Another Revelation - Seperated at birth?

I have been saying this one for years.. lol!



Chad Smith - Drummer, Red Hot Chili Peppers


Will Ferrell - Comedian



Weird huh?

Biggest idiot so far this year

This is the biggest materialistic idiot I have seen this year. Go ahead and email her and let her know how "cool" it is to own 300 pairs of shoes and get shopping advice. I actually saw this on channel 4 news tonight. Must be a slow news night. People like this are sad. People like this have no clue about anything. Can anyone guess if she has a tribal tattoo on her lower back? or she maybe wears 1985 big, old lady sunglasses like my mom wore when I was a kid. and we wonder what is wrong with the city of Detroit / the nation.

Check it out if you wanna hurl - http://www.angelaseye.com/

I guess I am running for president now

My radio, and life in general

Yes... I am still alive.. Lets start with a radio update. I got it back and it worked fine for about 2 hours and took a dive again. I sent it back and it was determined that it was a bad solder joint. Radio was fixed and sent back. It worked great for about 2 days and died again. It is back en route again for the 3rd time since the end of April. What sucks is that I won't have the radio back in time for field day next weekend. Field day is the biggest contest/emergency comms event of the year. I asked Ray at work if I can borrow his Yaesu FT-897. He said I could borrow it for the event, however he only has a hand mic with the radio and that sucks. I will have to lower my goal for 1000 contacts due to the fact that It will be hard for me to computer log and key the hand mic at the same time. So that about covers it for the radio side of things. My laptop motherboard burned out also and it would cost about $250.00 for a new board so I decided to part it out and sell it on Ebay.

We also had some big storms here last week with 80MPH winds that knocked our power out for 5 1/2 days. That sucked big time!!! We lived out of coolers with ice for the duration and I spent a lot of time reading. Piper, and the kids and I went to a Tigers game the week prior to that. My sister called and told us that her neighbor had free tickets. They were awesome seats, 20 rows behind the dugout with free parking right next to Comerica Park! It was the day after the Red Wings parade and the Stanley Cup made an appearance! That was the first time I ever saw the Cup in person. Piper and Andrew saw it 2 days in a row because they went down to the parade the day before that on Friday. Renteria hit a grand slam and the Tigers won 8-4 so it was pretty cool!

I went to the gym tonight with Piper also (I am way out of shape) for about a 45 min workout. I did 2 miles in 20 minutes on the elliptical machine and 3 Miles in 8 minutes on the stationary bike. I have decided to try to go at least 3 times a week now if not daily. I am up to 250lbs and I just feel unhealthy :( I didn't feel like I got a very good workout though, I was just starting to break a sweat when we were getting ready to leave. I think I am going to do a 3 mile elliptical and a 5 mile bike tomorrow (I know that is weak to most people but hey I am out of shape). This weekend I might even start to walk / jog. When we got home from the gym we had some pasta and chicken and took about a 30 minute walk. Now I need to quit smoking and cut my beer consumption way down and I should start losing the weight. Wish me luck!!!

The 746Pro took a major dump (at the worst time)

I was working the Michigan QSO party on Saturday and about 2 hours into it, my radio died. I was about 1 hour and 45 minutes into the contest, working 40 meters with 49 contacts, 31 states, and 6 Michigan counties. I have been having trouble with the rig for about a year now with ALC spiking and power intermittently dropping. I never really though much about it except the fact that maybe there was a slight problem in my antenna system. Apparently, the problem is due to the driver board on the rig getting to hot due to the factory bias being set to high around 1.5 amps. I contacted a few repair techs to see if they knew what the deal was. I don't have the knowledge to work on surface mount technology so I will have to send it out for repair. Sending to Icom s way too pricey and takes way too long. About 4 techs said it was probably the final transistors with would cost anywhere from $250-$400 plus shipping (OUCH!). After hearing nothing but good things about Scott Malcom of MTS, I contacted him with my symptoms. He used to work for Icom for about 10 years and is an authorized Icom repair center. He said that more than likely 4 updates can be done to the radio to fix the problem. Take a look here: http://www.n1eq.com/tech/page_01.html MTS said it would be about 60 bucks estimate plus shipping. I am going to be sending it to him this weekend. Fingers crossed! I will be without an HF/50MHZ rig for a liitle while just when sporadic E season is starting for 6 and 10 meters.

