Thursday, August 30, 2007
Silly Sun snuck off already!
Level Of Difficulty at Work: .1 out of 10 (Still dead..)
Time During Lunch: Medium
So with my years of experience i've learned one thing to do while in court. It's to pretend to be nice, sweet, understanding, forgiving, nod alot, etc. Say yes, and then once you leave, screw off and hope you can wing it until it gets dismissed. But a few days ago, theres one guy who doesn't care. 1st thing his file from another county is not complete, nobody knows of what hes supposed to do except a few things, which he doesn't do. He stares into the air aimlessly and doesn't really respond to any questions. To that everybody just 'informs' the guy of what he's supposed to do etc. the DA wants him detained but the paperwork is vague in terms of what juvenile code status he is. So the judge tries to be careful, DA wants something done, the PD wants him out since the kid violated some rules but it's not criminal. The kid is in a group home and somehow gets passes to go out, but he never comes back on time or at all. Sometimes hes drunk, sometimes hes high, he's only 17, he doesn't care. Let him go for now, to see whats up with the hosed paperwork, hopefully it's lockdown for the kid.
This is one of the moments in which i really did wish there was a matrix to plug the kid in. What is he going to become? where is he going to go in life? It doesn't look all that well.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Level Of Difficulty at Work: .1 out of 10 (Still dead..)
Time During Lunch: Medium
Lets see, i'll tap one blue and one colorless and summon Fog Bank:
It comes out to something like this in real life. Too bad my little camera can't get the details a little better.
Normally this would be an effect from my buddy, the North Pacific High Pressure System, but this time it's from the southwest states westward, which is not a normal pressure system movement. It's most likely remnants from the mad hurricane hitting mexico. Hurricanes are low pressure madness so once it goes through high pressure takes its place.
Got a haircut after work, it's been a while.
Time During Lunch: Medium
Lets see, i'll tap one blue and one colorless and summon Fog Bank:
It comes out to something like this in real life. Too bad my little camera can't get the details a little better.
Normally this would be an effect from my buddy, the North Pacific High Pressure System, but this time it's from the southwest states westward, which is not a normal pressure system movement. It's most likely remnants from the mad hurricane hitting mexico. Hurricanes are low pressure madness so once it goes through high pressure takes its place.
Got a haircut after work, it's been a while.
Labels: haircut, sunset at home
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Level Of Difficulty at Work: 0 out of 10 (Talk about dead..)
Time During Lunch: Medium
Back in da day...
Added the site meter under the clustrmaps. I shoulda added this way back, way waaay back, but then sitemeters were sooo 1996. Ala Toasty's Homepage Version 1.0, man those were the days. Days where the ubiquitous sitecounters, stupid 'under construction sign' with appropriate dood shoveling, multicolored fonts, annoyingly blinking text, repeating background graphic and non-framed design.. Too bad i couldn't find my old site on archive.org. It's probably for the better. heh
Time During Lunch: Medium
Back in da day...
Added the site meter under the clustrmaps. I shoulda added this way back, way waaay back, but then sitemeters were sooo 1996. Ala Toasty's Homepage Version 1.0, man those were the days. Days where the ubiquitous sitecounters, stupid 'under construction sign' with appropriate dood shoveling, multicolored fonts, annoyingly blinking text, repeating background graphic and non-framed design.. Too bad i couldn't find my old site on archive.org. It's probably for the better. heh
Labels: Geek Stuff
Saturday, August 25, 2007
Roaming the Coast, Highway 1 style.
