Forgotten Interwebs

Yes, I really did forget I had this blog.  I've moved on.

Listening to this at work today..

I was fortunate enough to see Dave Bruebeck live a few years ago. NPR hosts some fantastic shows. Great stuff...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14592776

The latest shaved Bode.

The little guy now, 30 days shaved.

What the hell.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, so I haven't updated my blog in damn near a year. Today though was a good enough reason to do so. Yesterday I did two Tandems and two AFF's. But today is Sunday and also Veterans' Day. I slept in until 10. I hopped on the motorcycle, flew down the mountain, pit-stopped at Seattle coffee down on central to have a quick double tall soy latte and a chicken salad sandwich and off to Belen. I needed my Sony handycam from my locker at the DZ and the weather was amazing. A long twist of the throttle and I pulled up to the hangar. Immediately Ken grabbed me for AFF. Ok. Beautiful day, Zrex and jumping. Who could possible say no ?. Besides, one of them was a photo-shoot for "Outdoor" magazine. That was a cool dive. Me and Ken took up one of the journalists while Krishan flew his always awesome video. It was late in the day with the most incredible light. Ken and I turned the falling formation to face the sun so Krishan's cameras would get it in all it's high-speed glory. Afterwards, I didn't even have to pack. I've got a new Cypres2 going in my rig and just had to leave it with my rigger. Sweet. Back on the bike for a 100mph long twist of the throttle home. Yes, it's true, I'm a junkie. Can't really help it and I don't want to.

After I get home, I check voicemail. Laurell and I had forgotten her Mom's bday present here and I needed to drive it over. I dropped it off and hung out awhile. Michele was doing ceramic tile on her new porch and Laurell had Katlyn over and were being very funny little girls.

Now, I just upgraded my computer at the house a week or so ago. A new 6600 2.4Ghz quad-core CPU, 2 Gigs of Corsair memory, an NVidia650SLI motherboard and an NVidia 8800GTS card. See, I've gotten hooked on Battlefield 2142. Multiplayer online voip-enabled, squad-based team combat set in a not-so distant future. Lots of online server to play from, some with names like "KBK" , or "Kickin' back killin". Yeah....

Anyways, about an hour and a half of that and here I am finishing up the oh-so timely blog of the year.

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Night'

Fast Forward

So, remember the "Paper Towels and 409" post? Fast forward to today and see the little guy grown up, well sorta. He's about 7 or 8 months old now but still very "puppy". He is a vacuum for anything that might be food and hits the floor. Total sweetie though. He has alot of the Bernese coloring and the shape of an Aussie, 'cept for the huge tail of course. He definitely has the "heeling" instinct. My daughter seems to excite that spirit in him regularly with squealing/racing game around the house.

Paper towels and 409.

Life changes constantly doesn't it? My other dog moved out of the house a few days ago and my shepherd doesn't like being lonely. Sooo, I knew I'd need to find another dog. So a few trips to the local animal shelters around town and we brought home this little guy. He's Bernese Mountain Dog and Australian Shepherd mix. What a cool combo! Three months old and verrry happy to be out of the pound with all that noise and those other scary dogs. He eats like a horse and already likes doing his business in the yard but the tile floor works in a pinch too. Puppies are puppies after all.

Man Cave

Ahhhh, the man cave. the workbench, computers, and the machine. Tinkering eases the mind and allows for contemplation of higher things. Now where did I leave that last bolt???