tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6646995083813173012024-03-05T13:21:04.549-08:00Parabola / Tape worm's BlogThis is a blog about my geocaching adventure's and concert's that I go to and whatever else is on my mind.
© Copyright 2010 by Parabola / Tape worm. All rights reserved. The following will not be allowed to be reproduced in any way shape or form without the written consent from me. But really why would you want to any way's?Tape wormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885732437210023344noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664699508381317301.post-71103512040820251912010-03-14T20:51:00.000-07:002010-03-14T21:12:37.357-07:00A insane fundraserI've been toying around with some ideas for a fundraiser to try and help our local caching club gain funds to buy swag type item's with their logo on it. Just to get those things the money has to come upfront, when the item's get sold then the money is recouped. So it's had to say hey let's get 100 logo pins and sell them. yes they will sell, but over a period of time and I don't thing the budget is there to do such things.<br /><br />So sitting around thinking of what we could do that would kind of be "extreme", I was thinking about this place in Wisconsin. My thought was to advertise this as will he chicken out or go threw with it, and have people offer what they would like to contribute weather it be a dollar, or 50 dollar's.<br /><br />Since this would be taken place in Wisconsin, I think it would be fair to offer the same to their state caching group as well.<br /><br />So something like this. There is a cost up front. Hopefully enough money would be raise (if I don't chicken out) that will pay for the cost of the "stunts", Then the proceeds's would then be split evenly between Wisconsin and Iowa's, caching groups.<br /><br />Maybe even set it up as an event, so people can come try to strick fear into me. lol And get together for the usual cache talk and fellowship. But for those who can't make it, and as proof, take my digital camcorder and video tape it all, then upload it to a site like you-tube or viemo, so those that could make it can see.<br /><br />The "extreme" part is this:<br /><br />http://www.extremeworld.com/attractions/terminal_velocity/video.aspx<br /><br />That as one part of it. Then:<br /><br />http://www.extremeworld.com/attractions/bungee_jump/<br /><br />and then if I'm still walking or haven tried to run away:<br /><br />Well, I can't find a video for it, but it's "The ejection seat".<br /><br />So my question would be would people be interested in this and again the money would first pay for the taskes, then what's left would get split evenly between Wisconsin and Iowa's caching club website's.<br /><br />Make a day of it, an event you can come and try to haggle me and make me even more nervous. And if I do chicken out on the tasks, I'll pay the cost of what the task's cost, so if you can get in my head and scare me off, that would leave even more money for the two caching clubs.<br /><br />So far this is just an idea and this is the first I've talked about it. Let me know what you think and if I should look more into this. So please get the word out, as I' interested if my fellow cacher would like to "knock me off" or not. lol<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Tape worm</span>Tape wormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885732437210023344noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664699508381317301.post-64681453593485567482010-03-10T03:46:00.000-08:002010-03-10T03:59:15.897-08:00It's been awhileWell, 'm almost hesitant to even post this but I know a lot of the family follows this. What I though was just a sleeping pill they had pescribed, was really an anti-depressant/tranquilizer. Which I know now you are only to be on them for a short amount of time, which I was on that one for around 5 years. So trying to get off of it, has been a scary process.<br /><br />Last week my mom had to rush me to the E.R. in the middle of the day cause I had been having an annexity attack for almost 48 hours, but it turn out it was withdrawl. I couldn't breath, The only part of my body I could feel was my face. I tried to lay down in the hospital bed, but it just felt like if I laid down, I wouldn't get back up. They did get me an ice pack which seems to help a bit. My blood pressure was threw the roof, and my blood pressure has always been normal.<br /><br />I was able to finally clam down and quit shaking, but the next late afternoon another one started in. Bad part was my parents where leaving for a cruse in the morning. But I had to go back to the E.R. and do a little fibbing so they would admit me. I had had about 5 hours of sleep the whole week, and I really think that was what brought it on, plus another situation going on, that I really didn't need at the time.<br /><br />Thankfully the doctor was moving so I got a new one, which we where going to switch anyways cause i didn't care for her. This new one flat out told me I'm not an addict. It was given to me with good intentions just they didn't pull me off of it when they should have and they should have never had me on such a high dose.<br /><br />I've been getting out and doing a little caching and making some hides. I took our dog Rusty to check on one of my caches the other night.<br /><br />But they are taking a much more aggressive approach on taking me off this med, which sucks, and I can't wait till it's over.<br /><br />But that's what I've been up to for the past few weeks.Tape wormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885732437210023344noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664699508381317301.post-41299988998474227852010-02-17T20:59:00.000-08:002010-02-17T21:06:56.097-08:00Wow!!!