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5-9-7 8:18am

I think I am going to tour the insides of seven houses in the Waldo and south of Waldo area tonight. 4 of these houses Heath and I checked out from the outside over the weekend and liked enough to come back the other 3 we found on the website and they sound good. So wish me luck in finding my future home tonight. I gota move out of my current house before August 1st so I hope to get things going soon.

Last night I packed up the truck with lawn equipment and tools and went to Heath's. I had planned to mow the lawn, cut down a stump (not a stumpff), weed eat the lawn, add a couple bolts to the sandbox, put up the swing set, trim some bushes and whatever else the yard needed. I got there and attacked the stump first because I like to play with the chainsaw. The rotten stump went down easy and I was done with the chainsaw in like 5 minutes. Then I tried to start the ridding lawnmower and it was dead so I pushed it to the truck to jump it.

This was an action I would get very accustomed to over the course of the evening. It literally took me the entire night to get the lawn mowed. The ridding mower was riddled with problems in the tall damp grass. The blades were very dull and the motor did not have any power behind it so it died regularly. Also the belt for the blades popped off a few times and anything that could be a problem was. I'm sure I had to take it apart and jump the battery at least a dozen times. We got out the self propelled mower which is needed for tight spots anyhow but it had gotten soaked in all the rain and the air filter was ruined and would not let it get any air. We spent some time trying to dry it out but did not have good results here either. So at 9:00 it got dark and 95% of the yard was mowed a little was weed-eated the sandbox was unchanged, the swing set was still in a pile, no bushes were trimmed, I had not eaten dinner, I had barely drank any beer, both mowers were about broken but the stump was gone.

I was disappointed in the evening and sat on the tailgate for a beer then ate dinner and got cleaned up. Heath is in charge of doing some maintenance on her equipment (sharpen blades, new filter and belts) and Jon and I will need to make some adjustments to the air and gas flow on the ridding mower and with these few changes I am confident next yard night will go much better.

I'm also going to mention that Friday night at my house we will be celebrating a guest appearance by Mike "Stormy" Strohm home from Denver. No concrete plan is in affect but we will eat something then play and drink stuff and everyone is welcome and encouraged to come over. Saturday I'm heading down to Pittsburg for Grant's first campout. We will be setting up somewhere near my sisters house and fishing and having a fire and all.

Ohh yeah stooks, "poison ivy, poison ivy, poison ivy"

 

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5-8-7 8:16am

Did you guys see woot.com today? Could have gotten double atomic watches. I do like my current one though I wear it daily now. I did have to take out 3 links and tighten it down as much as I could though. Wal-Mart took out the links for Heath for free, that place is great.

While we are on the topic of great businesses lets talk about the Asian Alternator and Starter Rebuild shop. You may remember I took my starter there a month or so ago and for "no more then 70 dollar" they would rebuild it for me. (Disclaimer: no more then $70 means $70 every time) I got it back the next day and they had spray painted it silver? but I connected it to the boat and it spun really fast in test situations at my house.

So a few weeks later we took Grandma to the river and Jon and Steven were in the boat and I was lowering them into the water with the truck. Grandma got in and they turned the key and the motor started no problem a few seconds later the motor made a bad sound and died. They then realized they were drifting to the Missouri river with a motor problem and I had forgotten to bring the paddles. 

Luckily they floated to shore and we tied up and examined the problem. The starter spins a small gear like this.

It goes around in circles and each revolution climbs higher until the gears meet up with the big fly wheel and cause it to spin. Normally once the flywheel spins it starts the motor and then the starter drops back down below the flywheel and stops spinning. (this is probably a confusing description of the process and if you are more curious go to howstuffworks.com or ask me when we are standing near Grandma)

Well last night Jon and I confirmed our suspicions that the no more then $70 Rebuild Shop put the small gear on upside down so once is spun to the top of its cycle and caught the fly wheel it was just pushed up further until it got completely wedged into part of the starter and then it locked up the fly wheel. 

While on the river we just took off part of the starter with the small gear and since Grandma is such a dream boat we pull started it with ease.

So after work I went to the hardware store for a part to help Jon and I unwedge the very stuck starter gear, then to CVS for a 30pack of $10.49 beer, then to Jon's garage.

With my new coupling nut, Jon's vice and "big boy" ratchet and a couple pieces of wood we got the gear unstuck and drank a couple beers and talked about life. Then I went to mom's and met up with Heath and Grant, we made spaghetti and watched 24. It was a great episode. Then I tried to fix her vacuum cleaner and humidifier. Then I left and went to bed.

 

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5-7-07 8:05am

Today	Tomorrow	Wed	Thu	Fri
Strong Storms	Isolated T-storms	Isolated T-storms	Isolated T-storms	Scattered T-storms
High: 76°Low: 62°	High: 78°Low: 62°	High: 79°Low: 65°	High: 77°Low: 62°	High: 77°Low: 63

Well no sun in site, I guess it is going to rain forever.

Friday night Russ threw a housewarming party and we brought over a grill and wood and had a nice fire on his deck and grilled up some burgers and dogs. This was followed by some speed quarters and who knows what else.

Saturday morning we tried to recover as best we could after what proved to be a long exciting night. Then we got together the outside toys and headed to the park to play. A friend of friends, Jen was throwing a graduation party with a blues band, Oklahoma Joe's BBQ, coolers of beer and we were excited to be going. I think everyone had a good time but I can't be sure because I was only there for 1/2 a beer. I got tricked by a salad...

So we got there and fixed lunch plates first thing and I got a BBQ beef sandwich, some beans and a seemingly harmless salad. About the time I was finishing everything off I noticed something strange in the salad and in my mouth, Heath told me it was a pine nut and that my skin was turning really red. I was starting to sweat and breath heavy so Derrick drove me home like a race car driver and we ran inside for a shot of adrenalin and some Benedryl. When we got there I was spitting out mouthfuls of mucus, dripping sweat, bright red and my chest was heavy. I read the directions on my epinephrine shot that had expired in 05/03 and then plunged it into my leg.

Then I took some Benedryl and drank some water. I immediately cooled off and started to return to my normal color. Derrick made sure I was doing all right for a while then went back to the park and I laid on the couch and recovered from the attack. At like 5 something I was very drowsy and my chest was a little tight but otherwise I seemed fine. I went met up with the gang at the park but we pretty much just packed up everything and went home. I never really got better for the rest of the night and was barely awake. We did go eat some Waldo Pizza and I drank like a piture of iced tea. Once I got home from a big pizza meal I got in bed and crashed out in no time.

I woke up at 2:30am feeling 100% and still felt great Sunday morning. I convinced Heath we needed to go for a run in the rain and we decided to check out brush creek. We ran three and a half miles up and down the creek and it was pretty cool to see all the water everywhere. After the run we got some groceries and then went to my office and got an adapter for my laptop and applied for a few loans online. Then Heath and I made some chicken pasta stuff for lunch and watched several episodes of the Black Donnelly's on TV through my laptop. It worked really well.  Eventually Heath got sad that Tommy was not going to be a painter and instead would run the Irish gang.

So we got on the realtor's website and looked for houses. We got a good list together and then drove around looking at houses (mostly in Waldo and surrounding area). I think we ended up with 4 houses with follow-up stars by them that we will try to go look inside at this week.

After the house search we visited Jon in the garage a bit then went home and cooked up some stir-fry with some deer tenderloin. It was great.

 

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5-4-07 8:24am

blurb and pic day

YEEee-HAuwww, it's Friday and I think we should play today. Let's play find your favorite hair picture and link to it on the comments section. I bet we can find some good ones. If I find some free time this weekend I want to get mine cut because it is curling into my ears and that is when it drives me nuts.

Kentaro how was Spiderman 3? NPR reviewed it as not that good this morning.

I'm still itchy but well rested.

(no ivy on my neck)

There is a chance we will not be rained on tonight and tomorrow, that could make the weekend a lot better. Sunday on though it is back to the rain fest.

For some reason Ice Cream Social popped into my head the other day. Is this type of event totally dead or do groups still throw an Ice Cream Social now and then? Does someone want to throw one and invite me? Can you make it fun for people my age? Beer and Ice cream don't go together you know.

Stooks mentioned it yesterday and I forgot. George Clinton and P-Funk Allstars will be here next Wednesday night does anyone want to think about going?

Did you know the Hindenburg crash anniversary is today? Some random facts: No one knows why it caught fire, everyone who stayed on lived, people who jumped off did not, Japanese people are likely behind it.

 

Thanks for 2 of the 3 facts NPR.

Allright lets see some funny hair!

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5-3-7 10:51am

First off I am sorry about being so late today.  Second off I am not going to do a good post.  I need to get some work done and my ivy is really bugging me. I went to an Urgent Care office and they gave me a shot in the butt and some pills to take but it's going to be a while before this really kicks in. My ivy arm is swollen much bigger then my other arm and it's hot and red.

Last night I ate at a place called Fire Mountain. It was an American buffet and we ate a lot. The food was good but not great.

 

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5-2-7 8:28am

First off where do you all recommend or not recommend getting a loan for a house? I know several of you have done this fairly recently and I'd like a list of places you like or dislike. I think Saturday morning I will do some applying for loans.

The house we toured at last night was defiantly not for me. Maybe a little old lady could love it but she would have to be pretty little and not have much stuff.

The poison ivy battle continues and I was not able to make it through the day yesterday after lunch I was:
                very tired,
                            very full
                                     and very itchy and so decided to:
take half a sick day,
                    take some benedryl
                                       and take a nap.
                                                     ZZZZZZZZZZzzzz...

Heath woke me up at 5 something to go look at the house after that we went for a run but neither of us were really into the run and we did not run to far. After the run we sat on the porch and had beers to cool off. I could not just sit arround for long before the itches started to drive me nuts so I cleaned the kitchen made dinner cleaned up some more and tried to keep busy all evening. I took an extra long, extra hot shower before bed and applied salt, baking soda and dish soap to the rash. Before the shower I did a brief interweb search and found this page http://poisonivy.aesir.com/view/kitchen.html about poison ivy remedies. At the bottom it suggests: "This is sounds silly but it works if you go get Cortaid Cream and wrap the infected area with saran wrap real tight real tight it will go away. When the infected area begins to sweat the poison ivy or oak opens up and the cream gets in the poison and clears it up."

So after my shower I put hydrocortisone on the ivy and Heath saran wrapped it for me. I took some benedryl and fell asleep. I had a good night of sleep and I can't really tell if it's better or the same but it is not worse. 

 

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5-1-7 8:25am

Well last night I went home and played with my new toys in the garage. First I put the weed whacker together and fired it up. I was pleased with it's ease of operation.

Then I got after the compressor. I had originally put it together at Heath's with limited tools so I got out wrenches and sockets and put the compressor together and then went after all the hoses and attachments to make sure they were all on tight and had Teflon on them.  I then took out the nail gun, paint sprayer, impact chisel thing and drill and looked at the manuals for them and started to put on their connections.

Heath showed up and we left my place to go look at some houses. We started using her cousin as our realtor and went to look at a few houses they found for us. We liked one we saw at 47th and state line and may go tour it and a few others tonight.

 

We worked our way to mom's for 24 and grilled up some steak, burgers and shrimp then watched the show. Mom had gotten me 12 polo shirts.

So a fairly normal night with nothing out of the ordinary.

unfortunately my night was only half over. I fell asleep around 11 I think but slept until just 3am before being unable to fall asleep.

I once again have a fairly wicked case of poison ivy or something. One arm is nearly completely coated from my wrist to wear my t-shirt is the other arm is more spotty and both my knees got it pretty good. So I laid in bed and tried to will myself not to itch for a while, then decided to get up I drank a glass of milk and turned on the latest Heroes episode on the DVR.

It was a great episode so I did not feel bad that I was missing my sleep. I tried to go back to bed afterward but could not get comfortable and I could feel my arm throbbing. I think I laid there for 30 minutes before Heath's alarm went off and she got ready for work. I watched tv in bed for a while then after watching a fishing show for a while I fell back asleep for like an hour before my alarm went off and I came into work.

This morning I took a special anti-itch shower and I am feeling pretty good so far just need to go get some coffee.

Chris' Anti-poison-ivy shower

- get the water hot

- try to get it hotter still (this helps to open the pores in your skin)

- this will turn the rash all red and swollenish

- get out of the water stream

- carefully rub table salt into the rash

- let it sit for a while (burns just a bit but not as bad as the hot water)

- rub dish soap onto the top of the rash and salt

- the dish soap will help get rid of the oil that causes the rash

- rinse the dish soap, salt and poison off with hot water

- cool the water down, get it as cold as you can

- this soothes and gets rid of all the irritation you just caused

 

 

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4-30-07 8:20am

Friday night was rainy and I can't remember doing anything to exciting but Saturday morning Grant woke me up fairly early and we started our day while Heath was flipping pancakes.

First I made some bacon and pancakes for breakfast then we got dressed and headed out to Hillsdale for some fishing.

There was a ton of boats and fisherman in our cove but we found a spot and fished for about an hour but had no luck. Then we went to my house and I ran the stroller to loose park and we played at the playground and fed the ducks. Then we went to my house and started a fire and cooked up some hot dogs. After lunch we took a nap and while Grant was asleep I got pizza dough made and made some pizza sauce and chopped up some toppings. When Grant woke up we made the pizza and then Heather showed up and we ate it all up. Then I left and headed to Lansing for my friend Joel's Batchelor party. I am fairly sure there are laws about reporting what went on a bachelor party so all I will say is that we rented a 12 passenger van and went to Lawrence for most of the evening.

I went home very early in the morning and then slept in. Later on I went to Heath's house and we went to Home Depot. I decided it was time to buy a weed whacker. They were out of the one I really wanted but I found a nice gas one that I think I will like. While there I went ahead and got a compressor too. I have wanted both of these items for a while and was hoping I would find someone trying to get rid of one or see one at a garage sale but I gave up and bought them both. The compressor is really cool 1.2 HP motor that blows air at 125psi and it has an 8 gallon tank. It also came with some cool (but likely poor quality) accessories. I got a paint sprayer, nail gun, drill, and some other stuff with the compressor.

After Home Depot we went to Heaths house and started a fire in the backyard and cooked up a bunch of Pork Chops, grilled shrimp, green beans, carrots and steamed rice. We stayed in the back yard most of the evening eating on the porch and playing in the new sand box.

 

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4-27-07 8:24am

Today there could be lots of announcements because, my watch showed up, my article got printed, pops got a new job and is moving and I got these two awesome Polaroid pictures to show you.

    

My day is running a bit behind schedule but I had to take the time to scan these in for you all.

So last night when I got home from work I found my watch had been delivered. You guys did not mention the sweet case it comes with, I thought this was really cool. I too need to get some links taken out so the watch will fit better because it is too big but I don't think I will be too big once it fits snug on my wrist.

Then I ate a sandwich and went to Jon's to get working on this house project he has going. Basically he has to get a dump house ready to be rented out. So take out all the stuff that has been left in the house over the years and make the doors work again and put new glass in all the windows. Last night Jon had a dumpster delivered to the house and we started clearing out all the stuff. It was one of the worst projects I have been involved in for a while. Most of our time was in a dark nasty basement that was full of mattresses, lots of clothes, trash, boxes and all sorts of random things. Also someone stole all the pipes out of the building so everything was soaking wet and really heavy. We hauled up the big things like mattresses first then got big strong plastic bags and loaded them up with nasty stuff and carried them up a tiny windy stairwell to the backyard and the dumpster. I really can't guess how many loads we carried up but it was lots and we even swept up after we were done. Then we moved into the kitchen and loaded up everything there, all the dishes, pots, pans food etc. It was kinda gross but I am used to dealing with dirty dishes so was not nearly as gross. Then we took out all the furniture and beat it into flat pieces with Jon's maul. After this the dumpster was just about full and the house was nearly empty. This had taken less time then we expected so we had a beer then got to work on the back door.  We had found several prizes in the house that we didn't throw away. My favorite was a huge 5 gallon glass jug that has to be good for something. We also found these pictures above, a new bag of bug killer and Jon got a nice big load of various metal to scrap. We about filled his truck bed with pots and pans and anything metal that he can turn in for money.

Just before dark we boarded up the house for the day and I went home for a long hot through shower and hoped I had not just gotten hepatitis or scurvy or something. Then Heath showed up and we at some leftover soup and sandwiches. I had to do a few things at work last night so around 9:30 we headed to the office. I put RAM in some servers, installed a new KVM extender and got Heath to help out installing updates on servers and rebooting them. We got everything done and headed home around 10:30.

Tonight I'm going to go back and help Jon after work for a while then met up with Heath and Grant for a run and dinner. I'm probably not going to run the trolley race but we'll see.

 

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4-26-07 8:05am

Today there are no announcements because, my watch didn't show up yet, my shoes are still missing, my magazine article didn't come out yet and I don't know of anyone's birthday or anything.

My plans for last night and tonight got flip flopped so after work Jon and I went to Mikes until Heath came over then Heath and I went to look at houses. We ended up with a huge stack of fliers, many with "Chris + Heath's follow-up star", and several numbers to call for more info. We also got to tour a house on 96th between Wornall and Holmes. I really liked the house because it had a monster deck and a big lawn that curved into some woods. It also had a premade boat parking spot on the side of the house and was on a cul-de-sac. Heath has probably convinced me that it is to small and she believes the basement to smell funny. (yeah amazingly Heath has a sense of smell still)

After a lot of house shopping we were hungry and gathered up Steven and Becky and headed to BB's Lawn side BBQ. It was all 4 of our first trips out there.

There is a massive construction project on 85th and Troost so getting there was kinda crazy but we eventually made it. I was surprised that the place was nothing like I imagined it. I knew what I wanted before we even decided to leave from earlyer conversations with Jon and I quickly found it on the Menu.

The Smoked Catfish is farm raised and then gutted and skinned leavening all the meat attached to the bones and tail. Then I believe they apply some sort of rub and stick it in the smoker for some amount of hours then pull it out and fry it. It's served with some tasty cole slaw and battered French fries.  Of course the bones are a bit in the way but easier to deal with then a trout and the meat is like no other catfish I have ever eaten. The BBQ smoke really gets in there and makes for some good moist meat. They also had $2.75 draws of any Boulevard beer that they claimed to be 16 oz but looked a lot smaller to me. All in all I was impressed with BB's and I plan to go back and try more on the menu. Heath got the BBQ meatloaf and it was tasty but I have had better (from my oven). We were all shocked by the very Un-Kansas City sauce on the table. It was loaded down with brown sugar or molasses or something that was not KC's signature vinegar base.

I am leaning toward running on Sunday and starting at the back of the pack and pushing Grant in the stroller. I have not run since my 1/2 marathon a few weeks ago but the stroller should pull me down the hill.

 

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4-25-07 8:22am

I don't have a lot to report on last night I got some stuff done around the house then met up with Heather and Grant for dinner at Heath's Aunt's house.

This morning I started thinking about the Trolley Run that starts in Waldo Sunday morning. It is 4 miles and supposedly all downhill. I will be babysitting Grant all day Saturday with no Heather around and then going to a bachelor party on Saturday night so starting a 4 mile race at 7:45am the next day could be a disaster or best case mildly inconvenient. So I am looking for other folks to join in and run hung-over or not. I have not registered yet but will if I can get anyone else to do it with me. It's $30 if we sign up before Sunday morning. 

2007 Sabates Eye Centers Trolley Run

The Sabates Eye Centers Trolley Run is the largest four-mile run/walk in the United States. Runners/Walkers come from 38 states and 3 countries to participate. The Trolley Run holds the female and male four-mile American Best Times, making it the fastest course in the U.S.!

 

I think my latest article in Radio World comes out today but I didn't see it yet so maybe I am wrong. I get excited about these so you are sure to hear about it.

Also e-mailing woot.com is on my list of stuff to do today. My watch has not shown up and I don't have a valid tracking number so I am worried that something went wrong. I really hope I don't have to go get a mac mini now.

Tonight Jon and I are going to be working on the house near his apt that his garage is on. Instead of paying rent on his garage he does work for the landlord. Last year he built/fixed the garage for his years rent. This year he is working on the house next to it. This house really torn apart and we need to get all the junk out of it and fix the doors and windows. The house is often a victim of squatters moving in w/ out permission and tearing the place up then moving on. Someone recently broke in and cut out all the pipes in the building to sell the copper. The building needs to be bulldozed over or burnt to the ground but the landlord wants to keep putting on new windows and doors so that is what we will do.

 

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4-24-07 7:58am

Well I looked around this morning and still no atomic watch delivery. The7:45a tracking number they gave me for FedEx does not seem to work either.

Yesterday at lunch I put together a vegetable beef soup and took it to Heather's house last night. Her stomach was bothering her so I kept it fairly simple and tame. Since dinner was an easy heat up job and it was so darn nice out. We got to work on the long grass, the questionable lawn mower and the sand box. The mower does not seem to run great and the battery is not charging when it is running. The mower probably died 5 times and each time I had to jump it with the truck again. This was very time consuming and annoying. Eventually we got it figured out enough to mow the lawn with it. Since I had gotten it started so many times then pushed it back to the truck the lawn had strange areas that had or had not been mowed.

I had never used a ridding lawn mower to mow a lawn before and it was lots of fun. Since you can't go back and forth easily like when you push I would make race tracks then follow them on the inside after each loop. I started out w/ Grant on my lap going at a reasonable speed but once he got off cranked it up all the way and tried to go around the race track as fast as I could with it getting smaller each loop and the turns getting tighter and harder to make. I'm sure I looked crazy out there speeding around the lawn turning back and forth. This experimental mowing technique did not do well for the lawn. Heath and I also took turns pushing the normal mower around to get the really deep spots that killed the riding mower and around the trees and obstacles that were hard to get close to on the ridding mower. I think the blades on the two mowers were set at different heights so the lawn really looks like Heath hired the special Olympics to come out and mow it for her but the grass is short and all 3 of us had a lot of fun playing.

After the lawn was done we decided not to worry about finishing the paint job on the sand box and pushed all the sand together then put the box on top of it.

Grant had been playing in the sand pile when he was not getting a ride on "the tractor" and when there was a box around it he got really excited because now he could make a pile and then jump off the box onto it.

Then we went to Sonic and got some sundaes and Grant ran around the playground until dark.

 

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4-23-07

Well I have lots of good stories from a good weekend in Kansas City. I think it would be too big a post to talk about all the stories I can think of. Here is a list of potential topics to discus today:

- Building a dog house

- Getting a lump on my head

- Stooks and I walk to Brookside

- Stooks' obsession w/ Charlie Hoopers

- Breakfast at Bell Street Mama's

- Jon's terrible house project

- Getting Grandma to the river

- Asian boobytrap gets my starter

- Ohh no, no paddles on board

- Let's build paddles

- The giant tunnel (what is this)

- The catfish and the limb lines

- Great rock bed for fire dinner and views

- The giant tunnel part 2 (the other side)

- Squatter fisherman steal the spot

- Getting a muddy Grandma home

- 1st Run since the race

- Cleaning up after everything

- 1st communion party

- family get together

- Chocolate milkshakes at Winstead's

As you can see I have a ton to talk about today so I am just going to pick a few things to mention. Since I have pictures I will talk about those topics first.

The dog house project got started shortly after work on Friday night. It had been previously determined to go with a mostly flat roof so Ranger (my sister Kelly's black lab) could get on top of the house if he wanted. I was not sure exactly what to do but first started constructing a large box with a crooked top. Then I decided to make an awning on the front like this.

Here is the finished shape:

It has a removable front (not pictured) to make it warmer in the winter. The house is really heavy and very solid. 

Late Saturday afternoon Jon, Steven and I took Grandma Natty to the Convergence. 

Remember where the rivers meet.

 

We had some early trouble with the starter, and then found out I forgot the paddles and then realized the boat was drifting toward the fast current of the Missouri River. It made it to the bank before getting to the Missouri and we got the starter taken apart enough so we could bypass it and pull start the boat. Then we cruised up the Kaw a ways and made some paddles out of drift wood and trash.  We continued a slow pace up stream just enjoying the river and drinking the beers. Then we saw a boat come out from a cove with a drainage tunnel in it. We cautiously made our way into the tunnel. We slowly drove Granma in deeper and deeper until we could see light from the other side. Eventually the ground got closer to the boat and the motor hit a rock and stopped. We paddled upstream a little way then gave up and drifted out of the tunnel. It was really strange looking on the other side and we were very curious what was over there. However we were also really hungry and came out and set up a temp camp site on a rock pile just outside the tunnel. Someone had built a huge fire ring on the rocky edge and there was plenty of good wood around.

Tunnel and our Fire (we just used the edge of the ring)

We built up a fire and then grilled a bunch of double cheeseburgers. As we were grilling the sun set and we had enjoyed some nice views. We still had a nice shot of the city downstream from us.

OK I am out of pictures now but want you to know we got long sticks and went back into the tunnel and got the boat up until it was very shallow then we tied it up and walked up to the other side. It was a construction project where a creek comes into the river. When we came out fishermen had taken our spot and fire and we took the boat over to them and talked for a while. The end of the tunnel is full of bait fish (minnows and shad) according to this guy so we want to come back with a throw net and get some.

My post seems plenty long so I will just mention one last bonus story. Matt would be sad if I did not mention the glass in the toilet at Hoopers full of puke. It was disgusting.

 

 

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4-20-07 8:04am

First off what are you all up to tonight. I'd be up with doing something, if not I'll probably take some Natty into the garage and work on some projects. Tomorrow I think Jon has a plan for Grandma Natty and the river.

Last night I took the lawn mower back to Heath's house and got it running again. I was missing a screw for it so we did not cut the lawn but instead gave Grant rides around the yard.

(note the partial paint job on the sandbox in the background)

He was nervous when I first got it running and drove up to him. The mower is very loud. But once we convinced him to sit down and grab the wheel he loved it. I drove him around the yard until I was bored then Heath drove him around the yard until the kielbasa was almost done.

Heath prepared a nice pork chop dinner w/ broccoli and ruby red grapefruit and we all ate it up before playing on the lawnmower but I had broughten over a sausage and decided to put it on the grill while we worked on stuff in the backyard.

We were all full from dinner until Heath started slicing the sausage and we could smell the polish goodness. Grant really tore into it and we had to monitor how many slices he could put in his mouth at once.

After the sausage was gone I went back to one of my other projects, the sandbox. Sandbox w/ primer coat

Last night we gave it a coat of primer spray-paint and then a coat of flat white. I think it may need one or two more coats of white or we could call it good enough and let Grant start playing in it. 

I am a little concerned with the sandbox and the ant population around Spring Hill. When I took the tarp off the sand pile I had put down earlier this week I found it to be covered with little ants. There is always lots of ants in Heath's yard and they seem to enjoy the soft sand. It will kind of suck for Grant (and probably me) if we get covered with ants anytime we play in the sand. Does anyone have any ideas for keeping them out? Heath puts some poison around her house that does a good job of keeping them out but since Grant will be in the sand box poison seems a little risky.

 

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4-19-07 7:29am

Ohh 7:29, I came in early this morning.

Last night we hung out on my porch until close to 6 then headed over to Nate's for the BBQ. He had a good backyard with Ladder golf and horseshoes set up.

There was 8 of us men there and a whole lot of meat and beer. Nate had some really tasty baked beans, chicken drumsticks, burgers, dogs, pork chops and dear tenderloins.

(look at all that meat)

He kept the grill full of meats and we worked on the increasing pile on the plate to the side. I am fairly sure everyone ate their fill and then some, everything I ate was really tasty. After dinner we got more serious about the drinking and the games. Once it got to dark to see what we were doing we put all the stuff away and headed out.

I got an e-mail that my new watch is on the way and was shipped Fedex Smartpost.

 

 

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4-18-07 8:41am

First off for the announcement to really have it's full effect I'd like to set up a little story about it...

Imagine a deep scary hole in the ground that looks really deep. In front of that hole is some vegan PETA dude with a bowl of cuscus. He is telling me that meat club is bad for animals he says "meat club is madness". I say "madness"? and look over at a giant bacon cheeseburger,

it nods it's head and I kick the vegan PETA dude right in the chest and say "This is MEAT CLUB".

(no meat was harmed in this visualization)

Back to Business:

So last night I rushed home from work and fired up my lawn mower, It was still running well from last season and I got busy on my lawn. I took a break and took out my oil plug and filter then mowed the rest of my and my neighbor Ray's lawns. Once the lawns were done I finished the oil change and then Heath showed up and we got out a couple bikes and headed southwest.

We got to Waldo and aired up the tires at the free air machine at the QT there, then went next door to Sutherlands to check on their ability to cut glass. (FYI: Sutherlands will cut you out just about any size of glass you need)

Then we got back on the bikes and headed off the trolley trail and into the neighborhood. We cycled around and looked at houses for sale. We found several houses Northeast of Waldo that we liked. There were 4 that we really liked that seemed to have good prices and meet my needs. Heath is calling them today to get some more info on them.

Ridding bikes all over before dinner was wearing us down and eventually we headed back to my house. We grabbed a couple of ice cream bars and hopped in the car. We drove back to Sutherlands and got the glass and some other stuff then went back and got the info on the houses we really liked. We got home just after 8 and it was about dark. I cooked up some spicy Mexican chicken dish and we watched House and The Shield.

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4-17-07 8:06am

Well last night I was running around a bunch right after work. First I went home and changed, loaded the garden tiller into my truck, grabbed the fry daddy and a tarp. Then I headed to mom's house and met up with Heather. I unloaded the tiller and went to the nearby Aldi for my groceries.

 We put them in a cooler and drove to Ace Hardware.

I got a bolt that was missing on the tiller and a bag of weed and feed for mom. Then I went next door to the Hen House and got ice for my cooler and a new tooth brush.

Then we went to my friend Brian's house and shoveled some sand out of his sand box and into a wheelbarrow then out of the wheelbarrow and onto the tarp in my truck bed.

We took several loads then headed over to moms.

She had cooked up quite a dinner. We had a nice beef brisket w/ sauce, a salad with chicken on it, fresh pineapple, 7 layer dip, and French fries from my Fry Daddy.

 Before dinner I ran the tiller in the garden for a while. Then we ate and watched 24. After the show I drove the sand out to Heather's and we pulled and pulled on the tarp until it finally poured off the truck and onto the ground by the sandbox. 

Tonight I am thinking I will do some window repair and a nice bike ride. I'd also like to change my oil and mow my lawn but we will see about that later.

 

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4-16-07 8:29am

Well Friday I ended up working late and then went out for a couple drinks with some of the KCUR gang and Derrick. We went to Jimmy Jiggers or JAZZ and braved the rain storm. Afterward I drove to Heath's house and found it snowing heavily there. I passed all kinds of cars in the ditch on the highway.

We went to bed early and slept in.

 

Then eventually started our journey to St. Louis. The drive out went well in spite of stopping every 45 min or so for Grant to take a bathroom break

but it was worth it because he had no accidents the whole time.

Once in St. Louis we went to the Magic House and Grant ran around crazy for a few hours.

(no pictures of mine beyond this point, think about abandoning the post)

Yesterday morning Heath and I got up at 5:45, got our stuff and headed downtown.

We found a parking spot fairly easily and walked up to the starting line area. There were runners everywhere for blocks in every direction. We eventually got into the crowd somewhere in the middle and waited for the run to start. It reminded me of being on the floor at a big concert. You could not move with out bumping into someone and yet everyone was jumping up and down and stretching themselves in strange ways. It was also very unlike a concert. The very old and very young were right there with everyone else trying to get a good spot and stay "warmed up". Lots of people had a garbage bag wrapped around themselves (I guess to keep the heat in). There was lots people wearing shorts smaller then they should make shorts and there was spandex all over the place. It was interesting, attractive and disgusting all at the same time.

Eventually after much yelling into a microphone and everyone getting pumped up the race began ... and we all stood there... then took a step forward... then started walking at a slow pace... this went on for about 10 minutes before the people in front of me had gotten spread out enough to run. It was around this time that I actually passed the starting line. The first mile or ten was kinda crazy people everywhere going very different speeds from walkers to sprinters. You were constantly weaving through people and trying to cut your way into some open space. And to make it more challenging people were already losing clothes. First garbage bags all over the ground then more clothes, sweatshirts and pants, gloves hats you name it people were dropping it to be more comfortable and more likely to try and trip me up.

I have done some smaller runs before and have dealt with a crowded start but noting like this and I never got over how amazing the view was when approaching a hill and you could not see the road but just a crazy moving crowd in front of you. Then you look back and it is the same thing behind you. It seemed like after 7 or 8 miles things calmed down a bit and it was somewhat easier to get through the crowd.

My foot had been great all day Friday Saturday and Sunday for the first 1/2 mile. I could not even tell there had been a problem but after that first 1/2 mile the problem reminded me it was there. It was not bad at first and I remember a particular bend we had to go around at mile 8 where I stepped down strange and the foot really started hurting. After that I felt every step I took but decided I was going to be able to keep running till the end. I felt fortunate that my foot had behaved so well for so long.

Heath and I finished the 13.1 miles in about 2 hours and 10 minutes. Actually me in 2:09:04 and her at 2:11:13. We stuck together until the last mile when the cheering crowd got the best of me and I took off with some sort of secret energy supply that surprised even me.

Once done they gave us emergency blankets, medals and most importantly beer.

 Good old Anheuser-Bush had a beer tent set up and we got to start drinking immediately. The beer tasted great and made me much happier then the banana or bagel.

 

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4-13-07 8:30am

Well last nights working in the garage plan went really well. First Jon and I looked at Heath's new ridding lawn mower. We took out the carburetor, took it apart, cleaned it up, covered each piece in carb cleaner, put it back together and put it back in. Then we turned the key and the lawnmower noisily came alive. We spent some time tweaking with it to get it to sound and run better and even took it for a couple of rides.

 

I really like the lawnmower, it has 7 speeds and 7 is pretty fast. It seems to run really well now and is old enough to have no safety "features". You can stand up while driving since there is no sensor on the seat. This also means you can fall off and it will keep right on going. Even more exciting is the blades swinging below you. There is a handle to engage them and to move then down. When I first got on and drove around the mower hit a bump and the blades dropped. Also they seem to spin in the off position periodically.

We got out Jon's welder and installed a piece to keep the blades from dropping on their own and then moved on to the roto-tiller.

The tiller was also having trouble starting but once we took off the little air cleaner cap and squirted in some carb cleaner she fired right up. We let it run for a while and it never seemed to really take off. We could make the blades on it go but they never went very fast. We started messing around and found the throttle cable that controlled how much gas it got was sticky and not working well. We took it out cleaned it up and put it back on then it started and ran much better.

Then we moved on to the boat and got the depth finder connected to the ignition key so it could have power. The monitor came to life and showed us to be in 6ft of 40 degree water. I think it should work fine once the boat is in the water.

After the boat was done it was getting kinda dark and cold out so we put stuff away and went in to get some dinner. Heath showed up after dinner and we went for a 2 mile run. My foot hurts a little while I run but seems better each day. When I got home my foot felt fine again and I was excited to find it not sore today. The 13mile run this weekend is certainly going to be a challenge and I am not sure how it will go exactly.

What happened!!! I know I am a few days late on this one (keeps slipping my mind in the morning)  The black Donnelly's is apparently canceled that is terrible it was such a good show. There are petitions online but I wonder if those really do anything. Does anyone know the story here?

 

 

 

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4-12-07 8:12am

Kinda dragging this morning, may need a cup of coffee. First off yesterday's trip to Walsh's Cocktail Corner was a success. It's a small bar with quite a crowd on Wednesdays. We had 6 of us packed onto a pedestal table w/ 3 chairs for a while and then got to move to a table built for 4 later on. Just before the waitress showed up to take our drinks I noticed the tap proudly sporting the old school Natural Light

We ended up ordering pictures of this classic beverage and I was already impressed with the place. 

We had drank a couple pictures before ordering 6 bacon cheese burgers, all with cheddar, 3 with fries and 3 with onion rings. The burger and side combo was $4.00 and as suspected fairly small. The sign on the wall advertised them as 1/3 lbs. precooked weight and I feel that was probably a fair estimate of the size. The burgers were all home formed patties made with good meat and covered in some sort of tasty cheddar goo and good crispy bacon.

The fries were home style, looked like someone in the back was cutting up potatoes with the skin on. So the meal was good but small, If they had a jumbo burger or we had ordered some appetizers it would have been fine. 

I think we ended up ordering 5 natty pictures, 6 burgers and 3 amaretto and cokes. Our bill was $36 and some change. We discovered the pictures were $3 and we were only charged for one.

We all left tipsy and happy and slightly hungry.

Before this all began I changed Heath's oil and ran a mile. The mile run went well and my foot felt ok last night and more importantly good today. I think I'll try a couple tonight. Heath's oil change did not go as well. First I bought the same gallon of 10 W 30 oil I use for my truck then opened the hood and saw it required 5 W 20 so we had to take it back. Then I opened the oil filter and it looked all wrong so I sent Heather back to the store to check it out then I pulled out the plug that was on the side of the oil pan instead of on the bottom so the oil came out with some force and ran right down my sleeve. I had trouble locating the filter and looked in the manual. It said not to change the oil until the oil light on the dash told you to and gave no information about the filter. Heath brought the filter back and I found the old one and switched it out and we replaced the oil and everything worked out all right and I was very relieved I had not been drinking because this new Saturn may have gotten the best of me. 

 

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4-11-07 8:11am

Rain, rain and more rain. Last night I went to Heath's and made some kind of chicken Mexican dish, lets call it burritos w/ chicken, refried beans, corn, tomato, onion and peppers.

Then we decided to head outside even though it was raining. I finally finished getting Grant's sandbox put together and now it just needs paint and sand. Then we went to Home Depot to get paint for the box and a few other things.

So tonight I am planning on changing the oil in Heath's car in preparation for our trip to St. Louis this weekend. If I have time I may work on the dog house or boat. We were also going to try out a short jog. Then (around 7:00) we plan to go play some shuffleboard, drink some beers and eat some burgers. I'm not sure what the place is called but they have a burger special on Wednesdays.

 

 

YUMMY-FUN-TASTIC!

Also it is supposed to rain today and again tonight so we may have to do all this in the rain.

Then it is supposed to rain Friday and Saturday while we are going to St. Louis and running in the rain. Last time we did a 5 or 10K it was raining though and I was glad so that's not too bad but it is supposed to be in the upper 30s so it may be a cold wet run. I'm a bit nervous about this marathon now. It has been a week and a half since the last time I have ran at all or done anything very athletic. My foot has been acting weird and I have been resting it in hopes of it being better for the race.

Also Meat club is exactly 1 week away so start figuring out your schedule and let me know if you can make it.

The extended forecast says 70 degrees next Wednesday so that's lots warmer then today. Ohh yeah it is supposed to rain on Wednesday too. However I doubt they are accurate at predicting rain a week away.

 

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4-10-07 8:11am

Well it was another exciting evening of 24 at mom's. After work I went home and worked on the boat for a while and I think I am out of stuff to work on now until Jon is there to help me out or the weather gets warm enough to do some paint. I have a few things on my list I really want to do before boating season and a few I want to look into. Need to paint, improve the seating, find a hub for the trailer, work on the trailer lights, connect sonar to battery, and strengthen or replace the winch, test the speakers. I'd also like to look into installing a car gas tank up front, replace the steering wheel, and build a removable deck up front.

After working on the boat I got started on my sister's dog Ranger's dog house. I'm not real sure how I am going to build it yet. I have seen some plans online for the classic style

but I also like the idea of an A-frame

or a nearly flat roof.

The almost flat roof is appealing because it allows the dog to climb on top of the house and sit up there like snoopy always did.

Regardless the house will be about 3ft high, wide and tall.

Around 6 I left my garage and went to Waldo Hardware for 8 self threading screws. I saw several intresting houses for sale near the hardware store on my way out of there heading toward mom's house. At mom's I used the screws to put the bed liner on my truck tailgate back on and get it nice and tight.

Then I got out the tiller.
(like this but bigger, rusty and yellow)

Mom wants to plant a couple vegetables in the garden and I am in charge of tilling up a part of the garden so she can plan there. The motor on this little guy had gas and oil, I followed the starting instructions and pulled the string a bunch but it would not start. I took out the spark plug and it was pretty dirty and old but when pulling it seemed to have a spark through it still. I played around for a bit longer before loading it in the truck for me to take it home for some more serious tinkering.

We ate lots of Easter leftovers for dinner then watched 24.

 

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4-9-07 8:26am

Well Monday posts are never the norm and today is no exception. I decided to come in early today and replace the receptionists computer before she got in to work. This went much quicker then I anticipated and I was on my way home around 7:15 to shower and get ready for work. I'm still in my Easter clothes. However just as I was about to leave I was notified of another problem with a news booth and I have been working on it ever since.

So before I can do a good Monday post w/ pics of the boat and my garage and Easter I need to finish fixing this computer, go home and change, take some pictures and come back to work.

Here is an Easter pic to tide you over until I get back:

11am update

All right I'm back and ready to go. Easter was fairly normal. Grant woke up and found eggs aground his house. Then I made breakfast and we went to church with my family then back to mom's for Easter and the Easter bunny had hidden 300+ eggs. Then we ate lunch and he went to Heather's uncles house for more Easter. Then relatives came to Heather's for more Easter.

Friday and Saturday were much more interesting. First I got after my crazy cluttered garage. Transforming it from a huge mess that only had one small walkway through the middle to this delightful open space.

Then I made a list of things to do to the boat and started getting after them Note the fish/depth finder here on the dash. The monitor and sensor are attached and most of the wires are run and buried to connect it all. I left off the connection to the battery because I'm not real comfortable with the meter and I really need to know what wires near the key are (+) and what are (-). I did connect the finder to my battery charger and it worked good as far as I could tell with no water or fish.

Also Heather and I did some other work on the boat and Grandma is really getting close to ready for the season.

We got to make a quick trip to Cabalas' over the weekend and I found another prop for the boat on sale for $14.99. So now we have a river prop and a ski/tube prop. I'd really like to get a good stainless steel prop but they are about $200 each.

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4-6-7 8:03am

When I got home last night Jon was already there working on the boat motor. I joined in and we soon had the starter all attached. My wonderful $80 rebuild had left the starter with some noticeable differences.

1.    It had been spray painted silver (possibly to make it faster)

2.    It was missing several of the nuts that bolted it to the motor (we found extra ones in the garage)

3.    The little gear on top looked to be upside down and while still used looked much less chewed up then previously. (we were unsure if they knew what they were doing when they flipped it over)

We noted all these changes and decided to get it well connected as is and see if it works. Once all hooked up I turned the key and nothing happened. We followed the wires for it and Jon took some measurements w/ his meter and then jiggled a yellow cable. Then we turned the key and the starter spun. We made sure the wires were in good shape then tried to start it. The rebuilt starter had a much different sound and we soon realized it spun way way faster then the old one ever did. The boat (being cold and sitting outside for several weeks) started up very easily and roared to life.

(Getting the motor started last season)

Jon and I were quite pleased and took to fixing the gear problem. While spoonbill fishing the boat suddenly lost the ability to go in reverse or neutral. So once started it was moving forward and if you needed to slow down or stay in one spot you had to turn the boat off. While installing the starter I noticed a missing nut on the back of the motor and traced it to the gear changing cable and saw that without the nut when you moved the throttle nothing happened to the gears. So this was an easy fix. We found the missing nut and washer inside the boat motor and made some adjustments and tightened it down better then before.

Then we moved to the riding lawn mower and had no success there. It was decided sometime we had more time we would take the carb apart and check it out.

Then we got a little cleaned up and got some Wendy's and I went to Mikes with Heather, Derrick, Bobby, and Jon. I had several $1 PBRs w/ my Jr. Bacon Cheeseburgers and then went to Ward Parkway mall and watched "300". I enjoyed it quite a bit, a lot more then the Caribbean Pirate movie I saw last time in the theatre.

   

 

 

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4-5-7 8:13am

After getting my starter back after work I went home and prepared to test it, then realized my boat battery was nearly dead so instead I charged it and did some work striating up my very very cluttered garage. It has been very difficult finding anything in the garage lately mostly due to the ice house pieces and all the extra wood I have been collecting. Also just before the house was appraised lots of stuff got moved to the garage to keep it out of the way. I created a makeshift table out of some of my stuff and then cleared out an opening to the garage door and things already started looking better. Then I found my lawn mower gas tank and decided to try and get a self propelled lawn mower that Steven gave me working. I put in a bit of gas, pumped the bulb ten times and she fired up on the first pull.

 So I have 2 working lawn mowers now and maybe 3 not working or semi working ones at my house right now. At 5:30 I decided I had better get going and got some gas in the truck and dropped off my rent check. Then I stopped by Harbor Freight and got some new pliers, wrenches and a socket and ratchet set.

This will make boat/and misc. work much easier. I think I have 1/2 of what I bought but it is very lost in the garage or somewhere.

Then I went to Heath's and warmed up some leftover Mexican hamburger helper stuff I had made the night before. I used deer burger (of course) and added a bunch of peppers onions corn, tomatoes and stuff. It was really good and we ate it up. Then we had some pudding and Heath did some bills while Grant and I watched some snakes on TV then we died a dozen eggs for Easter. Grant had a tough time understanding "careful" and the first raw egg went on the floor. Then the next 3 or so went into the pot very hard and got very cracked and sprung egg leaks all over. I think H broke a couple trying to poke holes in each side and blow out the goo. So we maybe 4 eggs boiled and died with out breaking.

Luckily Grant had made 8 eggs at the baby sitters house and we could end up with a whole dozen to look for Sunday morning.

Tonight I plan to work on the Starter/Ridding Lawn Mower/Boat gear problem/Garage for a little while then go to Mike's for a drink or 2 and maybe take some food in then Heath and I are going to go see 300 since she got some less terribly expensive tickets. So if you want to join in any of the fun let me know.

   

 

 

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4-4-7 8:27am

Yesterday I rushed home after work put on some shorts and flip flops and got to work taking out the starter on my boat.

(not taking it apart like this but just disconnecting it from the boat motor by taking out the bolts and screws and wires that hold it against the motor)

Obviously the starter is responsible for starting the motor. When it is sent electricity from the battery a solenoid causes a small gear to spin and rise. This gear fits into the large gear you often see on top of the motor and makes it spin this gear forces the pistons to move and hopefully generate a spark that gets the motor going. So the starter has a fairly simple but important job. With out it you have to find another way to force the large gear to spin fast and get the pistons going. We have gotten quite efficient at "pull starting" with a rope wrapped around the gear and pulling it quickly to start things off but it is not nearly as fun as turning a key.

So I got the starter off fairly quick and rushed off to my local NAPA parts store in hopes that they would have a replacement. The young man at the counter did not have much luck but the old timer there got interested and found me one in Detroit that they could send over. However it was a $300 plus tax part. Wow that is more then I paid for the boat I thought. I got the part number from the guys and left to try out the other shops. At O'Reilly I got another young guy at the counter and immediately said they don't have boat stuff then got curious and asked around and started looking through books. He too found a part but had no price or availability information. He would need to contact the where house in the morning and find out what the price is on the part and if they have any. So I decided I would try back in the morning unless Advance could help me out.

Advance typed every number on the starter into their system and never found anything that matched. They never got out the old books but instead I "take it up to East West". I had no idea what they were talking about. They told me that there is a shop at 36th and Troost called East West that will rebuild any starter or alternator in about an hour.  This was another option I had never considered so called Jon and he said to check it out but not to pay if it was like $100 to get it rebuilt.

 I decided $50 was reasonable

 $100 was not.

I found the small tan shop and walked in the opening where a door belongs and into a dark cement shop with a small area for customers blocked by a large counter. All I could see where racks of parts. I noticed movement behind the racks and soon a small Asian man appeared. "Yes I would like to find out about getting this starter rebuilt please" I say. He looks at watch then says "ready in morning". "how much does that cost? I ask" "ahh most is $80,... $80 is very most, pick up tomorrow morning"  So the guy just wrote down Starter on a note pad and Chris next to it and our transaction was done.

I decided I may get it done for $50, sure it could also be $80 w/ lots of other taxes and bogus charges added to it where I pay over $100. So I am excited to go back this morning and find out if I get a deal or screwed.

 

 

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4-3-7 8:15am

Well yesterday was Monday and so it was 24 night and normally I go to mom's and we watch 24. However 2 weeks ago I was in Utah on Monday and neither of us had watched 24. So this week mom came to my house at 7 and we watched last weeks 24 and then this weeks episodes back to back. Since we were mixing things up I also prepared the dinner and tried up an experimental recipe of mine. I didn't take any pictures last night of the finished product but I can show you all the ingredients so you can visualize what we had to eat.

First I got some water boiling and got us each a big pile of noodles.

Egg Noodles

and Spinach Stuffed Rigatoni Noodles

I topped the noodles with some chicken

This was no rubber chicken though,

 I took some chicken breasts

 marinated in Italian dressing

and sliced them up extra thin

then I put them into a ziplock bag

with a couple of eggs.

Once the chicken was coated in egg, I pulled out each slice of chicken and battered it in a mixture of breadcrumbs
 

Then I took all my battered chicken slices

 and put them on a pan
 

The pan went into the 350 degree oven for 15-20 min
 

Once cooked I topped each persons pile of noodles with a few crispy chicken slices and then pored on some tomato spaghetti sauce

On the side we had some vegetable mix

A side salad

pineapple

 and garlic toast.

The experimental meal was a great success and turned out quite tasty.

I also had a nice fresh catfish

and so battered it in cornmeal

and put in in there w/ the chicken.

Can you just about taste it or at least imagine what it looked like?

 

 

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4-2-7 8:06am

Well this was my first weekend at home in a while and it seems like a lot got done. Friday after work Derrick and I went out and set the trot line. It was not too cold but the water had gone up a lot with all the rain and setting it was a little difficult. Then I went to Heath's and cooked up some Chineese food and did some home improvement stuff for her. We put up blue curtains in Grant's room and fixed up her screen door. We also watched KCUR reach our fundraising goal on the webcam.

Saturday was a long day for me. I woke up at 5:45am and Heath and I went up to Hillsdale and ran 10 miles. I took my GPS and it took us 1 hour and 55 min. After our run I tried to take a nap but was not able to fall asleep. I got up and made peanut butter tortilla treats for Heath Grant and I then drove back to the river to check my trot line w/ Jon and Stooks.

We had gotten some serious rain the night before and my line had broken and rolled itself into a big mess of leaves and tangled hooks. It took us an hour to untangle, repair and put back up. I was worried about what the water was going to do and about some meddlesome kids nearby.

We went to my house and fired up the grill for double cheese burgers w/ onion, jalapeno, mushroom and pickles. Also we fried up a batch of crinkle cut fries. All morning the weather had been great but partway through lunch it started to get windy.

I had brought home a ridding lawnmower that someone gave Heath and we decided to see if we could get it running. She was told all it needed was a good battery and a belt. We took out the battery and hooked it up w/ jumper cables to my truck. After a bit of tinkering we got it to start. We then put it away and went to get a battery.

Advance did not have the $50 motorcycle battery it was supposed to use. So we bought a $15 lawnmower battery and rigged it up to work. However we could not get it to start anymore. Jon believed it to be flooded so we went inside to warm up because it was really getting cold out now.

Once inside out of the wind and warm we gave up on the battery and trot line and laid around for a while. Eventually we got cleaned up started drinking and went to 75th street brewery. We had grown to a group of 8 now Geoff, Kevin, Derrick, Bobby, Stooks, Jon, Jenna and I. The food and beers were great. Afterward we went to my house and had a great night of speed quarters and guessing what song would come on next.

Sunday I helped Jon fix a misfire in his truck from a bad coil then went to Penguin Park with Grant.

Penguin Park is North of the river and a really cool kids park with lots of giant animals to play on. Grant was crazy about it and never stopped running and laughing until it was time to go.

Afterward we went back to my house for another cheeseburger BBQ. We had similar delicious sandwiches and fries but added corn, baked beans and pears.

After dinner I decided I had to bring in my trot line. It had rained then got cold then gotten really warm so I was fairly sure the whole thing was destroyed. I was hoping to reclaim a few hooks and clasps from it. When Heath Grant and I got there I saw it was still up and was really glad. I was not surprised to see 75% of the hooks were way out of the water since the river had gone down so much. I started bringing in the line and stowing it away when Heath saw a fish on it. I caught a nice catfish and a lot of trash in the small section that was still in the water.

 

I put up the line and cleaned the fish then got me cleaned up and went to bed. 

 

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3-30-07 9:33am

I had a meeting from 8-9:30 this morning so I am working on the post now.
Last night I went home and got some dinner started then enjoyed a drink or 2 on the porch with Steven. Then Derrick and I ate premade enchiladas homemade Mexican rice and canned chili beans. During dinner Jon showed up and wanted to play hackey sack. We watched South Park then went out front and hacked for a while. Then I encouraged the guys to go pick out a couple of good spots for my trot line this weekend. We drove out to the river and found 2 good spots and even a few good limb line spots. On the way home we talked about Grandma Natty and decided to ask at a few of the local auto parts stores about getting a starter for it. Nappa was closed, Auto zone stopped carrying the parts and O'Reilly and Advance needed a part number off it to even look for it.

So with the weather getting warmer I am getting overloaded with projects to work on and Grandma Natty is a big one. Jon really wants to get his Bronco running and build a fence for his landlord. Heather wants me to fix her ridding lawn more, build her a shed and several other home improvements, Kelly wants a dog house, I want to clean up the garage get lots of stuff done to my boat and a few done to my truck. All of these projects sound like good fun stuff to do but the enormous list is a bit overwhelming right now.

Over the course of tonight and tomorrow morning I will be setting my trot line and going to Heath's for a 10mile run, pepper chicken Chinese dinner, fixing her screen door, loading up her lawn more, getting Grants sandbox ready for summer, hanging curtain rods in Grants room and whatever else arises. Then Tomorrow afternoon I'll check my lines and play w/ Stooks.  So Saturday evening I will be ready for a nice evening sitting on the porch drinking cold nattys and seeing where the night takes me.

 

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3-29-07 8:10am

All right looks like today is lots better then yesterday. I am still having a somewhat busy morning even though I came in extra early but nothing like yesterday. First off Stooks is coming to town this weekend and I am going to try to convince him and Derrick to assist me in running a trot line this weekend.

Anyone want to be involved with that? I plan on driving the 10 min to Blue River a few times over the weekend and brining a few of these tasty guys home. Maybe fry them up for lunch on Sunday with a pile of fries.

Best News of the Day:

Thanks to Steven's assistance most of my Utah backpacking pictures are back.
(older Colorado picture)
Steven found me a program to help out with data recovery and it found over 300 pictures on my messed up SD card.  It looks like about 80 of my 96 Utah pictures were able to be recovered. I am still getting them ready to put on the site and hope to have them ready to go shortly after my post is done. I will have a link in the photo album and from HERE.

I have these 3 so far (some are Tony's)

We were all over this area most of the time we were hiking.

 

Tony took this shot of me looking out over the hills.

 

This was our home the first night. The ground was pretty rocky and far from level but we were happy to have it.

As I mentioned above I anticipate things slowing down at work this week and I am going to try to put together a nice website w/ a lot of pictures and stories from our first backpacking adventure.

Last night Heath, Grant and I went out to Hillsdale Lake for a run, a picnic and to throw rocks in our cove.  It was so nice out and we all had a really fun time. Seeing the cove really got me excited.

The water looked deep and our island was under water again. I really need to get on the ball and get the boat fixed up more and ready for this season.

Tonight I hope to open my bags from my trip and start unpacking and stowing all the gear.

 

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3-28-07 10:19am

I know I am really late on my first day back to posting. It is also my first day back to work and I have quite a list of stuff to take care of here too. I wish I could just stick up a few pictures from my trip and say good enough for today but I have some bad news about the pictures I took. It looks like my SD storage card died near the end of my trip. I think I had about a 100 pictures on it. I have not gotten a chance to play around with it today and figure out what is going on and if they are for sure gone but it does not look good and that is really sad.

Dad just called and said they are getting 2 feet of snow in the mountain today where we were early this week so we really lucked out on weather.

I have no idea how to tell all the crazy stories from our trip on the site especially on such a busy day. Maybe I will get some free time later on to try it out.

 

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3-22-07 The trail begins about here...

3-21-07 8:12am

Boy I'm feeling good today. I just finished eating the best apple I have had in a while a nice big red juicy one I got from Heath last night.

I'm about to finish a big glass of milk and a couple of hard boiled eggs too, quite a nice start to the last day I have to work for 6 days.

That's right I head to the mountains tomorrow morning very early (leave my house at 4:30am). Tomorrow we plan on driving around the Stansbury mountain range just south west of the Great Salt Lake. We will try to figure out where we want to start and finish our backpacking trek. Then Friday morning Pops will drop us off w/ nothing but our backpacks for our adventure into the wilderness. We hope to climb to the highest point in the range Deseret peak. We also have aspirations of hiking to a couple of mountain lakes, hot and cold springs, old mining operations, waterfalls and maybe we will see some moose or other animals.

      

We will stay in the mountains until sometime Monday afternoon and take all the food we will eat and supplies we will need with us. If the snow is not too difficult to travel on we will likely hike between 30-50miles.

(this is the Stansbury Range where we will be)

Ok now we will go out of the future and into the past. Heath found my camera, Grant had put it in a drawer inside an end table for me. So I have the fish pictures. Remember this fishy was about 13inches to small to keep.

 

   

At the same time Kelly snagged that cute little spoonbill I was destroying this poor little cat fish. The hook was bigger then the fish.

 

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3-20-07 8:41am

Well I worked a bit last night so I came in a half hour late this morning. It was a very active evening last night. I left work a bit early so I could get my backpack ready and me and Jon went back to Swope park to practice out our backpacking abilities. We still had rocks and lots of water in our packs to get them extra heavy. We hiked at the 2 mile trail all the way around and then back (4miles total) in just about an hour. So 15 minute miles this was a very fast pace and we only stopped to pee and make adjustments once. We decided that we were really getting the hang of backpacking and are really excited about our trip this weekend. 

Shortly after my backpacking training I decided to do some training for another up coming event. I have less then a month until the Saint Louis 1/2 Marathon.

I drove out to Corporate Woods and met up with Heath and Grant. We quickly got Grant in the stroller and took off at a fast pace. We also ran two miles then stopped and took Grant into the woods for a potty break then ran 2 miles back to the cars. Then we went to moms house for 24, dinner, and so I could go through the basement looking for any gear that may come in handy in Utah. I found lots of good stuff but not a tent I was really looking for. There is supposedly a good backpacking tent in the basement that packs small and light but I was unable to find it anywhere. That is not a big deal though because I have this tent.

and it is fairly small and light.

After mom's I drove to the KCUR station to get some work done that can only be done at night. I was lucky and everything went very smoothly and now all my servers are up to date and running tip top. I got done at 11 and went home to take a shower. (I had developed quite a funkiness from all the activities). 

Then I went to bed. Tonight I am going to make one last exhaustive search for my camera. I had it at the lake and then I remember looking at in in the truck on the way home. I thought I put it in my pocket at Heath's house to take it to the trail we hiked on but once in the truck it was not in there. If I don't find it tonight I may need to make an emergency purchase for my backpacking trip. 

 

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3-19-07 8:35am

Well the spoonbill trip did not go exactly as we had anticipated. It was really cold this weekend at the lake and that made it kinda tough. Also our hooks did not seem to find there way into the fish as well and we wanted. We only snagged one spoonbill and it was about a foot too short to keep. It was still a good time though and we all had some fun. 

Heather took this picture right after we got started, there was a cold wind on the boat and Grant only stayed out for about an hour. We decided 3 people snagging on the boat was probably better then 5 anyhow.

Here I am w/ a snagging pole.

I took more pictures out on the lake but have not moved them to my computer yet and I could not find my camera this morning. So hopefully tomorrow I will add some more pictures some with fish in them.

Kelly and Grant with Ranger. Ranger is Kelly and Chris' 11 week old black lab puppy. He is fairly small now but is expected to be over 100lbs when full grown.

Friday night and St. Patrick's day we went to "Fattys". It is a bar near the lake house that everyone in the area goes to. The food was good and the drinks were priced good ($1 draws on Sat.) They have keno and the little loto pull tab game. Grant loves pulling the pull tabs and even won $5. Of course they have Karaoke and Heather got up and sang.

We caught our fish first thing Sunday morning then packed everything up and drove Grandma Natty home. She did really well on the trip and started with out too much problems. Most importantly the radio worked great the whole time. Of course Grandma eventually had a little problem with the gears. I could only get it in drive so no reverse and no neutral. This may not seem like a big deal but when you are pull starting a boat in gear it can get a bit hairy.

Once home Grant and I took a nap while H went to work then the 3 of us went to a nature trail out by Hillsdale and walked around the woods or "jungle" according to Grant. I had a normal backpack with me so Grant curled up in the bag with just his head and arms out and rode around. We stopped by the lake for a potty break and his poor legs were asleep so the way out he rode on my shoulders.

 

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3-16-07 8:20am

Well good morning and happy Friday. I hope you enjoy the special green page for the holiday.

 

It's brought to you by Guinness
and the Irish Car Bomb
who urges you to stay away
from this police this weekend.

 

 

Steven and I are working on a batch of deer jerky and I think it is about ready. Probably will be done between 9 and 10 this morning. I am kinda excited to see what we got. I made 3 lbs and 3 flavors: Jalapeno, brown sugar and garlic. All three were marinated in a teriyaki mango cure stuff. Heather helped me pack the meat gun that I used to squeeze out the jerky strips.

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Also last night I was frantically getting things ready for my weekend fishing trip. I ran into some trouble getting the boat motor to start, getting the lights on the trailer to work, and getting the last tire aired up but with some determination all these problems worked out well and I am just about ready to pull the boat down to the Ozarks. I also put together a nice pork roast in the crock pot with potatoes, onion, carrots and BBQ sauce. Then got a bag of snacks and stuff ready to keep my new fishing buddy happy.

If it does not rain and the fish are biting we should have a great time... Wait a minute Spoonbill never bite they just swim around and digest stuff in the water so more appropriately... If it does not rain much and the fish are swimming in the same area of the lake as our giant hooks then it should be a blast. I don't think I have ever caught a fish as big as these should be.

A catfish I caught last year.

Kelly and a spoonbill she snagged last year.

Chris and a spoonbill he snagged last year.

Both of last years spoonbills were too small to keep.

Here is a pic of some guys with an old record holder they brought in.

Something anywhere near half this size will absolutely fill poor Grandma Natty up. It will already be holding all our beer and snacks plus Kelly, Chris, Heather, Grant and Me.

 

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3-15-07 8:30am

Yesterday Jon and I went for a practice backpacking hike. After work we got ready and then loaded up our backpacks with extra water and rocks to get them extra heavy. We weighed them and adjusted them until we were both carrying between 65 and 70lbs.

 Then we tossed them in Jon's truck and drove over to Swope Park. Once there we easily found the Fox Hollow Hiking Trail.

"The 2-mile trail offers limestone bluffs, riparian forest and wetland valley as well as a presumably adorable litter of eastern cottontails released at the trail’s head on dedication day." The trail was right behind the Nature Center http://www.lakesidenaturecenter.org/index.htm

We were surprised to find that it was a really great trail, lots of hills, big rocks, streams. Also it was fairly clean and not an easy walk in park kinda trail. We went all the way around once then most of the way back in about an hour and a half. Since this was a short training hike we walked really fast and as mentioned above carried the heavier then normal packs. I think we will get in two more trips before we fly to Utah and do the real thing next week.

I'm sure I will tell you all about our trip but I'll mention that we will be climbing Deserete Peak and the area around it.

   

Jon, Tony and I will be backpacking and camping on our own in the mountains for about 3 days.

In the more recent future tonight after our run Heather and I will be going to an advanced screening of an NPR show that is going to be a TV show soon. Here are the details.

 Get a sneak peek of the new This American Life TV series, Thursday, March 15
Celebrating 50 years of broadcasting, KCUR and 8-9-3, Young Listeners of Public Radio, invite you to attend an advance screening of the newly-adapted-for-television series, This American Life. Catch a sneak preview at Screenland Theatre on Thursday, March 15th, at 7 PM. Screenland is located in the Crossroads at 1656 Washington. The event is free and open to public radio listeners of all ages.

If you are interested in joining us let me know the more the better.

 

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3-14-07 8:25am

Wow the top of my site looks so bare now. I guess I should think of something new to talk about up here. Is Brew to Brew going to happen? We may be too late on that one.

Well last night was the second meat club if you don't remember and we had shish kabobs. I came home from work and immediately checked on the fire Steven and I had started at lunch. It was still going just a little so I added some wood and went inside to get the refrigerator organized for more drinks to be added to it. Then got the baked potatoes started. People started showing up and we moved outside and hung out by the fire for a while.

kinda like this:   

Eventually we were not as thirsty and more hungry so we got out the meat.

and put it on the grill.

