Ok they have finally posted the official results from the marathon so here they are:
My official time was 5 hours 3 min flat which gives me an avg mile pace of 11:38
Overall I was 986 out of 1383 finishers!
In my age group (25-29) I was 72 out of 85 runners
The winners time was 2 Hours 31 min and 46 sec.
The last place time was 8 Hours 11 min and 1 sec.
SO I was most certainly not first, but most definitely not last, and that's ok with me!
Cheers!
Monday, September 18, 2006
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Man was that a long day!
Well if you have been following my blog you know that yesterday was the day of my marathon. And as promised here are some pics from it. But wait you have to read all the way to the bottom before I reveal my finish time!
So here I am at the start. Its about 15 min before the race began and im gearing up. One thing that was a really nice touch with this race is that for the full marathoners and only the full marathoners we got our names on our bibs. SO check it out it actually says Chris on it. If I had known it was going to be like that I probably would have put Sparky!
Were now about 5 min from the start and im getting in some last minute stretching. Notice my sunglasses. They stayed right there till about mile 17 when the sun finaly came out. All in all it was a perfect day to run a marathon with the sky mostly overcast and the temps in the low 70's
WOW and its over! If only it felt that quick in real life. If you look at the clock it says 5hours 4 min but my official time will be a little lower than that as I was in the back of the starting group so it took me a few minutes to get to the start line. However they still have not posted official times yet so I dont know my official end time but Im thinking some somewhere in the 5:02 ish area. I would have liked to break 5 hours but their really isnt that much of a difference between 4:59 and 5:02 so im ok with that.
Well heres one more pic of me shaking hands with one of the race directors. All over it was a great event. The aid stations were awesome and very frequent (every mile!!!!) and all the volunteers were up beat and wonderfull. I think im spoiled now when it comes to marathons! Well as soon as I get official times and my official ranking I will post them. Also I should be getting some other photos from the group the marathon had taking pics. Should be some good in course photos and a good finish photo of me coming down the final .2 SO look forward to that. Other than that I am totally sore today but in good spirits. Im one more step closer to being ready for my ironman in 07 now!
Cheers!
Friday, September 15, 2006
A post with media - GET OUT!
Ok so the marathon is tomorrow but im keeping my mind off of it by picking out some tunes to load on the ipod for pre race prep. This is one I will definitely have on there. If you keep up with Trance music then you have probably heard of Gabriel and Dresden if you don't. Well this is a track that was already appearing on "best of" lists for 2005 even though it was not released until 2006 officially. This is sure to be one of the defining stand out tracks again this year SO without further ado enjoy the video for "Tracking Treasure Down"
Lastly just for grins and giggles while driving with Lisa yesterday we spotted this sign. Seriously zero photoshoping or altering going on here. Enjoy!
Hopefully next post will be a marathon wrap up with pics
Cheers!
Lastly just for grins and giggles while driving with Lisa yesterday we spotted this sign. Seriously zero photoshoping or altering going on here. Enjoy!
Hopefully next post will be a marathon wrap up with pics
Cheers!
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
updatage
Ok first off I guess I will give a quick wrap up of things going on right now.
Marathon is in 3 days. Thats right saturday I will run my first marathon and my feelings on this change daily. some days I have a good workout and I think "man no sweat." Then other days when I have a not so good workout I think "aw crap this is gonna suck big time." SO how has this week been??? Its been in the aw suck category as my body has decided to revolt against me and my lack of sleep over the past 6 months or so and finally say "hey were not gonna take it." That coupled with the fact that since we have no means to prepare food ive been eating out dinner every night and you get a great combo of poor nutrition and lack of sleep. Which I think is the what runners world suggests for your first marathon. SO neway Ive just been focusing on rest this week. Thats right easy workouts and lots of rest. Hope that will make the difference come saturday. Hope to have pics up and my time by monday. But who knows maybe sooner.
House stuff -- Well the cabs were ordered and thats about it. t-5 weeks and counting till something starts happening in my house.
Ok I have not talked about gaming stuff in awhile but I read something that I just have to write about. SO if you dont like the game parts of my updates you are free to stop reading as thats all thats coming.
Ok We all know that the x360 is doing really well in the US and everywhere else in the world except for Japan. I read this morning that for the year the x360 is still trailing behind the gamecube in # of units sold for japan. OUCH thats gotta hurt. SO thats point #1. Point #2 is that we all know that the Wii and the ps3 are coming out soon. However the launch details of both of those are becoming very curious. Heres the contrast.
Nintendo -- Dude can you say BUZZ! Everything is coming up roses for nintendo and I think I am seeing for the first time a company that knows how to do a launch. They are remaining tight lipped until the absolute last minute and that is just building so much excitment over the Wii. the low price - the launch titles - the control scheme - everything is coming together for the Wii and I think for once Nintendo could be right in what they have been saying all along. Its not about the polygon counts or the rendering or the shaders or the power of the system its about the experiance playing the games that will sell consoles and games. SO with the big N's worldwide conferences getting ready to happen over the next couple of days I feel I can say pretty confidently that everyone will be happy with the news and that the buzz is only going to grow for the little system they call Wii
Sony -- WOW what a contrast. 2 years ago we saw Ken Kutaragi playing with ducks "in real time" in the bath tub and and that was supposed to be only the beggining. However it seems that over the last year the hype has simply been diminishing as more negative news comes out from sony. I swear I dont feel like they have had a single good thing to say about ps3 this year. And this is their launch year!!! First we had E3 which everyone couldnt wait to get good news from sony on. Well what did we get. 1st up was the "take out a second mortgage on your house" price tag. Then came the news that of the two versions going to be sold the cheaper was significantly scaled down in terms of ports and what not and that you could not upgrade it to be the same as the more expensive option. A major faux paux in my opinion. Now within the last few weeks is the announcement that they cant make their projected shipping qty's and they are reducing their expected shipments by like 75%, ignorning europe entirely till they catch up makes me very very skeptical about Sony in this gen. Sure Sony's got Fanboys and Fangirls and that counts for a lot. Ive been saying for the past year Sony could slap a "playstation" sticker on just about anything with the promise of Final Fantasy accesories and it would sell. Think the PS3 toilet with a chocobo theme for the little ones. However when Ken Kutaragi makes statements like this to reuters "If you asked me if Sony's strength in hardware was in decline, right now I guess I would have to say that might be true." DANG I really have to start thinking that they are on their way to a low point.
