The Halls

So I finally went to the doctor yesterday to have the weird creeping crud on my legs checked out. It looks like it's a simple case of poison ivy or similar. Which I would never have known, since I've never had any before. I thought I had skin cancer or radiation posioning, but that's because I'm an optimist.
The good news is, do you know how you cure poison ivy? Steriods. Yeah baby! I'm gonna be HUGE!

I think I'm getting my work wrapped up nicely before I have to leave thursday. Unless all those F***ING AHOLES IN CHICAGO DROP THE BALL AGAIN!
Sorry. A little roid rage there.
I don't expect any problems, and I'm looking forward to riding to Ft Collins, seeing friends, and drinking good beer!

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I didn't get everything done I wanted to this weekend, but most of it.
Got most of the wall built, (I plan to finish it tonite, and I did get the hardest parts done),
changed the oil in the GS, (which proved to be much harder than it should have, since I had to buy two new tools)
but didn't get a chance to restain the deck.
I did play a lot of poker, and generally sucked, or had some incredibly bad luck. Probably a little of both.
The most frustrating hand is in the extended entry

The fam came home yesterday afternoon, and we went to the girls' Tball game, which was surely the hottest game on record. Very unpleasant. Then we ate out at Bennigans' for father's day, and I chose that becuase I hadn't been in one for along time, and it was much worse than I remembered. The last time I was in one was in march, when they ha several traditional Irish dishes for St. Patrick's day, but apparently their normal menu might as well be applebee's. Oridinary, unspectacular crap. It wasn't bad, just not impressive.

A good father's day weekend, all in all. Except for the whole losing $ in poker part.

Blinds 20/50

Seat 1: Aaron (1 300)

SUMMARY:

Unbelievable! I should have knocked Terry out, and more than doubled up.
Instead, I took the side pot from Chad, crippled him, but ended up with a
stack almost exactly the same as what I started the hand with.
And Chad came back from that because he's the luckiest POS in the entire town.

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Well, I guess my father's day present is that my family is leaving for Columbus. Kindof strange, but actually, I'm not complaining. I'll be able to get a lot more work done this weekend, and play some poker
I intend to:
-frame a support wall for the bathroom shower
-change the oil in the GS for the trip to Ft Collins
-restain the deck
-host a poker tournament

Still have plenty of work to get done before my brewfest trip, but I'm making progress.
I think my family will come home on Sunday so we can go do something together. Til then, I'm a busy boy.

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My friend Darren (whom I met through Tom at vegas, and is affectionately known as "the Jap") just had his twins!

They are Jordan (left) and Ashley.

Pretty cool for them! All seems well, after many weeks of bedrest and fretting on his wife's part.
But they all look well now

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I have some kind of weird creeping crud on my legs, it itches like crazy, and has many pus-filled blisters all over. It's great, I'll post some pictures for you soon.
Gallery seems to be in strange state, as I'm trying to migrate to gallery2, and it sortof works, but not as well as I think it should.
I had a minor acheivement with my biek tonite. I rode home on my standard off-road route, which is just driving through a new construction area towards my house. It's a fun little bit of off-roading to practice on. Tonite I dropped the bike while riding in there, and I was a 2 miles from home. I did not want to walk home again, so I decided I was picking this bike up this time. And since I wasn't completely drowning in mud, I figured it was possible, and finally, I was right.
I finally picked up the bike, and started to turn it around on the dirt road, and dropped it again. So picked it up again, and decided to just ride it out through an adjacent corn field, which actually worked.
So I pretty pleased with myself for that.
I logged 50 miles on the biek today, just riding around doing errands, going to the girls' track practice, and picking up tools from friends to finish the bathroom.
I just need to change the oil in the bike to get ready for next week's trip to Ft. Collins. woohoo!

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This is my current favorite site, although I'm sure it will be short lived, but it's hilarious right now.