We filled the grill w/ kabobs like this twice. Russ got the corn and dinner rolls ready. The kabobs cooked up and we dug in. It took a while to get rid of it all but we all had a potato, rolls, pile of corn and lots of kabobs. We let the kabobs stay warm on the grill and worked them over for maybe an hour before we finally ate them all.

After that we did not do much standing or walking around. Everyone stuck to their chair near the fire and did some major digesting. We discussed cooking up the cinnamon rolls a few times but no one had any room for them.  So we spent the rest of the evening hanging out by the fire drinking some beers and conversing about things men talk about. 

Today's Post was brought to you by

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For tasting so good w/

dinner last night.

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3-13-07 8:39am

 

The second somewhat-monthly meeting of  Meat Club is tonight, MARCH 13

I have meat for 6. Russ, Derrick, Stephen, Matt, Brian and me. I can still fit one in if anyone changes there mind. Meat club will officially begin at 5:30 but the men are welcome whenever it is convenient.

The Menu for this evening, each man gets:

 
- an average sized baked potato w/ cheese and butter (maybe sour cream and bacon bits)
- 2 dinner rolls
- sweet corn
- pile of shish kabobs
- dessert jumbo cinnamon roll

Now since this is meat club I have packed the kabobs to the max.

1 lbs     of deer loin meat
1.25 lbs  of boneless pork rib meat
1.25 lbs  of boneless skinless chicken breast
2.5 lbs   of boneless beef chuck roast
1 lbs     of farmland blazing bacon

Each meat is currently marinating in it's own mixture of select marinade and seasoning. And this afternoon I will take them out and skewer them with a mixture of onion, green pepper, pineapple, and mushroom. They will all be cooked on a bed of oak and elm coals.

 

Bring your appetite, $7.00 and beverage of choice.
 

 

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I am running a bit late even though I woke up extra early this morning. Let me explain

 Last night I went to Corporate Woods with Heather and Grant again. Grant snacked in the stroller and Heath and I think we ran about 5 miles. We did stop a couple times so Grant could: play at the park, look at a group of 6 deer, hold a sleepy toad, and pee on a stick. With the time change it stayed light out longer so it never even got close to dark before our run was over :). Then we went to my mom's house for 24 we ate ribs, pizza, potatoes, strawberries, salad pudding and blueberry muffins. Grant went downstairs with the kids to watch "Finding Nemo"

and Mom, Heather and I watched 24.

Then I drove to the Price Chopper by Heath's to buy steak and other meat club supplies. I picked out 7 potatoes, 2 bags of corn, cinnamon rolls and then checked out the meat section.

They were closed for the night and there were lots of good looking steaks in the racks but I could not find 6 of the same cut and size. I decided to get the other stuff and go to my Price Chopper in the morning and look at the meat there. I paid for my other stuff and got in the truck. Then I started to panic a little thinking, I don't have 6 steak knives, what if more people want to come, or less people, paper plates wont work for steak, can I fit 6 steaks on the grill, do I marinade or not, rub or not, hot fire or warm fire, what do I know about cuts of steak??????

Then a thought popped into my head, "shish kabobs". I can incorporate many of the meats I love, I can do various marinades rubs and seasonings, I can have everything already cut, the fire won't matter much and everyone loves them. So I decided to pick out various kinds of meat and my trip to Price Chopper this morning went much easier. I was in and out with just what I needed and speedily set out to get everything cut and marinating before work.

So that's why I am running a bit late this morning. 

 

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3-12-07 8:20am

Well it feels like I had a productive weekend a bit sore and tired but feeling good. Friday after work (actually got started on my lunch break) I took the wheels off my boat trailer to be fixed up and then started taking off the hubs that the wheels attach to so I could repack the bearings inside them. I really didn't know how to do this or what all it involved but did know that everything had to come apart. I got one side completely apart and the other side almost there then Jon showed up and gave me some guidance on what to do. Then we planned our weekend backpacking trip and discussed our Utah backpacking trip (in less then 2 weeks). Heath showed up and we went to Jon's garage and aired up a tire and picked up my boat battery to get it charged up for my spoonbill fishing trip this weekend. Then we went back to my house and Heath vacuumed her car and I got the rest of my bearing taken apart and found some of them to be all rusted and ruined. Heath and possibly me were asked to fill in at someones indoor soccer game so we left and went to that to find out guest players had to spend $10 for a card to play. So we went back home and stopped at a few part stores on the way to get all the little things I needed to fix up my trailer. I cooked up some Mexican tilapia and stuff and we did no do a whole lot after that.

In the morning I got my backpack all packed and went back to work on the trailer. Soon Jon and Tony showed up and we drove to Lawrence for some Burrito King then North to Perry Lake. We hit the trail at 12:30 and set out a (literally) blistering pace. We stopped  every few miles to rest our legs, backs and hips but not long breaks. We hiked 9 miles along the trail then found a creek and headed into the backwoods following it. We needed to camp out along the hike and it's not allowed on this trail so we needed to get off the trail a ways and wanted to shortcut the 30 mile loop. I am guessing we followed the creek for about a mile then it ran way too close to a trailer park so we turned off it and started following north on our compasses try to avoid civilization. We maybe went another quarter mile then Jon suggested we camp here. We could not see any houses or signs of life and decided that was a good plan.

 

We set up the tent and quickly put together our home for the night before dark. I think it was between 5:30 and 6:00. We had drank almost all of our water during the hike (I had drank well over a gallon). And just before finding our campsite we filled up our bottles in the creek we had been following. So once camp was set, we got started boiling water. We boiled 2 quarts then poured in another quart and a pile of macaroni noodles. They started to get hot then we ran out of propane. (We had purchased more propane, fishing hooks, and some rain gear ahead of time and left it all in the car) So we built a tiny fire and got all our noodles cooked and water boiled. In the pot of noodles we added a packet of alfredo sauce, powdered milk, and a bag of tuna. We also ate fresh green beans, granola bars and beef jerky. It was a tasty dinner. We ate and sipped on some generic Canadian Whiskey. We could hear dogs not to far from our tent and now see lights at houses not that far in the distance so put our tiny fire out and sat by a candle for a while. Sometime around 9 we turned in and slept. I think it was almost 8 when we got up, but felt like 7 from DST. We quickly packed up camp, ate a granola bar and pushed our way through the trees, still trying to head due north. We soon popped out by a house and a road and realized how close we were to peoples houses where we were camping. We followed a small gravel road east for a way until it took us to the road we came in on and we followed that north until we got to the car. It was a very fast walk and we had gone the 3+ miles back to the truck in no time. Here we are walking up to the truck. 

I think we learned a lot for our trip to Utah and will be much better prepared for it. The rest of Sunday Jon and I worked on my trailer and boat getting the trailer all set and the boat motor running. The starter seems to be fried but it pull starts alright. Then we made some amazing bacon cheeseburgers for an early lunch.

 

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3-9-07 8:09am

Well after work last night I

drove to

 Corporate Woods

to go for a 5 mile run

with Heath and Grant.

We saw lots of ducks

and people running and biking.

We got done running just before dark

and went back to Heath's

house to make dinner.

I got 2 cups of moist sticky white rice cooking

w/ shrimp, pineapple,

brockoli and some other vegtables.

I made a sweet sauce to drizzle it all with. It turned out very yummy

and we all enjoyed it a lot.

Well that is enough of that. This weekend I am going to Perry Lake for a practice backpacking trip I also hope to do some work on my boat so I can take it spoonbilling next weekend.

 

 

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3-8-7 8:30am

Well the truck is back in action. Last night we got a little bit of a late start because Jon got stuck in a meeting. So we got into it between 5:30 and 6:00pm and things seemed to go fairly well. We had a little bit of trouble getting the seals in just right and dealing with one troublesome bolt. This bolt was a bit bent so we had to fix the threads and straiten it out but eventually we got it back where it belonged. Other then that the new one went right in where the old one had lived. I think it was just before 9 when we had it back together. Then it was time to take it out of Jon's garage and this was a bigger trouble then I had expected. He has some concrete damage and backing the truck out was really tough on this and his ramps. Then it was time to test drive. First the breaks were really noisy but they soon went back to normal (kinda noisy). We drove around the block and everything was good, then we took it on the highway and everything was good, no crazy noises or anything. Then we got it off the highway and did some 4 wheel drive testing. First I kicked it into 4 high and drove up and down this cliff off 37th street.

 

 

 

That went pretty well the front wheels seemed to hold there ground so I went ahead and eased it into 4 low and drove through these wavy hills in this painting. 

 

 

 

So I have just short of 90 days to return the differential but so far it looks like a keeper. I think I saved myself about $1000 w/ using a salvaged part and doing it myself Thanks to Jon and  Derrick's help.

Other news my landlord Max has gone balls to the walls in getting the house ready for appraisal and  really done a nice job getting everything painted and cleaned up I am very curious to hear about the sale.

I think I am going to try to get my boat trailer ready for a road trip a week from tomorrow. It's going to be a close call but I may be able to get the wheels/tires fixed and get the bearings packed with grease and ready to roll. I hope to take it on Kelly and Chris' Spoonbill extravaganza.

 

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3-7-7 8:32am

So last night I walked home from work and met up with Heath. We ran over to the trolley path and then to 79th street and back, about 7 miles. It was really nice out and the run went great but we were really hungry. After the run we showered up and put on some halfway fancy clothes and went out to dinner. We went to a fairly new Japanese place in Brookside called Domo, I think. (Yes, like domo aregato mister robato) It was a nice fancy place with slightly scary prices at an initial glance. We ordered both of the house specialties and asked for some miso soup and spring rolls. After a bit of sitting around and taking the place in we decided to get a large order of hot house saki. We received this and our spring rolls early on and both were good. The spring rolls were like nothing I had seen before they were cabbage, shrimp, noodles and probably some other stuff wrapped in a nearly clear plastic looking membrane stuff. It was good though. The saki was served hotter then I remembered ever getting it but it was quite good. Then I got a very pretty plate of salmon and white fish and Heather got a nice order of albacore tuna. We both shared each others and they were great. There was an older Japanese lady in a kimono sitting at the bar near us that was very concerned with our happiness. She brought us free rice and and some special hot sauce stuff and said we ordered her favorite stuff and really worked us over about how good the food is.  She also went to great lengths to apologies and explain the sushi chef. She told us that he was trained for 15 years and is an amazing chef and blah blah he is great but... he is Mexican not Japanese. I thought this was pretty funny. Then our waiter came and explained to us the story of the guy who robbed Commerce Bank then ran into the store and ordered a steak and some beer then was apprehended by the police. We cleaned our plates and our saki jug and received our $40 bill. I figure this is not bad for appetizer soup, rice, fish and drinks for two. The bad part was that afterwards we were hungry and made a huge plate of nachos then turkey sandwich before we were full. But how can we expect the Japanese to understand an American hunger.

 

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3-6-7 8:19am

So Heath is very wound up about the Royals Home Opener and it's come to my attention tickets are all sold out. I'm considering going anyway and having a tailgate party in the parking lot the whole time. It's been a while since I have had a Bacon Burger Dog and if the weather is nice it could be a good time. Your boss doesn't have to know you don't have tickets right?

Possibly even more fun because we could get tickets and I don't actually know of anyone going before we could go see the KC Brigade Arena Football team play sometime soon. I enjoy watching the games on TV and think I would like them even more in person. Has anyone been? Does anyone want to schedule a game to go to and tailgate for?

Last night Jon picked me up at about 4:15 and we went to the local O'Reilly Auto Parts to get some snap ring pliers and a fancy new drop light. The place was packed full of local yahoos and it took us forever to get what we needed and be wrung up. But we did escape and made it back to Jon's to work on the truck. Now I should mention that last Sunday we barley got started on the truck because most of our time was spent cleaning up pepper spray. We washed the heck out of everything. I should mention that last Friday Jon was working in the garage and blew a fuse he continued to work w/ no power for a bit then closed up shop and went up to his apartment and flipped the breaker then decided to go back to the shop and get something. This process set off the mace bomb. Now I should mention that a couple months ago Jon built a mace bomb that totally wreaks his garage and makes it terrible to be inside. Now I should mention that several months ago some people decided to break into Jon's garage and steal all his stuff so he needed something to keep them out and came up w/ a mace bomb.

So back to last night. There was still a terrible lingering pepper spray presence that we had to deal with and I decided that every time I work in Jon's shop I feel like I am getting the flu, my nose runs, I cough and sneeze all the time and my lips taste spicy for hours afterwards. We bucked down and got to work though and really struggled with some small plastic snap rings that had to come off to get the axle out. They were really small and in a tight space and I think we spent most of our time getting them out. Once they were out we flew though getting the axles out and the bolts on the differential. It seemed to come out in no time. Once out we took an air brake outside and decided to get started on installing the new ones but decided we should get some new seals from the parts store before we put the differential in. It was 7:45 and we rushed up to the store trying to get there by 8. (found out later they were open till 9) We went to Advance Auto parts and both employees were busy at first but then one on the phone helped us look up our parts. He started to cough and sneeze from standing near us and we giggled. They were out of the seals so we went back to O'Reilly and promptly bought 2 seals they assured us were correct even though we asked about them being the same size and maybe should be different.  

Of course they were the wrong size and did not fit on the right or left side so we took off the old ones and brought all 4 back up to O'Reilly. One sales associate looked around on the computer and eventually in a giant book for information on our part taking breaks to talk to a friend on the phone about some part he needed. The other guy smoked a cigar besides the back shelves and sipped on a coke. After what seemed like hours we gave up on either of them figuring this out and just asked for a refund. Then we went to Auto Zone to axe them but they were closed. So we went back to Advance and ordered the seals from them. This also took a long time and they made me pay for the part in advance even though it may not be the correct part.

So then it was too late to do anything on the truck and we closed up for the night.

And the moral of the story is... All the Auto Parts stores near me are full of idiots (customers and employees) my only satisfaction is that we made all of them feel like they were getting the flu while we stood in the store watching them waste our time.

 

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3-5-7 8:15am

Well just as you all suspected we had a very productive trip to Tony's farm. First off a before shot. This was taken about 10 minutes after we arrived early Saturday morning.

3 things to notice:

    -The wood stack is not all the way to garage

    -The wood stack is the same height as my jacket on a stool (on the far right)

    -The pile of assorted wood in the foreground is large and full of nasty wood. (nasty because it has lots of odd sizes and knots and branches in it)

Well we left Kansas City just before 6am Saturday morning and drove up here to get this nasty pile cleaned up, add some wood to stack, play on the tractor and have some fun.

We attacked this pile with a serious furry right away going balls to wall, splitting anything that could possibly be split and building a chunk fire for the parts that were too gnarly.

About lunch time we stopped...

 

Now check out the 3 things again:

    -The stack goes all the way to the end of the barn.

    -The whole stack is a few feet above my jacket. (used to be just above waist high, now shoulder high)

    -All that is left on the ground is a smoldering pile of gnarly chunks.

    -And as a bonus we have two truck beds full of nice split wood.

So we ate a lunch of big meaty sandwiches, chips, granola bars and beer and devised a plan for the afternoon. It was decided to get rid of more of the chunks that were out in the woods scattered about and to cut up/split 3 strait medium oak trees.

  Of course we had to pose by our stack first.

I had Tony take a picture of my pulling one of the oaks out of the woods.

I took a walking break and rode this nice big chunk back to the fire.

The 3 oaks split in about 1/2 an hour and the rest of the day was spent adding to the chunk fire and trying to keep the fire as efficient as we could. We had a serious amount of wood that we wanted to be gone by the time we left. And if we were going to be able to get it all burned we had to strike while the iron is hot and feed the fire lots of chunks. We made the extra effort to get each piece in the perfect spot and even set an alarm in the middle of the night to get up and make sure all the chunks were together in a pile so it would be gone in the morning. When dealing with a chunk fire this large you have to get while the gettings good even if the gettings are good in the middle of the night. Here is the fire at one of her biggest stages of chunks. 

All this and more is nothing but a pile of ash now. (somehow the tractor and trucks were not harmed)

 

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3-2-7 8:12am

Last night Heath came over after a busy day of getting a root canal

and then going visit w/ Stook's parents to get Joe to do her taxes.

She took a little nap and I made soup. I cut up 2 chicken breasts, and a large head of broccoli, then I added carrots, celery, noodles and some spices and stuff. I topped it off with shredded cheese and whipped up some jumbo butter biscuits on the side. We ate with Derrick and parked ourselves in front of the TV for the rest of the night. Well actually Heath and I ran to Aldi so I could stock up on groceries for a week or so while my truck is out of commission. I hope to go get my new front differential today at lunch and start taking the old one off tonight after work. It does not sound like we will finish for several days. So after eating, grocery shopping and taking anything good I may need out of my truck it was just after 7 and we started to watch My Name is Earl, we were disappointed it was a rerun but watched anyway, then the office came on and it was also a rerun. Then we looked ahead and scrubs was next and a new episode. However once we started to watch we discovered it was a new episode that consisted of clips from past episodes. Then we decided to give 30 rock a chance. We had watched the first episode and given up then heard it was actually really good. Last night was not that great and I'm not sure I'll make an effort to watch it again. Now it was 9:00 and we had no idea what to watch on TV but a commercial came on for a show called The Black Donnelly's http://www.nbc.com/The_Black_Donnellys/ we decided to give it a shot and watch the shows premier episode.  After 30 minutes of being glued to the TV we got our first commercial break and were all impressed with the show. I set the season record option on the DVR and watched the rest. It was a great episode and I am really looking forward to the rest of this show. Watching it feels like sitting at a movie not a tv show, Heath compared it to snatch but I am thinking more like that movie with the 2 Irish guys that get into trouble and become assassins, they drop a toilet on some guy... Im drawing a blank on the name of the movie. Anyhow this tv show is a bunch (4) of Irish brothers who take over their neighborhood gang from the Italians. You too can watch the premier at that web site address earlier in the post.

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3-1-07 8:16am

Wow that 3 up there really makes me think of spring. Luckily it's not real warm yet and Tony, Jon and I are going to be able to have one more cold weather wood cutting trip. We will go up by Cameron, MO where the weather is supposed to be...

• Tomorrow night: Snow showers early with a chance of lingering snow showers later. Low 19F. Winds WNW at 20 to 30 mph. Chance of snow 50%.
• Saturday: Windy, flurries possible. Highs in the low 30s and lows in the mid teens.
• Sunday: Sunshine. Highs in the low 40s and lows in the mid 20s

This is probably not enough to keep us from sweating all day but at least it's not 50 and if we get some snow we may be able to stay up past dusk playing on the 4 wheeler. Once again I would like to encourage you to come and split some wood.

(beard optional)

I don't have a menu yet but I'm fairly sure we will not be eating ham and cheese on blueberry bagels. We will leave very early on Saturday morning and hope to get started just after dawn. Then come home sometime near lunchtime on Sunday probably.

The weekend after this is our practice backpacking trip, then after that is St. Patrick's day/Spoonbill adventure and the weekend after that is the real backpacking trip in Utah. Then one weekend home, then Easter weekend and after that is my 1/2 marathon in St. Louis. After the marathon I don't have any weekends scheduled and things may slow down a bit so I can get Grandma Natty running and get her out to the lakes and Rivers.

Other upcoming events:

->Meat club part 2 is less then 2 weeks away not this Tuesday but the one after that. We don't have a location yet but if the weather is going to be nice lets go to someone's house and grill, if it's not going to be nice I have heard good things about the Casino's steaks.

->Brew to Brew run is sometime in April I think. I'd like to form a 9 person team and am currently very short. Heath and I are in, we could maybe talk Kevin and KK into it, and maybe Geoff and Ashley but that still leaves us short. As a reminder its about 4 miles each and we run between breweries in KC and Lawrence. Anyone want to come or know someone that may be interested?

->Our House is appraised a week from today and Max will be in town to start the selling process possibly to UMKC. Last night Derrick and I got everything spick and span and ready to go. Russ is all moved out, Derrick, Jenna and I are going to stay till summer though.

Yesterday I tossed a pile of ribs into the crock pot with BBQ sauce, some seasonings and an onion. Then after work I made some mashed yellow potatoes w/ the skins on and some peas. I went and bought a case of natty and a bottle of CVS generic brand Canadian Whiskey. So we ate like kings then drank like peasants but it worked out good for cleaning and the cheep Canadian whiskey turned out to be delicious.

 

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2-28-07 8:31am

Yesterday at about 10am I got the stitches in my nose out and it did not seem to be a big deal but the nurse apologized a lot and then mentioned something about it bleeding. Then she had me sign a waver that I didn't need to see a Dr., spread on some Neosporin and sent me out the door. When I got to my car I did not see any blood and the cut looked the exact same but without the black string running through it. Then last night I took a shower and the hot water made my skin soft and the scar came right off making the cut look much healthier. Here it is moments ago.

Last night after work I drove to Pick and Pull gave them a dollar in change and wondered around the lot for about 30 min. I did not find any Ford or Mazda trucks or SUVs that were newer then 1994. After that I went home got dinner started and went for a 4mile run. When I got back I finished dinner then got stuff ready to go visit Heath and Grant. As I started to drive to their house I realized I had committed to doing some radio station work at 9pm tonight so I turned around and went home. Derrick and I went up to Mikes for a few beers then I went home took a shower, put on pajama pants flip flops and a T-shirt and went to work for an hour and a half or so. I had 3 things to get done and 2 out of the 3 went great and the 3rd I just had to give up on and go back to the way it was before I got there.

Tonight right after work Russ will come home with his dad's truck and we will load all his stuff into it. Then we take on a cleaning and tidying up project. Durring the "Spring Clean Fling" Derrick and I discussed drinking some beers and this morning I set out some Ribs to eat for dinner. 

 

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2-27-07 8:08am

So yesterday was 24 night and I had to get everything accomplished before 7:00 when I would head over to mom's house to watch and eat dinner. Right after work I went for a run I wanted to run between 5 and 6 miles but am not sure I made it that far before I ran out of time and had to get home to meet with Derrick and Jon and take down our Wall. If you are unaware of the wall look at the pic link above. The wall came down much quicker and simpler then I realized it would. We pulled out a handful of screws and each module came apart. After we got it down we cleaned up around it and took a bunch of junk to the curb for big trash pickup Wednesday morning.

Then we took at look at my truck and the problem it has been having. Jon has determined we need to replace the front differential.

So today and tonight I hope to call salvage yards and go to Pick and Pull and look for a 98-2000 4 wheel drive Ranger or Explorer with a 3 54 Gear Ratio. Wish me luck and if you see one laying around let me know. A kinda weird thing happened while Jon was under the truck and Derrick and I were standing around watching him. A girl comes walking down the street and we pretend not to be looking at her then she says "Hey are you replacing the differential?" Then continues to spew out car knowledge that no normal girl walking down the street should know. All three of us are shocked and barely mumble anything before she gives up and wonders down the road, leaveing us wondering what just happened.

After all the truck excitement we went in and Jon looked for the parts online while I started cleaning up some in the family room and Derrick cooked some dinner.  

 

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2-26-07 8:32am

Well Friday I got out of work kinda late and had to rush to my house to pick up Heath and get to Lew's in time for happy hour with Steven and Becky. Luckily during lunch I had swapped trucks with my mom at lunch so I had my brothers and she had mine. We enjoyed cheep drafts and 1/2 price appetizers then Heath and I drove out to Kansas City, KS to pick up an entertainment center for Kelly and Chris' new house. By the time we got it and made it home it was about 8:30pm. I started packing all my other stuff and decided to stay in KC Friday night and head out in the morning. I woke up at 8 finding it quite rainy out. I stuffed a futon mattress in the cab of the truck with me, secured the entertainment center and a bed frame in the bed grabbed all my stuff and took off.

It rained all the way down, sometimes hard sometimes soft. I found Kelly's house easy enough and we called Tony and got everything unloaded. The new place was pretty cool. Just north east of town and on a great piece of land. The house was cheaply built (cement floors, chipboard walls, sidding) but they did a good job of making it look nice (nice paint, good appliances and furnishings). Also they had a new puppy. "Ranger" a 9 week old black lab has joined the fun. Right now he is a small clumsy lazy guy but looks like he is going to grow over 100 lbs.

Like this but chunkier

We took two good walks through the wooded area around Kelly's and found a really big Pit that will be great for swimming and fishing this summer/spring. They also had a fire pit that was about ready to go so we built up a nice pile of wet fire wood in about 2 inches of standing water. With enough small sticks, cardboard, used motor oil and care we got it going and soon had a large fire full of big chunks of wood. We got a massive pile of red coals in the pit and the fire was big enough to keep people warm even though they had to stand fairly far away to be out of the mud and water. Kelly, my mom and probably others made dinner while we got the fire going and we took a break to go eat then came back out with everyone to enjoy the fire for a while. Eventually the wind picked up and a rainstorm poured down on us and we fled to the house. The fire did not seem to mind and kept burning most of the night. Jon, Jenna, Tony, Heather and I went to the bars in town and then got some Taco Bell before crashing on Tony's floor.

We all left fairly early and went back to KC. I got cleaned up and went to Jon's to help work on his truck. I think his truck spent some time at the bottom of the ocean or something because everything is very rusted and stuck together inside of it. I helped him take things apart until a little after 3 and then went home and got cleaned up again before heading to work.

A few of us got together last night at Liberty Memorial to set up a remote broadcast for a live broadcast today there. This will be a big broadcast w/ the mayoral candidates all together in front of a live audience, 3 tv news station cameras and our listening audience. This was kinda cool to set up and looks really neat. If you watch the news look for it.

I got home around 8:30 and made a great BLT. I have some good thick wheat bread and I spread on some mayo then coated in shredded Colby Jack. I toasted this to make it crispy and melt the cheese. Then I put on some red onion and jalapenos. I did not have any fresh tomatoes and almost abandoned the project but remembered I had some cans of stewed tomatoes so opened one of them up and found some nice big flat tomatoes and piled them on top. Then I bypassed the regular lettuce for some big leafy spinach. As I was working on this the microwave was cooking up a whole plate of bacon for me. Once ready I split the pieces in half and laid them across the sandwich in 3 layers. Then I topped the sandwich with the other piece of toasted wheat w/ melted cheese and mayo.

It tasted great and the stewed tomatoes worked great, even giving me a stream of juices running down my arm. I finished it off with a pile of cottage cheese and chocolate pudding.   

 

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2-23-07 (night before)

the fairly uninteresting story to come...

the culprit...

OK yesterday I got 5 stitches in my nose as seen above. It was bout 10:30 in the morning and Robin (my chief engineer) and I had gone out to our transmitter to pick up a piece of equipment. that was bolted to the ground just to the right of this picture. We disconnected it and got it loose then Robin went to measure my truck bed to see if it would fit and I piled up all the nuts and bolts at point A. I then tried to rush off to help Robin and stood and turned in a quick motion jacking my nose at point B.

I didn't realize I had done any real damage and kept walking away to my truck. Then I saw a drop of blood and assumed I had gotten a somewhat frequent bloody nose. So I pinched my nose and kept walking to get a napkin out of my truck and figured out it was not a bloody nose but a cut on top of my nose. Then Robin saw me and claimed that I had to go to the hospital immediately. I looked in the rearview mirror and it was fairly deep and bloody and I don't think I really had a choice so off we went.

We had a terrible time finding an urgent care or an ER to go to that was covered by my insurance. We were in Independence but did not know the zip code there and had a tough time getting a person and even when we did they were not that helpful. After ending up and a child's pediatric office and a hospital that was not on my United Healthcare plan we finally drove to Shawnee Mission Medical. As I was getting worked on we found out that since this would be a workman's comp issue we should have gone to another, probably closer hospital but it was too late now.

I got cleaned up, stitched up, checked up, gooed up, papperworked up, and released. We got some lunch and went back to the transmitter and got the equipment and brought it back. I had to show a few coworkers my nose then go home. I really have not had any trouble with it since. Slept pretty good and only feel it if I scrunch my face or touch it. It is slightly swollen but not as bad as I thought it would. It is just barely visible to me so that's kinda annoying but allright. Here it is this morning.

(Not much change.)

 

unrelated picture I just found.

 

 

 

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2-22-07 8:02am

How about this weather, it has been so nice lately.

After work I had a beer on the porch with Steven and then tried to work on some computer stuff. First for the radio station, I was testing some stuff then I began to look into a new way to do my website. Don't worry/get your hopes up yet though, I'm just thinking about changing the site.

 

Jon came by and we moved around some stuff in the garage and eventually went to Mike' s for some beers.

After Mike's I fried up a bologna sandwich and went to bed.

Shortly after Heath called and wanted me to meet her at the Levee for drinks. I was very against this bar for 3 reasons.

1. I was already in bed

2. The Levee did not let us in on the first triathlon run.

3. The Levee typically has overpriced covers.

So I told Heath my reasons and went back to bed. Then she calls back 15 minutes later because the Levee had a high cover charge and she didn't want to pay it. Somehow she talked me into getting up though and coming to see the room at the Embassy Suites her work had put her up in.

It was really big and nice.

 

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2-21-07 8:26am

Well Monday night I came into the station for a few hours and replaced a computer and did some work on another one that had to be done after hours. So yesterday I did not come back to work after lunch to make up on some hours. I began a cleaning effort on our house to get it ready to be appraised and sold. I gathered trash from my garage and elsewhere and about filled my truck. I got the garage, back yard, front yard and basement all in good shape. Then Heather and I went on a 4 mile run and sat on the newly cleaned porch to enjoy a beer. Then Heather left and I got caught up on some TV programs until I heard a water running noise coming from the bathroom.

Our toilet has been doing that thing lately where it runs until you jiggle the handle and I assumed that was the noise and waited for a commercial to get up and do some jiggling. As I entered the bathroom I realized it was not the toilet making the noise and discovered water coming out from the cabinet under the sink. I frantically tried to find the handle thing under the sink to shut off the very hot water but soon realized the break was before the valve and it would do me no good. Shortly after Derrick and Russ came to help and we ran downstairs looking for valves to turn off. There was water dripping all over the newly cleaned basement. Luckily a couch we planned on putting out with the big trash caught most of it. I called Ben and we got the water shut off and an emergency plumber called to take a look. I mopped up all the water in the bathroom and the plumber came and fixed us all up.  

 

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2-20-07 7:58am

Well yesterday I had to go to the Truman Library for a special presidents day broadcast of our Walt show. I didn't realize this when I started my post and had to leave before it was done. So here is the rest of our ice fishing trip.

Warning I used up all my good pictures yesterday and this post is a monster.

So we headed out Friday night after work w/ a truck fully loaded with gear food and wood. We stopped in St. Joseph for McDonalds dinner and for a break from the terrible blowing snow that made driving rough. Then we kept driving up I-29 for a while until we heard a whine coming from under the car. We pulled off on a ramp and checked it out. There was a small oil leak from the 4 wheel drive stuff up front. I had not been using 4 wheel but all the gears and stuff spin as the tire spins all the time and something was going slightly wrong. We decided to try to slowly drive it to the nearest truck stop to investigate further. We put on the hazards and took off at about 45mph. Eventually there was a pop noise and we pulled over again. This time we dug the jack out of the truck and somehow without much for tools were able to take off one of the little caps on my front wheels that connect the front wheels to the 4 wheel drive gears. Then we slowly drove the rest of the way to a truck stop. At the stop we looked for more tools and found nothing very useful so took of the cap on the other side and decided to hope the 4 wheel gears were not turning and that we could make it.

We drove the rest of the way great, no noises, no pops, the truck ran fine. When we got to the lake we found a curvy steep icy road leading down to the ice and the parking lot. We decided to try it our even without the 4 wheel drive working and made it down. We got out cautiously tested the ice then found some foot prints and followed them. They led almost to the farthest part of the lake but there we found a recently frozen over hole. I punched the hole a few times and the hole was clear. Then I pulled up my sleeve and plunged my arm in reaching for the end of the ice. I was all the way down to my elbow before I found it. So it was plenty deep. We decided to make this our home for the weekend.

Now came for the hardest part carrying over the 10 pieces of wall/roof/floor/door piled up with our firewood, stove, gear, food, etc. We put one or two pieces on our shoulders w/ some gear on top and carried them across the lake then ran back to the car. Shortly after our last load the wind really picked up and we had to fight our gear from blowing away. The wind got stronger and stronger. A 24 case of natty would barely hold down large items. Jon's rolled up sleeping bag took off several times.

We laid down the back wall and screwed the two large pieces together then stood it up to attach the side walls. I held it in place so Jon could screw in the wall and when the wind hit hard I could barely stay on my feet holding it up. Somehow w/ some serious adrenalin pumping we got each piece together taking time to chase down blowing gear occasionally. It was very intense and we were never quite certain we would get it up. Then once up it was in danger of being rolled over by the wind. We started to install our brand new never tested floor and found it to be too big. The pieces overlapped instead of fitting together. We decided since there was only 2 of us the upper deck would easily sleep 2 and we would have a split level home. We screwed the floor into the walls so that if it wanted to roll over it would have to lift up all our stuff and us first. This seemed to do the trick.

So we were finally inside w/ a set up hut and eventually got a nice fire going in spite of our wood being wet and full of snow. In fact about everything we brought was wet and full of snow from the blowing snow. We created a web of twine along the inside of the roof and hung up all our stuff and kept the fire going. Then we pushed snow up along the bottom of the hut and sealed up lots of other cracks in the hut with duck tape and foil and most importantly opened a case of natty. Shortly after things went from crazy to heavenly. The hut was comfy and warm. It often got to warm but that helped dry things and soon all our stuff and even the walls and floor were completely dry. We drank and dried and perfected our home until about 3:30am. We had a draft from the door so sealed it up with duck tape, locking us in for the night.

So we were full of beer and sealed in w/ only one escape for pee, our ice hole. The ice hole turned out to be very useful for lots of stuff. When we were sealed in we peed in it, when we had leftover food it went down there, when things needed to be rinsed out, we went to the hole. In the morning we decided to make the hut legal and put on reflectors and Jon's address. According to Iowa rules each side of a hut must have an address in 4 inch letters and reflectors.

I have lots more to tell but this would be too long. All the food we cooked was great bacon eggs corned beef hash, meatballs w/ spaghetti, pork chops w/ potatoes and corn. The stove is a bit slow to cook on so works best to put everything in a skillet covered with foil and let it simmer for an hour or two. Any Questions unanswered?

 

 

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2-19-07 8:24am

Here is a picture of the frozen lake with our hut on it.

This is the woodstove with a pan of spaghetti sauce and meatballs warming up.

This is Jon with the chainsaw cutting us a 2nd hole in the ice not far from the ice hut.

There she is up close Saturday afternoon.

The inside from the far corner on the sleeping/living level looking down at the storage/cooking/fishing level.

Ok now I guess I need to explain more about the trip. First off you may have noticed there are no pictures of fish. That's right we did not catch any fish. We actually never got a bite, never lost any bait, never saw any signs of fish other then the minnows we were using. We talked to a few other fisherman on the lake and they had the same no fish experience.

 

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2-16-07 8:52am

First here is my a picture I took of my truck this morning at Price Chopper.

The picture does not really do this load justice but it all fits so far. However we need to add at least 1 more bucket a chainsaw and a few other odds and ends. It's kind of amazing that with this load we can set up a house, a heater and all the wood to burn, cut a hole, cook all our meals, all the beer we will need and our sleeping bags and clothes. (wow that is a messed up sentence)

       

We found a closer and maybe better lake in Iowa called Mile Hill Lake. I am going to call about it today and that would cut down our drive time to just over 3 hrs. If they won't let us put up the hut we will try Summit Lake in Tekumsa, NE or a system of Lakes in Freemont, NE.

Last night we built the floor and I am really pleased with it. We used thicker chip board and made a secret removable hatch that we can put on top of the ice hole.

 

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2-15-07 8:20am

I'm starting to be less stressed with getting caught up from my vacation and overcome with excitement for my Ice House's debut. The fresh paint looks good especially since it was free dumpster paint and the eggshell color completely covered our initial light purple coat. We leave as soon as we can on Friday so tonight is our last chance to get everything together. First we need a floor and improved heat shields to protect the hut from the stove. We also need to assemble some accessories to add while out there like hooks and shelves for our gear. We need to get all our beer and food and pack it in 5gall buckets. Also any personal gear and sleeping bags need to go into buckets. Tomorrow we will load up the truck with a load of firewood. (we are low on wood so I have raided piles from Heather's house, my mom's house, Steven and Jon's wood and possibly some of the wood off my porch.) On top of the wood will go the 8 pieces (maybe 10 w/ the floor {all about 2 inches thick}) that form the ice hut. On top of the hut will go the stove, and buckets (also the maul and chain saw will be in there somewhere). I imagine this mobile ice fishing unit will be quite a site to see and do wonders for gas mileage. I'll be sure to get a picture. Also I hope to get a good pic or two of the ice hut from a distance where you can really see what it is like. And of course pics of the fish we pull out. On the Yahoo news today I saw this ice fisherman and his fish.

 

In this photo provided by Darren Horness, Darren Horness of Howards Grove, lays on the ice next to the 72-inch, 102-pound sturgeon he speared Sunday, Feb. 11, 2007, on Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin. The fish came up within 6 inches of the surface inside his ice shack, he said. About 8,000 fishermen spearhunt sturgeon each year on Lake Winnebago and its upriver lakes. In his seven years, Horness hadn't come close to a fish that big. (AP Photo/ Courtesy of Darren Horness)

 

 

I don't think we plan on trying to spear fish but you never know. Anyhow if we don't have much luck I can always put my head on this guys body and wait for my family and friends to spread the word it's me.

Since we are talking about fish here is last nights dinner

Well not this one but another piece of Tilapia. I battered 5 nice fillets first dipping them in a mixture of tequila lime marinade and some egg then in a mixture of breadcrumbs, parmesan cheese, cornmeal, lemon pepper and other spices. Once these were baked I put them atop a nice pile of rigatoni noodles

and a homemade alfredo sauce. 

It was quite tasty and even Grant nearly had a happy plate.

sorry the fish went too fast for food pics.

 

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2-14-07 9:29am

Sorry I am so late. Work has kept me hoping this morning and I even came in early. I do promise to do a real post including possibly the grossest edible dish I have ever made so stay tuned.

First I would like to say I ate the whole thing except for what I could fit into an old small yogurt container and I enjoyed it.

I took 1.5 cups of rice and put it in the steamer with most of a red onion diced up. While it was steaming I dumped a can of kidney beans into a skillet then added some milk, different spices and peppers. I noticed Heath had part a can of spinach left over from her dinner and added it in. I kept it fairly hot and just below a boil and stirred often I added a small amount of flour to thicken the sauce and when the steamer dinged I dropped in a can of tuna minus the juices and mixed it all in. Then I took this plate and piled on all the rice then covered it all in the tuna bean mixture. It was much tastier then it looked and my only regret was not putting enough water in the rice so it was a bit burned and not as moist as I like. Also I have no idea what to call it and I have been a bit gassy today.

After dinner Grant and I ran around with an old pampers box tied to a string calling it his race car and it only crashed twice.

I did get all my ice hut pieces painted and ready to use this weekend assuming we get a floor built tomorrow.

Ohh I do have a fancy pants good sounding and tasting dinner planned for tonight but it's top secret.

 

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2-13-07 8:33am

Well I've been back in town less then 2 days and I am frantically trying to get things ready for my next adventure. The ice hut gets it's first trip to the lake this weekend. Jon, Steven and I are going to drive it up to Tekamah, NE and do some fishing, camping, grilling and drinking. I think it is a little over a 3 hr drive but I am still putting all the details together. My ice fishing adventure in Utah really got me excited about this longer trip and Jon got the ball rolling in no time.

(some of my ice fishing group last week)

I still need to finish painting the house and put in a floor before we leave Friday evening but I think we can get this done tonight and Thursday.

Last night I started to paint then realized I was a week behind on 24 and this week was a 2 hr special starting at 7. So I put away the paint stuff, quickly watched last weeks 24 and rushed off to pay rent at Ben's then meet my uncle at Microcenter to get him a new hard drive. Then I got to mom's at  6:45. We talked about my trip and I showed her the pictures then ate and watched 24. It was her birthday and there was all sorts of decorations and activities going on but from what I could hear it was a great night of 24.

 After the show I went to my uncles to get his computer so I could put the hard drive in then back to moms with some birthday presents from him. I got home a little after 10 and went to bed.

I stocked my minifridge at work yesterday with all sorts of treats and I am going to try to get my nightly run in during lunch today then eat stuff from the fridge.

 

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2-12-07 8:35am

Ok it's my first day back after a week of playing in the mountains. Of course I am overloaded with things to do today and this week in general and I really want to tell you all about my trip as well. I'm going to start working on some pictures now and will add to this as soon as I can.

Last you heard I had just finished ice fishing, snowshoeing and eating sushi. Well the next day Dad Heath and I went to Brighton resort and snowboarded/skied. It was another great day of skiing and we had great weather. This was dad's first trip out this winter.

The next day we rented cross country skies and all learned how to use them. 

I thought they were really fun. It was not too hard to walk around in the skies but you did have a tendency to kind of tip over because they are really thin. We skied a little over 6 miles and it went by fairly quick. Part of our trek went over a frozen lake covered in snow.

The next day we flew out of Salt Lake to Denver and Mike picked us up. We went to Golden w/ Heather's friends Audrey and Christine. We ate some calzones and did the brewery tour and made fun of some ugly people we saw. That night we hung out at Mike and Justin's place then went out to some bars.

In the morning we got up kinda early and drove out to Idaho Springs and played around on the mountain.

We made the mistake of not renting snow shoes and we fell through the snow allot and got all our boots full of snow. But we made the most of it and had lots of fun exploring. We even found a frozen lake to play on.

 

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2-7-7 8:11pm (Mountain Time)

Allrighty, I have been awfully busy and have done lots of stuff so I will keep it brief and try to get to the pictures soon. We flew in Monday morning and arrived just before 11am. Then ate some pizza took dad to work and went to the ski rental shop. From there we drove to Park City ski resort. We got free lift tickets w/ our plane tickets and started skiing at about 1:30 while there we found out the free tickets included night skiing and we could stay till 7:30pm. After skiing we went to Cabelas to eat dinner with dad. We got some great steak sandwiches then went home and got cleaned up and went to bed. The next day H and I woke up early and did a little shopping, then went to SnowBird Ski resort and skied all day. Both day's skiing were great. Lots of sunshine and snow. At about 3 we went back to dad's got cleaned up, picked him up from work and went out to eat at "Chuck o' rama" an American buffet place. Then this morning we ate some waffles and ran by Cabelas for some supplies and went Ice fishing w/ a bunch of dad's buds from the store. We fished all morning and H and I each caught a trout. Then we went snow shoeing this afternoon to stewart falls and back. After that we did some sledding but the hill was too steep and icy and hurt to much. Then we went out to eat dinner at a sushi and Chinese restaurant. 

 

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2-2-7 8:01am

Monday I go to Utah to see dad and then on Saturday Colorado to see Mike. I will be back to work a week from Monday. So today is the last post for a while. I imagine at some point I will get some free time and will be able to tell you all about it and put up some pictures but I am afraid it will not be every weekday morning. As I have done in the past I am going to ask that you send me a guest post to put up on the site while I am away. So if you get motivated and want to write up a little bit about something I will put it on the site and everyone can praise you or ridicule you. Stooks and KK, I believe you guys could do some really interesting posts if you tried.

Woot is selling my old camera today. It's a good one but a bit large and sometimes you can break the screen if you hold it while sledding down a large hill, so be warned.

Last night after work I did some coauthoring. Me and a guy I work with sat down and cranked out a 1,200 word article on Podcasting for Radio World magazine. We still have some editing to do and reading though of the article as a whole but we were amazed at how well and easily it all came together. After such a successful bout of writing we walked up to mikes to celebrate with 9 $1 PBR drafts.

We got a little wound up and then went home to admire the wood stove talk about some other plans and stuff then he went home and I watched some TV with Russ and Derrick.

I believe we really enjoyed The Office and My Name is Earl this week. Heath showed up a while after that and I realized I never ate dinner so ate a bunch of crackers and chips before bed.

(I think I had a dream about a girl eating a hot dog on some sort of dock fishing trip, not really but this picture is awesome)

 

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2-1-7 9:01am

I just got into work. Last night I came in to work for about a half an hour at 7ish I think. But it was a quick fix and not at a bad time. I did miss my run so Heath and I got up and ran 3.5 miles this morning.

I think it is going to be a busy morning at work and maybe all day today and tomorrow since I will be out for all of next week.

When I got in today we were having a coffee taste test for the new KCUR blend at The Rotisserie. I liked A much more then B. 

Last night besides phone calls and remote desktop sessions to work Jon and I did some disassembly of the Ice House and then got a coat of paint on it in the garage. We tried to get a nice thin coat on now and plan on really glopping it on good for the next waterproofing coat of paint. I am really pleased with how sturdy but light all the pieces feel. I am looking at taking it out Feb 16-18th but still need to find a frozen lake and check the date out for sure. This is the weekend right after I get back from Utah but that may not matter.

Derrick did his taxes online last night and had no problems so maybe I will try it out first and see if I get a nice amount of $ back then if I am not pleased with my results take it to Stooks' pop.

No pics today since I am in a rush. For today only please post the funniest picture you can find as your home page.

 

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1-31-07 8:22am

Well Heath is taking some test to make more money at work today so wish her good luck.

Last night I went to her house and cooked some strange Caribbean pork dinner. And we took turns running our 3.5 miles and staying home with Grant.

 

I have noticed a weird problem with my left foot when I run more then 3 miles.

Everything feels fine then all of a sudden my left foot feels numb. I think this happens almost any time I run 3 miles strait. Last night it was not a big deal because I only had 1/2 a mile left when it happened but the day before I ran about a mile with a numb foot and I remember when I did a 10K (6miles) my foot felt numb for much of the race. Anyone have any idea what the deal with this is? wiggling my toes as I run seems to help.

So after my run Grant and I played with one of those wooden train sets for a while as Heath talked to some lady.

Then we sat down to eat. I had taken two large pork chops and set them on a bed of onion, carrot and pineapple then sprinkled them with some jalapeno seasoning and then covered them in more onion, pineapple and carrots. Then I poured Caribbean marinade all over everything and covered it in foil. I put it in the toaster oven at 350 for an hour or so and make a few cups of rice and steamed green beans, broccoli and the rest of the pineapple.

Once we served it up it was an odd bunch of food but tasted good. The pineapple chunks were spicy and had absorbed most of the jalapeno seasoning and the pork chop was tender and juicy enough to cut w/ a fork. The three of us finished it all and a few wheat rolls, then Grant and I split a bowl of Life cereal.

  

I think we are going to paint the ice house tonight and do any other finishing touches we can think of. I really need to start getting things all ready for my trip to Utah and Colorado. I leave on Monday morning and still have no way of getting to the airport. If no one volunteers soon I will look into leaving my truck there somewhere. Do you guys do your taxes on your own or pay someone? Have you got started?

 

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1-30-07 8:00am

Meat club was just what I had hoped for and Jess and Jims did a great job in my book.

I think all of our meals were around $40 and we each got a nice steak, a couple beers, giant twice baked potato, garlic bread, good salad and some beats. (I discovered even Japanese people don't care for beats)

My favorite moment of the meal was when we had just gotten done eating the salads and I heard a sizzling noise moving up behind me and turned to see a small cart full of potatoes and steaks still sitting on the pans they were cooked on. They were dished out quickly and the cart disappeared.

 

In other news Heather and I want to put together a Brew to Brew team. I know I push running and exercise on everyone a lot but at least I always make sure you are not thirsty. The brew to brew is a 13 year old lame copycat of the badass 2 year old theprewitt.com triathlon. However I still really want to do it. But first I need a team. I would like to get 9 people to join the team and commit to running a 4ish mile stretch of the trip from Boulevard Brewery in KC to the FreeState Brewery in Lawrence. It costs like $11 a person for a good meal at the end with a beer. Here is all the information about this years run http://www.brewtobrew.com/. It's not till April 1st so if you are worried that you can not run 4 miles today, maybe you can in a couple months.

 

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1-29-07 8:25am

Before you get to hear what I have been doing/eating lets talk about meat.

We meet tonight at 6:30pm at my house and go to Jess and Jims. What do you all think about getting a website for the club? We could pick an official name for the club, find a domain for it and then allow everyone to post about meat. We can talk about places we go or recipes we try on the site and set up a calendar for our events. I'd like to encourage everyone to go to www.godaddy.com or similar and look for a domain that would be good for us. Surprisingly meneatingmeat.com is available as is kcmeatclub.com and beefcircle.com. Lets here what you are thinking.

 

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This was a very active weekend. Friday right after work Matt was at my house and we went to get some food and drinks for the weekend then Jon called and we went to Max's for cheeseburgers. We were disappointed to find out that Steven's claims that the new owner had changed the place were true. Smaller pattys, not as toasted buns, different flavor. After we ate we got started on the Ice House and Steven joined us. We spent all night on the ice house taking it down installing cardboard and caulk and brace boards then we put it back up and cut a hole for the chimney and got the stove all installed.

-side view (note caulk on seems and chimney)

-cardboard insulated interior w/ wood stove (this monster gets hot)

Once we had the stove setup secure we got a fire going, put in some chairs, brought beers close by and celebrated the house.

Saturday morning I slept in more then I wanted but got up and cooked some breakfast sandwiches w/ Matt and Heath. We got plain bagels and spread on some cream cheese then pilled on egg, bacon, onion and American cheese. After breakfast Jon and Jenna joined Heath and I for a hike. We had a little trouble getting there but eventually got on the Rim Rock Trail and hiked around.

 I liked the trail and the terrain was great, hilly, snowy, rocky, lots of streams to cross, lots to look at. Things got a little hairy in the middle but we found our way back and even made some shortcuts on the way back thanks to my GPS deal.

After the hike we got some crummy Mexican food and went to Cabelas for a bit. Then Heath and I took a nap. After the nap Matt came back over and we made deer meatballs. ravioli and some noodles for dinner. Then got cleaned up and went to Hoopers to celebrate Kevin's birthday. We stayed at Hoopers most of the night. In the morning Matt left and Heath and I slept in then ate a big lunch and prepared to go on a run. Heath was not feeling well though so instead of running we drove around and looked at houses for sale.

"Houses for Sale???? you say". Yes in case you have not heard from

 local gossip Geoff

or me, our landlord will be selling the house in the next few months. I'm still unsure how this will all work out yet but the wall will come down and Russ or I will move out.

After looking at some fairly cool houses Heath started feeling worse and went home for a nap and I took a small run on my own then did a strength and stretching workout. Then later on I got cleaned up and met Heath and Grant at Chucky Cheese for Grant's cousins birthday party.

I have not been to CC in a long times and did not seem as cool as it used to be. Only one robotic mouse and he didn't do much.

Also looked like less rides and stuff to do. But the kids loved it and Grant even earned enough tickets to buy a tootsie roll and a paper airplane.

After CC I went to BK for a Texas Double Whopper w/ jalapenos. I had one of these burgers 6 months or so ago and was not impressed but this one was great. Maybe I was just really hungry but it tasted great and had loads of jalapenos on it and even better had enough juices that they squished out of the burger ran down my arm and formed a little pool under my elbow inside my new fleece chiefs jacket that Kelly game me. After the burger I checked out the construction dumpster near Heath's but it only had pallets in it and a bunch of broken drywall. So I just brought back a couple of 16ft 2x4s that I had left at Heath's house. Second comments section so you gota post lots today.   

 

 

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1-26-07 7:47am

Many days it is hard to think of a new announcement but today I had several in mind but I knew it was Kevin's birthday so I would not be needing any of the other ones. I thought you may want to know what else I have to announce though so...

Sub Announcement A: My Camera Replacement Showed up last night.

Sub Announcement B: 2 posting days until MEAT CLUB.

Sub Announcement C: CTB (KK, Kentaro) will be at MEAT CLUB

Sub Announcement D: Matt Stooks will be in town this weekend for Kevin's birthday.

Sub Announcement J: My cell phone is acting up again.

So last night I rushed off to Heath's house after work with a partial meatloaf, my new and old camera, and my running stuff. I got there and put the camera together and checked to see if it would turn on and charge. Then I put the finishing touches on my dearmeat meatloaf. I added an egg, corn, stuffing mix and even some triscuits before stirring it all up.

Then I stuck it in the oven and Heath, Grant and I went for a 3.7 mile run. We ran through the small Spring Hill Cemetery at sundown and I took a picture.

When we got home the meatloaf was nearly done. I put in some dinner rolls and French fries and covered the loaf in sauce.

About 15 minutes later pulled it out and served.

It tasted great and we all put forth a good eating effort but could not quite finish the dearloaf. So we decided to put away the dishes and get cleaned up.

Then we ran a few errands  for Heath (showing her new car off). My cell phone got all sorts of messed up around now. I had to totally erase everything on it to get it working again. After the errands I decided I could not let the meatloaf get the best of me and came home and made a big sandwich with the last of the meatloaf. The cold sandwich was just as good as the steaming loaf.

Tonight after work we are going to get some work done on the Ice House again. It's supposed to be nice and warm plus I believe we will have a fire going.

Tomorrow Heath and I (and anyone else interested) are going to go on a 12mile hike to check out a new trail that I have been wanting to do forever.

Saturday night I'll be following Kevin around yelling happy birthday occasionally.

Monday night I will be eating a nice big juicy steak w/ a beer while I belittle the Japanese people.

 

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1-25-07 8:17am

Well everything is back to normal this morning. You get a normal post at a normal time and I even have pictures. I could not help breaking out my old camera with the broken screen on it and taking a few shots for you.

So last night instead of making meatloaf I went home and got together with Jon and Steven and worked on the ice house. Our first task was to build some braces on the side of the house to help keep the wall and roof pieces together at the same place each time we put it up. There are 4 braces on each side 2 wood ones and two metal ones.

Once we had all the braces set we went to the hardware store for tort screws and McDonalds for dinner.

Then we went home, and got out the marker to mark the boards so we would know what pieces go where. After we were comfortable with the marks we took it down piece by piece and moved all the modules outside.

Once all down we set to putting it back together. We had a basic plan for when to put what together and though things did not go perfectly on our first try, it took less then an hour to reassemble.

Here is what it looked like the morning after:

-door closed hard to tell how big that is 

-door open "come on in"

-ohh look what's inside

-well that's nice and cozy.

I think our biggest hurdle was the dark and the fact that most of our markings did us no good. Also Steven had left before we put it up and we plan on having 3 people when we do it instead of just 2. It did look about the same when we were done and even better once we plopped the wood stove in the corner and laid down next to it. It looks like it will sleep 3 fairly easily (as long as Tony keeps his huge nose pointed up). 

After we were done with the ice house I was going crazy looking at my blank arm and decided I needed a new watch ASAP. We put our stuff away and I drove to Wal-Mart. I found a watch I really like on sale for $14.88 and was back in business in no time.

 

 

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1-24-07 9:54am

wow almost 10am and I have not even started my post. I decided to sleep in this morning to catch up on lost sleep last night and I had a lot to do when I got in.

Last night Heath and I had a 3.5 mile run and then ate some pork chops and cauliflower. The cauliflower I prepared in a method I got from men's health.

I put it in a bowl with some olive oil and mixed it all up so everything was coated. Then add salt and pepper and mix then a bit more olive oil and mix. Then spread it out on a baking pan and put in the oven for 15-20 min at 425 deg. This makes it all crispy and have a good flavor. I did not have a ton of cauliflower so I put some red onion and frozen french fries on the pan too.    

Then I tried to make some cinnamon apples but they were not very good.

After that H wanted to go get a drink but I was too worn out from the night before so we watched the recorded Heroes from the night before.

In sad news my watch died and my wrist is bare today. It's already driving me nuts. and I decided to trim my beard a bit last night. I like it because more food goes in my mouth then on my beard now.

 

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1-23-07 12:40am

Well here I am again at the station way to late.

It all started at like 4:30 when a news reporter called and asked if I could restart one of our server tonight for him. I told him I could and tried to do it from home at 9:30ish. It did not work perfectly so I ran up to the station for 2 min of work getting it just right. Then I saw another server that needed to install some windows updates and reboot and decided this was a good time to do it. I got everything installed and restarted but the computer would not start up. It would turn on then get stuck. I tried everything I could think of, looked up the error code and tried everything I could find on dells site. Then I called dell and tried everything they could think of until it was determined my motherboard was broke.

Since this is the new streaming media server and no one can listen online without it I decided it was urgent and to use the 4hr service plan and have them rush me out the mother board and a technician. So it's nearly 1am and the guy should be here at about 1:30 to fix the server.

UPDATE: 12:38pm

Allrighty so the UPS driver and the Dell tech showed up around 1:30 and we got the new parts and the tech got to work. It took him over an hour to replace the board which seamed reasonable when I saw what a tough board it was to get to. After doing some testing with him and some reconfiguring I was out of the office at about 3:15am and in bed at 3:30. At 7:45 I got a phone call with a false alarm from the station and another at 9 something with a real problem but a fairly simple fix. By then I gave up on sleeping and went to breakfast and now am at the station again.

This is already such a slow week, it's only Tuesday. Tonight I plan on taking it fairly easy (other then the 3.5 mile run H and I are scheduled to do) but tomorrow I have dreams of doing some bracing and then taking apart the ice hut and putting it together in the back yard. 

My sister Kelly has just rented a new place in Pittsburg and is pretty excited, its on 10 acres and has a strip pit and some woods and is connected with another couple hundred acres that they are free to use. I believe she will have a housewarming bonfire or something when they get all settled in.

I guess our Theprewitt.com's Meat Club night is nearly here. I'm up for suggestions on the plan but here is my thoughts. Next Monday we will meet at my house at 6:30 and go do some real eating. I'd like to leave the option there to grill at a man's house or go to a restaurant and have different kinds of meat other then beef steak but for the first week we need to start it off with a restaurant steak. I'm not sure of a location but Steven has a place in mind. Who is in? What do you all think?

 

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1-22-07 8:15am

Well it was a busy weekend again and Friday night seems like so long ago. I got out of work early and headed to my uncle and aunts house. They had some trouble installing Adobe Photoshop and asked if I could take a look at their computer. It turned out they had bigger problems and was 3 hours before I got everything working and left. Then I went to mom's house and quickly replaced her garbage disposal and then got her computer back on the internet. Then I went home and hung out for a little bit. Jon and Jenna were heading to Mike's so I decided to join them. We walked up there only to find a $15 cover so we decided to try out The Record Bar but they had a $7 cover. Then we went to Buzzard Beach in Westport because they claim to never have a cover. We got there and saw a sign out side proclaiming just that and went in to find $1.75 draws of PBR. After a few drinks it was decided we really liked this bar. It was dark, had fish stuff all over, the barstools look home made out of 2x4s, good prices, not crazy loud, nice artwork (stuff people wrote on walls) in the bathrooms and an interesting crowd. I don't remember if I did anything after that. 

 

Saturday I got up early and went to Apple Market and got a bunch of pork and some fresh fruit then Jon and I got working on the wood stove for our ice house for a yet unplanned ice fishing trip. We worked on this most of the day and about 4:30 I rushed home to shower and then head to Heath's for dinner w/ her grandma. After dinner I drove to a housewarming/birthday party for a few of my KCUR coworkers. It was a cool house and a nice little gathering despite the terrible weather. By this time the roads were terrible. I left at 11ish and went home to find a house full of drunks. They pushed my truck into the garage and I went in and quickly put on my snow gear and Derrick Jon and I began the .7mile walk to suicide hill w/ 3 sleds and 15ish beers. We would be joined later by Russ and then his 2 friends Adam and Jake. 

It was close to midnight when we arrived and the hill was packed with people our age all armed with drinks and sleds ranging from disks to wooden rail sleds to tubes to dumpster lids, recycle boxes, cardboard or anything they could find. Speaking of sledding on anything after an hour or so of moderate sledding and heavy drinking we noticed some guys trying to lift up a double long pick nick table. So we went went down the hill to check it out. Eventually a dozen of us carried this long table all the way up the hill, flipped it upside down, then pilled 25 or so people on it and everyone rode down the hill together. It was fairly glorious. After that we did more drinking, sledding, wrestling and trying to fly over a big jump. The hill stayed strong and still had a lot of people playing after 2 when we had been out of beers for too long and went home.

Sunday Jon woke me up at 11 and we went back to work on the wood stove. It was nearly done but we needed to add legs, a cooking surface and the angle for the chimney.

This did not take long and once done we took it to my house and set it up in the driveway and built a big fire in it to burn off any leftover insulation or anything that would smoke on the surface of the stove. Other then a few minor kinks the stove worked great, put off lots of heat and even made a chugging sound when you really got it hot.

Now remember my camera is broke but this morning I could not resist taking some cell phone pics for the site.

   

Around lunchtime we were a bit worn down and already had quite the sense of accomplishment so we put a pot of water on the stove to boil and sat down to watch the game. The new stove made us a pot of spaghetti for lunch and we spent the rest of the day watching football.

 

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01-19-07 12:15am

Well I have been at the station late again tonight and plan to sleep in again. But I will tell you a story about my evening including running out of gas and having to walk a bit.

1-19-07 10:20am

Well I am back at work after a fairly full nights sleep. I did get a bloody nose in my sleep last night and thus did not have a great night but anyway.

So last night I came into the radio station to check on some of my work from the night before and to run some spyware/virus scans on computers that are used all day long on the air. Once I had these scans running I had some free time and convinced Heath to come get me and go to a bar for a few drinks while I wait for them to run. We went to the plaza and first stopped by Odouds. We both got Boulevard Wheat for $2.50. They had a live band that was good. They played all covers and sounded like they just copied a play list of 96.5 the buzz w/ out any of the cutter music. After our beers we walked over to the Gran Fallon and they were kinda slow and boring we had a bud light then headed back to the station but we didn't make it.

We were cruising around in Heather's new car and when she left the dealership earlier they told her the car was low on gas but not to fill it up because they would fill the tank and clean the car from her tomorrow when she delivers her old cars title.

Well it didn't make it and we ran out on Volker and Oak. We parked the car and walked to the radio station to get my truck. I checked on some scans and closed some and started some new ones then went to my house to find a gas tank. I had:

• 6 gallon tank full of boat gas

• 6 gallon tank full of boat gas

• 5 gallon tank full of boat gas

• 2 gallon tank full of lawnmower gas

• 1 gallon tank 1/2 full of chainsaw gas

And none of these would run the car w/ out damaging it.

So we filled up the chainsaw, then poured the rest of it in the lawnmower. We also grabbed a empty gallon jug of windshield wiper fluid and filled them up at the gas station. Then got the Saturn running and I went back to work and H went home to bed.

Russ, Kevin and I will be eating some steaks on Jan 29th and would like you to join us if you are a guy and help us think of a name for our trip.

I am in town and up to no good this weekend so give me a call if you have something fun to do or want something fun to do.  

 

 

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01-18-07 12:52pm

Well I just found out a meeting I had this afternoon is canceled so I have some free time. Stooks just sent me the pictures from beginning to work on the mini wood stove so I figured I would complete today's post. To refresh your memory...

H found a hot water heater on the curb in her neighborhood.

We stuck it in the truck and hauled it to Jon's Garage.

Matt Jon and I decided to strip it down to the water tank and start cutting the shell for a wood stove out of it.

It was covered in a thin white layer of sheet metal, then lots of sticky insulation and wires, heating elements, pipe fittings, and all this had to be removed from the thick black tank.

Once it was all scraped, twisted and pulled off we could cut the middle out of the tank to make it shorter.

Then we could weld the top and bottom back together, cut a door and stove pipe hole and install legs and a stove pipe.

(no pictures beyond this point)

Speaking of no pictures my new digital camera is broke. It will not charge, it will not turn on, it won't do anything. Last I used it I was taking pics of sledding and then it never worked again.

...Disaster you say...

No not too bad, HP is on the ball and sending me out a new one. Since it didn't even make it 90 days (closer to 30 days)

So no pics from me for a bit but I bet they will be back soon.

I already have missed some good photo ops. At lunch today I got out the pancake griddle and put it on the stove and heated it up. Tossed on 2 burger patties and an egg. Then diced some onion and added that. Then I spread some mayo and catsup on some bread and laid them on. Once everything was cooked I stacked bread, then mayo, burger, grilled onion, Swiss cheese, fried egg, burger, onion, Swiss cheeses, pickle, catsup, mayo then bread. It was a tall burger but nothing too troubling. I did get quite a bit of Swiss in my mustache.

 

 

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01-18-07 12:50am

Well I ended up working way late so I will not be posting for everyone's morning enjoyment. I do plan on coming into work about 10:00 for a meeting though. I got to drive around in a nice new Saturn with Heath earlier tonight and we both really liked it. Maybe she will buy this one. My camera never seemed to charge so maybe its broke. I will research this a bit later today.

So Men how does Jan. 31st work for a nice steak dinner, cold beer, good conversation and no ladies?

(Will we end up on mini dirt bikes?)