SO whats my point in all this. Simple I think the big N is going to become just that. The Big N again. I think this generation of conoles is going to see the Wii as #1 with x360 and PS3 fighting it out for second globally. And I just dont know if Sony can hang on at this point. X360 is already well established globally and has a large fanbase in America and Europe. PS3 can really only guarantee to own one market which is japan and the japanese gaming market is in the toilet right now. The big thing in japan is not home consoles but the DS Lite. Can the ps3 really compete with that? Can it compete with the x360 in America if we only see 400k units this x-mas with 80% of them costing 600+ tax. (thats 640.00 for me to buy a ps3 and I still dont have a single new game to play on it!) I feel bad in a way but maybe it will force some of the developers who have been rather snooty towards american hardware to cross platform develop. Yeah im looking at you Square Enix. How about we see FF13 for both x360 and ps3. That would be the nail in the coffin of the ps3 if that ever happened.
Well I have ranted long enough on things game related.
Cheers!
Marathon is in 3 days. Thats right saturday I will run my first marathon and my feelings on this change daily. some days I have a good workout and I think "man no sweat." Then other days when I have a not so good workout I think "aw crap this is gonna suck big time." SO how has this week been??? Its been in the aw suck category as my body has decided to revolt against me and my lack of sleep over the past 6 months or so and finally say "hey were not gonna take it." That coupled with the fact that since we have no means to prepare food ive been eating out dinner every night and you get a great combo of poor nutrition and lack of sleep. Which I think is the what runners world suggests for your first marathon. SO neway Ive just been focusing on rest this week. Thats right easy workouts and lots of rest. Hope that will make the difference come saturday. Hope to have pics up and my time by monday. But who knows maybe sooner.
House stuff -- Well the cabs were ordered and thats about it. t-5 weeks and counting till something starts happening in my house.
Ok I have not talked about gaming stuff in awhile but I read something that I just have to write about. SO if you dont like the game parts of my updates you are free to stop reading as thats all thats coming.
Ok We all know that the x360 is doing really well in the US and everywhere else in the world except for Japan. I read this morning that for the year the x360 is still trailing behind the gamecube in # of units sold for japan. OUCH thats gotta hurt. SO thats point #1. Point #2 is that we all know that the Wii and the ps3 are coming out soon. However the launch details of both of those are becoming very curious. Heres the contrast.
Nintendo -- Dude can you say BUZZ! Everything is coming up roses for nintendo and I think I am seeing for the first time a company that knows how to do a launch. They are remaining tight lipped until the absolute last minute and that is just building so much excitment over the Wii. the low price - the launch titles - the control scheme - everything is coming together for the Wii and I think for once Nintendo could be right in what they have been saying all along. Its not about the polygon counts or the rendering or the shaders or the power of the system its about the experiance playing the games that will sell consoles and games. SO with the big N's worldwide conferences getting ready to happen over the next couple of days I feel I can say pretty confidently that everyone will be happy with the news and that the buzz is only going to grow for the little system they call Wii
Sony -- WOW what a contrast. 2 years ago we saw Ken Kutaragi playing with ducks "in real time" in the bath tub and and that was supposed to be only the beggining. However it seems that over the last year the hype has simply been diminishing as more negative news comes out from sony. I swear I dont feel like they have had a single good thing to say about ps3 this year. And this is their launch year!!! First we had E3 which everyone couldnt wait to get good news from sony on. Well what did we get. 1st up was the "take out a second mortgage on your house" price tag. Then came the news that of the two versions going to be sold the cheaper was significantly scaled down in terms of ports and what not and that you could not upgrade it to be the same as the more expensive option. A major faux paux in my opinion. Now within the last few weeks is the announcement that they cant make their projected shipping qty's and they are reducing their expected shipments by like 75%, ignorning europe entirely till they catch up makes me very very skeptical about Sony in this gen. Sure Sony's got Fanboys and Fangirls and that counts for a lot. Ive been saying for the past year Sony could slap a "playstation" sticker on just about anything with the promise of Final Fantasy accesories and it would sell. Think the PS3 toilet with a chocobo theme for the little ones. However when Ken Kutaragi makes statements like this to reuters "If you asked me if Sony's strength in hardware was in decline, right now I guess I would have to say that might be true." DANG I really have to start thinking that they are on their way to a low point.
SO whats my point in all this. Simple I think the big N is going to become just that. The Big N again. I think this generation of conoles is going to see the Wii as #1 with x360 and PS3 fighting it out for second globally. And I just dont know if Sony can hang on at this point. X360 is already well established globally and has a large fanbase in America and Europe. PS3 can really only guarantee to own one market which is japan and the japanese gaming market is in the toilet right now. The big thing in japan is not home consoles but the DS Lite. Can the ps3 really compete with that? Can it compete with the x360 in America if we only see 400k units this x-mas with 80% of them costing 600+ tax. (thats 640.00 for me to buy a ps3 and I still dont have a single new game to play on it!) I feel bad in a way but maybe it will force some of the developers who have been rather snooty towards american hardware to cross platform develop. Yeah im looking at you Square Enix. How about we see FF13 for both x360 and ps3. That would be the nail in the coffin of the ps3 if that ever happened.
Well I have ranted long enough on things game related.
Cheers!
Saturday, September 09, 2006
Sleep? Whats that?
Ok so I dont know how many of you know this but appearantly I just dont get to sleep anymore. I think its a combo of everything - work - house - family issues - but regardless im just not sleeping anymore. like its 2:30am saturday morning. At 1am I just woke up and could not get back to sleep. SO here I am. I am dead tired but not sleepy. I just dont know what else to do but its really wearing on me.
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Quick house update
Well here is the sitch.
The good news:
1. All our cabinets but one are in stock and essentially ready for delivery
2. Our Floor has been ordered and shipped and I think will be here this week
The bad news:
The cabinet that is not in stock will take 5-6 weeks to arrive once ordered.
The worse news:
The floor cant be installed until all the cabinets are in.
Therefore we are looking at a good 6-7 weeks till the cabs are finished and the floor is in which makes it mid to late october. And that my friends totally stinks because yeah I miss my 1st floor and although it will be nice to have a partially finished kitchen again with no dining room and living room we will still be spending 90% of our time at home in the sitting room.
Cheers!
The good news:
1. All our cabinets but one are in stock and essentially ready for delivery
2. Our Floor has been ordered and shipped and I think will be here this week
The bad news:
The cabinet that is not in stock will take 5-6 weeks to arrive once ordered.
