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Ryan was the winner! I scored coffee and a donut betting on him. I have to admit that everything pointed to the other guy winning. I was lucky to win.

Tonight is a reality tv smorgasbord. There is something on all 4 channels from 8-9 that we would like to see. It’s going to put my A/V recording talents to the ultimate test. 🙂 Turns out the the guy from the last Bachelor and Helene didn’t pan out. What a surprise…..

Tomorrow is Friday. Nothing major on the horizon except getting our shed in early March.

We got some exciting news. It looks like my Mom has her place sold up north, meaning she is on her way to moving down here. It will be great to have a familiar face down here with us. Unfortunately that also means a drive from PA to Florida in a moving truck again, but it will be worth the hassle.

I forgot to mention that I got my wireless camera rig up in the air on my RC planes. It makes for some interesting footage. Check it out at my RC site. The rig also caused several crashes. Getting it all balanced out on the plane is more challenging than I expected. The quality isnt superb and I need to experiment some more with camera position and flying techniques with a cam onboard. Runs on a 9V battery, pretty slick!

Did you know that a Maxim study showed that if you post your computer specifications as your signature line in a message board you are more likely to be sexually inactive? It’s true. 🙂

Not much to report. Working towards the weekend. Huey Lewis rules.

A very nice 3 day weekend! Never have we appreciated living in Florida more than this past weekend. Back home they were getting dumped on with 2 feet of snow. The entire winter up there has been dreadful. The weather here was nice and pleasant. We went to the beach on Sunday.

Earlier in the week I had bought C&C Generals, a computer game that I have wanted for awhile. However, after getting it home I found out that it had very high video card requirements and my card was not up to the task. So on Friday after work I made an impulse buy of a high end card. I was gonna try to keep it secret but I wound up fessing up to Ali. She wasn’t happy. However the new card SMOKES. Very fast, I love it. Friday was also Valentines day. We had pizza and watched Harry Potter. Hey, Ali said that was what she wanted. It was fine. The movie was a bit long but I enjoyed it.

We had our big yard sale on Saturday. Traffic wasn’t bad, we sold most of our stuff and we pocketed about 130 bucks out of the deal. I told Ali to keep the money and go buy herself something to make up for my video card purchase.

The rest of the weekend we did various outside projects, went to the beach and relaxed. We saw XXX which I thought was really, really bad. I am not fussy with movies by any means so if I say a movie is really bad it must be majorly lacking. I watched Panic Room myself yesterday. Ali didnt want to feed into her fear of stuff like that. A good flick!!! It wan’t as bad as she thought it would be.

I also had to remove a pigmy rattle snake from under my neighbor’s water equipment. First one of those I have seen live. It was fine, I just scooped him up with a pole and tossed him over the drainage ditch. No harm to him or to us.

We added 2 apple trees to our orchard and set up a long thin garden. I had to redo a bunch of the irrigation that was setup. It was either kinked or blocked up so it wasn’t doing the job. Pulling up the hose netted me a few fire ant bites and we also found termites in the mulch. Not sure what to do about that.

A 4 star weekend. I enjoyed it.

I am a big time video/computer game enthusiast. I review the stuff I am currently playing on another site I run, www.fragu.com Check it out!

Ah man…. my D drive on my puter died. No backup and that had all of my stuff I have downloaded in the past year or so. Man I had a lot of stuff on there….. damn it! Oh well.

Girls vs guys in Survivor. Girls won the first challenge after the guys blew a huge lead thanks to a couple morons with no balance. Even with winning the challenge, the girls are in DEEP trouble. They can’t seem to build a shelter OR gather food. It should be fun.

Yard Sale tomorrow. Great weather forecast!!! Should be fun.

3 day weekend, always a treat. Still having some issues with my ISP. The message board is still down.

I have been looking for this video for a week. It is a clip of our military taking out targets in Afghanistan. A MUST see. Very interesting and sure to illicit feelings either positive or negative.

Still in the process of cleaning up the mess left over from whatever tweaks my host did. The message board was hammered since yesterday. The Frontpage stuff is slowly being put back together. Evidently, they had someone spamming off the server I am hosted on. To troubleshoot, they disabled a bunch of stuff which in turn broke a lot of things. Nice huh?

Our outside storage shed is on order. A 12′ x 20′ behemoth that should be delivered within a couple weeks. It was supposed to be a surprise for Ali but the shed company blew my cover when they left a message on the machine at home about delivery. She is happy none the less but I was really going for the surprise factor on Valentine’s day. Bummer. It will allow us to really clear out some stuff from the house so we have 2 fully functional spare bedrooms.

Fishy has made an almost complete recovery. He is acting normal again and eating well. (on the new food) I suppose rumors of his imminent demise were premature! 🙂

Homey has been filling me in on how nasty the weather continues to be up in PA. Sub freezing for a long time now and snow scattered throughout the forecast. Worst winter up there in quite a few years. I’m happy to miss it! 🙂

My ISP has been having some issues that have caused my multiple headaches over the past day. They broke a number of things I had setup and I’m slowly putting it all back together. Annoying.

Not much to talk about except Joe Millionaire was a total waste last night. The entire show was just a recap. If it is going to be a recap they should advertise it as such and not try to squeeze one more show out of it. Pissed me off.

Beautiful weather here again.

France & Germany are trying to trip us up anyway they can in our preparations for moving against Iraq. I hope our leaders don’t soon forget their lack of cooperation.

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Pics from February 2003 I posted some pics of our weekend projects. We finished the rain barrels, planted a queen palm and built a plant table.

We also hit the county fair on Saturday night. It was quite busier than Tuesday as expected, but we still had fun. I bit the bullet and plopped down 10 bucks to ride the “special attraction” ride. I have to admit it was worth it. 150-200 feet arm with a car on either end that swivels as the the entire arm rotates. Unlike any ride I had done to date. It was a blast but I am glad Ali declined to go on it with me. She would have been terrified and traumatized. 🙂 We watched the high wire act again and were disappointed to find out the amazing Luiz falls down EVERY show and gets back up. Part of the routine. 😉 We split a funnel cake. It seemed like a good idea at the time, afterwards we vowed to never have one again. Sits in your gut like cement.

We were gonna do the beach on Sunday but we both had some mild sunburn going on from working outside Saturday so we decided to pass. Ali had heard that red tide was rolling in again so that was another reason to not go. Red Tide is some sort of reddish algae that kills fish but also emits something into the air. Last year we were at the beach during red tide and EVERYONE including us were constantly sneezing and coughing from the stuff. It was AWFUL.

I had to expel a snake family from our downspout this weekend. I felt bad but hopefully they will relocate somewhere else. Pictures of them are on the link above.

We watched the third Austin Powers movie this weekend. It was good not great. I guess the jokes starts to wear thin by the third movie. The gold member character is the dumbest and least funny of any that Mike Myers has played so far in the series.

This upcoming weekend we are having the long awaited yard sale. I am hoping to move a ton of unwanted stuff to clear up some room and make a few bucks. Crossing my fingers for good weather.