PARADELast weekend was the yearly Bay View Festival. My parents are active in the Bay View community, and Dad is in charge of organizing the parade every year. I help out by being on the "Parade Assembly Team". This year, I got to actually DRIVE a vehicle in it! I was supposed to drive a Mercedes convertible with the Grand Marshal of the parade ( Read more... )

50 IN A 35After driving home from Tiffin Saturday morning, and being up 27 hours (got stranded because RAINBOW MUFFLER didn't tighten my oil cap all the way down after my last oil change), I got pulled over just after turning onto a 35 zone from a 55 zone. Well, I must've been zoning, cause I was still driving 50 when I saw the police officer. ( Read more... )

I'M BACK!
Special thanks to Maria for changing my mind about my website.
I guess I really do have "fans"!
More coming soon....

BALLOON FESTIVALMy brother lives in Canton (home of the Pro Football Hall of Fame) and every year, they have a big hot air balloon festival to kick off "Hall of Fame Week". I got some cool pictures (and a little video of the fireworks) and will have them posted on my photo album soon. The festival was right across the street from his apartment ( Read more... )

DUH!
I really shouldn't be posting tonight. I worked a 12 hour shift and I'm dead tired and still have stuff to do, but I read this, and I can't sit still:

Earth is Rare, New Study Suggests

Here are some excerpts:

...All known extrasolar planets are roughly as massive as Jupiter or much more so. In studying about 100 of these, the scientists ( Read more... )

WORKHad a strangely fun day at work today. (Just so you know, my lame ass drives a forklift at a auto parts manufacture.) I usually drive for the floor. That means taking materials out to the machines, taking containers of parts to the warehouse, taking trash away to the compacter, etc... Today, one of the drivers on the shipping dock was on ( Read more... )

MOM'S TV
My Aunt passed away last week, and mom inherited a 50 inch Hitachi big screen. I went over today and hooked it up for her. The picture is beautiful! Mom is usually just BEHIND me in AV/technology. Now, she's got me beat...
WORKED SUCKEDWork was a bitch today. Lots of stress (boss gave me an "atta boy" though). It's days like today ( Read more... )

LJ SURVEY1. Who are you ( Read more... )

FUCK!!!!!!!!!Sick to fucking DEATH of this single bar scene crap ( Read more... )

NEW PHONEI got a new cordless phone a few weeks ago. Nice phone. Not really expensive either (bout $35). A couple nights ago, I was out on my patio relaxing and enjoying the night air, and had my phone with me. Left it outside on a plastic lawn chair... all night... in the rain... fuck. Laid in a damn PUDDLE for about 3 hours till I woke up ( Read more... )