Monday, December 19, 2005

Not dead yet - I just changed the front brakes on the fridge. I got a set of Baer 14" eradispeed rotors from the truck parts joint and replaced my beat old stock rotors and pads. I had to order the rear pads, so that'll have to wait - same for the parking brake. The difference in stopping power is pretty amazing already, so I'm really looking forward to getting the rears done too. Got some pics in the photo gallery...

Friday, August 26, 2005

Couple of big days - I've taken several 'days owed' from work and am doing some work on the new suburban. I got a Silverado SS style front bumper cover for it, and I ordered SS rims that should be in tomorrow or Monday at the latest. In the interest of good taste, I'm lowering the truck so it looks right.

Oh yeah, it's the end of the world, too - there's some hurricane going on right now, but I hadn't even heard of it until just yesterday. It just rained like cats and dogs all day, and some gusts of wind - nothing major yet. To listen to the local news, you'd think it really was the end of the world.

Sunday, August 21, 2005

Ok - been a month, that should be long enough, right? Well, the site got hacked by some losers - if they're down to my site, they're either not too good or they don't have much imagination. Oh well, it's fixed now.

Lots of new stuff too. I've been out on the road a lot lately, so nothing's gotten done around here at all. While I was gone, I was in Barcelona again for an installation, and I went to Ibiza, Spain for a day but didn't leave the ship. Bummer to be in one of Europe's hottest spots and not get out. Oh well, maybe some other time. I did get off the ship in Monte Carlo, and that was awesome. I took a crapload of pictures in Monte Carlo, so enjoy those.

I was also able to order lots of stuff for my new suburban, 'the fridge', and I put in the grill insert this evening. There is lots more to come in that department, so keep an eye out.

Thursday, July 21, 2005

Surprise! The company that used to host my website no longer offers web hosting as of July 1, 2005. Somehow, I didn't make the list of people they emailed in time, so I found out it was toast when I started to figure out how to fix it.... Well, go figure. If you were previously a member, you'll have to sign up again because all that was lost. I'm going to be rebuilding the site over the next few days, so it'll be getting back to normal soon.

I am going to be upgrading and repairing the photo gallery too, so stay tuned.

Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Ok - like I mentioned before, I've been pretty busy lately. Didn't have any idea just how long until I was reading the dates on the 'blog here... Wow, time flies when you're ass deep in aligators, doesn't it?

Since my last big news flash back in September, I spent almost an entire month in Cozumel, Mexico for work. Didn't get any pictures to speak of because I was pretty busy the entire time I was there, meeting a ship every day, and sometimes 2 a day. I got to come home for only a couple of days at the end of the month, then it was right back out again, this time to Hawaii for a few more ships. Now before you go off thinking this is just a free vacation, I had one of the most difficult troubleshooting problems, and most stressful visits to a ship since I started this job while I was out there. Paradise really sucks when you're the bad guy because the antenna isn't working right. I got home from that trip right around the 23rd of December.

I was home for christmas and really didn't do much of anything for the holiday. I spent some quality time with my butt and my TV both. Just sitting here, I really can't think of what the hell I did during the beginning of January. Near the end of the month and the beginning of February, I went to Singapore again - very nice birthday present due to the timing - and was going to Banda Aceh, Indonesia with Nortel Networks for a donated communications project. The whole job fought us all the way, and we ended up sailing on the USNS Mercy for a week, getting all the way to Banda Aceh before our component of the job was pronounced dead, and we just came home after that. Dave Lloyd from Nortel kept a much better weblog of the events than I did, so I'll refer you to HIS PAGE here. Working with Dave and Brett Jones from Nortel in Sydney, Australia was a real gas, even if we didn't end up doing a whole lot of real work - we did have a lot of fun along the way.

My roommate, Dutch, became my ex-roommate finally. Well, mostly - there's a bit of his stuff left in the dining room, but it's not killing me. Now I have the opportunity to re-do the room that he was in as a guest room. My friend Howie, from Surbeton (near London) works on yachts and will be doing a lot of stuff in my area soon. He was just out here for a week, and helped me out getting the bathroom into shape. I had just replaced the shower doors with a curtain, and he cleaned the hell out of everything and re-sealed the tub tile with caulking. It was good fun, and he got me motivated to do a lot of stuff myself. I moved a lot of the stuff I had stored in the spare bedroom / master bath (well, someday) room into the computer room and am getting ready to revamp the guest room - where Dutch used to live. I waited until Howie split, and now I'm going nuts in the guest room. I just killed the closet in the spare bedroom and knocked out the wall between that closet and the closet in the guest room to make one big closet, which should be nice. Got a few pictures HERE. If I had a previous picture of something, I tried to put it in there so you can get some perspective, but I'm realizing I don't have pictures of some of the things that bug me the most about this house. Oh well.

That's a hell of a lot of typing at one time, so I'll try and stay a bit more current from now on. :-)

Tuesday, March 01, 2005

...not quite dead yet. Going to be adding some new stuff soon. Just been a little overwhelmed by work and stuff lately. Got some pictures I'll be adding in a couple of days, too.

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