Max and Jade

My sister and brother in law went on a trip to Hawaii so i got to watch their dogs. The fun parts:- running around in the back yard- afternoon napsThe not fun parts:- getting drooled on by Jade - waking up to 2 big wet noses in my face at 6:30am ready to get fed- trying to walk them together and having to carry around at least 2 pounds of poop in a bag after they both go, even though i let them out in the back yard right before we leftChecking out my new tent and sleeping b...

New TV Shows

CommunityI think with these kind of "group story" shows the key is to cast all funny people and have good writers. This show is great and i think will get even better. The plot is that they all go to this community college, happen to be in spanish class together, join a study group and become friends. I think the funniest part so far was when Aved and Troy were just learning the first words and sentences that everyone always reads in those books:"Hello my name is" "Where is the library"Modern Family Some parts are really funny, the kids are definitely not one of those parts. The dialog the writers came up with for the kids to say is dumb...

Top Gear coming to America

It just came out that November 21st on the History Channel is the premier of Top Gear in America. It's a spin off of the very popular British show which talks all about cars.Top Gear is that it's an awesomely funny show on the BBC, it's up to 17 seasons and has 350 million viewers per episode world wide. Some of my favorite episodes include things like: Driving across Africa in a $500 carDrive to the North Pole in a truck (the first people to ever do it)Homemade electric carTurning a car into a boat (the best out of the 3 they made is the one below, the TOYbOTA)If you want to know the most economic Chevrolet for 2011, don't watch. But if...

Hotel, Motel, Holiday Inn

I started collecting room key cards from all of the hotels and motels where i have stayed. I've been going out of town for about a year now. All of these are actually from only the past 3 trips, just think if i had started keeping them from the beginnin...

Pennsylvania - October

I got home from another work trip to Pennsylvania. I was told i would be gone around 4 or 5 days...i was gone for 10 days. It started with the usual 24 hour notice, we left Michigan around 6pm and didn't arrive at the hotel until 2am. Then the first day working we had the boxes for our GPS equipment stolen by a little old lady. We set it up in the right of way in a field in front of her house. After talking with her and telling her that if they find natural gas or oil on her property she might be getting paid thousands of dollars per month, she gave us back our boxes.Also we had 2 run-ins with the cops. Once because a man didn't want...

Indoor Garden

I saw something a while back where you could grow tomatoes by hanging them upside down, i thought i'd give it a try. So i grew one cherry tomato and one larger slicing tomato plant. And i thought i'd also try soy beans that i brought some home from the fields of Jackson and green beans that i grew in my garden this year. So far, so goo...

Windmill

Several months ago i built a windmill out of a car alternator. My dream was to be able to collect so much electricity that the electric company would be sending ME a check every month.My dreams were crushed.A simple way of explaining it was that the wind would spin the alternator, charging up the car batteries, which would go to the DC to AC converter, which would plug into the house. Apparently plugging car batteries directly into an outlet in your house is not good... who knew?So the windmill had been sitting in my basement in a pile labeled "crushed dreams" Other things were there like a hang-glider made out of a bed sheet and the human powered...

Garden - October

Well everything has been picked from the garden except gourds and tomatoes which are still going great. I grew 2 pumpkins that were about softball size and lots of carrots.Also the bamboo is taking over, by next year my yard will look like a Vietnamese jung...

Book Review - 4

Digital Fortress - by Dan Brown Isn't the whole thing about reading is that it's suppose to be enjoyable? I really enjoyed this book a lot. Right from the start i couldn't wait to see what happened next. And i love how short his chapters are. It made it easy to follow when the story jumped from character to character. It did follow the usual format of Dan Brown books, with the usual twists and turns, thinking you know whats going on, only to find out that it was the complete opposite. There's a reason that this wasn't as popular as Angels & Demons or the The Da Vinci Code...because it wasn't as good as those books. Angels & Demons...

Book Review - 3

Percy Jackson & the Olympians - The Battle of the Labrynth - by Rick Riordan Book number 4 in the series. An improvement from books 2 and 3. It did a good job of setting up the final book and the final battle. The characters started showing their true selves and made me really want to read the final book.an exciting 7 out of 10Percy Jackson & the Olympians - The Last Olympian - by Rick Riordan The last book, number 5. Well the story finally got back to what it did best...copy Harry Potter. The hero trusting himself to be the chosen one, epic final battle, prophecy revealed.This wasn't just a cookie cutter "yaaay the hero wins, everyone...

New TV Show?

Back in October i was driving by I-75 and the Davison freeway, through an industrial park and i saw people filming a movie or tv show. It's not the best picture, i took it while i was driving. Right next door there were tons of trailers and semi's with filming equipment in them.The cameras weren't there yet but they had the green boards set up to look like columns or something. If it's for a tv show it might be that Detroit 187 show...