Gryphon collecting "arrows" at Old Navy. 

Great pic of my Rah... 

Some random pictures...

R.E.M. - Driver 8
The walls are built up, stone by stone, the fields divided one by one.
And the train conductor says "Take a break Driver 8,
Driver 8 take a break We've been on this shift too long"

And the train conductor says "Take a break Driver 8,
Driver 8 take a break We can reach our destination, but we're still a ways away"

I saw a treehouse on the outskirts of the farm.
The power lines have floaters so the airplanes won't get snagged. (I love that line.)
Bells are ringing through the town again,
Children look up, all they hear is sky-blue, bells ringing

And the train conductor says "Take a break Driver 8, Driver 8 take a break
We can reach our destination, but we're still a ways away"

Way to shield the hated heat. Way to put myself to sleep.
Way to shield the hated heat. Way to put myself, my children to sleep.

He piloted this song in a plane like that one.
She is selling faith on the Go Tell crusade.
Locomotive 8, Southern Crescent, hear the bells ring again.
Field to weed is stricken thin

And the train conductor says "Take a break Driver 8, Driver 8 take a break
We've been on this shift too long."

And the train conductor says "Take a break Driver 8, Driver 8 take a break
We can reach our destination, but we're still a ways away"
But we're still a ways away.






I'm not sure why but my finger started to hurt under my finger nail when i did this...it looked like a bruise or something under my nail...it went away.


Hmmm...

ANother "I dont kow quite what this is but it was fun" link

I put this here and in my link section to the right.

tagar is a Giant Bee that has a single Horn on its Forehead, and is Radioactive. Strength: 3 Agility: 8 Intelligence: 7 To see if your Giant Battle Monster can defeat tagar, enter your name and choose an attack: fights tagar using Strength Agility Intelligence

(from madamekat the wife of Jason, that we use to hang with once in a while.)

Nice day at the park, SGG gang coming over tonight

Another nice day to be outside. There are only a few piles of snow/ice left at the park.

The SGG gang is over tonight for one ritual or another. Maybe we will get some DDR in also

As long as things go OK and we still get a TV I have found a 32" SHARP at Best Buy for $299. Circuit City also has there House brand 32" ESA for the same price. Id go with the sharp first. Now we have to find a nice Cabnint for them. I thin kwe can pull i off for @ $500.

Our federal and state tax returns were both accepted anw we wait for the return. Federal should be back before the 29th or on the 25th. I have no idea when the State will come back.

Site-Flavored Google Search

I added this to my links section. I am not quite sure what it does yet...

Site-Flavored Google Search

32 is bigger than 27, Bearings are good now.

I went to Circuit City on the way home last night to check for these kids VideoNow cassets that people were finding for 1 cent. I did not see any of them but i did look at the TV's again. I walked by the 27" ers and thought "these are big enough", then I walked past the 32" ESA...mmmm now thats a nice size and for $300 its a good price too.

Oh the bearings are feeling very good again. I guess the cleaning was a success. For now. And just for you Rowan the lub on the balls seems to have worked fine. The balls feel very free and smooth.

Some of the regulars were back at the park Ledge Skater showed for the first time since the snow and real cold started and bikder are showing up again.

32 is bigger than 27, Bearings are good now.

I went to Circuit City on the way home last night to check for these kids VideoNow cassets that people were finding for 1 cent. I did not see any of them but i did look at the TV's again. I walked by the 27" ers and thought "these are big enough", then I walked past the 32" ESA...mmmm now thats a nice size and for $300 its a good price too.

Oh the bearings are feeling very good again. I guess the cleaning was a success. For now.

Some of the regulars were back at the park Ledge Skater showed for the first time since the snow and real cold started and bikder are showing up again.

people with a lot of time on their hands>>> JP Brown's Serious LEGO - CubeSolver

JP Brown's Serious LEGO - CubeSolver

Cleaned my Bones REDS...

Now that the park is thawing and you can actually skate the whole thing, I can feel that my bearings are slowing down after being run through snow and water. I followed the directions, losely, here Bones Swiss Skateboard Bearings » Skate Bearings Engineered for Skateboarding to clean them.

Everything went smooth until I took them out of the final rinse and 4 of them had the balls come out. I tried forcefully to put them back in but I was not getting anywhere. I finally decided to snap the red ring back on and stack the balls in against that and then put the middle piece in. When that worked I was able to spread the balls after that and put them back in there socket thing.

I should have taken pictures...

I noticed some of them had some rust forming so a new set for about $15 looks to be in teh future. I lubed them up with some oil from my hair clippers, so Ill see how that works out.

Cool stuff somebody made >>>Clocky

These alarm clocks that move are so fun. The power supply looks a bit hazardous. I would be afraid that it would roll away and start a fire.

Clocky

The SNOW that won't go...

I wonder why some snow doesn't go when the rest does? Is it something to do with the dirt on the outside? Was it the middle of a larger pile and it was really cold?


Snow that just won't go away. 

The Joy of ...

Skateboarding. What a beautiful day. the park was mostly dry and it was great to be able to use the whole park again. Every time I droped in I had a big dumb smile on my face. Even a hard slam brought a smile on. The only thing right now that is better than the feeling I have when skating is seeing Rubys big blue eyes light up and her face break into a smile when I see her... It's near bliss....sigh.

Over to the Spine 


Box o Death 


Down at the spine 
I need to look into new headphones. I want to check the ones that fit into your ear canal. The RCA Lyra ones stay on good but the right one is starting to crack and they look a bit goofy. Ill add some pictures later.

Filed Taxes via TurboTax Online

Just a quick note, that we filed Federal and state taxes via TurboTax Online today. I have to wait for the acceptance email and then its 8 to 15 days for the refund.

Gary builds a home made projection screen tv thing...

So, I got to experiance one of those do-it-your self projection screens this weekend. Sarah's Dad built one for about $50. it's pretty cool and makes you want a really big TV. We watched a couple family guys, checked out some snippets from other DVD's and palyed some PS2. He has a better LCD screen waiting for some cables and he will run the dvd's and stuff through a laptop for better color and resizing control. For now the contrast is either to bright or to dark for the PS2, at least for SSX3, DDR played just fine. The family guy was a bit washed out. The new screen and color control should make it fine. I guess the only bad thing is that the room has to be pretty dark too. Here are some pics.
The Screen

screen 
The Projector (he said he would give me the LCD if I wanted to try to make my own...)

projector 
HEre is the Family guy on the Screen.

more fg 
Here is the Family Guy on the LCD.

on the projector 

Woo-hoo!!! Rubys SS is here.

Rubys SS is here, I can do the taxes!!!

All I want is an All in one.

I am going to dig out my blue old navy sling bag again. I was carrying a new breifcase type bag around and putting al of my stuff in that but I dont like being tied down like that. So Ill put the MP3 player, PDA, sometimes the phone and the Camera into the sling bag. What I really want at some point is something like this:

T-Mobile Germany’s SDA II and SDA II Music Smartphones - Engadget - www.engadget.com

phone:music:pda:camera in one device. So i could just grab that and my wallet and be on my way thank you.

That patch of grass must be pretty special to be guarded by a Kone. 

Whoa...what is this group doing... 

I come across a rare green cone that was sadly dead when I got to it.