Almost done.. Ish?

The extension/connection thing between the ERC and the Science Center actually looks pretty good. Should be done in a few months, and it'll be pretty nice when it is done.

Saturday Night Poker

We seem to be starting Saturday Night Poker nights. So far I'm doing really well :)

Way to go Clarkson!

I was wandering through CAMP with a friend and I saw this wonderfully repaired piping!

Oh look a rest stop...

We're about 1/4 way back to Clarkson and we stopped here for coffee and donuts. If Verizon Wireless wasn't super lame this would be geotagged.

The end of summer....

And we get new lawn furniture. Way to go on timing. I'm sitting out here resting away headache and packing fatigue, and still recovering from Disney. I need to finish packing soon so I can see my Di once more before I leave.

The force is strong with this one...

Sitting at the airport I started looking through some of the pictures I took on the BlackBerry and didn't have time or inclination to send to the blog and I decided to share this with you. It's from a store in the Downtown Disney Marketplace.

Farewells

Here is a tight angle close up shot of the Sorcerer's Hat in Disney Hollywood Studios (formerly DIsney MGM Studios) as we departed the park for the end of our vacation!

It was a good trip. Now I want to go home!

Honey I Shrunk the Lunch!

Last day at Disney :-( and I'm battling a raging migraine. We're at Disney Hollywood Studios (formerly Disney-MGM Studios) and we're eating right outside the Honey I Shrunk the Kids set. Flying out of here tonight.

Isn't she lovely?

Diana thinks she looks bad in this dress, I think she is beautiful. Off to dinner now, a high resolution picture of both of us is on my camera!

Universe of Energy

Here we are flocking in the Universe of Energy ore-show. The middle projector was a out of focus and it drove me nuts!

Soarin'

The standard 60 minute wait is actually faster than FastPassing it. Go figure, it's FastPass inflation.

Momentary Delay in Time Travel?!

I'm writing this as I sit trapped on Spaceship Earth, the announcement given to explain this ride breakdown was "Our time travels have been momentarily delayed. "

Is it me or is that just ironic?

The adventure begins!

Took this on the boat from the Dolphin Hotel to EPCOT this morning. Diana dodged out of this photo...

Whoooooaaaaaa!!!

Finally arrived after a delayed, stormy turbulent flight. It was worth it, this hotel (the Dolphin) is super amazing!

West Plam Beach?!

We're at the airport, waiting on the weather to clear up so we can board the flight to Florida and I saw this gem. Apparently Southwest flies plane to alternate reality where West Plam Beach exists.

She named it Tetris!

Diana loves this little stuffed animal, we think its a leopard because of the spots (Ok all her thinking here). I love her :) now it's off to get food.

Just for kicks...

Here is a sketch I made up on the back of some weird letter from a college about something... I dunno. It's the basics of the idea cooking in my head for how to make the Ohmmeter for this project! Enjoy!

Meter...thingy

After my multimeter broke last May I've been wanting to build my own.... I ended up replacing mine with a retail one of the same type because I needed it, but I still played with the idea with of designing my own. Here is what I have so far! It only has provisions for measuring voltage and current at the moment, next is the ohmmeter. It has ranging controlled by the chip for the voltage where as the current only has two ranges, a fused 10A range, and an unfused 500mA range (I wonder about the wisdom in my fuse placement a lot here...), whereas the voltage has the following ranges:

• 5V
• 10V
• 50V
• 100V
• 200V
• 500V

I'm doing this as best I can with the knowledge I have, I am not looking at any kits or guides on the internet as I want to see if I can do it myself and then compare it to the "right way" to see how close I got. My biggest concerns right now is that the transistors I picked for the Voltmeter ranging can't handle the power correctly, that the fuses need better placement and that I am pretty sure (almost 100%) my differential amplifier sub-circuit is incorrect, close to right but not quite there.

Comments are of course welcomed!

Here it is:

Where it all started...

Here is the Verizon Wireless kiosk where I first played with the Curve, and where I later purchased and activated the sucker. Now I'm here with my uncle converting him to the BlackBerry. Whoo!

Late night swimming.

Nothing like a late night dip in the pool. DJ Biggs joined me and we shared the pool with my cousins.

Tom: hmm, my ass is wet.

As I write this DJ Biggs is making his voice so high I wonder if he has a secret life as a Karaoke queen.

Krass shot the sheriff......

......but i think his dog killed the deputy! (just....dont ask)

ok, this is a rant i started over a week ago. Its incomplete but seeing how im not in a smash mood anymore ill leave it as is.

SLAMS head on desk! Lather, rinse, repeat.............

In my life I try and be somewhat stoic, showing no true emotion other then happiness, enjoyment, laughter, etc, the rest i just let stew inside waiting to be released. This is starting to come full circle to bite me in the ass as i never actually deal w/ all the other crap. It sits bottled up inside snowballing becoming a bigger prob then before. Im at the point now where i just wanna go nuts and smash something, thus far ive refrained from taking it out on my wall. Mainly because i dont feel like fixing the large amount of damage i would cause.

The simple answer is.......o hell there is no simple answer. The short answer however is that im at nothing more then another crossroad in my life. I can either sit down and let life shit on my head or do what ive always tried to do, move foward no matter how murky the waters may seem, hoping that what lies around the next bend will be better. In some aspects of my life this has worked, in others....well im still trying to figure out what i did to a guy named Murphy for shit to hit-ith the fan so hard. This tailspin of a summer thats starting to come to a close is the crossroad with august being the murky waters and sept being the next bend. Whos knows what the cards hold for any of us once school has begun and most of us part ways for what will probably seem like one long ass semester........

Tom Banks is alive!

Here he is in Taco Bell with me Biggs, and his friend. Its been a while since we saw him.

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Testing to see if I can MMS post videos!

EDIT: Forgot the #end again, oops!