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01-17-07 8:10am

Yesterday after work I went home and watched "Beerfest" then went for a 3 mile run on the ice. Then drove to where I believed a Lowes was on Banister to get my mom a garbage disposal then went to a Home Depot across the street from where I believed a Lowes was but they were out of the right size. Then I went to China Star with Heath for lunch then we went to a different Lowes. Then I went to Heath's house and messed around until Grant woke up from his nap at the sitters then I picked him up and we went sledding and cooked dinner. Heath came home and we installed a curtain rod and stuff around her house.

Important facts from above:

• Beerfest was indeed just "ok".

• Running on ice is hard.

• I believe the Banister Wal-mart that closed will be reopening up in the building that I thought was a Lowes.

• I did not choke on any food at China Star

• The same garbage disposal is $20 more at Lowes then Home Depot so I didn't get it.

• I made sloppy joes for dinner (w/ deer burger of course)

This weekend was also pretty good, I can't remember if I took any pictures but the battery in my camera is dead from a sledding trip last night so I can't share them anyway. Friday after a short work day I met up with Stooks and we went to Jon's house to tear apart a hot water heater and build a wood stove. Matt took some pictures and video of this but I forgot to ever get them from him. Then we went to DaBronx and got some great pizza. We took the pizza's over to Gahoolies for beers.  After we were full we went back to my house and met up with Kevin and my roommates. After my house we went to Mikes and then back to my house again.

Saturday Heath Matt and I went on a nature hike in the cold ice then to Gran Fallon and watched some KU basketball. Then back to my house to mess arround, watch football and Matt, Heath, Jon and Jenna played scrabble. That night H and I went to Lew's for dinner with Steven and Becky and then tried out the Kansas City Margarita recipe. It was quite tasty but we all got worn out soon after.

Lets start thinking about setting a date (a few weeks away) for the first Man Meat Extravaganza.

 

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01-16-07 8:02am

Well college sure ain't what it used to be. I just got into work and started reading my e-mail. The first 3 e-mails I opened this morning.

1.   

Date / Time: 01/16/2007 - 01/16/2007 11:59:00 PM
Author: Brian
Subject: Campus Closing
Message Body: UMKC, including the IS Call Center, is closed today, Tuesday, January 16, due to inclement weather in Kansas City. Day and evening classes will not be held and University administrative offices are closed.

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UMKC is closed today, Tuesday, January 16, due to inclement weather in Kansas City. Classes will not be held and University administrative offices are closed.

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And a forward from Jon with just a website  

http://digg.com/lbv.php?id=1181057&ord=1

So I guess I am going to post this and go home. Not sure what to do today. Yesterday I played with Grant all day since I had the day off. The last 2 nights I have been at my moms watching 24. It's been fairly good a nuke has already gone off. Also we had some good chili the first night and I made my first ever wheat crust pizza the second night.

I gota figure out what I am going to do all day now. I want to get out of here before real work shows up and I get tricked into staying. So my post about the weekend will have to wait.

 

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01-12-07 8:36am

I'm fairly excited that it's Friday already. This is one of the few weekends lately that I don't have anything planned and I am going to get to stay in Kansas City.

If you have been thinking about getting a digital camera but didn't want to spend the money today's woot www.woot.com may be just for you a 6megapix for $99.

Last night Heath, Grant and I did a 3 mile run then some stuff at the track and then some strength training exercises.

Then we ate a rotisserie chicken that

I had injected with Tequila Lime marinade.

We ate it with Broccoli

With cheese on it

After dinner we cleaned up real quick and went to

Dicks Sports.

Heath got a new pair of running shoes

and a new pair of hiking boots

(buy one get one 1/2 off).

 I got a cool Chiefs hat on sale. (like this but a baseball cap and grey ohh and  has a Chiefs arrowhead logo on it)

I'd like to mention Heath first did her shoe shopping at Cabalas but they did not have any good running shoes.

After our trip to Dicks we went home to eat "Banana Treat" (frozen banana slices)

and read a book.

Grant and I read Jack and the beanstalk.

Then went to bed.

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01-11-07 8:10am

Well I am feeling 100% today.

(just like this, but stuck at work)

Yesterday I was iffy most of the day but started feeling better around dinner time. Last night I went to Heath's and made a garlic chicken and vegetable Chinese dish. We ran a couple miles and went to Wal-Mart afterward we picked up a thrown away hot water heater. This big heavy heater will be cut apart and welded together and used as the mini wood stove for our ice house. After we got this heavy monster into the truck and it squired Heath with it's old rusty water I went to the new house development area and raided the dumpster. On first glance it was full of pallets, then I discovered lots of long 2x4s. On top of the dumpster it was very cold and crazy windy. The dumpster really made me work for the wood. fighting me with piles of roofing materials metal straps and piles of small boards.

Speaking of cold and windy, weather.com seems to think it will begin raining this evening, then tomorrow we get a little freezing rain and on Saturday a light winery mix turning into snow showers on Sunday. I was hoping to spend some time Saturday checking out the 12 mile Rim Rock trail but if it is really nasty out I may not. This sounds like it could be the making of some really crazy weather if it gets all wet then freezes then puts down some snow. I may get to spend my day off sledding and drinking hot coco and peppermint schnops.

I'm curious what all is going on this weekend. The house boat chop project is either canceled or postponed, Matt Stooks is possibly in town, we may get some bad(fun) weather, 24 season premier (2hr 2night special), KK is still in Japan, a mini wood stove needs to be built and it's a 3 day weekend.    

 

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01-10-07 8:45am

I got into work a little late this morning because I did not wake up until 8:10am. I've been having some weird problems with my phone and the alarm did not go off this morning.

Last night I got in bed a little after 8pm. Something was wrong with my stomach and I could not eat dinner or anything. Right after work I went to Mikes with some guys from work and felt fine, then Heath and I went for a 3 mile run. I was fine for about 1/2 the run then started to feel bad. It just got work as the evening went on.

I am thinking I ate something funky at lunch. We had a senior staff lunch meeting yesterday at a place called Cafe Sebastian inside the Kemper Museum. It was a fancy pants type of place that did not serve burgers but lots of salads and fish and stuff. I ordered the Grilled Pork Tenderloin and it was all right. I'm wondering now if it was undercooked or something about the sauce did not agree with my stomach.

 

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01-09-07 8:15am

Last night Derrick, Jon and I worked on the ice house. When we went into the garage it smelled fairly strong of cheeseburger grease. Last time we worked on the house we grilled some burgers by setting a grill on top of the wood stove. I tried to plug some holes in the grill with aluminum foil but it did not work that well and grease got on the stove. To fight this smell I got out a pan and cut a bunch of apples into thin slices and then covered them in cinnamon, brown sugar and butter, then I placed the pan on top of the stove.

The apple cinnamon mixture produced a nice smell but not really strong enough. The apples tasted fairly good but we decided they needed more cinnamon, brown sugar and butter and also thicker slices would make them better. I may even peal the apples first next time.

Well we were in the garage for more then just cooking desert and so we built 2 more modules that would fit together for the last wall. (these pieces but 7 instead of 6 feet total wide)

These sides took some giant screws and we had to take turns standing on each others backs to get them in tight. After we had the wall up and screwed down good we put the hinges and door up. Both sides took some tweaking but turned out nice. Once it was all together we put in 3 chairs, a stand w/ cinnamon apples on it and a fresh round of beers.

Now we need to work on making a mini wood stove to heat the hut and cook on and figure out ways to make the hut easy to take down and put up. Once we have the stove going I want to have a Hawaiian party in the ice hut. Get it really hot in there and make some Kansas City Margaritas.

Tonight Heath and I need to run 3 miles as part of our 1/2 marathon training schedule and I am not sure what else is on the game plan just yet.

Everyone keeps saying we are going to have a heck of a storm this weekend, what's the story there? I don't have to work Monday and may be up for something exciting Sunday.  

 

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01-08-06 8:11am

Another successful woodcutting trip.

First so you believe we actually worked hard and got some wood cut here is a look at the wood pile we created last month when we went to the farm.

and here is a picture of the wood pile we left yesterday afternoon.

 

Besides cutting down a few trees that were in the way and splitting a long pile of wood, we burned off lots of  brush,

hauled out some wood, got Jon's truck stuck in the mud,

Pulled the truck out with the new tractor

and played in the tractor.

  me in the scoop while Tony drives (yeah that's a sweet fur hat).

Jon trying to roll over a root ball.

Tony pulling Jon's truck out of the frozen mud.

This tractor is a heck of a fun toy and easier to use then you would initially think. It's got tons of levers and pedals and various controls and speeds and looks a bit overwhelming from the drivers seat but once you know what you want to do it's fairly easy to make the tractor do it.

The pot roast we had for dinner was great and lunch was not bad considering Jon brought blueberry bagels to make ham and cheese sandwiches on.

We made some good progress on the ice house and just have one door/wall left to have it up. It is set up in the garage and takes up nearly the entire garage so I can't take a picture of the whole thing. Once we take it out or I find a good angle I'll add a picture to the site.

 

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01-05-06 8:32am

I gota admit I am not really motivated to post today, or work, or surf the internet. I think that will pass though and I am looking forward to work being over and the weekend beginning.

Tonight after work I'll probably make a quick visit to Home Depot for some screws and another new chainsaw blade. I say another because I have bought like 5 of these and each time I decide I will learn how to resharpen them or find a shop that will resharpen them before I need another one but I always forget about it. After Home Depot Jon and I are going to work on the Ice House and hopefully get it standing in our yard. Saturday morning around 6am we will leave for Tony's Farm. This trip is extra special because of a new toy out at the farm.

Tony's dad got this little prize and we may use it in our wood clearing projects. We hope to do a lot of cutting and splitting this weekend in spite of a huge break in productivity for the chiefs game and small breaks for eating. We are going to have simple meals and maybe no campfire for cooking anything (just big bonfires of brush). However we are going to have a mighty pot roast dinner. I bought 3.5lbs of beef that will cook in the crock pot all day in BBQ sauce, onions, carrots and potatoes w/ a side of dinner rolls. 

Speaking of food, last night Jon and I had a double date. The girls took us out to Gojo's for some Japanese Steakhouse eats. The food was great and we were all really full. I was a little disappointed in our chef. He did not do many tricks, not even the volcano.

I think he didn't like our table because some poser vegetarian girl was giving him problems. She ordered the veg plate which is sad to a big fake-Japanese (mexican) cook and then she has the nerve to ask him not to use any butter on her food.  Now in case you are unfamiliar these cooks have one big cooking space in front of you and they cook everything on it from your steak to your vegetables to your shrimps. He cooks all the chicken in a pile all the scallops in a pile, all the vegetables in a pile, etc. They are continually squirting the piles with oil, teriyaki, soy sauce and piling on the butter. This is why the food is so good. Sure he could make the Veg Girl a separate pile but he should not have too.

Lucky for us he didn't. The Veg Girl took a shot of Saki and then disappeared (to the bathroom to barf or to the car to smoke up are my theories). While she was gone he did most of the cooking and did things as normal but did not show us much for tricks he flipped a bowl in the air and caught it in his hat. He tossed a few shrimp at our mouths and he pretended to scrape all the burnt up stuff on the grill onto the Veg Girl's plate.

After the tasty dinner we walked to Beaumont Club and found it closed so walked to Kelly's and split a piture.  

 

 

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01-04-06 8:34am

I imagine you are all eager to find out about the house boat and what I am planning. We think the boat is between 8 and 10ft wide and very heavy. Too big for my truck to pull so to get it to KC we would need to rent a trailer and a truck or have it hauled here. But where we would put it once it arrives. Neither Jon nor I have anywhere to put it. Maybe we could convince Heath to have it in her yard but what then. We could work on it, get it all running and looking nice but then what. If I wanted to keep it I would have to have it again hauled to a lake somewhere or buy a new truck and trailer for it. Once at a lake I would need to rent a slip to keep it in or put it in and out each trip to the lake and it would not be as easy as Grandma Natty. Also the lakes near my house are probably not big enough for this boat. So if I used it for myself I would probably tire of doing loops at Hillsdale. This also makes it tough to sell here. The only real option for selling it would be ebay.

So instead of trying to revive the beast we are going to ask to destroy it. I am going to propose that we scrap it for free saving my uncle $3k. You may want to take a break today and go through the Boat Chop photo album above. We hope to take down a bunch of saws and other implements of destruction and take the boat apart. We would take 3 trucks and 2 trailers. Save the engines and all the propeller and whatnot attached to them. Save the generator and all the metal on the boat including wires. We will pile up all the junk wood on one of the trailers and eventually burn it all. We will save anything of value and then haul the rest to a recycling center for $.

Then we will keep anything useful to us and eBay the rest. I have a far off dream of using one or both of the motors on a pontoon boat. I will e-bay my uncle today with our proposal. If anyone else wants this boat for nonsalvage reasons let me know.

Kevin isn't your birthday coming up soon?

Here are some paint drawings of our Ice House.

           Side View                      Front View

   

The Ice house must be made of parts that can fit in the bed of a Ford Ranger so 4ft X 6ft is the maximum size. We have built 4 modules at 4x6.

2 of these modules are the sides of the house and 2 of them are the roof. We now need to build the front and backside of the house. Both the front and the back sides will double as a door. On Friday we plan to build 2 of these and install hinges in the middle of them and then set it up. Once the house is built to be stable and easy to take down and put up. We will have 2 things left. Build a mini wood stove and chimney to both heat the house and cook our meals on. (No the stove will not sit directly on the ice, it will have legs) Also we plan to insulate our 4x6 modules Jon has a bunch of roof tar that we will spread on the inside of them and then we will stick cardboard to the tar and staple it all together. This will seal up all the seams and provide a heat trapping layer.

 

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01-03-07 8:15am

So I am going to copy an e-mail I received from my uncle into the post today and I would like to hear your opinions on what I should do.

Hey Chris,
Remember I was telling you Danny's houseboat sunk at Lake of the Ozarks in ice snow storm. Well the marina wants $3,000 to scrap it. I know nothing about this but he'd probably give it away if there's someone crazy enough to try to fix it up. On the other hand it is a Crist Craft wooden boat (somewhat of a classic) that attracted a lot of attention when we were there last summer. I think it sleeps four in beds, more on the deck. You would have to research how much it would cost you to fix it up and what's involved if interested. If not that's fine also.

The boat has been totaled and the Marina is trying to charge me $3,000 to take it and scrap it. They basically are crooks and over charging everyone. It is worth something to someone if they want to fix it up. I would say it is worth at least $2,500 to someone now. The problem is there are 3,000 + boats in the same condition now at the lake. If Chris is interested let me know. It is out of the water and ready to be hauled somewhere. The motors have been pickled. Meaning that water and oil have been drained and fill back up with diesel fuel. He would have to have it hauled to K.C. or somewhere he can work on it. The marina would charge to much to store it. I would give him the boat. It has two 327 Chevy's and a 6.5 KW generator. The boat could be fixed up and could be a good boat again if someone could start at $.00. I have to much into it already. I need to know soon.

Here are the pics of the boat after the storm:

I have a few ideas and possible plans but I don't want to lead you all into anything so I'll tell you what I'm thinking tomorrow.

Unrelated news I have a cool recipe I am wanting to test but have not gotten the chance yet. While at an NPR deal this weekend one of my coworkers wives shared it with the group and they decided to call it...

The Kansas City Margarita

12oz Frozen Limeaid concentrate

12oz 7up

12oz Tequila

2 bottles of Corona

 

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01-02-07 10:03am

Seems like lots to catch you up on. First the explanation of the announcement, Saturday morning I went back to eggct, (home of the cold biscuits and gravy and the sub par burger) with Stooks and Heath. The place was pretty full and smelled fantastic when we got in there so we agreed to wait 20 min for a table. I decided to give the place another shot since I had never tried the eggs and that may be their specialty. All three of us ordered omelets and they looked amazing when they arrived. Unfortunately they did not taste amazing. They were all just all right, they were nice and hot but I think they didn't have enough stuff inside, eggct was real skimpy on the cheese and other stuff inside. So it was mostly just eating a plain egg. not terrible and not great.

On Friday night Mike, Matt, Audry, Heath and myself played a lot of Jenga after the pizza and then walked up to Mike's Tavern. They had a $7 cover so we waved goodbye to the large bouncer and hopped in a cab up to The Brooksider. We found a table in the basement for a while then went to Hoopers for a while. We taxied it home and scarfed up the rest of the pizza. I went to bed around 3am and was woken at 6am with a radio station problem. I went into the station and had it fixed in 5 min and went back to bed. The woke up a few hours later and went to breakfast.

Saturday afternoon I worked for a while and Heath and I went to the park for a run. We also went to Wal-Mart and found it was having a sale and that the banister store was shutting down. They had all sorts of good stuff on sale. My best stuff was a lantern and a camp stove. That night we went to the Peach Tree for dinner with a bunch of NPR and KCUR folks. It was a great free meal and we met some interesting characters.

New Years was a good time and very busy early on then quiet (for me) until around 12:30 and then busy again. At 12:30 we were done and had to take everything apart and put it away. There was lots of broadcast gear to take care of. Luckily a coworker of mine brought a nice bottle of tequila and the owner of the Blue Note brought over some champagne to make the work more fun. We drank and snaked and worked until sometime after 2am then I got a ride home and showed some folks around the house and had a few beers.

I had a bad headache in the morning. My truck was 5 miles away, no one was in town and nothing was on tv. I laid around on the couch drinking water for a while and then realized I was supposed to go shopping at Cabela's with Kelly and Chris. I decided to bike my way to the 18th and Vine area and find my truck. I took Paseo all the way and luckily it was mostly down hill.

Just as I neared my truck Kelly called and said she was getting ready to go. So it all worked out ok. I got some new boots to wear hiking, backpacking, snowshoeing, a goofy fur hat and some propane to use in my new lantern and stove. 

I'm tired of typing so not much happened the rest of the day I rested, after dinner Jon and I went to the garage and built 2 walls and the roof of our ice shelter. I'll tell you more about it tomorrow.

Saturday and Sunday I will be playing lumberjack and harvesting tons of wood again. Feel free to join in if you feel like a weekend of killing trees. We will break to watch the Chiefs beat the Colts. 

 

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12-31-06 10:51pm

It's nearly an hour until the new year and I have a bit of time to kill so I thought I would get a post in since I will probably not get a chance tomorrow and I may not go into work Tuesday until late.

I've been working since about 4pm today and should finish sometime between 1am and 4am. I am at the American Jazz Museum assisting NPR people from Chicago, New York, Washington DC, and New Jersey. My primary job seems to be gofer but I also make sure they get internet ok and can print. It's been a fairly exciting and fun night so I don't mind missing out on New Years celebrations. We are broadcasting New York right now and they are about to count down.

All right that's all done.

Mike "Stormy" Strohm was in town for the holidays and we had out fajita pizza on Friday night. The word got out and Stooks came in from Manhattan and Heath's friend Audry came in from Cheyenne, WY.

The pizza was a meatfest and everyone seemed to enjoy it.

 

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12-29-06 8:03am

I apologize for not posting yesterday with no warning. I had the day off and forgot to let you all know. I took off Thursday to baby-sit Grant while his sitter had the week off. I thought you all might be sad but I never expected Stooks to call me in tears fearing the worst.

By the way check out the HYPERlink above and listen to some of his recent shows he is getting to be too funny for Manhattan. (not too funny looking though cuz there are some wierdos out there and he fits right in)

On my day off Grant and I had lots of fun. Best of all was our trip to Hillsdale Lake to run the trail there.

I set out all cocky thinking we would run 6 miles with a break in the middle somewhere to play at a park. I aired up Grants new styling running stroller, loaded up all our snacks, juice boxes, GPS, phone, camera, etc. and took off running.

Hillsdale has a chat path (small rocks bigger then sand and smaller then gravel) that goes an undeterminable distance and is really nice to run on ordinarily but yesterday it was a struggle. It had rained and the trail was sloppy and had a lot of sand and mud in it. It was like running on the beach. Pushing the stroller is usually not a big hindrance to my running but yesterday it was quite a chore, the thin wheels really sank down in the sand and I had to really push hard to keep it going. We ended up only going about 3.5 miles with 2 breaks to throw rocks in the water and never made it to a park. It did feel like a good workout though and my arms and back were sore.

Grant and I also made a tasty breakfast and lunch, did some grocery shopping, picked up my pictures from Wal-Mart, took a nap and watched Cars at my house while Derrick cleaned up after Russ.

(Russ had a whole week off to make messes then leave Derrick to clean up the whole kitchen and me to clean up the family/living room).

Heath was driving around in a borrowed 06 Hyundai Tucson last night. I drove it around a bit and really liked it. Has a V6 and 4x4 and one of the shifter deals where you can control what gear your in. Also it has the same paint job as my truck with mostly white paint but a dark grey section at the bottom. They look pretty sharp next to each other.    

Now after picking on Stooks and Russ, here is what I would have posted about yesterday.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Jon and I had a heck of a hall Dumpster Diving

That's right Wednesday night after work we drove to the northland for some pillaging. We were after 2x4s and chip board and found several really long 2x2s and tons of chipboard. We also got a shovel, digital camera, authentic military camouflage clothes, screws, nails, a whicker chair for grant, 2 full cans of paint, some assorted wires and transformers, a toy samari sword and probably some undetermined diseases. Here is a pic of the wood in the garage.

This pic does not even have all the 2x2s we got. Then later wed night I went to Heath's and checked out a construction dumpster near her house to find it full of chipboard too so I got another load on top of the one above. 

I'll be doing quite a bit of radio station work this weekend and totally be out New Years Eve. If you miss me lots listen to the Jazz themed broadcast on 89.3 KCUR and maybe in the credits they will say my name on the international broadcast. 

 

 

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12-27-06 8:14am

Well yesterday was a slow morning and a busy afternoon. I got a bunch of pictures ordered from Wal-Mart and they shipped out last night. I am hoping I can pick them up at the Wal-Mart on 51st and Roe on Friday.

I always get excited when I get my pictures printed and can put them up. I got 21 8x10s so I will be putting a lot of pictures up.

I think Jon and I are going lumber hunting tonight. In the northland there are some major housing developments going on where there will be 5-10 dumpsters on a newly made block. All the used wood gets tossed into these dumpsters to be hauled out. We will most likely jump into each dumpster and pull out all the large chip board scraps and any 2x4s that are more then 6ft long. Last time we went hunting we were in the middle of the wall project and so had specific needs of 8ft 2x4s and 4ft chipboards and even trimmed down boards that were too long. This time the main need for lumber is for an ice fishing hut. I'll describe the hut more when we really get it all going and figured out but it will need to hold 3 to sit and fish, to lay down and fish and be transportable in the back of a Ford Ranger.

After the lumber hunt I will probably meet up with Heath who is supposed to be car shopping. She found two 06 Hyundai Tucsons that she really likes. I'm not sure the color or anything but they look like this.  

The main improvements over her current car is working windows, working speedometer, working sunroof, intact interior, and linkage not held together with electrical tape. I like the way these look and the 10 year warranty. Some girl liked hers so much she went and got a tattoo of it.

 

I'm thinking she will get a good deal being the end of the year and the salesmen needing to make quotas, anyone think this is true or she will be better off waiting till next year when the car is a year older?

 

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12-26-06 8:38am

Christmas with Grant and Heath

Grant gets his own copy of Pulp Fiction

At Heath's Family Christmas

My Family Christmas Eve

I'm not sure what to write about today it was a very busy Christmas break. We all ate a whole bunch, got to see a lot of people, got all kinds of good presents and even had some fun. I'm looking forward to starting to build an ice fishing hut and making fajita pizza with Mike. I am not sure on dates for either of these events.

I am guessing only about 1/2 of you are working today, so in theory I only need to put up 1/2 an effort of posting something nice.

 

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12-22-06 8:15am

Busy busy. I am going to be all over today working on wireless connections and ISDN lines in an effort to make sure things will be working for a national NPR show that takes place here New Years Eve. For those of you that don't know what ISDN lines are (everyone but Stooks), they are special phone lines hooked together and connected to some cool boxes that allow you to send good quality audio from one place to another that is very far away. It seems like they are fairly wacky in getting set up sometimes though so it's a bit tougher to get going then plugging in your phone. If you don't know what wireless connections are you are missing out...

So I still am waiting on 4 presents, both my sisters and my brother have no present from me yet and a small part of Heath's gift. I thought I ordered everything far in advance but maybe not. I'm not sure what to do there.

Last night my mom and I went to get her gift at the Best Buy in Olathe. (It was not too busy at all) After an hour of looking she picked out a washing machine she liked and we decided to get it. Then we found out they didn't have any there or ordered and would not be able to order a new one for 2 weeks and were not sure when it would arrive. They gave us a $50 discount on a similar model and we agreed. Then the receipt machine was broken and our salesman got lost but eventually we all found our way to my truck with a giant box and got the appliance loaded up and taken home. Mom and I got it set up without to mush trouble and even started a test load.

It looks kinda like this but not exactly it's a Frigidaire high efficiency front load washing machine and mom really likes it.

Sorry but I gota cut it short and work so happy holidays and Mike Stormy good luck getting here from Denver.

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12-21-06 8:25am

First off thanks for the help on the CD yesterday I think it turned out really good, we listened to a bit last night and it was very annoying. We could not make it all the way through the disk before getting sick of the songs.

I am still waiting for 4 presents I bought on the internet to arrive and really hoping they come today but I guess tomorrow would be all right too. Other then those I have everything wrapped even the gag gifts.

Besides wrapping gifts last night I watched the movie Lucky Number S7even and decided it would have been more properly named "The Kansas City Shuffle" however everyone would have assumed it was boring or about dancing.

After the movie we got a little bit wound up and headed to 75th Street Brewery for the Wednesday special $0.75 brews. The special starts at 10pm. Derrick and I talked about going at 9:30 or right at ten or just whenever we were ready. We did not know what to expect, it's a great deal but would it be hard to get a table?

Well arriving at 10:30 was a disaster, and any later would have possibly been worse. The place was packed and we could not get a drink, they had very few bartenders and very very many people trying to get drinks. There was barely room to stand, after failing at making our way to a bartender we went to Kennedy's next door. We walked in and immediately got a few $1.50 bottles (twice the price but still a deal) and shortly after we got a pool table. Then it started filling up and soon was just as crowded. It was never as hard to get a beer but the room got very hot, loud and smoky. I got my fill awhile after midnight and went home with Heath leaving Derrick and "that guy on our couch" also known as Adam to stay and hang out with their friend Jen and her crowd.

Heath and I went home and cooked a frozen pizza that was only $0.89 but quite tasty.

     

 

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12-20-06 8:00am

Well I have started to get a lot of inquiries about my plans for the weekend. Tony V even sent me an e-mail saying "I hear the plan is your place Friday night". Unfortunately this is not true and I am likely to be tied up celebrating Christmas from Friday afternoon until after Christmas day in various functions. I've already been to 2 Christmas party's and skipped out on 3. Friday night is probably going to be the best one with just Grant, Heath and I. Then Saturday I'm going to one of Heath's family gatherings, Sunday morning a different one, Sunday evening church and then to my grandmothers house. Monday I celebrate at my mom's house in the morning and then drive down to my other Grandma's house to celebrate there. Monday night I believe I am a free man but have to work on Tuesday and Wednesday. Wednesday or Thursday night I have another Christmas dinner at another of Heather's relatives and then I prepare to work for the radio station on New Years Eve.

In more exciting news I have gotten all my and 99% of Heath's shopping done and a good portion of wrapping presents taken care of. I am fairly stoked about all the gifts I came up with for people and I got my first taste of this excitement last night when Heath, Grant and I delivered some plastic Jesus, Mary and Joseph statues and the manger I built to Heath's mom. This got her all wound up and excited so I guess Christmas is not all terrible.

Off the subject of Christmas (thank god) I am looking for silly songs to make a cd compilation. By silly I mean anything that is funny for anyone specifically Grant. The two songs that come to mind for me are:

Peanut Butter Jelly Time - http://www.ebaumsworld.com/2006/06/peanutbutter.html

Banana Phone - http://www.transbuddha.com/osaka/osakaphone.html

If you have not heard these, they are quite ridiculous and really get stuck in your head good. Does anyone else know of anything similar?

Grant has a terrible CD of kids songs that are just terrible remakes of old popular songs sung by kids with anything possibly not PC changed. He is addicted to this and I need to find something even more ridiculous for him.

Ohh last thing, if you didn't read the comment yesterday about the 51st and main peanut go read it. Mostly I did not have an incident to really explain why I want them out of business but I always get terrible service, overpriced drinks and some terrible old man bartender. I do like the other locations I have visited though.

 

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12-19-06 8:15am

Last night after work I went home and really got some things going on x-mas type projects. First I worked on the toolbox set I am giving Grant. I bought a bunch of cheep kid play tools like plastic hammer, drill, screwdriver, saw, etc. and I painted an old tackle box white. Yesterday I printed off and then glued on some pictures and then gave it a couple coats of clear sealant paint.

   

While the paint dried I started wrapping the other presents. When Derrick got home we got to work on his computer. We swapped out parts with mine until finding out that his processor was the only thing not working. So now he has to find a processor he is fond of. It's also important that the processor likes the slot in his computer and then we need to get them together. I am thinking this will be easier for Derrick then finding a date but we will see.

  (check that out ladies)

After playing computer I had to get one of my last presents, it's for H so I will not say much about it but I had to go to an old lady store to buy it and the store was a long way away. The store was painless though and I got in and out.

When I got home I started cooking dinner, started a fire in the wood stove and resumed wrapping presents. I ate a few healthy bowls full of deer meat, Aldi brand hamburger helper stroganoff with onion, corn and tomatoes added. I ate and wrapped until Jon came over and the Monday night football game began.

We went out to the garage and watched the game in the warm radiant heat of the stove. We discussed some of the good and bad parts of Christmas time and all the stuff we have to do.  

 

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12-18-06 8:22am

Friday I spent most of the day in bed until about 4. Then Jon and I drove down to Pittsburg for my sisters graduation and because we had not been down in a while. When we got to town we met up with Tony and went to "The 311 Club" for some pool and slim jims (32oz glass of beer for $2.75). Once Kelly's graduation party began we went to her apartment. There were quite a few people there. After the party we went to 505 and then over to JB's. At JB's we met up with Kelly again and finished the night there.  

Saturday morning we packed up some supplies at Tony's house, then went to Wal-Mart for beef, buns, catsup and shortening. We took all this stuff out to a strip pit for a fire and lunch.

(note the oven rack from Tony's house)

We grilled up cheeseburgers and French fries. The burgers were extra tasty from sautéed onions we made on the lid of the Dutch oven. 

Midlunch Heather and Jenna met us out at the pit with a huge jug of rum. They had some fries and split a burger. After lunch we wondered around our site for a while and then decided to take a nature walk. We were not far from the pit we used to go to all the time in collage and decided to walk over there and see what had changed. We ended up walking all over the pit and had fun horsing around.

After the hike we went back to Tony's and got cleaned up. Then we went to a new Chinese restaurant called Yummy's. It was a good place, food was all hot and tasty plus they had some unique stuff like sushi and crawfish. I had my first crawdad and thought it was good, real buttery taste. After dinner we went back to 311 and watched some football and had more slim jims. After 311 we went to Morman's and played some pool and drank some pitures. Jon and I decided to walk to Tony's at the end of the night and we went strait to Taco Bell and talked our way into a truck at the front of the drive through lane. We bought our new friend dinner and got some tacos and water for ourselves. After receiving our food we were unable to talk the guy into driving his truck around in the mud so we got out and walked back to Tony's house and went to bed. In the morning we got all cleaned up and then went to Chatter's for my favorite burger of all time. The Gorilla burger is still the best burger I have ever found at a restaurant.

  (yeah that's an egg you see, and bacon and Velveeta and ...)

Then we drove home and got ready for the KCUR X-mas party.  Heath and I got to the Levee at about 6 and stayed till about 10pm. They had a fajita bar and an open bar. It was a lot of fun and all the food/drinks were really good.

 

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12-14-06 8:14am

I picked up the Personal Property Tax Bill for my boat last night from my mom's house. Any guesses how much tax I have to pay for the year on Grandma Natty?

   

No that's too much it costs $11.80. The Assessed Value is 125, I'm not sure if that is a dollar amount or what.

Last night was nice out and I got to have a fire in Heath's backyard.

 

I think I am getting a cold or the flu or something so we did not make a big production of the fire. Mostly we just burned the log cabin down and cooked on it's coals. The night before we marinated some deer steaks in beer, whiskey, melted butter, brown sugar, BBQ sauce, soy sauce, season all, and Montreal steak seasoning. The steaks and some onions soaked in this mixture all night/day and then I tossed them on a grate over the open coals.

The fire was hot and it did not take long to cook everything and get a pot of water boiling. Inside we cooked some frozen green beans in a skillet with garlic and soy sauce and seasoned oven French fries. Then brought in the meat, onions and water. We made hot coco from the water and ate the rest w/ a little BBQ sauce. Everything turned out great. The deer steaks were tender and had a real nice flavor.

As promised yesterday I will describe my new club idea. I forgot the website link and when I talked to Derrick he had already left the house too and could not get it. I'll try to remember at lunch to update the site with the link.

In a FHM magazine I read an article about a club of guys in New York (I think). These guys get together once every 2 months and practice being carnivores. They all meet at a predetermined restaurant or house and eat meat. They were trying to get guys in other cities to start up their own clubs and do the same thing. I think it would be a really fun club and I think I know a lot of guys that like steak. These guys all had nice matching polo shirts with some meat emblem on them and even got nice matching steak knives that they took to the meatings (misspelled on purpose, get it). Is anyone interested in starting such a club? If we have enough interest we could do a trial run and pick a restaurant and all meat there for some steaks. Once I find the website of these other guys we can decide if we want to do the same as them or go our own direction.  Girls sorry but this seems like a good opportunity for us to get away from you and fart and talk about gross stuff. If you ladies are jealous maybe you could start a cuscus club.  

Update: the website is supposedly fhmus.com/carnivores but that does not seem to work. The article was on page 24 of the October06 magazine. The other Meat Men are called "The Ancient Carnivorous Social Club" and they live in Rochelle, NY. The Co-Founder and President is named Ryan "Punchy" O'Leary. They have 23 members and do go out once every 2 months for red meat and beer.

 

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12-13-06 8:41am

Kansas City Weather:

• Today: Plenty of sunshine. Warmer. High 58F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph.
• Tonight: Mainly clear skies. Low 42F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph.

That sounds peaty warm but not as warm as

• Tomorrow: Sunshine and clouds mixed. High 63F. Winds SW at 10 to 15 mph.
• Tomorrow night: Partly cloudy skies. Low 37F. Winds light and variable.

Due to the high temperatures expected for today and the low wind speeds, we are going to start a fire in Heath's backyard. Grant and I built a nice log cabin style fire layout this weekend and got it all ready to go.

(this is not quite right but close)

Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy the fire.

Last night I got the last coat on my manger set up and H and I attempted to glue straw to the roof. We may need to try this part again. Afterwards we went on a good run, made a great taco salad and then visited the new Clark family to pay rent.

Then we stopped by Target. I almost got all finished x-mas shopping. I just have 1/2 a gift left to get. I really don't like shopping and luckily I have been able to get most my stuff online. I've also taken a trick that my grandma loves and bought several people the same thing. We always know if one cousin opens a pair of gloves for x-mas we will all be opening a pair of gloves. My cousins and siblings always make fun of this but it is nice to nock out lots of shopping in one swoop.

I wanted to post today about a plan I am working on for a club but can't remember the web address I need to look forward to that tomorrow.

 Ohh yeah it's a men only club I think so ladies don't look forward to it. You can think about this instead.

 

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12-12-06 9:03am

Is anyone making it to this page? I am getting a few comments now.

Here Mike

OK well I have been awfully busy since I got back from Colorado and I have a few ideas to push on you all. Lets not start out on an empty stomach, how about breakfast pizza.

Grant is crazy about pizza, wants it at every meal and can eat it quite a bit of it. So Sunday morning while making scrambled eggs I decided to try out this pizza breakfast for him.

I put a piece of bread on a pan in the toaster oven so only one side would toast. I put eggs, green pepper, turkey, pepperoni and some milk in a fry pan and cooked it. Then took out the toast and cut the egg mixture into a square. put them together, added a thin layer of salsa and a thick layer of cheese.

 Then I melted the top and cut into triangles.

Sunday night I went to a work x-mas party for Heath's pancake gig. We went to the Cris Cakes building and had some appetizers and beer. Then got in a party bus and had all sorts of different drinks.

  (in bus)

I stuck to Amber Bock and some patron tequila. We drove around celebrating and looking at Christmas lights, until everyone really had to use the restroom. Then we went to The Melting Pot on the plaza and had a 5 course meal. We were stuffed and a bit tipsy by the end of the meal and decided to walk it off. We walked toward my house until Russ picked us up.

On Sunday during the chiefs game I began a new project in the garage. Heath's mom really wants a big manger scene for the front yard. So I get to build a manger. I got it mostly put together during the game and then H and I stained it last night. It just needs one more coat, some straw glued to the roof and my brace system so it can't blow down then it will be done.

 

Also we now have a Christmas tree at my house. I cut it down last night and stuck it on an end table this morning. I hope to get it properly mounted tonight, possibly trimmed and in some water.

 

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12-11-06 8:50am

Allrighty I am back and full of stories. First off though I am planning another trip in less then 2 months and want to get tickets soon. I will be going to Salt Lake for most of it and spend at least a weekend in Colorado. I hope to snowboard, cross country ski and snowshoe. Please let me know if you have any interest in joining either trip.

   

The CO trip was great. We left at about 8am on Tuesday morning and had a fairly decent drive to Bolder. We went to a bar Tuesday night and got lots of food and some drinks. Tony got a huge slab of beef ribs. Wednesday morning we got up at like 4:30am and got ready to drive to Vail. Steven's brother Brian got us a good deal on lift tickets and the snow was great. The mountains were also nice. There was not many people skiing in the middle of the week this early in the season. Wednesday night we were exhausted and went home to make some burgers and crash out early. Thursday Steven was not feeling well so Tony and I drove to Copper Mountain together. We had another great day on the mountain with no crowd good snow and lots of nice runs. This was probably the fullest day of snowboarding I have ever had. We were up and down the mountain nonstop and I have no idea how many runs we got in. We cooked up some Beef fajita soup and some sandwiches in the parking lot for lunch.

 

That night we went to a local bar with great happy hour burger and drink deals. Since burgers were cheep I got a double, the staff seemed impressed. My burger was 2 beef patties, slices of ham, onion ring, cheddar, Swiss cheese and bbq and mayo.

Friday morning we went and ate a good big breakfast then headed up the mountain for some snow shoeing. We stopped on the way to check out a 1/2 frozen waterfall. Snow shoeing was lots of fun and we figure we went 5miles +/- . It was not as hard as we expected and I want to do it again.

           

Friday night we packed up and then went to Denver to see "Stormy". That's right Mike Strohm finally has a nick name and thank god it's not mistro. His coworkers had come up with the new Stormy name. We ran all over Colfax street in Denver hitting lots of bars and even a good cheeseburger place. We all had lots of fun.

 

 

 

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12-04-06 8:34am

Update: Picture Link above!!

It was a very busy weekend and I have a lot to tell. I am also going to be very busy today and tonight getting ready for my trip to Colorado tomorrow.

Friday night after work I went to the newish Best Buy in Olathe to pick out a camera. I had done a little research and everyone was in favor of me getting the Canon Elph. I got there and looked it over good and compared it to some others and decided to go with an HP Photosmart R727. I have owned a few other HP cameras and liked them until I lost or broke them. This one was about the same size as the Elph with a few features I liked better. Heather showed up and liked both of them and some others in my price range. 

   

After buying the camera ($199) and a new bigger(512k) SD Card ($15). Heather and I went to the AMC Theatre there and got 2 student movie tickets for the Borat movie. It cost me $16 and I remembered why I don't go to movies. After the movie we were starving and walked/drove to a few places in the area but they were all packed with people. We went over to some small Mexican place off Santa Fe. We were seated right away and really liked the place. We ordered fajitas for 2 and got a huge skillet with 3 kinds of steak, chicken, shrimp, ribs, peppers, onions and a side plate of rice, beans, guac, lettuce, tomato, etc. It was only about $2 more then our movie tickets. After dinner we walked around Big Lots for a few minutes then called it a night since we had the big Triathlon the next day.

Saturday Heath made pancakes for some job deal and I went home and cleaned up, made chili, folded laundry and got things ready for the run. I went to Osco Drug and found it to be renamed to something else and they gave everyone in the door a $10 gift certificate. Just like 90% of the other customers I was there for alcohol and got a 30 pack of Bush for $3.

Around noon people started showing up for the triathlon for predrinking, preeating, preparing, prepumping-up. By 2:30 we had everyone ready to go and headed out. The run was a great success and almost all of us made it to all the bars and everyone got plenty of exercise and plenty to drink and I think everyone even stayed warm. I got 63 pictures to go through but should have up an album by the end of the day if I don't get to busy here. There was lots of controversy (Russ bitching) on the Joggermeister title and everyone was too wound up to take the time to name one. So I am going to go ahead and announce Jon as this years joggermeister and give honorable mention to Kentaro and Danny Bristow. Jon was easily this years choice until he ran the wrong way and got lost and had to take a taxi to the last bar.

I won't get into all the other excitement from the run but no one was hurt, we all ended up at mikes a few people had minor slips on ice and lots of people were sore the next day. After the run we all went back to our house and devoured a big pot of chili in seconds. Then we all passed out between 10 and midnight. Sunday we had some adventures on a trip to Georgie Porgies for breakfast, then watched football in the garage by the warmth of the stove.

After the game H, Grant and I went to Crown Center to see SANTA, eat at the train restaurant and play at some Crayola village thing. It was a good time, my quadruple burger was great, Grant had a lot of fun (at least when Santa wasn't creeping him out), and I got to use my new camera. I'll think about adding some cute pictures later.

  Poseing by choo-choo

Crayola Village

Santa Clause

Eating dinner (can't sit still)

Break from eating to dance

 

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12-01-06 8:15am

Well I took lots of pictures last night and most are fairly entertaining. My roommates and I were trying to get a nice family portrait to put up on the mantle. I will need to tweak on them for a little bit before we find the best one.

I got out of work early and went home and watched some TV until Derrick came home. He thought we should go to Mikes and convinced Jenna and I to join him. It was actually fairly crowded for Mikes and we were barely able to get a pool table for me to beat Derrick at (once). Russ joined us when he got home and we played until we were too hungry and eager to sled to stay.

Once we got home we took the family pictures and started cooking an experimental, untested dish called Deeraroni. Once I found out that everyone was prepared to test out this dish it became Deeraroni Supreme.

Recipe for Deeraroni Supreme:

In one pot, make 2 boxes of macaroni and cheese (or Kraft cheese and macaroni) as instructions say.

In a skillet brown deer hamburger, cow hamburger, and chop up and spread in cooked bacon.

Drain any grease off.

Pour in 1 can of chili beans.

Add spices (cumin, red pepper, cayenne pepper, onion salt, etc.) and mix well.

Stir pot of mac and cheese into meat/bean pan.

Add layer of shredded cheese and serve.

   

It was a lot of food, even split 4 ways but we easily ate the whole pan in no time. After dinner Jon came over and we got the sleds and the boys ready for some sledding and started walking/running to the park. We filled the sled with beverages and Russ even stopped along the way for some fun in the snow.

Once we got to the hill we found a much different scene then Jon and I saw the night before. It was packed with little kids, big kids, old kids, news trucks, tow trucks, and lots of snow and quite a few people drinking.

We took turns riding the 2 sleds down the hill and standing at the top watching and drinking. It was fairly chilly and our drinks got slushy in no time. Also there was a vicious wind to deal with. I took more pictures but they are mostly worthless. The display screen on my camera died when we tried to shoot some action shots on the hill. I am even more motivated to get a new one now.

Eventually the news truck got things going and started doing some broadcasts from the hill. We tried to get in a few shots but I'm not sure how successful we were. Then 5 guys on ski bikes took the attention of everyone.

They were all going to ride the bikes down the hill at the same time and the news truck would film them. It was all fairly lame but everyone was really into it. Including Russ and my toboggan. He lined up on the side of the hill, hidden in a crowd and waited for the bikes to head down the hill. Once they started down he took off in a diagonal pattern. The bikes were fast and looked to be ahead of Russ and they all were but one. Some guy was ridding a girl ski bike and not as fast as the others and he paid the price. Russ' arm and shoulder plowed right into the front of the bike sending this sucker rolling down the hill with the crowd watching, laughing and cheering. The collision didn't even slow Russ down and he nearly caught the other lame-os. 

 

 

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11-30-06 8:41am

Did everyone get snowed in last night/today?

KC really got wound up from the ice storm and sounds like everywhere was closed and canceled and lots of traffic and wreaks and stuff. After work I went home and worked for a while via e-mail and stuff. Then Jon came over and we fired up the wood stove in the garage and got things warmed up. Derrick came out with a jug of whiskey to help and we got the garage nice and cozy.

Eventually we came up with the plan on making some spiked hot coco. We set a pot of water on top of the wood stove and played while it warmed up. It quickly started to boil and I went in to find the hot chocolate. Ohh no it was not there. We had no hot chocolate. All I had was chocolate chips and sugar. Jenna had some baking coco and we tossed all 3 ingredients into the pot and simmered. It turned out great and was not bad w/ a dash or so of whiskey. After a few mugs Russ came home and soonafter he and Derrick decided to play video games for the rest of the evening.

Jon and I decided to get out the toboggan and do some sledding. First we played on my ice coated street. We could easily make it all the way down to 55th with a lot of speed but had to bail out at the intersection so we moved to 55th. We could keep an eye on traffic better down there but it was not as steep so we moved on. We went to a park on 57th street just east of brookside. Here we found a very steep, very fast long hill. This was perfect, we took turns flying down the hill on the toboggan then running back up the hill. We did this for about half an hour before our fingers got cold and we got tired of running up the hill. Then we went back to my house. Then I ate a late dinner, Jon went upstairs with Jenna and Russ and Derrick played more video games.

 

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11-29-06 8:04am

Well yesterday I finally got the streaming server replaced. It was a little rough going in and I got stuck at work late tweaking some things on it, but it's nice to have it done.

Since I was late my plans for the evening were changed and I needed to stay close to my cell and e-mail to answer questions for people. After work I went for a run, watched Heroes and then cooked my first meal with the new deer meat I got from Chris. I made spaghetti and meatballs. I have never made meatballs before from any kind of meat so I just made it up as I went. I put about 1/2lbs of meat in a bowl and then dumped in onion, pepper and some garlic and Italian seasonings and 1/2 a package of stuffing mix (like I use for meatloaf). I got it all mixed up well and rolled out 7 large balls. I tossed these in a frying pan and simmered them for a while. Once they got darker in color I poured in more onions, mushrooms and a jar of spaghetti sauce and let all that simmer. I boiled some noodles and then put it all together. I had low expectations since I didn't know what I was doing and the deer meat is a bit tricky but they were great.

After dinner I went back out to the garage to finish up my TV stand. There was not much left to do, just add some screws everywhere and put on the top. I considered adding some diagonal pieces for additional support but decided against it since it felt very sturdy and Jon didn't think I needed it.

  Nearly finished shelf

Once I was done I waited until 10 (for our programs to be done recording then Derrick and Russ helped me move out the old one and in the new one. We got it all wired and then stocked up in no time.

 

We soon found that we have almost just the right amount of dvds. We will be able to squeeze in a few more on the last shelf but it's almost all full.

It's just too bad that I rarely watch movies any more. Other then "Cars" of course, Grant has that movie on non-stop at Heath's house.

I hope to buy a digital camera tonight to use on the triathlon. Steven has recommended the Canon Elf and I hope to find time to look into it today.

 

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11-28-06 8:41am

All right, things should be back to normal today. Sure I am a little late and still a bit drowsy but otherwise things seem normal. I've got apples, I remembered my ice tea, the streaming server is scheduled to be started again but still sitting in my office.

I am starting to get kinda excited for the Triathlon on Saturday. So far it looks like it will be in the upper 30s but sunny. Supposed to rain and snow between now and then though.

Last night I spent almost all my time in the garage out back. This weekend I set up a sweet little TV setup in the corner of the garage, so I could somewhat keep up on Monday night football while playing carpenter.

It worked out great and seems to really fit in the garage. Last night I started working on a TV stand for our family room. The current thing our TV sits on is not designed to hold a big TV and looks like it is about to fall over. It leans way to one side and sags to badly the drawers won't close correctly. I have been waiting for it to fall over for a few months. The new one looks like this so far.

   

It is 4ft tall and my TV will sit on top of it. Below the tv will be 1 small shelf to hold the DVR and the DVD/VCR Player. Then under that is 3 shelves for DVDs. Each shelf holds about 67 DVDs I think. I am not sure if we have more or less then 200 DVDs. I can add another DVD shelf at the bottom or leave it big so we could stuff blankets or other big things down there.

Tonight I may be setting up Christmas lights on Heath's house or buying a new digital camera or working on the shelves or something different but I am not sure yet.

 

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11-27-06 11:30am

Well it was a long weekend and I did lots and lots of stuff. I am really running late today and have lots to catch up on though.

Football on Saturday went well

Thanksgiving at Grandmas    

   

Best Pizza Crust Yet last night

 

 

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11-22-06 8:17am

Last day of work before a 4 day holiday weekend. I imagine things will be very slow. My weekend will be shortened a bit though. Sunday night I will need to do some work at our transmitter and we will be taking down the station around midnight on Sunday.

Last night right after work Matt and I went to Mikes to have a few beers and kill some time while waiting for everyone to be ready for the Gut Bomb. Eventually Russ and his friend Jake met up with us and then we went to The Gaff. We became a group of 9 and ordered 7 gutbombs and a bunch of blue moon w/ orange slices. The service seemed kind of slow and the place was a bit more fancy and expensive then I appreciate but all the food I saw looked good and the drinks were tasty. We were all starving and eager for our food so when they brought them out our excitement was quite high. Here is the standard GutBomb w/ all the toppings and a side of onion rings $9.95.

   

This is a side angle of Russ' trimmed down sandwich w/ just the meat (pork tenderloin and bacon), cheese, bread, egg, and onion. It was served with a side of fairly plain French fries (still $9.95).

There was another side option of sweet potato fries that looked really good but I did not get the opportunity to taste them this time.

I had a pretty good buz going by the time we got to eat but I thought the sandwich was great. I have nothing bad to report really. My onion rings were hot and tasty, the tenderloin was tender and crispy, maybe more BBQ would be good for on the sandwich but otherwise it was just right.

Everyone was able to uncomfortably finish one and all their sides but Matt. He was finished after a half and tried to get me to eat 1.5. I knew it was a bad idea and avoided it. Luckily Jake stepped up to the plate and decided he would try.

(stock photo of Jake eating)

He tore into the 3rd half w/ very large bites and got about half way through before realizing how full he already was. Unfortunately for him there was no turning back. He had a crowd of guys watching his every bite to see if he would make it. He took a couple of deep breaths and went right back into it with a bit slower more strained chewing. He did power his way through and the waiter took away an empty plate, leaving Jake victorious over the huge sandwich and a half.

Well tomorrow is Thanksgiving and there was some confusion on what I could bring to the meal at my grandmothers house. Not much was left of the typical foods so I decided to bring a melon platter, a salad, and cranberry sauce. My uncle always deep fat fries a turkey in one of those big propane fryers and after last nights meal sweet potato fries came to mind. I think this will be a cool twist on a traditional food.

football FootBall FOOOTTBALLL!!!

That's right we have decided to try to keep the game alive. This Saturday afternoon we will round up as many players as we can and play a nice game of tackle football. Please join in and tell all your friends. Once we have some folks lined up we will pick a field that is convenient for me.   

 

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11-21-06 8:07am

Have you seen the weather lately?

• Today: Plentiful sunshine. High 62F. Winds SSW at 10 to 20 mph.
• Tonight: Mainly clear skies. Low 42F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
• Tomorrow: Sunny skies. High 63F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
• Tomorrow night: A mostly clear sky. Low 41F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
• Thursday: Mix of sun and clouds. Highs in the mid 60s and lows in the mid 40s.
• Friday: Times of sun and clouds. Highs in the upper 50s and lows in the upper 30s.
• Saturday: Plenty of sun. Highs in the low 60s and lows in the mid 40s.

This is way to nice for thanksgiving weekend. Yahoo says high of 64 on Thanksgiving. It seems like everything is already shutting down for the holiday. Matt Stooks will be in town early this afternoon and we will be going to the Gaff for our premier of "The Gut Bomb" with Kevin and anyone else who wants to join. We discussed afterwards getting a few drinks with any survivors. If you missed out on the Gut Bomb conversations It is possibly a very large pork tenderloin sandwich with letus, tomato, mayo, bbq, onion ring and 2 eggs on it. Kevin is the only person I know who has seen one and I get the feeling he ate half of one.

Speaking of Kevin, Anyone know the story on our annual football game? Tomorrow's post will be thanksgiving inspired and then I will probably not post again until Monday so if we are going to play some football this weekend lets have some details.

Last night I went to Wal-Mart and after a long weekend of no pocket knife I broke down and bought my 3rd Gerber Mini Paraframe Pocket Knife.

 

My first one changed my life by being the first (non-keychain) knife I made a point to hook on my pocket and carry around everyday. It lasted for several months then got lost after a campout. The second I only had a week or two before I took it off to go to a chiefs game and it disappeared in Jon's truck. I am hoping that this one will stick around for a long time and possibly I will find the other two as well.

Ohh and since I still have an expensive streaming server in my office, I'll switch CDs and surprise you with a mystery artist.

 

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11-20-06 8:09am

Friday seems like a long time ago. After work Heather and I went for a run and then out to eat. We drove around for a while trying to pick a place then went to Da Bronx and had a few sandwiches. Afterward we walked across the street to a bar called Gahoolies (something like that) for a pitcher. Once finished we walked around the KU Med area and then went to the Jazz restaurant down there and sat at the bar for another pitcher of beer. It was a fun place, everyone there was really wound up and there was a band and looked like good food. We hung out there for quite a while and decided to come back during happy hour (3-6) sometime for cheep drinks and appetizers.

After this we went to Jon's garage to check on him and warm up by the woodstove. He was making more progress on the security system but ready for a break so we decided to head to Mikes only to find a band and a $6 cover. This was unacceptable so we went to my house and drank a few beers and watched the classic country music station on tv.

Saturday I got up ate some cereal and headed over to Jon's to work on the security system. Derrick came over a little while after me and we had terrible luck in the morning. All the motion sensors that Jon got were really flakey and we could not seem to make them work right. We went to Cici's Pizza buffet for lunch, worked on them some more and then went to Sutherlands to buy a new one. It worked much better and gave us some insight into what was wrong with the other ones. We quickly got everything working as it should.

So now if someone breaks in a crazy loud horn will go off continuously until the motion stops. This horn is super sensitive and will go off before they even get into the garage. If an intruder continues into the garage anyway after 60 seconds the room will begin to fill with pepper spray mace.

Of course we tested everything thoroughly, including letting the mace go off while we were in the garage. We set it off and continued to move around until we heard the mace spray. Then stood by the door for a little while. It did not seem like it sprayed long enough so we started to go check it out and then found the cloud of fumes and started coughing and sneezing and stuff. Derrick got a bit in his eyes but seemed fine shortly after. We stayed away from it for the most part and so were not affected that heavily but it was certainly unpleasant. Jon put on a painter mask and made some adjustments then we set it off again.  Shortly after this test we got the heck out. When Jon went back the next morning the garage was fine, no more fumes or any ill effects.

Saturday after maceing ourselves we got cleaned up and went to Waldo with Heather, Jenna and Amanda Smith. We ate dinner at Lews. This is a little bar and grill who's menu advertises the 12oz Big Lew Cheese Burger. Jon and I, though still full from pizza buffet ordered the Big Lew and were not disappointed. It was a great burger, I am going to say the 2nd best in Kansas City behind the Double Max burger with cheese at Max's. This puts it around 4th overall since Pittsburg has the Gorilla Burger and the 1106er. The Big Lew is also served with some great fries or the house special homemade chips.

After everyone was full we went to several bars in the Waldo area. We stopped by Finn's Waldo Bar, 75th Street Brewery and Tanners then went back to our house for a few beers.

Sunday morning I got up and ate a nice breakfast Jenna had made, went for a run and then worked in the garage until the chiefs game. Watched the chiefs pull out a win and then Heath and I went to a KCUR Volunteer appreciation dinner. It was at Lidia's by Crown center and it was awesome with great food and free beer and wine.

Tom Petty is the stream today since I'm still delayed.

 

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11-17-06 8:19am

Last night I got home from work and had no plans. I was not sure what to do, I wanted to run and figured I needed to change my oil and finish up some dishes but all I was sure of was I did not want to sit in front of the TV all night. Then I remembered our nasty drain problem in the bathroom and got it all fixed up, and the tub, sink and floor all clean. Derrick and I did the dishes and got the trash and recycles ready for pickup. I got dinner going and then called Jon. He was working on his makeshift security system so I went over there to check it out.

He had put up motion lights and had a pile of, wires, fuses, solar panels, batteries, motion detectors, and other stuff. Last night he was working on the mechanical part that would push down on a can of mace when it was set off. As I understand the plan is for someone to break in and set up a motion detector when the do. This would set off lights and a siren and a timer. After 30 seconds or however much time Jon sets up the garage will fill with mace. After some trouble with batteries and understanding the solenoid parts in a starter we came up with a device that went connected to power would easily push down the button on a can of mace. Then we decided to go to Wal-Mart so Jon could get a battery to run the device and a can of mace. (Also I needed some trash bags and stuff). Somehow we forgot the mace in all the excitement at the banister Wal-Mart. After getting back to the garage and testing the mace I went home to eat dinner and talk on the phone. I called dad but he did not answer and so I called Mike and we talked for quite a while about my trips through there and what was new with us.

Tonight I think I am going to the Gaff with Kevin and whomever else can handle a Gut Bomb. So eat a light lunch and join in the fun.

Ohh Today's stream is Pretty Girls Make Graves, some little cutter band that KK, Lucy and I saw open for Franz Ferdinand a while ago. 

 

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11-16-06 8:02am

Today is my Dad's Birthday and while I am not sure he will check the site I think there is a good chance he will and a good chance he will expect a hard time. I think this because the last e-mail I got from him finished with, "You sound pretty busy. I keep track by going to "theprewitt"."  This e-mail was sent with a picture of a snow penis (if you don't know what that is go to Google click images and type "snow penis" in).

Last night I went to Heath's house and started a fire even though it was really too windy. Grant and I played for quite a while burning stuff then Mom showed up and Heath came out then Jon and Jenna came over. We grilled some nice burgers (covered in onions and fiesta cheese) and some polish sausage and mom brought over a tortilla soup that went great with the cold. It was too windy and cold to try to eat outside so we went in after all the food was ready and then never got motivated to go back outside to make our smores. Luckily we had rice crispy treats and natty for desert.

Yesterday I got my Colorado Trip mostly planned (even though I can't get Mike to call me back). Tony, Steven and I will drive out December 5th and return December 10th. We plan to ski a couple days and hopefully keep everything very cheep. If you want to go let me know soon. I am still planning another trip in early February to go to Colorado for a few days then to Utah if you are short on vacation until after the 1st. 

I got my e-mail confirmation on our shirts final design today from customink and they look great. I can not wait for them to be delivered.

Led Zeppelin is the stream of the day, please enjoy.

(don't worry you only have to see pops at the top of the page today, I'll be back up tomorrow)

 

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11-15-06 8:31am

I have been all about fire lately. All weekend we had at least one fire going and then last night I burned quite a bit of wood before and after grilling some steaks. They turned out really good and juicy. I also made mashed potatoes and a vegetable medley (broccoli, cauliflower, carrots) with cheese. I had a nice evening sitting by the fire reading a book, listening to Johnny Cash and drinking some beers.

Tonight I'm going to keep the streak up and go out to Heath's house for another bonfire. Jon, Jenna, and My mom are going to join Heather, Grant, and I and we are going to cook up some dinner. I think H has some burgers and buns, I am going to bring some catfish, and I know Jenna and Heath are crazy about marsh mellow smores. If you feel like a fire give me a call or just come on out.

As mentioned in yesterdays announcement I am planning a few vacation trips and I would like to recruit anyone that wants to come. I think one will be Colorado and one will be Utah. I don't have any details figured out yet but would like to try to get more people to join us. I think I will do some downhill skiing, some snow shoeing, cross country skiing, and some hiking. I am thinking one trip will be in December and one in February.

Sine the streaming audio server project has been further delayed I get to keep playing with it and today we are listening to "The Killers".

   

 

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11-14-06 8:10am

Allrighty look above for the new cutting wood section of pictures to see what we did this weekend. I have combined it with pictures from my last trip so to see the new stuff you will need to scroll down a bit.

Also above I have changed the stream to Phil Collins for today. This may be the last day for a stream of my CDs.

You would not guess it from the pictures but Tony and I actually worked really hard too. The three of us cleaned out a lot of trees, burned a lot of brush, split a lot of logs, made a nice pile of split wood and a nice pile of to be split wood. Jon and I both brought back truckloads of rounds that will need to be split at some point. The weather on our trip seemed to work out pretty well. Friday it was too windy and we even got to see some snow falling. Then Saturday when we were doing all the work it was cold and sunny with very little wind. We stayed sweaty and hot all day, then it really cooled off at night and we had a big fire of brush and motor oil. Sunday it was windy again and cloudy but all we really did was pack up stuff and clean up from all the splitting we had done the night before.

Tony's dad put in a pond not too long ago and the bulldozers knocked down a bunch of trees and pushed them into a big pile. We cut up several of them but there is lots left and other trees that need to be taken care of on the farm so we hope to go back again before too long while it's cold out and then again when it warms up to swim and fish in the new pond.

 

Last night's ribs turned out pretty good and I am looking forward to the leftovers at lunch. Heather and I ran 4 miles to a park at like 70th and Holmes while they were cooking and found a roller hockey ring. Then afterwards went to Mikes with Jon and Jenna.

Tonight after work I will be starting a little bonfire in my BBQ grill and once I have a nice bowl of hot coals I'll throw on some giant steaks Russ, Derrick and I got as a gift.

 

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11-13-06 8:07am

The Eagle's Hotel California Album is my constant stream for today. I did not think I would still be streaming CDs but instead streaming KCUR however this was pushed back again so I still have a very expensive server to just play with in my office. Sounds like maybe Friday.

 

This morning I forgot everything at Heath's house, my laptop, my camera, my fruit (last night I bought grapes, apples, oranges, and pears), my lumberjack clothes, my hydrogen peroxide (I got this while buying fruit). I took several pictures of my weekend adventures and plan to show them off but I guess it will have to be tomorrow.

I think I'll avoid telling about my trip until I have the pics ready but I can tell about before the trip and after today since I did not take pictures of that. Friday I took a 1/2 day and went to Tony's grandparents house to cut some small stuff that turned into a lot of stuff. We cut down a few trees and cut off some branches from some other trees and then hauled off as much as we could get in one load to the Olathe Dump.

I was surprised that Olathe offers a free dump for its citizens, you just show up with a water bill and drivers license and you can drop off all you want. For our efforts we received $100 from Tony's grandparents for food on our trip. There was only 3 of us and we only needed 2 dinners, 1 lunch and 1 breakfast and the beer had already been donated by Kelly and Chris so this was plenty of money for our trip.

So we ate over 3 lbs of sirloin steak w/ fried potatoes for dinner, then nice big butter biscuits and gravy with hash browns and eggs for breakfast, 1/2 cheese burgers with onions and sides of french-fries for lunch and a stew made from 1.5lbs of beef, corn, potatoes, carrots, celery, onion and spices for dinner. At dinner we also had 2 loafs of fancy garlic bread and a homemade pineapple upside down cake.

After the trip Kelly called to tell me her boyfriend killed a deer for me. He is going to get it processed into hamburger and steaks for me then I'll split it and the costs with Heath. I am excited to get it. The butcher told him that it was the biggest doe he had gotten.

So it's time to start cleaning out my and Heath's freezers. Tonight I am making a big slab of ribs with potatoes, green beans, and peaches.

 

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11-10-06 8:22am

So if you missed the run section above I am ordering shirts today. Please let me know your size or if my runners list is not accurate ASAP. Also if you didn't notice my streaming music links above are playing White Zombie today, enjoy yourselves. And if you missed the announcement I am taking the afternoon off to warm-up for my weekend in the woods by cutting down a tree at Tony's grandparents place in Olathe.

I am really looking forward to this weekend and I think Jon and Tony are too. Every time I see Jon we mention that we can not wait to get out there. Call me crazy but I get more excited about working hard cutting down trees then going to a great party or bar etc.