Hanging at Pescadero
Whelp that completes the connection that i was missing. I've driven on highway 1 from Ft. Bragg (north coast is horrid for driving!) all the way down to the town of Ventura. Not all in one jaunt, but nonetheless. We headed off to the neat little town of Pescadero, 2 miles in from highway 1. We've heard a many a good thing about stopping there. It's a town about one block long with a few knick-knacky shops, one tavern-restaurant, a general store, a bakery and two churches. It was pretty happening when we arrived around 11am. Bicyclists were swarming as well as motorcyclists were chewing rubber everywhichway. Two coworkers of mine and a bunch of customers of fluffielady's told us about the wonderous and great foods that the tavern as well as the bakery possess. We had to choose one place to eat and decided on Arcangeli's bakery. You can smell the yummy goodness flowing out of the place. It seems that the coastal speciality involves artichokes, lots of it, everywhere, dips, sauces, and breads. The bakery has these half-baked (not the movie, heh) breads where customers finish cooking them at home. We bought 2 artisian looking sourdoughs, sandwiches and a handmade raspberry mustard there. The whole pies were $13. One coworker recommended getting food and go past the town a little into the cemetary and up the hill and theres some benches there to eat. Eat at a cemetary? ok lets try that.
Highest point of Pescadero is the Cemetary hill!
The sandwiches were a little on the small side for 6$ but it was fresh and delicious dutch crunch. It was good enough, since we were continuing down towards Santa Cruz.
Hello says the Seagull, welcome to the boardwalk. Got Food?
Made it to the Beach Boardwalk around 12:30pm and trotted around a little. Drove through it's downtown area, which reminds me of Berkeley's University or College Ave. It reminds me both in terms of eateries as well as hippies, yes, the full bearded, tye-dyed doods.
SeaLions say Waddup!
I dunno why but i'm having a camping gear fetish, and i was in the mood for backpacking gear. Backpacking is more specialized, which means it costs more because it's all about the least amount of weight carried on your back! I saw on craigslist this guy in Felton, CA, selling a single burner coleman for cheap, so after a few back n forth Emails, and serendipity with roaming down south. I picked it up from him. Felton is a small town few miles up the hill from Santa Cruz on highway 9.
After we roamed Felton a little, we wanted to drive up highway 9 all the way to highway 35. I heard its a good ride for motorcyclists and driving enthusiasts. So up we go and then there was traffic, of the non-moving type. We waiting around and it slowly inched up and up, and there were a few people walking on the side of the highway. Finally one guy tells a car in front of us that theres a house fire and you can't get through. Man! So did a 180 and drove back up highway 1. Might as well stop at Pescadero again and eat at Duarte's Tavern.
Duarte's opened in 1894 and it's generations owned. Bar turned barber shop turned ice cream shop turned sandwich shop turned restaurant, this small place employs 65 workers (how?) and feeds about 10000 people a month (how?!) as the story goes on the back of the menu.
Feeling like a big man, i venture to order the prime rib at $18, one of their more expensive dishes and fluffielady had the pork chops with applesauce $16. Their complimentary sourdough was artisian, with a crunchy crust and a doughy fluffie soft insides. When the entrees came ahh man! It was a monster prime rib, one and a quarter inch thick large 1-pound sucker that was excellent tasting as well as texture. Fluffielady's was a good pan fried 2-piece chops but she liked breaded pork chops more. Applesauce though tasted like apple pie, with apple bits in it, nice! We heard about the excellent artichoke soup as well as the peach and apple pies but how can you eat such a thing after? and at 6$ for pie ($7.50 ala mode), it's a little bit too much. This is one serious pie town!
We might need to go back for all the missed artichoke action as well as the pies. oi! ...Tummy... full.
Hanging at Pescadero
Whelp that completes the connection that i was missing. I've driven on highway 1 from Ft. Bragg (north coast is horrid for driving!) all the way down to the town of Ventura. Not all in one jaunt, but nonetheless. We headed off to the neat little town of Pescadero, 2 miles in from highway 1. We've heard a many a good thing about stopping there. It's a town about one block long with a few knick-knacky shops, one tavern-restaurant, a general store, a bakery and two churches. It was pretty happening when we arrived around 11am. Bicyclists were swarming as well as motorcyclists were chewing rubber everywhichway. Two coworkers of mine and a bunch of customers of fluffielady's told us about the wonderous and great foods that the tavern as well as the bakery possess. We had to choose one place to eat and decided on Arcangeli's bakery. You can smell the yummy goodness flowing out of the place. It seems that the coastal speciality involves artichokes, lots of it, everywhere, dips, sauces, and breads. The bakery has these half-baked (not the movie, heh) breads where customers finish cooking them at home. We bought 2 artisian looking sourdoughs, sandwiches and a handmade raspberry mustard there. The whole pies were $13. One coworker recommended getting food and go past the town a little into the cemetary and up the hill and theres some benches there to eat. Eat at a cemetary? ok lets try that.