The worse news:
The floor cant be installed until all the cabinets are in.
Therefore we are looking at a good 6-7 weeks till the cabs are finished and the floor is in which makes it mid to late october. And that my friends totally stinks because yeah I miss my 1st floor and although it will be nice to have a partially finished kitchen again with no dining room and living room we will still be spending 90% of our time at home in the sitting room.
Cheers!
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
new pics
Ok here is the latest batch of pics. It looks like we will only need to have our bottom cabinets replaced and that it will not be a special order so that is nice in that it should only take a few weeks to schedule and get them in. Then next up would be the floor and that is still up in the air a bit. More to come on that. Finally we are thinking about changing out counter top and that would be a special order but I dont think that would really impact things very much. We meet with the contractor next monday to discuss the plan and maybe start setting some dates. But in the mean time enjoy these pics of what used to be my kitchen!
Cheers!
Cheers!
Friday, August 18, 2006
And they are outta here!
Cabs are out pics to come. Its kinda funny when you walk into your living room and it looks like your kitchen and your kitchen looks very very empty. I still dont know whats happening in terms of which cabs get replaced or not but I hope to know soon. Also Im starting to get some info on the flooring and im very very hopefull that sometime next week (earlier than later) I will get a check from state farm so that I can get my floor back.
Oh I know I have not mentioned this in awhile but yes I am still training albeit not like I would prefer. Consistency is the key and lately I have been sporadic at best. I workout maybe 3-4 xs a week instead of a solid 6 with a rest day. This might not sound so bad but I really feel like im just maintaining my current level of fitness and not increasing at all and well yeah I have this little race coming up in a month that is 26.2 miles long and I dont feel ready for it. The farthest I have run so far is 10.5 and that was last saturday. Im hoping to do 11 or 12 tommorow and then 14-15 next sat. After that if I could pull off an 18 miler that would be really quite wonderfull. than I could start tapering down to lead up to the big day. If I can pull 18 then I will feel pretty good about the marathon. Otherwise im going to be pretty nervous. SO thats just one more chapter in what many people think of as "The book of stupid things Chris does."
Cheers!
Oh I know I have not mentioned this in awhile but yes I am still training albeit not like I would prefer. Consistency is the key and lately I have been sporadic at best. I workout maybe 3-4 xs a week instead of a solid 6 with a rest day. This might not sound so bad but I really feel like im just maintaining my current level of fitness and not increasing at all and well yeah I have this little race coming up in a month that is 26.2 miles long and I dont feel ready for it. The farthest I have run so far is 10.5 and that was last saturday. Im hoping to do 11 or 12 tommorow and then 14-15 next sat. After that if I could pull off an 18 miler that would be really quite wonderfull. than I could start tapering down to lead up to the big day. If I can pull 18 then I will feel pretty good about the marathon. Otherwise im going to be pretty nervous. SO thats just one more chapter in what many people think of as "The book of stupid things Chris does."
Cheers!
Thursday, August 17, 2006
HA HA HA
Ok after some major acts of FUBAR things have been progressing very slowly with the house. Oh I do have to give a shout out for the boy scout troop at my church. They heard we needed help and I swear they sent like 50 boy scouts to my house and they were just packing up everything they could find. They really did save me a TON of time so thanks again boy scouts. Oh and Thanks Luke again for mowing my grass your a lifesaver! SO back to all things FUBAR! SO tuesday my cabs and vinyl were supposed to get ripped out but no. Everyone who came thought everybody else was going to do everything. ITs so the american way. SO long story short. Heres the update on where things are
Vinyle is gone
bottom cabs come out tommorow morning
Carpet sample is back from ITL so I have a value for that but no value for pad or the vinyle yet... just playing the waiting game.
Cabs -- so far cant be matched -- what does that mean you ask? well if they cant be matched then they ALL have to be replaced. IF thats the case we are looking at roughly 2-3 months till things are put back together again. Fun.
After the cabs are out you can expect some pics with the vinyle and cabs out.
Cheers!
Vinyle is gone
bottom cabs come out tommorow morning
Carpet sample is back from ITL so I have a value for that but no value for pad or the vinyle yet... just playing the waiting game.
Cabs -- so far cant be matched -- what does that mean you ask? well if they cant be matched then they ALL have to be replaced. IF thats the case we are looking at roughly 2-3 months till things are put back together again. Fun.
After the cabs are out you can expect some pics with the vinyle and cabs out.
Cheers!
Friday, August 11, 2006
And it just keeps getting better
Well the guys from servicemaster came yesterday to help me evaluate whether or not I was going to need to file a claim with state farm. HA HA HA after being there for literally 5 min they said - "File you claim." I was like seriously????? And he replied Our job is going to cost around 2,000 just to dry everything out and that doesnt include fixing or replacing anything. SO let me give you a quick rundown of what all is ruined.
-- Carpet -- most of it has been cut out already -- eeekk
-- baseboards
-- my walls up to about 8" high in the low spots and 3-4' in the high spots
-- my kitchen cabinets
Whats still on the iffy list
-- all my vinyl.
SO whats happening now? The cleanup crew left 7 industrial fans and 2 very large dehumidifiers to help dry out my walls and see how much they can salvage. They come back today to take some more readings and I think they will know if the vinyle is gone today. SO big day for the house!! he he anyway thats whats up with me.
Cheers!
-- Carpet -- most of it has been cut out already -- eeekk
-- baseboards
-- my walls up to about 8" high in the low spots and 3-4' in the high spots
-- my kitchen cabinets
Whats still on the iffy list
-- all my vinyl.
SO whats happening now? The cleanup crew left 7 industrial fans and 2 very large dehumidifiers to help dry out my walls and see how much they can salvage. They come back today to take some more readings and I think they will know if the vinyle is gone today. SO big day for the house!! he he anyway thats whats up with me.
Cheers!
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Snakes on a plane.
