! We finished by 9:05. Amy also pushed inot the ice cream shop as the guy was locking the doors :o) I guess we should show up earlier.
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Empty park, Glasses, new sneaks and ALLOFMP3.com
Yesterday
The park was all mine yesterday. I was really off balance for some reason and just stuck to the basics. I still ended up on my back an awful lot of times. I scooted around the park before I left and cleaned up empty drink bottles. There are two trash cans at the park. Come on people, why not just take a sec to skate over and throw your trash away?
I met Sarah at Target to get her new glasses. Ruby was so cute in her red outfit and Gryphon was rocking in his new White Airwalks. I have to get him on a board this summer... Speaking of kicks, I checked out Ross before meeting up with the Fam and saw an updated pair of the Converse skate shoes that I had for close to 3 years. They were the only pair left and they were my perfect size 8. Most of the time if I see a decent skate-shoe at Ross or Marshalls do they have them in my size. So I got them.
Sarah wanted to get the New Tori CD. In store it is at least $15. She is still attached to getting the whole package CD, Notes and the "thrill" of holding the CD and putting it into the CD player...how archaic.. :oP (JK Rah you know I love ya). I don't think I will ever buy a CD again. The only CD I may buy are Cure CD's but thats not even a given. I don't even remember the last CD I bought. For a while I did use Morpeous, Kazaa, the original Napster, some FTP sites and Hotline to get music. I havent really done that stuff for a while. Even iTunes at .99cents a song is not much different. At that point you might as well get your monies worth and buy the CD. I have found a site that sells music legaly. i know they recently went through a law suite and won. They pay all the royalties they need to apparntly. The site:
ALLOFMP3.com (and the page to buy gift certificates for music lovers you might know. (ok, me))
You just fill your account with at least $10 and you are ready to go. They charge 2cents a mb. Yep! 2 pennys for a mb. do you know how many albums you can get for $10? Lets just say I got the new Tori album-The Beekeeper, mp3 encoded at CD quality (320k bit-rate) 19songs, 182mb for $3.64!
I only got it at that quality to burn a nice CD for Sarah. Anything else I get I will have encoded @192 and a whole album costs @$1.50!
Did I mention you can have the files encoded with any codec? All sorts of WMA, mp3,ogg,monkey..etc I think they have them all covered. Also if you can not download certian types of files because of a nasty firewall or something you can have your files named with other extensions like .zip, .htm,.jpg..etc. Nice.
The only small draw back is that once you DL your files you can not DL them again unless you buy them again...no biggy at @20cents a song. Oh you can also just buy the songs you like.
bye.
The park was all mine yesterday. I was really off balance for some reason and just stuck to the basics. I still ended up on my back an awful lot of times. I scooted around the park before I left and cleaned up empty drink bottles. There are two trash cans at the park. Come on people, why not just take a sec to skate over and throw your trash away?
I met Sarah at Target to get her new glasses. Ruby was so cute in her red outfit and Gryphon was rocking in his new White Airwalks. I have to get him on a board this summer... Speaking of kicks, I checked out Ross before meeting up with the Fam and saw an updated pair of the Converse skate shoes that I had for close to 3 years. They were the only pair left and they were my perfect size 8. Most of the time if I see a decent skate-shoe at Ross or Marshalls do they have them in my size. So I got them.
Sarah wanted to get the New Tori CD. In store it is at least $15. She is still attached to getting the whole package CD, Notes and the "thrill" of holding the CD and putting it into the CD player...how archaic.. :oP (JK Rah you know I love ya). I don't think I will ever buy a CD again. The only CD I may buy are Cure CD's but thats not even a given. I don't even remember the last CD I bought. For a while I did use Morpeous, Kazaa, the original Napster, some FTP sites and Hotline to get music. I havent really done that stuff for a while. Even iTunes at .99cents a song is not much different. At that point you might as well get your monies worth and buy the CD. I have found a site that sells music legaly. i know they recently went through a law suite and won. They pay all the royalties they need to apparntly. The site:
ALLOFMP3.com (and the page to buy gift certificates for music lovers you might know. (ok, me))
You just fill your account with at least $10 and you are ready to go. They charge 2cents a mb. Yep! 2 pennys for a mb. do you know how many albums you can get for $10? Lets just say I got the new Tori album-The Beekeeper, mp3 encoded at CD quality (320k bit-rate) 19songs, 182mb for $3.64!
I only got it at that quality to burn a nice CD for Sarah. Anything else I get I will have encoded @192 and a whole album costs @$1.50!
Did I mention you can have the files encoded with any codec? All sorts of WMA, mp3,ogg,monkey..etc I think they have them all covered. Also if you can not download certian types of files because of a nasty firewall or something you can have your files named with other extensions like .zip, .htm,.jpg..etc. Nice.
The only small draw back is that once you DL your files you can not DL them again unless you buy them again...no biggy at @20cents a song. Oh you can also just buy the songs you like.
bye.
Tuesday, April 05, 2005
Watched :: The Family Man (2000)
We watched The Family Man (2000) last night. Sarah fell asleep, just from being tired not because of the movie.
I liked it....the ending was abit odd, but I will be up for watching it again when Sarah is ready.
I liked it....the ending was abit odd, but I will be up for watching it again when Sarah is ready.