Severe Weather - Tornado Watch

Severe Weather Event Friday Apr 11th 2008
RELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DETROIT/PONTIAC MI
937 PM EDT FRI APR 11 2008..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..____________________________________________________________________0354 PM HAIL 4 NNW BURT 43.29N 83.94W
04/11/2008 M1.00 INCH SAGINAW MI TRAINED SPOTTER
M-13 AND RATHBURN
0355 PM HAIL BRIDGEPORT 43.38N 83.88W
04/11/2008 E0.75 INCH SAGINAW MI TRAINED SPOTTER
0424 PM HAIL ST. CHARLES 43.30N 84.15W
04/11/2008 M0.75 INCH SAGINAW MI TRAINED SPOTTER
0429 PM TSTM WND DMG VASSAR 43.37N 83.58W
04/11/2008 TUSCOLA MI LAW ENFORCEMENT
WIRES DOWN
0440 PM TSTM WND DMG CARO 43.49N 83.40W
04/11/2008 TUSCOLA MI LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREE DOWN
0442 PM HAIL FAIRGROVE 43.52N 83.54W
04/11/2008 M0.88 INCH TUSCOLA MI TRAINED SPOTTER
0524 PM HAIL 10 S UBLY 43.57N 82.93W
04/11/2008 E0.75 INCH SANILAC MI TRAINED SPOTTER
0600 PM HAIL 3 N OWOSSO 43.04N 84.18W
04/11/2008 E0.88 INCH SHIAWASSEE MI TRAINED SPOTTER
0614 PM HAIL 3 SW NEW LOTHROP 43.09N 84.01W
04/11/2008 E1.75 INCH SHIAWASSEE MI MESONET
DURAND AND ALLEN RD
0640 PM HAIL GOODRICH 42.92N 83.51W
04/11/2008 E0.88 INCH GENESEE MI TRAINED SPOTTER
0702 PM TSTM WND DMG HOWELL 42.61N 83.94W
04/11/2008 LIVINGSTON MI LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREE DOWN AT GRAND RIVER AND FLEMING
0707 PM HAIL NORTH BRANCH 43.23N 83.19W
04/11/2008 E0.75 INCH LAPEER MI TRAINED SPOTTER
0710 PM HAIL 3 N GRAND BLANC 42.97N 83.62W
04/11/2008 E0.75 INCH GENESEE MI TRAINED SPOTTER
0733 PM HAIL HOLLY 42.80N 83.62W
04/11/2008 E0.75 INCH OAKLAND MI TRAINED SPOTTER
0734 PM HAIL WHITE LAKE 42.65N 83.50W
04/11/2008 E0.75 INCH OAKLAND MI TRAINED SPOTTER
0735 PM HAIL COLUMBIAVILLE 43.16N 83.41W
04/11/2008 E0.25 INCH LAPEER MI TRAINED SPOTTER
HAILED FOR 5 MINUTES. COVERED GROUND.
0735 PM HAIL COLUMBIAVILLE 43.16N 83.41W
04/11/2008 E0.75 INCH LAPEER MI TRAINED SPOTTER
HAIL OCCURED FOR FIVE MINUTES AND COVERED THE GROUND
0740 PM HAIL LAPEER 43.05N 83.32W
04/11/2008 E0.75 INCH LAPEER MI TRAINED SPOTTER
0758 PM HAIL BLOOMFIELD HILLS 42.58N 83.25W
04/11/2008 E0.75 INCH OAKLAND MI TRAINED SPOTTER
0758 PM HAIL WATERFORD 42.66N 83.39W
04/11/2008 E0.75 INCH OAKLAND MI TRAINED SPOTTER
0804 PM TSTM WND DMG BROWN CITY 43.21N 82.99W
04/11/2008 SANILAC MI LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREE DAMAGE
0810 PM HAIL IMLAY CITY 43.02N 83.08W
04/11/2008 M1.00 INCH LAPEER MI MESONET
0817 PM HAIL BIRMINGHAM 42.54N 83.22W
04/11/2008 E0.88 INCH OAKLAND MI TRAINED SPOTTER
0828 PM HAIL SHELBY TOWNSHIP 42.67N 83.03W
04/11/2008 E1.00 INCH MACOMB MI TRAINED SPOTTER
WIND EST AROUND 60 MPH WITH SMALL BRANCHES DOWN
0830 PM TSTM WND DMG PECK 43.26N 82.82W
04/11/2008 SANILAC MI EMERGENCY MNGR
POWER LINES DOWNED IN PECK
0836 PM HAIL MEMPHIS 42.90N 82.77W
04/11/2008 E0.75 INCH MACOMB MI MESONET
OCCURRED IN BOTH MACOMB AND ST CLAIR COUNTIES
0836 PM HAIL MEMPHIS 42.90N 82.77W
04/11/2008 E0.25 INCH MACOMB MI MESONET
OCCURRED IN BOTH MACOMB AND ST CLAIR COUNTIES
0836 PM HAIL MEMPHIS 42.90N 82.77W
04/11/2008 E0.75 INCH MACOMB MI MESONET
OCCURED IN BOTH MACOMB AND ST CLAIR COUNTIES

