1/5/2009
I think I'm going to focus on pictures this year. I just saw a some photos taken by someone else that were pretty neat in just their simplicity. I like simple pictures.
1/4/2009
Isn't it strange how people watch in morbid fascination as a car spins out of control across an intersection, regardless of the fact it could slam into their car maiming them for the rest of their life? And yet the world seems to slow to a crawl and we all watch in abject fascination as several tons of metal slides so gracefully around the intersection, almost like a bead of water on the frying pan of life. It seems almost serene at the time, when the world has slowed and the sounds are muffled, and yet so much is happening so fast. In the car survival reflexes are kicked into high gear, there are desperate, even in comprehensible attempts to control the tons of metal as it smoothly glides wherever the kinetic energies will it to go. Just as the bead of water is sliding around on a cushion of steam provided by it's own molecular structure being torn apart by the heat on the surface of the pan. And yet to each I imagine time is merely creeping past. Onlookers cannot seem to avert their eyes from the catastrophe they see before them. I think in some ways it's because their subconscious knows it could very well be them in that car, and it breaths a little sigh of relief that it is happening to someone else. And thusly we feel distant from the destruction laid upon others, displaced if you will. It's this disconnect, this subconscious displacement that causes time to slow. And we watch in horror as the event transpires before us. Then suddenly, peeping through as if light entering a dust filled room we realize that the event happening around us is indeed going to effect our life. Unfortunately this realization normally comes all to late, and we are jarred violently from our displaced state of mine where time is slow and sounds are muted. We return to the normal time and the twisted shrieking of metal and rubber comes fully to life in complete surround sound, and we are wrenched out of our morbid state as the onlooker and into the state of total destruction participant.
Then life goes on time is back to normal, police arrive at the scene and clean things up, bodies are pried from the wreckage to be mourned by those that knew them. Wreckers tow away the twisted lumps of metal that used to be finely honed driving machines. People are upset they are late for work, and continue on their way, maybe to mention it in a lunch meeting somewhere in passing. For life truly is just a vapor, what will you do with yours as you skip around in the frying pan of life?
1/1/2009
Happy New Year!
12.31.2008
Last Day of the Year! Happy New Year Everyone!
Here are some of the highlights from my New Years Resolutions
* MCSA Certification:
- 70-290
- 70-291
* Security + Certification
* Work out 20 min a day 3 days a week
- 50 Pushups by the end of January
- 100 Sit-ups/Crunches by the end of February
- Run an 8 min mile (no timeline for this)
* CWP
* Pay off Car
12/28/2008
Made it home safe and sound. Averaged about 28mpg all total, apparently when you pass a certain speed you sacrifice time for fuel efficiency. I averaged 72.9MPH on the trip home, that's an average of moving time. So it doesn't include stops but does include driving to the gas stations off the highway and stuff like that. There was a really dense fog that rolled in on the way home, and GPS thought it would be a great idea to use some back roads. That was exciting going 60mph on a two lane road in dense fog, I could see about two reflectors up. I know everyone says don't use your high beams in the fog however that must only be in some super fog. Cause it really helped once I started using high beams. Anyhow it was slightly annoying but I made it through all the fog. I'll post up my New Years Resolutions when it gets to New Years. I have a nice list of things I hope to accomplish.
12/21/2008
Traveled 1135.64 miles at a moving average of 71.5MPH. Time moving 15:52 hours.
Total average including stops 69MPH with a total time of 16:28 hours.
I'm here now, the little Hyundai made it!
12/19/2008
Well the car is being repaired, the only damage seems to be the lug bolts. So for $78 + the cost of the tires I'm back on the road again. They are fixing the car now. Check out this for your reaction time. My first time was .2642 and second time was .1954.
12/18/2008
I got run off the road tonight. Some big white SUV ran a stop sign and turned in front of us into the far left lane. He then promptly decided he really meant to run the stop sign and be in the right lane so he swerved over and forced us to lock it up and slide off the road. Scared the bajeepers out of some guy on a bike on the sidewalk (which I totally didn't see because I was focused on not hitting the SUV). They just drove off all happy day like nothing happened. I went to take off the tire and three of the bolts sheered off inside of the lug nuts. So we had to call a tow truck which had a $65 minimum after 10pm. Once he arrived he let us know it was cash only after ten, which we didn't have. So he drove us to an ATM, and I got out $80. He drove us back to the house and what do you know, he doesn't have any change so the $65 tow cost $80. Yay! So my car is back at firestone again with a single bolt holding on the tire. Tomorrow I'm running in and dropping off the keys and stuff to get them working on it. Here's to hoping it's just the tire and lug nuts and nothing major is broken. Jen was/is pissed about if of course and soundly believes I should have just rammed the side of the SUV while laying on my horn. So hopefully this will get repaired well because I have to drive 2300 miles or so over the next week. I guess I'll have all four new tires now. Anyhow thought I'd let you guys know the fun!
