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Saturday, March 28, 2009



Lodi, Ca, chilling at the Parachute center..
For 100$ they offer a tandem jump. No reservations needed, show up, get a number and wait for it to be called. We arrived at 11am and there were a mob of people there, new people as well as pros. It was 3:30pm when we were off into the air, i was the 114th person of the day for a tandem. The list ended at 150 by the time i left.
When the door opened up i was ok with that, when on the ledge that was fine as well. About 3 seconds after hopping off the plane i came to realize that i'm up in the sky with nothing surrounding me. The freefall is where it's at, pretty fantastic feeling of just wind and velocity. That lasted for about a minute and then the chute opens. We float back for about 4-5 minutes and gently land on the ground sitting down.
Check one more thing off my list..

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Thursday, March 26, 2009


1100 Posts! Woot!

50 Foot Indoor SmallBore Rifle, 30 shots in 36minutes, week 11:
Prone: 100-8x
Kneeling: 95-3
Standing: 86-1
Total: 281-10x
Time remaining: 5 minutes

Trying a new small bore offhand and kneeling technique. Something thats semi-counter to what i'm used to but it seems to work. It's a 3-4 breath technique while at the exhale, most of the sights should line up and at the third or fourth breath, hold it and squeeze in such a time as to prevent wobble. So it's semi-snap shooting, with the hold in under 8 seconds. My offhand had 2 6's, the result of overholding. Just reset and start over.

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Wednesday, March 25, 2009


Peer through the ice and WHAT? Hot tub is out of commission?? !&$%@!

Location: Sugar Bowl, $58 tickets from the Helm of Sun Valley
Type of Snow: Funs over! Rock hard glazed over ice in the morning with slushness in the afternoon. =\
Tons of people at the resort: Sorta
007 Action?: Boo, no more.
Weather condition: Overcast clouds.
Gear Used: Blue Jacket, Fleece Shirt, backpack..
Road condition: Clear..

One last $4.95 breakfast and off to our final destination. Sugar bowl was cool, we did the usual go from one side to the other and raced around the run that set our speed records. Now we're starting to feel muscles that haven't been activated in a year. So we take it easy and roam for a little bit. After lunch we found the usual noob terrain park and i attempt some 180's with no luck, one out of the jillion times i tried but could mostly do 90's which is not conducive to landings..
Lunch: Chili..

We leave around 3pm and head to Dos Coyotes for yep.. Fish Tacos! They were fresh, but flour tortilla ruins it for me.

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009


Ya feel me?

Location: Homewood 39$ Standard mid-week price.
Type of Snow: Still Fluffy Snow, just a little less then yesterday
Tons of people at the resort: Not really
007 Action?: Yes! Continue the action!
Weather condition: More blue sky!
Gear Used: Blue Jacket, Fleece Shirt, backpack..
Road condition: Clear..

Wake up around 7:30am get to the restaraunt and find out that the secret $1.99 breakfast is no more. instead it's now $4.95, which we can survive.

Get to homewood and had some fun going in the midst of the trees. Some trees were clustered tighter then others but one backside of the mountain the trees are more manueverable. Tons of untouched off-trail routes. It was pretty sweet.
Lunch: Safeway Sandwich + Fritos

Dindins: Los Mariachis Taqueria Y Market 4 Tacos: Carne Asada, Al Pastor, Carnitas, And Cabeza. These guys sell tacos at 1.49 and they are the usual small palm sized street truck tacos.

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Now playing: Mozart - K.614 Allegro Di Molto
via FoxyTunes

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Monday, March 23, 2009


Tailgaters? Where?!

Location: Diamond Peak, Tickets from Costco 72$ for 2
Type of Snow: Soft and Fluffy 4-6 inches of it!
Tons of people at the resort: Nope
007 Action?: Mostly thats all we did
Weather condition: Blue Sky
Gear Used: Yellow Jacket, Fleece Shirt, backpack..
Road condition: Clear, Wet, Delilah is a bit muddy

Picked up Captain D and headed up to them thar hills!
It snowed all day saturday and most of sunday. I glanced at the road conditions and as of sunday, chains were required. uh oh! What a difference one day makes, a chain free blue sky drive.
We arrived and headed up, the snow was soft and very fluffy off-trail. So naturally that was our main goal, to ride in the powder as much as possible. It's been at least 4 years since we rode in the soft stuff. Mainly at the end of march, it's spring skiing with the hard packed groomed stuff. Not today!
It was pretty good riding. Both of us readjusted our bindings to where we can now go switch riding. Most excellent!
Lunch: I just wanted Chips with chili, but the guy hooked it up with cheese as well. Talk about turbo boosting!

Went to the Biltmore Hotel where their deal was buy one night get the second for free at 49$. We check in and the lady quotes 43$ fine by me!

DinDins: La Mexicana. Around Lake tahoe are highways 89 on the west, 50 on the east and 28 on the north side. In the town of Kings Beach you head one measly block up from the main route and somehow we were in the barrio. With all these latino doods staring at us as we entered this smallish market / eatery. I went all out with the larger hand sized $2.50 tacos. I consumed: Carne Asada, Al Pastor, Carnitas, Cabeza and Pescado.. Mmmm soo good. It must have been the sun + snow that made me devour such a meal!

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Thursday, March 19, 2009

50 Foot Indoor SmallBore Rifle, 30 shots in 36minutes, week 10:
Prone: 98-3x
Kneeling: 93-4
Standing: 83
Total: 274-7x
Time remaining: 3 minutes

Somehow my zero was different then before. I hate when that happens, especially when your trying to figure out what was different then before. One possibility is that i ate a can of chicken noodle soup when i got home, a little later than usual.
-Somehow i had a hot flash, those are annoying. Especially when your wearing 14 pounds of cow.
-Offhand wasn't stable one bit.
-Kneeling does require the 3 click up zero difference. Thats alright, now i gotta clamp down on the movement.