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/S3zJzkE1III/AAAAAAAAAbE/lvnCfkHlJkE/s1600-h/9c0688c3-42b0-49fc-a0e6-9b0936ae66a5.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/S3zJzkE1III/AAAAAAAAAbE/lvnCfkHlJkE/s400/9c0688c3-42b0-49fc-a0e6-9b0936ae66a5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439444337651163266" border="0" /></a><br />Now this was just crazy. I've got a cache hid on a very small island out 20 feet away from the shore. It's about a mile walk one way to get there. Yeah I had put it out in the winter and used the frozen ice as an advantage to get there, which I wouldn't recommend it to anybody. But these photo's I think speak for themselves. I wish I was there to see this, just crazy.<br /><br />He's using a fallen tree as a "bridge" to get out to the island as seen above.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-aqk1OshFMdBStnQXlFwpmnhnZsL6sYlyGAabhP9r-4uG5FsM1HImcSqZRWRIS0PzlHXqpNZqfNWMT5LXar5wBVVyeWjqhqGvhwIi9pYX5TWuUEdQTBt4m-VpRnpumhuwDy1WUmtohZA/s1600-h/80f8321c-a879-4c52-94d9-4fbf511a7327.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-aqk1OshFMdBStnQXlFwpmnhnZsL6sYlyGAabhP9r-4uG5FsM1HImcSqZRWRIS0PzlHXqpNZqfNWMT5LXar5wBVVyeWjqhqGvhwIi9pYX5TWuUEdQTBt4m-VpRnpumhuwDy1WUmtohZA/s400/80f8321c-a879-4c52-94d9-4fbf511a7327.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439444603035121394" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Here he is trying to dig the ammo can out of the ice.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/S3zKTrpUEdI/AAAAAAAAAbU/II6IvC5G5KQ/s1600-h/cc9a7883-871c-45cf-aad5-14981b47aa36.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/S3zKTrpUEdI/AAAAAAAAAbU/II6IvC5G5KQ/s400/cc9a7883-871c-45cf-aad5-14981b47aa36.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439444889439048146" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Here he is standing on top of the ammo can.<br /><br />I saw these and thought wow now that's diehard. I'd take the tubing option during the summer.Tape wormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885732437210023344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664699508381317301.post-87550053062567128632010-02-10T20:05:00.000-08:002010-02-10T20:16:31.204-08:00Something's are impossibleThere's a CITO event from last year's earth day still active. After many many SBA's on it from me and other people, it's still there. So tonight I got a great message from a cacher that feel's you only have the right to put such thing's down if you have a hide/find count. Since I don't really care about my count's, but did add them up for a response. I don't understand why a individual thinks that you have to have a high find/hide count to have a voice in Geocaching. Especially when that person can't fix or maintain their own hides, and gob's of DNF's are on it, then it get's disabled for 6 month's, then when you ask about if it's going to get fixed or not, you get your log deleted.<br /><br />Oh well, most of those caches I wouldn't take the time to look for, and if I did I won't spend the time to log them. They just go on my ignore list with the date I found them.<br /><br />Well, off to keep painting some container's and forget about it. It was nice while it lasted not having to hear anything from this cacher. Since I was accused of tampering with vote's by him and he had to send out mass e-mail's but didn't bother sending one to me. Sometime's volunteering to do think's for masses does have it's draw-back's, when their are jerk's like this out there. They don't even stop to think about what you have given up doing so you have time to do what you volunteered for. :(Tape wormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885732437210023344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664699508381317301.post-50190734968927865622010-01-25T23:55:00.001-08:002010-01-26T00:09:45.781-08:00Scouting CachesWell, it's going pretty good so far. This is quite a neat scouting project participating in the 100th year Anniversary. I'm a little behind where I wanted to be at this point but it's going well. The cold and the snow has made it a bit tricky.<br /><br />I had a log today saying how one of the caches wasn't winter friendly at all. Which I didn't put that attribute on it. But I didn't think it was that back. I made the mile round trip hike in the dark, and didn't think it was too bad, other than the trip back was mostly up hill.<br /><br />So far I've made the hide's themselves pretty easy to find and nothing tricky. Some of them are quite a hike, but sound's by the log's people have enjoyed them.<br /><br />I goofed the other night thought when I was out hiding a cache and I think my cord's are 40 to 50 feet off. Thankfully the hunter was able to find it. It's on my list to get fixed this week. I did kind of have a funny feeling when I was taking reading's on that one, as my batteries in my GPS where running low, and I had all my spare's at home charging. There's that scout motto "Be Prepared".<br /><br />I've been able to get permission for all seven counties that the Hawkeye Area Council is involved with. Some require permit's, some don't. Jones county where I live I have to meet with the ranger before I can hide anything due to a cacher not taking care of his hides. Kind of sad how one person can ruin it for the batch, but by the sound's of it all, I think the caching relationship can be repaired.<br /><br />Just figured I'd post an update. I do have some surprizes around the corner and some challenge caches as well.