A public journal of my life activities and other interesting things

Hey long time no type! Sorry for not posting more often. Between all the websites I have to get built for clients, the new job, Visions Show Choir stage set design and other projects, I have let the blog slip past me a bit.

I was catching up on some emails when I saw this video of the wasssuppp guys as they are in 2008.

It was actually pretty funny to watch.

Check this one out first as its the orginal.

Then look at this one.

Wow what to write about this morning? I have soo much in my head right now, and I am having a hard time getting it onto this blank page. I am supposed to be seizing the page right, and I am finding it difficult.

Let me try to just recap what has happened over the past several weeks while I sip on this coffee.

I think the last time I wrote on this blog it was about camping and then I followed up on Jack.
Well since then, I went camping again and this time it was very cool outside. I think it dipped to about 41F the next time I went camping and I realized I need a -0- degree sleeping bag.

I was very chilly that night and so was DL, he went with me. I also realized that my sleeping bag was way too tight. See normally I take two and open them up like comforters but this time I used it for was it was and its way to tight.

Since I brought up Jack, remember he was in the October cutest pet contest on mycutepetpics.com.

Well oddly he did not win. I don’t see how either. He had the most votes, then with a week to go, the site owners said that it was not really about the votes and that they felt the voting system had been compromised. They wanted people to leave a comment on who should win. Well he had the most comments too. They went on to say that ultimately the audience out there in the realworld would not be the end all be all in deciding the winner.  It would be up to about 4 other judges and the audience would be the 5th.

He is getting big though. He has really grown! He is about 11lbs now and probably at his full potential.

I’m really not a sore loser at all, but I feel that Jack was overlooked. Its so crazy. He is so adorable. Anywhere he goes he is a star, people love him and think he is soo cute.

OK moving on. I finally got my Tom Tom Go 730 GPS system set up in my car and I will have to write about that soon. Its very awesome to say the least. Check back soon for a post about that.

Also as many of you know I do web site design ( I don’t claim to be a pro at it) and computer maintenance on the side ever since I was laid off. Its been doing pretty well for me, and I keep picking up new clients. As of today I have 5 clients I am working on, 4 personal sites that I am doing for other incomes and things.

Guess what else? I just recently went back to the working world as an IT specialist too!

I always seem to have a lot on my plate. I even have some stage sets to build for the Grenada High School Visions Showchoir to complete before the Christmas show.

So to recap, I have a new job to adjust to, lots of websites to construct for clients, lots of items to complete the stage for the showchoirs Christmas show, and all the other things that are on a normal day to day basis around me which is a lot.

Dont you just hate to hear someone say they are bored when there is actually soo much to do?

I don’t think I have enough going on… do I ?

10/4/08

Jack had a visitor this weekend. His brother Stubbs came by to see him.

Stubbs is a black and silver dapple which is from the same litter as Jack. It just so happens that my sister which lives about 50 miles from me got her a puppy from the exact same litter as I did. How amazing is that!

Jack was all beside himself. He finally had a playmate that was JUST LIKE HIM!

They both sound exactly the same when they bark and have the same builds. It was so cute to see them play together. They played for a few hours nonstop chasing each other and sharing chew toys.

I tried to get pictures of them playing but they were too fast to get any decent pictures.

10/13/08

Ok started this Monday off with Johnathan Bray laying laminate hardwood flooring in my home.

Before I was laid off and eventually nulled out from WACO when the facility closed down, I had purchased enough flooring to do the house as well as an addition we were planning on doing to the house.

This flooring eventually ended up in storage until we could get the addition built but since the addition would be put on hold for who knows how long, we decided to go ahead and do the existing part of the house for now.

Let me be the first to tell you that no matter how many videos you watch or books you read, you should not try to do an entire house unless you have done it before.

I am so glad I hired a helping hand that knows how to do this. If I had not done so, it would have probably taken me about 7 days or so to do what we did in 3 days.

It took 49 boxes to do the house and he was so good at it that we only had about half a wheel barrel full of waste left over. Thats 392 boards we put down and had to tap each one in place.

These were the 7 inch wide boards. Not those little skinny ones. I wouldn’t wish those on anyone.

Once we got started it was fairly easy to layout. We had to move things from one room to another, totally cluttering up rooms until one room was complete, and then move things back into the room. It was a complete mess for 3 days. All of the baseboards had to come up, get put back down, and repainted.

When it was all over it turned out great. Now we have some durable easy to clean floors. We love em.

I found this a little bit interesting, maybe you will to.

See video below.