Yeah thats all I can say. "snakes on a plane...." Why is that you might ask? B/c the last two days have been ab-so-freaking-lutely crazy. Let me break it down for y'all
August 9th 7:10am
I walk down stairs to leave for work and am troubled by an unfamiliar sound that is EXTREMLY loud. as I come around the corner I am greeted by what is a pretty terrifying thing for any homeowner (i.e. sucker) to behold. What was it? Well to be frank it was roughly 1/2" of standing water on my kitchen floor and a large area of my carpet that was very very squishy. I can now make out the sound and its the sound of massive amounts of rushing water coming from my mechanical closet. I open the doors and I swear it was like that scene in the second ring movie where the mom opens the door to the bathroom and water is everywhere in the room. Everywhere and you just cant figure out where the water is coming from. SO I just stood there for probably 10 sec. in shock. Just staring at all this water thats well everywhere. Finally I was able to figure out where the water was coming from so I start trying to shut some of the valves to get the water off. I finally get the water off and there I am. Soaking wet and looking at toshi's food dish floating across the kitchen floor. I walked upstairs and told lisa that I wasnt going to work today and briefed her on the sitch. I went back downstairs and started to try and clean things up. Fast forward to about 10:30 when the floor is close to pretty much dry and I start making my way to find the replacement tank I need. Meanwhile lisa went to grampas and got the wet/dry vac and the carpet wet vac and was pulling gallons and gallons of water out of the carpet. I think 15 gallons was our best estimate at one point. And ya know what. thats a whole lotta water and the carpet is still really wet. SO around noonish I roll back into the house and start working on getting this tank installed. I had been warned to get good wrenches and to make sure the pvc was supported well so that it didnt break. Now you know I wouldnt be talking about this if it had gone smoothly! HA! yeah I was screwing it in BY HAND and the piece it screws into cracked!!!!! ARGGGGG I was 1/4 turn to far which means I was a 1/4 turn past being done. SO then I had to cut the pvc out go to lowes and buy pvc to re-create this jacked up joint the builder put in. I think it came as a big surprise to me that I actually got the right pieces and got it all glued together and working - With no leaks!!!!! SO its about 3:30pm now and I am wiped out. The kitchen is dry but the carpet despite lisa putting a smackdown on it is still really wet. SO that was it for the day. The high side of this is that I was able to get the whole thing fixed for roughly 55 bucks. Versus what a plumber would have charged to come out and fix it for me. SO thats good. SO that ends that day.
August 10th:
Ok so today the carpet is still pretty wet and Lisa was talking to a co-worker and he basically told her we should call our insurance company and find out what we should do b/c if their is bad enough water damage there is a good chance for things like mold or walls being weekend and what not. SO we talked and I was like ok. SO today at 4pm im meeting a guy to get an estimate of what the damage is from our catastrophe yesterday. Worst case scenario its really expensive and we turn a claim into insurance and are out our deductible plus we get the added bonus of getting a 10% per year surcharge for the next 3 years. SO yea! Dont you love insurance. Something that penalizes you when you use it. ITs AWESOME!
SO im leaving work early today to meet with the guy and i will let you guys know whats going to happen. On the good side if all the floors are ruined it might be a good time to upgrade! who knows.
Cheers!
August 9th 7:10am
I walk down stairs to leave for work and am troubled by an unfamiliar sound that is EXTREMLY loud. as I come around the corner I am greeted by what is a pretty terrifying thing for any homeowner (i.e. sucker) to behold. What was it? Well to be frank it was roughly 1/2" of standing water on my kitchen floor and a large area of my carpet that was very very squishy. I can now make out the sound and its the sound of massive amounts of rushing water coming from my mechanical closet. I open the doors and I swear it was like that scene in the second ring movie where the mom opens the door to the bathroom and water is everywhere in the room. Everywhere and you just cant figure out where the water is coming from. SO I just stood there for probably 10 sec. in shock. Just staring at all this water thats well everywhere. Finally I was able to figure out where the water was coming from so I start trying to shut some of the valves to get the water off. I finally get the water off and there I am. Soaking wet and looking at toshi's food dish floating across the kitchen floor. I walked upstairs and told lisa that I wasnt going to work today and briefed her on the sitch. I went back downstairs and started to try and clean things up. Fast forward to about 10:30 when the floor is close to pretty much dry and I start making my way to find the replacement tank I need. Meanwhile lisa went to grampas and got the wet/dry vac and the carpet wet vac and was pulling gallons and gallons of water out of the carpet. I think 15 gallons was our best estimate at one point. And ya know what. thats a whole lotta water and the carpet is still really wet. SO around noonish I roll back into the house and start working on getting this tank installed. I had been warned to get good wrenches and to make sure the pvc was supported well so that it didnt break. Now you know I wouldnt be talking about this if it had gone smoothly! HA! yeah I was screwing it in BY HAND and the piece it screws into cracked!!!!! ARGGGGG I was 1/4 turn to far which means I was a 1/4 turn past being done. SO then I had to cut the pvc out go to lowes and buy pvc to re-create this jacked up joint the builder put in. I think it came as a big surprise to me that I actually got the right pieces and got it all glued together and working - With no leaks!!!!! SO its about 3:30pm now and I am wiped out. The kitchen is dry but the carpet despite lisa putting a smackdown on it is still really wet. SO that was it for the day. The high side of this is that I was able to get the whole thing fixed for roughly 55 bucks. Versus what a plumber would have charged to come out and fix it for me. SO thats good. SO that ends that day.
August 10th:
Ok so today the carpet is still pretty wet and Lisa was talking to a co-worker and he basically told her we should call our insurance company and find out what we should do b/c if their is bad enough water damage there is a good chance for things like mold or walls being weekend and what not. SO we talked and I was like ok. SO today at 4pm im meeting a guy to get an estimate of what the damage is from our catastrophe yesterday. Worst case scenario its really expensive and we turn a claim into insurance and are out our deductible plus we get the added bonus of getting a 10% per year surcharge for the next 3 years. SO yea! Dont you love insurance. Something that penalizes you when you use it. ITs AWESOME!
SO im leaving work early today to meet with the guy and i will let you guys know whats going to happen. On the good side if all the floors are ruined it might be a good time to upgrade! who knows.
Cheers!
Monday, July 31, 2006
Back from Daytona
Well last night @ about 11:15pm lisa and I got back from our vacation so I thought I would give a quick wrap up of how things went.
Sunday: Sara took us to the airport and we got out on time and with a bonus. We got bumped to business class without having to pay for it which meant swanky seats, better snacks, and we got to sit together which was not going to happen with out previous seats. We got into Orlando early, like 10am and made our way to Hertz rental car where we were surprised by what we got. I was expecting a Ford Focus or something like that which although I dont like focus' very much im fine with them and thats what I was expecting. However we got a Red Pontiac Vibe which made lisa very happy as she likes Fun red cars on vacation and I was excited to get to drive a car I had not driven previously. My final thoughts are I was pretty impressed with the vibe and only had one minor complaint about it that is really nothing at all. SO we made the 1.5 hour drive to Daytona and got to our Condo which was not ready for us yet. SO we walked around a bit and sat and read and around 2ish we got into our room which was FANTASTICKY. The condo was larger than our first apartment and better equipped too. It had a bedroom with TV and king size bed. A huge bathroom, kitchen, and living room with another tv. A balcony that overlooked the ocean and man it was just really nice. SO the room was a major hit! After we got unpacked Lisa and I were both really feeling wiped out so we just chilled in the room and watched the movie Gattaca (one of my personal favs) and then I made dinner and I think we just sat on our balcony and read.
