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K, we got back from New Hampshire 'bout one in the morning. Woke up around nine and did some chores, vacum the pool, miracle-gro the garden, etc. Decided to have some fun so Sam, Danny and I took my Savage over to a building site near by. It was a little too rocky for real high speed runs, but we had a blast! As usual, I broke something. Seems like it's the best when you only go all out and beat it, and when you beat it, stuff breaks! Here is that baby just flyin' through the dirt and here it is doing a mega-wheelie!! And if you just hit little bumps she wants to go airborne, which is amazing when you consider it's one heavy truck. Here it is catchin' a little air and here it is up on one wheel and pulling like crazy! Notice the angle of that one back wheel that's grabbing in and trying to pull the truck right over... (sorry it's a little blurry, so hard to catch this thing on camera) A cool shot of it flying through the dirt again, notice the rooster trails of dust behind the wheels. A shot of it on 2 wheels, and another wheelie pic. Here's one where you can see the scale of it compared to some two by fours. Pretty cool, eh? These things are a blast, I've been playing with them for almost 15 years now and it still puts a big smile on my face... OK, here's the best for last- a short movie, this is one of it doing a 180 off a wall of dirt, it is kinda fast, so replay it a few times to get the full effect. Well, hope you enjoyed as much as I did, gettin' late so I'm gonna go chill upstairs with G and catch some Zzzz's Enjoy the rest of your holiday weekend... posted @ 10:30 PM EST [link] [Karma: -10 (+/-)]Road Trip ! OK, so here it is, raining and all grey and I have to pack up the car and also get Sam and Danny loaded up and drive to New Hampshire. Hopefully I'll beat the holiday weekend traffic. It looks like I found some gainful employment! Yes, a bona fide J-O-B !! And not too shabby at all. I'll actually be able to cover all the overhead here at the homestead/compound/commune and maybe have a little left over to venture down to Chinatown for a bowl of pho and some bubble tea on weekends... As a matter of fact, I'm going to fill out the forms and stuff up there as the company is based out of Mass but I'll be working in good ole' NY only about 40 miles from home. Grace is staying home while we're gone and she'll feed Princess and look in on the cats and garden while we're gone. It was hard saying goodbye this morning and she started crying and I got all sad. Makes me sad to think about not seeing her for two and half days. Anyway, I gotta run. I'm bringing the digi-cam and an RC-truck to play with so I'll take lots of pix and post when I get back. Have a great Holiday weekend- -Me posted @ 09:32 AM EST [link] [Karma: -1 (+/-)]Feels like Summer !! OK, I know it's not for almost a month yet, but it feels like summertime is here. For a few reasons. Once again, I'm without a job (seems to happen every other summer last 4 years). I have just about given up on ever being a Solaris Sysadmin again. Unix will always be my first love, and the BOFH my hero, but in the NYC metro area, there are just waaay more Unix admins then jobs last few years. Unless you of course are Dennis Ritchie and have 3 or 4 degrees and are an admin/senior DBA/network guru/C++ and Java programmer all in one. Then there are a few jobs out there. The other reason is it's been hot and humid and thunderstorming like crazy around here. Guess it could be worse, we could be having tornadoes, eh? I guess the way the market is they can have a laundry list of very specific requirements. But hey, I think my resume is pretty impressive anyway. Wanna take a look? Wanna hire me? Here is a text version with the names erased to protect the innocent (more like guilty). What have I been doing? Keeping busy so I don't fall into a depression and then proceed to be in denial of the fact that I'm depressed. This morning Grace got to sleep in. So I woke up, vacumed the pool, watered the garden, and took a few pix of my RC cars. Take a look at the thumbnail page I made of the pics. Notice how sparkling clear the pool is. Yes, I'm a Pool-Master, I can make the nastiest green or brown pool crystal clear in a few days. Yes, I'm getting lazy, easier to make a page of thumbs then to add all the links to the images here in the body of the posting. This blog software is Greymatter of course, and you have to add links and such as html tags and I'm just a little too lazy this morning. I also put in a vegetable garden this year, it's been about 5 years since the last time I grew veggies. Have some tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant, bell peppers, and bush beans planted. And of cource I grow Habanero's, Jalapeno's and other hot peppers in containers for cooking and to make my own hot sauce. Which of course is so hot nobody can eat it. To top it all off (as if being unemployed isn't bad enough) the transmission went in my Camry, so it's just sitting at the top of the driveway. I'm driving around in an old Chevy Cavalier that my friend Lissa gave me and I had planned on giving it to Sam to drive. But for now we share it, kinda like a family vehicle. OK, that's it for now, I'll take some pix of the yard and stuff and post them soon. I'm going up to New Hampshire to help my Dad pack for his move this weekend so I'll take pics up there too. He had a heart attack two weeks ago so he can't do any lifting or anything. Thankfully he is alright, but it was just bad timing as he's retiring and moving down to North Carolina next month. K, later for now.... -Steve posted @ 10:43 AM EST [link] [Karma: -14 (+/-)] |
