Cedar Point

On Memorial Day weekend i went to Cedar Point with Karrie, her sister Kristina and Paul. We left at 6 am.Because we were staying at the Sandcastle Hotel, at the northeast corner of the park, we were allowed in at 9am. Everyone else gets in at 10am.The first thing we did was wait in line for an hour and go on the Millennium Force. It's a really great coaster. Super fast, smooth and that first drop is an insane 89 degrees down.We rode several rides till 3pm then rode the shuttle back to the hotel and took a break. We went back out around 5:30. It ended up thunder storming around 8pm but we were ready to be done anyways.Because of super...

Happy 40th Birthday

This October my 1972 Honda CB500 motorcycle will be 40 years old. It is 4-cylinder and 50 horse power that gets around 45-55 miles per gallon. I've had it for 11 years. When i first got it, it had 12,062 miles. Today it's at 21,595 miles. Here's what it looked like when i first got it in 1999. It had a big old seat and tall mirrors. Other than the exhaust it was pretty much original. Since then i've learned a lot from working on it. Usually the process is: something breaks, i try to fix it, i make it worse, i try fixing it several more times before i realize what i'm doing wrong then fix it properly. This is probably the furthest...

Bamboo - 2011

This was a tough winter on the bamboo, lots of leaves turned yellow, overall though they survived.I'm still not sure exactly what type of bamboo i have. I think the small trees are Canebreak bamboo (the only native bamboo to the US) and the larger ones are Yellow Grove bamboo I'm only guessing from pictures i've seen. The Canebreak bamboo i got in Kentucky and the Yellow Grove i got in West Virginia. I also have Moso bamboo that i grew from seeds i ordered online. After reading about the different types i've learned that as long as the roots stay above -10 degrees Fahrenheit they should still be alive in the spring. In the...

Channel 7

Last week while at the same job i found the morel mushrooms, i noticed a Channel 7 truck. It was the day after Governor Snyder announced his new budget and Channel 7 came to interview the superintendents of Michigan schools about getting less money for students next year. I didn't know why they were raising their hands but after watching the video they were saying that they would all have to fire people next year. Here's the video.Looks like i was almost in some of the shots in the background. ...

Morel Mushrooms

I found these morel mushrooms while working on a job site. They were growing in a grassy field in Wayne right near the airport. It was a few weeks ago in early May. And no i didn't cook them and eat them. I just found out though that they are super expensive, $40 for 2 ounces! That's nuts. Dried Morel Mushroo...

Tigers Rain Out

I went to Comerica Park last week with Karrie, her cousin Jackie and nephew Atreyu. We arrived at 5pm to see batting practice but just when we got there it started raining. We waited around but it was very cold and wet so at 9pm we left. Luckily the game was canceled and the make-up game is in June. It rained the whole time we were there. Last look at the field....

End of Days

So that guy was wrong with his end of the world prediction. Now he says the world will end October 21st. Remember a few years ago when the Large Hadron Collider at Cern was set to go online. Insane people that had little or no information were sure that it would cause a black hole to appear and destroy Earth. That was 2008. Time Magazine Article What happened to those people with the predictions?For a long time people have been saying that because the Mayan calendar ends December 21st, 2012, it must mean that's when the world will end. Maybe the guy chiseling the calendar into stone got bored and went to go see a good sacrifice....