Monday: First real day out in the Sun having fun! Got some good laying out time and just hung out around the pool and ocean. Walked around to some of the local shops and what not. Also went grocery shopping for food for the week at publix. I miss publix its like the best grocery store ever.
Tuesday: Again started the day out right by laying out and chilling by the pool. Around noonish we made our way up to St. Augestine and hit the two outlet malls there and WOW they were huge. Much much bigger than I remember so we were their for a really long time. We got taco bell for dinner and when we got back I think we went and did some more reading by the pool in the coolness of the evening.
Wednesday: Well it seemed that all the walking from the day before was a little too much for Lisa as her foot was really hurting her. SO we decided that wednesday was just going to be a chill day. A do nothing day. SO we spent like all day by the pool. I laid out most of the morning and early afternoon then joined lisa in her covered "safe" zone for more reading. Why was she in a covered safe zone. well it turns out that its not good for pregnant woman to significantly alter their body temp very much. Even a few degrees can be hard on the baby inside so lisa was hiding from the sun most of the vacation. However today that backfired. A small building was basically blocking the sun from Lisa where she was sitting however as best we can guess the suns rays were bouncing off the beach and reflecting off our books so that we both got more sun than we had anticipated that afternoon. Lisa got burned pretty good and I got rather crispy myself which is really rare. However we both felt safe and out of the sun so Lisa had no sunscreen on and I had not re-applied since the morning. Live and learn, the sun IS out to get me.
Thursday: I think we pretty much just stayed inside most of the morning as lisa was not too keen on getting any more sun for a little while and I was fine with that as well. Also her foot was still not feeling that great. However this was also great b/c we just snuggled up on the sofa and watched TV. We did some walking around in the afternoon. We went venturing for a place to eat dinner and went to Bennigans and it was pretty good. Then we went to see "The Devil Wears Prada" which I thought was pretty good and lisa liked it too. Whats awesome is that the movie theater is on the beach about a block down from our hotel so we walked back to the condo on the beach after the movie and that was nice and romantic.
Friday: Another Slight hiatus from the sun. We decided to do some more local shopping and drive around a bit. Tried to finish up souvenier shopping and then went to this little italian place we used to go to when we lived in daytona. Its called the italian villiage and oh my gosh. They have amazing calzones there but they were a bit different from when we used to get them. The difference is they are about 3xs the size they used to be. They could have easily lasted 3 meals each for us but after two we were out of time and had to throw away the remainder. : ( very very sad.
Saturday: slept in and then hit the pool deck for one more great day of kicking back and takin names. In the evening we got dressed up a bit and played some mini golf and then on impulse went to denny's (does anyone ever go to denny's not on an impulse???) so this was pretty funny as our waiter totally forgot about us or I guess I should say decided to ignore us b/c the cooks were yelling at him to pick up our food and bring it to us -- but he just kept walking by them and doing other things. Finally another waitress noticed us both eyeing our food in the warming racks and asked if we needed anything. We explained and she got us our food. Then my drink became empty but still no visit from our server since he took our order so I went up to the counter and asked for a refill. Needless to say their was no tip given that night and I even explained why to the girl checking us out so that it was understood. SO we get back and decided to go for a walk on the beach. We heard that every saturday night they have fireworks off the pier (which is about .5 miles from our hotel) and I kid you not. We walked out on the beach got our toes wet and BANG! they started going off! We had no idea when they were supposed to happen but we just happened to be there at the right time. So that was really pretty to see fireworks over the ocean.
Sunday: Ok I love our current church but the PCA as a whole can be iffy and in florida it can be downright bonkers so i was not really looking forward to church. We decided not to go to the church I went to while at school and opted for the other PCA church. WOW had it changed and for the better. SO church was really nice. Then we scooted back to the condo and hung out on the deck till about 3:30 but not before getting one more walk in on the beach. After that we got down to orlando fine and checked in and all was going well until a pretty big storm hit orlando and delayed everything by about an hour. SO we got in later than we would have wanted but it was still a good time.
SO to sum up we had an amazing time and we totally needed this. It was just 1 solid week of "chill" and we both just kept commenting on how relaxed we felt and just how laid back it all was. SO I can't complain about a thing it was just total wonderfullness and was a great last vacation before Kaiya comes in november.
Cheers!
Sunday: Sara took us to the airport and we got out on time and with a bonus. We got bumped to business class without having to pay for it which meant swanky seats, better snacks, and we got to sit together which was not going to happen with out previous seats. We got into Orlando early, like 10am and made our way to Hertz rental car where we were surprised by what we got. I was expecting a Ford Focus or something like that which although I dont like focus' very much im fine with them and thats what I was expecting. However we got a Red Pontiac Vibe which made lisa very happy as she likes Fun red cars on vacation and I was excited to get to drive a car I had not driven previously. My final thoughts are I was pretty impressed with the vibe and only had one minor complaint about it that is really nothing at all. SO we made the 1.5 hour drive to Daytona and got to our Condo which was not ready for us yet. SO we walked around a bit and sat and read and around 2ish we got into our room which was FANTASTICKY. The condo was larger than our first apartment and better equipped too. It had a bedroom with TV and king size bed. A huge bathroom, kitchen, and living room with another tv. A balcony that overlooked the ocean and man it was just really nice. SO the room was a major hit! After we got unpacked Lisa and I were both really feeling wiped out so we just chilled in the room and watched the movie Gattaca (one of my personal favs) and then I made dinner and I think we just sat on our balcony and read.
Monday: First real day out in the Sun having fun! Got some good laying out time and just hung out around the pool and ocean. Walked around to some of the local shops and what not. Also went grocery shopping for food for the week at publix. I miss publix its like the best grocery store ever.
Tuesday: Again started the day out right by laying out and chilling by the pool. Around noonish we made our way up to St. Augestine and hit the two outlet malls there and WOW they were huge. Much much bigger than I remember so we were their for a really long time. We got taco bell for dinner and when we got back I think we went and did some more reading by the pool in the coolness of the evening.