Last night while juggling a soccer ball Jon and I were talking about what to do with all the wood we bring back. We are only taking our 2 trucks this trip. Tony's dad does not need any wood, my mom does not, I could use a little, Jon could use a little more but we will easily bring back more then we need. We discussed storing lots of wood at Heath's house and try to sell it to people but decided against that. Also we want to make it out there at least one more time this winter and that will be even more extra wood.

Then Jon came up with a good plan I think. Next time before we go we can place an add in the news paper for 2 truck loads of wood. (I believe the measurement is a rick of wood) So we would sell 2 ricks ahead of time and plan for it to be delivered Sunday and then go cut wood all Friday and Saturday and have it all ready for our customer. We would not make tons of money but it would pay for our gas food and beer for the weekend.

Besides that conversation while juggling we tried to decide if Russ should stay in KC or go to Pittsburg and we had a pigeon divebomb us and crash into some bushes. Russ picked him up and we played with him for a while then tried to let him fly away but he was pretty dumb or blind and just flew into stuff and pooped all over.

 

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11-09-06 8:00am

Good morning everyone. I'm going to have another busy morning so I came in early to knock some stuff out. I had hoped to order T-shirts today but I don't have sizes for most of you. check the comments above for more info.

I had a semi crazy night going strait from work to Hooper's and staying there way too long drinking way too many $2 import beers. Heath and I jogged up there this morning to rescue our cars. We both liked the early morning run motivation but I felt a bit dehydrated to run much further. After the bar I convinced several of my coworkers to go to my house for an experimental BBQ sandwich. I sliced up a bunch of polish sausage in long thin slices and tossed them in a hot frying pan. Once they got really going I added a bunch of BBQ sauce and simmered and stirred for a while. In another pan I sautéed a pile of onions and peppers. We tossed these onto hamburger buns and ate them up. I think they were really good but will need to try them again before I can be sure.

I ate lunch yesterday at the new campus cafeteria deal. It seems like a good lunch. I got the impression they always have a salad bar, pizza buffet, cereal section, sandwich stuff, desert bar, and grill with burgers, fish patties, grilled cheese, tator-tots and fries then they have a couple other stations with something unique for the day, yesterday was a ravioli section and a taco station. They also do breakfast and dinner in a similar fashion. I think it's like $4 breakfast, $5 lunch and $6 dinner but I don't remember for sure. I got a slice of pizza, burger, taco, rice, salad, banana, cookie and a couple of glasses of tea and it was all tasty enough. I hear breakfast has an omelet cook and a waffle iron. This cafeteria is open to the general public and starts at 11am on weekends.

Not sure of my plans for this evening probably need to get stuff ready for my lumberjack adventure.

Ohh and Cory told me Roy and Daniel cleaned up the kitchen. :) 

 

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11-08-06 8:20am

I have several urgent things I need to take care of this morning before my post. I will do it in an hour or so. Don't expect much though I mostly just sat on the couch with Russ and Derrick and caught up on TV shows. Good old DVR.

9:50am

All right I am back. Yesterday I setup a special setup for the election coverage stuff and It had to be all back to normal by 10 today for our live shows. I'm afraid I will not hear anything today that does not deal with the election stuff.

So like I mentioned earlier I didn't do much last night. Ran 3 miles, ate some chicken taco salad, drank a few beers and watched tv. Luckily I had a lot of catching up to do and did not have to watch much with the election results popping in. Since I did nothing last night I was really unsure about what to post about today. Then I thought you guys are usually good for helping me figure out my problems/difficulties. So here is one for your help.

Since some of you may know the people in this story I will change their names so they can remain anonymous. Lets say a theoretical man named Cory lives with 2 guys named Roy and Daniel. Also a Julie lives in a bungalow apartment above the house. Now Cory has lived in a rented house for a few years. A few months ago Roy and Daniel moved in. The new roommates know where to put toilet paper and are usually up to some fun that Cory enjoys. But Roy and Daniel are a bit sloppy and don't do a lot of cleaning up after themselves (at least in a timely manner). Cory by no means is a neat freak and has been called out before on his dish washing. But his dishes are washed soon after they are used and Roy and Daniels dishes look like this for weeks at a time

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Occasionally they will tame this pile but immediately let it build back up. Often times they hint to Cory that they intend to work on the pile soon. Since they have started living with the dish pile the roommates have had at least one mouse move in. Cory does not own the house and pays equal rent so can not make rules the roommates must follow but he does not like this pile and finds it annoying when trying to find a fork or clean his own dishes. What should Cory do? Can he make a 48hr rule on dishes or a once a sink is full clean it rule? Should he wash the dishes and bill his roommates for his time? Do all the roommates need to make a chore list and take turns getting them done?    

 

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11-07-06 8:23am

Computers and doing things on them seem to have taken over me yesterday and probably at least the rest of today. Work has been busy and then I have been doing too much outside of work with them also. I somehow got my Aunt and Uncles computer running again last night and was not able to turn down their money so I'm going to use it to buy a new hard drive.

So I am ready to escape computers for a bit on the site and then really escape this weekend. I'd like to throw out an invite to cut trees all weekend with Tony, Jon and I. If you have ever wanted to be a lumberjack now is your chance. We will be working hard all day all weekend cutting up logs and splitting them apart. We will build fires, cook manly meals, fart lots, drink some beers and get really sweaty.

Since I will be creating such a big pile of wood this weekend I would like to slim my current pile down a bit. If anyone wants some wood let me know and I can try to bring it by this week. Ben I am thinking of you. esp.

Last night as mentioned yesterday I went to mom's and we all played pizzeria and cooked up some calzones. We made 4 good size calzones out of homemade dough and filled them with a special sauce I came up with also some cream cheese, pepperoni, ham, onion, mushroom, black olives, green, yellow, and red peppers and a bunch of cheese. We ate every bite of them up.

 

 

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11-06-06 8:08am

N.P.H. is out of the closet. That's right Neal Patrick Harris (Doogie Houser MD) has announced that he is homosexual. I just wanted to let you all know. I really enjoy his new show "How I met your mother" and found this quite surprising.

   

Well as you may have anticipated it was a very busy crazy fun weekend. Of course I forgot my camera for much of it. So Friday night was Ben and Allie's wedding. It was lots of fun, good food and free bar. Somehow there was a guy there taller then Ben. It seemed like everyone drank a lot and ate a lot. Kevin can eat a lot more chicken tenders then BBDs. I wore belt and tie no suspenders because my pants had no buttons for suspenders. Again I wish I had pictures.

After the reception we went to an after party in the hotel for a bit then to Burger King and back to Kevin's for a bit. I got home at 3am and quickly went to bed. In the morning I woke up too early and started to get everything in order for the PSU game. Everything including my camera. The tailgating rocked and the game blew, other then KK's cheers. I think these were the tastiest BBD's I have made yet. We set up a great tailgate spot with lots of grass, and open space, big grill, table full of sides, coolers full of pop, water, and tea. Ohh yeah and a Miller/Coors distributor sponsored the tailgate and provided a huge cooler full of Coors Light, Miller Light, Miller Highlife, and Red Bull. Ohh they also had a big yellow PSU and Miller flag to help direct people to us. Here are some pictures from the tailgate/game.

People and the sides table

Our Flags

The Grill all loaded up

KK opens his foil, there ready

Prepare the buns and plates

words can't explain

Russ is so happy

Wow that's yummy

Heath must take a bite before her plate is even made

I think someone played football, Not PSU.

After the game we continued the tailgate until it was almost dark out. Then we loaded up and headed back home. We still had a lot of beer so decided to drink it. Jenna and Heather went to Waldo Pizza, my roommates went to Mikes and Jon and I sat around drinking. Eventually we got motivated and started to walk to Westport. Heath and Jenna called us on the way and picked us up. We met with Tony and his buddies at Kelly's and ran around to a few bars drinking and having fun. Jon got taught some lessons in pool by some terrible lesbian and I really enjoyed watching the good foosball players. Eventually we got hungry and Jon and I ran to Chubby's. The girls drove over later. We ate and then went home and passed out. I got up at 8am and tossed some chili into a crock-pot, turned it on, drank a bunch of water and passed out again until a bit before noon when the chiefs game started. We watched and ate for several hours. After the game I went to my uncles to look at his broken computer and then over to Heath's. We excitedly went to a newly opened Wal-Mart in Gardner then Grant and I made dinner and watched some TV.

 

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11-03-06 8:28am

WEATHER REPORT:

• Today: Sunshine to start, then a few afternoon clouds. High 59F. Winds S at 10 to 20 mph.
• Tonight: Cloudy early with some clearing expected late. Low 42F. Winds S at 10 to 15 mph.
• Tomorrow: Partly cloudy. High 63F. Winds SSW at 10 to 15 mph.
• Tomorrow night: A few clouds. Low 43F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
• Sunday: More clouds than sun. Highs in the upper 60s and lows in the low 50s.

Looks like another nice weekend. And to make it nicer I have pictures from last night of me and Grant making Bacon Burger Dogs. I'm kind of pissed because only 3 of my 6 pictures turned out. I need to actively start looking at buying a new camera.

<-Possibly the BBD's founder.

 

 

Luckily I have an old stock photo of cooking BBDs to fill in.

I made 10 super BBDs and 5 regular BBDs and 1 plain BBD (for Russ). Your super is a polish sausage wrapped in cheese, squirted with special sauce, wrapped in burger patty, wrapped in bacon, garnished with red, yellow and green peppers, onions and trace amounts of Jalapeno peppers, another squirt of special sauce and wrapped up in heavy duty aluminum foil. Regular is about the same but w/ a standard Hot dog and light on all the good stuff.

If you are looking for tailgate plans here is all I got. We will assemble at my house at 10am and head to Arrowhead. Park in line and begin festivities until 11am when the gates open. Find a nice spot with some grass and get to the important matters of drinking, eating, tossing footballs, hackysacks and whatever else comes to us.

Last weekend at the Chiefs game I had a new tailgating idea I may try to implement tomorrow. Let me know what you think. I bring 3 poles (like for a tent), a tarp, string, and a 5 gallon bucket. We stick the 3 poles in the ground making a triangle big enough for one person and wrap the tarp around them, tying it up with the string. Put the bucket in the middle and we have our own porta-poty so no lines for us?

Also I got into an argument with 2 women last night about men's fashion and I would like some clarification.  When a man gets dressed up with nice pants, shoes, socks and shirt he has a small choice to make belt, tie, and suspenders. Are all of these items allowed to be worn at the same time?

Belt and Tie no Suspenders-OK?

Suspenders and Tie no belt-OK?

Belt and Suspenders no Tie-OK?

I believe 2 of the 3 are ok and one is not, what do you think?

 

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11-02-06 8:19am

Check out this spice rack:

   

Yeah that's right, we have a new spice rack in the kitchen. It's long, it's narrow, it's white, it's crazy cool and it holds all our spices and stuff.  I made it last night with old leftover wood scraps while talking on the phone. I still need to secure it so it won't fall off in case we have an earthquake or something. I think this rack will really come in handy if I ever get my squirrel snaring plan off the ground. I did way to much talking on the phone last night. Luckily I found out I can use any mp3 as my ringer so I had a cool new ringer to listen to so I was ok with so much talking. Does anyone have any recommendations for good ringer songs I should use as ringers?

Tonight I'm playing moving truck and taking a bunch of chairs and a table and stuff to my moms house and then I'm going to go pick up my grill and trashcan and other stuff from Heathers house and take them back where they belong.

 

I will also be playing god and mixing cheese, bacon, burger, and hotdogs together and wrapping them in foil in preparation for Saturday's big tailgate party and football game. I am going to go to the store and get supplies and get my tailgate food all ready to go because its really the last chance I have before the game. Right now I am making food for:

Me, Koko, Yasu, KK, Russ, Derrick, Heath, Jenna, Jon, Kelly, Chris(BF), And a full to go order for Kevin

and maybe for:  Mom, Tony, Taran.

Please let me know what your BBD status is.

 

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11-01-06 8:25am

So I did not set up the grill on the porch and drink beer as I had planned. I actually only gave out candy to one kid but he was pretty excited about it. We went to Mike's Tavern and played some pool early on then I went over to Heathers to clean up some of my stuff from the bonfire.

I'm clueless on a post today so I'll flood you with a bunch of random thoughts. I may have stolen this technique from Matt. But I don't think he has done it in a while and I think I did not like it when he did it. 

I'm ready for all this election BS to be over.

It's getting kinda cold out.

I like how it's light out in the morning again but still not used to dark at night.

Should be nice out this weekend.

I'm hungry and I gota go to the bathroom.

Have you heard "Photograph" by Def Leopard?

My throat is still funky from the Chiefs game.

Anyone know if Kevin is planning a thanksgiving football game?

I think I really like the TV show "Heroes"

I have heard of but not seen the new 24 previews but it's not till Jan so i'm not sure I want to yet.

I gave up on New Years and agreed to work this year

If you are interested in some Lumberjacking and oozing with brawn let me know I have a tree killing plan in the works

I can't think of anything else to bring up today. Click on our friend THE MANATEE for an interesting cartoon/blog site.  

 

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10-31-06 8:11am

Things seem more back to normal today. I have recovered from the weekend, got plenty of sleep last night and feel much better today. At work the IS department is doing a chili fest potluck lunch deal today for Halloween and I brought my cocktail wieners that went over so well last time.

 Are you guys doing anything at work for Halloween?

I think I may get a hair cut after work today. I usually try to get one before Thanksgiving each year and it's getting to be that time. I do plan on keeping the beard though. Since my roommates and I never made a plan to carve pumpkins I will probably carve mine after my haircut. 

I probably will start a fire in the BBQ grill tonight on my front porch and hang out in the front by the fire giving any kids that come by some candy. I'll carve my pumpkin out there, eat dinner and drink a few beers. I would like to invite you all to join me and I will give you some candy and/or a drink.

Reminder the Pitt state game is this Saturday morning. I am taking orders for bacon burger dogs. I know both my roommates want one plus me and Heath, Jon maybe Jenna but who else will be there and need a nice pile of meat.

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10-30-06 10:05am

Well this is not as late as I assumed it would be but I had trouble getting any real sleep in so I came into work instead.

My server has/is having some mysterious problems and you may have found the site unavailable over the weekend and earlier today. I am really not sure why it is working at the moment.

It was a great weekend, very busy, very outside, very tiring. Friday night I did some work around Heath's house then watched "Cars" with her and Grant.

Saturday we got stuff set up for the bonfire and trimmed a bunch of trees. The bonfire was a good time, lots of people showed up and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. We did not burn as much of the wood as hoped but it was still a nice fire. I thought everyone was hitting the keg pretty hard but we still have a lot left. There was also a ton of food.

Sunday morning I got up an hour too early and went to the Chiefs game.  We grilled some huge (3/4lbs) burgers drank some beer and watched a great close game.

Then we played in the parking lot for a long time and went home.  Heather took me to Culver's for dinner last night and then I went to bed.

 

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10-27-06 8:31am

Last night Jon and I became much more productive then we have been in a while. At first we were going to work on some projects at my house but found out all my tools were at Heath's and all his were still stolen. So instead we went to his apartment to figure out this security camera. I wish I could say things went smoothly right away but that's not true. We had to fight it for a while and we did put a new plug on his cat 5 cable and then ran into some trouble with the windows firewall but eventually we got it working, but his internet would not work. We could only get one connection to work at a time. So I convinced Jon to buy a new router. Before he had even finished buying it online both connections mysteriously started working. But he got a great deal on a new wireless router from microcenter for $7.99 after a rebate. http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=243560

Once we were done playing/testing the camera we decided to go to Home Depot so Jon could buy a new cordless drill. Surprisingly the insurance company check was in the mailbox so he had the money he needed. We dealt with a mentally slow staff but somehow were able to get out with a drill some bits and screws. Then we went to finish one of my little projects.

With winter coming I have begun to think about putting the boat up for the year. Over the winter I would like to paint the underside, put in the depth finder, tighten up the steering, replace the steering wheel, finish the seats, repair my wheel bearings and whatever else comes to mind. Jon has offered the use of his garage for these repairs and it's size will really come in handy, plus all the cool new tools he will have soon. I would like to get in one more good fishing trip on the boat but it looks like all my weekends are booked for a long time so it may be time to put the boat up for the year.

This weekend I will be going to Heathers tonight to finish putting up her screen door, hang pictures and whatever else is needed to prepare for the bonfire. I get the feeling a lot of folks will be there and I have already heard of people planning to set up tents and camp in her backyard. The weather is going to be fantastic both Saturday and Sunday. So come on out to Heathers for free hot dogs and keg beer Saturday. The fire starts at 7:30 but I think people will be there before that. Then Sunday look for me in the crowd at the Chiefs / Seattle game.

 

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10-26-06 8:38am

Last night I made my return visit to China North in Westport and came out with several stories. My plan was to jog there with Heath after work and eat at the buffet then go next door to Fitz' Blarney Stone and have a few beers with Jon and Jenna. But it got late and dark too fast so I ran in my neighborhood then Heath and I drove up here. There was lots of confusion with getting everyone coordinated and no one really knew what was going on. Heath and I decided to get a beer first in case Jon and Jenna were going to meet us first. They didn't show up after the first beer so we went to eat.

China North is not the most nicely decorated restaurant I have been in and it does not have the nicest staff and it does not really make you feel safe and clean but it is cheepish and I really enjoy eating there. Actually everything on the buffet I tried I liked other then the egg drop soup not being hot enough and the egg rolls being a bit stale (I still ate 2). The noodles were great, the steamed rice was not dry, the green beans were crisp and Heath was excited that they made the squeaky noise on her teeth that she likes. All the meats we tried were tender and juicy. What I really liked about the place was the crowd that was eating there. We were the young couple smelling of beer and cigarettes from the bar next door but there were a few other interesting couples there.

 

The Two Large Man-hating Angels:
These ladies were my favorite. I didn't really look around before I had my food and sat down but I soon started eaves dropping on their conversation and was curious about them. One had recently seen some movie (I didn't catch the name) and she was very excited about it. She really liked the movie because some man got played by some woman. This was very exciting for a man to get what he deserves. These ladies were so sick of getting played and it was about time some men were getting played. They went on about this for a while and soon I stopped listing to them and talked to Heath. Once my plate was cleared though I was excited to get up and check them out. I found 2 girls maybe younger or similar age to myself nicely dressed and going after their meals. Each one took up most of their side of the booth. Ahh these are the two who are "getting played by men" I was excited to realize. While standing by their booth loading up my plate I overheard one say "I really wish I knew more about angels" and the other reply "Yeah, it's really hard to learn about angels". I was very surprised/confused by this statement but was very glad I got to hear them say it. 

Attractive Black lady and The Black Man in the big hat:
These two came in and ogled the buffet for a bit then decided they would do the buffet to go. They got a big Styrofoam container and started putting in their dinner. They excitedly discussed what to put in and had the attitude that they were getting away with something sneaky by loading up the container. She starts to point out something she wanted in there and then stopped short, "Ohh hell yeah, you know what's up" she declared as he had found the hard boiled eggs cut in half and started pileing them in. This item had made the night for these two. For some reason the eggs that they could have boughten at a grocery store 12 for $0.59 were the greatest thing on the menu. I was very entertained by this, wondering what makes these eggs so good, or do they not realize how easy it is to boil an egg and cut it in half. Maybe letting them sit under a heat lamp in a buffet of Chinese food adds the extra flavor. I was not curious enough to try one.

The Interracial Couple:
These two were nothing all that special, they also had trouble deciding if they wanted to eat there or to go and if they wanted to order off the menu or go for the buffet. They ate at the restaurant and got the buffet. They were comprised of a old white goofy man and a young big black woman. He seemed like a goofball and real wirery and Heath said she said some funny stuff that I didn't hear. 

After dinner we went back to the bar and met up with Jon and Jenna. The girls played "Photo Hunt" and Jon and I discussed important issues. Then Jon and Jenna left and Heath and I had another. Something went terribly wrong in my stomach and it was killing me for like 10 minutes and then I was fine. It felt like I ate to much and then trying to add beers caused it to be upset but maybe I ate something wrong like the shrimp and imitation crab. Heath claims it was the cat-on-a-stick that I enjoy so much and call a pot sticker. If it was cat meat, at least they are good for something.

 

 

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10-25-06 8:10am

Seahawks at Arrowhead noon this Sunday!

 

Jon and I will be there. He got two tickets from a Black and Veatch salesman.

I am really looking forward to going. This is my first and unless something else comes up only game this season to see in person. We have not made plans yet to cook bacon burger dogs or egg burgers but have agreed we will get there early to grill and drink some beers. This will be easier said then done though. Saturday night is Heathers Keg Bonfire party and I imagine it will be a late night.

Last night I went to Heathers to help her get things ready. I was not as productive as I had hoped to be and only really got a good list of stuff to do created and almost got a screen door in the front installed. I say almost because 2 screws are loose and the handle is not in yet. I did not have the necessary drill bits to make handle holes or get the last 2 screws in all the way. I still need to put up a screen door in the back, get in the crawl space to drill a hole and some fun wood stuff with the chain saw.

We have a nice pile of wood ready and the weather should be nice so come on out and help us kill Heath's keg. Directions to her house are above on the "-directions-" link.

Dinner was kind of pushed to the side last night in an effort to accomplish as much as possible outside before it got dark. So I brought over a 4 pack of salmon I purchased at ALDI. It was spicy mango marinated and we tossed it in the toaster oven while working then served on a bed of steamed rice w/ a vegetable blend of carrots, corn, peas, and broccoli and then we had grapes, applesauce and pudding. It was all pretty tasty but nothing phenomenal.

Speaking of getting things done before dark. I miss the sun already. It seems like it's always dark or getting dark now. I have to run in the dark before work because the sun is not up yet and I have to rush to get a few things done after work before it's dark. The time change this weekend will help some but still I wish we had some daylight.

 

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10-24-06 8:12am

Last night after work I quickly did my run and ate some dinner then headed over to Jon's house to help him set up his security camera in the garage. His garage was broken into a month or so ago and he is making it very secure now. Luckily he had everything insured and has already been sent a check for over $5K. Part of the new super secure garage setup is a security camera. It has inferred night vision, motion sensors, audio, and sends all the data it picks up to an e-mail address or FTP.

 

So if someone breaks in it will begin recording and sending all the video from 15 seconds before the break in until the motion stops. It also has contact closures on it that could be used to trigger lights, alarms, and other surprises for thieves.

Jon bought and installed a 100ft cable from his apartment to his garage. Both ends of the cable barely made it into the room so he had to add extensions to it (a coupler and a short cable to the camera in the garage and another coupler and longer cable to his computer in the apartment) . Also he cut off one end of the cable while running it up the building so he had to put a new plug on the end.

It took us awhile to get this all rigged up and once we did it did not work. I am not that good at putting the ends on Ethernet cable so we cut it off and tried again. This time it looked perfect but it still would not work.

 We tested all our other cables and couplers and the camera works great in the apartment but anytime we go through the 100ft cable the camera thinks it's not plugged in. We tried everything we could think of and could not get it to work. We eventually came to three possible problems: Jon damaged the cable while running it to the garage, we still have not put the end on correctly, or the 100ft cable is run to the garage with the power cable and they are both twisted up all the way down and the power cable is causing too much interference on the Ethernet cable.

(almost the exact wood stove Jon has)

We eventually gave up and retired to the garage to sit by the wood stove and discus this problem, wood stoves heating houses, girls and Chinese restaurants. While running up and down the stairs to Jon's apt I found a flyer for a Chinese Buffet that advertised a $4.85 lunch and a $5.25 dinner buffets. They also had takeout. It's hard to find a buffet that cheep anymore so I was excited. Both of us were a bit hungry, not enough for a buffet but about right to split an order of lo mein noodles. China North is located at 38th and Broadway (across the street from Chubby's) and we drove up and bought the noodles in quarters and took it home to eat by the heat of the stove. It was a great tub of noodles with many nice big chunks of juicy steak but the tub was far too small and not as good a value as China Feast by my house.

 So I think this will be a great buffet but not a great take out place.

Tonight I play handyman at Heath's to prepare for the Bonfire party. I will be wacking some branches with a chain saw, putting nails in the wall for picture frames and possibly even putting screen doors up in the front and back. I hope to come up with something interesting for dinner too.

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10-23-06 8:35am

Since the site is so slow today lets play a guessing game. Here is a description off a new item I purchased recently can you guess what it is? lets use the comments for the day below.

IN A WORLD GONE SOFT, THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS. THERE ARE PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO STILL HIKE, FISH, HUNT, CLIMB AND TACKLE THE TOUGH CORES LIKE YOUR FATHER DID. FOR US THAT'S REASON ENOUGH TO KEEP PUSHING, INNO-VATING AND REFINING OUR ______.  ______ ______ ARE THE PRODUCT OF OVER SIX DECADES OF HARD-EARNED KNOWLEDGE ABOUT FORM, FUNCTION, MATERIALS AND NATURE. YOU'LL KNOW IT BY THE WAY THEY BALANCE IN YOUR HAND, HOLD THEIR ______ UNDER STRESS AND FLAWLESSLY PERFORM THE TASK AT HAND.

Well I am not that late at all. I decided I could not run this morning because I had to be back to the office early this morning to help out with some auditors.

You may recall that I was going on a fishing trip this weekend. Well we only fished about 5 minutes late Friday night. On Friday we set up camp and cooked dinner and ate and relaxed for a while before we went out in the boat. Once out it was very dark and we soon lost interest in fish and took interest in beer. We did not stay out in the boat long and soon went back to camp. It was a nice night out; no clouds, no wind, not to cold and lots of stars. It was very late before we turned in for the night. A few hours later everything changed. It started to get cold, clouds must have rolled in and it started raining. We slept in hoping the rain and headaches would stop but it kept raining. Eventually we got up to see how wet our stuff was getting and luckily we were in pretty good shape. We began to set up tarps and even a structure we could cook in.

We cooked up some breakfast burritos and began drinking in hopes the rain would pass. It would not pass but just rained harder, got colder and the wind began to pick up. We could not get in the boat, we could not fish, we were done cooking and eating for a while, the fire was going but we got pretty wet standing next to it so we just sat around the pick nick table.

Eventually we all gave up and started packing all the wet stuff away and into the trucks. We went home defeated men.

I got home and put away some stuff, sat around watching movies in my underwear, cleaned up, did some work and then took a nap. When I got up Heather and I made dinner plans and went to Governor Stumpy's with Chiaki, Koko and KK.

I had a fantastic plate of Chicken Parmesan and a side salad. Then we all went back to my house to see what my roommates where up to.

We played some games and drank everything we could find in the house and had a great night. Derrick went to bed very early after drinking too much or possibly just worn out from a vigorous night before. We did not leave him out of the fun though.

 

Eventually we all turned in. Heath and I got up early and ran some errands before the chiefs game. After the game we went to her house and played pizzeria with Grant.

spreading out the dough

roll it flat

add the toppings

eat it up

We cooked a taco pizza (hamburger meat w/ taco seasoning, refried beans, salsa, Mexican blend cheese, and veggies)

and a supreme pizza (pepperoni, hamburger, mozzarella, black olives, onions, green peppers, mushrooms)

We ate the heck out of both of them them.

 

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10-20-06 8:08am

It has been very slow in my office this week. The radio station is doing "pledge drive" where we will make a bunch of money to get us through the next 6 months and I am not supposed to make any changes around the station. One exception to this is a little web cam we put in the talk studio so we could watch what was going on during the pledge drive. Its not terribly exciting but if you want to see click http://winmedia.umkc.edu/kcurvid.asx  I enjoy watching it when my coworkers are in their messing around so I set up a computer to just have the video on full time. So I get to play unofficial security guard, monitoring the station.

Anyhow where I am going with this story is I took a picture of my desk now with me working hard.

 (monitor, monitor, monitor, cell, laptop: all at theprewitt.com)

I will be at Smithville Lake all weekend feasting on delicious bass. I know you are wondering if I will come back with a topless picture of me holding some massive fish above my head. Well I don't know. It's going to be cold and wet and I don't do much bass fishing. I'm more of a trot line catfish catcher and the occasional little guy on a rod and real. I will do my best to catch a fish big enough to get me to take off my shirt and hold it over my head. Heck I have had my shirt off in worse conditions.

Last night I went to moms as expected and drove around a bit in her brand new Toyota Corolla.

It's actually a sporty silver 2006 one.

Have a great weekend everyone and wish me luck. Ohh also Saturday at the lake is going to be a freeforall of sorts where everyone can come join us... even girls, I'm not sure what kind of fishing trip I'm getting into. 

 

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10-19-06 8:09am

What happened to theprewitt.com yesterday?

I'm sure you are all very interested in where my homepage was yesterday so I will briefly describe the problem so you don't have to listen to a bunch of computer mumbo jumbo.

Time Warner sells me my internet and I don't pay extra for a static IP address (never changes) so I end up with a dynamic IP Address (occasionally changes). At like 11 yesterday my IP address changed. So my my website was up and running just fine but it had moved to a new address and I had not alerted the post office yet so no one knew where I was.

I like to think about it like my website is a trailer house and I keep it at the north end of Joe-bob's Trailer Park.

   

One day Joe-bob gets drunk and while I'm away at work he hooks up my trailer to his truck and drives it to the south end of the trailer park and then laughs when I freak out that it is missing.

Back to real news.

I need to start collecting money from you all if you want a T-shirt. I think they are going to be $12 (that is a great deal for such a stylish shirt and its red this year so you can wear it to Christmas w/ your green corduroy pants).

 If they are not $12 when it's all said and done we can figure it out on the run by buying drinks for each other till we are even. Today I will play a little bit with paypal and see if I can collect the money that way. Obviously I would like to do it all in person just to see you and how your moustache is coming in for the run but I understand that paypal may be easier. If you give me an IOU and then don't show to the run or pay for your shirt Ben and Kevin have strict orders to scissor kick you with their long legs.

Last night Steven, Jon and I got some 1/2 price appetizers and $1.75 draws at brooksider after work, not a bad deal. I think I ate dinner for like $5. I got chips and salsa and a dozen wings. Then I came home and dicked around with the website problem mentioned above and Jon and I played in the garage and basement and really accomplished very little. I'm headed to mom's house tonight for unannounced handyman type projects, mystery Mexican dinner, and Grey's Anatomy. Then I will go home and get all my stuff packed and ready for my camping/fishing trip tomorrow.

 I will be going to Aldi at lunch today to get food supplies. Here is a copy of what I sent to the gang for our eatings on the trip.

Food:

Here is what I am thinking I'm very flexible if you guys want to do anything different or change this up.

Friday night- Chicken Breasts wrapped in bacon with onions and marinade or BBQ sauce all wrapped up in foil, also backed potatoes wrapped in foil, (We can toss these on the fire and be busy fishing setting up camp drinking and not have to mess with them too much), If we are motivated apple cobbler for desert.

Saturday Morning- Breakfast burritos toss sausage, hash browns, eggs, onions, and peppers all in the dutch oven and then scoop out into tortilla shells.

Saturday noonish- Hot dogs and chips (or delicious Bass if we can)

Saturday night- delicious bass (or chili and Fritos)

I'll volunteer to go to the store and get all this and get it ready to go and then split the bill with you guys if that sounds good to all.

 

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10-18-06 8:13am

That is a picture of the shelf above my desk at work.

Last night Heather and I were a bit wound up. Once I got to her house I started making dinner and she got things ready for a bug guy that was coming to spay her house. I got dinner about ready and she got the bug guy started then we went on a pretty good run, while running we checked out "The Hideaway" bar in Spring Hill and checked out the liquor stores ability to get a keg for Heath's BBQ. Then we went home and ate and got cleaned up. After dinner we went to Heath's mom's house and took apart an old swing set for her and took it to Heath's backyard for Grant. Then we went to the bar. It was a good place: reasonable prices, nice crowd, pool table, no cowboys looking for fights. We had a few beers then decided to pick up some beer and go back to Heathers. Once we got there we decided to take shots first then drink our Nattys.

What did you make for dinner Chris?

EXTRA CHUNKY SPAGHETTI

I chopped up and simmered in a pan: onions, mushrooms, black olives, celery, garlic, green pepper

I added ground beef

I added sauce (from a generic Aldi jar)

I boiled water and tossed in whole wheat noodles (or Heath's hippie noodles as I call them)

Combine and eat ... delicious

What are you doing after work tonight Chris?

Brooksiders right from the office for beers and 1/2 appetizers (I hope). I'd like to see everyone show up.

Afterward's I may work on some projects with Jon or juggle the soccer ball.

 

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10-17-06 8:06am

Well last night after work I watched last weeks Grey's Anatomy then went for a run. After my run I talked to my roommates a bit about the triathlon and the slogans and various things about the site. Then I went out to the garage and got the boat and the garage all cleaned up and somewhat organized. This weekend I plan to go on a bass fishing trip with some friends from work in Grandma Natty. My garage had become a huge mess and it was tough to find all my fishing/camping supplies so I cleaned everything up a bunch. I was quite pleased with it. Then I ate some dinner and watched the Bears / Cardinals game.

I think I will have about nothing to do all day at work so I may go ahead and order the shirts for the run after looking at some more slogans and doing some design playing around. We are in the middle of a pledge drive where we get all our money for the next 6 months. During this time I am not allowed to change anything or take on any projects. I just need to be ready and to keep things running smoothly.

I'm having trouble thinking of stuff to write about today. Tonight I am headed out to Heathers neighborhood, we will go to some small bar in spring hill. I am assuming it will be full of cowboys looking for a fight. 

 

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10-16-06 8:00am

It was a great weekend. Friday night Jon, Jenna and I started things off with a trip to Rosedale BBQ. It was not very tasty and none of us were very impressed at l

east with the beef and turkey sandwiches. Fries were good but nothing special and the beans tasted like they came out of a can and some just some green pepper had been put in.

After dinner we went back to my house and watched part of a movie called "Rolling Thunder". http://www.sd455.com/movierollingthunder.htm

Its about a group of people that fight crime in trucks that have been outfitted with machine guns missiles, armor, etc.

After this amazing movie we fixed up some bikes and went for a ride to Waldo. We bar hopped in the Waldo area until close then rode back home.

I got up too early and headed out to Heathers house. We took Grant to a huge pumpkin patch out in Louisburg. We wondered around and picked out a bunch of nice pumpkins, Grant had a blast. Then we went to Heathers house and ate some tacos before Grant and I took naps. After our naps we helped Heather around the house by putting up a towel holder and then went to the park to play. Then we were hungry and went home for me to cook a teriyaki shrimp dinner that I was testing out.

BROCCOLI AND SHRIMP TERIYAKI MEDLEY  

I got out my rice cooker/vegetable steamer and put in 2 cups of rice. Then in the vegetable tray I put in a bunch of broccoli, carrots, onion, celery, and green pepper. I then added a bunch of cheep frozen shrimp and drizzled the whole pile in teriyaki marinade. Grant pushed the start button and we let the cooker do it's thing. Once we heard the ding I stirred it all up and served. It turned out to be great even the rice had a nice flavor from the juices that dripped on it from the teriyaki and vegetables. The rest of the night we relaxed and watched movies and got ready for the run.

Sunday we got up at 6:30 and got ready and headed out in the rain for the Abby's Run. We met up with my mom and sisters and brother and a few of their friends and then started the run. I pushed grant in the stroller and we had a really good race. It was a lot of fun even in the rain and I think we did really good. I'm fairly sure Grant was the first stroller at the finish line. Then we ate a bunch of free pizza, doughnuts, fruit, granola bars, cinnamon rolls, etc. Next was the Tot Trot where little kids run short races for a ribbon. Grant was in the last race and started out very fast but once the crowd cheered he got scarred and ran back to Heather at the start line. There are tons of pictures here http://00673d3.netsolhost.com/photoalbum_index.htm/10-15abby/index.htm

The best two are:

   

Once the trot was over we were thoroughly wet and frozen and went to Mom's house to sit in the hot tub. Then we went back to Heather's and Grant took a nap while H and I watched some terrible horror movie with Anent Benning. Then I went home and joined my roommates in some football watching. I don't even want to mention the chiefs. So once it was over we smothered some chicken breasts in BBQ then wrapped them in bacon and tossed them on the grill. We ate them with mashed potatoes, green beans, corn, dinner rolls and some peaches.

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10-14-06 8:19am

Yesterdays 3 mile trial run went very well as did the Buffalo Wild Wings trip. I love wings but for some reason I decided to try the ribs and chicken tenders platter w/ buffalo chips and a side salad. I am not sure it was a good choice. They have the chicken figured out for sure but you don't get the same satisfaction of getting wing goo on your fingers and the fun of trying to pick all the meat off the bone with a chicken tender.

 I had noticed BBW has recently been advertising their ribs so I thought I should check them out. They were very tender and juicy and each rib had a good amount of meat but something was not quite right about them. The menu said we would receive a pound but it was just 3 meaty ribs so I was immediately concerned. They tasted like liquid smoke and Heath said it best when she said they seem like fake ribs. It was like you had taken a McRib and stuck it to a bone instead of on a delicious sandwich with pickles and onions.

So next time I'll stick with the wings.

I'm not sure what is going on tonight yet. I will probably be up for some fun. Saturday morning I need to go get some pumpkins in my truck and then later I think I will cook a bunch of pasta to get ready for the run.

 

 

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BONUS UPDATE: It's your lucky day. Check this out http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=2003088n The whole Asian Carp in the rivers thing seems to be common knowledge now but this is the best video I have ever seen on it. I really want to go to this next year. The Redneck Fishing tournament in Bath, IL. Last year 70 boats caught 1,800 fish, and lots of people got hurt. WOW

 

10-12-06 8:35am

Wow I feel great this morning. I'm not sure why either but everything seems fantastic. I felt kinda crummy yesterday afternoon but woke up at 100% today.

So something crazy is going on with ants in our bathroom and I don't get it. For about a week now there is always giant ants in there. Usually somewhere between 2-5 in the sink. These ants while they look very large are always dead or dyeing when we find them. I don't have any poison or traps or anything but it's like the ants come to our sink to die.

Every time we go in there we flush them down the toilet and shortly later 2-5 more dyeing ants are back. It's very odd that there are never huge amounts of them and never none and it's odd how messed up they are. I really don't get it. Does anyone have any ideas?

I have been bad about running the past few days and that's not good since I have a race this weekend. I've decided tonight I need to take a 3.1 mile trial run to prepare for the race. I plan to try to talk Heath and Russ into doing it with me and invite everyone else to join in. I am thinking of running on the corporate woods trail and getting on it at 103rd and Metcalf. After the test run we could get something to eat Buffalo Wild Wings does their $.50 leg deal tonight I think but also Hardees's is close and a number of other tasty places.  Anyone interested? Ohh yeah I will use my little GPS deal to keep track of pace/distance/time/altitude/etc and last time we ran this there were deer right off the trail so I may take a camera.

 

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10-11-06 8:38am

I'm not sure if you have been following the triathlon link above but it looks like Nov. 18th is the projected date. Please comment up there if you have not already on how that date works for you. I probably need to get on the ball making shirts and collecting $ for them and also picking out bars and a path to run. I would also like input on that above, what bars we should/shouldn't hit, time of day to start, start and finish bars, slogans or design ideas for t-shirts. Please post any thoughts you have above or if you design something send it to me in an e-mail. Chris@theprewitt.com

Nothing to exciting from last night got some stuff done around the house, went to home depot with Russ and Derrick, ran a bit, wired a car stereo thing for Heath and watched Nip/Tuck.

I started using Windows Vista instead of Windows XP yesterday and so far my computer is running really well. I have put it on computers before but they had lots of problems for me.  

 

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10-10-6 8:12am

No squirrels yet and I think maybe we need to take a look at what we are doing and adjust it. I guess it is going to get chilly today so maybe I should put out some peanut butter or some other bait.

Last night I went to Heritage Park with H and Grant for a practice/training run. It went well and afterward we cooked up some great tequila lime chicken, fried potatoes, green beans and something called Couscous. For some reason H is often trying to push substitutions to good old white rice on me and the current thing is couscous.

It is edible but not white rice and I have yet to find a way to make it where I want to eat it. Does anyone eat this stuff, or have you tried it? The first time we had it, we just ate it by the recipe on the box but this time I looked for a recipe for it on the internet. I was in a hurry and did not find anything that did not take a whole bunch of ingredients we didn't have. So I splashed some salsa in the pot and stirred it up. This was better then plain but still not something I like to eat and not in the same category as rice.

Enough about food I can't make tasty, how about some that can't go wrong: wieners and beer. Heather is throwing a keg party/wiener roast/bonfire bonanza. She wanted to pass the invitation on to everyone that comes to my site and I decided that if you mention theprewitt.com at the door we'll let you in free. Heather made a really nice flyer and I will be printing a bunch off to hand out. It does not look as nice and organized on the website but it still has all the information and pretty pictures.

 

Heather and Grant’s Backyard

Saturday October 28,

7:00pm  

              

 

Please join us at

 709 S Webster

Spring Hill, KS 66083

913-206-4460

For an open house & halloweenie roast.

We will provide a Keg/Soda, Hot dogs, buns and condiments. You bring your lawn chairs, kiddies, and any sides or drinks you want. There will be extra parking at Signature Bank, across the street from our house. If you want to stay, there will be plenty of space inside, or bring your tent and camp in the back yard!

HOPE TO scare YOU THERE!!!

 

Please RSVP by Wednesday, October 25^th @ 913-206-4460 for accurate weenie preparations

 

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10-9-06 8:50am

Very active and different weekend to report on today. Friday's BBQ went good. We found plenty to drink and fired up the grill several times throughout the night.

 We had a nice fire and played washers, ping pong and beer pong. I really enjoyed myself and thing everyone else did too. Things died down just before 1 and I went to bed. I got up kinda early and ate breakfast and watched Godfather II.

 I also went for a run and cleaned up from my gathering.

 Then in the afternoon Heath and I went for a walk and then over to Kevin's to watch football and drink some beers. Around 7:30 Heath dropped Kevin and I off at "The Other Place" for Ben's Batchelor Party. Now I am not sure on all the rules about what happens at a bachelor party stays at a bachelor party or how that works so I am not going to report much about it (that or my memory is fuzzy). I will let you all know that Geoff now has a Mohawk and Ben likes to sleep after he wrestles. Ohh also KK and I typically crave double cheeseburgers after drinking. Luckily Ben lives very close to Steak and Shake so we took care of that and then crashed at Kevin's house sometime between 4 and 5am. I got a bunch of phone calls and other distractions early in the morning and finally got up around 11. KK and I went to my house and juggled the soccer ball with Jon. While playing we decided to start on the snare plan and went to the hardware store for wire. We made some snares and put them on a 2x4 and leaned it against a tree.

Then played with the soccer ball until Heather showed up and I was ready for lunch. I made some big pile of pasta stuff with all sorts of things in it, even spinach (no I'm not worried about ecoli).

 Then Heath went to sleep and we played with Jon's security camera and juggled the ball with Derrick untill game time. We watched an emotional chiefs game with a small crowd at my house.

   

Once the chiefs had one the game most people left. I went to work for a bit and then ate and went to bed. I got 10.5 hours of sleep and am tip top today.

 

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10-06-06 8:15am

Last night I was awfully busy cleaning, shopping, playing hacky sack, and setting things up to have folks over tonight.

Does anyone know much about snaring?

Jon and I went out to lunch yesterday at China Town Supper Buffet at 75th and Wornal. It was all remolded and nice. Lunch after tax was $7.13 and that came with a drink and a really packed buffet. They even had a taco bar if your not feeling the Chinese. Jon was especially crazy for the green bean things. When we got done talking about what good food we found we started talking about hunting. Neither of us own a gun or have ever really gotten into hunting but like to play outside.

I decided that when you are young, you like to play outside and you don't need any excuse to go play in the woods. You are entertained by sticks and leaves and that is fine with you and everyone else. As you get older and older you need to come up with better reasons to go play in the woods. There now must be a purpose, to camp or to fish or to swim or to hunt.

Hunting is an expensive hobby guns cost money, gear costs money, permits and licenses and training all cost money. Also it seems like a slippery slope. The first year you shoot at squirrels and rabbits and walk around looking and the sticks and leaves. This is fun but you see a few dears and hear your hunter friends talk about the monster buck they shot. The next season there you are with more gear sitting in a dear stand with a dear permit watching the sticks and leaves from high in a tree. Once you shoot a few deer you hear about elk and then moose and caribou and then grizzly bears and now you are a dedicated hunter and don't care about the sticks and leaves.

Jon and I discussed starting down this path in life and decided for now to delay it. Instead we will learn how to snare. Or the trot line of the land animals. From our crude understanding of snaring we will set up various types of traps that always involve a loop of wire that closes down around a critter. We will start in wooded areas near out houses and go for squirrels and rabbits. We decided this is a valuable skill to learn. If we can consistently catch squirrels and rabbits we will be able to survive in the woods without food.

Also as a man that loves his food. I really want to get good at making rabbit and squirrel stew or chili and share the recipes on my site.

 

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10-05-06 8:31am

I have a lot of potential topics to post about. I have lots of leftover things from the weekend still plus more from my sick day or my poison ivy or weekend plans. Or my day at work yesterday.

To tell you the truth I'm not wild about any of them.

Tomorrow I will rush home from work and start a minibon in the backyard. I'll probably play some washers and ping pong, drink some beer and ice tea and eat some meat. I invited some friends from work over right after work but I plan on hanging out by the fire all night and anyone is welcome to show up. 

Yesterday I did a remote broadcast at a Columbian Restaurant. It was kinda interesting and the food was good, lots of meat: steak, chicken, fish, shrimp, ohh and lots of plantains and rice. I got to go along because the station needed an internet connection at the site and could not get one. My new phone lets me plug it into a laptop and then use the internet on the laptop through the phone.

Maybe tomorrow I can do a better post, what would you like to hear about? Ohh I did make a wild chicken noodle soup last weekend when Heather was sick I could talk about.

The Wild Chicken Noodle Soup
(As heard on THEPREWITT.COM earlier today)

Of course you need noodles and chicken so I defrosted several chicken breasts and covered them in olive oil and Italian seasoning while I went to the store for noodles, celery, and chicken broth. I found some giant Amish homemade noodles that looked really tasty and celery was easy but I could not find chicken broth. I could find cans of cream of chicken soup and chicken gravy in a can. I decided not to worry about the broth and got both these cans.

When I got home I cut up some carrots and a potatoes and tossed them in the bottom of the pot. Then I cut up the chicken and tossed it in. After a bit of cooking I poured in the juices from a can of mushrooms and a can of black beans. Once the chicken looked mostly cooked I put in the celery, some green peppers and some onion. Then I added the gravy and soup cans. I filled the gravy can with water a few times and dumped it in. Then I added all my noodles. After they began to soften I added the mushrooms, beans, more celery, and some spices. There may have been more stuff in it but I am drawing a blank now. I let it simmer until Heath showed up and I added bits of milk along the way so it would stay soupy and creamy.

It was delicious and made her feel much better. It does not seem that wild now that I read what I did but the black beans and chicken gravy are kinda weird. 

 

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10-04-06 8:24am

I'm sorry I am behind on posting. I've got some nasty poison oak or ivy or something itchy and a bit of a cold or something too. here is a pic of the back of my knee that got the worst part of the itch.

(its hard to see all the little bubbles of itch but basically the red stuff is itchy)

Last night I did not do much, watched Nip/Tuck, ate some awesome enchiladas that Heath made for my roommates and I, and went to bed early. On Saturday night Heather's car shifting problem came back so Monday night I fixed it. As with my old saturn I decided old license plates would be the primary material used.

I cut out two plates with my angle grinder and then put one on each side and bolted them together.

So far so good but Heath is looking into getting a new car. Also she did not take the job if you were interested. She decided that while it was an increase in pay the health plan blew and she would have to spend more money to get her and Grant covered and she would end up with less money in the end.

Many of you probably don't care but in a month the Pittsburg V Northwest game is at Arrowhead. I would like some information on a plan for this game from you all and let me know if you are going. I assume I will be making my annual large batch of

BACON BURGER DOGS

and drinking a few beers in the parking lot. But I am curious who all is going so we can all get together and if you want the ultimate in football meat put in your order for a Bacon Burger Dog.

PS. I don't make 1/2 orders but if you order a whole one maybe you can wrap it up and give the other side to Kevin.

 

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10-02-06 8:08am

Man what a nice weekend. Great weather, great fishing, great vittles.

I have to go to the radio station tower soon but I will try to get as much posted as I can before I go. Right after work on Friday I headed south to Stilwell, KS where I met with Jon and Jason. We packed up Jason's Excursion and headed to La Cygne. We went to Jason's uncles house. He had a bunch of land with some ponds and a strip pit on it. Also he was just a couple miles from the Mitriloa(?) river where we would run our trot lines. When we got there we fished in the strip pit and had a few beers while waiting for Jason's uncle. Jason caught a 3lbs Bass and a water moccasin. When his uncle showed up he let us into a small pond and gave us some worms, we quickly caught a bunch of bait (live perch). We took these perch to the river and borrowed Jason's uncles canoe and trolling motor. It was starting to get dark so we quickly set up our trot line and a few limb lines. Then we started a fire, grilled some burgers and drank some beers. We just enjoyed the evening until close to midnight. Then we hopped back in the boat and checked our lines.  We ended up with one catfish maybe 3 or 4lbs.

 We took this guy to Jason's uncles house, cleaned him did some drinking and went to bed around 2:30am. We woke up at 9am and went back to the river and caught 2 nearly identical 10-12lbs catfish in the morning. I liked these fishies and took some pictures on my new cell phone.

 Once we were done cleaning these we went back to Stilwell so Jason could get some stuff done. We cooked up one of the fish from this morning and some French fries for breakfast/lunch.

Then we went back to Jason's uncles house to catch more bait fish out of the pond. We filled a cooler with probably 50 perch in no time. And took them out to the river to add more limb lines and add another trot line. We loaded up the river with hooks and lines all over the place and felt really good about our chances for catching some big ones.

(Jason digging out our biggest perch for our biggest hook and limb line)

(Jon and Jason getting a limb line set)

  (Setting up the second trot line. It is tied to the log you see in the background and runs along the side of the boat.)

We went back to the gravel bar where we had our fire the night before and luckily it still had some coals going so we tossed on some wood and stoked up a blaze.

 We were a bit hungry but had not brought anything but beer and tortilla chips to eat so we drank and waited for some fish to get hooked so we could cook dinner. Our buddy Troy showed up and we all hopped in the boat to check the lines. We caught these two cute guys and cooked them up for dinner.

 After dinner, around midnight we went back out and checked again. This time our lines were empty and one of the trot lines had broken. Something big had gotten on and torn it up, then escaped. We were a little disappointed but a lot tired so went home to bed around 2 again. Jon got us up at 8am to check the lines. We only had one cat, so quickly cleaned up, packed up and headed home.

I tried out a new seasoning for the fish this weekend given to me by my friend Brian and it was great. I will write up a bit more about it when I get some time.

 

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9-29-06 8:30am

Just as I suspected a fishing trip has been planned for tonight.

 

I will be heading south right after work with camping supplies, new batman fishing pole, bag of burgers, case of natty and as long as traffic is not too bad a big grin. After a quick stop in Stilwell KS, we will head to a river near La Cygne, KS. I am not sure what the river is called something like Miaola or something? Rumor has it that some 50lbs catfish came out of this river early this summer and if we get one 1/2 as big it will be awesome. We will pole fish for bait and then set out our trot line(s) in hope of catching some big guys.

I am having busy work problems so maybe continue this later.

 

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9-28-06 8:20am

I am dragging a bit this morning but not too bad. Heather, Jon, Jenna and I went to Charlie Hoopers for $2 all import bottles last night and had a few drinks. We were surprised to not find Kevin there. Maybe he is not as gay for Charlie as I thought? Anyway I had a Modelo especial, a Newcastle brown ale, a Red Stripe, and a Carlsberg. They were all delicious choices.

 After Hoopers we went to Jenna's lounge (new selective and intimate hang out spot with a nice view but cramped bathroom, located above my kitchen). We had some snacks and finished off everything we found in the fridge to drink.

I volunteered to work at the career fair today so I will be out of the office after 9:30 for a while. I get to sit around in the gym and hand out magnets, mints and fans. Also I tell ambitious students that we are not hiring at KCUR but the FCC wants us to be there.

I am loving my new phone and think I will switch to it for all my telephone needs.  

 

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9-27-06 8:09am

It feels like a good day. I got a fast paced run in this morning at "Tower Park" off Holmes at like 75th. I have never been there before but drive past it all the time. It is a small loop so I did it twice at a speedy pace. Yesterday I was grumpy and my knee hurt and I was all limpy but today I got a good night sleep and loosened up my knee with a good run. Also my new phone started working this morning, I have a yummy breakfast waiting for me and have some fun computer stuff on my to do list.

Do you guys use to do lists at work or home? I keep a little pad with me all day and add things as people ask me for help then I check them off when they are done. At work we have to keep track of how many things we do all day so then later on I type all the checked things into the computer.

Last night Heath gave me a Sonic coupon and while the deals where pretty good I was mostly impressed by the advertisement on the back. "The Spicy Southwest Super Sonic burger [Two beef patties, two slices of pepper jack cheese, lettuce, tomato, crispy jalapeno strips and out creamy Chipotle sauce]". I don't know why everyone decided jalapenos on a burger was a good plan all of a sudden but I am on board. I can not wait to try this burger, I don't anticipate it being as good as the Hardees' one but still think it will be tasty. I think it was early this summer when I started always cooking my burgers with the onions on top once it has been flipped once. I get one side done then flip and put slices of onion on, then wait a bit and toss the cheese on to melt over the onion and beef. This worked well and Jon (a man who loves a good burger but is quite picky about making them just right) even liked this addition and adopted it himself. It did not take me long to say "I need more" and I added jalapenos with the onion and when available mini bacon strips. Letting them cook on top of the beef and then melt in with the cheese has become a standard for me. I'm not sure if I was inspired by Burger Kings jalapeno burger that came out early this summer or if they were inspired by me but jalapeno is the new lettuce.

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After work and an attempted power nap last night I went to mom's house for some yard work and dinner. Mom's got some giant bushes in the front yard and they had become quite unruly. I like to cut trees and plants down but I don't do it with any finesse, grace or style. So I was new to the trim the bush to look nice idea. Mom and my brother didn't know much about it either. So I just got the electric trimmy device and went at it. I got all but one done and the top of another that I could not get to even on the latter. I am absolutely not an undiscovered Edward Scissorhands but they don't look like a kid on the special bus cut them either.

I may get to do some fishing this weekend, Jon hinted about running lines on the Kaw. I'm sure you will find out more.

 

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9-26-06 8:04am

Last night I was kind of busy. After work Russ helped me proofread an article on streaming media I am working on then Heather and Grant came over. We went for a big run and ended up at the park. We played in the sand for a bit then went home. A few of my roommates friends had come over and Kara brought dinner. Heath and I ate and fed Grant then they left. I took a shower and went to Mike's with the roommates and friends. The Casey bartender wanted to charge a cover but ended up letting me in for free since I am there so often anyhow. After about an hour I went over to Ben's house to pay for next months rent and deliver a load of wood for his chiminaya. (outside ceramic fireplace that I can't spell) We got to talking about the house and neighborhood I live in. He asked me to mention a few things from our conversation on the site and I am having some trouble thinking of what they were. I know he was excited when I told him my neighbor gave me a big ball of butt that took me a few days to get rid off (describing the large BBQ rump roast that my neighbor gave me). Also I referred to another neighbor as a pirate when I meant pilot.  

Work gave my whole group a new toy yesterday and I am hoping to start using it today.

    

Once I start using it and figure out how much I like it, I am planning on discontinuing the use of my personal cell phone and direct all my calls to this new work cell phone. I will keep you posted on what I decide.

 

 

 

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9-25-06 8:38am

I just got into work a bit late today but it seems like no big deal. I didn't have any problems waiting for me or anything. It was a good weekend here in Kansas City. Friday night I went to an interesting party at the peanut downtown. They had rented out the upstairs for someone's birthday and people dressed in something they would not ordinarily wear to a bar. My group of friends took this to mean anything you would not ordinarily wear to a bar but everyone else took it as dress like you are going to prom. Here are some pictures.

Russ in my St. Patrick's Day outfit (he would not wear the matching hat though) and Derrick dressed like a metro sexual (I don't think he did the whole costume thing).

Playing some free pool, I didn't really dress much differently but was glad I could wear my cutoffs to the bar.

Jenna's hair being lifted up with balloons and Jon looking evil.

We never really seemed to get too wound up at the bar and spent most of our time playing with the little firework things they had on the tables.

After the Bar we stole Jenna's door and took this picture

Saturday I went to a KCUR dinner and drinks event with heather and we had lots of fun then came home to the start of a small party that my roommates were hosting. I crashed out fairly early but enjoyed some nice cool porch time. Amanda Russ and Derrick

  Heather Chris and Sean

  Derrick involved in some funny business that I bet he does not want on the internet.

 

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9-22-06 8:22am

Well as promised I have some information about the Cricket Crawl in Westport this Saturday evening.

Cricket Crawls through Westport: 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Don’t crawl, run on over to the The Cricket Crawl for Big Brother Big Sisters in Westport.  Join Cricket and radio stations Q104, Star 102 and Mix 93 for this first ever Fun Raiser.  Look for Cricket booths where you can buy a glow-in-the-dark Cricket tumbler or Cricket light-up ice cube for $5 to get $1.04, $1.02 and $.93 pricing on beer and Cricketini’s at participating bars. All proceeds go to Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Kansas City.

This is the website where I got that from but each of those radio stations have their own pages about it. If anyone want's to go talk to me but I think I will go to KCUR's own little party. It starts at 8 and is BYOB. I believe it will end early. Perhaps I will host

 

 

The Prewitt Crawls to the refrigerator: 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Don’t crawl, run on over to the The Prewitt Crawl for having some fun.  Join Chris and radio stations mms://theprewitt.com/porch.   Look for The Prewitt booths at his house or some bar where you can buy your choice of warm or cold nattys from Chris for $0.89 (no change available). This can take place at his house, your house or at participating bars. All proceeds go to buying Chris some tickets to a Chiefs game.

Anyway what are you all up to this weekend. I am happy to be in town with no major commitments.

 

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9-21-06 8:18am

I am sure no one really likes to hear work stories. I know I like to avoid work talk when not at work. However that is too bad for you today because I have a story to tell, most of you are probably at work and ready to hear anything, and I made a cute little paint drawing of it.

 

Well yesterday at work was pretty crazy. A little after 10am we stop broadcasting NPR and have 2 one hour local shows (shows that are done live from our studio). Robin the chief engineer and I wanted to move our satellite dish and this is the best time to do it. Our signal from NPR was not as strong as it should be so we figured the dish was a little off.

Some background info for you. NPR shoots all the programs to the green satellite called galaxy I believe then it shoots them all over the country and NPR stations like us receive them in big dish and cable brings them into computers in the station that save them or put them right on the air.

So we had a 2 hour window to move our dish up and down and back and forth and try to get a better signal. There is a lot of science and technical stuff involved in this that I don't understand at all but we connected a little box to the cable and it gave us 2 numbers, one should be as high as possible and one should be as low as possible when those criteria are met your dish is pointed right at the satellite. The little box was up in the station with Robin and I was at the dish loosening nuts so I could push the dish around. First we moved the dish up and got a bit better signal so left the height there. Then I began to loosen the side to side nuts and Robin made some changes on the box to see other numbers that mean nothing to me.

When we got ready to move side to side, the dish lost the satellite. We were getting no numbers for it. I moved it side to side, up and down but we could not get any numbers. So no signal from the NPR satellite at all. We panicked a bit then Robin brought the box down to the dish and connected right next to it. We called NPR and The AP News desk (associated press) people looking for advice/help but everyone just wanted us to put it back like it was. At this point we would be happy to do that if we could find the spot.

We used up our whole 2 hour window and still could not find the right spot. Then the AP guys said they would send out a tech with a tool called a spectrum analyzer that would help us but he was 20 min away. For some reason once we heard this news we got a week signal. We were close to be pointing to the right spot we slowly moved the dish down and to the right watching the signal get stronger and stronger until it began to get weaker. Then we went back just a little bit and decided to leave it there. Shortly after the spectrum analyzer showed up and confirmed that we were in the right spot. We put the station back on NPR about 40 minutes late but we had a little better signal then when we started.

Looking back over this post I realize I did not make it seem as intense as it was at the time.  I missed breakfast and lunch yesterday and once we got everything dish related fixed up I helped a few computer problems and got out of there. Instead of going home and making a sandwich or something I went to Mike's to celebrate an exciting day. Then after too many empty-stomach beers I told the story several times.

 

 

 

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9-20-06 8:10am

Man I am thirsty this morning. I already finished my iced tea and I just sat down. I did run last night and this morning and drank quite a few nattys before bed so it makes sense but this is quite a thirst.

Speaking of drinking, I am looking forward to testing some new coffee today. "The Rotisserie" (Kansas city coffee shop) is making a new KCUR sponsored flavor for our 50th anniversary and our staff is helping adjust the flavor for our likening.

Speaking of drinking, I have not been to Mike's in too long. I think I will try to go after work tonight. Early and then get out in time to do some stuff at home.

As promised I have more pictures from St. Louis.

Heath and Grant by the Tram that drove us around Grant's Farm

I really think a pet goat would be great

At the brewery for you NASCAR folks

And the moment you have all been waiting for

The's Jalapeño Burger story

(picture may or may not depict "the's" actual feelings for burger)

On the way to St. Louis, we barely got out of Kansas City before thoughts of what to eat for dinner started popping into our heads. I told Heath that St. Louis has a lot more Hardees then KC so we should eat it for every meal. She did not agree but as we went through Oak Grove, MO we needed gas and there was a Hardees right next door.

Heather had some trouble picking a meal and somehow we really confused the order taker girl but soon enough she was bringing out our order and I laid my hands on the special burger. Warm and soft and wrapped in a nice wax paper sleeve to hold in all it's greatness. I took a bite...

...Jalapeno ... cheese ... angus beef ... tomato ... and bun ... fantastic

I did not do much talking during this fast meal. I was in a hurry to get back on the road and this burger was good. Before I realized it was all gone and it took my fries with it. Heather and Grant were like 2 bites into their meals and I was done, ready to get another one or get on the road. It looked like a big enough burger I thought to myself, I must be full but not realized it yet. I decided to go get the gas for the car and come back letting the others catch up.

When I got back I was still not full so I helped them finish their meals instead of ordering anything else (Hardees is kinda expensive for fast food). And that was my first Jalapeno burger experience, tasted great, didn't stuff me though.

My tale continues on the way out of St. Louis. It was about 1:00pm and we were leaving the brewery and getting on the highway to go home but wanted to eat before we got on the road. Then a Hardees appeared and I managed to convince H to give it a shot. As I pull through the drive through a solution comes to mind. I ask the order taker "Do you have a double jalapeno burger?", "What?" she asks "You know a jalapeno burger with 2 patties", "No, we don't but I can put another patty on there for $something", "Sounds great I say". I didn't hear what the extra charge was and I forgot to look on the receipt. I pulled around front and waited for her to bring out my special order. She came and I dug my box out of the sack and it felt heavier, I opened it and reached inside to find just what I envisioned. I decided I may want to remember this moment so I grabbed the camera and took my own picture with the burger while Heather was in the bathroom. Then I took a bite and it was perfect (just like every other bite on the sandwich it had a noticeable jalapeno presence). Heather came back and offered to take another "better" picture and I agreed. The burger was tough to finish but very do-able. It left me full, happy and quite content.    

 

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9-19-06 8:10am

Allrighty I am back from my long weekend in St. Louis and ready to get some stuff done around here. First I will show a few pictures from the Zoo and the Arch. 

   Heath and Grant with baby Elephant

      Grant and me with giant Catfish

   All of us riding the train

    Grant and I with the arch

   Heather and Grant on Steamboat with arch and flag in background

We got into St. Louis Friday night and we played in the pool, got unpacked and planned out our Saturday morning. Saturday we got to the zoo a little after 7 am. We were so early because parking was free this early (usually $9), the children's area was free and the zoo was uncrowded and nice and cool. If you show up between 7 and 8 you can join the Wildlife Walkers club and walk around the zoo for 2 hours with the old folks. After the Zoo, Grant took a nap and then we went downtown and saw the arch and other stuff along the Mississippi river and Laclede Landing area. We stopped by brewpub called Mortons I think and had a few beers while Grant ate a mini pizza. Then we went back to the hotel swam, cleaned up and went out to eat at a great Japanese restaurant.

Sunday we got up and went to Grant's Farm.