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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Took the day off and we set off to the Academy of Sciences for it's 3rd wednesday of the month's free day. Admission is 25$ a pop, yuck! It opens at 9:30am, we arrive 9:40am..
First complication: Parking.. Good luck, we parked outside where it's 4-hr parking. Walking from where we parked to the Academy = a few hours.. heh j/k
Second complication: Line. We first saw the long line going towards the statue near the building. Then it kept extending to the bushes by the corner of Concourse Drive and JFK Blvd. As you reached the bushes, you then notice it extends towards the 8th ave intersection. At least it's moving at a good clip. We eventually get in..
Third complication: Once inside, it's masses of humanity, and lines to eternity. First thing i've noticed is that it's small inside, and kinda empty, if you could imagine it without the masses of humanity.
Fourth complication: Movement with a stroller.. Not cool, combine that with floods of peoples crowding little windows for viewing = really not cool.
We walk around and couldn't really see much. The line to the rainforest wrapped around the building, and the tickets to the planetarium was for the 3:30pm show. It's currently 10:30am..
We decide to go downstairs to the aquarium. It seems impressive, but it also seemed like being in a club. The only thing worse than this was the good old days of halloween at the castro..
We leave at 11am, and at that time the line, which extended past the bushes, was stopped. There could only be so many people inside. I can say that it's a totally smaller place, and it's focused on a few exhibits, which causes it to be even more crowded. The Rain forest, Planetarium, Aquarium and Roof are all there is to see. It's not like the good old days where the large long hallways and exhibits upon exhibits kept flowing. Even the albino alligator was out on a medical leave!

We leave and get the rear left tire patched. Somehow the valve was damaged and was slowly leaking. I can say, by switching the spare tired thats mounted on the trunk, the engineering is flawed. The spare tire has a different offset then the 4 normal rims. When the spare is removed and replaces the normal rim, the threaded studs are too long and the bolts tighten up not on the rim, but to it's limit. The inverse also sucks, when i tried putting the normal rim into the space where the spare was, the offset makes the normal rim not able to fit into the space. The threaded studs aren't long enough.. Weak!

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Sunday, March 15, 2009



I haven't thrown one of these up in a while. Things have been busy in the house. The grandparents took the little one to hang out at the mall. We had a few hours of quietness and it was a bit odd feeling in the beginning! I managed to churn another pack of primers into some brass. I think the little one liked it, he looked a bit stunned and traumatized.. Hopefully he'll get used to roaming with Grandpa n Grandmas..


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Now playing: Kanye West - Love Lockdown
via FoxyTunes

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Thursday, March 12, 2009

50 Foot Indoor SmallBore Rifle, 30 shots in 36minutes, week 9:
Prone: 97-6x
Kneeling: 95
Standing: 81-1x
Total: 273-7x
Time remaining: 8 minutes

Song in the Head: Katy Perry - Hot n Cold
Food Eaten before shooting: Cambells Select - New England Clam Chowder... it was 4 out of 10

This time things were more stable. Two things went wrong:
-I'm on a new brick of Federal Auto Match ammo, and shots were slightly low. Low enough to lose 3 points on prone.
-My offhand wasn't in the groove.
Good things-
-Third hole on the sling for prone, and fourth for kneeling worked pretty well. Kneeling is starting to stablize real well.
-I might have a different zero with kneeling. It's about 3-clicks low. I'll see how it works out next week.

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Friday, March 06, 2009

Played F.E.A.R (~$5) and beat it within a week. It's a neat first person shooter with a bullet time style reflex. But the story is in the horror realm, there are shreiks, flashbacks, ghosties, spookie stuff, kinda neat.. My only gripe was that since i played the multiplayer maps back in the day, most of the game had those maps used. My favorite cheat for this game is to load up on proximity bombs and lay them around and see the enemy happen to come into them.
My new game now is Infernal (~$3). it is a third person shooter where the current story from what i gathered is that there are two mafias one ran by god and one by satan. Your character hung out with God's mafia but got out of the gang. And as all gang rules, blood in, blood out. After a shootout with some of god's men, the character decides to join Satans. The gameplay is good, the thing i don't like is that you need to search every body you killed for stuff. And now that you've joined the gang of darkness, the search includes sucking the soul of the person to gain life. It's a slight hassle in the gameplay, i've already lost count of souls sucked in playing for 30 minutes or so. The A.I. is good and the characters motions are good, it sorta knows when to duck behind a wall or a box, but sneaking around is almost impossible. I had a minute or so shuriken volley with another shuriken tosser, it started to suck because after you kill the dood, you just suck the soul and get healed again to continue to the next target..

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Thursday, March 05, 2009


50 Foot Indoor SmallBore Rifle, 30 shots in 36minutes, week 8:
Prone: 100-8x (yes!)
Kneeling: 94-1x
Standing: 90-1x
Total: 284-10x
Time remaining: 4 minutes

Song in the Head: T.I. - Dead and gone

This time much better. I ate a can of soup at 4pm as i headed off work.
-Tightened the sling and now it's more secure feeling. #3 hole for prone, #4 for kneeling.
-Way better prone, the x's are more x-like then previous x's
-I've started to move the cheezy plastic buttpad around. It fits pretty well at the stock position, but fits better with it adjusted per position.
-Adjusting sights is easier ever since 2 weeks ago. i think it's 8 clicks for a scoring ring.. something like that.
-Kneeling was better but still has quite abit of movement. =\

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