John Corbett is to Jeff Bridges as Gary Busey is to Nick Nolte

I had a revalation tonight.....







John Corbett




Jeff Bridges










Gary Busey

Nick Nolte







nuff said!

Weekend Update: Work, The Mall, and Jesus - The Small Beetle Man?

I have been really busy at work lately.. I have become the "webmaster" and have been charged with the task of building the company's website from the ground up. It has been fun and I have been learning alot of HTML along the way. This weekend was a break time from that. Piper had four days off work so we decided to go to the mall on Saturday. We got to the mall around 11am or so and about an hour later I got called into work. Piper decided that she would stay at the mall with the kids while I drove back out to work and took care of business. After finishing with my first call, I got a second call (groan). I took care of the two calls and headed back to the mall where I located Piper and the kids in the food court in the Taco Bell line. I headed off to the Panda Express line for some Beef Broccoli, chow mien and Kung Pao chicken. Afterwords, we wandered the mall for a bit and I ran into Circuit city to get a USB flash drive. I found a Sony 1GB on sale for $9.99 (bonus). When I took it to the register, it rang up at $17.99 (WTF!?) I went back and got the sign that said $9.99 and the sales person called the manager. The manager said that I could not have it for $9.99 because the sale ended 4 days ago. I said "That's not my problem, you have a sign for $9.99, you have to give it to me for that." The manager said "Fine, we will do it for you this time." like they were doing me a favor. I got pissed and told them "Don't act like you are doing me a favor for 8 bucks. I am doing you a favor by not buying all ten of them on the shelf for $9.99." After that they shut their mouth and I was on my way. There was a Singstar http://www.us.playstation.com/singstar/ booth setup so people can play the game. It is a karaoke type game. Andrew and Jamie sang Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out" and had a good time. We ended up buying the 90's version of the song with 2 mics where I promptly lost my voice.

Sunday, Piper and I went to breakfast at our usual spot because the kids were at church with the Grandparents. Our place was closed (DOH!) due to a power outage. We ended up at Big Boy down the road where we sat next to an energetic 4 and a half year old boy who was making lots of noise. The noise didn't really bother us too much because we are used to Andrew. At one point, the kids mom was telling the other people at the table (the kid's grandparents maybe?) a story. We couldn't help but listen in. The mom was saying how the boy a few days ago told her that "Jesus was very small". The mom said "What do you mean Jesus is small" The boy said "Jesus is small like a beetle". The mom said " No, Jesus is big, he is the size of a man". The Boy responded with "Yeah, a beetle sized man!" LOL! There was also an older couple there having breakfast that I noticed. They were both reading the paper and didn't say a word to each other the whole time they were there. I asked Piper if we would end up like that someday. I think her response was "I don't know?" Weird.. It is strange that you would even go to breakfast and not enjoy the other persons conversation.. Oh well.. I am off to bed for now. BTW, we had some thunder and lightning here today. The Tigers also lost their home opener. :(

I am still around. :)

I am still around. I have been really busy lately. I have been working on my works website which has taken a lot of my time. We had about 5 inches of snow here the other day, most of it has melted now. Happy Easter!

Log! by Blammo!

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