Excited

This is the normal expression people have when they are around me.

It's a Bird...follow up

Here is the follow up picture, for those who look at this previous picture and think, "I want to have kids, they look so cute!"

It's a bird, It's plane, It's....?

I worked on the farm this weekend and while I was out Kelli snapped this gem of a pic of Allie and her cousin Braydon. I have no idea what they are looking at, but just look at the young inquiring minds.

Oh to be young.

Brian Regan

A group of us(but not everyone) went to see Brian Regan amidst some bad weather in STL at a place called The Pageant.

Hilarious!, Two Thumbs Up!, My Side Hurts!, I have a taste for Lobster now!, Where did I park my Car!?!?, are what audience's are saying as they leave his show.

I do find the comedy Brian does more impressive then most comics of today because it's all clean humor...not to mention funny. I'll be able to listen/introduce his comedy to my daughter when she is old enough and that is awesome. Sure, he walks around all goofy and at first your unsure how to take him, but he immediately has everyone laughing and keeps it going for the rest of his routine. If you ever get a chance to see Brian Regan...Go, you wont' be disappointed.

Thank you Brian for you humor, or should I say Briannanananananaan.

2001 CRV Dipstick Problems

I have recieved many hits from coast to coast on my blog regarding dipstick problems.

What happened to my wifes CRV was the rod connecting to the Engine block came out with the dipstick upon changing the oil. Speedy Lube or Valvoline guy had a deer in the headlights look, so they were useless.

This happened in Oct 2007 and I have some instructions on how to self repair this for less the $10. Even if you have very little automotive repair experince it's worth reading.

Visit here: CRV Dipstick Problem

Lunar Eclipse

I might be getting old, or just more interesed in life and sciences or plain and simple curiosity. Whatever the reason, I decided to take pictures of the Lunar Eclipse.

For Lunar buffs you can see that I am late and I missed the total Lunar Eclipse but I had my night school and didn't get home until this point. Any way, enjoy.

Movie...sounds like....

Ok, so I was watching Family Guy, and they did a spoof from a movie or show. I am stumped as to what movie, or show this came from.


The scene breaks down like this: Two guys talking to each other. (Conversation isn't verbatim but a general gist.)

Guy 1: It's not your fault man.
Guy 2: What.
Guy 1: It's not your fault man.
Guy 2: Cut it out man.
Guy 1: It's not your fault man. (More emphatically said.)
Guy 2: I said cut it out.(also more emphatic)
Guy 1: It's not your fault.
Guy 2: I miss her so much. (Breaking down into tears.)

They embrace in a hug.

Ok comment and let me know.

Thinking

Per Dr. Ed R.

"I'm thinking of something intersting.....stay tuned."

Out

Finger

So I saw someone with a nail through their finger from a fraiming nail gun.

Wicked.

Carpool #7-The tale of Pot

Today I didn’t go to work. I scheduled off previously to take care of homework I needed to get caught up on when I was skiing. However, I slept to Noon because of the same cold that has hit the half the U.S.

I didn’t get as much homework done as I wanted but still picked up Allie even though she would prevent any sound studying once I got home.

[Voting story:]
On our way home, I followed a Black Ford Taurus. Two boys were in the front and what made me start paying attention to them was the passenger threw some trash out the window. That instantly makes me mad as I have little patience for littering. As I am watching these two white trash yokels, I see the passenger lean over and pass a one hitter to the driver.

Okay so now they are hippie white trash yokels. They did this for many miles as well as threw more trash. I debated for a while whether I should I have called the cops or leaves these two kids alone. Would you have called the cops? Voting is now OPEN on the Side Bar.

Devils Head Ski Resort - Day 3

We left around 10am and got home at 5:40pm. Our trip back was 7hours with drive time totaling 6hours, considerably less. Allie again slept almost the entire 6hours, bless her heart…again.

All in all this was a great ski trip enjoyed by all and did I mention if you have the opportunity ski at Devils Head.


Special Note: Oh, yeah and then we were able to see the NY Giants beat the Patriots in the Superbowl to foil their "perfect" season even though they were caught cheating. See what that cheating gets you kids! A trip to the Superbowl and a whole lot more revenue, so don't cheat!

But I digress. It was just the icing to a perfect weekend.


Allie and her Uncle Mikey.


Us about to head home in Devils Head Lobby.

Devils Head Ski Resort - Day 2

We got a good jump on the skiing and were able to carve up some fresh tracks. What was really interesting about this trip was the fact we could go off the beaten path and carve fresh trails. This was a main highlight for Kelli’s brothers who at times ended up more cross country skiing the downhill skiing.

Around 10am it started snowing and didn’t stop until 1:30pm. This put an additional 2” of snow on the ground and let me tell you, skiing in the snow is awesome. It just makes the ski trip that much better. We did almost every hill minus the bunny slope and the moguls.

There was nothing bad about this day. Everything was great and all of us had fun.

We had dinner at 10pm again and Kelli’s brothers and I ended up not following through with our intention to party. We were exhausted and for good reason. We did almost 10hours of continuous skiing.

Did I mention if you have a chance go to Devils Head Ski Resort….it rocks!

Devils Head Ski Resort - Day 1

Well, I finally got my wish by having the St. Louis area dumped with snow, 8” – 10” inches to be exact. We hit the open, snowy road at 9a.m. and cruised at 30 – 45 mph until Bloomington where we picked up Kelli’s sister, Meg. The roads were slick and we saw a dozen tractor trailers off the side of the road and just as many cars/trucks. I started to skid twice before putting the Z71 in 4HI mode. No problems to report after that.

[PROMO]: Before I go further I have to say the Garmin GPS I borrowed from my mom is a must if traveling via vehicle. This made travel almost seamless, minus our side task of picking up Meg. However even in this event it recalculated the route and had us back on our way. It is also very accurate when projecting the arrival time, +- 3 minutes. If you don’t have one and travel, get one.

We got to Devils Head at 5:40pm. Our trip there took 8hr 40min of which we traveled 7 hours. Allie slept basically the entire 7 hours, bless her heart. Once we checked we immediately hit the slopes.

[PROMO]: Devils Head is a great place. If you book over the phone you can get your rooms, which include dinner and breakfast tickets as well as lift tickets for your duration. However you must purchase your equipment rental separately once you arrive. We didn’t know this and neither did a lot of the workers so we spent about 20 minutes walking around in our gear, sweating, trying to figure this out.

Skiing felt great! We learned from some of the locals that this was the best skiing it had been all year despite it being rained on early in the week. They were surprised but evidently a snow fall after the rain helped tremendously.

We had dinner at 10pm and her brothers and I decided to not party it up that night so we could get a fresh start tomorrow morning. Ok we were on vacation so we had two pitchers of beer, amongst 5 people though.