Papa found this note while cleaning out the shed. It’s got to be at least seven years old. I don’t remember writing it.
I wonder what I was trying to protect?
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I’m proud of this video of the JamShop on many levels. On the surface, it’s because I filmed and edited it all myself, and I’m real happy with how it turned out.
But there’s more to it… see, I was there at the…Continue reading ‘JamShop Video’
Sometimes, after a strenuous karate training, Kyle and I will split a Sierra Mist. There’s this recurring joke of sorts, where Kyle takes the second-to-last sip, hands the nearly-empty bottle to me, and asks, “Backwash?” So naturally, he usually gets the last sip as well.
Anyway, tonight we did the same thing, and then thought, “What if there was a soda that was nothing but…” and, well, the picture tells the rest.
Last year, we noticed that the police began patrolling the beach and neighboring areas in ATVs. During the summer, every time we went to the beachâ€â€which was pretty much every morning because that’s were we do our yoga, karate, and t’ai chiâ€â€we were almost guaranteed to see a couple police on ATVs driving by.
Now, I know being a cop is a tough job and a lot of responsibility, but you gotta admit that driving around the beach atop those buggies looks pretty fun. It’s too bad they are gas-powered and not electric (and silent), but I digress…
We’ve only had one confrontation with the police at the beach.…Continue reading ‘The Beach Police Patrol’
Sometimes I feel I’m the only man in the family with any sense in him. (Mama, of course, is not a man.) Let me explain.
Our backyard has an open area that has evolved quite a bit over the years. At first, it was an orchard with peaches, apples, and so on, but oak root fungus ended that over ten years ago. So Papa posed the question, …Continue reading ‘Wall-Dork’
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009. 6:22PM was an action-packed minute. I’ll get to my side of the storyâ€â€and there’s video tooâ€â€but to set the scene, here are some pictures, all taken between 6:33 and 6:54. (And, just to get it out of the way, nobody was hurt.)
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I have a cold. So yesterday morning on the beach, while everyone else was doing yoga and t’ai chi, I sat in the sand and made doodles.
I had the hardest time picking the orientation to show this in.
After that, Kyle and I continued a lengthy argument concerning my lack of blog posts in the queue, which is the reason I scanned this in to post it.
Saturday, July 19th, 2008. Cordova, Alaska. My second year at the Cordova 4-H Music Camp was over, and it was bittersweet. On one hand, it was the end of a tough week of teaching, with three challenging, unpredictable banjo classes a day. Still, I really connected with some of the kids I met at the camp. We had a lot of fun together. I was missing them already.
(That picture was from a hike we took on Day 4 of the camp.)
So it was a pleasant surprise when…Continue reading ‘(This was even cuter in person)’
We just got our first ceiling fan installed in the “jam room” downstairs. This reminded me of something I discovered a few years ago. Watch this footage from a Halloween/birthday party at a friend’s house in 2005:
A funny thing happens when you turn on a ceiling fan around some helium-filled balloons (in this case, birthday balloons). The fan blades knock the balloons to the side at high speed. Then, they’re gently pulled back in by the air that’s flowing in to replace the air being pushed down by the fan blades. (In other words, the low-pressure area above the downward-blowing fan blades.) Physics in action!
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