<br /><br />Hope you guy's enjoy them,<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Parabola<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">/<span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Tape worm<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Yes for those that haven't figured it out my new handle on geocaching.com is</span> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Tape worm<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Also if you are able to please consider using the donate link for the scouting. The money will go to help pay for all the ammo can's I was able to get, SWAG to fill the can's, and gas to get out and place those hides.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Safe Caching!!!</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span>Tape wormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885732437210023344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664699508381317301.post-28386606011057047922010-01-21T23:01:00.000-08:002010-01-21T23:04:21.871-08:00Hawkeye Area Council 100th Anniversity<div class="entry"> <div class="snap_preview"><p>I ment to post this at the start of the year and forgot, but figured better late than never. This is about the Boy Scout's 100th Anniversary, and we are teaching them and their leader's about geocaching, and teaching cacher's a little about scouting. But the goal is to get out in the wood's and get some new cacher's out there. So here's my "old post":<br /></p><p>Well, here’s my first official announcement of thing’s to come in 2010 as we help celebrate the Boy Scout’s 100th year anniversary.</p> <p>We have some very exciting plan’s, and thing’s we will be doing threw the year so I want to make a spot for any one to view, get involved, want’s to see what’s going on with the geocaching side of thing’s.</p> <p>So far we have released a Kick off/caching 101 event. We will be using multiple website’s like www.geocaching.com and www.waymarking.com and www.terracaching.com and www.navi-caching.com for the listing of caches, event’s, activities, and all sort’s of fun thing’s to do that will help support caching and teaching the scout’s more about it, and hopefully get some of them and their parent’s to get in and join the hobby.</p> <p>First off we are working with the Hawkeye Area Council, and other council’s may have some caching program’s as well.</p> <p>I’m already set up the Kickoff event, that will be at Kent Park in the CEC building on Jan. 9th, 2010. Which can be found on the geocaching website. I’ll get some link’s posted soon.</p> <p>There is going to be 5 special “treasure’s of scouting” caches placed, where you can get a card from the cache and mail it in or drop it off at the scouting office to be entered in a monthly drawing for a very limited special geo-coin.</p> <p>Also there will be 12 special “cache to eagle” caches that will have one of the scout law’s written in the lid’s of the container’s. Once you find all of them, you can e-mail me which law is written in each hide, and the first 20 cacher’s to do so will receive a special commemorative patch.</p> <p>Also there will be a large number of new cache hides in the counties that the Hawkeye Area Council cover’s. These will be released at certain time’s threw the year. The other cache’s I hope to release on Jan. 1st 2010.</p> <p>So come on and join in the fun as I’m sure I’ll have some side games that come along as we move forward.</p> <p>If you have any question’s or comment’s, or idea’s, or wish to help out, please feel free to e-mail me and you are welcome to post comment’s on to this blog as well.</p> <p>Thanks and safe caching everybody,</p> <p style="color: rgb(102, 51, 0);">Tape worm</p> </div></div>Tape wormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885732437210023344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664699508381317301.post-24334785541752238012009-12-06T20:44:00.000-08:002009-12-06T20:50:11.785-08:00The H.A.C. Kick off and 101 Caching Event.Just wanted to point out the kick-off event for the Hawkeye area council is listed and going to happen on Jan. 9th 2010. It will be from 10:00am to 1:00pm. Some temp's will be put out but are not loggable, and a new cache will be in place that is loggable, plus there's some really great hides already in Kent Park. If you haven't done them, you should put them on your to-do list.<br /><br />If you can make it we would love you to come and join us. We will be doing a potluck lunch as well.<br /><br />Here's a link to the listing on Geocaching.com<br /><br />http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=581622be-0a47-4fc3-8c7a-dfebf39125d5<br /><br />Hope to see ya there!!!!<br /><br />ParabolaTape wormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885732437210023344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664699508381317301.post-44912421319523366572009-12-04T16:22:00.001-08:002009-12-04T16:40:45.775-08:00Now that was scaryI had a very scary thing happen to me over the past two day's. My throat swelled up to the point of I could hardly breath. We still aren't 100% sure why, if it's an allergy to a medication or the change in weather. I've just never experienced anything like that before. I'll spare the detail's of it, but it really scared the crap out of me.<br /><br />Not sure why I'm putting this in my blog. Other than that the therapy and trying to "relearn" how to sleep, is going ok. I wish it would move along much faster, and for a change in the past 4 year's my panic attack's seem to finally being suppressed. I'm still having a few but they are no where as bad as they where. The wife has noticed a big change in my attitude and said she thinks I'm in a much better mood, and no where near as snipy as I had become.<br /><br />But finally starting to get 5 to 6 hours of sleep at one shot. Which so far I can live on that. It sure beat's the 1 to 2 hour's or being awake for day's on end, till I would just crash for two day's. I can sure tell I've been off work for a long time. I was in a couple of day's this week, and no matter how much I walked the dog, or went for a walk, it doesn't compare to climbing up and down ladder's all day long.