Wednesday: Well it seemed that all the walking from the day before was a little too much for Lisa as her foot was really hurting her. SO we decided that wednesday was just going to be a chill day. A do nothing day. SO we spent like all day by the pool. I laid out most of the morning and early afternoon then joined lisa in her covered "safe" zone for more reading. Why was she in a covered safe zone. well it turns out that its not good for pregnant woman to significantly alter their body temp very much. Even a few degrees can be hard on the baby inside so lisa was hiding from the sun most of the vacation. However today that backfired. A small building was basically blocking the sun from Lisa where she was sitting however as best we can guess the suns rays were bouncing off the beach and reflecting off our books so that we both got more sun than we had anticipated that afternoon. Lisa got burned pretty good and I got rather crispy myself which is really rare. However we both felt safe and out of the sun so Lisa had no sunscreen on and I had not re-applied since the morning. Live and learn, the sun IS out to get me.
Thursday: I think we pretty much just stayed inside most of the morning as lisa was not too keen on getting any more sun for a little while and I was fine with that as well. Also her foot was still not feeling that great. However this was also great b/c we just snuggled up on the sofa and watched TV. We did some walking around in the afternoon. We went venturing for a place to eat dinner and went to Bennigans and it was pretty good. Then we went to see "The Devil Wears Prada" which I thought was pretty good and lisa liked it too. Whats awesome is that the movie theater is on the beach about a block down from our hotel so we walked back to the condo on the beach after the movie and that was nice and romantic.
Friday: Another Slight hiatus from the sun. We decided to do some more local shopping and drive around a bit. Tried to finish up souvenier shopping and then went to this little italian place we used to go to when we lived in daytona. Its called the italian villiage and oh my gosh. They have amazing calzones there but they were a bit different from when we used to get them. The difference is they are about 3xs the size they used to be. They could have easily lasted 3 meals each for us but after two we were out of time and had to throw away the remainder. : ( very very sad.
Saturday: slept in and then hit the pool deck for one more great day of kicking back and takin names. In the evening we got dressed up a bit and played some mini golf and then on impulse went to denny's (does anyone ever go to denny's not on an impulse???) so this was pretty funny as our waiter totally forgot about us or I guess I should say decided to ignore us b/c the cooks were yelling at him to pick up our food and bring it to us -- but he just kept walking by them and doing other things. Finally another waitress noticed us both eyeing our food in the warming racks and asked if we needed anything. We explained and she got us our food. Then my drink became empty but still no visit from our server since he took our order so I went up to the counter and asked for a refill. Needless to say their was no tip given that night and I even explained why to the girl checking us out so that it was understood. SO we get back and decided to go for a walk on the beach. We heard that every saturday night they have fireworks off the pier (which is about .5 miles from our hotel) and I kid you not. We walked out on the beach got our toes wet and BANG! they started going off! We had no idea when they were supposed to happen but we just happened to be there at the right time. So that was really pretty to see fireworks over the ocean.
Sunday: Ok I love our current church but the PCA as a whole can be iffy and in florida it can be downright bonkers so i was not really looking forward to church. We decided not to go to the church I went to while at school and opted for the other PCA church. WOW had it changed and for the better. SO church was really nice. Then we scooted back to the condo and hung out on the deck till about 3:30 but not before getting one more walk in on the beach. After that we got down to orlando fine and checked in and all was going well until a pretty big storm hit orlando and delayed everything by about an hour. SO we got in later than we would have wanted but it was still a good time.
SO to sum up we had an amazing time and we totally needed this. It was just 1 solid week of "chill" and we both just kept commenting on how relaxed we felt and just how laid back it all was. SO I can't complain about a thing it was just total wonderfullness and was a great last vacation before Kaiya comes in november.
Cheers!
Thursday, July 20, 2006
7 days without sleep makes one (very freaking tired) weak
(if you have not checked out the v2.0 blog go there now!)
Ok yeah so I just dont sleep anymore which combined with me ramping up my training efforts is leading to, well, not so good results. I am wiped and I was making jokes this morning that were in retrospect not very funny but at the time I thought they were hilarious. SO I think vacation is coming at a good time. I just want to sleep through the night again. Last night consisted of us going to be around 10:30pm (which is not usual) and then around 1am I got up b/c I had been having a dream that my sweet pregnant wife desired a chocolate chip cookie. Silly me I actually got out of bed and started to go get her one when I realized -- you fool! we have no cookies! -- and that was the start of another restless night. I think I woke up every hour on the hour if not more until my alarm went off. SO not a very restfull night of sleep thats for sure. SO how is training now that I am commited to a marathon? Well im still trying to split things up between my 3 major disciplines and I am finding that I feel as though I am just kinda spinning my wheels. I need to formulate more of a plan and actually stick with it. I need to have workouts scheduled so that I dont just show up at the gym and go hmm I think ill do this or that today. I think that will help me achieve my goals better than the haphazard means I have been using so far. Other than that I am sore. I am running more now that I have in a long time in anticipation of the marathon and just trying to be smart to ward off injury which would be a bad thing. Other than that its really freaking hot which I like but the humidity is officially much much worse here than in florida so I feel I can complain about it. Its pretty nasty.
Other items of noteworthyness:
Lisa and I leave for vacation this sunday morning and are headed for Daytona Beach where we are going to take advantage of our newly acquired TIME SHARE. lol so that should be nice. We are both feeling burnt mentally and physically and if im going to feel burnt I want to at least be tan dangit! SO it should be a good time. We dont have much planned right now but we do hope to go snorkeling perhaps and just take it easy. Maybe some midnight walks on the beach would be nice as well! anyway we will be there for a week and im bringing my little ps1 and hope to get to play a lot of chrono cross as I like that game alot. Should be a really good time and I will be there in just a few days!!!!!!!!
Trying to think of what else is cool or what not. Oh yeah I have another race set for the end of september. This event is a team tri and the honorable Daniel Hickey has agreed to be my race partner. I fear his youthfull vigor will squash my seasoned veteraness and he will kick my butt, however thats ok b/c its a really neat event that starts with a 3 mile canoe in a two man boat (hence why its a team event) then a 20 mile bike and a 5 k run. My bike is far superior than anything dan will get to ride but he is a much stronger run then me (and I will have just run a marathon 2 weeks earlier) so Im expecting him to be the fast one even if I drop him on the bike I think he will either catch or more likely pass me on the run. But just the nature of this event is going to be fun. SO look for more details later on that.
well I have some work to do so
Cheers!
