I remembered hearing about this bonehead's video back in August...
Well, Barack's speech went great under beautiful 72 degree Denver skies. But now the Republicans are staring down a Cat3 hurricane by the name of Gustav for their convention.
I gotta laugh. Karma's a bitch folks. :-)
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Gustav
Ya know, in our old house I would have said "Bring it on!" cause it was just so high above the surrounding terrain that flooding wasn't a remote chance. With this new place, I'm a bit concerned.
I finished today cleaning the parts of the rain gutters I can reach. I have a section on the back of the house that's bent up pretty badly. I think it got messed up when the big tree fell before I bought the place. That piece is pulled away from the house a bit so some rain will run between the gutter and the house. Oh well, can't fix it now. I cleared out some brush and dirt along a fence line where I saw standing rain water gathering before. I hope the water will run under the fence easier now. I shut the sprinkler system off. There's room in the garage for the Pilot, Prelude, and Shadow. The Jeep will have to rough it out in the driveway. The wireless rain gauge is on the patio table and ready to go.
Who knows? The storm could bring us nothing but I know at this moment NOAA is showing it coming right at us...
Like I said, I'm not worried but I am concerned.
UPDATE: Gustav was LAME!! We got only a slight breezy day and some spitting rain from it here in the DFW area.
I finished today cleaning the parts of the rain gutters I can reach. I have a section on the back of the house that's bent up pretty badly. I think it got messed up when the big tree fell before I bought the place. That piece is pulled away from the house a bit so some rain will run between the gutter and the house. Oh well, can't fix it now. I cleared out some brush and dirt along a fence line where I saw standing rain water gathering before. I hope the water will run under the fence easier now. I shut the sprinkler system off. There's room in the garage for the Pilot, Prelude, and Shadow. The Jeep will have to rough it out in the driveway. The wireless rain gauge is on the patio table and ready to go.
Who knows? The storm could bring us nothing but I know at this moment NOAA is showing it coming right at us...
Like I said, I'm not worried but I am concerned.
UPDATE: Gustav was LAME!! We got only a slight breezy day and some spitting rain from it here in the DFW area.
AnimeFest 2008
Have you ever had someone tell you about a great new TV series they watch but you couldn't get into it because it had been on the air too long and you couldn't figure out who was who? Kinda like starting to watch the Sopranos on HBO in the 4th season. That's the way I felt about Anime. I've had people tell me how interesting it was but since I never could figure out which one was what, I never could determine where to jump in at.
Yesterday I felt like I corrected that. A while back Cristina shot wedding photos for a couple who after they were married had their honeymoon in Baltimore at an Anime convention. Tiffany and Blake really like Anime and enjoy it as a couple.
So what is Anime? Anime is a form of animation originating in Japan based on "Manga". A Manga is a graphic novel. Some might incorrectly call it a comic book. A comic book is much shorter and doesn't have the plot depth as a Manga. Or so I seem to understand. I'm still a noobie here.
So this past Saturday Tiffany and Blake hired Cristina and Efrain to come to AnimeFest 2008 in Dallas to shoot Tiffany dressed as a couple of her favorite Anime characters. I came along as bag boy since it sounded cool. It was! Blake showed me around the downstairs area where vendors had booths set up selling Manga paperbacks and Anime DVD's. In looking back I show have bought a Manga but I was on a budget from the boss. ;-P I was surprised at the number of people in costume and the level of detail in the costumes. Tiffany, I learned, wants to open her own shop to design and sew costumes for fans. She could do well at it since her self made costumes were flawless.
There were others I saw in the crowd who were dressed in costume but maybe they didn't get the memo it was an Anime convention. I saw a couple guys dressed as Ghostbusters complete with the nuclear reactor backpacks. I saw a pirate who looked like Capt Jack Sparrow. Correct me if I'm wrong but these characters didn't start off in the Japanese pop culture world. But ya know... it didn't matter. Not one bit. Everyone was happy, the place was jumpin', and smiles were the norm.
While Blake was introducing me to the various Anime story lines one caught my attention. It's called "Death Note". The story revolves around a kid who finds a notebook that was dropped to earth by a god. He realizes that when he writes someones name in the notebook that person dies of a heart attack. He uses the notebook on a vigilantie killing spree to kill criminals. There's also a cop who is begins to see a pattern to the killings and trys to track down the kid. I've already added the first 3 DVD's to my Netflix acct. Looking forward to checking it out. Tiffany and Blake surprised me with a Death Note keychain. COOL! They're a great couple. There's another Anime convention in May of next year I hear. "A-Kon" is many times bigger than this one was. We're all planning on attending it also. I'm looking forward to it.
Yesterday I felt like I corrected that. A while back Cristina shot wedding photos for a couple who after they were married had their honeymoon in Baltimore at an Anime convention. Tiffany and Blake really like Anime and enjoy it as a couple.
So what is Anime? Anime is a form of animation originating in Japan based on "Manga". A Manga is a graphic novel. Some might incorrectly call it a comic book. A comic book is much shorter and doesn't have the plot depth as a Manga. Or so I seem to understand. I'm still a noobie here.
So this past Saturday Tiffany and Blake hired Cristina and Efrain to come to AnimeFest 2008 in Dallas to shoot Tiffany dressed as a couple of her favorite Anime characters. I came along as bag boy since it sounded cool. It was! Blake showed me around the downstairs area where vendors had booths set up selling Manga paperbacks and Anime DVD's. In looking back I show have bought a Manga but I was on a budget from the boss. ;-P I was surprised at the number of people in costume and the level of detail in the costumes. Tiffany, I learned, wants to open her own shop to design and sew costumes for fans. She could do well at it since her self made costumes were flawless.