Highest point of Pescadero is the Cemetary hill!
The sandwiches were a little on the small side for 6$ but it was fresh and delicious dutch crunch. It was good enough, since we were continuing down towards Santa Cruz.
Hello says the Seagull, welcome to the boardwalk. Got Food?
Made it to the Beach Boardwalk around 12:30pm and trotted around a little. Drove through it's downtown area, which reminds me of Berkeley's University or College Ave. It reminds me both in terms of eateries as well as hippies, yes, the full bearded, tye-dyed doods.
SeaLions say Waddup!
I dunno why but i'm having a camping gear fetish, and i was in the mood for backpacking gear. Backpacking is more specialized, which means it costs more because it's all about the least amount of weight carried on your back! I saw on craigslist this guy in Felton, CA, selling a single burner coleman for cheap, so after a few back n forth Emails, and serendipity with roaming down south. I picked it up from him. Felton is a small town few miles up the hill from Santa Cruz on highway 9.
After we roamed Felton a little, we wanted to drive up highway 9 all the way to highway 35. I heard its a good ride for motorcyclists and driving enthusiasts. So up we go and then there was traffic, of the non-moving type. We waiting around and it slowly inched up and up, and there were a few people walking on the side of the highway. Finally one guy tells a car in front of us that theres a house fire and you can't get through. Man! So did a 180 and drove back up highway 1. Might as well stop at Pescadero again and eat at Duarte's Tavern.
Duarte's opened in 1894 and it's generations owned. Bar turned barber shop turned ice cream shop turned sandwich shop turned restaurant, this small place employs 65 workers (how?) and feeds about 10000 people a month (how?!) as the story goes on the back of the menu.
Feeling like a big man, i venture to order the prime rib at $18, one of their more expensive dishes and fluffielady had the pork chops with applesauce $16. Their complimentary sourdough was artisian, with a crunchy crust and a doughy fluffie soft insides. When the entrees came ahh man! It was a monster prime rib, one and a quarter inch thick large 1-pound sucker that was excellent tasting as well as texture. Fluffielady's was a good pan fried 2-piece chops but she liked breaded pork chops more. Applesauce though tasted like apple pie, with apple bits in it, nice! We heard about the excellent artichoke soup as well as the peach and apple pies but how can you eat such a thing after? and at 6$ for pie ($7.50 ala mode), it's a little bit too much. This is one serious pie town!
We might need to go back for all the missed artichoke action as well as the pies. oi! ...Tummy... full.
Labels: Roaming
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Level Of Difficulty at Work: .25 out of 10
Time During Lunch: None
My mom always stresses: it's all about Timing
Fluffielady has excellent timing. I get home, and we were discussing what to eat for dinner, and she says "i want a jamba juice." ok sure, turn on the tele and see the hepatitis A dealio going on in San jose. She looks at me and says, why does this always happen?
We have perfect timing.
Time During Lunch: None
My mom always stresses: it's all about Timing
Fluffielady has excellent timing. I get home, and we were discussing what to eat for dinner, and she says "i want a jamba juice." ok sure, turn on the tele and see the hepatitis A dealio going on in San jose. She looks at me and says, why does this always happen?
We have perfect timing.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Level Of Difficulty at Work: .25 out of 10 (man it was superdead)
Time During Lunch: Medium
Lets add to the end of the world mess.. All from one word: Greed. Two items:
1)Silly Mortgages: just like the dot com rise and fall, i never did understand how people can afford a house if some fly-by-night operation offers "no documented, no job, up to 130% home loan hassle free." I guess a whole lotta peoples took the deal. It all comes to greed, when platinum cards are given away in cracker jack boxes with $20,000 limits and when all sorts of whacky financing makes everything easy (i.e. Leasing big $ vehicles, just for the look). It all had to congeal sooner or later.