Ok yeah so I just dont sleep anymore which combined with me ramping up my training efforts is leading to, well, not so good results. I am wiped and I was making jokes this morning that were in retrospect not very funny but at the time I thought they were hilarious. SO I think vacation is coming at a good time. I just want to sleep through the night again. Last night consisted of us going to be around 10:30pm (which is not usual) and then around 1am I got up b/c I had been having a dream that my sweet pregnant wife desired a chocolate chip cookie. Silly me I actually got out of bed and started to go get her one when I realized -- you fool! we have no cookies! -- and that was the start of another restless night. I think I woke up every hour on the hour if not more until my alarm went off. SO not a very restfull night of sleep thats for sure. SO how is training now that I am commited to a marathon? Well im still trying to split things up between my 3 major disciplines and I am finding that I feel as though I am just kinda spinning my wheels. I need to formulate more of a plan and actually stick with it. I need to have workouts scheduled so that I dont just show up at the gym and go hmm I think ill do this or that today. I think that will help me achieve my goals better than the haphazard means I have been using so far. Other than that I am sore. I am running more now that I have in a long time in anticipation of the marathon and just trying to be smart to ward off injury which would be a bad thing. Other than that its really freaking hot which I like but the humidity is officially much much worse here than in florida so I feel I can complain about it. Its pretty nasty.
Other items of noteworthyness:
Lisa and I leave for vacation this sunday morning and are headed for Daytona Beach where we are going to take advantage of our newly acquired TIME SHARE. lol so that should be nice. We are both feeling burnt mentally and physically and if im going to feel burnt I want to at least be tan dangit! SO it should be a good time. We dont have much planned right now but we do hope to go snorkeling perhaps and just take it easy. Maybe some midnight walks on the beach would be nice as well! anyway we will be there for a week and im bringing my little ps1 and hope to get to play a lot of chrono cross as I like that game alot. Should be a really good time and I will be there in just a few days!!!!!!!!
Trying to think of what else is cool or what not. Oh yeah I have another race set for the end of september. This event is a team tri and the honorable Daniel Hickey has agreed to be my race partner. I fear his youthfull vigor will squash my seasoned veteraness and he will kick my butt, however thats ok b/c its a really neat event that starts with a 3 mile canoe in a two man boat (hence why its a team event) then a 20 mile bike and a 5 k run. My bike is far superior than anything dan will get to ride but he is a much stronger run then me (and I will have just run a marathon 2 weeks earlier) so Im expecting him to be the fast one even if I drop him on the bike I think he will either catch or more likely pass me on the run. But just the nature of this event is going to be fun. SO look for more details later on that.
well I have some work to do so
Cheers!
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Taking the plunge
Well I did it. I signed up for the Air Force Marathon today and now I have a few months to train and get back into marathon shape. Im pretty excited for a couple of reasons.
1. Ive been dying to do a long course race and this should take me somewhere around 3.5 - 4.5 hours to complete and although it will just be one event its a good mental booster b/c once I complete a marathon it will not be this impossible task.
2. This is my chance to stick it to the man, and the man in this case is the Air Force. Ya see ever since I was a wee lad I had one dream. Go to the Air Force Academy - become a fighter pilot - and finnaly fly the biggest fastest hunk of junk on the planet -- The space shuttle. Thats right kids my dream since I was little was to be a shuttle pilot. SO anyway long story short the airforce said I was not good enough for them b/c of regulations that were written in the 40's and are in many ways no longer applicable. SO here is my chance to show the Air Force that I am in fact good enough and that I am not the cripple they made me out to be.
Yes I know that not a single person hosting the event has any idea about this or even cares they are just happy that I am running in it. But for me its just a little personal score to settle.
Cheers!
1. Ive been dying to do a long course race and this should take me somewhere around 3.5 - 4.5 hours to complete and although it will just be one event its a good mental booster b/c once I complete a marathon it will not be this impossible task.
2. This is my chance to stick it to the man, and the man in this case is the Air Force. Ya see ever since I was a wee lad I had one dream. Go to the Air Force Academy - become a fighter pilot - and finnaly fly the biggest fastest hunk of junk on the planet -- The space shuttle. Thats right kids my dream since I was little was to be a shuttle pilot. SO anyway long story short the airforce said I was not good enough for them b/c of regulations that were written in the 40's and are in many ways no longer applicable. SO here is my chance to show the Air Force that I am in fact good enough and that I am not the cripple they made me out to be.
Yes I know that not a single person hosting the event has any idea about this or even cares they are just happy that I am running in it. But for me its just a little personal score to settle.
Cheers!
Friday, July 07, 2006
Skankware
Since labeling things _______ ware seems to be all the rage right now I have come up with my own and that is Skankware. My definition:
Any piece of software that seems attractive enough to buy, however once purchased, does nothing but bring your system down and leave you with all sorts of nasty viruses that you cant get rid of.
Example: AOL is total skankware.
alias terms could also be ho-ware.
Im thinking about actually submiting this to Wikipedia as they have no definition for Skankware currently.
cheers!
Any piece of software that seems attractive enough to buy, however once purchased, does nothing but bring your system down and leave you with all sorts of nasty viruses that you cant get rid of.
Example: AOL is total skankware.
alias terms could also be ho-ware.
Im thinking about actually submiting this to Wikipedia as they have no definition for Skankware currently.
cheers!
Friday, June 23, 2006
Whats up?
Ok well its been a little while since my last post and I dont have a whole lot to say so I will try to be brief and since I know everyone misses my bulleted lists of updates they are back again today! SCORE!
Training -- Sucks! been busy this week and only trained 2xs so far. Might do a brick tonight not sure but I need to either today or tommorow. Might have a race on tuesday 2mile run, 10 mile bike, 2 mile run so short and sweet.
Work -- Has been very hectic and thats all I feel like saying. Oh I got my new contract which means raise and more bragging rights so WOOT. side note I discovered where the term "woot" came from today. It originated from old dungeon crawler games and was the shortened version of "wow loot." hence WOOT!
Games -- totally wrapped up in oblivion and having the best time with it. Such a great game and well worth the cost of admission.
Baby stuff -- go see my baby page I posted today as well.
Life in general -- Vacation has been booked! w00t w00t!!!! Lisa and I will be going to Daytona the last week of july for vacation and using our time share which is super duper cool and we are totally excited about it. Its bitter sweet as its out last vacation without kids which is exciting on both sides of the coin. SO needless to say we are both very jazzed.