<br /><br />I'm so looking forward to getting back into the swing of thing's, which is slowly happening or at least headed in the right direction.<br /><br />I've been very lucky to have such a supportive family, and co-worker's. I want to say thank you to all of them for dealing with me threw all the high's and low's of this whole thing. I'm really worried about my son, and what affect's it's had on him. Just now that I'm starting to do better I think it's time for some good quality father and son time.<br /><br />I would suggest anyone that has panic attack's and or annexity/depression problem's, get seen, they can help, even though I was too the point I didn't think they could but it was a matter of getting a few doctor's involved. But there is hope out there. And if you need to talk to someone about them, don't be afraid to drop me a line. I don't know if I will be able to help much, but just having someone to listen has been a big help. I know this stuff is hard to talk to other's about since it does get very personal, but it does help, and their is some very understanding people out there.Tape wormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885732437210023344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664699508381317301.post-22699463941360740422009-11-27T17:09:00.000-08:002009-11-27T17:40:26.241-08:00Sleeping updateI've had a ton of e-mail's regarding my sleeping disorder's. Which thank you everybody!!! So I figured I'd post an update regarding it.<br /><br />I've got a total of four doctor's that i'm working with. That sure does get confusing with the insurance company when thye want to know something, trying to refer them to the right doctor is kind of hard. They did figured out I have a mix of two sleeping disorder's, but not the one's they had though I had. So the original plan was completely throw out the window, which would have been a much easier and faster "fix". But that's mixed in with a annexity/depression problem, and all of them are feeding off each other.<br /><br />I had put this stuff off for four year's due to being busy, didn't have time to make it in to the doctor, which made it progress to the level it got too. I had just been dealing with it and was trying to kept moving on with daily thing's.<br /><br />The last doctor I finally met with for the first time last wednesday. Which was kind of interesting to say the least. She just shook her head at alot of the medication's they had tried, and the fact that one of them I've been on for over two year's, but it's been the one thing I could count on to supress a Panic attack. But she's said, if I was to go off of it at the moment, I would even up in the hospitial witht he possible of some very bad thing's happening. But we have to make a plan on how to get off of it, but she said not until we find something that can keep panic attacks from happening. But as of right now I am physically dependent on it. So yet another thing tossed in the mix to deal with.<br /><br />I am getting to go back to work next week, and have been working hard on reseting me internal clock to a 24 hour clock, and not from about the 64 hour clock that had happened because it was delt with sooner. The past month, has been hard do to I had to set a wake up time. No matter what, if I haven't slept I have to get up at that time, and it's everyday, and no sleeping in on the weekend's. I had figured out my day's and night's are reversed, so get those back to normal hasn't been fun and still isn't right yet, But getting back to work and getting back on a normal "life" schedule will help, but the first couple of week's will be ruff. And scaling back on all sleeping medication's. They work for a certain amount of time, but are not ment to be a perminate thing. ANd after so long your body will fight those as it will see them as toxic and will rasie your white blood count like you have an infection your body is trying to fight off.<br /><br />I've been trying to take walk's, ride my bike, go for a hike out in one of the park's as exercise to try and help make me physicaly tired, but also have been told, exercise in the evening nearing bed time isn't a good thing, due to it can cause adrenaline to start, and keeping you awake, so there's a fine line not to cross in the later evening's. Defining that line, well I haven't figured it out yet.<br /><br />Another thing is I was/am a clock watcher, meaning at night when i couldn't sleep I would keep looking at the time on the alarm clock. This only makes you frustrated, and get's you start thinking, ok I can't sleep, I'm going to be so tired tomorrow, and making your brain "thinking" alot more than when you should be relaxed.<br /><br />So far I haven't been able to get a solid sleeping schedual, but it seem's the quality of sleep I do get has improved. Which working on a getting back to a normal schedule will help and speed this up.<br /><br />As far as a set bedtime, is good, but as I was told if in the evening if I've very tired, go ahead and go to sleep, just as long as it's not a nap in the middle of the day. As your body is trying to make up for that lack of sleep.<br /><br />I think the worst was going 4 day's and night without sleep or just a few hour's, and then by the time the weekend rolled around, I would crash for two day's and there was no getting me up. Sadly I've missed a ton of family activies, alot of my son's sport's stuff.<br /><br />But there's kind of an update, and I guess the best thing is now we know what's going on, and have a plan we have been working on for the past month in treating it, but it wasn't until I could get into all the doctor's to get everything I needed. Which that was the bad part, every big test, and every new doctor I wouldn't know about till I met with one doctor, and then trying to make an appointment, we found I couldn't get in for a month or six week's. So it just drug out the time-line this has been going on.