There were others I saw in the crowd who were dressed in costume but maybe they didn't get the memo it was an Anime convention. I saw a couple guys dressed as Ghostbusters complete with the nuclear reactor backpacks. I saw a pirate who looked like Capt Jack Sparrow. Correct me if I'm wrong but these characters didn't start off in the Japanese pop culture world. But ya know... it didn't matter. Not one bit. Everyone was happy, the place was jumpin', and smiles were the norm.
While Blake was introducing me to the various Anime story lines one caught my attention. It's called "Death Note". The story revolves around a kid who finds a notebook that was dropped to earth by a god. He realizes that when he writes someones name in the notebook that person dies of a heart attack. He uses the notebook on a vigilantie killing spree to kill criminals. There's also a cop who is begins to see a pattern to the killings and trys to track down the kid. I've already added the first 3 DVD's to my Netflix acct. Looking forward to checking it out. Tiffany and Blake surprised me with a Death Note keychain. COOL! They're a great couple. There's another Anime convention in May of next year I hear. "A-Kon" is many times bigger than this one was. We're all planning on attending it also. I'm looking forward to it.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
The New Dallas Cowboys Stadium
I was traveling southbound on Industrial Blvd in Euless, TX Sunday morning and snapped a shot of the new home to the Dallas Cowboys.
If you can't tell, it's that large spacecraft looking thing on the left side of the road in the distance. According to Google Earth this picture was taken 7 miles away!!
Come to think of it, maybe it is one of the spaceships from Independence Day...
(source: Jeff Russell's Starship Dimensions) <<< A VERY COOL WEBSITE. CHECK IT OUT!
;-)
If you can't tell, it's that large spacecraft looking thing on the left side of the road in the distance. According to Google Earth this picture was taken 7 miles away!!
Come to think of it, maybe it is one of the spaceships from Independence Day...
(source: Jeff Russell's Starship Dimensions) <<< A VERY COOL WEBSITE. CHECK IT OUT!
;-)
Weak Trees
Again with the falling trees!!! The house has some of the weakest trees around!
Yesterday around 7:10pm Abby and I were sitting on the window sill bench in our master bedroom watching a thunderstorm come thru. This picture I took of our HDTV is of local WFAA-DT Channel 8.3 was just after the storm hit. Our house is located practically right in the middle of the "O" in the name "Bedford". You can see the gust front on the radar. It's the green line that runs from Keller to Midlothian. (BTW, clicking on any of these pictures will get ya a larger version. Just click on Back in your browser to return to this blog.)
Abby's been a bit afraid of thunder but slowly I'm getting her use to it so she's not so scared of storms. The rain started falling and within 30 seconds I saw a large gray cloud appear to the northeast over my neighbor's house. It swooped down VERY quickly towards us bringing a large amount of rain and wind. Then at that moment a large branch from the tree right outside fell in front of the window. I grabbed Abby and pulled her back from the window. She was saying over and over "OH MY GOSH!! OH MY GOSH!!".
The storm was short lived. We soon went outside to survey the damage. The window with the blind pulled up is where we were sitting.
Luckily, we were OK and the branch didn't break anything on the patio either.
Here you can see the place it broke off from. Another branch is still hanging from the tree.
At 10am this morning, my father-in-law and his co-worker Jose Manual arrived to cut down the broken branch and cut up all the other pieces.
He also cut down a dead tree we had across the cul-de-sac from us.
I guess it's just less leaves I'll have to worry about this fall.
Yesterday around 7:10pm Abby and I were sitting on the window sill bench in our master bedroom watching a thunderstorm come thru. This picture I took of our HDTV is of local WFAA-DT Channel 8.3 was just after the storm hit. Our house is located practically right in the middle of the "O" in the name "Bedford". You can see the gust front on the radar. It's the green line that runs from Keller to Midlothian. (BTW, clicking on any of these pictures will get ya a larger version. Just click on Back in your browser to return to this blog.)
Abby's been a bit afraid of thunder but slowly I'm getting her use to it so she's not so scared of storms. The rain started falling and within 30 seconds I saw a large gray cloud appear to the northeast over my neighbor's house. It swooped down VERY quickly towards us bringing a large amount of rain and wind. Then at that moment a large branch from the tree right outside fell in front of the window. I grabbed Abby and pulled her back from the window. She was saying over and over "OH MY GOSH!! OH MY GOSH!!".
The storm was short lived. We soon went outside to survey the damage. The window with the blind pulled up is where we were sitting.
Luckily, we were OK and the branch didn't break anything on the patio either.
Here you can see the place it broke off from. Another branch is still hanging from the tree.
At 10am this morning, my father-in-law and his co-worker Jose Manual arrived to cut down the broken branch and cut up all the other pieces.
He also cut down a dead tree we had across the cul-de-sac from us.
I guess it's just less leaves I'll have to worry about this fall.
Monday, August 11, 2008
We're Back.
Been on vacation in Puerto Rico for a week and got back late last Wednesday night. I took an extra day of PV (personal vacation) from work so I didn't go to work on Thursday. Hoping to make an update with pictures and all here on the blog soon but household chores are taking up my time.
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