This is a little wildlife area that Anheuser Bush runs Where Ulysses Grant lived. We rode around on a little tram thing and saw the animals then roamed a petting zoo type area and got 2 free beers. This is where the giant Clydesdales live that we see on Budweiser commercials. Grants Farm usually has a $8 parking fee but it was waved on Sunday and we were given a card saying that the free beer would not be available so parking would be free but when we got in we still got the beers, so who knows. When we were about done it started pouring rain and we went to a little pizza restaurant and then back to the hotel for a nap. Then I watched the Chiefs game and after we went to a Mexican restaurant. I got something called the Sun devil platter I think. It was a ton of little grilled pork tenderloins covered in a sweet Jalapeno jelly sauce with a pile of rice, and black beans. It was really good. Heather got the steak fajitas and loved them as well. We had several "ok" margaritas and then headed back to the hotel to swim and relax a bit.

 Monday we packed up and then went to Science City. We had to pay the $8 parking fee and then were mostly disappointed by the stuff inside. It was far to educational and not fun enough. Grant was too young and we were too old plus to do anything good they wanted you to buy tickets. Grant loved the dinosaur exhibits though.

After too much science we went to the Budweiser Brewery and found out there was an hour wait for a tour so we just looked around the lobby and got some stuff in the gift store. Then headed back to Kansas City.

I only had pictures from Saturday on my laptop so I will add some more from the other stuff tomorrow hopefully along with my "tail of the Hardees's Jalapeno Burger"...

 

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9-15-06 8:44am

All right I am not at work today but still getting a post up. I am about to start packing and getting things ready to go for St. Louis.

Last night we had a fantastic soccer game and nice time at Pizza 51. The park was full of people walking around and whatnot so we were often very distracted.

I am doing this post from Heathers computer remote into my work desktop so things are slow and not a ton of fun so I'm going to keep it short. I would like to add more this afternoon when I am home but we will see how things go.   

 

 

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9-14-06 8:10am

I am really wound up this morning. Eager to get work done, get my site posted, do a little research on St. Louis and clock out. I have a 4 day weekend starting tomorrow and yesterday I was dragging along so today I feel like getting busy.

We will see how I feel when my morning run wears off and my tea is gone. I still don't have any apples and I was out of alternatives this morning so no breakfast at all.

I took tomorrow off to prepare for my trip to St. Louis.

Last night I changed the oil in Heath's Saturn and we got snacks and toys for the ride to keep Grant happy. Tomorrow I will get the rest of things squared away and packed so we can head out in the afternoon. Grant and I will be on our own most of the day. I think this will be lots of fun too. Normally I have a hard time making a post when I am not at work but I am going to make an extra effort to post something for tomorrow. It is Heather's Birthday and I know how much everyone loves to see birthdays on the announcement. 

       

Tonight is weekly soccer and our first trip to Pizza51 afterwards. Soccer will be at 6:30, lets try to meet at St. Theresa's unless there are people there already then we will meet by the tennis courts at Loose Park. After soccer (@ 8 or 8:30) we can head over to 51st and Oak and sit on the porch and grab a beer and a slice. If you are painting, preparing a proposal, waiting for more people, brushing your hair, cleaning out your crevices or have some other excuse not to play soccer on possibly the nicest evening for the next 6 months think about heading over to Pizza 51 afterwards anyway. Girls are encouraged to participate in either or both events.

           

 

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9-13-06 8:30am

Running a bit late this morning. I got a call at about 5:30 this morning and though it was not a big deal I decided to come into the station and take care of some upgrades that happened last night. Then I went home and ran and got ready for work. I am having some trouble thinking of what to write about. I went on 3 different runs yesterday, cooked a good dinner and otherwise had a fairly uneventful day. 

I found 3 really good websites yesterday that I can share with you:

First is http://www.tonyskansascity.com/ this is a very active blog about Kansas City. Well it's about lots of stuff I guess but the guy has a good sense of humor. He is much funnier then any Tony I have met in real life.

Second is a video of how to pour wheat beers http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-pour-hefeweizen the first method is fairly common but the second is cool. Remember when you show your friends to give theprewitt.com a credit not the site I linked to.

Third will probably not be as exciting as the first two but I think its got an amazing amount of healthy information. www.mypyramid.com is a site my mom told me I should check out and last night I did and was surprised at how easily I was pulled in. 

As I hope you know we have soccer tomorrow and weather today and tomorrow should be spectacular.

(get it?)

Since I mentioned a good dinner I better elaborate. It was not all that amazing but since I mentioned it on the site above this is what it was: Steamed rice, baked potatoes, broccoli vegetable medley covered in cheese, strawberries, and chicken pineapple onion stuff. The chicken I marinated in a Hawaiian sauce with a bunch of pineapple and onion for a few hours then tossed in a frying pan.  

 

 

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9-12-06 8:20am

Last night I watched some football until Heather and Grant came over and then I took her car to Jon's house.

  Jon and I took apart the electrical tape fix I had made on Heaths shifter and tried to come up with a new fix. (If you don't know what I'm talking about go back to 9-7-6 and read that post first) Heath had called Saturn and it was $200 for the part plus labor to have them fix it so we got to redneck it back together. We discussed several options on how to handle the connection and ended up doing the whole thing in zip ties.

Here is a drawing of the inside I just did in paint.

The ball and the hole had to fit together just right and they had to hold together so that the joint would not slide apart. The hole is quite a bit bigger then the ball so we put lots of zip ties around the edges of it, creating a smaller hole and a tighter fit. Then we wedged the ball into it and strategically zip tied the two shafts together so the ball could not slide out of the shaft. After a bit of testing we were all set and H drove her car home with no problems. We plan on taking her car to Saint Louis this weekend so it was important that we got a good fix.

Just so everyone is clear we will be having a soccer game this Thursday at 6:30 so go ahead and clear your schedule. Maybe there has been a lot of confusion about these games so I will go ahead and clear that all up. It is likely to be at Loose park or Saint Teresa's last week we talked about going to Pizza 51 afterwards for a couple of drinks and slices on the porch. Yahoo weather says Sunny and 84 so possibly a perfect evening? 

 

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9-11-06 8:37am

Well I have lots to report on it seems. And I am choosing not to bring up the 9-11 disaster or that Trent Green got nailed yesterday afternoon. 

First I was at the Lake of the Ozarks all weekend, relaxing, fishing, and playing in the water. Here is a little photo section for you.

Here is Kelly, Chris and I jumping off some cliffs.

   

 

This is me and Kelly on the kneeboard.

       

Mom and me Tubing.

       

Posing with the fish that Chris and Kelly caught.

   

I did not catch any fish or even get any bites. It gets worse though, I did tie my batman pole onto the dock while we were out and toss out a minnow on a hook and came back to find no minnow, no hook, and no pole. So not only did I not catch any fish but a fish stole my pole. I do intend to buy a new one and pretend that it never happened so all should be ok.

Chris and Kelly were nice enough to give me some of their fish to take home and eat. All three of the fish were called "wipers". This is a man made fish that is a mixture of a striped bass and a white bass. Supposedly These are bread and then dumped into the lake each year. They are supposed to be quite tasty too.

So I decided to cook mine up last night and use it as an opportunity to pretend I was camping out and grilling fish fresh off the pole. Heather Grant and I fired up the grill then I tried out 2 different seasonings. One a Creole spice and one a jalapeno Cajun something. I sprinkled each spice over 1/2 the fish and also cut a bunch of potatoes into thin round disks and also seasoned them the same way and tossed everything on the grill. It all turned out great the jalapeno stuff was a bit too spicy maybe and the potatoes don't need as much seasoning. The fish was all really good though the meat had a great flavor and was nice and flakey. I also made a couple cups of rice and a can of peas that went really well with the fish.

Speaking of jalapenos did you see the Hardees's / Carl Jr commercial for the new jalapeno burger? Ohh my it looks good and hot. Much better then the jalapeno whopper, Burger King tried to pull off a while back. The commercial shows a fireman struggling to eat it so you know it is big and spicy. I can't wait for the opportunity to try one.

Here are my new running shoes, I prolly won't wear them much out and about and use them primarily for running.

 

 

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9-8-6 8:12am

Even though I am getting an early start this morning it may take me a while to complete this post due to lots of other stuff going on this morning.

We had soccer last night and only had 5 folks show up so we juggled the ball until dark. It was still pretty fun and we had some good conversation about the people walking by and we were able to deduce where cats come from and many other interesting facts about cats.

If you are a cat person don't read the next paragraph.

1. All cats are female. Even if you name your cat Jack, she is a female cat.

2. They used to make male cats but all turned out homosexual so they stopped.

3. Nuns spend most of their time making cats.

4. Your cat is not "just like a dog", no ones cat is.

5. I know we figured other stuff out but can't remember maybe more to come.

After work today I am leaving for the Lake of the Ozarks. My sister Kelly's Birthday is Sunday and I am going down there with her and her BF Chris. I should be gone until Sunday morning. I am having lots of problems with gifts for my siblings lately. I still don't have a present for Kelly and no idea what to give.

I also have not gotten my brother Matt a present for his birthday that was in July or for my sister Carri who's birthday was in April. They know I have not gotten them gifts yet and that I have not forgotten that I have not gotten presents yet but I still have never gone shopping for them. I really only go grocery shopping and when I am at Wal-Mart or something I never see anything that looks good. I would appreciate any advice you all can give me. I like to give gifts but it is tough for me to go shopping for them and I don't like to cheat and give $ or gift cards.

 

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9-7-6 8:21am

Last night I went to mom's house to cut up a tree branch that fell a few weeks ago. It turned out to be not too big and I got it and the other sticks in the pile chopped up in no time. Mom fixed some Sloppy Joes, corn and salad. I had not had a sloppy joe in a long time and it was good, I have to remember to make them more often. Before cutting up the wood I went to Shoe Carnival in search of running shoes but did not see any that I was crazy about.

I am pretty set on getting some New Balance and I don't really like white or black ones or ones that are really bright. So I need a nice dull grey pair. While I was at mom's Heather called me from the grocery store in Spring Hill. Her car was broken, she had gotten it into reverse and then the shifter felt all loose and she could not switch gears or go into neutral or anything. So when all the branches were clear I headed out to see what was wrong. I am not much of a mechanic but like to play and sometimes can actually figure out how things should work. Luckily this happened to be one of those things. The shifter felt completely disconnected, so we started to dig into it and took apart the console that housed it. Once out I could see the problem right away.

 There are 4 little pole things that meet at the bottom of the shifter. Two running lengthwise from the front of the car and 2 running down from the shift knob. One of these pairs was not connected anymore. The lengthwise side had a hole in it and the down side had a ball thing that should fit in the hole. H(eather) and I went into the grocery and bought a pair of pliers and a roll of electrical tape. Then I squeezed the joint back together and wrapped a bunch of tape around the joint.

It was tough to get in there and seemed to take forever but worked fantastically. I called Jon to get a real mechanics approval of the fix and he believed it to be safe enough to get her home and around for a while. We then drove the car around the parking lot getting fast enough to switch through some gears and it worked great. H drove home and besides not having a center console things are back to normal. Grant sounded pretty sure that the car was still broke but he will learn his lesson when the car runs fine.

SOCCER 6:30pm LOOSE PARK TONIGHT: Please let me know if you can/can't make it.

 

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9-6-6 7:58am

So now for the rest of the weekend all lumped into a little pile of a post.

 

(in Salt Lake we saw salt piles like this)

 ...Boy it's hard to remember all the way to last Friday with all the what happened when and it's too early to concentrate so look at the pictures above this was from Gran Fallon with KK, his girlfriend, Mike, Matt and the rest of us usual weekend fun makers. I also went with Matt to Clarets pool bar with Tony and his sister and her friends this weekend, Odouds on the plaza (Geoff wiped out in the street while leaving and it made Matt's weekend). Over the weekend I cooked some pancakes, burgers, biscuits, hot dogs, baked chicken, fried potatoes, made a chicken lasagna (H and I ate it last night it was amazing). I tried to find new running shoes but could not, I went to Loose park and juggled a soccer ball with KK and Jon then Russ and Derrick showed up. Ohh and I hade a river adventure that you all know about from yesterday. And Mike from Denver told me he would not only come to my site but he would also comment???

Last night Heath(er) and I went to Kevin's house to watch Nip Tuck on the projector. Once Kevin solved the technical difficulties we were all set and enjoyed a mediocre episode with hopes of an amazing season. 

 

My mom had some tree branches fall in the rain storms a few weeks ago and I plan on cutting them up tonight and then going to shoe carnival in search of new running shoes.

 

Sneaky Geoff may be the owner of a new truck. He was seen getting into a brand new huge grey extended cab F150 and driving away. I have not heard the details about where this truck came from.

 

 

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9-5-5 8:16am

Well it was a long busy weekend and I have much to tell and lots of pictures to show. After any weekend like this I get lots of folks telling me "I thought you would write about ....." or "Why didn't you tell more about when we ...." So this post will be a 2 parter. Today's post will only be about the boat trip that Jon, KK, Matt and I took Saturday morning. We got up at 9am Saturday and packed up a cooler and the boat. We decided we didn't need beer just water and burgers because we were worn down from the night before. Matt was dieing for some pancakes and we decided to get some at McDonalds on the way but it was crowded looking so we went to Wendy's. The service was terrible but the food good. We got on the river with no troubles and headed down the MO first. We went to see a barge and the rotating bridge. Matt got a train to honk by pumping his arm and got some goose to honk by making kaw noises.

 Then we turned around and headed up the Kaw / Kansas river away. We stopped along the way a few times to look at a sunken boat and to make lunch. We found a nice sand beach and caught some bait, set up a fishing pole and made plans for lunch.

I had forgotten to put a lighter in the boat and we were without matches or anything. We had the grate to a BBQ grill, a bag of charcoal, the regular boat supplies and the clothes on our backs.

It was time to play survivor man. I decided to cut a stripe of cloth out of the back of my shirt and Jon connected 2 wires to the battery. I dipped the piece of my shirt in the gas tank and then stuck it in the cardboard trash from Matt's breakfast hash browns. I wrapped the rest of my shirt around that. Jon stuck the wires in, they sparked and we had fire. I set the shirt in the charcoal pile and we were all set.

Matt noticed my shirt was not on fire yet, just the gas part in the middle so I pulled it out and put it back on.

I got some help tying up the hole in the back and then I was starting a new fashion trend.

   

We set up a the grill, fished, wished we had gotten beer and had a nice time.

I did not catch any fish but did enjoy my burger thoroughly.

After lunch it was getting late and we had to get KK back in time for the KU game so we packed up and headed for the boat ramp. One of the gas tanks went empty on the way back but we got it switched out without even slowing down. We got the boat on the trailer and towed home with no problems then KK and Jon left and Matt and I headed out to JC Penny outlet for some disappointing shopping. 

 

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9-1-6 8:18am

We played soccer last night as planned but had to move to loose instead because of a kids practice going on. 6 of us showed up and had a good time then went out separate ways. Jon and I sat on the porch at my house and enjoyed the weather after the games. Heath and Twist joined us for a bit too.

I guess my friend Mike from Denver is in town, and Matt from Manhattan will be coming soon

and last night I found out we will also be joined by a surprise guest.

Teriyaki Chicken boy / KK / Teriyaki Carp Boy / Kentaro Kotani

He will only be in town tonight and wants us to do something good. We have no plan just yet but I will throw out the idea of meeting at my house and going from there. We can stay and play here or do whatever. Any ideas?

KK will be thinking of ideas

Matt will be getting ready to go

Kevin will put on the green suit

I will be making up for lost time with Mike

Coach Vermeil will think of the Chiefs

Dad will put on his T-shirt in Utah

Geoff will think about growing the stash

 

And Tiffany will try to smile and choke down a drink

Then we will all come together and talk about BBDs

 

 

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8-31-06 8:33am

Once again it's Thursday and time for a soccer announcement. I am going to lie to you and say we have 9 people guaranteed to show up already. So if you can show up and bring 2 friends we should be all set. While I am lying I will also tell you that KK will be there again and have shoes on this time. Also Mike's decided to sponsor us and each goal scored is awarded with a free drink from the bar at the end of the game. So no excuses, the weather is amazing, I am sure to fall down a few times and the opportunity to go have a sweaty beer after the game is always there. St. Theresa's Academy 55th and Main 6:30pm (if anyone asks we all go to school there).

Back to business. I was thinking in the shower this morning about Teriyaki Chicken Boy

and how long it has been since I have gone to Lawrence. I was thinking maybe it would be a good plan to wake up Saturday morning strap the boat on, grab a cooler and head up to Lawrence/Clinton Lake. We could do some tubing, skiing, beaching and whatever. I really only need to get KK and 2-3 other people to jump on this plan but more would be cool. Clinton beach would be a good place to hang out (drinking is allowed) and we could even get a campsite nearby. What do you all think?

Ohh and while you are thinking about all the fun of soccer and boating go here http://www.waldocrawldo.com/falldo.cfm I would be all over this but plan on being in Saint Louis at the time.

 

 

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8-30-06 7:51am

So Ernesto is heading for Florida and is supposed to get more powerful and I have heard it mentioned on the radio like 5 times in the 40 minutes I have been listening. Ernesto seems like a goofball name for a hurricane to me. To find out I decided to find out what people named Ernesto look like. Here are my results from Google Images:

  Ernesto Hoost:    Ernesto Bustamante:

       Ernesto Perren:     Ernesto Che Guevara:

    Ernesto Manacop:     Ernesto Phillips:

This Ernesto is my favorite be sure to check out his webpage for some classic pictures http://stevedold.com/ernesto/

I am going to go out on a limb and say that I was right Ernesto is a goofball name for a hurricane. Maybe we should name Hurricane wrestler style names like:

 "The Destroyer",  "The Super Soaker"  ,

 "Freak-out Fred" ,  "Trailer Tosser" ,

or "Kotani The Barbarian"

 

 

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8-29-06 8:45am

I have mixed feelings about the upcoming Irish Fest. It costs money to get in and they have not been advertising Irish beer or anything that exciting. It sounds like you pay $10 to wonder around Crown Center and listen to Irish bands look at shops and crazy Irish people.  However for $23 you can do a 5K (3mile) run, get admission, a Irish Fest T-shirt and your money goes to help some cause like babies or old folks or sick folks instead of the Fat Cat Irish. The run is at 7am on Sunday though so it would be a tough 3 miles on a labor day weekend morning. I would be willing to wake up early and go for a little run if I can talk anyone else into doing it. I'd even buy a 6pack of Guinness if wanted to get extra hydrated beforehand. http://www.kcirishfest.com/5krun.php 

My cell phone situation is driving me crazy and that is the cause for me being a bit late this morning. It will not stop beeping at me and I want to break it.

Jon and I worked in his garage for a while last night and we fixed up some lights that he won in an auction and packed up some things for ebay. 

 

 

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8-28-06 7:52am

Good morning and sorry for my absence on Friday. I was out sick and did not make it to the website until late in the afternoon. I guess I have a lot to catch up on.

Thursday we had a great turnout for soccer. I think 11 guys showed up, even KK made it in jeans and flip flops.  I thought the game was a lot of fun but still pretty hot and humid and we sweat a lot. This got us awfully thirsty so we went to Mike's to rehydrate.

Friday night we had folks over for beer pong, footloose, cocktail wieners and fun. I think Tiff and I were probably the best team. We decided not to prove it to everyone and so took a dive to give other teams a chance.

       

Saturday I woke up early and went to Heather's, we cleaned up her place and my boat and got things ready for some friends to come up and boat, grill and watch the chiefs game. We had a good time and ate a ton. I made sishkabobs (someone help on spelling that) and potatoes and Heath made guacamole dip.

 

Sunday I was mostly worthless laying around and getting very little accomplished. I did get a lot of sleep and thus woke up at 5am this morning very well rested and unable to fall asleep again. So I tried to fall back asleep forever then went for a big run, got ready for work and came in early to catch up on stuff. I am hoping to find time today to research a bit on the Irish festival at Crown Center Sept 1-3. I have heard it's lots of fun and I should go but I want to find out a bit before I decide to make a point to go and to encourage you all to attend.

 

 

 

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8-24-06 8:19am

It is kind of a rough morning. I forgot my backpack at Heather's last night and with it are my laptop and my cell phone. Then when I got in to work I found e-mails from a very worried user. This is going to keep me busy this morning.

I will have to do my post when I get this taken care of.

UPDATE 9:25am

Ok, I am much better now. I have gotten things back together, had a cup of coffee and taken my gummy vitamin. business as usual

KCUR has a FCC inspection this morning that could end up being post worthy or comment worthy or a total bore so maybe look forward to that. I am really not sure what will go down with it but it sounds kinda exciting. I am hoping guys in suits come in quick and quiet and take some measurements and readings and then disappear or something.

 

Probably though it will be just as boring as the meeting I have this afternoon.

Last night I took Grandma to the Lake with Mom and eventually Heather and Grant. We had some beers, bagel sandwiches with ham/turkey/lettuce/tomatoes/onion/mayo/pepper jelly/mustard, blueberries, cherries, and some chips. The water was great (nice temp and like glass). Grandma ran very well but the leak seemed to be more of a problem then normal, maybe I need to work harder on a patch. With the batman pole I tossed in a worm but did not really watch it or anything and did not catch any fish, there were a ton of fish jumping around us though. The water was even lower then last time and out hidden bank is now a decent island. This is still cool but not as good.

I hope to see everyone at Saint Theresa's on 55th and Main tonight at 6:30 bring your friends too. I will once again push for going strait to the bar afterward but that has not worked out for everyone else yet.

Thanks Geoff for spelling lettuce (like in a salad) for me.

 

 

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8-23-06 8:42am

Today's post will be spent promoting.

SOCCER PROMOTION:

First off tomorrow night is soccer night and I think we will have a big turnout. Last week we played at St. Theresa's Academy and I think we should have the game there again. The grass was nice, there is some shade and slopes on the side of the field to keep the ball from going too far away. So if it works for everyone else lets plan for tomorrow night 6:30 at STA. I have not heard excuses for anyone not coming so maybe we can play a full 11 on 11 outdoor game.

BEER PONG PROMOTION:

Friday night is beer pong night at my house.

 

I will have the boat at Heather's so my driveway will be free for the ping pong table and we can get a little tournament going. So Geoff does not get confused come over at 7:30pm. If you don't know how to play, no worries, if you are a pro, get a life, no matter what come over and have a few beers. I may set up some lights for washers too. Also I think I will be making my famous cocktail wieners.

 

Also I found out last night that my landlord can not have anyone living in the basement so just as quickly as he moved in Russ will be moving out.

And speaking of cocktail wieners, if you didn't hear yesterday, Kevin got into Firefighter school. Congrats

 

 

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8-22-06 8:22am

Mikes, cook dinner, tennis, eat dinner, TV, root beer float, bed.

That was my night in 7 easy steps. I had Aldi brand lasagna hamburger helper for dinner but we added onion, mushroom, tomatoes, spinach, extra noodles, and some spices. I thought it was quite good. Jon and Jenna whooped up on Heather and I in tennis. The last match was very close and I think we were tied at duce 12 times but in the end they got us again.  Mikes was just the way I like it dark, fairly quiet and serving cheep beers.

I am not sure what my plans for this evening are. I am thinking a big run but am still very flexible, It should be nice out if anyone wants to play on grandma or get some Frisbee or something going. I believe Heather is coming by after work.  I am thinking about cooking something exciting for dinner. With some encouragement from Russ I have been thinking of making some rice in my rice cooker. I only have about 1/2 a cup of rice and it is cheep aldi rice. I would like some good sticky moist rice. I can't find anything good at Aldi or Price Chopper though so I will have to search for it. I don't think I will drive real far away though. Does anyone know where I can get some good rice? 

 

 

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8-21-06 8:18am (UPDATED 12:59pm)

I kept very busy this weekend and catching fish was my primary goal.

 

Friday after work I helped Jon pick up stuff he won in an auction then Steven and us went out to a creek near Stevens house and set up a trot line with some worms on it. Then Jon went to bed and Steven and I went to a friends house and hung out on the porch for a while I left around 11:30 and went back to the creek. I checked the line and found 2 catfish on it. One was about a pound and the other was 3 or so pounds. I forgot to take bait with me and did not feel like going back out after midnight. I took my 2 fish home and cleaned them on the front porch. There was a big party going on across the street and lots of kids were walking by as I cleaned the fish between 12 and 1 am. I forgot to take pictures of the fish until I was part way through cleaning them.

   

The next morning Jon and I went back out at 6am to check the line and rebait it. Unfortunately it was empty. Then I took a nap and got up and ate some breakfast. Then Derrick and I checked the line and got another small fish. We brought it home and I cleaned it. Before leaving my roommates new friend Angelina claimed she would cut the heads off if I caught any. She changed her mind once I brought a fish home.

We went home and had a BBQ and my roommates played washers while I worked on the boat. Then Jon showed up and a group of us went out to check the line. It was empty this time, we added some limb lines and rebaited with chicken livers and the last of the worms. Then we went home and I took a nap. After my nap we grilled again and then hung out on the porch until well after dark. While my roommates and friends ogled the girls going to another party across the street, Jon Jenna and I went back to check the line and found another good sized catfish.

   

 We rebaited and went home. Jon and Jenna went to bed and I watched "It's always funny in Philadelphia" reruns for an hour and then tried to fall asleep. Jon and I went back out at 7am and found the line empty. This was sad and we took everything down and packed it up. I went home and took my first and only shower for the weekend and it was glorious. Then I slept for a while and got up around 11:15. I cleaned up the house went to Aldi and then had a fish fry.

Fry Daddy w/ 1/2 the fish nuggets

French fry preparation

 Then Heather and I went to some big steak dinner deal at some relatives house and played horse shoes and watched a goat get milked. Then I went to bed.

 

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8-18-06 8:01am

We only had 5 people show up for soccer but we still had a good time and got some good exercise. Since we were short handed we played butts-up for a while before a quick game of 2 on 2. Around 8:15 we left to go out for some beers. I have been unable to convince the players to go strait from the field to the bar so we didn't make it to Brooksider until nearly 10:00. Derrick was right and they did have $1 draws so I didn't mind the $2 cover too much.

 

Jon, Steven and I are planning on eating some fresh fish this weekend.

Just south of Steven's house is a small creek that we hope to put out a trot line on tonight. I imagine shortly after work we will put on creek attire gather the gear and head down to the creek to scope out spots. I have one line with 17 hooks on it all ready to go and we have all the makings for more lines should we find spots and fish for them. During lunch I will go buy some worms that I anticipate using for our first line and then to catch bait fish. We should be able to get all the work out of the way tonight and then the rest of the weekend we just need to stop by on occasion and pick up some fish and put on some bait.

Anyone who would like to contribute to the catching or eating of fish let me know or if you want to help keep me entertained in the in-between times let me know. My roommates will be at the lake and Heather will be North of the river at some conference thing.

 

Hey 'The' what is butts-up that sounds gross?    Well I am glad you asked this is a game I have not played in a long time but it was popular when I was a little soccer player. A small group of players 4-5 +/- stand in a circle and juggle a soccer ball.

When a player messes up the juggle and the ball hits the ground they get a point. Our rules yesterday were 3 points and you are out but when I used to play when you messed up you got a letter. First B then U then T then T, once you spell BUTT you lose. The loser then goes and stands in the middle of the soccer goal and grabs his or her ankles and the rest of the team sets up.

(like this but just one loser at a time)

They set up on the penalty line and each one takes their turn at kicking the ball at the losers butt. If they hit the butt the whole team gets another shot. If they hit a leg they get to shoot again. If they miss the goal entirely the looser gets a shot at them. And this goes on until no one has a shot left and you go back to juggling.   

 

 

 

 

 

8-17-06 8:23am

Shortly after work yesterday Jon, Steven, Nate and I headed to the river. No wimpy Kansas river this time, we headed for the mighty Missouri. We again started out at "The convergence" where KS and MO meet and you get a great view of the city and the rivers meeting.

Even though I was nervous about the idea we immediately went downstream. If we had any boat problems we would have been ruined and not able to get back to the ramp in that serious current. We went a ways downstream and saw a few barges, tug boats, gravel harvesting operations, and some mighty factories. There was some really wacky bridges down there like one that had a pivot point in the middle of the river and could spin all the way around. It looks like it was made to turn trains around in the other direction. There was another train bridge that could lift up real high to let big boats through. I'm not sure if either was used for their cool purpose anymore or if they are just used as railroad bridges now.

 

We also went down in a little creek that fed into the river and had the most excitement of the evening. At first it looked as though the boat would be to big (the sides of the creek were not much wider then the boat). But after a few bumps we got into the mouth of the creek and were hit with a funky smell. And then the excitement began, we heard a big splash on the side of the boat. The water in this area was a light brown color but black dirt began to swirl from the splash, then another and another splash and poofs of dirt. Then we started seeing huge fish jump out of the water making splashes and poofs of dark mud. Before we had figured out what was going on a huge one lands on shore in some tall grass and thrashes around. We felt as though we were under attack there were violent bangs and slashes and flopping going on all over the place. Somehow none landed in the boat and it was all over almost as suddenly as it began. I would guess there were 50 big carp just sitting in this funky polluted creek. Some of the ones I saw jump out of the water were around 2 feet long.

 

After the fish attack we came to this waterfall and Jon and I tried to track down the funky smell and the source of the strange brown water. Steven pointed out that it smelled like a brewery, the hops or something and we hoped it was Boulevard's waste that was drawing all the carp. After climbing a big hill and going through some itchy plats it looked like a large grain factory of some sort.

 

 

We moved on and did some more exploring of parks along riverfront, Argosy and Isle of Capri Casinos and anything else we found interesting. Just before dark we headed back and got a few pictures of the city from the boat ramp.

  

Soccer plan for tonight:

Gather as many folks as we can, meet at Loose Park at 6:30 by the tennis courts, look for a good spot of grass, set up my laundry detergent goals, run around and get sweaty, dirty and maybe wet, make fun of Kevin and Geoff for being too busy, exchange high fives, pick up goals, shirts, etc., walk back to cars, go have beers, discuss better fields, buying cleats, more players to get, optional high fives, go home.

What do you all think?

 

 

 

 

8-16-06 8:38am

Last night I did get to do some wiring work but I had an enormous break in the middle that destroyed my productivity. Right after work I got to work on the boat cleaning out all the stuff I would not need. Then I started examining all the electrical things that didn't work I found that my primary problem was the connection to the battery. Once I fixed this my horn and radio began to work, so I taped everything up on them and got the wires tucked up high so they would not get messed up again. Then i set to fixing the pole light in the back and the Red/Green light up front. I followed all the wires for them and tried to narrow down where they didn't have power. I even took apart the pole light in the back. It had a broken wire on the bulb that caused it only to work when you held it in just the right spot. The front light had a bad switch because I could get it to work just fine by bypassing the switch.

Now it was time for dinner. I drove to O'Reilly and got 3 new switches for all 3 lights up front, a new bulb for the pole light and a few little electrical connecter things. Then I met up with Steven and Becky and we went to Buffalo Wild Wings to meet with Heath and Grant and get some $0.29 wings. We got speedy service and had beers, cosmos and wings in no time. Everyone seemed to enjoy their meal and Steven and I spent about $20 a piece. After dinner I went home and roughed up my roommates for Rent, Deposit, Bills and Contracts. Then I went to Ben's house to pay for our rent and get him the contracts.

I rushed back home and got back to work on Granny. It was about 9:30 now and I was afraid to take on anything too big. So I put in all my new switches and light bulb and that took care of the red/green and pole lights. So the boat is legal for day and night use again. Then I buried all these wires up in the front of the boat so they don't get messed up and got to work on the headlights. These are really tricky and after untangling them I realized it was getting late and I would need to take them apart and do a lot of work on them so instead got all their wires bundled up and ready to be worked on. I tied them up high so I would not catch them on things I stow up front either. Maybe this weekend I can get them working again. I got the boat all set up for a river voyage tonight and went to bed.

 

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8-15-06 8:39am

It is starting to get late in the morning. I have not been overly busy or running late or anything but my post is not done yet. I am not sure what to post about today. My boat started up fine last night but it was kinda cool to go swimming and I could not convince Heather that we should take Grandma out anyway. So I really did not do much yesterday.

Tonight I am planning on working on the electrical wiring on the boat because the lights have not been working reliably lately.

Ahh I know what to tell you about. This weekend I was at the small local hardware store with Jon and I noticed a cooler on sale for $500. Well actually 495 or something but I was amazed by a $500 cooler. If you were willing to spend $500 on an ice chest what would it need to do? I don't think I would ever pay that much but if I was going to this one would be in the running it was feature packed and I have never seen anything quite like it. I'm not going to tell you about it until later I would like to see some comments about what you think would make this cooler this expensive. I will finnish this story at 11:00am this morning.

       

The $500 ice chest I found in the hardware store was a cooler scooter. It was this style with the wheels in back.

Instead of a handle in the front it had another wheel and a handlebar attached for steering. All the cheep plastic wheels were replaced by nice rubber tires and lowered for greater ground clearance. The top of the cooler had a fold out seat with a backrest on it. And the sides of the cooler had fold out foot pegs. To ride the cooler you sit over the back wheels in a comfortable looking seat grab the handlebar and put you feet on the pegs. As you twist the handle the 2 cycle motor takes over and off you go. That's right, its got a motor in it. No information on top speed or gas mileage was available but it would not take much to cruise around on such a small vehicle.  Of course it has a cup holder and even better a secret compartment in front of the driver that allows you to get things from inside the cooler while you are driving. Just reach between your legs open the door and grab a beverage.  And the cherry on top... each cooler sold comes with a free case of beer.

So if Johnny Law is cramping your style and has taken your drivers license so you can't drive around and drink anymore, the hardware store on Troost and 46th has a solution for you.

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8-12-06 8:35am

I don't know about everyone else but I had a great night of sleep. I had turned down the AC a bit earlier in the day and then the storm came through, plus I was really tired from the weekend.

I loaned my truck to Russ so decided to walk to work instead of find a ride this morning. Russ needed the truck to get something from his work I think. Also he offered to take our trash from the weekend to the dumpster where he worked. This was great because we had a lot of trash. I liked my walk and plan on doing this more in the fall when I will not get all sweaty walking to work. I intended to time myself but forgot to check what time I got here. I think more then 10 minutes and less then 15.

 

It was a good weekend filled with activities. We hung out on the porch on Friday for a while then went inside to play some games and Saturday I went to a friends to watch the chiefs game and do some grilling. Sunday I cleaned and organized the basement and played some tennis. I have a few pictures taken over the weekend but I'm not impressed by any of them. Here is an example.

Even this picture of Grant and I eating a hamburger is more exciting.

 

I think I'll drive up to Hillsdale and get my boat tonight. If the motor is starting ok I may do a little fishing or grilling or relaxing. Otherwise I will probably end up fixing things on the boat tonight and tomorrow. This sounds like a chore but I have not worked on the boat in a while and I miss it so am looking forward to the work.  

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8-11-06 7:57am

For those of you who didn't make it the soccer game was a success. We had 7 people show up and many more that claimed they would make it next time. It was raining ever so slightly during the game so the ground was nice and slick and it crazy humid so we were all really sweaty in no time. 3 on 3 was not bad and when we had an odd number Geoff became an all time offence player that worked out well too. I think we will have 10 people or so in upcoming games. It was great exercise and I am really looking forward to keeping it going. After the game, dinner and a showers we celebrated with some beers at Mikes and then at Hooper's (because Kevin is gay for Charlie).

 (photo reprint)

I came to work early today because I need to pick my sister up at the airport. Of course with the liquid explosive excitement going on her flight has been delayed once already. I am hoping to not waste a huge amount of time at the airport.

Check out this picture of other airports and all the liquids they collected. I am thinking if KCI still has anything like this maybe I will do some wine shopping. I have packed beer on flights twice in my life and maybe others are doing something similar. I doubt they will let me take all the wine out of the trash but it would be nice for my party tonight.

That's right I am planning a gathering at my house tonight.

Come over whenever and leave whenever. I am really hoping for comfortable porch weather but if not ohh well.

 If you have sound where you are watch this video http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=18897 it is catchy and I'm thinking we put it on replay all night.

 

 

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8-10-6 8:15am

Well I have a few things to bring up today.

1. my trip to Wendy's for breakfast

2. putting the boat in and taking it out on my own

3. soccer tonight

Uno - Wendy's was good. I have no complaints to speak of. Prices were fair, large selection, not to busy, food was good quality and filling. I got a bacon cheese egg biscuit combo that came with fried circles of potatoes that were really good. The biscuit itself tasted really good. It could have used more bacon as it came it was just like the Jr Bacon Cheeseburger with 2 skinny slices. I also tried a breakfast burrito, it was bigger then 1 McD burrito fairly generic taste but came with a little tub of some fantastic salsa. Several of the sandwiches were served on a "pan bread" that I am eager to taste. There is also a $.99 breakfast menu that could come in handy.

Dos - Last night because I forgot to pickup Heathers BBQ grill she had to go home to get it and I put the boat in the water all by myself and it went perfectly. Grandma was running great and has amazing speed and control with just one rider in her. The water level was down and our gravel bar was out of the water but that did not seem to make much difference in enjoying the cool beers, greasy burgers, and calm waters. For some reason we listened to classical music all evening and it was very relaxing. Heather left early to go to the Johnson County Fair and Jon and I stayed till close to dusk. Then I decided I would take the boat back by myself since I was feeling so good about the launch. Everything was going just as I had hoped until I had the trailer on the ramp and ran back over to the boat jumped in, pushed off and turned the key to find it not wanting to start. We have not had starting problems in a while so I was shocked and quickly tried all I could think of. I gave up and quickly rowed it to the trailer and pulled her out. I'm calling that an unforeseen incident and still feel successful of my launch and trailering. All I have left is to put her in the driveway on my own.

Tres - So are we going to play tonight? Jon acted like he would play plus Kevin, me, Russ, Derrick, Luke. Geoff and Ben are busy but if anyone can think of anyone else invite them along. We can plan for 6:30 At loose park by the tennis courts. What do you think?

Catorce -  I am thinking a small party at my place on Friday, meet the new roommates, have some fun, stay in or go out. I promise not to work on the boat. 

(ha ha i never mentioned Snakes or planes, got ya)

UPDATE 9:04am

I decided to add a few pictures for you.

Here is Captain's Cove yesterday with the low water level

And Yesterday I was awarded Brownie Points at work for being the first one to turn in my agenda. I was excited and sent this out in response.

 

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8-9-6 8:14am

Yesterday after work I got Granny ready for a lake trip tonight and cleaned up some of the computer mess I have in the basement. Then Derrick and I walked over to Mikes for a few $1 PBRs and met up with his friend Jen. She was a big NPR fan and asked for my autograph apparently her brother does a weekly music show in Maryville. While at Mikes we decided we wanted to play tennis and called up Geoff and headed to some nicely lighted courts. We played tennis until 10:00 (it was dark) and it was still really hot and humid out. Someone mentioned that I glistened. I pretty much looked like this.

 

Speaking of making me glisten, Kevin and I came up with an exercise idea.

He wanted to start up an indoor soccer league again but I complained of the high cost of All American. Then I realized that I see people playing pick up games at Loose Park and in front of the Nelson Museum all the time. What if we just get a group of our friends to meet at a park once a week at a set time and play? I'm going to throw Thursdays at 6:30 till dark out there for discussion. It would be a fun no pressure game. We can just make up some teams when we get there and set up a couple cones and get to work. I would say no skill level required and we could just play weekly until it gets too cold to play then maybe think about indoor.

So far I have got "I'm in"s from Kevin, Russ, Geoff, Derrick and Me. So who else can we get? I would like 6 or more folks. I would also like to find a day and time that everyone can agree on and a nice park for everyone, I really like Loose but would be willing to go elsewhere.

Also soccer makes me thirsty so I'd say we find a bar near the pitch (field) with some special pricing on adult soccer beverages for after the match (game).

 

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8-8-6 8:57am

First off here are a few leftover pictures from Salt Lake City.

a trout I caught (probably would have been bigger if I had brought my Batman pole)

Aspen Grove at dawn

    Raft Trip

I am really looking forward to lunch and it's only 9:00am I would like to go try out Wendy's breakfast but I'm going to be pretty busy.  For lunch today I have a senior staff meeting with the radio station so we will go to Californos in Westport and I will probably eat a fillet minion or some other nice piece of meat.  Last night after taking my families dog to the vet I worked on the project with Jon and Derrick. We were all tired and Jon was being a bit anal so we didn't really make much progress. I have decided to give you a few pictures of our early work.  

Me cutting with a hacksaw

Jon cutting with an angle grinder

Part of the crude guts

If you are guessing that this amazing device was partially made out a keg then you are correct. Sorry for the secrecy but I want to get it in good working order before I explain it.

Yesterday at lunch we had an IS department potluck and I brought BBQ Cocktail wieners.

Chris' Spicy BBQ Cocktail Wieners (in 7 easy steps)

1. Find crock-pot (your crackpot will not work this time),

2. pour in can of beer (I used natty light but whatever you have arround),

3. pour in bottle of BBQ Sauce (I used KC Masterpiece Spicy but any cheep kind is fine)  ,

4. dump in 2 bags of cocktail wieners (cheapest one at price chopper),

5. chop up red pepper and slice a jalapeno (about 1/2 a handful of each),

6. Stir and heat ( think the longer cooked the better),

7. Eat

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8-7-06 8:08am

I had a very busy weekend and got a lot done but also seemed to create more projects for myself. Derrick and Jenna are moved in and getting situated. Somehow I did not find time for Grandma Natty and she just sat in the driveway not being worked on or ridden around. I had intended to put up a few more pictures from Utah and from this weekend but my camera cable is not in my backpack where it belongs so the pictures are stuck in the camera until further notice. Jon and I spent a good deal of time on a somewhat secretive project/business idea. I don't really want to get into the details until we have the prototype working well and can put up the pictures.

 

The Wendy's on Troost and 63rd is all about breakfast now. I noticed on Saturday morning huge signs and balloons and even girls with billboards beside the street letting us all know they serve breakfast. I had hoped to eat there Sunday morning and give you a report today but did not wake up early enough. I am curious if this is all Wendy's or just the one by my house? It seems like in other cities I have see this but maybe I'm imagining it. I also wonder if they have an egg burger?

 

 

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8-3-06 7:51am (8:51am central)

Well I am all cleaned and packed up, ready for my last day and trip home. We plan on going to the Salt Flats and the Great Salt Lake today before our 4:30 flight out. Yesterday we slept in a bit then dad cooked some bacon egg and cheddar cheese sandwiches and hash browns. Then we drove to Wal-Mart for fishing licenses and to Scofield Creek to do some fishing.

 We caught several chubs and a few trout. The water was really clear and you could see a lot of fish swimming along also they were always jumping.

Heather

Pops

Chris

   
We fished till close to 4 then drove home and got cleaned up then headed into Downtown Salt Lake City. We had not eaten lunch and were hungry so went to a Brazilian restaurant called Radigio's. It was cool they had a salad bar that had all sorts of side dishes and salads and fruits on it then the waiters constantly brought around types of meats and other grilled things on skewers and you tried as much as you can. We had several types of Beef and chicken plus some pork, fish, turkey, sausage, and even grilled pineapple. It was really tasty. Then we walked and drove around downtown salt lake and went to the ginormous Morman conference center and other LDS buildings. Then we went to an area called The Gateway, this is like the plazza or Town Center with a bunch of shops and fountains and things.

 

 

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8-1-06 8:18pm (9:18pm central)

All right when I last posted I was just coming off the mountain I believe. So Heath and I picked up dad from a long workday got cleaned up and then went out to the Asian Buffet. It was a nice Chinese buffet with all the classic items plus several kinds of fresh sushi and a Mongolian BBQ section. We really had not eaten any meals all day just a few hiking snacks like ham jerky (beef jerky made from pig). My GPS estimated that I had burned 3000 calories but I have no idea if that is accurate, or what that really means but I was quite hungry. After a huge dinner we went back to dads and I was able to stay awake until 9, Dad and Heather were earlier then that. Monday dad had to go to work and I did my post. Then at noon we grilled burgers and drove to Moab. This was a really cool park with lots of crazy red rocks. We again took a ton of pictures and did quite a bit of steep hiking. This is really not something that is easy to describe so I will just show pictures.

(in a canyon on a hike around the arches)

(just some crazy rocks)

(I think this was called Balanced Rock, I'm not sure why)

(the little fellows are me and pops the arches are called The north and south windows)

(just some of the crazy terrain around Moab)

(Heather and I under the famous Delicate Arch this is the rock you see on Utah license plates)

 Then we got a hotel room and went to a Mexican restaurant. The service was slow and bad but the food and margaritas were good. We left really full, slightly tipsy and decided to walk around downtown Moab. It is a very touristy place but designated to outdoor adventures so it was pretty cool. We went into a local brewery and had another beer. They could not serve us without a food order (Utah laws) so we got a $0.65 order of chips and salsa that no one even thought of touching. After this we went back to the room and passed out until 7am this morning. We quickly ate and checked out and went to find a white water rafting trip. We believed this would be an easy task on a Tuesday morning before 8am because the main street had tons of places advertising trips but we went to 3 or 4 before we found a place that had openings. We decided on a 1/2 day trip down the Colorado River. It was more of a relaxing trip then I had hoped for but we had a good time floating along, swimming and looking at the cool red scenery. We took a few pictures but they are on an undeveloped waterproof disposable camera so I can't show them yet. After the rafting trip we went to the Moab Brewery and had a great lunch and some good beers. After my Oatmeal Stout and BBQ sandwich with beer battered fries I ordered a sample platter of beers. This was 9 different flavors of beers they brewed in glasses a little bigger then a double shot. I was so full I thought my stomach would pop but I survived and slept a bit on the 4 hr ride back to Dad's. Then when we got home Dad cooked up a huge London Broil Steak, baked potatoes, garlic bread, and asparagus. Somehow I was able to eat a ton more. Tomorrow we are going to catch some trout. Sorry for the giant posts I'm just trying to make up for missing some.

 

 

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7-31-06 8:36am (9:36am central time)

Woo hoo it's my first post from Utah. We did arrive Friday morning around 9am. We left Kansas city at about 2:30am then slept in Denver's airport until 7:50am then flew into Utah. Friday we were very tired since we had not gotten to sleep much but we came to dad's house and got cleaned up and ate a big breakfast then went to see some caves. While waiting for our turn to see the caves pops drove us up a mountain to see a couple of really cool lakes.

 We hiked 1.5 miles up a mountain to do the hour cave tour and then rushed back down and we took dad to work for a few hours. Then we went to sleep. We got up early the next morning to hike to Stewart Falls. This was a 2 mile hike through some really pretty woods to a big waterfall. We took lots of really nice pictures and then hiked from there almost another 2 miles to the Sundance (where some film awards are) ski resort. Then we drove into Park City. This is a little touristy town that is a bit artsy for us but was kinda cool. We were pretty thirsty and hungry so we went into "The Monkey Bar"  expecting to get some beers and burgers. They did serve beers and once inside we found out there slogan was "The only brass pole in Park City" and they did not have any food. We went a few bars down to something like the Unknown Saloon and had some Buffalo Burgers and a local brew called Cutthroat. After lunch we went home and I found out my SD card in my Camera was dead and all the pictures were lost. I was kinda pissed. Then we took dad to work and Heather and I went to Bridal Falls armed with her camera. We hiked up to the falls and all around Provo Canyon and took lots of pictures. Then we ate some pizza and went back to pick dad up from work. We were still exhausted from the plane and from hiking around all day. Sunday we woke up at 5:15am and took dad to work then drove to Mt. Timpanogos. We hit the trail at about 6:45am and came back after 16 miles and 9 hours. It was an amazing day and a great hike. The trail was lined with wildflowers, waterfalls, hummingbirds, mountain lakes and streams, piles of snow, and enormous views.

(Heather on part of the trail lined with flowers along a stream)    (Getting ready to hike through some snow and rocks near the summit)    (Looking down near the summit, you can see the path next to Emerald Lake and a huge snow bank on the right. This snow was our way down and once back to the lake we refilled out water supply from it's crystal clear cold waters)

   (Heather and I at the top Utah lake and the city in the background)

 (The Top, GPS says 11,760 feet)

Once at the top we decided to take a shortcut down through a huge slope of snow. Instead of hiking around the side of the mountain down step switchbacks through the rock we slid down the snow. I sat down on my butt with my legs out front and Heather sat right behind me and off we sent sliding down the side of the mountain. Heather was shaking like crazy at first but then began to really enjoy it. Our butts and fingers got cold then stiff then numb very quickly but it was really fun and a great break from hiking. We took around 150 pictures on the way up so we ran out of memory for the trip down. This is the best picture of the snow I can find but it is only about 1/2 of the slide. This is another one I took on the way up from the other side of the lake looking up toward the peak.

 

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7-28-06 12:01am

Well It's just after midnight on Thursday Night / Friday Morning and I am still in Kansas City. Our flight has been delayed until 1:50am. Instead of getting an early start tomorrow morning climbing around in a cave we will be hanging out in airports and flying around craving a delicious cheeseburger and a pillow.

In spite of this unfortunate turn of events Heath and I are very high spirited still. We were able push our return back almost exactly 48hrs getting us an extra day and a half in Salt Lake. We both think we can get the additional time off without too much trouble so a night watching people in an airport is not a big deal other then the hunger factor.

Luckily when we first learned of a delay our ride to the airport agreed to take us back to his house and watch "It's always Sunny in Philadelphia" and polish off a 12ver of beer before our wait in the airport.  

If you have never seen ...Philadelphia, quit screwing around sit on your but and watch it. Thursdays from 9-10 on FX or if you run late watch it replayed from 10-11.

Since I am posting so late / early I have decided to eagerly wait to see who will comment first in the morning. I am waiting in eager anticipation like this guy.

Whomever wins can get some sort of cool title like "Quickest Commenter". Really you can take any title about commenting you want other then least funny. Cheff has worked really hard to claim that one.

 

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7-26-06 8:33am

Well tomorrow I leave for Utah. So today could be my last post for a while. I hope to still post some but it will probably not be early each morning like I attempt to do now.

Last night Steven, Becky, their dogs, Heather, Grant, and I went to Hillsdale Lake. We grill cheese hotdogs and played around. I think everyone had fun even the dogs. Grant played in the tube a lot and seems to really like it.    

Our flight leaves after 7 tomorrow night but I took the whole day off to prepare for the trip. I have been eating all the perishable food out of the refridge and cabinets and hope to finish everything off tomorrow.  

 

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7-25-06 8:12am

I have been a running fool lately. Heather and I went on a really long run last night then I got up early and did a little one before work again. With all this running I work up quite an apatite so it was good that last night I cooked up a yummy dinner.

BBQ Pork Roast Recipe   

I had bought a pretty big roast at Price Chopper a few months ago for under $5 and let it defrost yesterday. Then after work I covered it in season salt and Montreal Seasoning then covered that in chopped onions and then poured BBQ sauce over the whole pile. I double wrapped this up in aluminum foil and stuck it in the toaster oven. I baked this ball of joy for somewhere between 3 and 4 hours at temperatures between 300 and 400 degrees. All that BBQ and onions slow cooking made a mouth watering smell permeate my whole house. For sides I whipped up some white rice and some green beans. For the beans I cut up 2 slices of salami real thin and put them in the bottom of the pan then added some brown sugar then the can of beans and it's juices and boiled the whole thing. They were amazing beans. After dinner I had a mint chocolate chip ice cream cone.

Tonight will probably be the last time I take out Grandma for a while due to my trip to Utah and some modifications I want to work on (depth finder, wiring for lights, removable deck up front).

 She has been patiently waiting for me out at Heather's house and we plan to go out with Steven and Becky and let their doggies go for a swim at captains cove. We have the typical grill and swim plan but with dogs running around. Let me know if you feel like cooling off after work?

Update: I am the "friend Chris" mentioned on www.mattstooks.com today be sure to visit the website he discuses.

 

 

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7-24-06 8:20am

It's a 3 day workweek for me and I am ready to go. I leave for Utah Thursday night and don't come back to work until Wednesday the 2nd. I stll need to do all my packing and get everything organized for the end of the month when my current roommates move out and my new roommates move in.

I got even more excited this morning when Pops sent me an e-mail about the mountain we are going to climb.

Mount Timpanogos Preview: Mount Timpanogos (pronounced Timp-an-oh-gus) looms large, dominating the eastern skyline of Utah Valley. At the base of the final ridge the Timpanooke Trail joins in from the right (north), then the trail rises sharply to a saddle at the lowest point in the ridgeline. As you top the ridge at the saddle you’re greeted with a fantastic view of Utah County. Watch for Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep near the saddle—this area is one of their favorites. The trail crosses over to the face of the mountain, traversing a narrow worn path across slate-covered slopes below. The trail then beelines for a large rock outcrop ahead and climbs right up its face on a series of steps. The last 0.25 mile follows just below the ridgeline to the metal shelter at the peak. At the summit a cool wind and views in every direction await you.

Activity Type:	Hiking
Nearby City:	Orem, UT
Length:	16.6 total miles
Elev. Gain:	6210 feet
Trail Type:	Out-and-Back
Skill Level:	Strenuous
Duration:	7 hours minimum
Season:	Mid-July to October
Top Elev:	11749 feet

 

I got up early and ran a few miles this morning and I hope to do the same thing the rest of the week I'm here. Also Heather and I are planning a big run tonight to prepare for the mountain. 16.6 miles of strenuous hiking will be a tough day that we need to be ready for. If anyone is up to or interested in some running, stairs, or other exercise let me know.

I had a lot of company this weekend and we kept each other very busy. Matt Stooks www.mattstooks.com was in town from Manhattan and Russ and Derrick (new roommate) spent the weekend at my house. We stayed busy playing tennis, hitting the bars, playing hacky sack, working on the boat, playing on the boat, grilling off the boat, and building a fence with Jon. The fence took up a lot of our time but it was fun and turned out really nice.

The fence was built right on Troost after 43rd next to Jon's house. (you can see Jon's apt in the upper left corner). The landlord rents Jon his garage and is going to put some money into this place in hopes of getting a good tenant. I have a feeling we will end up building a fence in the back of the house too.

 

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7-21-06 8:20am

You may have not been able to get to my website this morning or last night and I apologize UMKC was/is having some network problems. I got calls from the radio station staff several times with problems and it still seems like we are not all better.  So yesterday I was surprised with the new guys Russ and Derrick coming over to see the house and make plans on moving Derrick in.  They were also motivated to "get a drink". (i'll come back to the get a drink "" later) We played some hackey sack in the family room fiberglassed on the boat and went to Hooper's. My arm is almost back to normal from all the dripping fiberglass on it. (Ohh my I searched for a messed up arm picture for here and this {http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2002-123/images/burn-ARM%20copy.jpg} was so gross I did not use it so instead I will use this picture to get that arm out of my head)

I don't know why but I see Kentaro really liking this picture?

The truck is all better and it only cost me $65 to get it running again, I was very pleased. I am also pleased with the boats status now. The leak looks fixed, the motor looks better and I am excited to try out the pump. If I get to work on it tonight like I want I hope to work on the wiring of the lights a bit and then start installing the depth finder pops got me.

The site seems to be coming up and down sporadically making it a pain.

So yesterday Jon made fun of me for saying something like "I think I will go to Mikes after work to 'get a drink'". Is "get a drink" a stupid thing to say? sure have a beer or just go to Mikes is possibly better. Jon said I used the phrase twice in the conversation and thought it was quite ridiculous and up-ity (not sure how that's spelled). It seems normal enough to me though.

 classic theonion.com

 

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7-20-06 8:11am

It's going to be a coffee day, I am having some trouble getting going. I was up late in Westport and got up early for truck issues I will describe in a bit, plus I have to stay awake for a meeting this afternoon.

First things first, The Boat, I had just purchased the wrong Allen bolt and once we got the right one it worked perfectly. I still need to find one that is stainless steal so it does not rust. Once the bolts were installed we put the motor in a tub of water and fired it up, it worked well.  Yesterday we also put together and tested out a new bilge pump. I have nicknamed this pump "the hog",

 it does a fabulous job of sucking all the water out of the boat and often sounds like a piggy. Jon finally convinced me to have 2 boxes in the boat. So now we have the preexisting dry box and a new tool/fishing boat. I am already very pleased with this setup, it's so much easier to find things and I can keep lots in the new box like "The Hog".

Yesterday at lunchtime my truck would not start so right after work Jon and I tried to fix it. We could not and went home and worked on the boat. After the boat work we went back with some tools and tried again. We could still not get it to start so we towed it to Troost Complete Auto Care and dropped it off. I went by early this morning told them the problem and dropped off my keys so I am eager to hear what is going on with my truck.

Last night after towing my truck Jon went home and I got started on the leak,

(I know this looks like nothing but it lets water into the boat)

I got it all sanded and ready for fiberglass. I hope to clean up my house some and fiberglass tonight.

 

 

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7-19-06 8:26am

Well I have a few pictures for you today. First here are a few from this weekend that Kelly took out at Hillsdale.

   

Tonight I am going to eat at a Japanese Steak house, go see the KCUR guy at Karma and do some boat tinkering. First I think I will work on the leak. I have already found the crack in the bottom of the boat that is causing this. On this picture from the back side I have circled a groove that runs along the underside of the boat on each side. This one has a small crack right at the back of the boat. I believe if I sand it down and then apply a few layers of fiberglass it will fix any leak issues.

 

I also need to look at the motor and a problem we have with 2 missing bolts. Here is the back of the motor without the prop on.

In the middle is the geared shaft that the prop slides onto and around it are 4 holes. The top and bottom one are missing some bolts that are needed to hold that piece together. You can see how that part now moves around now. This allows the prop to rub on this and cause trouble. Last night I went to the hardware store looking for Stainless Steal bolts.

Jon and I thought it had Allen bolts like this on it before (but longer and stainless).

So I got some last night and also some Hex bolts like this. But neither one worked right so now I am wondering if maybe Jon meant Allen bolt like this or I am thinking a screw like this might be best.

There are several hurdles for getting this part re attached. It will be wet a lot so can't rust that's why we need stainless steal. The first Allen bolt screwed in great but the part of the motor that is loose is a bit wider so the bolt does not hold it tight. The hex bolt (2nd one) has too big of a head and it may interfere with the propeller when spun. That's why I think the last one will be the solution.

Boy I have no idea if all this bolt talk will make any sense and I'm sorry if it does not.  I'll let you know what solution we end up with.

 

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7-18-06 8:17am

Well I set my alarm for 7 instead of 7:25 this am in an effort to get up early and unpack all the boating gear and go for a little run before work. I was too tired though and slept till 7:25 anyway. It seems like I have been trying to catch up all morning now.

Kelly is having delays with sending me lake pictures do to an internet connection issue. Last night I went to the lake with my other sister Carri, my brother Matt and my mom. I forgot the camera and the knee board but mom forgot the hamburger buns. We grilled in Captains Cove and ate cheese burgers with no buns and swam around then we tubed and it was really fun. I was kinda glad we left the kneeboard because the tube was such a good time.

I took the boat home last night for minor work on it and for a break for myself. Jon and I looked it over last night and set up a list of things for me to take care of on the boat. We also found some questionable things on the motor that if we look into may make it run a bit better. My only complaints with the boat at the moment are that it has a little trouble idling (it takes more gas to keep running then it should) and the leak is a bit annoying. I hope to take care of these problems this week and have it ready for Matt's visit this weekend. Kentaro you should talk us into coming up to Clinton Lake this weekend.

My sister Carri and my Brother Matt are possibly coming to see me at work today and taking a tour of the radio station. I think this will be kind of fun and then we will probably go somewhere good for lunch. I am craving hot wings and have talked Heather into Buffalo Wild Wings at 103rd and Metcalf for dinner, it's Tuesday so they are like $0.29 per wing. Anyone else in the mood is welcome to join. We talked about walking or jogging on the Corporate Woods path right there afterwards if it is not too hot but it may be too hot so we will go sit in Grant's kiddy pool.

Tomorrow night I am going to Karma in Westport to see a guy from my Radio Station I'd like to encourage anyone to check it out.

 

I’ll be spinning music tonight at KARMA in Westport from 10pm-3am.

Hear garage rock classics, soul, Jamaican ska, old school punk, dark wave, honky tonk, new sounds and more.

No Cover. Drink specials. Kitchen open until 11pm.

Help us build a scene at the ever evolving Karma on Westport Road.

Sonic Spectrum airs Saturdays at 2pm on 89.3fm KCUR in Kansas City or listen anytime at www.kcur.org

 

In other Radio news, check this out.

http://www.rwonline.com/reference-room/it_service/2006.07.19-01_rwf_prewitt.shtml

 

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7-17-06 7:56am

Well the weekend has come and gone super fast and now I am tired. It was so hot yesterday, even floating around out in the lake it was hot.

Once again we had some of the best cheeseburgers and chicken sandwiches ever in captains cove on the grill. My mom and sister Kelly joined up with Jon Heather and I. I brought bacon, tomatoes, onions, pickles and cheese for the burgers and had marinated the chicken in BBQ and some Creole spice. Mom, Kelly and I did get motivated enough to get the kneeboard out and take it out in the lake for a bit. I hope to add pictures from the day later on they are on Kelly's camera.

Friday I stopped by Sol Cantina for Geoff's new job happy hour celebration. It is a cool place with giant doors on each side that on nice days turn the whole place into a giant patio. Then I went home and ate dinner and got ready for power hour at The Dark Horse Tavern. Of course we all drank too much and I was more worthless on Saturday then I had hoped to be.

I did see Pirates of the Caribbean on Saturday and I thought it was "pretty good" to "just all right". I have not been to a movie since the newest Batman and I was expecting that I would be pleasantly surprised by how fun it was. Also before the movie I had watched the www.askaninja.com review of the movie at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWq89t9q5gg. I am thinking that I should have gone to see superman instead. I imagine that some of you are surprised that I was not crazy about this movie being such a big pirate fan myself. I am more of a real pirate fan not a 1/2 fish 1/2 man pirate fan. The movie pirates had on too much makeup and did too much thinking and planning. There was too much magic and fantasy and not enough good old fashioned pirating. There was very little pillaging and drunken trouble that I associate with pirates. I don't want to spoil the movie but no one is split up the middle with a big sword or fed to a shark or something. I don't think I saw any booty even. There was a bit of Rum drinking but not nearly enough. 

Also on dad's advice I have shortened how much of the past blog posts you can get to on this page and moved most of them to the archive page.

 

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7-14-06 7:57am

Well its definitely time for a Friday.

The only ideas of what to post that come into my head are work related. I don't like to post about that kinda stuff when it is not really interesting to other people. I only have 8 workdays till I go to Salt Lake. Last night was fairly uneventful I went to captains cove and swam, skipped rocks and ate some dinner. I tried to take a screw out of the motor to make sure water was getting through the engine and keeping it cool. It was very tight and I ended up breaking the tip off of two screw drivers before giving up. Maybe I should buy better quality tools but I kinda like the feeling of breaking off a screw driver tip in a screw makes you feel like you are the incredible hulk or something.

My weekend plans seem to be all askew. My sister called last night to tell me she was coming to town and wanted to hang out some and what would I be doing here was my prediction. (Not only is this a prediction but an invitation for anyone to join in on any of this fun) Tonight right after work I will probably go to a happy new job happy hour celebration at 30th and Oak for Geoff. After a few drinks I will go home and make dinner and maybe meet up with Kelly, her BF Chris, Heather, and anyone else that is motivated and then go to Dark Horse Tavern to take part in the power hour that I believe is from 8-10 and you can pay the cover then drink for free. I imagine we will mess around in Westport a bit and then hopefully get home before it is too late. Saturday I will get up and go to Jon's to help build a chain link fence for his neighbor. When we are done I will drive to Spring Hill and get Grandma ready for the lake. I would like to take her out and do some grilling, knee boarding and chilling out (maybe set up a hammock at Captains Cove) Then when it starts to get dark we all go back to heathers and have a minibon in her backyard and everyone crash there for the night. Sunday morning sleep in then make a big breakfast and go back to the lake to play until mid afternoon.

Anyone interested in joining us for the bar, lake, breakfast, etc.? Of course all these plans are just speculative and could vary greatly.

 

 

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7-13-06 8:09am

So the big questions about the boat and it's ability to pull have been answered mostly.

Last night Steven, Jon and I took a lightened granny out to Hillsdale. It was way hot and we were restless after the car trip. We put the boat in and left the ramp in record time. Immediately heading over to Captain's Cove for burgers and beers. Steven could not even wait to get to the cove and he was passing out the bud heavies. I had forgotten all the toppings for the burgers. This was very sad, no cheese catsup, mustard or anything. We made the best of the situation by putting the cheese its I had brought on top with a little bit of salsa I found in my truck. This made for an editable burger and a nice evening.

Then we took the boat out into the main channel and pulled out my knew kneeboard (thanks to my siblings). I eagerly jumped in and strapped on my life vest and got ready to go. Grandma Easily pulled the kneeboard and it worked wonderfully.

 Steven and Jon had never knee boarded before and I didn't really remember how I first learned so we had trouble getting them up.