<br /><br />Have a happy holiday's everyone!!!Tape wormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885732437210023344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664699508381317301.post-6852212089775370462009-11-11T00:17:00.000-08:002009-11-11T00:50:29.316-08:00A ammo can or two.Well, I've been trying to work a deal with some folk's about a large order of ammo can's to use for the Geoscouting project for the upcoming year. I finally got the right guy, and was shocked at the deal he gave me.<br /><br />We worked out that if any IGO member want's to buy a pallet full or bulk quantity's of ammo can's 30 cal's or 50 cal's, he will sell them at whole sale. Already they give geocacher's a 5% discount which has been very nice of them to do, but with the rocking price of the ammo can due to the future of them is unknown at this point, they have almost doubled in price over the past year. The military has been crushing the can's, instead of putting them up for auction. Any way's I told them I would definitely give them a plug. CC military surplus in Central city. This is almost a 50% discount off of the retail price of buying them one at a time. And is just a quarter lower than what they cost a year ago.<br /><br />I was so happy when he said he would do this for any of us, so if a bunch of us want to get together and buy in bulk, and split the cost and the can's we can do that.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/Svp4ILr7tQI/AAAAAAAAAaU/J5T1mlKJ4ok/s1600-h/002.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/Svp4ILr7tQI/AAAAAAAAAaU/J5T1mlKJ4ok/s400/002.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402762784955675906" border="0" /></a><br />I have to thank my little sister for helping me get them all off the pallet, counted, take the lid's and put those on. And for trying to help me repair a couple that got dented due to the metal band's holding them to the pallet. And for them putting them back in the truck to move from my parent's to my house.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/Svp4VOwds3I/AAAAAAAAAac/VLvpAp9iIJU/s1600-h/008.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/Svp4VOwds3I/AAAAAAAAAac/VLvpAp9iIJU/s400/008.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402763009118286706" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWJGVnXyADUCu6LMRkzJgBpB6WvuklAYD3VgzfX0wKU5vJDbrWj9AjOaDuUJXDDNkxXy91IfODNPca_v9lOiDQTlyGotBgNJ7UVJtFupsbRvgl9HB87CIYSnUhqTwtr11WbYtzITVSh4s/s1600-h/013.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWJGVnXyADUCu6LMRkzJgBpB6WvuklAYD3VgzfX0wKU5vJDbrWj9AjOaDuUJXDDNkxXy91IfODNPca_v9lOiDQTlyGotBgNJ7UVJtFupsbRvgl9HB87CIYSnUhqTwtr11WbYtzITVSh4s/s400/013.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402763169537631266" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg216l2AaM_XwKSlnoA-QoL7KDEBKms2Cyc2IszUyRT9c4MZouZg2iowGnzV3ZLRjY60O-FtOfMmTbjxdB-xbcmhpd3qOqbN1l6Z2X9r4q1q8QpCUZ4HX4A7yfYeqOnGFykFolqpDHTeqA/s1600-h/003.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg216l2AaM_XwKSlnoA-QoL7KDEBKms2Cyc2IszUyRT9c4MZouZg2iowGnzV3ZLRjY60O-FtOfMmTbjxdB-xbcmhpd3qOqbN1l6Z2X9r4q1q8QpCUZ4HX4A7yfYeqOnGFykFolqpDHTeqA/s400/003.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402763386617293906" border="0" /></a>Another big thank you to my little guy for helping me unload them all out of the truck and get them stacked up in the garage while we are waiting on paint to start painting them.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/Svp40RGWXHI/AAAAAAAAAa0/YvN6GRbedlk/s1600-h/006.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/Svp40RGWXHI/AAAAAAAAAa0/YvN6GRbedlk/s400/006.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402763542322895986" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I'm almost ready to release a major announcement for me to the public. It's been a hard decision, but I think it's a good one. Just there will be no more log's under the handle of Parabola on geocaching.com. I guess I'll just spill the bean's. I've retired my handle. Parabola had a good run, but is now done. Done caching, no way. But a fresh start I guess. My new handle, well it's out there with a few find's already. Then final cache I had to put on terra-caching.com due to how I wanted to finish I couldn't meet the guideline's. There's a write up with a cache called Parabola to finish him up, with a very unique kind of cache and I think another first of it's kind. I've even got the 2nd in command there involved. I guess call it completing the circle. To swipe a friend of mine's cache hide name. That the cause of the recent design of my pathtag's. The piece's all fit if you really look and study them.<br /><br />I hope I've made some memorable caches for you to think back and say to yourself, what was I thinking going after that cache. What's left will still be maintained by me, and I don't know if I want to adopt them over or not, but they still will be watched over, till the time comes to put them to rest.<br /><br />Not to fear, though, there's more coming, and I think the picture's in this post will show that.<br /><br />See ya on the trail's,<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Parabola</span>Tape wormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885732437210023344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664699508381317301.post-86328483654689985122009-11-05T20:47:00.000-08:002009-11-05T21:02:23.181-08:00GeoscoutingIt's out and officially announced now. The Cache to Eagle program, the pillar's of scouting, the Pinewoodderby TB race. Eache councial will be putting together a different program. This is set up as a partnership between Geocaching.com and the Boy Scout's. Since we have similar values, and all enjoy the outdoor's the two do kind of go hand in hand.