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Finally I got some bathroom work done, but only because I had BJ come over and help me. But now the shower valve is installed in the framework, which had to be modified, and I'm ready to install the sprayers and back shower wall.
Then I can finally get the water all hooked up, and start doing something else, like the floor or walls.

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Aubrey took BB gun safety/training/shooting class last week. He seemed to like it plenty, and he did quite well. So at the end of the class, I had to take my savagae parts to my cousin Doug, who is going to paint them. We talked about several things while I was there, and when I told him I had to go to pick Aubrey up from the gun class, he gave me a nice pellet rifle for Aubrey to use, because he said he wouldn't use it anymore. It's quite nice, so it was a very nice gift. Aubrey and I shot it the rest of the night in the backyard.
Today we had a busy day, where I was dying to see the new X-men movie, so Aubrey and went and saw that this afternoon. It was my least favorite of the three, but still entertaining.
Then when I got home, a friend who has season tickets to the local pro baseball team said we could have his tickets for tonite's game, so Aubrey and I went to that too.
Now I'm home and trying to get done the several home projects I originally wanted to do. But quite a fun day

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I finally got the 2nd mythtv box up and running ivtv, which is the low level driver for the hardware video capture card. I went through 4 kernels before finding one that worked. Fun.
But now it's nearly ready for prime time.

Note to self: the magic combination was vanilla kernel 2.6.16.20 with ivtv-0.6.2

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My brother in law Jon constantly sends me jokes and whatnot. Every so often one of them is quite good.
I like the simple ones.

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2 weeks until 2 weeks of trips!
Going to be a busy boy until then. I got the shower base and drain installed, but only with a professional's help. Now I tried to install the shower valve, and was immediately blocked by my lack of knowledge. I'm going to need some help to do that too. I suck. Most of this stuff isn't too bad once you've done it once, but I haven't ever done it, so I'm no good.
So I'd like to get a lot more done on the bathroom before I leave, but it's going to be hard when I have to wait for others to help me.

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If you like poker, this is a very good read.

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poker was pretty fun last nite. I finished 2 spots from the money, but Ann kicked butt and got 2nd, more than making up for our entries and rebuys. And then after a rocky start in the cash game, I came storming back, and made almost $100 in profit for the nite.
Today Aaron came over and we finally got my shower base installed. Now I just need to get the shower valve installed and the rest of the water hooked up, and I'm off to the races. I don't know what the races are exactly, but I will feel like nothing can stop me from it.
Then me and a friend went on a 3 hour motorcycle ride around the area. I got to ride his bike for a awhile

It's a nice bike, but it's built for nothing but going fast. Way too fast. After riding it for a few minutes, my hands hurt, and I can barely fit on the thing, my knees were in my chest.
It made me like my GS a lot more.

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work has been great this week, mostly because I haven't hardly done any. It's going to catch up with me quick here, but this week was good.
I got the latest tournament director software, which is a big improvement over the previous version, which had a few shortcomings that I fixed in my own personal version, but this new version has all those fixes and more. I'm going to use it for our tournament tommorrow nite.

I think I may have finally made a little headway on the bathroom this morning, thanks to my friend Aaron, we got a shower pvc drain installed. Something I was not able to do by myself. So tonite I press on with shower installation, and continue tomorrow. Then tomorrow nite, poker tournament, which I predict I will win. Or cash in. Or at least make money in.
Who am I kidding? I'm lucky to not lose money anymore.
Last nite I played at Misty's and was terrible. I only seem to do good at cash games anymore.

I have been trying to weeks to get a 2nd mythbox up and running, but it's not going well. I can't believe how long it's taking me to get this done on gentoo. It's really fast to bring up on fedora.

We had a "company" lunch at BW3 today. I really like that place. Great sauces. Only large chain that actually has a hot sauce that's hot, and has some good flavor too. My new camera needs a new memory card, I'm expecting some action from butterflyphoto here soon. If not, they will feel my wrath!

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