Well thats about it for now but I hope everyone is doing well.
Cheers!
Training -- Sucks! been busy this week and only trained 2xs so far. Might do a brick tonight not sure but I need to either today or tommorow. Might have a race on tuesday 2mile run, 10 mile bike, 2 mile run so short and sweet.
Work -- Has been very hectic and thats all I feel like saying. Oh I got my new contract which means raise and more bragging rights so WOOT. side note I discovered where the term "woot" came from today. It originated from old dungeon crawler games and was the shortened version of "wow loot." hence WOOT!
Games -- totally wrapped up in oblivion and having the best time with it. Such a great game and well worth the cost of admission.
Baby stuff -- go see my baby page I posted today as well.
Life in general -- Vacation has been booked! w00t w00t!!!! Lisa and I will be going to Daytona the last week of july for vacation and using our time share which is super duper cool and we are totally excited about it. Its bitter sweet as its out last vacation without kids which is exciting on both sides of the coin. SO needless to say we are both very jazzed.
Well thats about it for now but I hope everyone is doing well.
Cheers!
Monday, June 12, 2006
Ok i know its been awhile....
Ok I know its been awhile but I've seriously been pretty busy. But ok here are some pics from a few weekends ago when lisa sara and I went to MI to see Rich, Beck, and Ash. Here you will notice Sara and me on the quads. This was a ton of fun and something that we will have to do again. Just in case you cant tell Sara is on the right and I am on the left. And yes just in case you were wondering we did take these fine machines off some sweet jumps!
Here we see Rich and future moto crosser Ash kicking it two up style on a quad. Ash loves riding with her daddy and its probably good that she was there with him to keep him in line as he latter admitted to me he thought he was riding with a broken or bruised rib from a trampoline stunt the night before. You so crazy!
So there ya go some quad pics. SO what else is new. Well work has been pretty busy and I am very tired. We have been working hard on getting things ready for scout (check scouts blog if you have not recently) and I have just been trying to keep my head above water. Now I know some of you are thinking -- hey what happened to all that training you were doing? Are you still racing? Well yes and no and yes I guess. My problem is finding events that I can do which limits me to saturdays instead of the day most events are on which is sunday. This knocks me out of about 90% of the events that are taking place close to me and schedule conflicts take care of another 5% so as you can see that leaves next to nothing for me to do. I do however have a duathlon on the 27th of this month that I plan on doing.
2 mile run
10 mile bike
2 mile run
SO thats all thats on the hopper at the moment. However I am making future plans which include the air force marathon this year and the florida IronMan next year. Thats right im signing up (or at least trying to) for an iron man. More details when I actually get confirmation which wont happen till november. SO my big race is over a year away but thats how much time it takes to plan and prepare for something like this. SO im glad im taking my time.
Gaming: Playing oblivion still (love it!) I finished the fighters guild and am now working through the assasins guild which is a lot of fun. I might take on the main quest sometime soon. Just not sure. Other than that playing burnout for 360 which rocks! and after watching ringu zero last night I want to play fatal frame 3. SO we will have to set that up and go with it soon.
Well thats all for now.
Cheers!
Here we see Rich and future moto crosser Ash kicking it two up style on a quad. Ash loves riding with her daddy and its probably good that she was there with him to keep him in line as he latter admitted to me he thought he was riding with a broken or bruised rib from a trampoline stunt the night before. You so crazy!
So there ya go some quad pics. SO what else is new. Well work has been pretty busy and I am very tired. We have been working hard on getting things ready for scout (check scouts blog if you have not recently) and I have just been trying to keep my head above water. Now I know some of you are thinking -- hey what happened to all that training you were doing? Are you still racing? Well yes and no and yes I guess. My problem is finding events that I can do which limits me to saturdays instead of the day most events are on which is sunday. This knocks me out of about 90% of the events that are taking place close to me and schedule conflicts take care of another 5% so as you can see that leaves next to nothing for me to do. I do however have a duathlon on the 27th of this month that I plan on doing.
2 mile run
10 mile bike
2 mile run
SO thats all thats on the hopper at the moment. However I am making future plans which include the air force marathon this year and the florida IronMan next year. Thats right im signing up (or at least trying to) for an iron man. More details when I actually get confirmation which wont happen till november. SO my big race is over a year away but thats how much time it takes to plan and prepare for something like this. SO im glad im taking my time.
Gaming: Playing oblivion still (love it!) I finished the fighters guild and am now working through the assasins guild which is a lot of fun. I might take on the main quest sometime soon. Just not sure. Other than that playing burnout for 360 which rocks! and after watching ringu zero last night I want to play fatal frame 3. SO we will have to set that up and go with it soon.
Well thats all for now.
Cheers!
Thursday, May 25, 2006
W00T W00T!!!!
Ok I have launched a second blog. No this one is not dying this one is very very much alive. However this new site is dedicated to scout. Who's scout you say? Scouts my baby which means Lisa is pregnant! Yes it is an exciting time however this is not the venue for such topics as I have set up an entire site just to document the pregnancy SO bounce on over there and check often as I have lots of stuff to put on there so I will be posting frequently to both.
http://v2-0.blogspot.com/
You go now!
Cheers!
http://v2-0.blogspot.com/
You go now!
Cheers!
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Quick Update!!!!
Well the unthinkable has happend. My po-dunk town has crawled out from under the rock that it was under and discovered a little thing called DSL. Yes thats right DSL is finally available in my area and on Monday night I ordered it!!! Im so jazzed and we got a killer deal so thats cool as well. It will be so nice to have net at the house so that we dont have to run to panera at like 8pm b/c lisa has to send an e-mail or check on something for work. Also I got wireless gear coming so that should be pretty cool as well. I will finally have a nice little home net and yes I know like surround sound this stuff has been available for like ever but hey not in my area so there. Also its pretty cool since lisa, sara, and me all have wireless laptops so the wireless part will be nice and the main tower will be hard wired in so thats set as well. The only component I dont have quite figured out yet is the xbox 360. Not sure what to get to make that work and its a low priority to lisa which means I either need to get it online for free or dirt cheap. SO thats whats up with me. On the family side my folks should be in scotland right now. If you didnt know they just moved their to be missionaries for 3-5 years. Still waiting on my e-mail from them to say they got their ok but that should be coming. Well thats all for now.
cheers!
cheers!
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