<br /><br />So far we have a general plan for the Hawkeye Area Council and set up a pretty bang up program for 2010. This venture is to help celebrate the 100th anniversary of scouting.<br /><br />As an Eagle scout myself, I learn a lot that I sit use today while out in the wood's looking for geocaches. But be ready Jan. 1st for the program to began, and other thing's may be added on as we go threw the year. I'm sure hoping the program we set up for the Hawkeye Area Council will blow other council's away.<br /><br />You can contact me if you wish to help in this venture at all. We will be teaching GPS skill's as well as the ability to use a compass properly and some orienteering. All why we are doing one of the actives we love most, geocaching.<br /><br />I'm also setting up a donation link to my paypal account. As I've been getting thing's for this, it's getting kind of expensive for just one person to handle and your donation would be put to use in the form of container's, logbook's, Swag, paint for the container's. Just make sure you use the donation link for this and not the one to help me finish this tattoo. Unless you want to donate to that as well. :)<br /><br />Be safe out there and if you have time check out the <a href="http://www.geoscouting.com/index.html">Geoscouting website</a> for more information.Tape wormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885732437210023344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664699508381317301.post-74746447967658022582009-11-04T22:39:00.000-08:002009-11-04T22:54:31.732-08:00Pathtag'sOk, I'm starting to turn into a pathtag junky. lol I made my first one and ordered I think 150 of them. Af first they where flying out the mailbox as fast as I could get them there. But finally have slowed down some. I've gotten a lot of neat tag's traded with me though. This is the first tag I made. And I'm no photoshop expert but am getting better.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/SvJzuArrcyI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/RULBcm1rlUQ/s1600-h/blueprint.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/SvJzuArrcyI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/RULBcm1rlUQ/s400/blueprint.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400506137465025314" border="0" /></a><br /><br />After getting them in the mail and being pretty impressed with how they turned out, I had an idea. I have been looking to make a very unique kind of cache. It would have to be a terra-cache, cause I couldn't get away with this on geocaching.com. But I made another design and am having 150 made. Once these are made they will each go into an envelope sealed with logging instruction's. I'm shipping these to a bunch of people all around the world, and they will put one in a terra-cache hide and forget about it. As people find those caches and if they look at the envelope and trade for it. They will find they can log another cache. Only 100 coin's will be set out for logging a find on this. Which is a lot of find's on a terra-cache anyway's. I don't expect it to be worth much in point's but I think the MCE of it will be pretty high as I believe this is the first one of it's kind. I haven't gotten the tag's yet but just got the blue print for it and it's in production now. You'll see it's alot more cartoony than I had wanted.<br /><br />This is what I submitted:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/SvJ1mafw7hI/AAAAAAAAAaA/yzT_6G-tamk/s1600-h/Eyetag_edited-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 334px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/SvJ1mafw7hI/AAAAAAAAAaA/yzT_6G-tamk/s400/Eyetag_edited-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400508205978676754" border="0" /></a><br /><br />This is how they had to change it to make it work:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj-qcLl7_va3wZ4jMGt1nU5cnHqmey8hfG5JaT92DXGq80ipIHs6A6vx2-OZg2MHMb5rw_UQIIjGI5BNbUvpnKj2iasXslzWU2jmHVjRf-czHqFg-JveODOoQBvVHkFMqtcKqEOR6U1PI/s1600-h/Toolprint.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj-qcLl7_va3wZ4jMGt1nU5cnHqmey8hfG5JaT92DXGq80ipIHs6A6vx2-OZg2MHMb5rw_UQIIjGI5BNbUvpnKj2iasXslzWU2jmHVjRf-czHqFg-JveODOoQBvVHkFMqtcKqEOR6U1PI/s400/Toolprint.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400508207420083954" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Some of it was the cut lines would be so thin the color wouldn't be able to be added to it. I'll add some jpeg's of the first tag I have. I haven't taken a photo of it as of yet.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Parabola</span>Tape wormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885732437210023344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664699508381317301.post-44189937026313356242009-10-21T21:53:00.000-07:002009-10-21T22:03:17.762-07:00100 years of scouting2010 will be the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scout program. Being an Eagle scout myself, I jump right in to help with this. Don't have a whole lot of detail's yet, but there will be alot of new caches, and hopefully some CITO event's and some regular event's wrapped up in this. I'll be working with a coule of cachers and the Hawkeye Area Council and keep the hides, in the area's that the HAC have to use.<br /><br />I've been sending out a lot of email's getting permission to place hides in 7 counties. I've cleared them with almost all of them. The neat part is the ranger's are very excited about them as well. PJ and i will have our work cut out for us making alot of the hides. Also we are combing area's looking for Eagle Scout project's, and hope to include a lot of those into the cache hides.