Then I tried to ski. I once again strapped in and told them to hit it. Jon dropped the hammer, prompting Grandma to give it all she had. The boat inched forward dragging a nearly 200lbs man through the water. I straitened my legs and leaned way back being slowly pulled just on the verge of coming out of the water. I could feel my shorts fill with water and then drag behind. Eventually the strain of being pulled through the water got the best of me and I fell. I decided that I was close and needed something to put me over the edge so I took off my baggy shorts and decided to try in my boxers also had Jon and Steven move to the front of the boat to gain any speed we could. We tried 3 times but I was never able to get out of the water the drag I created was just too great for Grandma. Then skinny Jon got out there and strapped on the skis. Once again I floored the throttle, leaned way forward and put my faith in Grandma and Jon was up. Once out of the water it was easy going pulling Jon around the lake.

So the results are kneeboards create less drag and don't require near the speed as skis. Skiing is possible but you must be small. Jon brought up a good point that my propeller was just dragged through the river over 4th of July and is not fairly rugged. If it is refinished again or replaced we will gain some power and probably be able to get me up. We also tossed around the idea of skiing from a dock or beach to help reduce the drag. I guess this technique is used for pulling bunches of people in water ballet ideas and by rednecks for pulling people on boats with not enough power.

       

 

Because of all the interest in seeing my Mexican dinner from yesterday here is a picture for you.

EAR / STICK UPDATE: feeling good no problems so far. Even being under water yesterday seemed not to cause trouble.

FREE BURRITO UPDATE: still have not gone to Westport to claim my prize. Worried now it has been to long.

 

 

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7-12-06 8:12am

It should be nice and sunny all day and into the evening. It looks like it will be really hot after work even. This works out well because I plan on taking Grandma for a ski/knee board trial run tonight after work.

    

Last night I finished up some work on my starter and it worked 3 or 4 times just fine. I also fixed the safety chain and headlights wiring. I then got everything together on the boat and cooler for the skiing mission. I am going to keep the boat as light as possible, no extra gas tank, cooler, anchor, people or anything. I figure we can gradually add stuff if we are able to ski well. Grandma is old and small so I have my doubts but I am sure she will give it her all.

 

Last night Heather and I played some tennis and then it started raining so we ran a bunch. We were very hungry so it was good that I had pre-prepared some dinner.

RECIPE ALERT:

Chris's Mexican ??? Recipe

I took tortilla shells gave them a thin layer of refried beans covered them in thin cut grilled chicken, covered the chicken in Spanish rice (from a box with corn fresh tomatoes and jalapenos added in), then I covered the rice in shredded cheese and covered the shredded cheese in another tortilla and toasted them in the toaster oven. We had leftover rice and beans on the side.

Any idea what to call these?

EAR / STICK UPDATE: Was bothering me this morning after my shower but now seems fine. I'm not sure how it will like the lake water.

I have gotten some really exciting e-mails from Pops over the last two days and I plan to edit them up a bit and post them along with some pictures of places he has described in Utah. But first I'm going to breakfast so I can be at the top of my game.

All right I am back and ready to go here are excerpts from dad's e-mails with pictures I have found. The first one is my picture from the last time I visited but I really think it is the correct mountain.

 

 

I am planning for us to climb the backside of Timpanogos Mt.  That's a nearly all day deal. I have a couple day hike back packs and
plenty of water bottles. I thought we may go do the cave one day as well, maybe the day you arrive. I thought
we may go see the Great Salt Lake and the Salt Lake flats. Its been hot here for a couple weeks and I imagine it
will be hot (100) when you are here. There are big rock things all over in about any direction. Moab is about a
3 1/2 hour drive and I am sure Matt told you that is pretty cool. I assume you wanted to go fish a day or two. You really have a pretty short trip
(4 real days) so it can get full pretty quick. The heat is very dry and does not feel as hot as 100 does there but it is still hot. The asian buffet is still in tack.(I really liked this Chinese buffet last time with it's good fresh sushi) 
I would also like to take you to Tuscano's for the Brazilian grilled food.
Matt really enjoyed it and its tons of food. If you remember, there was a 2 1/2 hour wait when we tried
before.

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7-11-06 8:13am

Last night Matt Stooks www.mattstooks.com and I had a little phone talk. He called me out on all the lackluster posting that I have been doing lately.

 

I have to admit that my posting has been sporadic and often weak in the last couple weeks. I'm going to blame it on the 4th of July week where I was not in the office as much so not posting as much and getting some work pilled up and playing catch up. We should have about 2 weeks of solid posting in store before I go to Utah and things all get nuts again so stick with me.

Today would be a great day to have some exciting story to tell you all but I had a fairly uneventful evening and can not think of a good story from it. I just did some work around the house, cooked some chicken parmesan, noodles, and spinach then went to Heathers to find and fix a leak in her roof. The roof proved to be much easier then I had expected. We did talk about maybe playing some tennis tonight and would like to challenge anyone to doubles tonight.

I have gotten lots of questions lately about what is going on in my house as far as roommates so I figure I'll fill everyone in. I am staying where I am, Jason and the guys upstairs are moving out at the end of the month. Jenna will take over the upstairs and Derrick will move into the room next to mine. If you are not familiar, Jenna is Jon's girl friend. You recently saw her picture on the site cutting wood with Heather.

  (on the right side in a pair of "the's" shades.

You may have met Derrick at one of the little parties at my current house or if you came to one of the apartment parties in Pittsburg he was likely there. I can't find any pictures of him in my laptop collection but with a Google search of "Derrick" I found this and it is close enough.

(I hope to convince Derrick that he should toss the old b/w camera for a new digital color one)

Russ has also voiced interest in setting up a place in the basement for himself. I don't know if this will ever happen and either way I foresee this as being a good house load.

 (The magic of my batman fishing pole is not transferred to Russ when he uses it)

BURRITO UPDATE: I have still not gotten a chance to try to claim my burrito. I will keep you posted

EAR STICK UPDATE: Ear feels fine today, I'm possibly healed. Thanks for your prayers.

 

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7-10-06 12:10pm

Well it was a fairly low key weekend for me but that is alright. I have been taking a break from Grandma Natty. It seemed like I was taking her out about 5 of 7 days a week. If it clears up I am thinking of going out tonight and finding out if we can ski behind it. I also want to test out my new knee board.

As you may have guessed it has been crzy at work today. I came in early and am still working on some messed up computers. I am hoping I can go claim my free burrito in a bit.

Yesterday I watched the world cup over at Kevin's and I thought it was a fairly interesting match all in all. It was a very close game throughout. The best part was the French player Zidane head butting a player in the chest. Such a dumb move.

sad frenchy

 

 

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7-7-6 11:20pm (night before)

I am back at work checking up on one of my computers that is not behaving itself and decided I would come back in first thing in the morning when I wake up. then I will go home run and shower and get ready then come back into work late. So my post will be a bit late or early if you count this. I went to see The fiddler on the roof tonight at the dinner theatre with my mom, both sisters, Kelly's BF Chris and my mom's friend Dixie. I ate a ton of food. It is a buffet but fancy so you get pork beef chicken and fish all in one trip. not bad at all. I also had a ton of Minskey's for lunch and tomorrow I go to some place called Lydia's for Italian. Ohh and I get a free burrito at La Mesa but I'll tell that story in the morning. night night

UPDATED: In response so some early comments I really don't like musicals and don't even remember saying I wanted to go to the show but it was not bad and I had some fun. Also thanks for the comment Geoff if a real Italian says its good it must be I will eat an extra noodle for you.

The AMAZING FREE BURRITO STORY.

I think I talked about my trip to this La Mesa restaurant a week or so ago on the blog but anyway its like Chipotle but in Westport. I am sure I didn't mention that on the counter where you pay they have a big jar not unlike many other restaurants. This one said if you put in your business card and it is selected you win a free lunch. I put in a card and it was chosen.

The End of the AMAZING FREE BURRITO STORY.

Steven claimed that I was only chosen in La Mesa lunch because my business card shows the radio station on it and they are hoping for free mention on the air. I doubt the giveaway is fixed like that but if it is I imagine they googled me and somehow found this website. They probably just happened to find it on the day while I was fishing and they saw this fish picture.

 

I am thinking they want me to be some sort of a topless spokes person for the restaurant. Perhaps a commercial or magazine add of me with a burrito in each hand chowing down.

 

 

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7-6-6 8:18am

Well I am back for a normal day of work and a normal day of posting on the blog. The campout finished up just fine, the girls left and Jon and I were left to tough it out. We caught a few more fish and a few turtles, we drank the rest of the beer, ate as much of the food as we could, explored most of the island and packed everything out. The last night on the river it rained like crazy and the water really rose fast and we got a heck of a current. It made the last day very exciting. The calm little creek we had become very familiar with became fast and rough. As promised here are a few more updated pics of the campsite.

I love to eat deep fried catfish and french fries for my meals out on the river. Especially when you are eating fish that were just cleaned. However this requires a large cast iron pot, lots of shortening, and corn meal or some sort of fish batter, plus all the utensils, paper plates and paper towels. It's a lot of stuff to cart around and remember to bring. Jon and I decided we should figure out a way to grill the catfish that would be very tasty. I believe that I can come up with some sort of seasoning or something that I can keep in my truck and when we catch some fish we can just start a fire spread some seasoning on them and grill them up. Last night I tested my first recipe.

Heather's Uncle David's Grilled Catfish Recipe

Very simple process you take the catfish fillets wrap them up in aluminum foil with butter, salt and slices of lemon.

 

Heather and I tried this last night and did not like it.

I think I put in too much lemon though so I will up the butter and salt and cut back the lemon and try it again. Also this requires a little more forethought then I would like. How am I going to keep fresh lemons and butters in my truck? I like the foil idea and can easily keep that in my truck. Does anyone know a good way to make fresh catfish for a man on the go?

 

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7-3-6 9:18am

Well the campout is almost over. One night left so if you want to join in the fun better call me and make some arrangements soon.

Anyway I'm at work for a brief break from camping and I will go back out this afternoon. We have had lots of fun and caught lots of fish.

 This is our campsite from the river. I need to update this picture we have since moved the tent on the left, put a giant tarp, and built a stone/mud stairwell up the bank.

 

The smelly pirate hookers we brought along. Just kidding, Jenna and Heather wanted to show off the wood they chopped with the hatchet. 

Jon and one mornings catch of catfish there are 7 nice ones there.

I'm not sure if the fish or the man is more handsome but this is a great picture.

Grandma has gotten filthy. Also note the radio cooler and the two nice fish in it.

It's not all building camp, catching fish, and cutting wood. Besides all the swimming, floating around and napping, we have managed to eat very well. Thanks to neighbor Ray we had fresh warm ribs the first night and some sort of a roast. We have eaten corn on the cob at about every meal plus french fries, burgers, chicken breast, breakfast burritos, pineapple upside down cake, biscuits, hot dogs, fruit, tea, beer and of course fresh breaded catfish.

 

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6-30-06 8:47am

Pretty busy this morning I will do some real posting when it slows down. Running a bit late, found a screw in my tire this morning and have lots of island adventure planning to do.

Please entertain yourselves with the comments section until I get a chance to post some more and put up something peaty to look at. How about you comment about your favorite websites to visit.

Well maybe I will get a good chance to post I have been super busy lately but somehow they are quiet now. Last night I tried to get everything ready for the adventure but I still have some stuff to do. We will need to do the last few new radio installation steps at the river I think. Jon Jenna and I got all the food and other camping supplies at Wal-mart and Aldi last night.

 (fried catfish, French fries and corn on the cob will be our staples)

Jon and I rewired the headlight up front in hopes that it won't melt the switch again. Then I reburied all the wires and taped everything up good to keep the boat from catching fire. I almost got the radio done but it still needs power. I hope to get some chain for the trailer and a new switch during lunch today at work. Then after work I will pack the coolers and food and my stuff into the truck and boat. I got gas this morning before work and was surprised to find that the pump cut me off at $75. I was amazed that I was paying $75 for gas in one fill up but my 20 gal truck tank was empty as were both 6 gal boat tanks and a 2 gal reserve tank. Just after I saw this bill someone told me I had a low tire and I go look. Wow that is really low I think. I just drive to the other side of the station to the air pump and put in $0.75 (for air?). As I filled the tire I found a screw stuck in through the tread. I'll have to switch out the tire sometime at lunch too I guess. Anyhow I'm ready for the weekend and all the fun we will be sure to have. Camping out for such a long stretch will be fun too. I'm sad I will have to shower before going to work on Monday.

 

 

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6-29-06 8:09am

All right I'm back at the helm and have a lot of birthday stories to report on. I really want to thank everyone for all their birthday wishes I tried to not make a big deal of my birthday but it seemed to happen anyway. First off I am kinda pissed because I'm getting poison ivy on my face right across my eye and this makes me irritable. You will probably be able to see it in upcoming pictures. You may have heard something about me on the air, yesterday but I thought I would tell the whole story.

I was walking along the hall minding my own business. As I walk past the newsroom I hear "How about Chris Prewitt, he could do it" I walk into the room and they ask me to go on air and taste wine and talk about what it sounds like. I inform them that I don't know much about wine and they say that is fine and I agree to do it. I was really glad I did, it was lots of fun.  3 regular KCUR folks sat around a table with a wine guru and talked about what wine tasted like. I had a bit more then 3 glasses and really enjoyed all of them. Doing this gave me a bigger appreciation for people on the air. I realized listening back how bad it sounds when I say uhh and umm as I stumble through my responses.

Then after work I went to Mikes with a bunch of the guys from my IS department for some beers and a shot. It was kinda cool to get a big group instead of just Steven and I. I am thinking that maybe they enjoyed $1 PBRs and will want to return.

I left the bar early and went to mom's house for a birthday dinner. Both my sisters had driven up from Pittsburg and were there to eat and celebrate and do laundry. Heather and Grant came to join in the fun. After dinner I opened presents and ate cake. My siblings went in and got me this knee board for pulling with the boat. Heather got me this skill saw I really needed and some cologne (actually I naturally smell fantastic so don't really need this but it is nice). Mom and Dad got me a Guinness shirt, a cooler full of beer, and a fish/depth finder for Grandma.

After Birthday time we all went to Cabela's. I got an anchor for the boat, a rubber stopper for the boat trailer and some sweet shoes for my feet.

I hate to say it but I am going to retire the Sandoos, once my toes all started sticking out I knew it was just a matter of time. They have been replaced by Sandoo2, Here is a picture of them. I am wearing them today at work and so far really like them.

 

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6-28-06 9:40pm (night before)

I am trying to do some if not all my post tonight since I plan on running late tomorrow morning. I am going to bring the boat back from Heather's early tomorrow morning and could be a bit late. Heather is going to help me out for my birthday by doing my post for me.

Tonight Chris and I went exploring some other areas of Hillsdale lake. Geoff and Ashley were supposed to join us, but with the short notice, they had to respectfully decline. Maybe next time. None the less, Off to the lake we went.  We went in the opposite direction of captains cove, across the main area, and into the other arm of the V.  We boated around on the glass like waters and commented on the beauty of the reflection of the sky, making the water baby blue, with a hint of pink from the sun.  We boated deep into the woody waters and found a side cove that had an island.  We docked on the island, and dinner. After a delicious tuna w/ cheese on a bagel sandwich, we explored the island, and discovered: beaver dam (with beaver), deer remains, huge fallen tree, lots of bugs (that we thought were going to be annoying, but soon left us alone) and a nice flat area that would be perfect for a camp sight.  There are trees that are on the side facing the main lake that will be good to hide the fire and smoke.  A storm looked like it was coming our way, so we weaved our way out of the woody water and make it back to the doc just in time to see a great lightning show.  Chris tried to take some picture of the sky (and he did get a few) but was not able to get a picture with lightning.

 We got back to my house just in time for the rain to start, and I was able to put the window's up in my car before my seat got too wet.

I would like to personally invite all the female counter parts out to the Camping Adventure.  Jena and I will be there, and we are aware that the boys will be busy fishing, and exploring, and other boy things, so we will be entertaining ourselves, and the more girls, the better (we are usually out numbered by them). 

Incase you forgot:  TODAY IS CHRIS' 26TH BIRTHDAY  so congratulate him.

Happy birthday sweet cakes! 

8:19am Well Steven showed up and we got the boat in the driveway no problem and I was not even late to work. I'll try to work on the directions page up above some more today. 

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6-27-06 8:06am

Update: new directions page above more map links to come.

I wanted to fill you all in on a few of my plans for the next month or so.

First, "Jon's Independence Day Island Camping Adventure" starts up this Friday June 30th sometime after work and will end on Tuesday July 4th. I am guessing we will pull out in the late afternoon giving time for everyone to clean up and watch some fireworks. Grandma Natty will be there the entire time as will the Seven Eleven (Jon's almost 8ft row boat with a 5hp motor). I think Jon and Jenna will be there the entire time. I will come back to work for a while on Monday. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to come out for as long or as short as they want. You can park in the Boat Ramp Park and we will ferry you over to the island in a boat. The island is just off 435 (west loop) and the Woodend Rd exit. Jon has kept some of the specifics top secret but I have to believe we will be drinking some beer and eating lots of fried tatters and fried fish. Please comment with any questions or concerns you have about this great adventure. (FYI: We have a thumbs up guy and a pizza eater but still need a guitar player, a giant mustache man and a few drinkers) 

 

Second, "Pop's Merry Mountains and Mormons Malay" I will be going to Salt Lake for a few days at the end of July / early August and would like to take one last attempt to encourage other people to join. I talked to Mr. theprewitt last night and mentioned that I would like to possibly white water raft, climb a 14K mountain, catch dozens of trout, and camp out. He seemed to think these ideas would be possible. So far Heather is the only other merrymaker on this trip but everyone else is welcome. Let me know if you have any interest in going. (FYI: Dad is not a Mormon, we will just be observers of their culture)

Last night Steven, Becky, Heather and I grilled kabobs out at Captain's Cove. They had steak, shrimp, onion, mushroom, pineapple, and red, green, and yellow peppers on them.

 

Steven brought an assortment of beers and we ate drank swam and cruised around on a smooth empty lake. I think everyone enjoyed the grilled pineapple the most. 

 

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6-26-06 8:44am

Ahh running a bit late today but should still be able to get a decent post in. I got everything done I wanted to this weekend.

X-change my oil

X-change Heath oil

X-change my brakes

X-change my air filter

X-swap my bed frame with the one downstairs

X-mow the lawn

X-build boat seat

X-finish sand box

X-finish tree at moms

X-laundry

I finished up Sunday afternoon and took the boat out with Jon, Jenna, Kevin, Tiff and Heather. We mostly just relaxed in the cove and watched each other burn but we ate some deluxe burgers and Jon and Jenna went for a sailing adventure.

While cruising around I came across this sweet blue tube. There was lots of little things going on that slowed down our boating trip but it's hard to complain when you are floating around with a highlife and a cheeseburger.

Saturday I went to "Pick and Pull" formally known as "You Wrench it" with Jon to get a throttle cable for his Bronco.

It was my first trip and I was impressed by the whole operation they have set up there. He got his cable just fine and I found a new/used radio for the boat. I'm not sure the radio in my boat is bad but this new one is great. They didn't have any Rangers but they did have a lot of cars and a lot of exciting people looking the cars over.

Kevin and I jumping off the cliff

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6-23-06 8:28am

I forgot my camera last night.

 This happens fairly often but last night would have been a great opportunity for some real nice pictures. I rushed out of work to meet up with Steven and Jon who were already getting the boat prepared for a river adventure. I show up and they ask what else do we need we have beer, gas, burgers, tea, boat. Just water I say and off we go. Once on the river I realize I've forgotten my camera. We put Grandma in on the Kansas (Kaw) river again but this time further west. The ramp is just off the west loop of 435 and home of the island where Jon's Independence day weekend will be hosted. This part of the river seems cleaner, wider, slower, and shallower. There were a few more boats and lots of fishermen and fisherbabes.

First we explored the island looking for camping spots, deep water, rope swings, and places for limb lines. Then we went downstream to a really cool dam. The dam is just a huge pile of rocks and a big pile of sand. It's tough to describe but you can fish off the rock or swim in little pools created in these rock piles. Then we went upstream and found lots of gravel harvesting businesses and most importantly a cold spring.

If this picture is not too small you can see the ramp in the upper left corner, The dam along the right side and the island along the bottom of the river in the middle. That is 435 on the right side. 

I am really looking forward to going back there is a lot to do at this spot. Yes I realize this is a weak post especially considering how much cool stuff I saw last night but I'm pissed I don't have pictures and the beer tucked into the thong did not make up for not having my camera.

 

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6-22-06 8:10am

After work last night was nonstop action. First, Steven and I got to my house and started getting the boat ready to be worked on. Then Jon showed up and welded on a new handle for my trailer and reinforced my steering setup.

   

Then Jenna and Heather showed up and we went to the tennis courts and played 3 games (best out of 7 each). Jon and Jenna beat us but it was close. Then we all went to La Mesa, a chipotle style burrito restaurant in Westport. I thought it was good and would return everyone else liked chipotle better. Then Heather and I went to Geoff's house to get his old couch. Heather and I brought it into my family room and it just fit next to my TV. I think it will work good there so thanks Geoff.

(Geoff smiled so much when we took the couch a moustache grew instantly)

I wanted to give everyone a heads up on my 4th of July weekend plans.

Jon is putting together a camping trip on an island oasis just west of the west loop of 435. It will be all weekend (1st and 2nd) and the 3rd and 4th, we will have at least 2 boats out there and anticipate people coming and going all weekend long. That's really all I know at this point but you know I'll keep you posted and encourage you to join us.

The USA's final soccer game is possibly this morning and if we don't win and Italy win at the same time then we are done for. Don't mention the game to me because I am not watching it until later. I wish Alexi Lalas was playing.

 

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6-21-06 8:22am

Thanks to Kevin's encouragement

(Kevin's stock photo of "brining the pressure")

I am under pressure to come up with a good post today.  Of course that means I will blow it. I am sitting here thinking of something to write about. I don't think I want to talk about my 4th day in a row out on the boat. Last night was similar to my last few trips I took my little brother and our cousin Sarah out on the boat for some adventure and tubing. And I just ate a sandwich from Price Chopper so I don't have a good food story. Maybe I am having trouble with a topic because my mind is focused on work too much. I may have a busy few days here at the radio station. I just realized several of my coworkers are going to be out for awhile due to vacations and funerals. I am temporarily the go to guy on things I don't know much about and the possibilities of me needing to come in off hours are greater. 

The topic of BBQ seems to come up in conversations fairly regularly, especially for Kansas City residents. However it has seemed like the last month or so it has been apart of every conversation. For some reason everyone I talk to is eager to bring up different places and what is best at each restaurant. At the Blue Room the other day I heard someone explain Kansas City Barbeque to an "out of town'r" in a way I had not heard before and I am wondering if it is true or if anyone has heard this before.

(my post has nothing to do with female's lust for a good grill man but I thought it was a good point that we often forget to consider while grilling)

We all know Kansas City is most known for KC Masterpiece BBQ Sauce. You can buy it in any grocery in lots of places in the country. It seems to have the furthest reach of all our local smokers. KC Masterpiece is however not really a Kansas City sauce, sure it may be made here and even have KC in the name but it is based on Molasses.

Apparently Kansas City was a pioneer in Vinegar based sauces and made our name for BBQ by using Vinegar as the primary ingredient in BBQ sauce.

Other places in the country are known for sweet Molasses based sauces but we stand out because of our thinner more Vinegar based blend.

This kind of makes sense to me when you go to a lot of the local shops they do seem to have a thin bitterish sauce. Has anyone heard of this? Is it common knowledge that I just missed out on? Is the crazy Indian (.)that was preaching this theory a nutjob? Or any other BBQ comments are welcome. I would like to get a big list of comments going today so, What dishes are best were in Kansas City?

 

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6-20-06 10:14pm

All right so it's technically not 6-20 yet but I had to rush into the radio station so I figured I would do some of my morning busywork now so I could sleep a little later or get some running in before it gets too hot in the morning.

        

I rushed off to the lake right after work. At lunch I had packed a pick nick dinner and gotten all my stuff ready to go. So all I had to do after work was put on my "boat cut-offs" take off my shirt and go. Man the water was like glass tonight, we could cruise around at any speed and not bounce around at all. This was fortunate because it was just Heather, Grant and I. We had never taken Grant out in the boat (a few trips around Heathers yard on the trailer but that's it).

 

We went down some new coves and I found a bald eagle but ran into some mud as I was getting the camera so the picture of him didn't happen.

Mr. eagle was like this and all kaw kaw

 Then on the way home a deer was standing right next to the road and we were able to stop and watch him. I got brave and tried to walk back to the boat and get the camera out of the dry box but he started to wonder off by then.

So we ate dinner on my favorite gravel bar in Captains Cove again.

Then right when I got done packing up the boat for the night I got a call from the radio station and rushed in to make 5 minutes of adjustments.

FYI - I was surprised no one commented yesterday on the picture Matt took of me laying out on the cushion sporting the fu-man-chu (perhaps everyone was too turned on). I almost kept the stash this morning but at the last minute decided to shave it off.

I will fill pictures into the middle of the post when I come in, in the morning!

 

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6-19-06 8:32am

Just as I had hoped to, I spent most of the weekend on the boat. And the boat spent much of it's time in what we have begun to call "Captain's Cove" at Hillsdale lake.

Friday night Tony dragged us to some bar at 119th and Roe and it was too loud to talk to anyone but we got to see Tony and Erin and some other folks. The band played a unique blend of classics though. Saturday morning Jon left KC at 7am to learn how to sail on his new boat.

Matt and I got up at 8:30 and went out to join him.

Then in the afternoon Heather came out with burgers and her grill. We met her at Captains cove and grilled right out in the middle of the cove on a sweet little gravel bar.

After a bunch of burgers and a few beers we laid around and enjoyed our little piece of paradise.

Then Jon sailed around and we cruised around for a bit. The lake was a bit crowded and really choppy. All afternoon the clouds rolled in and it looked like a storm. We hung out in Hillsdale's small version of "Party Cove" and saw a fat guy dancing and mooning. We got out soon after that and went to Heather's house to grill steaks and listen to the radio ( the 2 second clip) for my name. It was a great dinner. After that we watched "Waiting" and then went to have a few beers with neighbors until the storm finally rolled in.

Sunday morning the rain was all gone and we prepared for another day on the lake. Mom joined Heather and I for the trip. It was much hotter and sunnier. The lake was not nearly as choppy but was quite a bit more crowded by the time we left.

We grilled cheese burgers on the gravel bar, drank a few beers and jumped off the cliffs. Then we all took turns on the tube (even mom liked to jump off the cliffs and tube). 

 

 

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6-16-6 8:30am

Last night was another great night but very different then my evening on the river. Our radio station was doing an NPR show at the Folly downtown last night. It's a show called "Wait Wait Don't Tell Me". This is a nationally syndicated show with an estimated 2 million listeners. This show airs in Kansas City on 89.3 at 8-9pm on this Saturday. This is a very funny show where comedians are quizzed on current issues in the news. Now I am sure you are all glazing over and not all that interested in some NPR show but I have 2 reasons for you to listen besides it really being funny.

First there was a lot of Kansas City themed talk and jokes and even some KU K-State MU rivalry jokes and the classic Royals losing jokes.

The second reason involves a story. I had wanted to attend this show because I did some help setting up for it back in early May but it sold out before I got tickets. Then Tuesday of this week I packed a bag full of computer supplies and went to the Folly to see if they needed more help setting up the network or anything else. Just as I showed up they had given up on setting up a wireless network and were slightly panicked about running wires everywhere. I pulled a wireless router out hooked it up and they were good to go. I did a few other small networking things and they were grateful but eager to get me out of the way so they could finish setting up. Yesterday afternoon someone asked if I was going and I said no, I had not gotten tickets. They encouraged me to come anyhow and stand backstage with some other folks from the station. I decided this would be fun and I could see the router in work. I ended up very glad I had been invited and had not gotten tickets because I got to hang out in the dressing room with the NPR stars getting ready for the show.

Mo Rocca was amazing to watch prepare. He was focused on his notes very intently then would quickly turn around focus on one person and as a question or respond to something they said. In one such outburst he turns on me all of a sudden and franticly asks "What color are smurfs? Are the blue or purple?" I said blue, sky blue and he relaxed and was ok. I had never listened to this show before and was surprised at what a good show it was, everyone was laughing constantly as if we were in a comedy club. Near the end of the show, when they began to wrap things up my program director nudged me saying "listen to this" and just then on they thanked Chris Prewitt. My jaw just dropped, unless it gets edited out, that will be broadcast out to 2 million listeners. I was shocked.    

After the show an NPR newscaster Cory Flintoff and a few of us from the station went to have some beers at the Blue Room at 18th and Vine and listen to some Jazz. Some fans from the show found us there and were after Cory's signature. It was just such a wacky night but hard to better describe all the excitement.

 

 

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6-15-06 8:27am

So last night Jon and I played some Lewis and Clark and stuck Grandma Natty in the Kansas or Kaw River.

 The rebuilt gears and prop stuff performed great. The whole trip went really well, we had no boat problems at all. We even swapped gas tanks wile cruising along the river. Cruising along the river at speeds up to 30 MPH, that's right I finally got the GPS unit on the boat and was able to measure our speed. The ramp where we put in the boat was right next to the Vortex (Convergence of rivers). Here is a crude diagram. We first went upstream in the direction this picture was taken from. The river is very slow and pretty wide and we hope deep. Right away we found a car that had washed off in a flood or something. We took the battery from it and I am charging it now. Then we found what we have determined to be a sunken barge. Then we saw a little dock and looked up to find Kemper Arena and American Royal. And then we came across the "Kansas City Belle". A really cool wrecked boat that we explored on and made up tails of her glory days. We also came across lots of ducks and jumping fishes and even a beaver. Near the end of our trip upstream we came across this boat (we are calling it a tug boat).

That was the only person we saw the whole 3 hrs or however long we were out there until we got back to the boat ramp. When we put in at 6pm we were the only car in the lot and when we pulled out 2 other boaters were just getting in. One quite smaller boat then ours and one bigger one. I was in such high spirits last night, the river was really fun, the boat did great, the new seat was nice, the beer was cold, the sights were unusual and interesting and there was potential for some serious fun. I can't wait to take her out again this weekend.

 

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6-14-06 8:16am

Last night after work I went to Mike's with Steven and Chef. We got to talking about BBQ and it made me very hungry for some. After the bar I picked up my "re-hubbed" prop and prepared to go to Hillsdale lake. Chef and I drove out there and picked up some K+M BBQ on the way for us and Heather. We got a regular sandwich, a large sandwich, and a killer sandwich.

 I thought the BBQ was ok but kinda dry. The killer was probably the biggest BBQ sandwich I have seen. Chef ate half

(bun, pulled pork, bread, beef brisket, bread, sausage, bun)

After eating we headed to the lake. We intended to fish primarily but we only had the batman pole and we had no bait. After finding the Marina closed we went out to the spot, put a slice of pickle on a hook, cracked open some nattys, did some swimming and exploring. I took a bunch of sunset pictures.

         ('the' learns to walk on water [too soon?])   

Tonight after work I will put the prop back on the boat and then take it out for a spin. I will be testing out my new seat prototype and hoping the radio will stay in the dash and the wires will not disconnect themselves. I guess more importantly I am hoping that the motor gears that we took apart went back together correctly and the boat is not swept away on the river.

 

 

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6-12-06 6:45pm

I called in sick today since my wrist was still acting up and I did not feel like using a keyboard and mouse all day. Instead I watched World Cup soccer all day. I woke up and watched Japan lose, then made lunch and watched USA lose, then started watching Italy, fell asleep, and woke up to find them winning. This put the US team in an even tougher spot to advance.

I'm cooking dinner now and was felling Hawaiian so I came up with a few recipes.

Capin Chris' Hawaiian cobbler. (-i'll add these in the morning)

The Capin's Chicken, Hawaiian style.

To me Hawaiian just means pineapple and mandarin oranges in the recipe.

 

 

 

6-11-06 5:01pm

I figured I would go ahead and post on this weekend since Monday's are always so nuts and unmotivating. All in all it was a fairly calm weekend but it has some decent stories to tell. You may remember Wednesday night I cut down the tree in moms backyard, well I never mentioned that the first branch we cut down was very high in the tree and cut with a bow saw. I climbed high in the tree and was able to get to this branch but had to cut it at a really difficult angle. It took for ever and my arm was killing me as I cut it but it fell and eventually so did the rest of the tree. Friday after work I set to build a sandbox out of some old wood in Kevin's backyard. I did it all on my own and have a really sweet looking box that now just needs a couple more screws and a paint job. Friday night while working on the box I took a break and ate dinner and went to Home Depot for paint and a drill bit. Then got back to work on the sandbox well after dark. After a while I decided it was too dark and I would have to finish in the morning. Around 11pm I fell asleep. I woke back up at 1:30am in terrible pain. My whole right arm was throbbing and I was confused. It was worse down around the wrist but bad all the way up to my shoulder. My arm was swollen and I decided to try to ice my forearm and take some Advil. This did no good and around 3am when it was still getting worse I went to the Hospital to find out what was going on.

Of course it took forever and sucked real bad but eventually they decided it was just bad tendonitis in my wrist. They gave me some pain killer pills and a wrist brace. I went home took a pill and tried to sleep. I spent the rest of the morning sleeping for 15-30 minutes then waking up with my arm throbbing. The next day I just laid around and iced my arm and did not get to do anything that I had intended to; didn't finish the sand box, didn't cut up the wood at moms house, didn't get to work on the boat radio. That evening I decided to quit pouting and went to the bar with Tony (Pittsburg). I started feeling better and even slept really well Saturday night Sunday morning I went fishing in my new cove with Heather and Grant.

     (Please note the brace, cut-offs, batman pole)

The wrist was not too bad and we caught 4-5 perch and this mystery fish (we had a giant croppy on the line but it broke the string).

   

If you know what this is let me know. (It was not a catfish, or bass {I think})

Here are some more pictures of the Cove that I think will be a great spot to hang out with or without the boat for fishing, camping, swimming, and drinking.

       

 

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6-9-6 8:01am

With the start of the World Cup I figured I would put up some soccer pictures this morning.

I had planned to keep the games on in the background in my office instead of KCUR whenever there is a game on but it looks like it's on ESPN2 and we don't get that.

Also, thanks to Geoff's suggested website I ate a Royal Robin Burger last night.

It was good. Fried egg lots of bacon, good size, nice flavor. They have a cool thing at Red Robin where they bring you out fries as an appetizer and then again with the burger and I guess you can get more baskets of fries if you finish them. It was fairly expensive to do on a regular basis and I have a problem with a place that calls their chicken or fish sandwiches burgers. Unless it has ground hamburger meat on top of the salmon it is not a salmon burger in my mind.

Jon bought a sailboat last night as well. It is a little 16ft Chrysler "Man of War" Sailboat. We are quite excited about learning to sail. Here is what the man of war looks like.

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6-8-6 8:05am

I think today should be back to normal unless I decide to take the day off in search of a nice watermelon. Not sure why but ever since yesterday afternoon a nice juicy watermelon has really sounded yummy.

In the shower this morning I was thinking of the phrase "Perfect in it's imperfections". Apparently to the Japanese this phrase has been around for millions of years but I have recently heard it describing some of the newer fashions like jeans with holes in them, hats worn around the brim or even shorts with spilled paint on them. Personally I like to ruin my own clothes and don't care much for preruined ones. However I do like this phrase and I think if I act like it is a valid idea I can wear around my ruined clothes. Not that I would not wear around my cut offs or fiberglass stained shorts anyway. So many of my things seem to be "Perfect in it's imperfections" to me, for example my boat is great but very imperfected and that is a major part of its funness. My vocabulary shows many read squiggly lines showing spelling mistakes and then when I click them it says they are not real words. Or perhaps they are perfect words? Think about that, crazy Japanese phrase.

Tonight Jon and I will be inspecting a sailboat to see if he wants to purchase it. It is a small 16ft boat that Jon wants to learn to sail on. I think it's probably a good idea and could prove to be fun. Of course any reason to put on my water belt and play in a lake sounds like a good idea to me.

Ohh yeah the tree came down fine last night and it is what got me started on the imperfections post. Instead of cutting it all the way down my mom asked that we leave the main part of the stump. So we have this 6ft or so chunk of the trunk still in the yard. She is hoping that it will start to sprout some new branches, and it probably will. However it will always look really goofy having a giant out of place trunk and small funny sprouts out of it. Is mom onto something with this goofy tree? time will tell. We got it cut down but did not break any of it up or split the wood or even make the rounds to be split so if you missed out on the tree chopping fun never fear there is lots left to do.

 

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6-7-6 9:39am

Sorry for my lateness I have been involved in a big server upgrade project. I came in last night for a few hours and then came in early this morning to finish it off. I think everything went well and we are back to normal now. It was a fun project but I'm glad to have it all done. Last night I built a driver seat for the boat. It's fairly crude and unpainted but could be made nice if I end up liking it. I also put a couple of bolts through the motor into the transom to further prevent it from moving.

I hope to chop down a tree tonight and maybe help Jon get a sailboat tomorrow. I have been working on a load of pictures for Wal-Mart to print off for me. I'm really looking forward to them. I have some from way back like the Triathlon and the Football game, plus my trip to Denver and then some more recent ones. I have done some creative playing around with the plain ones too like this one of Heather.     

I have heard of 2 cheeseburger places that I am eager to try out. Jon has convinced me that it's really hard to get an amazing burger in Kansas City. Nothing comes close to the Gorilla Burger In Pittsburg and only Maxes is as good as 1106 in Pittsburg. I have to believe KC has more to offer but am having trouble finding anything that good. I recently was told I should try Cheese steak Alley off Shawnee Mission Parkway's burger and some place off 63rd east of my house called Mary's or Elley's or something like that. So next time you are in the mood for a questionable burger let me know and we can try these out.

I apologize for the terrible posting job today I was so busy I never got a chance to sit down and finish things up and the comments and announcement is from yesterday.  I think tomorrow things should go smoother.

 

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6-6-6 8:09am

All right back to work today. First off I had a really nice weekend, we probably caught more then 30 catfish. We ran 3 lines and one of those was a zig zag across the creek.

 The T-bones game was also lots of fun. Tomorrow night I think I will be cutting down a tree and then splitting some wood. If you are interested in helping out let me know.

This weekend in a fishing break Jon and I went to what he calls "The vortex". Most other folks call it a convergence. This one is right off I-70 where the Missouri and Kansas (Kaw) rivers meet. There is a boat ramp and little park all done up in the name of Lewis and Clark. I found this on Google earth and we decided to check it out. It is easy (maybe 15 min from my house) to get to but kind of hidden and confusing the first time. Off the highway you turn into an semi truck park around a bunch of industrial buildings and at the end of the parking lot is a narrow concrete passageway. Once through this it opens up to a parking lot with a boat ramp, running path, public bathrooms, etc. The ramp is on a wide slow part of the Kansas River just a few yards from the Missouri. We visited on Saturday afternoon and while this was a very nice public spot on a hot weekend there were no trailers or other people using the ramp. I did see one boat slightly bigger then mine cruise by just fine. I can't wait to explore this area in Grandma Natty.

Last night I went out with Heather and her son Grant to run some trails at Hillsdale lake. The trails ended up being too muddy and rugged for the stroller but we did find a nice short path to a great cove on the lake. I believe this will prove to be a great spot for lake time fun with and without the boat. It is outside the park gates so no parking fees. The cove has a smooth rock ledge with some natural cliffs about 4 feet above the water and others right along the edge. I ended up going for a swim and it is very easy to climb in and out. Or you can jump off the little cliff. The water was deeper then I could swim down in most spots. About 2 feet from the shore is a ledge the leaves the water just over waist high when you stand on it but past it is deep. Out further in the water are some old dead trees that a boat could be tied off. The cove is quite a ways off the main channel so there was no waves or current. I can not wait to spend and afternoon laying on a raft floating around.

I've developed a real problem of bringing my camera around with me. I hope to remedy that for you all soon. Both these places deserved some pictures as did the fishing trip but I never took my camera anywhere. My apologies here is an unrelated photo. 

Remember Yahoo Pic of the day:

 

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6-5-6 7:54am

I have to goto a 7 hr customer service training class today so I can not make a post. sorry Maybe you can comment on yesterdays still.

6-2-6 8:09am

The good news:  About a month ago I wrote a technical article about how broadcasting people can work from home and save themselves trips to the station. Yesterday I received this e-mail from the editor of Radio World Magazine, "Thanks Chris. The story is now in our pipeline. We're working on our July issues now and this should appear then. Meantime please be thinking about the next story." I was pretty excited about being published and getting to write another one. I have begun an outline on Audio Recorders and how they now use flash memory or mini hard drives instead of tapes or optical disks.

The bad/ok news:  Yesterday at lunch I took my prop to Bruce Marine and they said they could fix my problem. They acted like it was a fairly common problem. Unfortunately they send them out to be fixed and it will get picked up next Tuesday and then come back the Tuesday after that. That gives me just under 2 weeks with no boat. I hope to take this time to repair the radio, make some other motor modifications, and do something about the seating in the boat. Then the Wednesday after I get it back I'll probably take it out and be in even better shape.

The weekend news: Jon and I are going to run lines a bit south of here tonight, tomorrow and maybe some early Sunday. I really don't know much about the trip but I love fishing with trotlines.  After work I will meet up at Jon near his work then go to some guys place he knows. This guy lives by a creek or river and has a small boat.

If you have never fished with trotlines I really recommend giving it a shot. Here is a tiny picture but really shows how it works. You tie a string across a river with weights that hold it under water a bit (not at the bottom though). Then you tie lots of little lines with hooks on them along your main string you bait all these hooks and go wait. (You can buy these lines with the hooks and main string already put together and ready to be unwound). The wait is a great part because you don't have to do anything.

You can: sit on shore and have a beer, sit in shallow water and have a beer, float around in boat and have a beer, start a fire on shore and fry fish you have already caught, go start another line at a different place on river, or just do some regular fishing.

After you waiting time you cruise along the line from one end to the other checking each hook. If it has a fish you take the fish and rebait, no fish leave it in, no bait just rebait it. Then you do this all weekend (sometimes night and day) and mix up what you do during the wait.  Makes for lots of fun, fish and beer drinking.

   

Sunday when we are done I will be going to the T-Bones game mentioned above.

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6-1-6 8:08am

Last night, Jon and I worked on some of the necessary boat repairs. We decided to take apart the motor from the bottom up until we found what was causing the gears to slip and the boat not to run at high speeds. This is the inside of a new Honda motor and I have a 1971 Chrysler motor. First we pulled off the prop (propeller) and eventually had all the gears, shafts, bolts and other parts on the floor of the driveway and the motor was just left with the big top part. The gear oil that fills the parts below had turned a light green when water had gotten inside and was all over the place and all over us. When we had nearly taken everything apart we realized that our problem was the first part we had taken out, the prop. So none of our efforts were necessary but it was extremely interesting and informative. How the motor changes gears and sucks up water and everything works together down there makes lots more sense to Jon and I. And we found along the way that all the bolts and screws and whatnot were only finger tight and no gaskets or anything was used. This allowed water to get inside. So when we rebuilt it we used silicon around the edges, replaced the oil inside and tightened down everything. I feel much better about the motor but now need to find someone to fix the prop.

Boat Motor Repair Lesson:

The bottom of my motor looks like this (now that the prop is off) except that shaft (skinny pole) has gear groves in all along it. My prop looks like this and you can see in the middle there is a gold piece with the same gear groves on it. These two pieces fit together perfectly. The problem I have inside the prop there is rubber between the gold gear piece and the actual metal of the prop. The rubber is weak and falling apart so when the shaft spins fast the rubber slips and crumbles out instead of spinning the prop. I need to get the rubber replaced and the prop reattached to the gold gear piece.  I'm going to try Boaters World and Bruce Marine to see if they can do that for me.

 

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5-31-06 8:35am

I put up all the wedding pictures that I am going to do. I have about 3 times more then that but I am tired of putting them up and don't want to use up all my space. If you want full size copies of them or others or all of them let me know and we can figure something out.

I did some good cleaning last night after work in the kitchen and family room.

I even got out the mop and broom. When I was done I went to Dollar General and bought a new mop and broom. (The old ones were falling apart a bit)

Then I cooked dinner with Heather, we made some taco salads and I thought they were pretty cool.

 

Recipe:     The's Fajita Pork Taco Salad:

I cut two Natural light cans in half then drooped a flour tortilla over the top of each side. I put these in the toaster oven and toasted them. This made them fairly stiff and in the classic taco salad bowl shape, then I pulled the cans out, flipped them over and toasted them again to make them extra crispy/crunchy.  While all this toasting was going on we mixed refried beans with some leftover rice and cheese. Also I sautéed some pork chops and onions. We cut these up and then lined the bowls with the bean mixture, dropped in some pork and onions then covered in letus, cheese, salsa/ranch dressing, mushrooms and tomatoes. They were quite tasty and I would recommend trying it out sometime.

(imagine picture of a full Mexican when you look at Selma, I could not find any pictures of people full)

 

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5-30-06 8:35am

What a long weekend. Both the wedding and the boat launch went great. I should have a bunch of pics of the wedding available in the next few days. I didn't take any of the boat launch again. Sunday was very windy and a ton of boats were out on the lake and we had 10 people show up for the launch. So the water was rough and the boat was crowded but we still had a good time. People not on the boat set up a nice little paradise on the shore with beers and washers. Grandma Natty is going to take a bit more work. Some small things need to be done or redone like reinstalling the radio and finding a way to prop the motor up off the boat. We also need to bolt it on better. And the biggest issue was it slipping out of gear. Jon and I should start work on that tomorrow.

 

All the festivities this weekend has left me very tired. Last night I stayed up a bit longer then normal catching up on the "Lost" finale. So I am not real motivated today, maybe I should get a cup of coffee and then try again.

Also Geoff is in the Florida Keys so everyone needs to pick up the slack on comments to cover for him.  

 

Groomsmen and Cheese:

 

BONUS: 13 uses of Hydrogen Peroxide

1. Take one capful (the little white cap that comes with the bottle)
and hold in your mouth for 10 minutes daily, then spit it out. (I do it
when I bathe or shower.)  No more canker sores and your teeth will be whiter without expensive pastes.  Use it instead of mouthwash.

2. Let your toothbrushes soak a cup peroxide to keep them free of germs.

3. Clean your counters, table tops with peroxide to kill germs and
leave a fresh smell.  Simply put a little on your dishrag when you wipe, or spray  it on the counters.

4. After rinsing off your wooden cutting board, pour peroxide on it to kill salmonella and other bacteria.

5. I had fungus on my feet for years - until I sprayed a 50/50 mixture of peroxide and water on them (especially the toes) every night and let dry.

6. Soak any infections or cuts in 3% peroxide for five to ten minutes several times a day.  My husband has seen gangrene that would not heal with any medicine, but was healed by soaking in peroxide.

7. Put two capfuls into a douche to prevent yeast infections.  For
chronic yeast infections, use once or twice a week.

8. Fill a spray bottle with a 50/50 mixture of peroxide and water and
keep it in every bathroom to disinfect without harming your septic system like bleach or most other disinfectants will. 

9. Tilt your head back and spray into nostrils with your 50/50 mixture whenever you have a cold, plugged sinus.  It will bubble and help to kill the bacteria.  Hold for a few minutes then blow your nose into tissue.

10. If you have a terrible toothache and can not get to a dentist right away, put a capful of 3% peroxide into your mouth and hold it for ten minutes several times a day.  The pain will lessen greatly.

11. And of course, if you like a natural look to your hair, spray the
50/50 solution on your wet hair after a shower and comb it through.  You will not have the peroxide burnt blonde hair like the hair dye packages,  but more natural highlights if your hair is a light brown, faddish, or dirty blonde.  It also lightens gradually so it's not a drastic change.

12. Put half a bottle of peroxide in your bath to help rid boils,
fungus, or other skin infections.

13. You can also add a cup of peroxide instead of bleach to a load
of whites in your laundry to whiten them.  If there is blood on clothing, pour directly on the soiled spot.  Let it sit for a minute, then rub it and rinse with cold water.  Repeat if necessary.

I have been talking about this e-mail for a while because it has prompted me to use it as mouthwash and I have been fairly satisfied. Also I ran around barefoot all weekend I put peroxide on all my ouchies.

Here you go Kevin and everyone. This is as visually satisfying as it gets.

   

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5-26-06 8:24am

Well Grandma went for a test swim last night and everything went fairly well

I have little to no experience driving a trailer and backing a boat down a boat ramp so it was fairly zig zaggy but she went in just fine.

 

I parked the truck and joined my eager crew.

 She fired up magnificently and began to putter away from the ramp. About this time we realized that giving it gas on the throttle had no affect on more gas getting to the engine, so grandma was stuck in a slow idle. Jon took off the motor case and I opened up the throttle assembly. We found a bolt that had not been tightened and was our culprit. Once it was corrected and put back together I dropped the hammer and she took off. I was still surprised by the speed with a 4 person crew. We cruised around a very choppy and busy lake for a bit then took a swim, beer, bathroom break.

I realized at this point my camera and GPS unit were in the truck so no pictures or speed tests. After the break we found that something was causing the starter not to work perfectly and Jon pull started it. It acted like the battery was not charged enough. Luckily it pull starts very easily and goes in and out of gear, idle and reverse very well. We cruised all around the lake, into some areas with a lot of trees to explore around and saw a beaver or some fur bearing mammal of some sort, a small deer, a bald eagle and its nest (really) and lots of jumping fish. The boat motor

 could use some more tinkering but is fully functional and ready for the official launch this weekend. 

 

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5-25-06 9:30am

Sorry about last night and this morning but the campus was having trouble with the website. Seems like I have a lot to report. I'll start with some pictures.

                       

Tonight Jon, Steven, Heather and I will take the boat to Longview Lake and work on the motor and throttle to get it all fine tuned. Last night the 4 of us laid down the carpet and got the radio and speakers installed. The carpet glue was gross and left our fingers covered in curly grey and black hairs but went on fairly easy and looks nice. The carpet is real soft and feels nice to lay on. We still need to make seats with the scraps but I'm not in a huge rush for that. Everything is looking and functioning so nicely.

This weekend is Geoff's wedding and I will be pretty busy Friday and Saturday but Sunday it will all be done and I will plan to have "THE PREWITT'S LAUNCHING OF GRANDMA NATTY PARTY". This will involve a gathering at my house with an unveiling of the boat and breaking champagne on it. Then all are welcome to caravan to the lake and take turns riding Grandma. I imagine this will involve swimming, tubing, eating, drinking and just cruising around. Sunday night I plan to camp out at the lake and do some more playing Monday. Anyone is welcome to join in on any of the fun. Right now I am leaning toward going to Hillsdale lake but am also considering Longview and Clinton. 

 

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5-24-06 8:25am

Just about everyday when I go to work I prepare an ice cold 32 or 44oz plastic or Styrofoam drink. What I put in this cup depends on what is available in my refrigerator and what I am in the mood for. My first choice is typically tea (usually brown sun tea but occasionally green tea). If my stomach hurts or I am in the mood, or if I am worried about it going bad before its all gone I will fill it with milk (yeah that's a lot of milk). If I have recently been to Aldi I may have some cranberry or cranberry-grape juice in the morning (I water down cranberry juice heavily since it is so tart). If none of these options are available or sometimes just because I just drink standard tap water.  Also my first glass in the morning is usually gone pretty quick and I refill with water a few times a day. About once a week usually when I am very tired or have a longer car ride I have a couple cups of coffee. 

 

I can't think of anything else I drink very often other then beer. It is hard to generalize my beer habits because they very so much with weather, activity, mood, apatite, etc.

Tonight I should be carpeting the boat, assuming Jon is still available to help out. If that goes really well I would also like to get a stereo plan but that is not necessary before the boat is officially launched because of the radio cooler.

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5-23-06 8:38am

Last night after work I went home and tinkered with the boat a bit and even laid out the new carpet to get an idea of how it would work, the sun was real bright and making big shadows so these are the only pictures that show up good.

  The carpet will either go up this far on the sides or a bit farther.

From the drivers view, note the metal signs behind the wheel.

I'm really glad I kept the old Sears serial number and boat information panel.

I got this seat cushion and am considering carpeting a couple cinder blocks and using them like this as the front seats. 

After playing with the boat I cooked up some green beans and went to Mom's house for the season finale of 24 party.  It was an intense 2 hours on 24 leaving Jack in a tough situation for next year.  Kentaro showed up so we know he is still alive. After 24 I went to Jon's house to visit with him and his brother Luke who was in town for the night.  We had a good time drinking Natty's, planning how to use a parachute behind a boat (redneck parasailing), looking at his neighbors boobs (for some reason she was standing in the window topless), and best of all shooting his nail gun.

In Jon's shop we built ourselves a makeshift bunker to hide behind then set up old cans on a board and shot them down from the bunker. We were not able to get a nail to hit and can and stick it to the wall.  We did get several nails in the wall and to go through cans. If you get the opportunity to target shoot with a nail gun I recommend giving it a "shot".

 

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5-22-06 8:37am

I have a very busy catch up day ahead of me. Everyone should check out this webpage though http://www.sportsstuff.com/towables/wego/index.shtml Watch the video if you can sound is not a big deal. Thanks Brian O

I just wonder how fast you need to go to make that thing work and how you justify spending 600 on an inner tube?

Well my server class was great and I think I learned some really cool useful stuff for my job. I also had a fairly active weekend. The days seemed very busy and the nights were more calm. Friday after class I had some highlife, dogs and built a washers set and worked on the boat. Saturday was the chiefs practice and we had a great tailgate at Arrowhead. Then Sunday I sat in Kevin's kiddy pool and got burned then went to Cabela's for boat carpet and other supplies and then to a graduation party for keg beer and ribs.

Well my Birthday is next month so start pooling your money together for the Wego Tube.  

 

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5-19-06 8:06am

I found a great new boat supplies store yesterday afternoon called Boaters World. It is over by Banister Mall. I really wish I had visited them long ago, they have everything. They had all sorts of fiberglassing supplies that were cheaper then what I was using. I almost got a cigarette lighter deal to install in the boat but I could not think of what I would use with it. If you have ideas why I need one let me know. It seems like a good idea but I'm not sure why. I have a foot pump for blowing up tubes and I don't think I will want to charge my phone. I was also excited to learn there is a huge Super Wal-Mart by Banister mall. Luckily that whole area is a wasteland so there is no traffic or parking problems.

Tomorrow I am going to Arrowhead to tailgate and then watch the Chiefs practice. I have not decided if I am going to make Bacon Burger Dogs or just the pork chops I have in the fridge. Anyone that is free tomorrow should come along its pretty fun. We will go to Arrowhead about 10am and start the grills and open some beers then play Frisbee, washers, horseshoes or just eat and play drink the beer.

 

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5-18-06 the night before

First, I would like to state that I am pretty sure that every competent sane person enjoys a good cheese burger. Also we prefer more cheese then less cheese, and more meat then less meat. And just as more types of cheese together on burgers makes them better so do more kinds of meat. For example bacon, a slice of ham or an egg  can really add a lot to a burger (sure you can argue that egg is not a meat but its kinda like the meat from a baby chicken). I think my more types of meat and cheese apply to about any sandwich. The breakfast sandwich is ok with egg and cheese but much better with sausage, ham, bacon or all of the above. A ham and Swiss sandwich is better with cheddar, pepper jack, turkey and salami on it.   

Yesterday afternoon I got the Philly Cheese Steak Burger from Hardees. It was a nice burger patty with normal American cheese on it and then a pile of steak and whatever the white cheese is. Plus grilled onions and peppers. Now it did not look exactly like the commercial and was smaller then I had hoped from a thickburger but it tasted great. I got it and a order of curly fries and was barely able to finish my meal so it was more filling then it looked.

This turned out to be my best Hardees's experience ever. My food was out very quickly, Phil Collins was on the radio, there were several breaded chicken pieces mixed into my curly fries and a burger I was just a little curious about turned out to be fantastic.

I did not have high expectations going into it since Kevin told me he heard it was not good and the Red burrito Taco Salad was great. I got the salad on Monday and it was not anywhere near as tasty as Taco Bell's taco salad.

 

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5-17-06 8:15am

Class starts in a few minutes so I am in a big hurry today. Boat work was very unproductive last night. I switched back to my old cell phone yesterday. Geoff and I had to wait forever for Buffalo Wild Wings. Class is going well and some cool stuff. Hope to work on headlight tonight and maybe accomplish the fiberglass stuff I tried yesterday.

 

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5-16-06 7:04am

Well I woke up early and thought I would get a post in real quick. Yesterday I decided that I have to do some more fiberglass work on the boat. I know, I thought those days were gone too but I think it will make my life easier in the long run. In the front of the boat underneath where all the lights, horn etc are I have some loose boards and a lot of loose wiring that I need to do something with and fiberglass makes the most sense. If anyone is free this evening and would be willing to help me I would appreciate it. It's a tough area to get into so once I was in place I could use another set of hands giving me supplies.

Well no new news really. One more week of 24. Mom will be having a party next Monday for the finale if anyone would like to join in. I better get ready for server school.

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5-15-06 12:45pm

I am in class today, and all this week so my posting will not be it's normal quality. Yesterday my sister Kelly got the boat carpet ordered and we will be getting it a week from today. Also Jon found a small Subaru radio at the salvage yard. I made some nice progress on the electronics this weekend and should be able to finish that part this week and probably install the radio.

The weekend was a lot of fun esp. Geoff's bachelor party. KK was a disappointing no-show but he is Japanese so you can not expect a lot from him.

 

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5-12-06 8:16am

Update on boat pics above. This weekend I bought a bunch of boat toys like lights, horn, tube, ropes. cooler, etc. Most importantly I got this to put a smile on pops face.

 

Then Wednesday I installed the horn and the pole light that sticks up in the back. Last night Steven brought over his dogs and we all learned about electricity. None of us had much experience, but I knew the battery was 12 volts and there was a 12 pack of Bush Light in the fridge.

Surprisingly we both survived, never got shocked, got some real work done, were very efficient and hardly finished one beer each. You can see what a good job we did here.

Actually we really did get the horn working well and the front and back lights working well.

All three are on working switches. The troublesome rotating headlights are partially done but will take some more work. Also we still need to bury the wires and mount the switches into the dash. But things are really shaping up as Grandma's boating season gets closer and closer.

After the boat work I went for a run on the Corporate Woods trail with Heather and her son Grant. It was right around sunset and we were trying to go pretty fast since it was getting dark and I was starving to death. We did have to stop twice though first when we came across a deer standing under 10 feet from the trail. She was very used to city life and just watched us looking at her. When we were getting ready to run on the deer turned around to watch us leave. Then on the way back we again saw the deer this time standing in the middle of Indian Creek on a mini waterfall rough section of water. After writing this I realize it is not that exciting of a story, it is one of those "had to be there" things and me telling you that it truly was really cool will never convince you.

 

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5-11-06 7:20am

Got an early start this morning. I'm updating a server and needed to do it before the staff got in to work. Now I am sitting here staring at it waiting for it to finish doing it's thing.

Speaking of staring at a server, I will be gone next week. The station is sending me to... Lenexa for a server training course all next week. (2006)

 So if anyone wants to get lunch in the College and Metcalf area let me know. Also I will have trouble posting with the same consistency and quality that I do now.

(I have tried this several times and not ever gotten the responses I hope for but I'm going to try again.) Does anyone want to do a guest post(s)?  I would appreciate any help anytime next week. Even if you want to do it anonymously that is fine. Please think about it and even if you don't do a whole post feel free to send me stuff to post so that my brain does not have to do any work.

 

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5-10-06 8:10am

In case you didn't check I did finish my post late in the afternoon yesterday.

In boat news I got the Grandma Natty signage up last night and began work on putting in the horn. I believe tonight Jon and I may work on getting lights and horn wired up. If that goes well we can get back to work on the stiff headlight.

In yahoo news I read about this guy today and thought he was kind of interesting.

Steve Vaught walks along Rt. 46 in Little Ferry, N.J., Tuesday, May 9, 2006 just a few miles from New York and the end of his year-long walk across America. Vaught may have lost more than 100 pounds on his walk across the country, but he says he's gained something else: peace of mind. At 410 pounds a year ago, the 40-year-old father of two from San Diego was battling a severe eating disorder and deep depression, caused by the guilt over accidentally killing two elderly pedestrians 15 years ago.

In yahoo there is a whole article about him. I think I will read but have not yet. I wonder how he killed the old people and how he funded this trip. I would like to walk for a year if I could get free places to stay and snacks. Also I would want my job back when I got done.  Maybe PowerAde and Power bars would sponsor me.

 

In the news they could call it "Power across the Nation" someone could come up with a cause for me. Something like ending war or cancer or boring conversation. 

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5-9-06 9:58am

All right I can not believe it is already after 3pm I have been at the Folly Theatre all day preparing for a radio show that we will host down there next month, called wait wait don't tell me. Mo Rocca is one of the characters in this show. More Info http://www.kcur.org/wwdtm.html Anyhow I was there to say yeah we can run an internet cable from point A to point B. Seemed like a bit of a waste of my day but ohh well.

So yesterday I woke up and my stomach was funky, my head hurt, and I was tired.  So I basically slept all day and feel better today. I am also excited that today we have sunshine again. It seems so long since a nice hot sunny day.

It was surprising that my stomach would cause me trouble after how nice I was to it this weekend. On my trip to Pittsburg I went to Chatters twice and Mall Deli once. First, for lunch I had a "Gorilla Burger" 2 big beef patties, jalapeno bacon, Swiss and Velveeta cheese, mushrooms, green peppers, onions, tomato and who knows what else. Then I had a sub from the deli for dinner. The next day I had the Monte Cristo sandwich, which is basically a ham turkey and cheese sandwich battered and deep fat fried. FYI these are possibly the two greatest meals known to man. (for clarification, woman's 2 greatest meals are probably salad and chocolate or something so by man in the previous sentence I refer to the male species)

 Here are pics from Pittsburg this weekend. We had a party at Russ' and Tony, Jon and I wanted a fire and tarp so we could play outside.

 

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5-5-6 10:27am

Ahh 10:27 already the morning is zipping by. I'm going to go pick up my boat decals at lunch today so that's exciting. Seems like I will be breaking a bottle of champagne over granny in no time. Ohh yeah it's cinco de mayo, for some reason I really don't care this year. Maybe because it usually a weekday that motivates to act like its a weekend night. Well it is a Friday anyway so of course I will treat it as such. I guess I may get a cheep drink out of the deal?  I guess I am just a Mexican grinch this year.

Also I got Sonic for breakfast today. I went to the location off Troost and Emanuel Clever Blvd. First they took forever to take our order and we had to push the button twice. Then they messed up our order and didn't bring us the Breakfast Bistro Sandwiches but instead the cheaper toaster sandwiches. After taking them back it took them forever to bring back the right sandwiches.

 

These were not tasty and left me wishing we had not retuned the toaster ones. So don't order one and don't be fooled by the chapata bread it is not anything like this pic.

 

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5-4-6 8:19am

Well my eyeball feels much better this morning even though when I woke up it was crusted shut.  I just got in the shower and washed my face and everything has been normal since.  Jon and I had a tough evening of working on the boat last night.  We went into the evening expecting all the boat upgrades to be fun ones, but they were all a bigger mess then we wanted.

  (new parts in green)

First we got started on the steering and ended up loosing an important nut and needing to go buy a new one, then the steering cable was too short and the bolts were too big and the whole thing was very tight and difficult to steer. Eventually we got everything sorted out and have a nice setup now. Then we installed the throttle and found that it was very hard to change speed or gears.

 We took the thing apart and filled it with lubricant and now she is a "smooth operator".  Then we reattached all the little rope tie ons and other cute accessories.

This went pretty much as expected I had to drill out most of the holes and buy more screws and bolts though. Then we began work on the headlights.  In case you are not familiar with the headlights, they have a little control knob where the driver sits that controls them. They should twist side to side and tilt up and down.  The first one we got to is really difficult to twist side to side and will not tilt up and down at all. So we took it apart and got out the lubricant. The nozzle on the lubricant broke so it would not squirt well and we could not seem to get any of it down to where we really needed it. With all our might we were able to make it tilt some and twist but not enough to be content. So we called it a night to think about how to fix it more.

 

 

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UPDATE: MY NAME ON THE RADIO (both clips are under 13 seconds)

 Chris Prewitt1    This is from last month

Chris Prewitt 2    This is today even though I didn't go.

5-3-6 8:25am

It looks like I get to go on another "remote" today at work. We are doing a Culinary Expeditions special at Cafe Rumi. If you listen to the radio from 11-12 you can think of me sitting next to the host. Also they may say my name on the air at the end. I know some folks like Stooks are very used to this but I get very excited about such things. Also I may get free food out of the deal. If you want to go to kcur.org you can listen live to this show. I know that no one will do this but humor me and tell me you did and it was awesome so I can feel like a celebrity today.

