Here's a few minutes of my morning drive the other day. It was raining...




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Goodbye faithful cup

It's been at the very least 5 or 6 years that I've used this cup. It was the last of the 'thick walled' cups that you would get at your local QT convenience store.
The ones they give out now are very thin. When you grab them they pretty much about fold in just from the grip you need to pick one up.
The rim finally cracked and I'm sorry to see it go and all, but its time is up.





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Sweet smelly rainy morning

This morning was rainy and beautiful, it smelled wonderful outside also.



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Almost but no res-support

The monitor on the left is a 17" lcd, the monitor on the right is a 22" wide-screen HD I 'almost' got the other day. This is at work by the way and yes I did make the wooden monitor stand you see these guys sitting on. My current PC doesn't support the video resolution needed for this new monster so I gave it back to our Admin Asst. My new box is coming in a few months and I'll be getting dual 22" monitors so now worries mate.


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Trailer lights

Happy happy joy joy. I found one of my trailer light bulbs had one element burned out. I replaced it and it did light up but still no turn signal. Why? I've always heard that if the bulbs are good and they turn on when you turn on your vehicle lights... you should be good to go. I guess not.


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Baseball game

Above is a picture from Field #1 at Hillside. My son had a game today, this was their 4th game and this one they won. Today was very nice, a touch on the cool side and a little cloudy but still nice. We went to the ball game right after being at our friends house for a small celebration for their son who had his first communion.
Yesterday, my son and I went to the last part of the Earth Day celebration at Elmwood park by the University of Nebraska at Omaha.


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Pinewood Derby 2010

Yesterday was the annual Pinewood Derby at the Scout meeting. My son and I spent the last couple of weeks building the car you see above. It looks real nice but came in last in every heat. We picked up a few tips from some other kid/Dad teams. I think we’ll do a little better next time.

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I win again today !!

I so figured out how to print one page per side on our company printer!! Years ago the LAN guys, in an effort to save paper, set the printing default to duplex print FOR EVERYONE. For the most part duplex printing is alright for work documents but once in a while I need something printed one page per side.
Now I don't have to throw away one 500 page ream of paper per week to make up for the paper savings. Whew!

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My new want: Sony HDR AX-2000 Hi Def Camcorder

I think I have a new favorite camera. This beauty is under $3,500 and tapeless. It records onto 2 HCSD cards at 1080. I won’t go into all the details, there is a link below for all that. Wish with me for this creature to be in my possession in the near future. Oh yeah.



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February… ugh

I really don’t want to be ‘half empty’ but For The Love Of Pete is February not the most depressing month?!?!

It is in between “Winter” and “Spring” and no fun. Actually it is the middle of winter so that’s why it’s depressing.

My daughter said something the other day that I’ve been thinking for a long time, something like: “It would be fun to travel to wherever it is 72 degrees”. I agree. I could write a book about the travels and call it ‘Chasing 72’. <sigh>

I'm one of those guys now...

I finally have crossed the line, literally. I left the building I work in over lunch to run some errands to find that either I parked like this early this morning or elves came and moved my truck over 2 feet to the left. Wow, what a jerk.

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January almost gone – 2010

One month and a day after Christmas 2009 and I can’t wait for next Christmas already. I love Thanksgiving and Christmas, that it by far my favorite time of the year. We’ve only 10 months to go till Thanksgiving.

It’s cold and will be for the next few days. I took Audrey and Nathan to the Golden Archery club Tuesday night archery group lesson/shoot this evening. Nathan has been there before but Audrey went for the first time and really enjoyed it. We found out she is left eye dominant and shoots better left-handed. Nathan popped two balloons while Audrey had a number of near-hits.

Enough is enough. We've had a good amount of snow for sure. I've battled an ineffective (since fixed) snow blower, 19 snow removals, bitter bitter wind chill, on call at work, issues at work, my truck breaking down with my wife and kids with me and a $75 tow bill.

Whew!

I guess all is ending alright. A simple adjustment to my snow blower made it work like a champ. A call from the repair shop is implicating the my truck's battery, so if that is the case, it won't be that expensive. OK, they just called, the fuel pump is bad and of course it's in the tank so it'll be a few more bucks.

And... as this is written there is an emergency code fix needed at work, so off I go....

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A few weeks ago I shot and edited a music video for a fellow name Tracy Skretta. He lives here in Omaha and I met him when he was playing one Friday evening at a local coffee shop.

I offered to shot some video of him playing for him to use as well as practice for me. I think it turned out pretty well. I learned a lot and had some help from a guy named Chris Bridges. I can't thank Chris enough!

The embedded video above is a little wide for the column but that is the smallest embedding YouTube offers for this video.

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Don't forget to write 2010 on your checks

Jan 4, 201o and I'm going back to work today. I've been off since Dec 18, it was nice to have all that time off and I'm trying to not let it bug me that I'm going back into the office today.
The big snowstorm (read the previous blog entry) did in fact come and dump a ton of snow on us. The big snow fall happened on Christmas day. My wife and I went out together to tackle all the snow accounts I have the next day on the 26th. I went out at 8, did a couple then picked her up at 11:00 and we worked for the next 12 hours and 3 hours the next day. It was a lot of work and it took 2 days for all the aches and pains to subside with a little help from some Advil.

Happy New Year everyone

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There is a sleet/ice/snow storm coming our way over the next few days. This Friday is Christmas day and that is when the snow and whatever else is supposed to stop falling. I do snow removal for 14 residential houses. I am bummed.

I really really don't want to go out and do snow removal on Christmas day. I am actually letting this start to ruin my mood. In all actuality I can do all the houses in 5 hours if it's just a few inches or it can take as long as 12 like it did the last storm with someone helping me but we got 12 to 18 inches that go around.

I feel like a big baby but I SO look forward to the Christmas holiday, not to mention Christmas day.



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After the two snowfalls we had last week (the latter delivering much more snow than the first) we get freezing drizzle this morning which means... scraping.

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Omah Singer Songwriter - Tracy Skretta

I'd like to tell everyone about a local singer songwriter named Tracy Skretta. He writes and sings alternative rock and his sets include some covers of great songs.
Tracy recently recorded and put out a new CD, please follow the link below to check out his music.

http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/TracySkretta

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Happy December everyone! I'm writing this after the big ol' snowstorm we had two days ago. Sunday night we got a few inches of snow then a few days later another and bigger snow came through. That snow started falling early Tuesday and got BIG later that night and ended early Wednesday morning. The rest of Wednesday turned out to actually be sunny and a little blustery until the wind totally subsided by Wednesday afternoon. All in all we received 12 to 18 inches with some drifting up to 3 feet easily.
I did snow removal for the houses that I usually do plus my own.

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Crazy Mystery Light(s)

Did anyone see this story the other day. The photo was taken by a guy in Tromso Norway on his way to work. It turned out to be a failed missile launch from a Russian submarine. For a day it was a mystery though. I love the image, it looks like a crazy black hole sucking energy from our planet.