2)The whole made in china madness. Lets say i'm a company with some product. Who can i go to that can produce what i want for the cheapest, lowest price. Where else but the chinese factories. They can churn out widgets for 25cents a piece, and i can sell them for $9 a piece, brilliant! I find it interesting that one thing not talked about much is the pollution in China. I've seen pics where it looks like fog EVERYDAY, and it's not fog, it's so bad you can see it in space!
What do we care, it's their problem, as long as companies want fatty profit margins it's gonna get worse. Funny part is if you want to tack on some sorta enviromental fee, it just gets past to the consumer.
Another thing, this whole fiasco reminds me of a book (i think, these books are starting to sound the same) called Debt of Honor by Tom Clancy. It's about Japan's economic dominance and a anti-japanese hate growing in the US. After some events dealing with what else greed and power, Japan decides to attack the US. How? Well it's been done already in real life, sorta. They fly some planes into the capitol. The result is the main character, Jack Ryan becomes President in the next Tom Clancy book, Executive Orders.
Greed will getcha.
Time During Lunch: Medium
Lets add to the end of the world mess.. All from one word: Greed. Two items:
1)Silly Mortgages: just like the dot com rise and fall, i never did understand how people can afford a house if some fly-by-night operation offers "no documented, no job, up to 130% home loan hassle free." I guess a whole lotta peoples took the deal. It all comes to greed, when platinum cards are given away in cracker jack boxes with $20,000 limits and when all sorts of whacky financing makes everything easy (i.e. Leasing big $ vehicles, just for the look). It all had to congeal sooner or later.
2)The whole made in china madness. Lets say i'm a company with some product. Who can i go to that can produce what i want for the cheapest, lowest price. Where else but the chinese factories. They can churn out widgets for 25cents a piece, and i can sell them for $9 a piece, brilliant! I find it interesting that one thing not talked about much is the pollution in China. I've seen pics where it looks like fog EVERYDAY, and it's not fog, it's so bad you can see it in space!
What do we care, it's their problem, as long as companies want fatty profit margins it's gonna get worse. Funny part is if you want to tack on some sorta enviromental fee, it just gets past to the consumer.
Another thing, this whole fiasco reminds me of a book (i think, these books are starting to sound the same) called Debt of Honor by Tom Clancy. It's about Japan's economic dominance and a anti-japanese hate growing in the US. After some events dealing with what else greed and power, Japan decides to attack the US. How? Well it's been done already in real life, sorta. They fly some planes into the capitol. The result is the main character, Jack Ryan becomes President in the next Tom Clancy book, Executive Orders.
Greed will getcha.
Labels: End of the World
Friday, August 17, 2007
Level Of Difficulty at Work: .25 out of 10
Time During Lunch: Medium
Getting a phone call from Werkstatt tells me that they've taken apart the moto but can't find the problem. Lovely, Delilah during her first 9 months had a mystery tinging that VW couldn't figure. It took a few times, they were thinking she just needed the exhaust tightened, the final time it was the rubber hanger that stretches causing the exhaust the jiggle and make the tinging.
After a few hours, i get a call that they've found a bad relay switch and that it may take a few days for the part to arrive. What am i to do, tell them no and push my bike out of the shop? Hopefully 1) The relay shouldn't cost much, and 2) the labor won't cost that much. My old 86 cougar had a relay die while going 50mph in fresno streets. The part was 27$ but labor was 2hrs worth. oi.
Time During Lunch: Medium
Getting a phone call from Werkstatt tells me that they've taken apart the moto but can't find the problem. Lovely, Delilah during her first 9 months had a mystery tinging that VW couldn't figure. It took a few times, they were thinking she just needed the exhaust tightened, the final time it was the rubber hanger that stretches causing the exhaust the jiggle and make the tinging.
