Wed.

I got the dog house installed! It took all day yesterday and part of today just to get in in, but it is done. I had a LED set from a landscaping light that was broken, so I took it apart and made a light fixture to go in the ceiling of the dog house. There is a piece of Plexi over it on the inside. It comes on at night and makes just enough light for the mutt.

You don't see a Camaro go over a million miles very often so check it out.

By now you should have seen the "history of dance" video on YouTube. It is one of the most viewed videos on the interwebs. Just in case you have not, here it is..

Well now comes the MechRC doing the robotic version of the same thing. Pretty funny at some points. If you work it right, you can sync both of them together and it is great.


HERE is a map of the US with the openings of Wal-marts plotted onto it which resembles the spread of a virus. Hmmmm

Ok, now leave me alone. I need to go finish the dog house so I can put up the last wall and then take some photos to show you.

Saturday

Wow. I can't believe it has been a week since I posted. I don't think I have ever gone that long. I have just been working on the deck. One more wall to complete and then I can start the screen in. But first I have to make the dog house that will be built into the last wall. I had to work today and then I came home and started on the dog house. It is a shame because it is SO nice outside and I should be there.
I saw this Tee-shirt today and thought it was cool. How many cars can you name?

Saturday

Big Tim came down today. His son is playing bass now and I am selling off some of the stuff that I don't need, so that worked out well. We went out to a Mexican place here in town. That was nice. Then I started on the dog door on the side of the patio. That took about 3 hours by the time I got it to work for what I am doing.


This guy makes ME feel smart :-)


Mary and the kids are out of town visiting relatives, but I had to stay here and work Friday. It was really cool when I got off work and I had the whole house to myself and I could do anything I wanted. Then about 10 minutes later the novelty wore off and I felt alone. There were fireworks going off all night and it reminded me that I should be with them watching them. They will be home tomorrow and I will be glad.

happy 4th

I got into a debate with another blogger the other day. He is a mac guy that has a mostly mac blog, but got side-tracked on hypermilling. He was giving tips on fuel effeciency and I questioned a few of his suggestions. My comments begin where I point out that NASCAR does not run slicks because it reduces aerodynamic drag, but rather becuase they don't drive in rain, or snow. (duh). He never addressed that part, but instead kept debating his claim that aftermarket air filters save gas. I was going to put one on my truck when I got it since I am going to keep that thing forever. I was going to do it to save gas. Then I started to think about it. They claim they increase HP, and they try to get you to associate that with saving gas. But the more I thought about it I realized this: They test engines on a dyno under full throttle where the engine needs to suck in tons of air and that added flow increases HP. But under normal conditions you can get plenty of air in and so MPG is not increased. I tried to explaine that to him, and he would not give. On the last comment I added (which he never posted) I told him that a K&N for my truck is $50. A fram is what? $5. I drive in the city. I am smart enough to know I can blow the dust out with my compressor and so I change it about every few years (or whatever) That would take me a hell of a long time to get my money back. But the best part was where I linked to K&N's site and quoted them. They said "K&N makes no general fuel economy claims, however we encourage you to try our air filter for yourself. " I told him that they spent a whole page going on and on about HP improvements and how they dyno proves it. With gas at $4/gallon, don't you think they would claim it helped if they could? Instead they say that there is no proof that it does anything, but you are welcome to give us a bunch of money and try it out.
Anyhow, I thought it was a fun debate, although i think it was cheezy of him to not post my last reply when he had no response.

Thursday

I have to work tomorrow covering the late shift. That kind of shoots the whole day down, but I will have the weekend off and should be able to get the last wall in on the deck. Here is a shot of the rails that I made around the planter boxes to keep the dog out of the flowers. I had planned to make them later, but the dog kept digging up the plants, so that got bumped up a bit.