Antlers, on the wall

After a couple weeks of sitting on my back deck, they are finally on the wall. Wasn't as scary as I thought it would be to do.

Lessons learned:
1) skin the head, and clean the outside of the skull before you cut into it. It would have been much easier to clean the skullcap with more skull to work with.
2) leave less skull on the antlers so the little cover that comes with the mounting kit will fit better
3) have a beer--every project is better with a beer!

I went pheasant hunting this morning and saw a whole lot of birds, but no pheasants. No game birds at all. Just lots of hawks and a couple magpies.

Access Yes for the win, by the way.

Access Yes is a program in the state of Idaho that lets landowners get something in return for opening their land to hunters. Basically, it's the same as letting people hunt there if they ask, but you post it up on the internet saying that it's ok to hunt there. The state lets you choose what months are ok to hunt there, what kind of game is ok to hunt there, vehicle use, all sorts of things, and the all-important: "Land-owner contact (not) required." If you have land, they help you out with it, with improvements and such, in exchange for it being open to hunters.

I don't know how much they actually do for land owners, but it's a great program for hunters. If I had land, I'd open mine up.



My brother played his last football game, evar, and won (which seems to be a habit with this team). 17-9, with a nearly scoreless first half.

He got mentioned on national tv AND got shown a LOT. It was really cool to see him out there kicking ass in the mud-puddle they called a field.

Rain was the best player for both team's defense, as no one could hold onto the ball.

Good game though!

Oh, and mom, you looked great on TV too!


Another day, another dolla.
Back to work on Monday, 5 days until a week and 2 days off.


I found springs for my bike cheaper than I thought.....not sure how much, but should be cheaper than buying new! A buddy of mine has them and has offered them to me at an undisclosed price (even to me!). Didn't even know if they would fit, so there was no talk about buying them.

Only 3 and a half more months until March....14 weeks.... So close, yet so far away. Why can't it be warm yet?

Stream of consciousness over for now...

snow

we got some...the drive to work was slow...

the drive home was worse...I had to stop and scrape my window...freezing fog sucks


I thought I wanted to blog...but I guess not...

Drifting on the Rebel

Not as scary as you'd think.

I took a left hand corner today on the Rebel, yes I went out riding, and as I took it, I slid out.

It wasn't a bad slide, I didn't even realize I slid until it was over. I just kept turning, and working the bike to make it go, but the back end slid out, then straightened out, and I kept on goign down the road.

yay!



My home brew cider is like drinking watered down apple juice, until you stand up. It's strong in alcohol, but you can't taste it, and there's not much apple flavor. The yeast flavor/smell is much less than my previous beers, and I attribute that to the secondary fermentation.


And it snowed today. It started snowing as I was filling up the last engine with oil. I changed the oil in 3 engines today, and it felt good to get out and work.

That damn tool box is just too perfect. I have all my shop towels, jackstands and jacks stored in the thing, so I roll it out, and work on the car, and put everything away, and roll it all back in.

It takes less time, I have quick access to all my tools, and everything stays organized because it's less work to carry it all back in that way.

crazy...when things work right, you just can't find fault with it. For the situation I'm in right now, this tool box setup is PERFECTO!



Next weekend, my brother's last game, evar, for sure happens. I'll be watching from the warmth (from the heaters and beer!) of Zeppos in Pullman. Anyone who wants to join me, let me know, and I'll tell you exactly when. (I'll prolly post up between then and now too).


I've ordered the final parts to make the VFR run again, I think, but the starter issue is making me angry...hopefully I can push start it... I'll need some other things to make it a good bike to ride again, but it will run once I get all my parts together.


My toe is doing much better now that it's had a couple days to relax and breathe. My new shoes are helping to keep it from going bad again. Oh, and I got new boots too! Timberland hiking boots, all leather, and really nice boots. A discontinued style for $60. yay!

yah, that's an update into Jeff's world.

wow

South Park last night was hilarious, but it brought up a really good point.

The episode was about the game "guitar hero" and Stan and Kyle were working really hard to get a huge amount of points (100,000) in co-op mode. They achieved this, and all their friends went crazy. Then, some guy offered them a contract to play guitar hero, took them to coke and sex parties, and treated them like rock stars.

yaddy yadda yadda, one friend betrays the other, and starts playing with someone better, one ends up playing in a bowling alley arcade, they get back together, and eventually get one million points together. Once they did, the game said "Congrats, you've played enough to get one million points, YOU ARE FAGS!"

No one can argue with that. Come on people, guitar hero is a great game, and is wildly popular, but there comes a point in everyone's life where they should put down the controller, and pick up a real guitar.

Stan's mom said it best: "If they put half the energy into (something real) as they do on that video game, they could (go places)."


As a gamer, and a game programmer, I can honestly say that I have played games more than maybe I should at certain points in my life. I have even played certain games way too much. But one thing I can say is that never, never, never has status in a game taken precedence over real life stuff.

I know people who have missed classes (and tests) to play games like Diablo II, World of Warcraft, and such. They miss work to go on raids. It's silly. It's not real. Go do something real. Use games for when the weather is too bad to go outside and play, or use games for when you are waiting on parts on a project. Or use games for that 15 minutes longer that someone takes to get ready to go somewhere with you.

Some people play too many games... It's really too bad.

So, what I'm saying is, instead your free time consisting of playing games, make your free time consist of playing games, hiking, reading, hunting, fishing, or getting together with your friends. Let the games sit, they'll wait.

my toe

yeah, it aches a little bit.

the doctor was really nice, and I didn't feel anything other than the numbing shots.

Well, that isn't true...I did feel somethings. Like I felt him resting his hand on my foot to hold my toes apart, so he could work on the toe he was working on.

It sucked.

I've "self-medicated" a bit tonight...a couple beers and the pain went away. The buzz is wearing off, and the pain isn't coming back. I just needed to give it some time to subside a bit.

Hopefully, in the morning it feels like a toe again.....


What a crazy procedure. Last time, it was a cut, and a pull, and a wrap. This time it was a cut, and a pull (which I didn't even know we got there yet) and some stuff to kill my nail down at the root.

This is supposedly the more extreme procedure, but I felt less....must be because the guy was a podiatrist, not a general doc.

Nice guy, he likes cross country skiing, and he's not a computer power user. His wife has shot a deer, and he never has. I learned these things while he was knifing my toe.

It was a very interesting time.



Well, you know....



out

toe + knife = teh suck

Tomorrow, at 4:30, I go "under the knife" to get my toe cut up...yet again....

this time, for good....hopefully



I bought 3 new pairs of shoes today, as my xmas bonus came in today...




so....boo and yay!

A happy improvement to myspace!

So, I used to listen to music on youtube and myspace. I pretty much stopped using myspace, even though it's easier to tell more about the artist there, because I discovered youtube playlists. They are really nice, you set up a play list, and it will play. Very nice.

Well, so, I stopped using myspace for a while. Well, I went back the other day, and I found out that they now play all the songs that are available, instead of just one. This is awesome because now I can start it and go back to what I was doing, and I've got a few songs before it requires more interaction.



just so everyone knows...I use myspace music to listen to rap music mostly....


yeah, I listen to rap....

get over it