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Wed, 21 Oct 2009 @ 20:32 || Trees || Home

I haven't really used my chainsaw for something this big before, I mainly have used it to trim back branches that I probably should have used a hand saw or clippers. I also haven't cut a tree down since I was in highschool. Luckily the physics hasn't changed, and my memory served me well. I landed all four trees right where I wanted them.

The tallest tree had to land just right, there was only one direction it could fall w/o hitting a fence, the house or my apple tree. I didn't quite trust myself, so I tied a rope off as high up as I could and had Shane, who was visiting from school, pull the tree in the direction I wanted the tree to go. I don't think the rope was necessary, as each tree behaved exactly as I wanted it to.

Now I have a small pile of firewood and a larger pile of brush in my backyard. I don't have a fireplace and not sure if any of my friends have a fireplace. I was thinking of renting a wood chipper to get rid of the brush, and maybe a limb or two, or maybe a college student. The firewood will sit there for a while, unless someone who reads this wants it.

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Mon, 20 Jul 2009 @ 15:06 || Birds and the Plague || Home

Since we started walking around the block, we've noticed we picked up fans. A mother bird and four baby birds great us from the side of a fence a few houses down from ours. Later on they appear again and hop and fly around on the road just a few feet ahead of us. They lead us 2/3rds of the way down the last part of the block. We have been doing four laps around the block to equal our walk around Kettner lake. Each time around the birds show up at roughly the same spots and lead us around. I'm assuming they are the same birds.

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Thu, 18 Jun 2009 @ 10:29 || Slacker || Home

However, here's a diet update that most of the folks following me on twitter wouldn't care much about.

I saw the doctor for my regular diabetes checkup. Things are looking better, I've been sticking to my diet (mostly) and it is starting to show in the blood work results. I still need to work on it, but all the indications are I'm moving in the right direction.

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Sat, 23 May 2009 @ 07:36 || Walks || Home

This morning I took my old gps to figure out exactly how far we are walking, was going to use my new gps, but couldn't find the odometer setting. Turns out our walk is 2.0 miles exactly.

I've been doing this walk on and off for a while. Shane has started to join me as he wants to seriously consider the ROTC program at CU this year. If he joins one of the ROTC programs, they have all 4 branches available, Army, Navy, Air Force and Jar Heads, he'll have till December to meet the height/weight requirements and to pass a PT test. The PT (Physical Training) test consists of a 2 mile run and 2 minutes of situps and pushups.

Hopefully after a few weeks of walking we can increase it to a jog, then start working on running. I swore I'd never run again, unless for my life, after I got out of the Army, but for Shane... maybe I can hire someone to get him in shape.

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Wed, 20 May 2009 @ 21:38 || Mom || Home

She took the wrong charger home with her. I'll be at her house in 10 days, I'll switch the chargers back then, hope her cell phone lasts that long.

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Sun, 03 May 2009 @ 21:00 || Couch vs Chainsaw || Home

I moved the couch out of the door back to the living room and had her explain what the heck was going on.

She was cleaning and found some evidence of mice under the couch. When she ripped some of the material back she found a whole lot more evidence. We haven't liked this couch and we didn't really use or need it. She figured she'd throw it away, and got it jammed in the door trying to drag it out herself. Not sure why she didn't wait for me to get home or at least Shane.

The couch originally came in thru the siding glass door in the back of the house, but I figured I'd break my chainsaw out and take the remains out thru the garage. The chainsaw made quick work of the couch. It also scared the hell out of Sukki, Mindy and a couple of her friends.

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Sat, 18 Apr 2009 @ 09:39 || Birthday || Home

I went into work but closed the office around noon. We had a snow storm which was pretty bad in the morning, but turned mostly to rain in the afternoon, then back to snow most of the night.

Today it's drizzling out, but I haven't seen any snow. The news claims that I70 is closed west of Golden, and that the mountains got over 30" of snow last night. They are even reporting avalanches on I70. Here in Westminster we got about a foot.

I have some work to finish over the weekend, so I'll be headed to the office later today and maybe a bit tomorrow. I'm also thinking about attacking the basement project more. Last week I finished up the lighting, however, I may end up redoing a lot of it.

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Sun, 22 Mar 2009 @ 17:08 || Spring || Home

I took the dog for a walk yesterday, walked about 3 miles, around the lake at Kensington Park. We live near two lakes, a small one, Kettner Reservoir and a large one, Stanley Lake. My goal is to work up to walking around Stanley Lake, I'm guessing thats probably 8-10 miles.

The downside of it warming up, is the garage doesn't work as a refrigerator anymore. I shouldn't be drinking soda's, but I keep a few cases in the garage.

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Sat, 07 Mar 2009 @ 20:59 || CU Boulder || Home

Last night we filled out the housing stuff. I was surprised most dorms offered single rooms. The form had him pick 10 choices, and they'll let us know what he gets. We got invited to some reception in downtown Denver. Looks like it's a sales pitch for folks already going to CU. Debating on whether to go or not. Already sat thru one video when we went up for a campus tour.

The other day Karl and I stopped in the Army ROTC office. Had an interesting talk with a major. It's an interesting option, Shane would have to commit to 4 years active duty or in the guard after college. Other than daily physical training, it doesn't seem that taxing during the school year.

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Sun, 01 Mar 2009 @ 20:28 || Happy Birthday || Home

Happy 15th Birthday Mindy!