<br /><br />The bad part is the cost of the ammo can has went up everywhere. They used to be 5 for a 30 cal, and now are 7.25 for a 30 cal. I've been able to raise some fund's to help pay for some of the ammo can's, but still going to have to buy them a few at a time.<br /><br />Plus we will be putting on some actives at Scout camp. That will be lot's of fun. Just now waiting for a meeting happening soon, to hammer out the detail's.<br /><br />Well back to combing the internet looking for deal's on 30 cal ammo can's.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Parabola</span>Tape wormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885732437210023344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664699508381317301.post-90678925217862275742009-10-18T21:48:00.000-07:002009-10-18T22:05:22.169-07:00After all this time...Well it's been a very long time, especially for me as they finally figured out what's going on with my sleep. It's a sleeping disorder called Circadian Sleep disorder, combined with severe Insomnia with poor sleep quality and some sleep restriction. After 4 year's of this stuff, what has happened is my body get used to the med's they keep prescribing and they seem to work for a few week's to a month.<br /><br />What happens is my body get's use to each one faster and faster and now I'm to the point my body is finally rejecting the med's, which is why my white blood cell count has been higher than normal. It's the body's way of fighting what has finally become toxic to me off.<br /><br />I kind of wondered how a sleep study could be given while I was on a bunch of different med's. So I've got to keep a sleep diary so we can find out my body's normal sleep/wake cycle. The great part (not really) is I've been on a sleep med for the past four year's and I'm having heavy withdrawal as I'm tapering off the them.<br /><br />I guess this whole thing is treatable and I go in a week and a half to start a cognitive therapy that they will find out why my brain doesn't slow down at night and keep's going full speed. Basically what he said is I don't know how to relax.<br /><br />So now the battle is getting me off all medication then we can see with the sleeping journal what my body's sleep/wake cycle is. We may find out my body has a 30 hour day cycle instead of a 24 hour one. But they can't tell until all the med's are gone.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Parabola</span>Tape wormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885732437210023344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664699508381317301.post-1980122385847677912009-10-09T21:27:00.000-07:002009-10-09T21:37:33.761-07:00GoodbyeThere may be some foul word's in this link. Just makes me sad. 20 year's of great tunes came to an end. I got to see them play 3 times live though. Hopefully Trent will still record. This song is really cool on disc. I wish Trent would be doing the vocal's on this. And not this dude he's got singing. This is one song I wish I could have heard live. <br /><br /><br /><object width="400" height="225"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6859071&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6859071&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object>Tape wormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885732437210023344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664699508381317301.post-67741884202106669442009-09-13T22:58:00.000-07:002009-09-13T23:12:40.876-07:00All wired up.I just thought I'd share some of the photo's I took when I had my sleep study done. I look kind of funny. I was sure to have my head freshly shaven, but didn't bother with the beard. Wouldn't you know they had to stick two on each cheek and a strip under my nose, that only stuck for about three hour's.<br /><br />It was kind of neat. They can tell which way your eye's are pointing. Which way your feet are pointing.<br /><br />I got to the hospital to take the test at 8 PM. It took about an hour before they where ready for me, but these room where ok, and had an alright bed in them. And a TV. I did come prepared with my iTouch, and even made some bid's on ebay, and sent out some e-mail's while I was waiting.<br /><br />Some the the electrode's, wouldn't stick very well, so they had to use this glue stuff that takes a bit to get off. But they had me all hooked up and ready to go about 10:30. I watched TV for a little while and then fell asleep, till about 3:30. They could tell when I woke up and ask it I would try to sleep on my back instead of my side. I laid there till about 4:30, and I think they knew by then I wasn't going to be able to fall asleep again, so they ended it about 2 hour's early.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgofSCLxn2b1X6kZk1-MFRHrP8lQm-SkfHKYOTuaC3cpFCUH1Y2lrMCdJOgFjxoYoM4LwbO23-VLtLRivR9WWpJPQAedYdWXrRBETZBLnh3M2AgNI0_RUPsvw58gMhU1D9htdz4qLzcIJo/s1600-h/005.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgofSCLxn2b1X6kZk1-MFRHrP8lQm-SkfHKYOTuaC3cpFCUH1Y2lrMCdJOgFjxoYoM4LwbO23-VLtLRivR9WWpJPQAedYdWXrRBETZBLnh3M2AgNI0_RUPsvw58gMhU1D9htdz4qLzcIJo/s400/005.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381201640770579410" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAouKe84l_7osslnmSF3MR3Y0cRwN66vKhy-qu0cfM5JwT47kbWaonuuNBzE5Gopnp6hW82cYEle1LFg_8pqltzJ0Uj8LilNIvk8Itllpm8jn7kcr1UD-rFQs7oMw1fWSXiACVmVLxkWE/s1600-h/004.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAouKe84l_7osslnmSF3MR3Y0cRwN66vKhy-qu0cfM5JwT47kbWaonuuNBzE5Gopnp6hW82cYEle1LFg_8pqltzJ0Uj8LilNIvk8Itllpm8jn7kcr1UD-rFQs7oMw1fWSXiACVmVLxkWE/s400/004.