Blunt Force Trauma

About 5 months ago, Allison and I were taking out a spare room we'd built a few years earlier. I was up on the ladder cutting into some drywall and the next thing I knew, I was on the floor. I thought I'd cut into the electrical with my sawzall and electrocuted myself. My head was pounding and then... then there was blood all over my fingers. WTF?

Well, there was a lot of dust in the room and so I'd left the ceiling fan on. Apparently as I was cutting the drywall, I leaned back into the fan blade.

You know you're a parent when all you can find to put on a bloody gash is a freakin' Tigger bandaid.
This is the worst accident I've had in working any of my DIY projects, so I count myself fortunate.
How we took the sheet metal skin off our trailer without slicing off one of our heads is a miracle in itself.
~Rick

Rebuilding A "Wee Hoosie."

Rick and his wife picked up this quasi-kick-ass 50's vintage travel trailer a few weeks back and are in the process of renovating it. This is certainly a Moonpie-Worthy vehicle -- especially since the inside is totally gutted.

The happy couple are taking the summer off work and sort of dedicating themselves to doing this thing right.

You can check out the progress on this beast at Rick's blog: How Hard Can It Be? Rebuilding A "Wee Hoosie."

Monty Python in the early years. We would spend, oh I don't know.......hours listening and reciteing line after line of Python. The practice has served me well 'or these many years.

Growing the Santa Beard

Here's a little video -- that should work -- showing the progression of my beard growth from last September to a few days ago.
~~Rick

Off the wall

A group that Rick and I went to high school with. I had a photography class with Vaughn and Jeff (top and bottom of photo). We would leave class to "take pictures" and go down to their Boxcar storage facility and hang out. Good times.

sunscreen

Summer time is here. Don't forget sunscreen.

Spanglish

This is why people in New Mexico can't figure out which language to speak. Even the billboards are in Spanglish!

When attempting a back flip off of a kicker ramp, ALWAYS try to get enough air to actually complete the rotationbefore returning to earth. Just sayin'.....

"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."- Mark Twain
Back in 1982, Mom and I went to see Joe and aunt Anita in S.F.. Nice trip and saw some nice shows and had a drink with Al Pacino who was performing "An American Buffalo" at the Orphium Theater were Joe was the house man. After the show, across the street at "Curtain Call", a nice piano bar, in walked 'little Al' as Joe would call him. Fun times.

Martin O'Malley (Maryland Gov.) to sign a bill today to de-criminalize small amounts of marijuana. Take it from old Bing, "you're gonna like that pipe again old friend." Remember to wear a bow-tie with that first bowl. Boo boobo doo......