 

This place we are going serves Mediterranean food. I don't really know anything about it. Maybe it is a fancy name for Greek food? I have had a gyro from Pita Pit an it rocked.

This seems to be a week of things getting where they don't belong like the mouse in the fridge and the news in my posts. Well yesterday was no different. I was working on my garage and boat (mostly garage) last night. Cleaning, organizing, and improving things, I was adding a cool metal shelf and had to grind off a piece of a bolt on it. Of course I was dumb and did not think to put on eye protection and a piece of metal shot into my eye. It didn't hurt (maybe no nerves on your eyeball?) but I could not get it out all night it was really annoying. I'm not sure if it is still in there or not, for a while I could see it on my eye, but now I can't. I think my eye now is just irritated from me messing with it too much trying to get the particle out. The piece was stuck right between the Iris and the Sclera. Anyway I'm very pleased with how cool an organized my garage is. I put up some shelves and sorted out a lot. I pulled 3 trash bags out of there too.

 

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5-2-6 8:49am

I have a "Performance Review" at 9:30am so I gota hurry my post up. Yesterday I got new headlights for the boat and the charger for my Garmin GPS toy.

 

It has been fun to play with so far and I took 2 runs with it already. I'm not sure it will be as useful on the boat as I had hoped but I'm still figuring out how it works. It will definitely be able to tell me how fast I am going.

I think I will do some pidly things to the boat tonight after work like put the screws back into the headlights and all the other little metal pieces all over. Also I will probably clean up the garage some.

Last night I went to mom's house to watch 24. Afterwards we found a mouse and he ran into the washing machine. My little brother shut the door and turned it on. He did not survive the rine cycle. He lives in the trash can now. Amazingly I was able to find this picture on Google images.   

 

It took some time but I eventually found the rest of the blog post that the picture came from

Saturday, 11 December 2004 another saturday Topic: food 我今天做了小北的作業.. 就是那次去基隆拍的照片.好累喔. 今天洗衣服的時候在洗衣機裡看到老鼠. i almost got a heart attack. the rat was here--> at first i thought the tail was just some part of the washing machine that almost 掉了. but when i looked close i saw that it was a real, live rat! i almost got a heart attack. it's a good thing i didn't put my clothes in that machine.. 昨天中午www,我和zani去吃the牛肉燴飯的store的牛肉湯餃.還滿好吃的.i also drank木瓜牛奶. and then www回家了. 今天中午我煮麵線吃.晚上我煮10月的時候去tesco買的macaroni and cheese.

Apparently some asian girl had the same experience but instead of drowning the mouse they fed it macaroni and cheese (didn't even splurge for cheese and macaroni).

 

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5-1-6 8:13am

Well theprewitts staf of ilegal imigrants did not show upfor work today so we will bring the post to you in a lower quality then you have come to espect.

Wow it's very unlike me to stick my nose in current news topics. I think I am staring to be pulled into the lure of Public Radio. This weekend I listened on the entire trip down to Pittsburg and back plus much of the time driving around the city. I am not completely hooked on all the news all the time but there are a lot of other programs that are really interesting.

My weekend was pretty good but I am too drowsy this morning to think of anything worth mentioning on the site. I did write a list of things I still need to get for the boat and it was kind of entertaining but I left it at home. Perhaps I will add it this afternoon.

 

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 UPDATE: THE's Top 4

 

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4-28-06 8:20am

It's already Friday again. I will be going down to Pittsburg tonight and bringing back a load of Jon's stuff tomorrow. I want to go to a strip pit tonight and fish and camp out etc but if its raining I probably won't.

Sunday morning Heather and I are doing "The Trolley Run".

It's in my neighborhood and 4 miles long. I think it finishes at the plaza or something.

Here is where the name of the boat will go for you to make a decision.

I have added more pictures in the boat album above. I did not get as much done on the boat as I had hoped last night. We first had to go get some more supplies paint, bolts, nuts, wire. Then we touched up the paint job where white sections had some red in them. We also had to take apart the throttle to run it through the side of the boat and that took longer to put back together then we had hoped. But I really like the way the motor looks on there now.

We had a nice BBQ last night with burgers, smoked sausage and chicken. I was the only one that ate any chicken so now I have a lot of leftovers to work on at lunch. The chicken was really good too, it had been marinating since last weekend in a plastic bag with lemon pepper.

I feel like an old man, my knee is really stiff and soar today. I think it is predicting rain. 

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4-27-06 9:32am

First off you gota check out the updated boat pics site in the photo album above. Also please everyone vote for a font.

The boat is painted and looks so much better. It was a lot of fun to paint. last night Jon and I taped/papered everything then put down primer then 2 coats of good old "Standard Red" paint. I pulled off the tape this morning. While the boat dried I went to Waldo pizza and had some pizza's and high life with Jon, Jenna, Heather, Heather's brother John and his friend Lee. These new guys were really funny and had some great stories. Tonight we are going to get back together and BBQ in my backyard if anyone wants to come over. Beforehand Jon and I will work on the boat. Probably mount the motor and reinstall the steering.

CP's MPG BOOSTING PLAN

-Remove excess weight  An extra 100 pounds in your vehicle could reduce your MPG by up to 2%.

-Replace Spark Plugs and Plug Wires  Efficiency monster can get you

-Replace Air and fuel filters  Replacing a clogged air filter can improve your car's gas mileage by as much as 10 percent

-Properly inflate tires  You can improve your gas mileage by around 3.3 percent by keeping your tires inflated to the proper pressure.

-Clean fuel injectors  Dirt, sand and other impurities can clog your fuel filter and starve your fuel injectors. Starved or clogged fuel injectors can impede engine performance and reduce fuel efficiency

-Keep RPMs lower  If your RPMs spin higher than 3k, you’re burning excess fuel for no reason

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4-26-06 9:11am

I have some busy plans for the evening. Right after work I will begin tapeing off the boat so we don't get red paint in bad places. Then Jon and anyone else that wants to will come over and we/he will spray the boat. I imagine we will have to let it dry and give it several coats. I do know there is a primer that goes on before and a finisher that goes on at the end. I think we will have to hurry and get it done in the daylight and probably continue our efforts tomorrow too.

After we are done for the night or possibly between coats we may fire up the grill and try out some of my chicken. Heather's older brother is in town from CA and we will grill with them and then probably go to Mikes Tavern.

I think my truck is not getting as good of miles per gallon as it used to and I am thinking of taking steps to improve this. I will have to do a little research but I think changing filters and things helps. If anyone has some tips please post them. I will prepare a report of my findings on the site so everyone can follow my lead if they want.

 

 

 

4-25-06 8:02am

I found my camera outside this morning. It was a bit wet so it's drying out. Otherwise you could have gotten a hair pic. Luckily the SD card is dry and I'm pulling pics off it. I think my camera will still work but I may use the opportunity to replace it. 

I got a 10 lbs bag of chicken yesterday.

It's legs and thighs only though.

It cost $1.90 w/ a chopper shopper card.

 

This is a brief post because I'm typing w/ one hand and holding the SD card into my PDA w/ the other. I am trying to hurry so I can start on the article I avoided yesterday.

All right pics are ready now and I can type and add them for you.

 

Me and Heath after playing hackey sack this weekend (most current pic of my hair)

Stripe at front of boat

Stripe continued (left) and throttle mount right)

Backside of boat (after pic we pained the wood part below the white section)

Outside back of boat with black undercoating on it before painted white.

I imagine this last pic will cause confusion so let me explain. All of the back of the boat (inside and outside) was not smooth at all because of the amateur fiberglassers working on it.  Once we sanded it as much as we wanted to we painted it with a silver primer. 2 hours later we covered the primer with a black rubber undercoating. The undercoating was used to attempt to give the back a uniform roughness and use its thickness to hide our imperfections.  20 min later we covered the black undercoating spray with the flat white paint making everything look much better.

 

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4-24-06 8:50am

Well my index finger is white and everyone knows what that means.

  Yeah, we started painting the boat. I forgot my camera at home but I will add some pics in a bit, well maybe tomorrow. I really need to get busy writing an article for Radio World magazine. It's got to be like 1000 words and I have been putting it off too long.

The Counting Crows concert thing was fun and saw some interesting people there. The band has some very major fans like the crazy lady who Ben hugged. Before the concert I went north of the river to help dig holes for a friends deck. We drank some beers and played with some cool tools like the big post hole digger thing. It looked absolutely nothing like this.

Yesterday was perhaps the nicest day of the year. (esp for painting) not hot, not cold, no wind, no clouds. Jon Heather and I taped off the boat and painted between coats we grilled burgers and had some nattys. After Jon and I played tennis.

Ohh yeah no fishing / camping on friday we could not find anywhere to go :( but we did play hackey sack in the family room and eat Oklahoma Joes.

 

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I am certainly full of yawns this morning. I am also full of a yummy breakfast burrito I cooked up this morning.

I believe I will be fishing, camping or both tonight. I am going to come up with a plan on what to cook for dinner on the campfire (maybe grilled chicken in pasta) and where to go (maybe on the Missouri or Blue River). Perhaps I will update the site when I have a real plan. Saturday I would like to get my lawn mowed and finish sanding and begin painting before the counting crows concert thing that Ben has going.

 

Ben tells me we get done around 8:30pm and I imagine I will go to my house and invite everyone over. If anyone complains that they came to my house last week they can

 

Well I'm going to get on Google earth and find out what I'm doing tonight.

 

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4-20-06 8:18am

Often times I have trouble thinking of what to write about today however I will probably load you up with a lot that I have. First off I went to Brooksider after work to enjoy happy hour and the great weather Steven, Jon and Kevin also came. Then Jon and I went home to wet sand the boat. I like wet sanding better then normal sanding, you can get all wet, there is no dust, and it is easy to visually see when an area is good or needs more. This very fine sandpaper is making the boat supper smooth and turns it's pinkish color back to a bright red. Jason came out and helped out near then end but we ran out of sandpaper. So there will be a bit more sanding in my future.

After sanding Jon and I sat in the garage and talked for a bit. We were reminiscing about a trip we had to the Neosho River outside of Pittsburg. We had a 7 foot 11 inch rowboat with a really old slow motor on it and about 2 rowboats piled up worth of food, beer and fishing/camping gear. When we got to a good area to launch the boat there was an old lady fishing. She sat on the ramp drinking her Natural Light and talked to us about fishing, noodleing, park rangers, and life. We trollied our gear downstream to a gravel bar and back for more a few times. Also we came back to that ramp the next day and she was back again. She spent a lot of her free time sitting there drinking beer and tossing a chicken liver covered hook into the water. Since she was a regular we began to call her "Grandma Natty". I have always been fond of that name and thought of how descriptive it really is she was "Old as Hell (Grandma) and Cool as hell (natty)".

Then I realized the double V (my boat) is also very old and very cool so it just made too much sense to name her Grandma Natty. It meets all the requirements besides my hope for a CP name. It is a girls name, it describes the boat, it is funny, it is unique, it lends itself to shortened nicknames like GN, grandma, or granny.

Now that all the important business is taken care of I can retell Matt Stooks' Bitch/Princess discussion.

Some background for everyone: This weekend Matt, Jon, Heather and I were all piled into my truck driving to Olathe to pick up a bed. We came upon a big red pickup truck with a small female driver. On the glass behind the drive seat it said BITCH in fancy letters and behind the passenger glass it said something like Beware Bitch or Bitch and proud.

This prompted a discussion on why females would take pride in being a bitch and Jon and I believe it all starts with a decision they make typically in their troublesome teenage years. I would like to note that no one in the car had any sociology classes other then the basics required in college. Girls eventually must decide who they want to be in order to both fit in and keep some uniqueness. They consider acting like "the princess", "the underground music fanatic", "the gothic chick", "the redneck", or "the bitch" several other options exist and each decision has slight variations.

Now Jon stated that a girl typically chooses bitch if she is aware that most people don't like her. She decides that since people don't like her she will pretend that she does not care and will be a bitch. Since she is now a bitch people have a reason not to like her and she is in control. "The Bitch" secretly wants to be liked. This causes her to be easy, so she can get attention. She can now brag to her peers that she is a huge bitch but guys still talk to her and are nice to her. This is how "the bitch" reaches her goals of being liked, being unique, and fitting in.

Not that this post is not long enough but I would like to mention that boys do the same thing and decide if they want to be an athlete, tech geek, cowboy, gay (could really like men or may just like to talk and dress like it {see Chef for example}), redneck, stoner, businessman, Japanese, etc. Also I'm proud of you for making it this far go ahead and hum the theme to Reading Rainbow to yourself for a reward.      

 

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4-19-06 12:24pm

Yes, Yes I am running late sorry. It's been a busy morning and I have worked up a sweat hence the announcement. I am missing my Degree today. (not only do I not have a lingerie catalogue subscription but I have sweaty pits) Lucky for everyone my sweat smells of sweat tulips.

Yesterday I made a claim on www.Mattstooks.com that I would retell the Bitch/Princess discussion today and I would like to ask for an extension on that. Because I am running behind and tight on time I would like to postpone that until tomorrow.

Last night Heather and I ran 5 miles up and down brush creak and the plaza etc. it was a great run then we ate some BBQ chicken rice corn carrot dish I wiped up  and went to Odouds for a beer.

 

And tonight... you guessed it sanding on the boat. But paint was ordered today and when it arrives we are paining and this whole sanding fun will be over.

 

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4-18-06 8:41am

I would like to say that I may be allergic to nuts and penicillin (I no longer believe either of these are true).   I do not have Allergies to the world though so I guess I don't really understand the whole Allergy Season thing.  It really drives me 'nuts' how possibly the best weather of the year for playing outside is sometimes ruined because of peoples allergies.  We have been having some beautiful weather and things just seem to be getting better and some people just watch from the window.

This started to get on my nerves last week when Chef claimed that he was unable to go to the park because of allergies.  We all know that he can not go because he is a wuss but for the next few weeks (maybe all spring) he has an excuse all ready.

 

I also noticed on Easter one of my cousins was not able to go outside and play with the other kids because he had allergies.  He had to sit inside the sliding glass door and watch the rest of us outside. This made me start to wonder about Allergies place in our world. Of all the Easters that I can remember I have never heard Allergies being mentioned and especially never recall it keeping anyone inside.

        

I do know I have seen advertisements for more and more powerful allergy fighting drugs. I think these are fairly new, I don't remember seeing kids popping Claritin when I was little and I don't remember people being so afraid of "outside".  Do these drugs not work? Do they make you afraid of fun, sun, and pleasant weather?  If you put on a helmet and elbow pads can you come outside?

 

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4-17-06 8:20am

Easter weekend is over and it was pretty good and very busy. We did not get a whole lot done on the boat but it is out of the garage. This weekend was so warm it really made me wish the boat was all done. However, of course we still have sanding to do.

Friday we had a great BBQ and Saturday spent most of the day playing outside. Matt, Heather, Kevin and I played tennis and Frisbee all morning by brush creek. Then we ate at Waldo pizza and moved a bed for Jon.

Matt, Jon and I spent the rest of the day goofing of and somewhat working on the boat. We built a fiberglass and wood piece that the throttle will connect to. We are all out of gloves so we did this with no hand protection and that was probably a bad plan. The project turned out nice but there really is something unhealthy in fiberglass resin. Besides being very sticky and disgusting and hard to get off it begins to burn as it hardens. We also found out at this point that we had no turpentine or anything good at getting it off. Matt helped Jon and I to the basement sink and with a mixture of goof off followed by laundry detergent we were able to get the resin off and save our hands.

Easter Sunday was fairly uneventful regular church and family gatherings. However I did get some cool prizes in my Easter basket. Both Mom and Heather loaded me up with peeps and malt balls. Mom also got me Gummy Vites since I love to eat them at her house

and she had a GPS unit that dad sent me from Utah.   

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4-14-06 8:04am

I was very productive last night. I got a lawn mower started and then mowed/cleaned up the backyard. Then I set to work on the boat sanding and reapplying fiberglass resin. I am very pleased with the turnout and am all done sanding in the garage. Tonight after work I will get the boat back on the trailer and out of the garage. We will wash it and give it a light wet sanding so that the paint will stick to it well and then hopefully paint it on Saturday.

 

Last night I also invested about $25 on tennis rackets and balls. I got 2 rackets and 6 balls and hope to talk some friends into playing occasionally. I decided this area of Kansas City is packed full of tennis courts and it may be fun to take advantage of them. I expect not to be very good at first but I don't think anyone I know will be either. So challenge me to tennis so I can get my $25 worth out of this purchase.

 

I think I like Easter candy better then candy from any other season. Peeps are the best but you also get all the chocolate malt ball type things, jelly beans and lots of chocolate. I generally not crazy about sweets except for pie. Yesterday as I walked through Wal-Mart the Easter candy caught my eye and made me hunger for Easter candy. Easter themed candy seems to have a lighter refreshing theme.

Last Matt Stooks is in town tonight and wants to hang out. I would like to encourage a BBQ at my house we can grill some burgers and enjoy the weather either in the back yard or on the porch. I promise not to attempt to strap sand paper to everyone and lock them in the garage with the boat. It will be better then going to McDonalds. Of course this ridiculous picture and video is Japanese.

 sexy female model video clip for McDonalds.

So I need some input from you all now. Please comment about:

1. desire to help paint/wet-sand the boat,

2. Intrest in me calling you up for a tennis match,

3. Easter candy "Yeah" or "Yucks",

4. want in to a BBQ at the's house,

5. Do you think I can beat Matt Stooks in tennis?,

6. What animal does CTB look most like?

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4-13-06 10:13am

Jon and I did some sanding last night and decided we have a bit more to go. I'm going to add some more fiberglass tonight and maybe sand a bit more. We also discussed starting the painting process this weekend. However before that is done I need to get it into the driveway and wetsand it a bit.

 

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4-12-06 8:58am

I'm back and had a great morning at this Ethiopian restaurant right by KU med. We were doing a remote broadcast from there and it was believed there would be computer issues I could help to solve. We got the show on the air and I thought it all went very well. Afterward they fed us for free. I had never had African food before. It was pretty good, no utensils and you use a bread like stuff to scoop up all the food to eat.

The entire broadcast will be available at http://www.kcur.org/UTDarchive.html soon and I hope to learn how to edit out just the part at the end where my name is mentioned and post it on here later.

I'm going to be out of the office this morning but will post later today for sure. Look forward to information on adding plumbing to Ben's house and find out what I was doing at Addis Ababa Cafe today instead of sitting at my desk. Ohh and start thinking about conversation topics when you come over to sand my boat tonight.

Here are some pretty Yahoo pictures to look at while you wait for me.

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4-11-06 8:43am

What a nice spring we are having! I went to the park with Grant and Heather for a while yesterday afternoon and then went to mom's house for "24 Night". We had BBQ Brisket sandwiches and watched a very good episode of 24. This morning I found this article on my Yahoo News about Jack. http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20060410/en_tv_eo/18762

 

no silly not Cactus Jack.

Yeah that's right super badass Jack Bauer

Restaurant Review 'Eggtc.' (pronounced egg-cetera)

Eggtc. is a small breakfast/lunch place at 51st and Main that replaced the Jake Edwards BBQ restaurant.

Steven and I went for breakfast early this morning. The place is really nice looking and offers a 1/2lbs burger for $6. I was immediately surprised by the huge staff (like 11 people) there to cook and serve for roughly 3 other customers, Steven and I. We got to know Cat or Kat our waitress more then any other so I can really only report on her. She looked much like the girl in American Beauty, Mena Suvari

 (not this skinny though)

She was an awkward but friendly waitress and basically called Steven a girly man for ordering Belgium waffles with strawberries instead of blueberries. He liked the "desert like" breakfast and was full for around $5. I ordered the biscuits and gravy and potatoes. They were served chilled and with out any noticeable sausage presence. I can not be positive but I felt as though them being chilled was intentional. After thinking about it as I write this page I decided that was very poor, one of two things should have happened before I put cold gravy in my mouth.

1.    Ms. Statutory (our waitress) should warn customers that biscuits and gravy is served chilled because....(insert some terrible reason about Europeans preferring food that way or something)

2.    One of the 16 chefs (please don't confuse these chefs with the Brian Chef who tells all the bad jokes) behind the counter should be able to heat up gravy before serving it

Anyhow my meal was about $6 and yeah cold gravy is filling. The potatoes were pretty tasty. This review sounds negative but because prices were not ridiculous, the place is located close to work/home, and we did not try eggs I will go back at least once more. Overall it just made me miss Mail Boxes Etc.

 

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4-10-6 8:03am

Wednesday afternoon as soon as I get out of work I am going to start a major effort to finish the sanding and fiberglassing part of my boat. I would like to encourage anyone to join in that wants to. Once this is all done to my likening we can begin painting and then w/ some help from my dad carpeting. 

Yesterday I helped Jon take out and put back in his transmission, I have always heard repair shops say that it's a lot of labor and that drives prices up for repair work that requires the transmission to be taken out and now I really understand what is involved. I think we worked fairly quickly and efficiently and it took us like 6 hours. (of course I didn't know what to do until Jon told me).

Saturday we put siding up on Jon's garage and completed his agreement to the landlord.

Friday we had a bonfire in Heather's backyard and it was a good time. We cooked some "Tasty QQQ's", a pineapple upside down cake and chicken sandwiches over the fire. Unfortunately after dinner, the wind got really strong out of nowhere and we had to keep the fire small instead of make it big like I had hoped.

In more exciting news Lucy passed her audition and was hired for the World Series of Poker in Vegas and preparing to move to Vegas.

 

 

4-7-6 8something maybe am

Recipe of the Day:

MEXICAN CALZONE

1st you gota make or buy pizza dough. I mixed 3 cups flour, 2tsp yeast, 1tbs sugar, 1tbs salt, and olive oil. Mix this up and let it rise for a while. Then roll it out, let it rise again and roll it out some more.

2nd Grill some streak and onions, red peppers, yellow peppers, mushrooms, jalapenos, garlic and parsley.

3rd Make some Mexican rice, also heat up can of refried beans and season with spices.

4th get dough into good shapes and then spread on cream cheese, then refried beans, then rice.

5th cover rice in steak, and vegetable mix add raw black olives. Be sure to add shredded cheese in all layers.

6th fold dough over and with a little water seal the edges together.

7th Bake for 10-20 minutes at 400, then turn off oven

8th sprinkle more cheese on top and let melt while oven cools.

 

 

I mixed spaghetti sauce and salsa together for dipping in and served the leftover ingredients mixed into refried beans as a dip with tortilla chips and a cold High Life.

I'm really not that sure what the weekend has in store for me but it looks like it will be nice and sunny all day Saturday and Sunday so I'm sure I will find something. 

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4-6-6 8:34am

For those of you from my high school I just heard Janelle Huppe's name on the radio. She donated money to KCUR 89.3fm for our fundraiser. Any of my website fans who want to join her should call us up 816-235-5287. Ask for this sweet shirt.

OK enough of that.

Jon and I sanded the boat a bunch last night and then added more fiberglass resin (syrup) to help smooth out the boat some more. Sanding is the least fun thing we have done on the boat so far. It is also the least necessary for a good strong boat. The sanding is just to make the boat look cute. I imagine we will sand again this weekend if anyone wants to join in the fun. Jon will want to sand and fiberglass over and over until the whole thing is perfectly smooth all over but I will have to cut him off soon and begin the painting process.

Recipe of the day:

Potatoes for Neighbor Ray

• skin 5-6 medium sized potatoes

• toss in hot water for a while

• Cut green peppers and onions into small squares and potatoes into wedges

• Also cut bacon into small pieces

• Put everything into medium/low heated skillet with lots of Pam Spray and top with lid

• After a few minutes and a sizzle can be heard drizzle with some salsa, dried red pepper, black pepper and onion salt.

• Keep lid on and stir the mixture up every few minutes

• When the potatoes feel soft to eat spread them over the bottom of the pan and cover with a thin layer of cheese turn off the burner and leave off the lid. 

        I served with steaks, green beans, rolls, and a melon medley. And then go to http://www.potatoe.com/

Did anyone see Survivor Man this weekend? It was one of the best episodes I have seen. He was in Utah. It kinda looked like the grand canyon but he had no water or tourists around. Here is a similar Pic from Yahoo Pic of the day.

scene from one of the most popular Imax films of all time, 'Grand Canyon: Hidden Secrets.' Imax Corp.

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4-5-6 8:10am

Unfortunately on our trip we didn't see any wildlife esp. a mongoose. Do check out the pictures labeled Denver Trip above. Sunday we went to Georgetown, to climb around on the mountain behind it. There was a road up the mountain that took us almost all the way to the top. We drove up as far as we could in a Honda and then pulled over to hike a way. This was very high and we had trouble catching our breath in the altitude but there was lots of deep snow. It also felt much warmer up there then we would have thought. We hiked as far as we could until any step we took was a drop off into the deep snow. 

Then we drove down the mountain away to look for a less deep path and found a nice mountain creek. We followed the creek quite a way and Matt found a nice walking stick. I tried the water and it tasted good. (cold and fresh)

Once we ran out of good hiking at the creek we went down farther and talked to an old man for a while about the town and even explored the town and its lake some.

YAHOO PIC OF THE DAY:

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4-4-6 2:40pm

Good afternoon and sorry about the late post. I had to sort out my bills and such on the UMKC Credit Card first thing this morning and things were a mess and late. Also Heather visited me this morning and I had all the work to catch up on from being gone. Last day in CO was the best and I will add a photo album above in the morning. As a teaser I ate a deep fried cheese burger, fell in snow past my waist, and had to fight a mongoose. 

One of the above claims is false.

 

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4-2-6 9:17am

More pics, These are taken just outside of Golden CO by Buffalo Bills Gravesite.

 

 

We are going to hit the mountains hard today. When the other guys wake up we will pack up some snacks and water and drive a hour or so into the mountains and find a trail to follow. I am really looking forward to this.

 

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4-1-6 9:24am

Denver is fun so far. Yesterday Matt and I were on our own while Mike was at work.

In the morning we went to the park and played Frisbee.

Matt sliced open his ankle because his shoes had a big heal.(or something?)

  Then we went to Golden, CO to visit Coors and stop off for a monster Calzone. That is 1/2 of min there along with Matt looking distraught. He is distraught because of the ankle, the giant calzone, me encouraging him to climb a mountain and because he does not know his pic is being taken.

 

Then Mike came home and we played at his house for a while then went to some downtown bars.

 

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3-29-06 8:11am

Hey Ben people have been asking me if that is really the real deal. I think Heather and Steven and I may be interested what's the rest of the scoop?

WARNING SEXY POST TODAY

I am still running behind this week but decided I still need to post on this even though its already all over the place.  This is a life-sized sculpture of Britney Spears giving birth on a bearskin rug.

 

Some guy sculpted this as a joke somewhat and I think the whole thing is so nuts.  I typically stay out of the pop culture news but this was so over the top I had to show you all in case you have not seen it.

I leave for Denver today, well I leave for Manhattan today and  Denver early tomorrow.

 Matt Stooks and I are going to go and visit Mike. I am not sure if I will be able to update the blog or not. We are not going to go skiing as best I can tell but I would like to have some sort of adventure like mountain biking, hiking or something fun besides hitting the bars. Also I think we are going to visit the Coors Brewery.

Enjoy the rest of the week.

Ohh yeah I promised a sexy post so here you go:

 

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Prewitt,
I have a request for an announcement on the page on Monday.  My mom's
hospital is hosting a Counting Crows concert on April 22nd, its a
Saturday. 
  Its out at T-Bones stadium with a pre-party at Dave and Busters Bar. 
Anyone who wants to volunteer to point people in the right direction at a
VIP party and the meet and greet with the band will get to see the show
for
free, free beer all night and some people with get their picture with the
band.  You can drink while you work so long as you can still speak
coherently when its over.  She needs 25 people.  It starts at 5:30 and
will
be over by 8:45 so if anyone still wants to go out they can but we will
have
free beer so why would you do that.   Have them email me as early as
possible if they are in.  BBtheRAVEN@hotmail.com
Thanks
Ben
 

 

3-28-06 8:38am

Sorry about yesterday I was pretty busy and never got back to finish my posting, I did not even get to eat lunch but today should be smooth sailing.

Seemed like a very busy long weekend. Lots of good stuff. The server installation went well. Saturday I went to Jon's and helped get the van out of the garage. We made a ramp out of piled up tires and it actually worked I took some cell phone pics but they are worthless quality. Saturday night I had a Highlife and Hawaiian shirts party at my house.

It was great we watched Roadhouse and drank beers. Kevin wore a pink undershirt and I felt uncomfortable around him until he changed. After Roadhouse we went to Hoopers and my tab was only $2. I ran home from the bar for fun and I beat everyone back. When we got home I made Jambalaya, Prewitt style by filling a pan with rice, beans, chicken, onions, jalapenos and all sorts of spicy stuff and vegetables. We all (except for Jason) gobbled it up. 

Sunday I woke up and ate 1/2 a leftover lasagna and then began work on the boat with Jon and Steven. Jon fixed up the corners and I patched up the rotten transom. Steven was allover the place to keep things moving along.

 

Once we finished fiberglassing and got some real air we began sanding the front and getting it ready for paint.

Sunday Night I got a call from my sister "little 'the' Prewitt", she and her BF Chris had gone spoonbill fishing last weekend. I really want to go look at the fish they caught and these were too small to keep. Apparently you don't even use bait but drag a hook along the bottom and pull it up to try and snag a fishy. I can't wait to try this out.

 

Also Kelly got me a pic of Casey, one of my favorite dogs. This is 'the' fishing dog. He loves to help you fish and will sit on the dock and watch your lines for you. He will stare at them for hours, looking for a fish to bite. Once he sees the pole move he will jump up and get your attention so you can real in the fish. Casey gets so excited when you catch even a small fish it makes it more fun. 

 

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3-24-06 8:24am

Friday again, the weeks are really zipping by and summer will be here in no time.

I am very excited about a server installation I am doing tonight for KCUR. I am not that excited about when I am doing it though. I can't connect it until shortly after midnight. So I will be having a short day at work today but probably a late evening.  Even though my installation is late on a Friday night I am still excited about it because it is a very important expensive server and I feel like I'm ready for it. You can think of me as Batman diligently working under the cover of night while the public sleeps.

So sleep well fair citizens and have no fear that some radio station you may never listen to will have computer problems tonight.

 

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3-23-06 8:27am

So immediately after work yesterday Kevin, Jon and I began fiberglass work on the boat.

 

We worked on the back of the boat to cover/smooth out/strengthen the transom that we built with steal and brawn. It's tough to tell from the pictures but it is actually smoother then I thought we would be able to do. I also think it will be crazystrong. We need to fill in the patch below this and fix up the back corners of the boat. The back of the boat has gone through some major changes because of a bigger motor. The new motor was longer so the transom had to be heightened and it was a lot heavier so we needed to strengthen.

  The original backside

The new backside note the higher transom and new corners.

  After the fiberglass was done Kevin, Jon and I went to Oklahoma Joes for some BBQ. It was decided that few things are better then walking out of a place like this with a big box of meat.

 

 

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3-22-06 8:02am

I was ready for work early today so cooked 10 biscuits and brought them and some homemade jelly/jam/preserves into the office for me and anyone that comes to join in. Anyone know the difference between all the fruit mixtures that you put on toast?

This morning I also woke to find an e-mail from Haloscan Admin.

Dear "The" Pruit

    I would like to apologize to all your web fans for all my inappropriate comments. I have low self esteem and try to get a rise out of people to bring some excitement to my boring life.  I am really hoping that you do another triathlon run and maybe I will show up and try to make friends with everyone. I really respect the site and all the commenters if any of the lady viewers are single and looking for a wealthy intelligent man please think of me and pass this photo along.

Your Friend Halloscan Admin

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3-21-06 8:10am

Good morning I got lots of sleep yesterday and am feeling great today. Also I like snow and we got some nice fiberglass work done on the boat last night.

 This is my truck this morning ->

So Sunday Jon and I did much of the rest of the wood work on the boat.

  First we cut the big plywood floorboard. This also needed some small "rib" boards underneath to help support it.

Then we made these little wedges for the back to even out the new transom. This will help the whole back to look like one solid piece once it is fiberglassed. 

Last night we began fiberglassing. It all went really well.

Here is the new bottom of the boat. (so smooth, like KK)

 

Probably on Wednesday night we will take care of the back of the boat. This will be a bit tougher because strength is a big concern for us. The outside should not be a big deal but the inside may be due to some bad wood rot back there. It's hard to tell from these pics but the brown area on the bottom is all about an inch or 2 of missing wood and fiberglass that will need to be patched.

 

You may be thinking "Hey 'The' what about this day  You did not have that rotten wood replaced yet and the boat was on the water, did you trick us with Photoshop again?"

No, my pirate crew on this day risked life and limb for the Double V.

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3-20-06 10:51am

power outages and general weather wackiness, got me out of bed and into work at 6:30am this morning. Still fairly busy so week post today. I had a good weekend even got some progress made on the boat. Maybe I can get some pics during lunch for you. Anyway here is a big Asian lady, thanks to Yahoo.

 The tallest woman in Asia, Chinese Yao Defen (L) stands at the entrance of her home in Shu Cha in eastern China's Anhui province March 15, 2006. Yao is 34 years old and 2.36 metres tall.

 

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3-17-6 late

I don't really remember much of St. Patrick's Day. I did follow most of my game plan but went to Max's for lunch and never made it to Mike's. Also Kentaro left early to go watch KU play.  

 

3-16-6 8:25am

I have tomorrow off work and plan on making the most of it. I would encourage all of you to join in any of the fun you are up for.

Tentative schedule:

Thursday night 6ish-    BBQ in the backyard, big fire and highlife bottles, cheese burgers

Friday 7am-9:30-       Governor Stumpy's for the St. Patrick's breakfast and some Guinnes w/ shamrocks in the foam.

9:30-2 or 3pm-  Go to Westport, hopefully Kelly's, turn it up a notch and start drinking 44oz green beers.

-Kelly's 1986 St. Patrick's Day

2:30-3pm-     Leave Westport in search of Lunch. Take taxi to home maybe get china feast.

3-5pm-        Eat and nap wait for ride to Fitz Blarney Stone 3801 Broadway

5pm-6pm-      Go to The Blarney Stone and start getting wound up again.

-The Fitzgerald Sisters at The Blarney Ball (FYI nothing to do with The Blarney Stone bar)

6pm-close-     Head to Mikes Tavern for cheep PBR and probably lots we won't remember by this point. -KK trying to remember where he is.

Saturday Morning time- Find way home begin looking for fiberglass, get Jon out of lawn.

Obviously all these times are probably inaccurate and none of that may happen but that's about as I predict it.

 

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3-15-6 8:09am

61 is the high for today (not bad). I believe I will go running to the bars tonight.

 BOAT UPDATE:

Yesterday Steven and I found a place called Fantastic Plastics that sells fiberglass supplies. After looking online I think their prices are very high and maybe I will be better getting stuff online.  I found this site for www.fiberglasssupply.com that has prices 1/3 or 1/2 as much as the local dealer. Also this had this logo on the site that I thought was funny because fiberglass sounds like a terrible material to deal with because of all the tiny itch fibers it has. The fibers get into your skin and soap and water will not get them out they just itch and itch. Also they get into the air and your lungs and cause lots of problems. Anyway I am very anxious to get started on this fiberglass portion of the boat because once it is done I think you will really be able to see some difference.

Today's Yahoo pic: 

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3-14-6 8:07am

First off here are some more pics from St. Pats day. It was hard to weed out web appropriate pictures.

 

I would like to proclaim Kevin the "Fake St. Patrick-meister" because he opened his first beer at 7am and kept going until 4:30am with no nap or dinner. However he did not make it to work on Monday.

Highlights were:

1. I was called a leprechaun (thanks verbose vixen)

2. I got to eat Pita Pit twice.

3. Matt Stooks got some quality audio clips for his show.

4. We drove from Manhattan to KC right in the middle of all the storms and did not even get hailed on somehow.

5. I was called a leprechaun again.

6. I get to celebrate St. Patrick's day twice this year.

 

YAHOO PIC OF THE DAY:

Feed me! : Fish gather at the surface of a pond as they wait for people to feed them. 

 

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3-13-6 8:25am

St. Patrick's Day Part I went pretty well. It was lots of fun but way too expensive. I've got several pictures to sort through but here is a nice one to get started with.

I am cooking a lasagna for 24 night at mom's house tonight. I am going to use chicken breast instead of ground beef and put spinach and mushrooms in 1/2 of it. Also I have a lot of fresh tomatoes that I plan on using in the sauce. It is currently marinating in marinara and spices at my house.

 

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3-10-6 8:00am

Owwww I drank too much coffee this morning, about twice my normal amount and I really had no good reason to be drinking it but it got me to work 30 min early (also for no reason).

I have a feeling this Friday is going to take forever, I have been very busy all week and things should really slow down today plus I am eager to go to Manhattan and begin my Saint Patrick's Day Celebrations. Saturday morning the festivities begin around 9am in Aggieville and should continue late into the night. I anticipate a similar celebration next weekend in Pittsburg or Westport.

Any idea what this ginger kid is doing with the drink and coin action, Lepracons don't pay for drinks, is he doing a magic trick?  How do you spell lepracon?

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3-9-6 12:50pm    BREAKING NEWS UPDATE!!!

I just got back from lunch and thought you should all hear about it.

Recipe of the day:

Peanut butter and Banana Pancake Sandwich

• Cook one large pancake all the way on one side and 3/4ths the way on the other side.

• Cut up banana into many little circles

• Spread peanut butter on pancake (thickly) and cover with as many banana circles as will fit.

• Cook a second pancake same size.

• Place new pancake on old one and put back in pan.

• Finnish cooking unfinished sides until cooked to your likening.

  •     OPTIONAL - cover in butter and syrup.

  •     UNTESTED BONUS - cut strawberries into small sections and put in batter before cooking.

  •     PIRATE METHOD - Lots of syrup, no butter, extra berries, garnished with slice of lime (to prevent scurvy) and served with a goblet full of goat milk. (cow milk acceptable when on land)

3-9-6 8:10am

I am back to my regular posting schedule. Things should slow down a bit now. Finally I can update you on Jon's garage. Last night we built a wood stove to keep his garage warm and cleaned some things up. Last Sunday Stooks and I helped Jon put in the final wall and drive the van in. One would think the wall was much tougher then driving the van in but that was not the case. Here is a pictorial walkthrough of the process.

It was a tight squeeze and was much more touch and go then the pictures show.

Yahoo Pic of the day:

Munich igloo : A man and his little son peer out of a window of an igloo at Munich's English Garden park.

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3-7-6 3:36pm

Sorry friends have not had a chance to post. Tomorrow may be the same way and then back to normal. I should get some pics from Jon from the weekend that I want to show but nothing yet.

Recipe of the day:

 

CapinChris' Fantastic Taco Salad

1. In a large bowl spread a layer of tortilla chips.

2. Create a mixture of ground beef (or deer), chili beans, corn, onion, jalapeno, Tabasco and other spices and spread this over the chips.

3. Make white Rice and add in Tabasco, salsa, onion, Jalapeno, ketchup, and green pepper till it looks like Mexican rice. Spread this over the meat mixture.

4. Cover this in salad with tomato, carrot, lettuce, mushroom, corn, onion, and cheese.

5. Mix some salsa and Ranch and spread over the top. 

 

Yahoo Pic of the day

 

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3-6-6 8:35am

As the author of a hit website I get quite suggestions for website comment on a regular basis. Sometimes I use it on my site right away, sometimes I don't get it and just never mention it hoping the sender will forget (Sorry Chef the handbag pic has been deleted), and sometimes I store it away in my inbox for a good time.

Well today is a good time for Pictures sent in by fans of "Theprewitt.com"

This was submitted by Tiffany when Kevin bought a new grill she calls it "Grill Master".

This picture was submitted by Ben yesterday and was described as "Geoff looking drunk, but not".

Tiffany sent in this depiction of "Dan's love of BOA" (Bank of America [on the koozie])

Tiffany also sent this one for a "Cheers to New Years, I believe it was the last time TCB was seen by anyone in Kansas City. 

This disturbing image was sent in by Mr. ThePrewitt (my dad) with just the title HAPPY HALLOWEEN.

 

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3-3-6 8:10am

Yikes, Last night I went out for Mexican with Jon, Jenna, Steven, Becky and Heather and our tab at the end was $116. We were all shocked at the total since our meals were so cheep looking on the menu. The trick was that $62 of that was for 3 pitchers of Margaritas that we did not get a price on. 

Anyway the food was great and plenty of it. Jon got the Fantastic burger and it was a huge monster, I can't wait to try one for $6.50. Busy morning gota go

This came up on a search for huge mexican dinner? You tell me...

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3-2-6 9:07am

I woke up so tired today and had a heck of a time getting ready for work. I stayed up a little later then normal watching lost but that should not have been a big deal. Now I am on a major coffee buzz, so it's hard to sit down and write a good post. Last night Jon and I did some big work on the boat. It is off the trailer and up on blocks in the garage. We stripped everything off it, including the motor to prepare for fiberglass work and eventually paint. The interior is really clean now, we shop-vacked everything after chipping away any rotten wood. Seeing the original red paint makes me want to paint it fire engine red like it used to be.

After the boat fun Heather, Jon and I went to Mikes for a $1.5 beer and then Heather and I went on our weekly bar run. The weather was so nice, we sat on the porch at Brooksider forever, enjoying it.

 

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3-1-6 8:15am

"THE NEXT BIG WEBSITE" as described to 'the' by Jon Sanders.

I imagine everyone has at least heard of www.chucknorrisfacts.com and maybe even http://www.menwholooklikekennyrogers.com/. Plus the countless websites designated to midgets or pictures of mullets.

Well maybe www.ghettokoozie.com should be the next big thing. Right now this URL goes no where but a maybe it should have a website where viewers take pictures of people they see on the street with bottles/cans of booze in a paper bag. We have all seen some crazed bum or pimped out homey-G with some mysterious alcohol in a paper bag walking down the street. It's often funny to see and maybe we tell our friends but its not the same as a website where you could look at these social elite all day and try to capture and add your own pictures.

I'm not sure about the name ghetto. I know in my old Pittsburg Apt we called the type of people that would carry such a device "The Carneys" (Carney Koozie) but I have also considered The "Keiler Koozie", "African Koozie", "Hillbilly Koozy" or "Street-People Koozie". What names do you like?

Here is the only example I could find this morning on the web thus far and it is a unique take off, using the unpopular plastic sack.

I feel this is a fresh idea with possible potential to be big. NO one out there is doing it, should they be?

 

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02-28-06 8:10am

I'm full of spoilers today. I was just thinking about my plans for the week and thought I would just lay it all out there now. Tonight I am counting on some great weather and probably go to the park and run and play some football

or something then I would not mind doing some minor Fat Tuesday celebrating.

 

Tomorrow I believe Jon and I are going to assemble the last two doors on his garage. (after they are hung the building should be secure) Once it gets dark we will stop for the night and then I will take my weekly bar jog around 8pm. Then come home and make some dinner. Thursday maybe finish the garage or go back to the park and then out to Chelly's Mexican for dinner and Margaritas. If you are interested in joining in on any of the fun, let me know.

 

Tomorrow's post will be Jon's idea for the next great website. 

 

 

 

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02-27-06 10:11am

On Friday night at my BBQ, I claimed to be 95% certain no one would get wet (besides possibly my toes as we got it in/out of the water) and there would be no major problems.  At the time everyone thought I was nuts to think the boat would be that reliable.

 

  

The "Double V" (as it has been temporarily named until it is officially named and ready for spring/summer fun) performed quite well overall. It provided a smoother and faster ride then I had anticipated. It was exciting to find how easy I could pull start it, how easy it started once on the water, and how easy it popped into gear and began to putter toward the no wake buoys.

  KS-VV-100

Once outside the idle zone I began to drop the hammer and the Double V took off with delightful speed. Yes, it is February and the weather was not ideal for boating but I can't remember a better day in February for a test run. After cruising around for a while we stopped it and found some minor issues with the throttle control for getting it to idle, but this should be an easy fix and just gave us a chance to break out the natty and enjoy the afternoon.

We were even able to trailer it and get it back in my garage without incident. It's now time to fiberglass and begin interior plans.    

 

 

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02-24-06 8:08am

Happy Friday everyone looks like it will be a nice Friday too.

Today: Plentiful sunshine. High 66F. Winds SSW at 20 to 30 mph. Tonight: Mostly clear. Low 32F. WSW winds shifting to N at 10 to 15 mph. Tomorrow: A mainly sunny sky. High 44F. Winds NNE at 10 to 20 mph. Tomorrow night: Clear skies. Low 24F. Winds E at 5 to 10 mph. Sunday: A few clouds. Highs in the low 50s and lows in the mid 30s.

Last night I did a bit of quick shopping at Target and Aldi. Ever since Teriyaki Chicken Boy (TCB) moved out I have been missing his rice cooker. Boiling rice is such a pain and if you don't eat it all, its ruined. So I found a monster rice cooker yesterday that will hold 20 cups of rice. Also It claims it can keep cooked rice warm for 12 hours without loosing the water in it.

Then I went to Aldi which is always a treat for me but nothing really exciting happened to me I got a bunch of snacks for my office.

I wonder what they are looking at, any ideas? Also doesn't the guy in back look just like Chef (if Chef started working out?

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02-23-06 8:36am

The's boat IS going into the water this weekend. Last night Jon and I put the final touches on like trailer tires, KS-VV-100 registration number, put the plug in, got a pile of life jackets, cleared out the pile of beer cans and got her otherwise ready for the water. I am much more excited this weekend about getting it in and finding out how it rides. Any brave souls (or Japanese people who don't have souls) that are willing to go down with the ship are welcome to join in the fun, just let me know you are interested (Or if you would like to sit on the shore and watch us have a great time with out you).

Also this weekend I will help Jon work on putting doors on his garage and go look at dogs with Heather.

Yahoo Pic of the Day Naked ramblers Stephen Gough (L) and Melanie Roberts start their walk to John O'Groats in June 2005. Gough walked the length of Britain wearing nothing but a hat, boots and a rucksack and celebrated the successful completion of his marathon trek by putting his clothes back on

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02-22-06 8:46am

Well I have some juicy gossip for those of my readers familiar with the Aquinas class of 1999. I'm not sure if you have heard about the teacher in the Blue Valley School District that is in trouble for having a relationship with a student. They have not released the details yet but I have been given insider information that the teacher/coach was Jackie Rezsut (probably not spelled right but correct me and I will fix it). A coworker of mine has a daughter on the Jackie's team and we have discussed her before, so he knew I would be interested.

Last night Heather and I ran to Mike's Tavern (always cheep PBR) and Hoopers ($1 domestic draw Tuesday) and back and had beers along the way. It was a lot of fun and I want to do it on a regular basis if anyone wants to join.

When we got back I made stir-fry with crabmeat. It was surprisingly really good. My amazing neighbor Ray gave me 4 cans of jumbo crab meat and I was not sure what to do with them. I served them over rice, carrots, mushrooms, broccoli, peas, onion, and a white sauce.

YAHOO Picture of the Day: -->

 

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02-21-06 8:15am

Man these Olympics are taking forever. Is it just me or does it seem like they used to be more exciting. I think when I was a kid we watched them whenever we could and now I am pissed if I don't get to watch the office for 2 weeks. I guess I am just curious if the Olympics are less exciting or if I was just more into it as a child. What do you all think? What do you think Phil Collins or Rachel Ray would say about the Olympics? Yahoo pics:

 

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02-20-06 8:03am

I know everyone was very anxious to see how well the boat ran this weekend but unfortunately it never made it out of the garage. Somehow I let all the naysayers get into my head that it was too cold.

Plus Jon and I were working hard on building his garage and decided to focus our efforts on that. The garage is really coming along now and just needs some garage doors put on to make it useable.

Interestingly it was too cold to test the boat but I was able to spend almost all weekend outside. Friday night I walked/jogged home from Brooksider then woke up and put up siding on one wall at Jon's. Then we loaded up both out trucks with brush and logs and went out to Heathers place and had a bonfire. I had a lot of fun burning off a good amount of the brush, splitting wood and other fireside activities like smores and natty. Then Sunday morning we all woke up and Jon and I rushed back to the garage to put up walls where doors used to be and fill in the cracks around the whole garage.

Sunday evening when I was done my clothes had taken on a very interesting smell between the bon fire and two days of sweating in them then freezing then thaw and repeat.

 

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02-17-06 11:06am

Yahoo pic, pretty glacier

I don't know if you noticed but the site was down this morning. Sorry about that one of the disadvantages of having it hosted on UMKC. But it is back up now

What's everyone up to this weekend? Especially tonight?

 

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02-16-06 9:00am

Last night Heather, Jon, Steven, Becky, and I all went to Governor Stumpy's. I always order Guinness from Stumpy's because it usually comes with a shamrock imprint in the top of the beer (see pic).

 (please disregard the Europe logon on the side, we were still in KC)

Well last night I did not get my shamrock and I was sad. Almost every time I get one of these beers my table mates and I discuss the shamrock and where it comes from. Last night we learned from our waitress that apparently talented bartenders are able to pour the beer at the end in just the right way to leave that imprint on the top and our waitress was not a talented bartender.

Also we ate dinner with this dog Rufus.  not really he is the yahoo pic of the day.

 

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02-15-06 9:07am

I hope everyone had a good valentines day.  I turned back the clock and made some pizzas. It was not Jon and my classic recipe from the "Thumbs up Pizza" business but it was delicious. We went for the Hawaiian style with onions, green pepper, pineapple, Canadian bacon, mushroom, pepper jack cheese and jalapenos.

So last weekend on my way home from Omaha I was on I-29 going roughly 75mph and my front driver side tire blew out.  It was pretty wild and luckily no one was near me. I have a full size spare and it was a bit of a bugger to change on the muddy slope on the shoulder of the highway but I got it done and the truck back on the road. Yesterday I spent $200 to get the tire replaced and 2 tires for my trailer.

Yahoo picture of the day:

also I was not going to do a comment picture today because I didn't want to take the time to look for one but out of spite I will.

 

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02-14-06 8:04am

First off, Happy Valentines day everyone. Yesterday I decided to talk about Rachel Ray today in my post but now I'm wondering what to say about her. Chicken Teriyaki Boy was the first to introduce me to her shows on the food network and once I was familiar with her I began to see her everywhere. Anyhow she is cute, down to earth, and apparently is a good cook so she gets two thumbs up in my book.

 

Nothing to say about Ray? Well how about this picture of the day.

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02-13-06 7:40am

This weekend and went to in NE. Actually we went all over Omaha but I only took pictures at the zoo. (I am not making a "stinky zoo" face or a "tigers are scary" face but a "concentrate on holding the camera to not cut off half my face" face)

I can't imagine anyone wants to see a bunch of pictures of animals at the zoo. If so go to Google images and type in Omaha Zoo. Most of these are better shots of the animals but you will probably not find any with as attractive people standing by them.

Anyway Omaha was a lot of fun and I really recommend the area downtown  . It was a cool area with lots of bars, breweries, shops, restaurants. My favorite place was  . This brewpub had a lot of really good beers and amazing food.  We got a great deal on a close nice hotel thanks to .

All right enough about my weekend for now. Any comments, captions etc. for this picture here.

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02-10-06 8:13am

This was a fast week and the morning has already started to get by me. Also my apple is not very tasteful :( Anyway I wanted to try a new game on the site today and post a picture and have you all make up a comment for it.

THE HOMEPAGE FOR THIS GUY FUNNY STUFF

So what do you think is going on here?

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02-09-06 8:15am

Yes it's hard to tell in this picture but the boat motor is running. It is sitting in a 50 Gal bucket running on real gasoline.

 It started pretty easy with just a turn of the key. It's hard to see through the exhaust fumes (FYI: exhaust fumes are a delight to breath) but it was churning up the water nicely. I got a battery charger last night so I can keep the battery fresh for starting the boat.

It appears like we have a working starter, choke, throttle, and it steers and gets gas from the tank ok. We are not sure exactly where it draws water in and out to cool itself but I believe we can figure that out on the lake. I have 2 trailer wheels in my truck that need to be fixed/replaced and I need to test out the lights on the trailer and write the registration number on the side then she is ready for a test run.

 

No decent Yahoo pics today, these claim to be caught by noodleing.  

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02-08-06 8:53am

I think I am going to work on the boat tonight. I have been getting plenty of rest and believe I am all well. Assuming I can find a new wheel for the boat and things go well tonight it will be the last night before she is ready for the water.

If anyone is interested in coming by and working on it let me know. I am hoping Jon is free since he is the only one that knows what he is doing.

Yahoo pic:

 

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02-07-06 

Cutting Wood:

Dinner:

 

Wood at the end:

What is the fireball all about? Well the first picture in that group is a delicious burger I ate for dinner, then we were making French fries in the Dutch oven above the fire but they tasted like soap so we decided to burn the oil. The oil would not catch easily with burning sticks so Jon made a lighter fluid bridge up to the pot and squirted lighter fluid in it. The last two pictures are what happens when you spit a mouthful of water onto a grease (vegetable oil) fire. It really is a bad idea the fire goes crazy.

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02-06-06 9:24am

I have some sort of cold or something making my nose run, throat sore and head ache.  However I am back at work today and updating the website. Luckily Heather (Heath) stopped by to help me pick out yahoo pics and get me started on my blog. I would like to tell you stories of lumberjacking activities this weekend but I will save them till I have the pictures ready. Does anyone know about this Lingerie Bowl deal or ever watched one? Yahoo news has a lot more pictures for it then the real super bowl. They were all so exciting that I could not narrow down one for the site. 

I just thought this was cool look at this guys finger? That is his beard wrapped around his head.

 

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02-02-06 11:09am

Wow I can't believe it is already Thursday. Last night went to Mike's after work and I think I will do that more often. PBR draws are either a $1 or $1.50, can't beat that.  After that I got caught up on TV shows I had been saving.  In order of enjoyment: Shield, American Dad, Simpson's, Family Guy, Desperate Housewives.  Yes somehow American Dad and Simpson's. were funnier then Family Guy. My favorite line of the night was Lenny talking to homer on a cell phone saying "Sorry Homer I can't talk now I'm being satisfied in every possible way"

Since I'm on a TV topic and I'm not interested in promoting Groundhog day, the Yahoo pic of the day is This meth addicted Full House star. I still think she is better off then Dustin Diamond. 

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02-01-06 10:30am

ahh I started this at 10:30 but its now almost noon and I have posted nothing. So I better lay something out here for my poor viewers. Lined Jeans is next on my list of topics.

I have 2 pairs of jeans that are not the normal denim variety but something more exciting. One pair I wear for skiing, snowboarding, sledding, or other extreme cold conditions. These are lined with a thick red fleece and stay very warm. They look pretty much like normal jeans but stay real warm and feel nice on my legs. The other pair I just got in Utah and are lined with a very thin layer of blue and yellow flannel. These are just a little warmer, look exactly like normal jeans and feel very nice. I would recommend everyone consider such items in their next jean purchase. I know it has been a week winter and warmer jeans has not crossed anyone's mind but I here eventually the sun will fizzle out and we will go through some sort of ice age. Those of us in flannel lined jeans may be slightly less devastated.

Lots of good yahoo pics today w/ the whole bush thing but I'm going another direction and use this Asian on her knees. (ABJ) I mean really how can you beat that. Those crazy Japanese are not only selling, warming seat toilets but now they test your pee when it comes out for protein problems.   

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01-31-06 9:30am

sorry kiddos I'm running late today, had some things to take care of first thing when I got in. I got a great night of sleep last night and I feel fantastic today. (my ear is a little sore from sleeping on it) Also I found a stale long john that Matt had left at my house this weekend and that with an apple made for a great breakfast.

I think I dressed to warm today, I went for a long sleeve under my polo shirt and then found out its going to be 60 or something today. I'm so ready for some real winter, snow and ice and nasty cold. I believe I'm going to go cut/split wood all weekend and its more fun when there is snow out and its crazy cold out. This year we will be in shorts and t-shirts sweating our butts off.

Well anyway this bull got lose and tore through a bunch of Mexicans, what a sweet country we need more sports that are dangerous to watch in US. I'm pretty sure they ended up shooting it in the head or something right there in the stands and then going back to the regularly scheduled programming. 

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01-30-06 8:15am HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEVIN AND CHEF?

So busy busy weekend and I'm tired and feeling unproductive today.

I started to type out all the stuff I did this weekend but it seemed boring.

Highlights are: My boat is coming right a long, maybe an hour or so of work and it will be water ready on Sat. night Matt Stooks, Tony, Jon, Heather, and I worked on it. The transom is complete and plenty sturdy. The motor is attached and the fuel line connected. The steering is also all set now.

I was running late on Sunday morning and showed up just as the 5K run was starting so I didn't do it. Instead I ran the 10K and won it. (It's possible I did not win) 

Jon did not get the garage as done as hoped for but it is looking better already.

I believe Kevin and Chef had Birthdays this weekend and I was a mean-face friend and didn't talk to them. I'll try to Photoshop something. (pictured above)

Apparently I'm boycotting sleep or something I think I'm about to crack though.

Was family guy new this weekend? I have not gotten to watch it yet.

The Japanese have brought back Transformers, giddy up, Yahoo Photo  here->

I better get to work, Lucy is visiting this morning and then I imagine I will go to Minskey's Monday sometime after that.

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1-26-06 8:43am    Fun w/ fire and used motor oil

I probably change my oil more often then most people but I have fun with it and when I'm done I usually get about a gallon of fun messy black liquid to play with. Now having jugs of old oil in my truck has helped me get a fire started several times when otherwise I would have had a terrible time but last weekend I found a new use for it.

Ordinarily I only need the oil if the fire is not exciting enough, the wood is wet or frozen or the fire just needs some pep. Last weekend we found a plethora of good dry wood, and had a good sized fire going in no time. Then the High Life bottles showed up and we grilled some chicken and fried some potaters. After the edibles were consumed we began to fill the empties with motor oil and this was lots of fun. 

Each bottle or can behaved differently and seemed to have its own cycle. Many bottles would host flames out the top like the pictured one, some would boil over the top encasing the bottle in fire. some would spurt oil out the top periodically, some looked much like a fountain that you would see in a fireworks display and make crackly noises.

Luckily for those present and unluckily for my blog material no ill effects were experienced. The fire got bigger/warmer/funner and we remained safe and happy.

I thought this was Bigfoot but its not :(

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01-26-06 8:45am

Last night we got good boat work done. The transom (back side of the boat where the motor clips on) was our weakest point and biggest concern but now it is very strong. Jon, Steven and I added a board to make the transom about 5 inches higher. My new motor is bigger then the old one and we wanted it to sit in the water at the same level. Then we cut a flat thin piece of steal to wrap around the new wood and the old fiberglass. Most of the evening was spent bending this metal to the perfect shape. I'm very disappointed that I didn't take pictures but our bending method involved a long piece of angled steal, propane/oxygen cutting torch, a pipe, long metal piece off a car jack, a 2x4, chef's driveway, Budweiser, 2 ford rangers, and some manly brawn. Once we got this to the perfect shape we put it on the boat and beat it into place with the splitting maul I got for Christmas. Then we cut the angle metal to fit into place and complete this amazing new transom. One more good evening of work and the boat will be ready for a test drive. We need to add steering bolt the transom together and mount the motor and connect gas and whatnot.

-nutjob from yahoo photos
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01-25-06 7:01pm(the night before)

I'm actually posting this the night before because I have some free time waiting for a computer to install some programs and I know tomorrow I have a big meeting at 10 so will be busy preparing. I'm kind of excited to tell you all about putting bottles of used motor oil into a bonfire and the fun that results but I'm going to save that post till I get my picture off the camera and see if they are any good.

This weekend I will be hosting a pre-bar party at my place on Friday night. So please join us for some drinking and game playing followed by a trip to some local drinkery. I did get registered for the run today so assuming its not full I will be doing that on Sunday morning. The rest of the weekend will probably be spent working on my boat or on putting doors on Jon's garage, both should be a good time.

I'm kind of disappointed in my Yahoo pics deal, I was really tempted to use another tennis picture or another panda picture but don't like always using the same stuff. Then I saw this Cat and yeah I know I already did a cat too but this is too 'wak' not to use. 

Cy, short for Cyclopes, a kitten born with only one eye and no nose, is shown in this photo provided by its owner in Redmond, Oregon, on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2005. The kitten, a ragdoll breed, which died after living for one day, was one of two in the litter. Its sibling was born normal and healthy.
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 01-24-06 10:45am

I hope everyone was able to have a good day yesterday. Russia's Maria Sharapova sure did Yahoo pic featured. I had a good day, went to moms after work to watch 24. Before the show I tore out the floor under the kitchen sink and replaced it. Water had leaked forever ago and rotted all the wood. It turned out looking really good and this time I used better wood in case it happens again, also I treated the wood with Thompson's water seal. Mom has gotten pretty nuts about 24, she cooked a huge pan of those pasta shell things that Olive Garden has been advertising all the time and meatballs and bread, fresh pineapple and cookies. This is the 3rd night of 24 and she always draws a crowd. Last night her friend from work came and her daughter also KK watched (he is hard core and is always there). Heather showed up at the end just to eat and socialize.  Well I had better get some work done so I can go to Minskey's for lunch.

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01-23-06 8:06am

Yes, 8:06 is awfully early to already be posting on my site but I have two reasons for the early post. I have been up since 6am this morning, so it doesn't feel early and I have some exciting news to post. This weekend while down in Miami, Oklahoma I ran into Jon's brother Luke and after saying our hellos and how are yous, He asked me how long I had had my facial hair. I responded that I grew it off and for years. He replied "Ohh It really makes you look like a pirate." This is me with similar facial hair (note the slight red tint often associated with pirates)

And then this morning I one of the yahoo pictures was this cheery little fellow:US Navy vessels have captured an number of suspected pirates in the Indian Ocean off the Somali coast after firing warning shots at their ship, the US Naval Forces Central Command said.

Well needless to say it made my weekend. Also this morning I read that Jan. 23rd is supposedly the unhappiest day of the year. Some European goon came up with this so I plan to go out of my way to have a great day and I would encourage all of you to do the same. My day has already started out pretty darn good and I don't see it slowing down.

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01-20-06 8:38am

I am having a terrible time thinking of something to write about today. I just don't feel creative at all. Is there anything you guys would like to know about?

I'll be in Pittsburg this weekend and come back with all the tools required to get some serious work done on the boat.

Heather asked that I give her credit for the run post from yesterday. She told me about it and since it is in a cave I was all about it.

Every morning when I get to work I check on my site, on www.mattstooks.com, on www.woot.com and then to to http://my.yahoo.com/.  My yahoo is a customized webpage with news, weather, comic strips, etc. all set up by me with my interests on it. I read my comics each day, often look at the weather and then I go through the most e-mailed pictures section. I've decided at least some days to pick one of these pics and drop it on my site. Sometimes I will tell you what its about and some days not.  Unfortunately I started this plan on a slow day and did not find any interesting pictures or stories. Here is a cat w/ strange eyes. FYI: Cats suck

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01-19-06 8:21am

I'm thinking about doing a 5K (3 Miles) run Sunday, January 29th and I'd like to recruit some other runners to join me. I can't find any mention of bars, beers, or drinking but the run does take place inside of some caves so the temperature never changes from 65 degrees. It's called the Children's TLC Easter Seals Groundhog Run. I have copies of the form I can e-mail anyone who is interested. Please let me know so we can get registered.

UPDATE: were looking at $30 since we are late but this includes a packet of goodies and a T-shirt. I'd like to recommend we all wear theprewitt.com Triathlon shirts for anyone we can gather to go and I will sell some of the extras to any interested parties at the run.

YAHOO PHOTO OF THE DAY:Five-year-old giant panda Chuang Chuang (R) and his four-year-old partner Lin Hui mate for the first time

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01-18-06 8:43am

It's about time I filled you all in on the results of the roommate search. Jason has moved downstairs in Kentaro's old room and two new guys have moved in upstairs. They are Ali AlYami and Mansour Alsaab. I don't know much about them but they are students at UMKC, the first year they are in the Tofel program learning English. After that year Ali will be pursuing a MIS degree and Mansour Biology. They apparently are eager to soak in our culture and learn to fit in.
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01-17-06 8:21am

I forgot to mention that I under the alias Grandma Natty won the championship in Fantasy Football this year.  I am guessing that this is the real reason Dick Vermeil came to our station. I just can't decide if he was more impressed by my amazing fantasy skills or my impressive choice of team name.

FYI: The name Grandma Natty originated from an older lady I met on a fishing trip. She sat on the shore drinking her Natural Light and fishing with a huge chunk of chicken liver tied to her hook. Meanwhile her son looked out for rangers so he could continue "noodeling", there was also some strange asian/mexican girl with the group that brought them beers when they ran low. I do need to admit that Jon and I probably came across as far stranger then this group as we piled an ungodly amount of beer, food and gear into an 8ft boat and pull started the little motor to putter off into the distance.