12/11/2008
Hey hey, Microsoft live might have brought back the slide embedding feature. Testing it on the pictures page!
Nevermind... it was a cruel hoax to get my hopes up. They just want you to put a link to your live space so you can see their ads. *Sigh*
12/09/2008
12/06/08
Well I'm slightly annoyed right now. Our bank has something messed up and the checks we paid our bills with are all coming back account number unknown. While this is all well and dandy they are impacting our credit and racking up late and returned check fees. I know the account exists because I can go online and see it. But somehow they have botched something, and it is a pain. Since it's a credit union there is no way to reach them until Monday when they open again. What an annoyance! I'm calling them as soon as they open on Monday morning in an attempt to stop further checks bouncing because I just paid all our bills at the first of the month. If it continues I'll switch banks in a heartbeat. This is unacceptable. So I'm generally restless about this most of the day today because I want to get it dealt with right now rather than waiting until Monday.
11/26/2008
Morning Everyone. I just got my NAS all setup and working. It's awesome, no matter what computer I go to now I can get to the same files and they will be the latest version. And it functions as a print server as well so that's cool too. Now the desktop PC doesn't need to be on for me to have access to the photos, music, movies, or printer. I can also stream video and music to my xbox360 from the NAS because it sees it as a storage device. Very cool, also it's running two 320Gig drives in a Raid 1 configuration so if one of the hard drives fail one day I won't loose the information as it will be on the other one. So data redundancy! Anyhow I'm excited over it and I think any house with multiple computers/people in them should get one of these. It's really nice. I recommend one for your house. it's a D-Link DNS-323 in case you want one. (Hard drives are sold separately, I recommend Pricewatch for finding inexpensive Hard drives. Samsung is a good brand.)
Which leads me to my next item, the D-link DIR-655 wireless router! This router has come in the top 3 spots for wireless router reviews all over the place. So it's the next thing I'm saving for, because my router I have now is almost 10 years old if not older and one of the LAN ports on the back has stopped working. And now that I have a NAS I would like a network that will use the full speed of it. Whee!
11/24/2008
Ran across this from HBO link. Pretty interesting that they managed to make it sounds so good in such a strange little Mario Paint Program. (Below) Also I drove my Nitro around Sunday afternoon for a short while. Managed to rip part of a tire off the rim. Nothing big just have to glue it back on the rim. Then I took the whole thing apart and cleaned it all.
11/20/2008
Morning Folks,
Well recently in a game I play online (just a text based browser game) I found an item while in the city and it ends up it's worth 46Million dollars. So I was excited about that, I setup and auction and sold it. Then I'm investing that money for three months (real life time). So that was a fun experience overall. I'm going to upload a bunch of videos to my YouTube hopefully tonight so there will be some more content on there. Really I'm going to be going through old pictures and stuff and if I stumble across videos that I feel like uploading I will. You can see the YouTube videos by clicking the videos link just under the banner picture above.
11/18/2006
A few updates. I decided not to actually update my home PC, instead I'm going to get NAS (Network Attached Storage) It will hold two SATA drives, the two I previously got for my desktop before I learned the chipset on the motherboard isn't as compatible as they are stated to be. So it will hold those two drives using Raid 1 (mirrored) for redundancy. This means the two 320 Gig hard drives will be seen as a single 320 Gig hard drive, however if either one of the drives fails you have all the information on the other drive. You can then just plug in another hard drive and it will rebuild the array and your off again. While this may seem like your loosing 320Gig's of space it's worth the redundancy when considering the 8 years of digital photographs that it will be holding along with software backups, and music. I'll also have the images backed up on an external hard drive as well just to be safe. Now that you know kind of what it is and what's on it this is what it does. The D-Link DNS-323 I read several reviews but learned that it's the fastest one in my price range right now, the other was the Linksys NS200 but many reviews stated it was rather slow. So what it will do is provide a storage space via my network without having to plug something in using USB or having the desktop computer on. It's pretty much a little computer with hard drives and a print server running Linux OS. You interface with it through the network and the drives are formatted with ext2 or ext3 depending on what you want. I'm going with ext3 for the stability of it. So then I can print to the printer without any PC being on as well. The device itself isn't wireless however since it's plugged into the wireless router then it doesn't really matter.