Yesterday was Mindy's birthday. I got her a anime costume she wanted, got it online, made to order someplace in Singapore. Sukki and Mindy wnt out shopping in the afternoon.

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Tue, 17 Feb 2009 @ 07:14 || Sukki's BDay || Home

Happy Birthday Sukki!!

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Mon, 16 Feb 2009 @ 20:58 || Facebook || Home

I'll get back to updating this site more as I have things worth writing about.

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Sun, 08 Feb 2009 @ 10:34 || Mask and Monocle || Home

The difference is amazing, when I don't wear it I wake up groggy, grumpy, unmotivated to do much. When I wear it, even for only 2 hours, I wake up refreshed, full of energy, can't wait to rush out the door and accomplish stuff. I haven't felt that good since high school.

The mask is a keeper, and I'm working on trying to wear it longer each night. This week, I was sick and in bed most of the week. I didn't wear the mask much. Thursday night I started feeling better and put the mask on before going to bed, thinking if I wore it while watching TV maybe I can become more comfortable with it. Problem is, the mask to too large and I can only see the TV with one eye at a time. The mask is also large and bulky enough I can't put my glasses on, and while I have a 43" TV in my bedroom, I still need my glasses.

A short time later, a pair of my old glasses, a chopstick and some electric tape... and I had a monocle. Works great! I have to hold the chopstick about 3" out from the mask for the TV to be in focus and I look like an idiot but I'm wearing the mask for about an hour longer each night now, from the start of the 10:00 news to just after Jay's monolog. I'm still waking up around 1am and taking the mask off, but it's progress it the right direction.

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Thu, 29 Jan 2009 @ 21:44 || Busy || Home

Work is going nuts, both in the contract I'm working in and our company's sales. Lots of good stuff happening. One of my older clients is asking for my time as well, I'm working for them in the evenings.

Shane has started to get acceptance letters from Colleges back. We're scheduling tours of campuses. This weekend were visiting CU@Boulder, the closest one to us.

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Sun, 25 Jan 2009 @ 17:32 || 2 years || Home

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Sat, 24 Jan 2009 @ 12:39 || House of sick || Home

My CPAP device arrived yesterday. My newest doctor agreed we should give this a try before resorting to surgery. Tried using it last night. I got about 2 hours before removing it. When I first turned it on, I was amazed on how quiet it was, but after trying to sleep with the mask, it was very annoying. I'm not sure if I was able to sleep, I think I drifted in and out, I wasn't feeling that great, so I took the mask off. Hopefully I can last more than 2 hours tonight.

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Sun, 18 Jan 2009 @ 09:08 || Teeth || Home

I stocked up on plenty of ice cream and Gatorade.

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Wed, 07 Jan 2009 @ 10:58 || ER || Home

My knee was killing me yesterday, when I got home from work I soaked it in the bathtub, as hot as I could stand it w/o burning myself. It felt better, but I could barely walk on it after I got out of the tub. After dinner, I couldn't even walk, I had Shane help me to the stairs, I wanted to go upstairs and lay down. I couldn't make it up the stairs, even with Shane's help.

I blacked out, got real dizzy and threw up. When I came to, I had the kids get me some clothes and get me into the car. Sukki and Shane drove me into the ER. I thought I had a stroke, or might have a blood clot in my leg.

Took the ER 3 hours to see me. Then it took them 3 hours to come to a conscience. Turns out I have advance arthritis in both knees and a gout infection in my right leg, mainly in my knee. They think I had a sever drop in blood pressure from the pain, which caused the nausea and passing out. Apparently, heat is the worse thing for this type of infection, the bath probably triggered it.

Been told to stay off my leg for 5 days and was giving some pills for the gout and pain.

I plan on staying off the knee today, icing the leg, and see if I can go into work tomorrow. I'm at least able to get around the house somewhat, I still need to lean on walls and furniture, but at least I can move. I'm hoping I get well enough to attend the conference this weekend.

Good thing is the doctor said this has nothing to do with my diet, or the supplements I've been taking, he encourged me to stick with Atkins as it's working well for me.

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Thu, 25 Dec 2008 @ 17:31 || XMAS || Home

The kids did pretty well for xmas. Mostly video games and gift certs. They are getting older and harder to shop for. I got Shane a craftsman mechanic tool set, and a bunch of car related things. I gave Mindy a slew of Manga books and a robot chicken.

For Sukki I got two holiday metal tin cans, I filled one with $100 in scratch tickets and the other with 100 $1 dollar bills. I also got her gift certs to a couple stores.

The kids got me one of the gifts from my wish list, the security cams. Been playing with them today. They operate on the 2.4 GHz frequency, which is the same as wireless routers. Both my router and the wireless cameras have settings to change them from 2.45 to 2.47, which doesn't really seem a big enough difference. When the cameras are on the wireless computers drop their connections, and the video receiver has choppy video. However even with the wireless router off, the video receiver still gets interception. I have more troubleshooting to do.

My mother painted me a picture of the flatirons. It looks just like the view from the Boulder lookout.

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Thu, 18 Dec 2008 @ 21:56 || winter || Home

I figured since I took some time to do minor maintenance on the snow blower that I wouldn't have to use it this year. Last week I had Shane clear the side walks with it. My neighbors must have been surprised, one of the first time I bothered having the entire sidewalk cleared.

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