After a few hours, i get a call that they've found a bad relay switch and that it may take a few days for the part to arrive. What am i to do, tell them no and push my bike out of the shop? Hopefully 1) The relay shouldn't cost much, and 2) the labor won't cost that much. My old 86 cougar had a relay die while going 50mph in fresno streets. The part was 27$ but labor was 2hrs worth. oi.
Labels: Moto
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Level Of Difficulty at Work: 1 out of 10
Time During Lunch: None
Stupid moto goes bzzt on me again. This time at the Ocean / Geneva Exit ramp, good place to go out eh? Now i know it involves the electical system, wiring most likely. I pulled the clutch and off it went when i reached the red light off the ramp. After it dies i push the moto to the bart station and replaced the 10amp mini-fuse. It starts up, feels fine and when i get to the stop sign, i pull the clutch and bzzt, another fried fuse. With one last fuse, did it again and it died after reaching the intersection at geneva. So i push it to Denman middle school and hide it. Walked home, borrowed my brothers moto and went to work. Bought some more fuses and fluffielady followed me back to Werkstatt. With ultra gentle revving and disengaging i made it without popping fuses. I think the combination of the heat of the engine and pulling the clutch on a sorta high rev overloads the wires causing the fuse to go. This time werkstatt may have some info on what might be the cause. oi!
Time During Lunch: None
Stupid moto goes bzzt on me again. This time at the Ocean / Geneva Exit ramp, good place to go out eh? Now i know it involves the electical system, wiring most likely. I pulled the clutch and off it went when i reached the red light off the ramp. After it dies i push the moto to the bart station and replaced the 10amp mini-fuse. It starts up, feels fine and when i get to the stop sign, i pull the clutch and bzzt, another fried fuse. With one last fuse, did it again and it died after reaching the intersection at geneva. So i push it to Denman middle school and hide it. Walked home, borrowed my brothers moto and went to work. Bought some more fuses and fluffielady followed me back to Werkstatt. With ultra gentle revving and disengaging i made it without popping fuses. I think the combination of the heat of the engine and pulling the clutch on a sorta high rev overloads the wires causing the fuse to go. This time werkstatt may have some info on what might be the cause. oi!
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Palace of Fine arts at, ohhh.. 11:30pm.
What was i doing there so late at night? One of my coworkers volunteered me into hanging out at the Miss Asian American Pageant. Yes it was volunteer volunteer. I got paid in food, which was hotdogs, the ultra tasty supergreasy baby chicken drumsticks, and the ability to roam freely around. i find it slightly weird that it's the 22nd year and they're looking for volunteers?
Got there around 5:15pm and the games didn't begin until 7pm. I met a very enthusiastic SFPD officer and he's looking for love, or something. Anyhow it was just like one of fluffieladys shows, people running frantic, everybody is more important than everybody else, etc etc. At first the theatre was about 3/4 full at the opening, but of course due to chinese time, aka filipino time, aka
i guess how it works is, the girls roam around wherever they live and try to get sponsors for donations. When they do get the sponsorship they hang out at the place to drum up support for themselves as well as for the sponsor. They are also escorted by some bachelor (so i'm out) around to do this, my coworker just wants the food, as the 'court' roams from restaurant to restaurant.
Anyway, the events are:
1)an into with an ethnic costume
2)swimsuit (woo!)
3)talent show, a few can actually sing!
4)evening gown portion
-Then it gets chopped down from 22 to 10 ladies
5)a speech involving a 'platform' of what they believe in
6)and a random question, which some are really lame, the questions. i.e. do you think cell phones should be banned in the classroom..
The best platform was a girl talked about donating blood and its good to save lives etc etc. Too bad shes disqualified 'cuz the minimum weight to donate is 110 pounds. Doh! Best Random question was: "what information would you pass down to your future generations?" My answer woulda been 'keep the front sight high when you draw', or 'remember the right thumb presses down to disengage the safety'.
There were no incidents, i guess previous years there were people sneaking into the back into the dressing rooms and what not. Silly Peepers!
My least blurry pic. I never did get to take many pictures, oh well. After the pageant (11pm) there was the after party, which sounded like a serious midnight snack! So sorry i bailed and floated back home.