I also got my car back, $56 dollars later and it's running fine. Found this video of how I would like to drive. It was very entertaining. I love how the grass and stuff just kind of vaporizes as the tires go over it. Enjoy
11/15/2008
Well last night I found that my car won't start. It's got a brand new battery in it so we can rule that out, it makes a clicking sound. It sounds to me like a more electrical clicking sound than the started but looking it up online people seem to think it's the solenoid that went out. I had to have it towed to the mechanic for them to see what's wrong. Since it's the first time my car has ever been towed I pulled out my little cell phone camera and took some pictures of it. This is my cars first towing trip!
So I guess we'll see how it goes from there, we also found out that we don't have free towing with our car insurance. Other than the AC that went out (more or less) this is the first mechanical problem I've had with my car. Which is pretty good considering how I drive and stuff.
11/11/2008
I would love to go to one of these places that's about 14 min into this video. I find the whole idea of free-walking (Parkour) fascinating. Although the ground clearance I would need for a flip would be huge. It's kind of a documentary of Parkour.
11.7.2008
This was another one I liked how he used perspective to make things seem more realistic. I also liked the little helicopter. I think that's one of those little $20 ones. (Video Below) Here's something else I ran across today. It's called Live Mesh, it's an online desktop that you can synch with your PC (working on seeing if it will synch with XP) So technically you can have access to your files from anywhere with internet access. I'll have more updates as I learn about it. Ok after playing with it there are some major limitations. One it will only synch with Vista PC's, not with windows XP. However it's excellent for users that want to store files online for access other places. It's more user friendly than Skydrive in that it's desktopish rather than folders and such. Pretty cool stuff.
11.6.2008
This was amusing...
11.5.2008
The internet may not be so free and unlimited in the near future. Read Article Comcast already has limits set in place for how much you can download/do. This is as anything, just the start... We'll be in real trouble when they start setting what time people are allowed onto the internet and where we can go and what we can do. Sounds a lot like some other giant country I know of called China.
This is an amusing little chase scene from the movie Bolt. You can right click and save as or just stream it if you have Quicktime. Personally I just save it first so I don't have to wait for the download. Check it out.
11.3.2008
This is awesome. Welcome to the future of computing.
11.2.2008
Morning peoples,
Well I have done a little more work on things and I have a calendar on the left as you can see. The issue so far is that if you screen is a low resolution it tends to put it on top rather than on the side. I'm still working on that. But if your 1024 by 768 everything should look ok still. Or so my testing has shown. I guess I should put that somewhere. Best if viewed with 1024x768. Anyhow as you can see on the left there is a calendar that shows the days I will be running. Once I can actually run the full mile (I know I'm a fatty and can't even run a mile straight) I'll also put my excuses up there for not running. Such as it's 40 degrees outside and it's raining. I'm not going running in that, cause I'll probably die or something.
I've also added my new years resolutions section which I will fill out just before the new year with anything I've come up with. I have just noticed while typing this that the calendar was never meant to be crammed into that small space... So I'm going to have to make a page with it on there. *sigh* I'll do that now. This update is in real time as I'm working on it. Ok there is now a calendar page (I'll update it more with an explanation in a few min)
On a side note I'm rebuilding my PC with windows XP on it. After purchasing two hard drives to run using RAID 0 (faster) I found that the chipset VT8237 while claiming to support SATA II by running at the 1.5 speed it doesn't actually see them at all. Even with jumpers and software flashed so that it will only run those speeds. So that was kind of a waste of my time. I looked into upgrading the computer to something compatible with what I wanted to do and it would cost around $250 for the new motherboard/CPU/Ram/Video to get it back up and running. I did however learn I'm getting behind in the technology department. Last I had checked AGP was the thing to be running, come to find out it's old news now and PCI Express x16 is the way to go. So I'm keeping what I have because when I do get another PC I'm just going to get me a nice laptop. I got to external bays for the hard drives and I'll use them for backups and storing all my pictures on. Which is technically what I was going to accomplish in the end anyhow. Maybe by then they will have worked out some of the latency issues with solid state drives.
I also finally figured out how to get my monitor to adjust. Now it's at a decent height for my eyes and easy to adjust for Jen if needed. I must say XP with 2 Gig of ram just flies compared to vista. It's amazing! Once I get my other two drives into their external bays I'll put the current backup drive into this PC and see if I can put the paging file on it for a little bit more speed.