Monday, April 04, 2005
Weekend Update :: April 1 to 3 and Today
Thursday
I stoped at Target to get an all in one remote. I was looking for the brand All-in-one but hey didnt have it. I decided to go with a buff looking remote from RCA. it turned out that It did would not control the GE-Emerson - GE-Emerson that we have. It also did not have some of DVD and TV buttons that I would have liked. I was just going to keep it but after sitting there with three remotes again ( X10-Lola to turn on the stero(its a limited learning remote and controls the PC by RF, the TV remote to switch the Display type (between game, Sports,Dynamic and standard) and the New RCA remote, i deceide I would return it and try another.
Friday
I took off Friday to take Gryphon to his Gym class. It was cool, the theme was Football. The teacher took them through the basics of football: Kicking, handoffs, spiking after a touchdown they also took turns trying to run by the other kids for a touchdown. (they used a flag instead of tackling. It was funny because the kids thougth they had to run into the circle painted on the floor to get a touchdown. Gryphon got flagged once and the 2nd time he ran up and through the ball into the hocky net like he was playing some form of quidich ball...
We stopped at target and I returned the Remote and then Skipped over to BestBuy were I got anal over remotes. I settled on a Philips Magnavox PMDVD6 Universal 6 Device Remote Control. I picked this over a slightly cheaper model as this one said it was a learning remote.
The remote turned out to perfect. It did all the basics of the TV,VCR and DVD player. The best thing was you program buttons on the Universal to do the same thing as some of the other buttons from the remote. You basicly push the button you want to add a feature to and then point the original at the universal and push the button you want the universal to learn. You can modify the device that already works and you can teach it al the buttons on devices that are not supported. basicly i taught the Universal all of the buttons to work the Stereo :o) i also added buttons for the DVD and the TV. I hide all the other controls and now only need the Lola control to work the music from the PC.
TV and stuff.
Saturday
Ruby was coughing pretty good. She was just in Monday but her cough sounded worse so we took her in. We saw a guy Dr. who we really liked. He said that it sounded worse than it was and it would go away. He said that if it was Whooping Cough it would be a couple quick coughs and than a quick sucking in of air. Also the child would seem really sick. Ruby was happy as an ant at a picnic ;o)
Sarah and Gryphon got Shoes and Sneakers. We got a bunch of semi-aggressive fish to eat each other and annoy the Gourmi and dropped some money at Atlantic Book warehouse.
Sunday
We went to Target and got some different things. i went out later for food shopping. I got a cool watch Ill take a pic of since I cant find it on the web.
One of the days we decided to use our Rock Bottom Gift Card and my free Birthday Appitizer. yummy. I had some good Munich Gold Beer.
Today
Now the post is getting long and I just want to wrap it up.
They took the flat bottom metal peice out of the mini ramp to make it quiter other than that I didnt notice anything.
I stoped at Target to get an all in one remote. I was looking for the brand All-in-one but hey didnt have it. I decided to go with a buff looking remote from RCA. it turned out that It did would not control the GE-Emerson - GE-Emerson that we have. It also did not have some of DVD and TV buttons that I would have liked. I was just going to keep it but after sitting there with three remotes again ( X10-Lola to turn on the stero(its a limited learning remote and controls the PC by RF, the TV remote to switch the Display type (between game, Sports,Dynamic and standard) and the New RCA remote, i deceide I would return it and try another.
Friday
I took off Friday to take Gryphon to his Gym class. It was cool, the theme was Football. The teacher took them through the basics of football: Kicking, handoffs, spiking after a touchdown they also took turns trying to run by the other kids for a touchdown. (they used a flag instead of tackling. It was funny because the kids thougth they had to run into the circle painted on the floor to get a touchdown. Gryphon got flagged once and the 2nd time he ran up and through the ball into the hocky net like he was playing some form of quidich ball...
We stopped at target and I returned the Remote and then Skipped over to BestBuy were I got anal over remotes. I settled on a Philips Magnavox PMDVD6 Universal 6 Device Remote Control. I picked this over a slightly cheaper model as this one said it was a learning remote.
The remote turned out to perfect. It did all the basics of the TV,VCR and DVD player. The best thing was you program buttons on the Universal to do the same thing as some of the other buttons from the remote. You basicly push the button you want to add a feature to and then point the original at the universal and push the button you want the universal to learn. You can modify the device that already works and you can teach it al the buttons on devices that are not supported. basicly i taught the Universal all of the buttons to work the Stereo :o) i also added buttons for the DVD and the TV. I hide all the other controls and now only need the Lola control to work the music from the PC.
TV and stuff.
Saturday
Ruby was coughing pretty good. She was just in Monday but her cough sounded worse so we took her in. We saw a guy Dr. who we really liked. He said that it sounded worse than it was and it would go away. He said that if it was Whooping Cough it would be a couple quick coughs and than a quick sucking in of air. Also the child would seem really sick. Ruby was happy as an ant at a picnic ;o)
Sarah and Gryphon got Shoes and Sneakers. We got a bunch of semi-aggressive fish to eat each other and annoy the Gourmi and dropped some money at Atlantic Book warehouse.
Sunday
We went to Target and got some different things. i went out later for food shopping. I got a cool watch Ill take a pic of since I cant find it on the web.
One of the days we decided to use our Rock Bottom Gift Card and my free Birthday Appitizer. yummy. I had some good Munich Gold Beer.
Today
Now the post is getting long and I just want to wrap it up.
They took the flat bottom metal peice out of the mini ramp to make it quiter other than that I didnt notice anything.
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