Lets see earlier in the day, i shot a little and ate at Houlihans by the South San Francisco Convention center. Houlihans was the dessert spot to go back in the day, the chain ran across the nation. My favorite was their Chocolate Cappuccino cake and their Schroom appitizers were good too. This South City place is a bit on the swanky spiffy side, dark wood panels, glass bar, not the classic rustic junk on the walls like before. Food was pretty good, some items were there and some weren't, it's been so long that i don't remember what they had. When it came to the dessert, they have a mini-dessert menu for 2.99 you can get whatever. So of course since i'm there, might as well go for the CardiacEnducing-SugarHigh-BloodThickening-ChocoDeath! cake. Alas, it wasn't meant to be, the cake was all hard, small and non-layered, there was no frosting anywhere, which is where all the sugary goodness is. And the ice cream which before was chocolate and was needed to tone down the sugar (yes eat chocolate ice cream to unsweeten the taste), was changed to vanilla.. boo! Other than that, nifty place, ritzy looking but not too expensive (10$ lunch entrees, 14-20$ dindin), good food, but no go on the death cake (weaksauce!).
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
Level Of Difficulty at Work: .25 out of 10
Time During Lunch: Short
Hey bert, will this check pass and funds distributed?
I like the memo note as well! Silly Mathematicians!
Time During Lunch: Short
Hey bert, will this check pass and funds distributed?
I like the memo note as well! Silly Mathematicians!
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Level Of Difficulty at Work: .25 out of 10
Time During Lunch: Zero
Congratz to my brother and his new job.. OOooo! He's out of retirement and into the workforce now! Doodoo!
Whelp our old school panasonic CRT TV died a bit early for my taste but now we had to find a replacement. I was hoping that the tele could last at least till the black friday sales but alas, it wasn't meant to be. Fluffielady was having fits since she couldn't fade into sleepieland without the flicker and noise of the tele. She was actually watching TV late in the night in the oh so cold, cuz the upstairs wasn't working. So off to venture into the online world to find a suitable candidate.
Rules of Engagement are :
1) No 2nd tier brand. i.e. Maxent, vizio, envision, sceptre, etc.
2) 32" vs. 37" challenge
3) As cheap as possible while being the least of the best (my style of course)
Searched on the usual sites. Then i remembered that there were some coupons at costco for some TVs. Looked those up and found this one, the Samsung LN-T375H.
Now the costco website is a bit tricky. Sites like bestbuy.com , circuitcity.com have 'before savings' prices. So it'll show a TV for 1200$ but click on the add-to-cart and it'll show you the discounted price. Costco.com shows you the discounted price yet the title misleads: "$200 off samsung lcd etcetc. 37" $999.99" Sounds like it's $999.99 - $200= $799.99.. *Bzzt!* Wrong. It's the final price, of course when your looking for numbers and you see the title then you get all giddy thinking it's a steal of a deal. Then you get to Costco and the tag states: $1199.99 - $200= 999.99.. man.. weak.. We bought it anyway, figuring it can be returned and the coupon was to expire. So it sat in the living room friday night, saturday night, sunday night. By this point i looked around some more and couldn't find many that was priced at $1k. Also the few that could didn't have some specs of this model. So i decided what the heck and just do it. My brother happen to be over with jenny baking cookies for his first day at work (aww..). The hardest part was bringing the broken old TV downstairs.
The TV is nice, but it's quite big but a good kinda big in the bedroom. I bought an upconverting 1080p philips dvd player also at costco for 67$ and haven't installed it yet, but this should be fun! And as always complications have arisen, such as the HD reciever only works with 1 HD and 1 SD TV. so i'll need another HD reciever. Did an online chat with someone from dish network and oh they have a deal for me! For $149 i can get another reciever installed, then pay $6 a month to rent the sucker. Whydoiwannadodat? heck i see some new recievers on ebay for $120. Oi, slave to ebay..
Time During Lunch: Zero
Congratz to my brother and his new job.. OOooo! He's out of retirement and into the workforce now! Doodoo!