10.31.2008
Drove my little Nitro RC against yesterday, it's a blast to drive. Managed to run into a couple of things without any problems. Drove around in some dirt for a bit which was enjoyable. It was perfect dirt, had a loose top 1/4 inch or so and then it was solid packed dirt. I found a partially developed neighborhood that I can drive around in. I did manage to loose the engine protector somewhere along the way, as well as the front casing for my failsafe. I'm going to see if I can find a way to package up the receiver and failsafe into an old power adapter case which should help protect those electronic parts. I ran into a curb a couple of times because of some tremendous under steer issues. I think it's because I was messing with the camber of the front tires. I'm going to adjust those and take it back out again. I did managed to break a C-hub on one of the front tires. Was trying to go up a sidewalk ramp and hit the curb part at a high speed. The car jumped up about 4-5 feet in the air before landing in the dirt after some cartwheels. Nothing broke but that one piece, these things are really durable for their size. I'm going to put some aluminum ones on my "wish list". The key is the slowly upgrade the parts to more durable parts and then less and less breaks.
PS. I'm working on that little box up there to the left... just ignore it.
Extra Update:
I bought some new hard drives (SATA II) for my desktop computer because the current drives and the backup drive was filling up. Figured I'd run a RAID 0 array for speed and then use the current drive for backup. Alas the controller chip isn't compatible with SATA II drives, however in theory you can set the jumper to only run SATA I however it doesn't seem to work very well i.e. it doesn't find it at all. I can't seem to figure out why they won't see each other.
10.28.2008
I switched the photos back to how they were. Not sure why Microsoft decided to just cut the support for that. I'm working on a list of New Years Resolutions. I'll see if I can put them in a box somewhere and cross them out as I achieve them. Or I might make a page for them or something.
10.27.2008
Well that was short lived! They took away the ability to embed the pictures!! Two days after I discover it! Here I am all happy with the picture embedding option and they take it away!! So now you can just ignore all that on the 24th about embedding images. *sigh* Just when I thought they had done something right. What are the odds, I wonder if they read my genius idea and decided they didn't like that idea. I'm going to leave them for today and see if anything changes.
10.26.2008
I got myself some new shirts yesterday as mine are starting to wear out. Not so much just fading and stuff but my clothes always seem to shrink and become shorter and shorter with time. Shoes are my next clothing purchase, so I'll go visit our Reebok outlet store and see what they have on sale. I'm going to see if I can get some running shoes and a pair of normal shoes. They normally have the buy one get one half off sale thing going on. I am loving the Live Spaces image viewer so I'm converting the portfolio over to the same thing. Less space on the server and it keeps the image quality high. So you should see that change in the near future, it's just a lot easier than the flash galleries to edit and update. Something else I like is if you click the link and go to the actual live spaces there is an option for full version that will do a full screen slideshow. And I've never tried it but it says you can order prints right from there as well.
10.24.2008
Found this an interesting read. Are Critics Gamers? I think not. Anyhow I decided to start posting links to stuff I read that I find amusing or interesting in some way. During reading a recent keynote from Microsoft I was reminded of my Live space (Microsoft version of myspace and facebook) I don't actually use it but I have it. They talked about some of the photo tools that are available and really only like 1% of the users know or use them. So I thought I'd poke around and see what I could discover. I found that they have an option to embed a slide show based out of live space. So I thought I'd try it out. It actually works very well, looks very clean. Check it out on the Hobbies (scroll down a bit) page. It's very nice, simple, clean, and functional while still preserving the photo quality. Let me know what you think.
One of the plus sides to this is that those images are stored on the live space and thusly not taking up my server space. This goes yet a step farther in that the Skydrive (free online storage) which is also provided by Microsoft (via your hotmail/passport login) has 5Gig of online storage you can link to. What does this mean to you the blissful user? That means that you could have a website with a very small server footprint by parsing out the files to other locations. This also saves on bandwidth as well, although I don't know what the limitations are for Skydrive. So in theory I could host a huge amount of pictures through Live Spaces without any cost to myself. This means you can sign up for the free Doteasy (my web host) website and get your 100MB of free space on their servers for the actual pages (which are very small) and then off link your photo from Live spaces, and your files to Skydrive. Which means you could run a pretty rich multimedia site with minimal costs. Cool!
