So much to Blog about.

I just had a rad few weeks, and will need some time to catch you all up.

First, my brother got married. I was nervous, but I met the other family and I like them. I think that if we all lived anywhere near each other we could definitely hang out.

I worked the City of Bend’s Oktoberfest. Awesome time including; sausages, beer, ladies in Bavarian costumes, I cut off my beard and grew a handle-bar mustache, and wiener dog races.

Discovered Young’s Double Chocolate Stout. Chocolate malts, not sweet, no hop, very thick and delicious!

Vacation!

So I leave in the morning for my hometown. Here is my itinerary for the trip.
Friday.
Leave Bend at 6am.
Arrive at 10am.
Call my friend Alex, whom I haven't seen in a long time.
Pick up my parents at their terminal.
Rehearsal dinner and stuff.

Saturday.
Prep for My brother's wedding, whom I haven't seen in a while.
Enjoy the time with my family that I almost never get.

Sunday.
Go to church with Justin, not my biological brother, whom I haven't seen in a while.
Eat lunch with Larry and Jan, whom I haven't seen in a while.

Monday.
Fly back to Bend.
Meetings at work.
Monday night football!

Worst part of the trip, missing my boy Baas.

More pictures!

And here is me, right after donating my hair. I'm trying to be fancy since I was in a wine shop.



Here is an outside shot of my home. I took a few of the inside as well, however I forgot to use the flash, so they are too dark.

Cliche

I have a friend at work who I tease a lot for being cliche. He does stuff like reads Shakespeare, and puts french impressionist pictures on the background of work computers.

As I was watching TV the other day and had a moment of clarity. I am in fact cliche.

An overweight, white, gun-owning, conservative man; living in a trailer.

I hope I don't die in a tornado.

Pictures!

I hope this works. Here is a recent picture of me. Right before I cut it off. Yeah, i look like a hippy.

La fin du Monde

For those few whom do not speak french, The end of the World.

I recently read an article about the particle accelerator in France. Also James had a post about it. I have been hoping for some cool things to happen, but now that we are only one day away from the start of the thing, I'm getting nervous.

One scientist says that we wont see anything happen for 4 years, which is a weird coincidence with the ending of the Mian calender. Another says that Black holes and turning our planet into a quasar are also possible.


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-large-hadron-collider-end-of-the-world-or-gods-own-particle-921540.html

Mmmm, books.

Raymond Fiest is quickly becoming an author I really like.

I just read shadow of a dark queen and even though I thought of it as a fantasy version of the dirty dozen, I loved it.

I highly recommend his books to you, even though he has 5 stand alone series, you should start with magician.

Coolest thing ever!

click the link over to the right and make your own super hero.

Mine is Rich Jandt, telephone answerer. It's kinda amazing, but he is at 100% customer satisfaction. Also I really own shoes like that.

Handy man.

James can attest, I am not that handy, or so I thought.

That has all changed this summer, in the past 3 months I have fixed two leaking sinks, hung a shower curtain, replaced an alternator, re-mounted an accelerator cable, and changed two car batteries. I also helped install pergo flooring, installed insulation, some simple wiring, reattached some door hardware, and used a jig-saw to cut off some corners of boards.

Just one more thing I'm awesome at.