Whelp our old school panasonic CRT TV died a bit early for my taste but now we had to find a replacement. I was hoping that the tele could last at least till the black friday sales but alas, it wasn't meant to be. Fluffielady was having fits since she couldn't fade into sleepieland without the flicker and noise of the tele. She was actually watching TV late in the night in the oh so cold, cuz the upstairs wasn't working. So off to venture into the online world to find a suitable candidate.
Rules of Engagement are :
1) No 2nd tier brand. i.e. Maxent, vizio, envision, sceptre, etc.
2) 32" vs. 37" challenge
3) As cheap as possible while being the least of the best (my style of course)
Searched on the usual sites. Then i remembered that there were some coupons at costco for some TVs. Looked those up and found this one, the Samsung LN-T375H.
Now the costco website is a bit tricky. Sites like bestbuy.com , circuitcity.com have 'before savings' prices. So it'll show a TV for 1200$ but click on the add-to-cart and it'll show you the discounted price. Costco.com shows you the discounted price yet the title misleads: "$200 off samsung lcd etcetc. 37" $999.99" Sounds like it's $999.99 - $200= $799.99.. *Bzzt!* Wrong. It's the final price, of course when your looking for numbers and you see the title then you get all giddy thinking it's a steal of a deal. Then you get to Costco and the tag states: $1199.99 - $200= 999.99.. man.. weak.. We bought it anyway, figuring it can be returned and the coupon was to expire. So it sat in the living room friday night, saturday night, sunday night. By this point i looked around some more and couldn't find many that was priced at $1k. Also the few that could didn't have some specs of this model. So i decided what the heck and just do it. My brother happen to be over with jenny baking cookies for his first day at work (aww..). The hardest part was bringing the broken old TV downstairs.
The TV is nice, but it's quite big but a good kinda big in the bedroom. I bought an upconverting 1080p philips dvd player also at costco for 67$ and haven't installed it yet, but this should be fun! And as always complications have arisen, such as the HD reciever only works with 1 HD and 1 SD TV. so i'll need another HD reciever. Did an online chat with someone from dish network and oh they have a deal for me! For $149 i can get another reciever installed, then pay $6 a month to rent the sucker. Whydoiwannadodat? heck i see some new recievers on ebay for $120. Oi, slave to ebay..
Sunday, August 05, 2007
Yesterday was most excellent! Except for waking up at 5am for a bunk rummage sale fluffielady attended.
1st: some shooting..
200 Yard Slow Offhand: 187-7x
200 Yard Rapid Sitting: 94-1x
300 Yard Rapid Prone: 99-1x (Thats Pro!)
600 Yard Slow Prone: 95-3
Total: 475-7x
Song in the brain: Naruto's Sorrow and Sadness
Weather was pretty sunny and warm, with very light clouds and a slight wind. The two goobers that started me on this High Power Rifle and then bailed finally emerged back from whatever bar they were drinking from and is somehow possessed with the sport again. I, on the other hand am feeling a waning, hitting plateaus kinda drags things down. But then it's pretty good to maintain even though i haven't even picked up the rifle in 2 months (June 06: 475-14x). Bad thing about saturdays is everybodys there, which meant we were stuck on the 3rd relay, ick!
-Offhand was more than exceptional except for 2 or 3 overholds. I need to just let them go instead of waiting and waiting.
-My Rapid Sitting, as usual, went to crap. This should be my new focus. It was a decent group, but there were a bunch of 1 o'clock 9's that did me in.
-Rapid prone is good but the group was a up/down slash on the target with a fricking 12 o'clock 9!
-Slow prone hosed me, my front sight was giving me a ghosting line which somehow 'squeezed' the target. It looked like a circle, but it was being covered by the post. Oi!
Both of my other shooting buddies are doing good. Sugui made it without any misses, which was his goal. And Ed finally came back and outshot me by 1 bullseye. He's been on this 3-times a month deal.
Ate lunch with the guys at a Brazilian place in Point Richmond, good food, good times. Got home around 2pm and fluffielady came back around noon from her thing and she took a nap for part 2 of the day..