10.22.2008
Hey! Guess what! I only have 10 payments left on my car! I also just discovered there are little address stickers in the back for when you mail the check to the bank! I've been writing it out all this time. Other than that life is normal. I'm waiting for payday so I can get some street tires for my little car. They should last quite some time, so after that and maybe a fuel filter I'll be good to go. I've gone through half a gallon of gas so far. I'm going to work a bit on my home PC, I'm running out of room for all the pictures and stuff. I'm going to see if I can speed it up with minimal hardware upgrades. Memory for it is $19 for 1 Gig, which is nice because it's just old enough to be cheap but not so old that it starts getting expensive again. I'm still a bit torn as to what OS (operating system for those of you who don't know) I have a 64bit processor so I want to use it's full potential, however 64bit XP is a little lacking. Vista is a major memory hog and pretty hardware intensive, copying large files seems to take far too long, but it does have a 64Bit version. The last option (cause I don't want linux) is 64bit server 2003 (2008 is a lot like vista). However I'm not sure how ell some things run on a server base because in theory you weren't ever supposed to Photoshop directly on a server, or play games etc. So it's not really built so much for home use. Also I'd have to find drivers for my hardware to run on server 2003, whereas for vista I wouldn't. Oh well... I guess I'll decide all in good time.
I added some more pictures of my nitro car. They are at the end of the current album, it seems a bit cumbersome because you have to get through the others to get to them. I'll figure something out. Anyhow to explain them a bit when the tires are worn out you can get them off the rims and reuse the rims. To get the glue to let go you have to boil them for about 20 min then put them under cold water and get them off. Then you can put new tires on. Doing this saves 1/2 the cost of new tires because you don't have to buy new rims. I used our paper town holder to keep it under water. I think I'm going to add them to the beginning of the album. the last (soon to be first) I was trying to find a way to move the weight of the batteries to the front of the car to help balance the weight. However I need to center of gravity to be as low as possible as well. For now I'm going to leave the batteries in the back.
10.18.2008
Saw something amusing today at Wal-mart, Jen's headlight on her car went out and we needed to get another one. They have the headlights "locked" so you can't take them of the little metal hangers that hold stuff in stores. This is a nice concept, but here's the catch. The things that are "locked" on to the metal holders are in cardboard packaging. So you just give them a tug and it rips the little hanger hole and poof it's yours. So they went through all the trouble of installing locking metal rod things like the would do in the electronics section, but then putting cardboard things onto them that can easily pulled off. Anyone who wants to buy one isn't going to go through the trouble of finding whoever has the keys when you can just pull the one you want off the rack. So that falls into the category of FAIL.
This little movie is perfect for Jennifer with her school work.
10/16/2008
Well it was pointed out that Columbus day is on the 12th, it was celebrated on the 13th because the 12th was a Sunday.
I just got one watching "Life is Beautiful". If you haven't seen this movie it's an excellent movie. I highly recommend it to you. It's not really for little kids, but it's an excellent movie. Go watch it.
Drove my little RC car for another four tanks today, First time driving "off road" for any length of time. Got a lot of dust/dirt on it. The engine was running a little hot so I had to richen the fuel a bit. I need to find some other RC people around here so I can learn how to tune the engine better. It's running at normal temperatures right now but it's got more in it.
10/14/2008
I noticed something interesting yesterday, it was Columbus Day. However Google who is so good about having custom images for their logo that cater to the day or events that happened on that day completely skipped it. Rather than having an image that pertains to a national holiday they instead had some birthday of Paddington bear. While I'm sure this capitalistic collectible is wonderful, can it really compare to the discovery of a continent? I'm not sure I understand why it's more important than the discovery of America. Just found that interesting.
Anyhow I wanted to post a link (here is the link) to my Nitro Rustler thread over at the Traxxas forum. It helps keep up with the things going on with my new RC car.
Also the internetz have changed some of their routing (at least for me) and it's sending me up through Canada to get to the server so my website might seem slow right now. I'm hoping they fix whatever changed. It's not the web host but rather some routing point along the way. Hopefully it's not slow for you people out there.