New Utah Pics above.
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01-16-06 10:58am

Good morning and Happy Martin Luther King Day to all of you at work today. UMKC has the day off. I'm going to enjoy the day and change my oil. I have already been to the park for a little jog. So have fun at work.
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01-13-06 9:45am

Doesn't it feel like a great day? I know I'm feeling good today, I'm not exactly sure why but I did get a good night sleep and an extra tasty apple this morning. And then I get to work and started looking through mail I got when I went to Utah and decided I should let all the readers know that I am officially a "Kansas Boater". I am the VERY proud owner of KA-100-VV. (FYI I think that is a sweet registration number). We have already began tearing down and rebuilding my boat and discussing potential names for her. I really would like to find a good name that has the initials CP like me so I can use my logo on it. Any names or part of names would be a big help.

 

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01-12-06 12:09pm

I'm sorry I'm running late but I have a great one on the way soon. It will contain an actual picture (no Photoshop I promise) with me and someone exciting.  Hint they have there arm around me.

Ex-Chiefs coach Dick Vermeil

 

Ok I did edit the first one with photoshop but just because the original was this.

 

 

 

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01-11-06 8:42am

Who's afraid of "the" big bad "THE"...

 

Tiffany that's who.

Amazingly the same girl that can easily polish off a Bacon Burger Dog (Kevin was not able to complete this task)

Fight off the romantic advances of the sensual Stooks (this is probably just a matter of time till her willpower gives in)

and does not shy away from being seen in public with Kevin (Yeah he wears the green outfit with the blond wig at every opportunity he finds)

Tiffany is somehow shy of theprewitt.com though. I believe it all stems from her fears that the commenters will attack her. I know Tiff has some New Years pictures that would be nice to see on the site and I know that everyone would love to see them and hear more from Tiffany (and be nice to her). So please post some comments to help build up her courage and lets see if we can get a blog from Tiffany. Otherwise tomorrow will be just another post about what I like to eat or how many beers I drank before I fell out of the boat.

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01-10-06 9:25am

What happened to out beloved Lovely?

  Well to start she kept pushing the date back when she would move in and then I received this e-mail.

> >  wrote: Hey,
> >
> > Just wondering how the whole 'lovely' thing shaked out.
> > I live in Vegas and have a room for rent, and she sent me an identical
e-mail.
> >
> > I did a little checking and no DOMINICOS consulting website....not in
the online UK yellow pages either.
> >
> > l8r

This concerned me so I e-mailed back with.

How did you find me? Yeah I think she is bogus

Don't you love the word Bogus? He sent back

wrote:
>  
> > Hey,
>
> I did a search on the net for the company she 'works for'.
> Your website/page was the only thing that matched.
>
> l8ryeah....i'm not sure what this scam is, but I'm pretty sure it's a scam.
I replied to her e-mail, and basically told 'her' the things I told you. 
I also provided the link to your website, asking for an explanation.

We probably won't be hearing from her again.

l8r
>
 

And then I received this from our dear Lovely.

 

Hello Chris,                  Happy new year. I would have replied your mail ealier than this, but i wasnt much at home. You will have to bear with me, PLEASE!. As I dont have any alternative. I am planning to come by next week, as soon as i get my flight ticket. I will give you my flight shedule. Thanks. Chenille

Obviously she has not moved in and I have not heard from her again but I have asked her to let me know when she gets here. I would invite everyone to send her e-mails asking about her move or whatever you want to talk to her about. chenille_vb01@yahoo.com is her address. I think I will just forward all spam to that address instead of deleteing it.

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01-09-06 9:05am

I'm back in KC and feel so behind. I was getting between 30-50 e-mails a day and many of them were actually important. The trip was great and I took some super pictures. I'll try to add to this post this afternoon with some more stuff. The boat motor started and seems to run well. I should be spending my evenings working on it for next few weeks if anyone wants to join in the fun come on over. Lovely and Laura both screwed us on moving in so I have an extra bedroom until I can find a new roommate.

 

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01-04-06 10:28pm (Utah time)

 

 

 

12-30-05 8:27am

This could be my last post for a week. I leave for Utah and am unsure of how much I will be able to keep this site updated while gone. And sorry but I imagine the next few posts will all be about my trip. You may get sick of Utah this and Utah that but stick with me and we will get through it and back to important things like pepper jelly or NFL kickers. However you have the opportunity to help yourself and fellow viewers out. How you ask? Send me blogs via e-mail. Please subject the e-mail "guest blog" and send it to IheartCP@theprewitt.com. This is not a competition or anything, and it does not have to make people urinate with laughter as my posts do each day.

I have no idea what my roommate situation is going to be like when I got back. KK has begun to move to Lawrence. I have not heard from Lovely (if she is fake someone will pay). I got a call from a Laura in California last night asking if she could see the place next week. Apparently her bikini modeling tour is becoming a bore and she wants to move to the Midwest for a year and drink beer all day and grill steaks every night. Also she was hoping there would be a dirty smoky garage with a boat in it that she could slave over in her spare time to keep her figure. I told her we would consider her but could not promise anything.

KK and I have been to Mike's Tavern three of the last 4 days. We have not been charged a cover at all. Last night we went real early and got some burgers and fries. I really like this place and someday hope they will accept me as a regular. 

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12-29-05 8:38am

Some of The Prewitt's family Christmas:

kids CTB new gloves

 

Carri open, I pose all sexy like

 trouble Dad supports the site

 

All these people in our house

Kids at Grandmas

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12-28-05 8:46am

The last couple days I have been crazy about some "Pepper Jelly" I got from my Uncle and his family. They make salsas, jellies and things and sell them. But he gave us several varieties over the holidays. I have seen pepper jelly or salsa before but did not know what to do with it. It does not taste great on a chip. I had heard it's good in chili.  Sunday I put it on a leftover turkey sandwich and wow it was great. I have been eating a lot of leftover chili sandwiches and now pepper jelly is just as necessary as cheese or mayo. Also its great on a hot dog bun instead of relish.

It seems like a strange food the

taking the place of the grapes in

Anyway give it a shot if you ever get the chance or stop by and ask me to whip you up something. You will be presently surprised, almost as much as I was by the results of my google images searches for pepper and jelly. 

http://www.boudist.com/gallery/slideshow.php?set_albumName=jelly-paddo is an intresting slide show about jelly wrestling. (beware nip slip at the end) -this guys home page leads to lots of cool stuff too. Like this guy.

http://industrialgothic.com/gbotw/1998/ the 98 list of Goth Babe of the week. 3/29 was Pepper here

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12-27-05 8:57am

Back to work. I hope everyone had as great a break as me. Don't you hate it when you are talking to someone and you think I have got to mention that in my blog tomorrow. Then in the morning you can't even remember who you were talking to at the time?

Yahoo has claimed it will get up to 57 today. Nice day to go to the park. Lovely's money order from London should arrive today.  This foolio got body slammed for running onto the field and being an idiot. That was my favorite part of football this weekend.

  Who does he think he is Cleveland blows anyhow. His time would have been better spent making-out with Drew Carry.

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12-23-05 8:50am

Merry Christmas from ThePrewitt.com

 

Last night was full of surprise visitors. KK and I went to moms to finish painting to find out my dad had driven 17hrs strait from Utah to surprise us for Christmas and was just finishing up the paint job. Then we get home and a few minutes later Chef comes walking in the door. While there Chef reminded me of my old pizza business website http://geocities.com/chrisprewitt/pizza.html. It is fairly entertaining site.

But really "The" wishes a great Christmas break for all of you and a happy new year. And for any of you celebrating Festivus, give me a call so we can wrestle at the end of the night.

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12/22/05 4:13pm

Ahh I have had this screen up all day to be edited but never got around to doing so. I went to Ben's last night to pay rent and he asked me to mention that he got a bullet blender on my blog. It looks in person just as sweet as it looks on TV.  Ben asked me to mention something else but I can not remember what it is for the life of me. I remember it was something obscene that I said, maybe he will remind me in a comment if it was not too bad. I'm really looking forward to the next few weeks. Starting tomorrow a lot of people won't be around so things should slow down. Then Christmas and a week just keeping things running and then I go to Utah for a week. My dad has been very excited about our trip and all the skiing we will do. He has been forwarding me a snow report almost daily.

I miss musko a little bit, even though his comments were never funny.

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12-21-05 8:47am

I had forgotten I got a couple of pictures of Dan Hilboldt

at His and Kevin's Christmas party. Since I do love to see people growing and shaving facial hair for funny situations I would like to post them today.  Some guy's girlfriend was dieing to lick the stash and her BF was excited to see her lick it to.

I wish I had taken more pictures in hindsight but sometimes it's hard to remember my obligations to the site.

The Nip/Tuck season ended last night with 2 of the strangest hours of TV I have ever watched. I'm sad to see the season end but with 24, The Shield and KC Brigade Arena Football starting in less then a month I'm not sure we will have enough time for it all. I would like to encourage everyone to watch all of the mentioned shows/events.

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12-20-05 8:20am

I went to Lucy's graduation last night. She had a fun bunch of people there between her different groups of friends and family. I learned some interesting things about dreadlocks like the maintenance required to get nice ones and that they are made from bees wax mixed with the hair and twisted up.

I got this e-mail yesterday and it made me laugh:

Subject: question about theprewitt.com site.. To: CapinChris@theprewitt.com one of my teachers had told me that i could get photoshop and a couple other programs from your site for free. i was just wondering if that is still possible and where i click, after files, to get it? please contact me back :-). -Alisha

Now I want you all to know that i don't have any free software on my website and this is a funny mistake. I have asked miss Alisha what class she is in and hope to find out where she is from also.

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12-19-05 11:05am

Ahh less then a week till Christmas. Things are going so fast.

The chiefs are done :(  I have not decided who to back I football now. I was all for the Colts to go undefeated all the way but now they lost so I want them to blow it all and I don't want to see the Patriots go too far.

Pretty good weekend, I feel like I got a lot done. I don't really have any blog stories of my own life but I have a good story about chicken teriyaki boy.

KK went to Lawrence Friday and got into all sorts of beer, saki, whiskey etc. Then decided he would go to the bar and walked the 4 or so blocks to the bars. Then decided not to go to the bar and walk back. On the way back he and his friend slipped on some ice.  The next thing he remembers he wakes up on her couch the next day and his shoulder does not work right and he is really sore. He later discovers that he has a bruise on his face, his shoulder is disconnected and he lost his keys. His friend has a big bump on her head and bruises on her arm and she can not find her shoes. They go retrace there steps to find the missing items but it has since snowed and they are unable to find anything.

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12-16-05 8:48am

It's been a long week but finally Friday, I'm getting ready to head to Winsted's for some breakfast and still have not decided on an egg burger or blueberry pancakes???? Anyhow the roommate search is starting to show some hope. Lovely wrote back and asked for pictures... Of the house you goons. And I got an e-mail from a Raymond, Vashanti Coleene, this person asked what gender I wanted a roommate to be and I can not figure out what gender they have? I got my Christmas shopping done last night and I'm pleased.

Well I better wrap things up and do some real soul searching on my breakfast plans.

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12-15-05 9:06am

School is over for KK and I so last night we celebrated with some whiskey. Steven and Becky came by with some good stuff and got loud and argued about motorboat design and NFL kickers.  I am of the belief that kickers should be better then they are. I can understand a kick being blocked or blowing off with sever wind issues but nerves or direction of laces should not be a factor.  Anyhow these guys should be more automatic and tougher.  I'd like to see bigger kickers who if given a bad snap or some BS could pick up the ball and pound it in or something. Maybe I will train a kicker someday from an early age bulk him up and train him to kick the ball laying on its side so no ball placement will be a factor.

So I can't tell if this e-mail from last night is real or not I replied to "Lovely" last night and have not heard back yet.  Ohh and if anyone asks tell them my friends call me Studly.

I got my outfit for Kevin's Christmas party last night and I am feeling quite jolly about the whole thing.

Lets just use the comments from last night for today.

12-14-05 5:58pm

I just received this e-mail about the room to rent in our house.

Hello Chris,                  Thanks for the response , i am very happy to hear from you. I am Chenille (My friends call me Lovely) born in England . I am a graduate of Limerick University, Ireland and work as a professional software engineer /project manager. I am currently working on contract for my company DOMINICOS consulting inc. here in Great Britain. I am a very dedicated individual who is totally committed to human development, friendly, very trustworthy and value relationship above anything. I love traveling, sporting and enjoy meeting people. I don't smoke but do not mind people who do being around me. I am cool headed and easy going person with no criminal record and like to have a roommate who is very responsible and understanding, someone i can really get along with. I'm a quiet and easy going person to live with. My families lives here in Lond on and i have no friends in US except you lol. as i am currently in London City , but hope to end my current assignment by the 28th of December and should be in the states latest 3rd January as i like to come over to explore my talent and hope to have a more profitable job. I saw your advert and i am sincerely interested in the room advertised as i will like to move in as soon as possible. Please i will love to know the total cost for initial move in room and the utilities so as to arrange for you to get the money prior to my arrival, since i am currently in London and will love to move into a comfortable place on my arrival. Thanks and have a good time. Respectfully

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12-12-05 7:13pm

Sorry for just posting now being so late in the day but it has been a busy one. That and I am punishing some of you for posting comments under other peoples names, yes you know who you are.  I'm having trouble thinking of anything but work right now and that never makes for a good post. All right here is the plan I'll go home make a nice turkey sandwich open up a high life and continue my post then.

8:47pm        This little guy came to eat what's left of Boozer's dog food on Sunday night. We have a bunch of squirrels that like it too. KK and I are watching ConAir and enjoying some 16oz High Lifes. We had some amazin' turkey sandwiches for dinner. Onion roll grilled with butter, melted pepper jack and American cheese, fresh tomato, letus and onion, mustard and Japanese mayonnaise and of course full of some big slices of leftover turkey.

I think tomorrow we will have a minibon (small bonfire in the BBQ grill in our backyard).  Anyone is welcome to join in the fun of grilling delight.  

 

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12-12-05 9:32am

A fairly uneventful weekend overall. I saw "I heart Huckelbees" has anyone seen this movie? odd stuff KK and I have discussed throwing a New Years party at our house. I think it would be a good time. The next day I will leave for Utah and be gone a week assuming my boss will give me the time off (I have already bought the plane tickets so I really hope he does). KK moves out around then too so this would be our last chance for a party for a while. Let me know what you guys think, or if anyone had something else in mind. I'm running a presentation on Blogs today at 1pm so wish me luck. umm no picture today.

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12-09-05 9:45am

Last night I promised more but that is really about it for our sledding adventure. FYI Wal-Mart does not have sleds but K-Mart carries the Martha Stewart Comfort Cruiser Toboggan and it is quite nice. I was surprised at how quickly I threw down the $30 to purchase one but I was desperate for a real sled. K-Mart also had some fancier heaters then Wal-Mart. My favorite had two pillars that could stick strait up next to each other and rotate opposite directions, or they could move out from each other at any angle or flat where they could heat a large area of the cold floor, but it was like $80. So back to sledding, we rescued KK's bronco from being stuck on Holmes and then got motivated and shoveled the drive and then went sledding on our street for a while but got tired of the strait run and traffic so thought it was logical to go to the top of the parking garage where there would be no cars for us to watch out for and no one would be able to see us and cause trouble. We had not planned on the Police having cameras installed watching us the whole time. The officer was nice and told us the ways we could have died and whatnot and then let us go on our way ticket free.

you can see the new sled nicely in this pic

Anyhow check out the new photo album above and the Christmas party link for the Hilboldt Christmas party. Hopefully Kevin will wear pants this time.

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12-08-05 10:00pm

Tonight KK and I had to explain to the police why were pulling a sled on the 4th floor of the parking garage. (more tomorrow)

12-08-05 11:42am

Gota love the snow. UMKC is cancelled today and yesterday afternoon. I'm a dork and came in anyway to work on my paper and do things like my blog. Lucy gave me a Giga Bite of pictures from her camera from the Triathlon so be ready for lots more orange pics to follow. This was around 11 last night.  KK is hardcore truck pull sleader refusing to wear real gloves only a baseball batting glove and a karate boxing glove. Jason and I are mere posers.

KK

Jason

CP

 

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12-07-05 9:47am

The Prewitt is worried.  I am worried about Teriyaki Chicken Boy's departure from my house. I have less then a month to find a new Roommate and no potential candidates at all. It seems like this would be an easy room to fill, being so close to everything but I am having trouble getting the word out.

So I need your help, please help me get the word out there and find a roommate. Tell your friends and give out my cell phone number, potential roommates are also encouraged to call my 816-529-6749 cell and leave a message if I don't answer.

Picture of my house and the sweet truck potential roommates could ride in.

 

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12-06-05 10:30am

It was a cold morning on the day of the mighty triathlon. As I awoke and tasted the cold electricity in the air I realized no amount of trying would allow me to fall back asleep. I eagerly got out of bed and prepared myself for the run. I began the day by making pancake batter and chopping up peaches to toss in. After a hearty portion of flapjacks and bananas. I replaced the battery in my truck, got some money from the ATM, laid out the shirts and got dressed for the run. Knowing I would need to be running/drinking at my best I would also need to look my best. I shaved my fuman, put on my cut-offs and had my first beer to calm my nerves and warm up my liver for a long weekend.

Then the runners started to show and anyone could see the mixtures of excitement anticipation and fear in their faces. We passed out the shirts and waited for everyone to arrive. We gave up on the no show runners like Cheff and Brian Sulley who must have decided to stay home and sip hot chocolate, under a warm blanket and think about warm summer days. Next we pilled into the Ranger and drove to our start point at 59th and Brookside. The Triathlon had begun and there was no turning back now.

If I continued this blog in story form it would be huge so I'm going to switch to highlights and my favorite parts now. I was crowned the joggermeister but I feel as though every man out there had characteristics of a joggermeister and we could have argued for any one of us to get it. Along the way people seemed very supportive and impressed by our adventure. The 2 bad experiences on the run were The Peanut being jerks to us and charging 3.25 a bottle of beer at 3 in the afternoon and the Levee not allowing people inside wearing running pants. (But these bars blow anyway) Jon wore jeans and boots and smoked most of the way. Ben struggled early on but once he got some cigarettes and a bit of alcohol in him he was a powerhouse.

There has been a lot of conversation about doing it again and I am all for it. I think twice a year in the spring and fall is best. Or maybe one in the spring and one on a cold winter morning for the extra fun. I'm sure many of the best parts are not coming to mind right now so please send comments with your favorite part if you were there. 

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12-05-05 11:00am

NOTE: THEPREWITT.COM would like to steer all it's viewers away from the bars "The Peanut" and "The Levee". Please boycott these bars for there negative approach to the triathlon. If you don't stay away for me stay away for J.C.

If anyone else who was there wants to write about it and e-mail me that would be great. Work is busy and I have a final tonight.

So Saturday was the run (hopefully a guest blogger will describe it for you) and Sunday I woke up and got ready for the Chiefs/Denver game. We got to the parking lot a bit after 11 and began some tailgating. I was a last minute addition to the group so did not do bacon burger dogs or anything odd. We had beer, brats and burgers. It was a cold but great time.

  
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final T-shirt design

Saturday December 3rd. We will run 6 miles, to 6 bars, drink 6 (or more beers), with 6 (or more) friends. UPDATED PLAN 12/01/05

Meet at ThePrewitt's house at 1:30pm (by 2 we will leave). We will start the run part way to Hoopers and run .5 miles to get there. From Hoopers we go to The Peanut, 1.5 miles. After The Peanut we head to Tom Fooleries, .75 miles. Fooleries to Kelly's in Westport, .83 miles.  We can not arrive at The Levee until 4pm so we could easily add another Westport bar if we want at this point. Otherwise it's .4 miles to The Levee. Then we hit the final 2.0 mile stretch to Mike's and we are done. From Mike's we are right by my house so everyone can hit the roads in their cars (not recommended), or stay at Mikes for a while and then go back to my place and party on or sober up.  Side note: About everyone going or considering going has told me they are "really out of shape". I want you to be clear THAT IS FINE (and encouraged), we are all out of shape. Real runners don't take a break every mile to drink a beer and they judge a winner by who finishes fastest. Theprewitt.com triathlon does not have a winner but a joggermeister that is not connected to the fitness of the contestant at all. A joggermeister is awarded on a fun factor, whomever has the most fun and contributes to the others having the most fun. So now ask yourself...

"Who will be the Joggermeister"

 

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12-01-05 10:45pm

Kentaro and I ran the part of the triathlon through campus to find the shortcuts. Then we drove the whole thing and it is going to be great. Right now Yahoo says

Saturday: Mostly cloudy skies early, then partly cloudy in the afternoon. High 39F. Winds N at 5 to 10 mph.

I am going to be peaty busy in the morning so count this post as mine for Friday. I hope to be typing my paper and working on the new www.theprewitt.com/cms website sometime this will take over as my homepage. I still need to work on it but I recommend going into forums and setting up some or replying to some. Heck set up your own account if you want to get ahead of the game.

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12-01-05 8:17pm

My sister Kelly called me last night, she and her BF have dropped out of the big race. The pressures to compete for the beloved Joggermeister title are immense and have overcome 4 of our runners. Geoff, Ashley, Kelly and Chris (Kelly's BF) have all dropped out and I'm guessing Cheff will either drop or not show because he fears the Joggermeister. (UPDATE: please see comments link above)  But we are still in great shape Kevin, who had some concerns early on has overcome them and guaranteed a good showing and a good outfit. I also received an e-mail today from Brian Sulley wanting to join the race. Don't tell anyone but I suspect him to be Musko. (I recommend typing musko in to Google images if you are bored, here is my fav. one)

I'd like to see some comments on what you guys and gals listen to at work. Are you allowed to play some music or radio or something? If so what do you commonly listen to? Does anyone at work or home play music from their computer on a regular basis?

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11-30-05 8:10am

Last night after helping Cheff move some stuff, KK and I went to Mikes and found out they don't open till 5pm on Saturdays. This is a bit of a problem for our run. I think it is an any problem to fix and I'm thinking about just going the opposite direction and finishing by my house. Then we will be closer to my house and everyone's vehicles when we are done. I'll call around to all the bars tonight and make sure we can still go to them.

Kevin made us cheese dip last night for watching Nip/Tuck. The show was nuts and the dip was yum.

The search for a new roommate is beginning to wind up. The house has been very clean for several days now and I'm trying to post things on websites and get the word out. If you have not heard Kentaro is moving out after December and I need to find a new roommate. Now that I have my camera back from Kevin I think i'm going to take pictures of the house and post them on a website I can send folks too. Perhaps Musko needs a place to stay?

 

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11-29-05 8:12am

MAMA MIA ThePrewitt is white! In honor of the snow I saw on the ground when I woke up this morning the website is white today. I don't really have anything exciting to report today. Yahoo and I believe the weather will not be that bad for our run just a slight chance of rain but over 50deg. Well I'm going to eat my banana and do a bit of work. Have a good day all.

 

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11-27-05 6:21pm

First remember to check the new photo album above of our football pictures from the big game this Saturday. As expected it was a lot of fun and our team won. I believe our appearance was overwhelmingly intimidating to the other team and caused them to lose. Esp. Kevin's outfit, Geoff's stash, and my cut off jean shorts (also T-Bone is very ugly). It has been a great break and had a lot of fun. Early in the break we had a very big bonfire at the pitt.

This week is going to be very busy with preparing for the triathlon on Sat. and working on a 15+ page term paper for my class. Right now I'm suggesting we meet at my house around 1:30pm on Saturday and be on the road by 2pm.  If anyone wants us to move a little early or later suggest it in the comments. I need to check with Mike's this week to see when they open on Saturdays. T-shirts are being made, I hope to pick them up on Thursday and the cost was estimated at $10 each.

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11-25-05 6:58pm

T-SHIRT LIST

Kentaro  -M	Kentaro (2nd one)  -L	Ben  -L
Kevin  -L	Chef  -XL	Jon  -M
Mike (not running)  -L	Kelly  -M	Carri (not running)  -S
Geoff  -XL	Ashley  -S	Heather  -M
ThePrewitt  -XL	Dad  (not running)  -XL	Tiffany  -M

If you or someone you know is not on this list and should be please let me know. Also the letter after your name is my guess at the size of shirt you want, if this is incorrect let me know or live with the consequences. Please note the link above to view the t-shirt also.

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11-22-05 10:17pm - Dan Hilboldt e-mail

"The time has come for our "Showdown at Stoll"  This years game will be
played at 2:00 on the same field we played on last year...the softball
field in the South East corner of Stoll Park.  This years match up is
between the Orange Iguanas and the Purple Jaguars via Legends of the
Hidden Temple on Nickelodeon.  You are encouraged to bring wives,
fiancés, girlfriends and children so that they too can see the Dan
Hilboldt Football Clinic; which I will be putting on free of charge to
all players and spectators"

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11-22-05 10:03am

Got tons of sleep last night and am much better today. First I'm going to warn the millions of readers that the FORD Dealership, Marcus Allen Ford on Broadway to be exact sucks. I hope to never do business with them again. One more work day this week and I bet it will be short. I was hoping to have some details about the big football but I'm still unsure of them.

I think the consensus is that Northstar beer is bad. Several people have tried it and most are not real fond of the stuff. So far everyone has been able to finish at least one, except for Kevin. This makes me wonder if Kevin has a problem and not the Northstar, he was not even able to finish a bacon burger dog last time we made them, and everyone knows they are delicious. Even Renay my sisters roommate was able to finish a Northstar.

 Renay looking slightly confused by Kevin's lack of appetite.

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11-21-05 11:26am

Bad news first: Ahhhh school is no fun, why did I come back. I am tired and crabby. I got back from Pittsburg at 12:30 last night. My truck is still messed up, I need to replace the center cap now. My neck and hands are soar from working on a bronco with Jon. I need to get things rolling on the T-shirts. No one noticed (or cared) the web site of the day is gone.

Good news last: I think I can replace this cap on my own and for little money. Its a short work week. Chiefs tore it up. I decided instead of deciding what was allowed and restricted on the run I would go with the policy that "Anything goes" I will run but if you want you can bike, walk, drive, take a cab or limo or whatever. Also you can have a shirt and not even show up. You can drink water or soda or Gatorade or martinis  or even nothing at all instead of beer.  I have 2 potential shirt makers lined up but no source for shirts yet, so I may get to go to JC Penny Outlet Mall.

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11-18-05 830am

    First off the run is getting dangerously close and the T-shirts need to be made still. I would like to get a head count on who will want a shirt. They will be a yellowish orange color with black writing. The colors should be similar to a crosswalk sign.

  You have seen some plans for the design but the official layout has not been released. We may try to make them next weekend on the Sunday after the big Thanksgiving football game (I'll be sure to post about it next week).

Last night I spent much of the evening in front of the BBQ grill cooking steaks, drinking Northstar and burning wood. It was nice and delicious, with the steak we had baked potatoes, green beans w/bacon and jalapeno and cheddar scalloped potatoes. Kevin did not come in spite of his post on this site that he would. Apparently he was very tired after attempting to kidnap some topless boy. Luckily the boy did not want any of his candy.

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11-17-05 8:24am

    I was talking with KK last night and we decided we had eaten to much chicken lately and so tonight we are grilling steaks on a real wood fire out back. I'm going to go to Apple Market for some meat after work and then begin building a nice fire and eventually a healthy pit of coals. I think I'm going to whip up some scalloped potatoes and green beans too. If you are in the mood for a yummy steak let me know and I'll pick you up one and you can join in the fun. This should give me a good opportunity to do some work on the boat while things are getting going. Also I imagine some Northstar will be drank.

 

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11-16-05 3:20pm

    I apologies for not putting up a post this morning I was at Winsted's having breakfast when I usually am posting things. They have a great breakfast BTW. I got a steak and egg breakfast sandwich with cheese and a side of hash browns. The steak is just code for a hamburger. So the whole thing was actually an eggburger. I love eggburgers so I was very pleased. My Coworkers Brian and Steven went also and so I got to taste the blueberry pancakes. These are also excellent. I was a little disappointed in my orangeade though. I was was expecting something like a cherry limeade with sherbet and a slice of orange in it but it was just orange soda with a couple cherries. Nonetheless I recommend breakfast at Winsted's very highly.

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11-14-05 10:09pm

    I GOT THE NEW JOB FOR THE RADIO STATION!!! ...keg party to follow...

-WARNING LONGEST POST EVER TO FOLLOW (in honor of Mike S I don't know when to stop today)-  Everyone seems to want to know about the broken truck. I know it's hard to believe that such a sexy and manly truck could possibly have any problems but there is an explanation. I was the victim of a sabotage attack by my enemies. Friday night driving home from the bars through some questionable neighborhoods in a questionable state I noticed that the truck sounded funny and drove a little weird but in the interest in preserving my life and freedom I drove on to the hotel and decided to troubleshoot in the morning. The next day I woke up early (9:00ish) when the people in the room above or next to me decided to move the bed around and practice making ghost calls. I could not go back to sleep because I was worried about my truck so I got up and went to check on it. I looked it over and had decided the night before the driver side was the noise maker. I went so far as to jack it up and take off the tire and move the break around and turn the wheel looking for a cause. The tire had a little cut in the sidewall and I decided that must be it and switched it out with the spare. KK and I got cleaned up and checked out and decided to head for the place where dreams and Natty come from. But we immediately found the noise to still be there, we luckily pulled over in an ALDI parking lot and looked things over still no idea we decided since this was a new Aldi for us we should go in and look it over. THEY HAD BEER and wine and it was all I had dreamed of. We got a case of Northstar and Northstar light and with renewed spirits headed out. We drove for a while imagining the noise was not there until it quickly got way worse and we pulled over again. This time we went to the more advanced technique of me running backwards while KK drove beside and behind me. I decided it was not the driver side but the passenger side (that we had never even glanced at) I could see the problem right away. I should have seen 5 lug nuts and 5 studs that the lug nuts screw to. Instead I saw one lug nut and two studs (4 if you count KK and I but only 2 on the wheel). I took a nut off the back and tightened the last 2 as much as I could. And carefully drove to Firestone. KK and I were stranded there for the next 5 hrs roughly and we decided to walk to the nearest Wall-Mart, movie theatre, mall, bar, or sit-down restaurant. We walked for about 1 hour at a fast pace and only stopped once. Everywhere we passed was either a beauty saloon w/ expertise in African braiding, a Chinese place called chop suy, a pawn shop, a check cashing business or a Flea Market. We saw a huge building advertising a giant flea market and were desperate enough to go in. KK described it best when he asked if we had gone to another country. I think you could have bought ANYTHING in this place it was so scary. Needles to say we stuck out like soar thumbs and made a quick circle and took off before we could be shot. KK noted that I was the only white person he had seen all day. Then we walked back to the Firestone and KK napped in a chair and I watched football until the angry black woman showed up and cussed out the staff, screaming all sorts of stupid things until they called the cops and she took off. Finally about 4:30 my truck was good as new and we were back on the road. After talking to the mechanic it seems this was an odd problem for a truck to have and I believe someone was taking off my lug nuts in the middle of the night while I was parked downtown in St.Louis. So there are enemies out to sabotage "the" prewitt, but rest assured they are no match for me, KK and the trusty Ranger.

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11-14-05 9:33am

    I had an interesting weekend and a lot to say but I don't like to make giant posts so I will be brief. I was in St. Louis with KK. Highlights: Got the motor and it is nice but very big. My truck broke down and we were stranded with nothing to do but walk all day Saturday, all is well now. Went to several interesting bars in St.Louis off the beaten path including a very lesbian bar. Went to Columbia Saturday night and slept in the truck bed after closing down the bars and then drinking in a bush. I took almost no pictures all weekend until after the bars Saturday night. We had to empty the truck bed of all our belongings in order to sleep there The hardest was the new motor but it fits perfectly in the cab of my truck.

  

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11-11-05 8:15am

    First I got some new pictures from Lynsey of the stickmen.

Also I believe it may interest some of you that my bag of red apples is empty and I had the first green apple today (golden delicious I believe). It was good.

I got all caught up on my weekly TV last night, so now I can discuss nip/tuck, lost, Alias, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy and Squidbillies. Also I would like it noted that before watching lost I made the statement to multiple people that I hoped the hot blond chick died because she is worthless to the show (besides eye candy). I get to interview on Monday for the Radio Station IT guy job that I'm currently working temporarily, so that's exciting. 

 

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11-10-5 7:07am

    Been at work since 5am, also I have decided its going to be a coffee day. More fun sure to follow. Also Kevin sent this in:

3:48pm think I'm going to call it a day and go home. KK and I would really like to get another person to come to St. Louis with us. We will leave tomorrow around 4pm. The run crowd keeps growing.

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11/09/05 8:47pm

How about these stick men?

            RUN                        DRINK                        PUKE

And this logo by Chicken Teriyaki Boy

11/09/05 9:02am     

Yesterday after work KK, Cheff and I went to the park to throw and kick the football around for a bit, then KK and I did our regular grocery shopping at ALDI. We spent $43 and got 44 items. I always like to look at my receipt and try to get more items then dollars. A few weeks ago my sisters roommate the lovely Renay called to tell me that Aldi would begin to sell there own beer. Obviously I was very excited and am still waiting to see it in the store. I really think this will be my beer of choice for quite some time. Check out this sweet package it comes in.

What's with the second picture, you ask. I found a whole new section on the website titled "New Traditions, Wine and Beer" Man I love Aldi

Website of the day: www.aldi.com really slick website for such a cheep place. 
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11/08/05 08:14am

       Man the excitement for the run is high. Thanks to Cheff and Kevin we have some suggestions for names and we discussed T-shirt design at the bar last night. I believe KK and Kevin are going to draw up some prototypes. Yesterday was very busy at work and I apologies for never continuing my post. Anyone want to go to St.Louis this weekend? I don't have any details yet but it should be a good trip. I have the weirdest fish in my office. He will occasionally lay on the top of the water until I get up to look at him then he will swim around. Sometimes he will lay on the rocks at the bottom. I'm not really worried about "Fishy" though because he does this so often and has for quite sometime. I have almost had him for a year. People at work give me a hard time because he is in a beer mug and its small but I think Beta fish don't need much room. lots of pics on the net show them in small containers.

  I did not want to take time to take picture of my fish but he looks something like this.

Website of the day: www.thedailyfarce.com/legal.cfm?story=2005%5C...  
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11/07/05 12:37pm

       Well I have been waiting to update in hopes of more suggestions/interest on the run. I'm going to go to lunch now and update more later.

Website of the day: http://www.xanga.com/lucie_jane 11/05/05 9:20am (Saturday?)

 

       That's right a weekend post, what fun. I went to bed early last night and thus woke up early. I was just too excited to sleep in. Last night I bought this http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4586845955&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1 and I plan to pick it up next weekend. It looks like the seller is about 2 hrs south of St.Louis so road trip next weekend if anyone is interested in going, I'll probably go out in St.Louis Friday and Saturday nights. Get a cheep motel near a bar district and do it right. 

Last night KK and I went to Mike's Tavern by our house and had a few $1.50 PBR's and came up with a super plan for the weekend after Thanksgiving,

    Right now KK and I are in for sure. Kevin and Jon have acted interested and said they would make it. I'm guessing Geoff will be in, but who else?  I'm considering making cheesy shirts if there is interest. Let me know if you are interested in joining and have ideas, suggestions or whatever. I have not come up with a good name yet but the date is 12-3 and 666 seems to be a theme. Please send ideas of what to call it. Girls are welcome to join and I guess non-beer drinkers but you would obviously be looked down upon. Also if you were not a runner you could meet up with us somewhere along the way I'd imagine we will stay at Hoopers and drink for a while.(1.5miles back to my house from there, optional run/walk/drive).  We are not raising money for AIDS or breast cancer or anything. However KK will provide free breast and prostate exams and it only costs you the price of your beers and maybe a T-shirt.  

Website of the day: http://www.dalsail.com/French%20Nationals%202001/runnging_girl_main.htm found while looking for pic of running beer.
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11/04/05 12:37pm

       Already Friday afternoon and I am without a plan for this weekend. I may go look/buy a boat motor. Or hang out in Pittsburg or go to Kevin's. Things are fairly slow at work and I anticipate the rest of the day to be dead. Ben stood me up last night and no call even. :( Anyone ever been to Kona grill? I may go after work but i'm not sure. I'm having trouble thinking of something interesting to say. If someone e-mails me a post by the end of the day today I will put it up. If you are late but it makes me laugh I will do a bonus weekend post.

update:1:25pm found some old pics off my cell phone figured I would share them Here

 

Website of the day: www.justinspace.com speaking of Kona
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11/03/05 08:25am

       It is supposed to be 79 degrees F today. That really makes me want to come down with some illness that makes me have to leave work play Frisbee in the park all day or something. Well not Frisbee because its going to be windy. If the boat was running it would be a good day to chill and cruise around a lake. Maybe throw in a line or 2 sip on some lemonade and enjoy the end of good weather.  However I am looking forward to the cold too.

I'm on the verge of a winter beard, I'm in those couple of days where you have to decide to let it grow or have a painful shave. I'm really torn, I know I have a job interview any day and I don't want to look like a vagrant for it but on the other hand the sooner I grow it, the sooner I will tire of it and shave a fuman.

The F.U. in its glory

Props to Kevin on the amazing facial hair he had on Friday night. (no pic available at this time)

 

Website of the day: www.dribbleglass.com/subpages/crayons.htm quicky
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11/02/05 01:54pm

    Yesterday afternoon I had a delightful conversation with Stooks about our websites and various things but the most memorable part was when he asked my pants waist size. 34 or 36 I told him, why? Apparently someone had told Matt that when he wares size 34 his butt looks funny but no so much when he wares 32s so he is willing to give me all his 34s. Now the last thing I want is to get into Matt's pants (zing). But this struck me as very odd. First how do you decide all pants of a same size look the same on a guy and why would Stooks listen to this nonsense instead of replying with some vulgar comment about where the commenter should place there lips or something. Unfortunately both of us were busy so I don't have the answers to these questions. Matt fill us in please???
Stock picture of Matt and love of Pants.

11/02/05 08:09am

       Well I checked on my truck during lunch and it started fine with a jump from Steven. Possibly Cheff's Honda Element did not have the beefyness needed to jump a Ranger? So I took my truck to O'reily after work to have the battery tested (it's on Troost and a bit ghetto). The employee hooked it up to the tester and I believe mumbled it's ok or something positive about the battery. Then asked why I was having it tested and I told him it would not start this morning then he pushed buttons for a while, waited a bit and said It's bad, got a bad cell and held the devise to me that said "Bad Battery". I went inside paid $80 for a new battery tossed it in the back of my truck started the truck up fine and drove home. Once home I left the lights on for a while and then started the truck fine several times. Do I really have a bad battery.

 

Website of the day: www.99rooms.com click enter full screen then, click here to start in the top left corner. Can you make it all the way
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11/01/05 12:45pm

    I'm waiting on a phone call on some funky radio software but the last two days have been nuts around here. That will teach me to take Friday afternoon off I guess. Does anyone use iTunes much or more importantly "podcasts" I'm going to figure out how to create them and possibly use them for the station or personal enjoyment. To get a sample of what my podcast would be like copy mms://theprewitt.com/porch into your browser. It won't play in iTunes (i think) but the content would be similar.

I got my midterm back last night and I received a..... 98% BooYeah. The teacher still commented that I should talk more in class though. I need to pick a class for next semester soon.

My truck would not start this morning :( i'm not sure what to do with it.  

 

Website of the day: http://www.geocities.com/chrisprewitt/sat.html kinda miss it today.
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10-30-05 9:03pm

    The weekend is about over and I'm trying to make my blog stuff ready for the morning. I hope to get up early and run before work since I have had a terrible diet lately. Here is what I have eaten as far back as I remember.

Wednesday.  not sure what I had for breakfast or lunch but had Pizza Hut for dinner with my parents.
Thursday.  breakfast-Mcmuffin at McDonalds, lunch-triple BLT at The Peanut, dinner-Tenderloin at Gov. Stumpys
Friday.  breakfast-bagel, lunch-Arthur Bryant's BBQ, dinner-Chicken Sand. at Gov. Stumpys
Saturday.  breakfast-none, lunch-Super Bacon Burger Dog, dinner-Burger at Gov. Stumpys
Sunday.  breakfast-cake (strawberry), lunch-Arthur Bryant's BBQ, dinner-ribs from neighbor and more cake
        So I hope to not eat out this week and to run/workout a lot.

It was such a nice weekend. Took off early on Friday and after eating AB w/ dad and KK we made the Bacon Burger Dogs. Pops came up with a new version of the BBD using a sausage instead of hot dog and adding jalapenos to the foil.
   
Then that night I went to the Red Balloon with TonyPitt, Jon, KK, Cheff, Heath, and Amanda. It was fun, but too loud then we went to Charlie Hoopers and met up with Kevin, TonyV, and Geoff. After that we messed around at my house. Saturday was the big game and the BBDs all went great PSU even won.
-In line on the way to the stadium. 
-Time to eat the BBDs (yum-yum)   -Sideline at the game  
After that I went to my cousins Eagle Ceremony then to the news room with Joel, Cheff and TonyPitt. We had to go through a checkpoint on the way home. (The rumors were correct) Tony had a little pee come out during the ordeal but thanks to some goofball football comments by Chef we escaped.  Sunday morning I moved a 600lbs old school safe from Bonner Springs to my garage for Jon. Then we went to AB and came back to watch football all day and night. Now I am baking a loaf of bread for my office Halloween party for tomorrow.

Website of the day: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=white+bread+recipe&ei=UTF-8&fr=slv1-&fl=0&x=wrt not picking a specific recipe but winging it? wish me luck
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10-28-05  9:15am

    TGIF,  I am only working 1/2 a day today to hang out with my dad some. I also need to prepare the Bacon Burger Dogs for tomorrow. I am very excited for the game at arrowhead and even the trip to "The Red Balloon" tonight. It was almost back to my old high school gang of friends last night. Matt Stooks (www.mattstooks.com) was the only one missing. TonyV is in town from Chicago and Mike is leaving for Chicago then Denver. Kevin has a mini tennis ball and he and I spent much of the night trying to throw it in each others mouth. (he is much beter than I) I believe the other guys were afraid of the ball and the certain germs it carried.

 But probably they were just nerd burgers

 

Website of the day: http://www.mcphee.com/items/10783.html

 

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10-27-05 4:40pm

    UPDATE ON BOOZER!!! Boozer had some sort of heart failure this afternoon and passed on. May he rest in piece.  

Last night Lucy brought her friend Yumi over to hang out with KK, Chef and I. We decided to just chill at my place and drink a few beers and socialize but it was quite a time. Yumi was a nut and reminded KK and I of the movie Kung Pow.  

Yumi was just like the character Ling, most noticeably for the strange noises she makes in the place of conversation.  For example at one point KK asked Yumi if she thought we should get some prostitutes. She responded with "ooohhhhwwweeeeeeyaaa...have you evvvveaaaa" So obviously we hope to see more of her because she is a very interesting character and no amount of my stories can really describe her.  FYI she was a fiber major at an art institute. (cloth not raisin bran)

Website of the day: http://www.sannes.net/pages/00000125.html Davin says "Happy New Year"

 

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10-26-05  3:49pm

    SAD NEWS to follow:

Okay, Tony just left the vet.... and Boozer stayed.  They say he's very anemic right now (incase you don't know because I didn't that means his red blood cell count is really low) and extremely constipated.  The vet thinks that he may have been bit by a tick and has some sort of disease from it now but he's not completely sure.  They're running test for that and they're going to run some other test too and they are suppose to call us around 11 tonight and let us know what the results are.  It could have happened weeks ago and it's slowly gotten so bad his body is having a very hard time dealing with it.  If it's the tick thing they won't know until they run more test if it's too late and it's going to kill him.  OH MY GOD!!!  I'm flipping out!  If I weren't at work right now I think I would be having a break down!  If it's not that they're going to keep going down the list of options until they figure it out and the vet will be keeping him until then.  The good news for you is that you don't have to take care of him while he's going through this.  When Tony told his parents what is happening they insisted that Boozer stay with us until he's better.  They think it will help more with his recovery being with us and I think they're right.  If you're still willing to watch him though we'll have to give him back to you once he's better.   Thanks for letting me know.  I guess he hit a turning point this weekend, but maybe we caught what ever it is in time.  I hope so anyway.  I'll keep you undated as to what the vet tells us! Julie Baker

UPDATE:

I'm sorry!  The vet called last night and the good news is that it's nothing from a tick bite.  The bad news is he has no clue what wrong with him.  He thought for sure it was the tick thing.  He's doing x-rays today and running more test.  He said he would call us tonight and give us an update.  He did say that he has him on some pain meds so he's been resting very comfortably.  It's driving me nuts though I really want to know what's wrong with him!    

 

 

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10-26-05  8:12am

    I keep getting e-mails about checkpoints in KC this Saturday so maybe something is up. If you are concerned let me know and I'll forward the locations on but you never know how true that stuff is. I am going to my parents house tonight to see my dad who has been in Utah for several months and then KK are going to hit the bars with Lucy and her Japanese friend Yumi.

Boozer is about to go to the vet he is still acting up and his owner is worried. I hope he is more fun after they figure out what's wrong with him.

 

Website of the day: http://www.gauravjalan.com/entertainment/pictures/strange/illusion/FrameSet.htm some of these i have seen before but some are new.

 

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10-25-05  3:54pm

    Sorry my post is so late I have been very busy today. Boozer woke up KK last night barking at this little guy sitting on top of our deck. Other then this excitement he has been to shy or something. We can't get him to walk or eat or do anything but lay around or stand there wagging his tail. His owner is going to visit him tonight though.

   

So something came to mind today that I remember hearing a long long time ago. I don't recall the exact wording of the phrase but it was something about if you don't know where to stand on an issue you should ask a farmer what he thinks. The reasoning behind it was something like a farmer spends all day working and thinking and has thought out most issues so he has figured most things out. Obviously this is an old saying and it would apply to many jobs where you get to think about stuff while working. Not sure where I'm going with this (what a terrible blog). I will blame that on the fact that it is late in the day and I ate an orange instead of an apple so I'm not as alert as a normal day.

Ohh I do have good news I am getting closer to a decent photo album. A coworker friend found a good one and has offered to install it for me. Tomorrow morning I get to teach my self Microsoft Visio for my new job. But I promise to write a better blog first.

 

Website of the day: www.realultimatepower.net better watch out.

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10-24-05  8:40am

    Well all the blog-off excitement is over for now, but I have a feeling Kevin will be challenged for his championship someday. How can anyone not be jealous of all the fame and popularity it has brought him. 

So anyway be sure to check out the 2 new picture pages above for the weekend and Boozer. I really like Boozer and he seems like a good dog and he just needs to get a little more used to our house. He is very lazy and it has been hard to get him to go for walks even. Nothing new to report and no good stories or thoughts on my mind because it's early Monday and I'm not firing on all cylinders yet. 

   

Website of the day: http://triggur.org/robodump/ Possibly the real inspiration for Kevin's Blog.

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10-17-05    10:04pm                     THE GREAT BLOG-OFF

I have posted links to "Mike's Blog" and "Kevin's Blog". I sincerely ask each of the viewers of my website to read and evaluate each of these blog entries and vote on them. The more results we get the more fair and exciting the contest will be.

RULES: All votes will be submitted by 5pm this Friday Oct. 21st. Each voter must send an e-mail to vote@theprewitt.com. Each voter is given 10 points to distribute to each contestant accordingly and is encouraged to leave additional comments. Criteria used for voting is left up to each individual voter but overall entertainment of the read should be a primary factor. A vote will not be counted unless received in e-mail form. Only one vote from each person will be allowed. Chris "The" Prewitt will be the official judge on misconduct but will post any questionable e-mails for review.

HISTORY: I disappointed Mike by not coming to Manhattan with him a couple weeks ago. In an effort to make it up to him I offered him a guest blog on my site an honor he was very appreciative of. The quality of this blog was questionable and Kevin called him out on it. Mike challenged Kevin to try it out for himself and after some choice words the 1st BLOG-OFF was born.

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!!!

BLOG-A        BLOG-B

www.theprewitt.com/results     www.theprewitt.com/results/mike

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10-21-05  8:14am

    The blog off is quickly drawing to an end. I have ten votes from: Ben, Lynsey, Geoff, Cheff, Tiff, Sharon, Alley, Lucy, Genna, Jon. You have until 3pm today to vote and then I am posting the results. When the results are available I will post a link in red up top of where to get to them. If you voted before 8am today and your name is not above send it again because I did not get them. I really don't care what e-mail address you send to. 

I saw my "batman bum" this morning on the way to work, seemed like neither of us was in the mood to sing the batman song, he had found a yummy banana and I was full on Sonic Toster Sandwich. (I got the bacon but regretted it wishing I had gotten ham). Chiefs game is tonight at 6 in case you have not heard.

I'm kind of hoping for a slow day at work today. The guy in the office next to me had a seizure yesterday  and we were obviously running around crazy taking care of him and getting the ambulance and all. It looks like he is going to be ok though.

   

Website of the day: www.kcchiefs.com/cheerleaders kinda stupid, kinda interesting, kinda hot

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10-20-05 8:40am

    Ok 3 topics today. First I'm wondering about this voting deal I have 3 real votes in my Mailbox; Ben, Lynsey, and Geoff {UPDATE: Also Tiffany and Cheff}(kevin voted but im not counting it). Both Ben and Geoff did not follow my 10 point allocation system?  I have been told that Lucy and Kelly sent me in votes but I have yet to receive them. If you are not on this list of voters, your running out of time. If I do not have your vote but you think you sent it try e-mailing me again at (chrisprewitt @ yahoo.com) just to be safe. I tested the other address and it seems to work fine though. Lots of you have posted comments common and go the next step and e-mail your vote.

    Last night I met my new dog "Boozer". He is a 120lbs black lab. He is very nice and moves in to my place Saturday afternoon. Mikes going away party is that night and you are welcome to come meet him but I urge you to concentrate your attention on Mike. Obviously I will post pictures as soon as I get some. Ohh and Boozer is only mine for 1 year then he goes back to his owner Julie (unless he eats KK and is put down -insert your own joke about being hungry again in an hour).

    Maybe the least exciting part of the post is that I'm crazy about apples now. I'm sitting here contemplating telling you how they are good for you in certain ways and such but I'm not in the mood. So if you want to know look them up I eat them because I have heard eating an apple wakes you up more then a cup of coffee in the morning and that you actually lose weight by eating an apple since they have 0 everything and whatnot. Anyhow I promise not to say an apple a day keeps the doctor away but look into eating more of them. Are they worth putting a picture up, probably not. Here is one http://www.bel.hm/funny/stuff/jpg/apple.jpg.

 

Website of the day: http://tobykeith.musiccitynetworks.com/ I got this from "Stumble! Upon" this morning. (It is a button you can get in your toolbar to bring up a random website on demand.) Toby is a badass but this pic is funny.

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10-19-05  8:29am

   

And the bog goes on. I'm going to leave the top part until the contest is over. I have gotten very few real votes but a lot of comments and activity. So those of you who have not voted please do to make this better.  Back to the important news of what's on my mind.  Don't get too excited but I may get a dog this week. His name is Boozer and he is a 3yr old lab that will live in my backyard for a year. I will find out today if this is true.  So Monday I had my midterm that I was concerned about because I would not get the chance to study much for it.  It went really well I think and I have no hard feelings about not studying more for it. More importantly I went for jog before the test.  (Backgroud Info: I go to Loose Park about everyday for some exercise, usually running and I have been trying to make it around the 1.4mile loop in under 10 minutes. The closest I have come is with Kentaro one sat and we made it in 10min 20sec.) So Monday before my test I had some time (because I wanted to do anything but study) and decided to try to break my record and meet my goal again. I was feeling good but it had been a rough weekend and I assumed that I felt better then I was actually doing.

  9min 10sec 

Website of the day:  www.bikerfox.com/foxphotos2 thanks Geoff

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10-15-05 8:17pm

   

We are getting ready for the party and I caught Matt Stooks( www.mattstooks.com ) in a precious pose.

I really have a midterm to study for so I'm going to do a real half assed post. Weekend could not have gone better and I have about 60 new pictures and some great stories etc. Mike why don't you like Kevin? 

 

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10-14-05  8:29am

   

It's going to be a great day, hell It's even going to be a great weekend. I woke up a bit extra groggy this morning (still catching up on sleep) but now I feel much like a young farm girl staring at my plate of ham.  This feeling came out from my trip to work this morning. While stopped at a light I noticed an old black bum sitting on the sidewalk drinking a strange brown liquid from an old jar. (I was confused as to what was in the jar, it looked like coffee with lots of creamer, but I would think that would burn his hand? ohh well not important)   Then he catches me looking at him and starts looking at me then gets this huge grin on his face. Ohh no I think, Then he starts waving his hand almost in a "raise the roof" type gesture and I can see him mouthing the words "BATMAN DA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA BATMAN" then points at my batman license plate.  I of course gave him a big smile back, a knowingly nod and a big thumbs up before driving off.

Big weekend for me and some bad timing. My midterm is on Monday but this weekend will rock Friday I get to move a 600lbs safe to my garage with Jon and Tony (who are coming to town this weekend. Then maybe going to Stevens house or hang at mine or go out. Saturday Matt Stooks (www.mattstooks.com ) is coming to town and wants to tear up loose park Frisbee style all day. Then Saturday night I am having a part'a at my place with the addition of Russ and his crew plus anyone else I can round up. Then to top it off my sexy friend Kevin scored some tickets to the chiefs game on Sunday so its Bacon Burger Dogs and beer at the tailgate then in to watch the Chiefs dominate the Redskins.  Then study for my midterm, right.

Website of the day: http://www.hahahumor.com/funny-movies/funny-movies-view.php?id=527 Who wants to sit on my shoulders?

 

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10-13-05 12:17pm     1st Guest Blog Mike Strohm

    I have now started this blog over again for the third time. Seriously, how does one just step into C. Prewitt’s shoes and pick up right where he left off? I don’t posses the humor, have adoring fans or the keen knowledge of Information Systems that he has. I also don’t have any cool “projects” going on like Chris. The boat, a tree house in woods, it doesn’t end. I do have a growing curiosity about yo-yo’s as of this past weekend at Stook’s place though (I’ll save that discussion for another time though). So, here I sit, with a blank mind and a hungry stomach. You know, I’ll go home for lunch and probably have a turkey sandwich. Not Chris, this guy is probably eating leftover deer steak in a homemade bbq sauce. You think Emeril is good; you should let Chris prepare you a meal. If he had his own Iron Chef show, it would be quite entertaining. He wouldn’t have your typical secret ingredient of “salmon,” for example. His secret ingredient of the day would be more along the lines of hot dogs. Which would be great, b/c who has ten pounds of Chilean sea bass around the house. His focus would be traditional items one could find in most of our houses. Bacon Burger Dogs anyone? Yeah, we’ll be eating them this Sunday at the Chiefs game. I’m getting more excited about those than the actual game. And he always has a little surprise for you that he unveils at the last moment. Classic Prewitt. Well I appreciate your time and would like to thank Chris for allowing me to guest blog. I hope this finds everyone in good spirits and good health. Oh yea, I almost forgot, here is the website of the day.

Website of the day: www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/8581/billy.html I obtained this website by googling “Billy’s homepage.” I do this quite often at work (I get very bored) and I stumble over some pretty funny sites that people have out there. After you’re done laughing at Billy, be sure to click on his brothers web page and check him cutting his graduation cake. Classic.

PS-This Billy guy is a manager at McDonalds. Stook’s-this would have been you had you not gone to college.

 

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10-12-05 8:12am

    WWW.THEPREWITT.COM is up and running now. It's not much different then before but I didn't bother getting the photo albums running since they were so crummy anyway. Nothing else new with me but was very happy to get my site back up and am working hard at my new desk.

 

Website of the day: http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/01-02/01_02_booze_rules.htm Practice this tonight at Mikes Tavern :)

 

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10-11-05  8:25am

   

KK and I woke up early this morning and went for a run in the park at like 7am. The sun was just coming up and there was a ton of mist/fog coming off the pond and filling the little valley there. It was great and I feel stellar this morning now. We went to Mike's Tavern last night with Cheff (who was supposed to go on the run but would not get out of bed {maybe he is just to old}) and watched the Yankees on one TV and the Steelers on the other. I think we are going to go back on Wednesday if anyone is interested in joining in the fun. Gota go to Moms house today and hopefully finish painting the trim.

The new job is going great and I really like working in this group. Yesterday they gave me all sorts of prizes like a green button-up shirt, 2 cups a binder and some candy, ohh and some hackey (sp)  sacks. It seems like the chances of me getting to stay here are good but I will have to continue to show off.

Once I get home from Mom's I plan on working on www.theprewitt.com if things go well and I get it back live very easy I will be adding a new page that I believe will be a hit. If not I will fight it till it is running again.  

Website of the day: http://www.whatacrappypresent.com/ Probably should have waited for Christmas time to display this one but maybe I will reuse it later. Ohh and if you did not see the update to the post below this one I have a new photo page from my campout this weekend. You can find the link above or below. (Yes I know the Ranger is a badass but I don't mind hearing about it again)

 

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10/07/05 2:15pm

    If you were able to find this page you may be asking what has happened to www.theprewitt.com Well I'm sorry but we are having serious technical difficulties. (the Hard drive has lost most of the system files and will not boot) I know this is terribly sad but I hope to be back in action on Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. Monday if I get crazy and bring my home computer to work but I'm probably too busy for any of that excitement. Like I mentioned yesterday I will not get to go to Manhattan for the big KU-K-State Football game but instead am headed to Pittsburg. Last night I found out we may spend much of the campout building a tree house. Possibly muck like this on on the website of the day.

 

Website of the day: http://thetreehouseguide.com/mytreehouse.htm

that is a very tall one built with actual boards and nails.

Ours will probably be more like a pile of cans and logs that you can climb on top of. Anyhow I vow to post pics once I get back. here

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10-6-05  4:29pm

   

Well I am so busy this week but I know everyone loves new posts. I went to Hoopers last night with Lucy KK Cheff Kevin and Tiffany. (Happy B-day Tiff) I really like St.Pauli's Girl Dark beer. KK is a big fan too. This weekend I get to go camping down in pitt and can't wait. It's been a while since i have got to play outsite.

Website of the day:  (waiting on a link from Mike?)

 

10-5-05  8:30am

   

Today's Post is all about the website of the day. Don't you guys love that Burger King "KING" character that is always up to some excitement.   This link is a page where people use Photoshop on him. I think my favorite is the one where he is with a couple of children and  they look terrified.

Website of the day:  http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1689902

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9-29-05 9:45am

    I just found some way old pictures from back at Pittsburg. These are the best of the bunch.

 

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9-28-05  2:55pm

    Man it's Wednesday already. Well as you may have seen my real website is up and its got a pic or 2 of me on it. I got a copy of Dreamweaver and I'm trying to make it run so I can design a page and not have to code everything.  I am concerned about the speed problems with running the site out of my home, you may have noticed that pictures are very slow. However it is free for me and I can store as much as I want and make all the pics music and other files easily accessible to anyone else that wants.  I may be able to set the pics up here at work where they can be accessed fast. Enough computer junk

Life is good otherwise ,football season is lots of fun. I go to Loose park almost everyday with the KCjugglers Team and juggle the soccer ball. Hoopers on Wednesdays, Pittsburg the next 2 weekends in a row. 2nd one should involve some camping out.  

no pics for you today since I got burned out while working on the other site.  well ok maybe just one

http://community.middlebury.edu/~kbjerrin/page3.html - random find while searching for St.Pauli Girl beer her website was kinda funny to me I liked her Fall Pond drawing.

Website of the day:  www.fark.com

 

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9-23-05  9:42am

   

Franz Ferdinand was rocking Lawrence last night. It was a great show and Lucy and KK and I had a blast. Last night we went to Charlie Hoopers and got some free drinks from a promotion and then KK and I watched Nip tuck Season premier. And before that I was cramming for my Microsoft certification.  Its all over now and I'm certified, hung over, can't hear and tired as hell thanks to some nut jobs banging on my window at 2am last night.

I know I really gota do something better with my other website and its high on my list but its a big list and like I noted earlier I'm tired. so how about I just find some pics for you today. Lets see..... Franz, Nip Tuck and MSCertification should do.

     "I'm back, baby"

 

Website of the day:  www.howstuffworks.com

 

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9-15-05  8:50am

   

Went to Hoopers last night and then over to Mikes tavern by my house. Cheff wants to make it our place. It would be great but has some major flaws like early close time and often has cover charges. Happy Birthday Heather and I'm sure you will have a great 25th year.

     

Website of the day:  www.woot.com cool site to hit everyday just to see some new tech and maybe find a deal.  

 

9-13-05  10:37pm

   

Weekend pictures:

       

 

 

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9-8-05  12:30pm

   

I can't believe it's already Thursday, these short weeks fly by. First NFL game tonight, yeah. I am going to the Lake of the Ozarks tomorrow for my sisters B-day.  I still need to find a present I got a good idea but not sure where to get it.

Website of the day:  http://www.homestarrunner.com/tgsmenu.html  Teen girl squad link is in honor of my sisters.

 

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9-6-05  1:15pm

   

I bought www.theprewitt.com, this site and lots of other fun things will move there soon. But for now I will continue to use this one (if you go to the new one it has a pic of some French girl). Good weekend, lots of stuff hung w/ lucy and cheff and kk and Gena on Friday. (just found out I was looking good that night? still waiting on a conformation) Saturday Stooks was in town so I had people over and we drank and played games and went to Hoopers. A random 16 yr old kid picked us up from the bar and took us home.  Sunday spent the day and night at Longview Lake, REALLY made me want to get my boat going but it was still nice. Monday I drove home and did some shopping and made BBQ pizza, KK went crazy for.

Random thought: Do you guys love the cell phone pocket on Jeans? I do and bought a pair without it and now I'm worried I will never wear them.

Website of the day:  http://www.wild-landscape.com/galery/a_gal_66/cechy/galcechy.html Yeah this is pretty, follow the link at the bottom to see the other galleries.

 

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9-1-05  8:11am

    KK, Cheff and I had my meatloaf for dinner last night and it was great then we went to Charlie Hoopers for the $2 imports night.  I'm trying to decide if I should drop one of my classes or not. What's going on this weekend for everyone, I think gas prices are going to constrict me to staying in KC.

    

Does anyone have free water at their house or apartment? I would like to round up a couple more trucks and have a pool party somewhere out of the trucks.

Website of the day:  www.mattstooks.com This is my friend Matt's website and he recently got better about updating it often and it seems to get lots of comments now so I decided to help him out. He is a morning show DJ in Manhattan.

 

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8-30-05 10:30am        NEW PICTURES!

   Here is a pic of me with my poker winnings.

This is Jon and I on the Neosho fishing trip a few weeks back.

 

 

          

 

  And this is Mike and I hanging out at my apartment. (I'm wearing my batman shirt)

Classes started a week or so ago and I'm not too excited about going back, it is a lot of work. Jon has officially announced his move to KC this December. I'd like to put together a campout this extended weekend. Is anyone interested in getting a good group together.

Website of the day: www.tuckermax.com  (twist reminded me of this jewel last night)

 

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08/19/05 8:08am

    I'm sorry I have not posted in 10 days. I have been much busier now that I'm in the AC. I passed the first test of my Microsoft Certification and right now it's all about moving the new dorm kids into the dorm and getting their internet up and running. 

 

Website of the day: http://www.kusports.com/womenofku/

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8-9-5 8:27am (too early)

    I got some new cool things set up last night First if you want to view or download anything in my audio collection ftp://65.26.93.140  Also I figured out how to let you listen without downloading it. Try this mms://65.26.93.140 to hear a song or mms://65.26.93.140/LedZ for a couple Led Zeppelin albums.

Please try these out and let me know if they work or not for you.

Website of the day: http://www.umich.edu/~ultimate/Flywheel/index.htm These are some badass girls from Michigan that play Frisbee and have stollen my heart with this huge website of fun. Here is a sample~

    

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8-5-5

    All moved in to the AC and doing well. Preparing for my river trip, look at this http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1756&e=2&u=/050801/481/lon81108011332

 

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8-4-5 4:15pm

    Last day in the call center at all. I started to move to the AC today.

                        

I will finish in the morning. I got a new camera yesterday so be ready for new pics again. To start you off I took a few of my boat. you can find them above.

 

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8-2-5 11:30am

    I made some old funny lines to separate posts, what do you think? I think I am going to register my own domain and begin using it. This should give me lots of potential fun with new toys. I just need to pick a name and pay for it. (it's cheep) The one for www.prewitt.com and www.prewitt.net are taken but I can get www.capinchris.com or www.mrprewitt.com or www.prewitt.us.com or www.1prewitt.com or www.chrisprewitt.com or www.pirateprewitt.com. What do you guys think is the best? you can check for available names at www.mydomain.com/ if I did not think of a good one.

 

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