I read Modern Buddy all the time. Some of the Portland riders figured it was about time to get together for a ride, after all was said and done it ended up being myself, my wife and Pdxer. We also had rye-bread say she was going to come but somehow we missed the connection with her. We started out at the West Linn library, riding our way down 43 ( Read more... )

ive been dealing with carpal tunnel quite a lot lately. to help with that, ive been working on some alternative input methods for my work pc. ive gotten a track mouse, and ive setup my keyboard to allow me to use it one handed if i want to. its a little strange typing like this, but its kinda fun once you figure it out!!!

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I spent most of Sunday on my one church-hookie day of the year: Mopar Nationals.
It took me almost all of Saturday to get my car drivable so I could go down to Woodburn and race my car. The event was much smaller than it was last year, probably due to gas prices. I was hoping to shave a second off the times that I had previously done with my 383(15. ( Read more... )

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This morning was one of those mornings that are rare in my life. I'm not a morning person in any way, and normally loathe them in a most unhealthy manor. But this morning was different. I woke up 30 minutes before my alarm went off, fully awake with the sun streaming in the windows in an unusually cheery manner. I got ready to go and hopped on my ( Read more... )

A friend of mine sent me a link to photos of last years Mopar nationals, where someone caught a shot of me doing my staging burnout. I'm just going sideways, and leaving a lot of rubber on the track :)


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Well, I've always found the idea of spending money so you can save money a bit odd. But thats exactly what we did last week when we went down to West 23rd in the Perl and bought a Vespa. We realize that as Gas approaches $4.00, I can't keep driving 50 miles a day in a bigblock muscle car. Its costing me about $30 every other day. Doing the math, ( Read more... )

Don't know how this one slipped by without getting blogged, but I've got a new tattoo.
I've been wanting to get Gavin's footprint from the hospital tattooed since he was born,
and I've finally done it. Its on my left shoulder right above my sleve cuff line. Looks awesome,
and even has fuzzy edges like an ink stamp would. I'll post a picture when I ( Read more... )

Many of you know that I'm a obsessive tinkerer. I build things constantly, and like to play with technology
in strange new ways. I recently discovered a project that could use WiFi hotspots to geo-locate you similar to GPS. Its proved to be very accurate, with the downside that there has to be WiFi hotspots near you for it to work. Everywhere in the ( Read more... )

Well, its been a while since I've posted here. Things have been crazy busy.
Work is taking more and more hours as the company explodes with business. Thats great, but
makes things hard. The shining light in that is that we're looking to sell the company
by the end of the summer. That means I'll be unemployed shortly. Why is that a shining light, ( Read more... )