10/13/2008
Whee! I got to drive my nitro car for a couple of hours yesterday. It was quite entertaining. I'm getting a little better at driving. I flipped it over a couple of times but they are pretty sturdy little cars as along as you don't slam them into curbs at high speeds. I found a better parking lot (smoother) that really helps with the handling. So I plan to drive it there next time. Tuned it a little bit so it's faster, it's starting to be able to do wheelies if you mash it to full throttle. Overall I drove it for about 4 hours without any issues other than a few wrecks where I lost the pins that hold the body onto the car. But since I made the little body clip additions they weren't hard to find again. Avery didn't seem particularly afraid of it and might have chased it but we weren't in an area I could let her off the leash. I almost killed it in a hole full of water, It was cutting across some grass and there was a large hole I didn't know was there. Poof my car just disappeared! I ran over and got it out, luckily it had jumped across the water and landed with just the tip of the muffler in the water blowing bubbles. No damage though so I had it off and running again as it never shut off. Going to learn how to glue tires tonight and get them unglued from the rims. The rough asphalt really tore them up pretty fast. But since I have a cracked rim from the previous wreck I'm going to take the tire off of that one and put it on the good rim. Overall it was great fun. I look forward to less rainy days where I can drive it some more.
Other than that life is pretty normal, just working away. Avery had a gimpy knee for a while but she's doing better now.
10/04/2008
Well I got to drive my Nitro RC after the long wait. I got through all the 5 tanks of break in procedures, and let me tell you it's really fast. And it's not even tuned yet! Once I get the engine tuned it'll go even faster. Unfortunately I didn't get that far. Part of the break in is 3 seconds to full throttle then hold it at full throttle for 2 seconds. My parking lot was just barely big enough to complete this so I was running up one aisle and then back down another one. The tank was almost empty so I figured one more run should do it. Well once your one aisle over it gets a lot harder to judge distances. So at full throttle I saw it was going to hit this cement curb that leapt out in front of my car. I slammed the brakes and spun it around trying to stop but alas it was going too fast and hit the curb. The resulting damage was a broken axle holder, broken tie rod end, knocked the muffler off the header, bent one of the rear shocks, blew out the other one spraying the oil inside all over. It was a pretty spectacular crash. Left a round tire print mark on the curb as it hit almost sideways. Luckily there was no damage on the front part of the car. You can see pictures on the hobby page, and the actual album is here. I'll use this album to add any more pictures of wrecks and stuff. Unfortunately since I was breaking it in I didn't get any pictures of actually driving it. In the end all the parts cost about $26 all total. So really for the speed of the crash it wasn't too bad at all. It was the shock absorbers that cost the most at $18.
10/02/2008
October has started out interesting so far. I got my last Nitro part in the mail on the first of October, so that was exciting. I get to break it in this Saturday after Jen's race. Leaving work my AC in my car apparently died. It makes a nice wheezing noise when it's on and doesn't blow out any cold air. It hadn't been working so great for a while now. But it has died. Thankfully the weather here is in the 70's now due to fall so it's not to big of a deal.
When I got home Avery didn't jump off the couch like normal and when walking to get the box from the office her back left leg starting having some issues. Got the package and drove over the Petsmart to see the vet but they were closed on Wednesdays. Which oddly enough seems to be the day I always try/need to go there. So I took her back home and we took it easy. Took her to work with me today and blocked the doors to the office and let her run around, Made her an appointment and took her to the vet on my lunch break. Her knee cap is apparently popping out of place, or something. The Vet said this was common with little dogs because they have bowlegs in the back. So that makes the outside tendon that holds the knee cap in place stretch over time. Also behind the kneecap there is a indentation that helps keep it in place. However on smaller dogs the indentation is more shallow so that doesn't help anything either. He gave me some any inflammatory medicine and some other medicine which ended up costing $70. And wants to see her again after a week. She can pop them back in place by straightening her leg out, but she doesn't always do that right away and gimps around. I just pull her leg out straight for her. It doesn't seam to hurt her right now but the Vet says if it starts to hurt then she might need surgery. So hopefully it'll get better this week as she takes it easy.
I renewed the apartment lease as well so we'll be here for another year. The rent went up but they offer $500 of the first month with when divided over the course of the year negates the raised amount as well as goes $22 less a month. So that was nice.
09/28/2008
Well good news! Apparently last November I overpaid a doctors office and they sent me a refund. So I went ahead and bought my Nitro Rustler! I got it all unpacked and setup, it's ready to go, however I'm waiting for the battery pack for the EZ start to get here. Once it gets here I'll have to set aside a few hours to do the break in. Needless to say I'm excited! I already got some customizations done on it before it's even driven at all. I've listed those over on the Hobbies page along with some pictures. It's a pretty nice little flash viewer that I finally got working. The issue I was running into was because of the capital letters in the file names. Even the extensions are listed as capital letters by default off the camera, well the flash viewers are all set for lowercase letters. On your local PC it works great, but once you get online you have to make sure the capital letters are changed or noted. Anyhow I hereby introduce my Traxxas Nitro Rustler
