Friday after

Hey all.......................how was Thanksgiving? It is now the day after Thanksgiving, well, at this point it is 2 days after. Not sure how your day went, but mine was somewhat eventful. My wife prepared a dish that we were taking with us to my parents for dinner. We got everything in the truck, including my PC as I was not going to set for hours doing nothing except eat and watch television.
We got in the truck and low and behold, it would not start. It was cranking over, but it would not start. So, after about 20 minutes of this, the battery was no longer doing me any good. I was freaking pissed! Why, on Thanksgiving, was it time for something to go wrong. Why not the day before as I was heading out for work. That would have been a day off with a valid reason.
Fortunately, my neighbor across the street was home and offered to let us use his car. I was mad at first and told him "no", but after I calmed down and realized that no matter what I did, at this point the truck was not moving, I used his car. He is becoming a very good friend lately and I appreciate them more than they know.
So today when I got up, I decided to try the truck again, but no such luck. I tinkered with it for a bit and then called AAA to give me a jump. That didn't work either. I asked my next door neighbor if he could give me a ride to the auto parts store to check the battery. As this could get lengthy, after 3 trips to the auto store, I ended up with a new battery and found out the MAP Sensor was bad. Right now, it appears to be running back as it was before all of this.
So far, this has been a pretty eventful holiday. Tomorrow I have a family reunion to go to. I am going to see family I haven't seen in quite a long time. It will be good times I am sure.
I have typed enough for one night. I may visit again before the weekend is over. Everyone have a great Thanksgiving holiday and happy surfing......................

Free Stuff

Evening all..................how is everyone these days? Good I hope.
I was over at a friends house last weekend as it was BABY SHOWER heaven here. He has a tabletop size CNC Mill that he built from ground up (he bought all the parts and machined what he didn't have). We were playing around with that and cutting out a project that I am hoping will someday be sold in stores everywhere. Anyway, I left my jump drive there and he lives about 45 minutes away so, yeah, it is still there.
The next day in the Sunday sale ads, BEST BUY had a 1 gig jump drive for $20. I had a $5 coupon and went to get me a new drive. I got it for $15. That was awesome. So..................about a month to 6 weeks ago I ordered online, a free 3D kit from SOLIDWORKS ( a solid modeling program). It finally came today and in the kit was a FREE JUMP DRIVE!!! It is only 128mb but hey, it was free and now it is mine. There was also a deck of cards and 3 cd's with software on it. Pretty freakin cool. I might do another one from my parents house. Different name and address and then another free jump drive. Whooo hoooooo!
Later all..........................happy surfing

Nothing

Ever have one of those days or weeks when nothing seems fun or peaks your interest? This seems to be one of those times for me. I am into designing things and messing with Photoshop and Maya but I have no desire to mess with any of these right now. I have tried to think of something to do but NOTHING. Is this like a writers block? I have opened up programs to see if that helps, but nothing. Not really tired, but it is midnight and I DO have to work tomorrow. Guess I will go to bed..................
happy surfing

Blah............

The subject of this post is my self being tonight................Blah. Not sure if I am the unsuspecting victim of some random virus, but I have felt this way most of the day. My stomach has been kind of nasty all day and my lower body is running in overdrive, if you know what I mean. Feel drained and not real motivated to do anything. Just one of those days I guess. Hope it passes by tomorrow as I hate being sick or even somewhat sick. Even now as I am typing this, my stomach is feeling nasty again. Not puke nasty, but more of the "back door trots" nasty. I ate dinner earlier as I was feeing much better, but now, again, feeling like SHIT! What a way to spend any of my time awake. BLAH BLAH BLAH.
This weekend is the baby shower for my wife. There is going to be lots of people here and I plan to be gone. Prob go to my buddies house and mess around for a while. Man, I really feel like crap tonight.
Have to rant about one thing. My mother-in-law wants us to take care of her 3 dogs for about a month while she is moving. I really do not want to do this. Actually, I told my wife I do not want to. My yard is a wreck because of the recent construction and that means MUD ALL OVER. The dogs will have to stay in at night and I really do not have room for them. One is a Great Dane and one is a Chow and the other, I don't know. Either way, I really hope we aren't the last resort.
This could get lengthy so I better stop now.........later all...................happy surfing!