Part 2:
We had a little get together with Vicks n crew with some Red Robin and a bowl. Red Robin is Red Robin with always something different in the menu. Ate there and somehow we all had the notion of heading to sportmart and buying bowling shoes. Since they're priced around 20-40$ and rentals are 4$ a pop, might as well own your own. So the caravan goes to Sportmart and nada, they don't sell bowling shoes, it's cuz bowling isn't a sport.
Off to bowl! Too bad roz n robyn couldn't make it. Everybody did pretty well. Fluffielady owned with her personal best of 146. I owned using Roz's technique at 191, highest score ever. It was 2 strikes then a fricking miss but saved it with a spare, busted a turkey, then a 9 and 8 then more stikes. I've never seen so many X's in my life, other than shooting of course. When the 1st strike happened, all i told myself was to do what i did another 12 times. Just like shooting high power, easy! After that set i tried experimenting and trying to figure how to tweak it.
Generally the gang had a grand old time. It's kinda neat seeing all the different techniques people use to lob the ball around. Seabowl somehow isn't packed on Saturday nights, kinda odd, at least the music is decent. Fluffielady loves her 80s hits.. Good times good times..
1st: some shooting..
200 Yard Slow Offhand: 187-7x
200 Yard Rapid Sitting: 94-1x
300 Yard Rapid Prone: 99-1x (Thats Pro!)
600 Yard Slow Prone: 95-3
Total: 475-7x
Song in the brain: Naruto's Sorrow and Sadness
Weather was pretty sunny and warm, with very light clouds and a slight wind. The two goobers that started me on this High Power Rifle and then bailed finally emerged back from whatever bar they were drinking from and is somehow possessed with the sport again. I, on the other hand am feeling a waning, hitting plateaus kinda drags things down. But then it's pretty good to maintain even though i haven't even picked up the rifle in 2 months (June 06: 475-14x). Bad thing about saturdays is everybodys there, which meant we were stuck on the 3rd relay, ick!
-Offhand was more than exceptional except for 2 or 3 overholds. I need to just let them go instead of waiting and waiting.
-My Rapid Sitting, as usual, went to crap. This should be my new focus. It was a decent group, but there were a bunch of 1 o'clock 9's that did me in.
-Rapid prone is good but the group was a up/down slash on the target with a fricking 12 o'clock 9!
-Slow prone hosed me, my front sight was giving me a ghosting line which somehow 'squeezed' the target. It looked like a circle, but it was being covered by the post. Oi!
Both of my other shooting buddies are doing good. Sugui made it without any misses, which was his goal. And Ed finally came back and outshot me by 1 bullseye. He's been on this 3-times a month deal.
Ate lunch with the guys at a Brazilian place in Point Richmond, good food, good times. Got home around 2pm and fluffielady came back around noon from her thing and she took a nap for part 2 of the day..
Part 2:
We had a little get together with Vicks n crew with some Red Robin and a bowl. Red Robin is Red Robin with always something different in the menu. Ate there and somehow we all had the notion of heading to sportmart and buying bowling shoes. Since they're priced around 20-40$ and rentals are 4$ a pop, might as well own your own. So the caravan goes to Sportmart and nada, they don't sell bowling shoes, it's cuz bowling isn't a sport.
Off to bowl! Too bad roz n robyn couldn't make it. Everybody did pretty well. Fluffielady owned with her personal best of 146. I owned using Roz's technique at 191, highest score ever. It was 2 strikes then a fricking miss but saved it with a spare, busted a turkey, then a 9 and 8 then more stikes. I've never seen so many X's in my life, other than shooting of course. When the 1st strike happened, all i told myself was to do what i did another 12 times. Just like shooting high power, easy! After that set i tried experimenting and trying to figure how to tweak it.
Generally the gang had a grand old time. It's kinda neat seeing all the different techniques people use to lob the ball around. Seabowl somehow isn't packed on Saturday nights, kinda odd, at least the music is decent. Fluffielady loves her 80s hits.. Good times good times..
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