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5381201630991604930" /></a><br /><br /><br />We as still waiting on the result's yet. But again, I thought the picture's I took of me where kind of funny. I'm hoping that they find something with this test, and I can go back to work. I've been off work for too long!!!<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Parabola</span>Tape wormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885732437210023344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664699508381317301.post-22941492545371250962009-08-28T03:18:00.000-07:002009-08-28T03:44:01.295-07:00"Build it and we will come"<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFFM2kC5gtT1alRNfZrq9Aiy3ywX8ww4blj_pHiLRri8sNP9EQq9oUHQovCqh4H5L8jVNAA2GC8Wsrr5htRarPHxo0Lp_1Mf9GBOEbZFWNW_a2uD7MsIJ9r3ioUhYvxRgs2BHyz0rFvZA/s1600-h/006.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFFM2kC5gtT1alRNfZrq9Aiy3ywX8ww4blj_pHiLRri8sNP9EQq9oUHQovCqh4H5L8jVNAA2GC8Wsrr5htRarPHxo0Lp_1Mf9GBOEbZFWNW_a2uD7MsIJ9r3ioUhYvxRgs2BHyz0rFvZA/s400/006.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374960221629934066" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY9bCZaRrEsCKsrr8v6967vwGQlWuhH63jjMbwbti_22JiP7h3puP3kECiPzGbItHqJF-8oceT7xc9Suc_p3G_rLBDE-462UjC3ASEnTTB54atCnprJYoWoaEwm0Y9OJtjSAIXuyPriAs/s1600-h/017.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY9bCZaRrEsCKsrr8v6967vwGQlWuhH63jjMbwbti_22JiP7h3puP3kECiPzGbItHqJF-8oceT7xc9Suc_p3G_rLBDE-462UjC3ASEnTTB54atCnprJYoWoaEwm0Y9OJtjSAIXuyPriAs/s400/017.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374962981283154530" /></a><br /><br />The whole family took a trip up to Dyersville. We went to visit the field of dream's. I've been there a couple of time's but it's always been closed when I am there. This was the first time I was there and the gift shop was open. There is a Virtual Terracache there, and it too me two trip's to get the Confirmation code. I was kind of dumb and looked at the wrong sign and didn't pay close enough attention to the sign about 10 feet away. But that's ok, this gave me a reason to go back and when the wife said she wanted to go, well OK!!!! I'm kind of surprised a Geocache hasn't been placed there yet.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSaKIXhXt-to6BJQFFNMBUmsPLclOcK4R3y3WqSAkCaoJdjcRbXabr4DoojtDsNFb2G2vyEXok_7K57ogSpMaQPp0WHfpibc4EhN5J-X56qUeqSx4ZkXudBbgR3hwxVyu5HG8Df4sYwrQ/s1600-h/001.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSaKIXhXt-to6BJQFFNMBUmsPLclOcK4R3y3WqSAkCaoJdjcRbXabr4DoojtDsNFb2G2vyEXok_7K57ogSpMaQPp0WHfpibc4EhN5J-X56qUeqSx4ZkXudBbgR3hwxVyu5HG8Df4sYwrQ/s400/001.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374960666972593282" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/SpeyDGpmgiI/AAAAAAAAAYs/2lxK-4S0LI4/s1600-h/002.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/SpeyDGpmgiI/AAAAAAAAAYs/2lxK-4S0LI4/s400/002.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374960446684430882" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-zIkpct31vyO0FzjNsY38uNHBMo53ivLMt4hkX8T0mcob0y0C75ml8llDVf0HmQOW9Td1l06zR_3Dk3d_hykXL4_LxEExWr6mPrpxmopkQZKKKtCCYpiaPHUvBbCqLcE2X8JG-xluCQA/s1600-h/016.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-zIkpct31vyO0FzjNsY38uNHBMo53ivLMt4hkX8T0mcob0y0C75ml8llDVf0HmQOW9Td1l06zR_3Dk3d_hykXL4_LxEExWr6mPrpxmopkQZKKKtCCYpiaPHUvBbCqLcE2X8JG-xluCQA/s400/016.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374962658509907282" /></a><br />PJ took his camera and was taking photo's of everything. I'm glad it's digital and not film. But there was some people hitting some ball's and kind of playing some ball. There was also quite a few visitor's as well. We even ventured off to the corn in the outfield to do a photo opp. It's kind of neat they have kept this place going for so long, as this year is the 20th anniversary. I do wish it was open at night with the light's for the field on. I think that would be neat to see.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYnMIRfL1DpXA8MuNtZzgqBMyNsrv3e0qsFTb6zYUTDGfm1JGd16Yqd1jfSR7A4OlqIdIZXf76eECnefnUpincEjfTxlAAnJzY9rlZtGVMLWdVTrYZc7RMT5c5zPiO4_5gBEhXW6J97jo/s1600-h/009.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYnMIRfL1DpXA8MuNtZzgqBMyNsrv3e0qsFTb6zYUTDGfm1JGd16Yqd1jfSR7A4OlqIdIZXf76eECnefnUpincEjfTxlAAnJzY9rlZtGVMLWdVTrYZc7RMT5c5zPiO4_5gBEhXW6J97jo/s400/009.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374961636665671410" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIzjBJZi-ZuXll3yP_SszyzdEgRCgO_22R8GuJ0AVOJWh1N1fqqR9K7zth2ID3JSTsefuV4MyUOZfh9rGgHee9RZLyWKfKaxcoychzYzvBwszygTb41AzA-20k5C4sqEO31lvgf9zDo-I/s1600-h/008.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIzjBJZi-ZuXll3yP_SszyzdEgRCgO_22R8GuJ0AVOJWh1N1fqqR9K7zth2ID3JSTsefuV4MyUOZfh9rGgHee9RZLyWKfKaxcoychzYzvBwszygTb41AzA-20k5C4sqEO31lvgf9zDo-I/s400/008.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374962234084513058" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Parabola</span>Tape wormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885732437210023344noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664699508381317301.post-83920537244513729082009-08-25T02:19:00.000-07:002009-08-25T02:46:38.208-07:00The thing's you find out caching.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/SpOxyMWJZEI/AAAAAAAAAYE/WMUpVjcgePQ/s1600-h/031.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/SpOxyMWJZEI/AAAAAAAAAYE/WMUpVjcgePQ/s400/031.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373834256248824898" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The whole family went out this past weekend to grab a few caches but we where going way north up to Balltown to see the "Million Dollar View". We had a pretty cool trip going up and back. And we worked it just right so we hit the view at sunset. You can't beat that here in Iowa. Also I didn't know the oldest bar and grill in Iowa was right next to the viewing area. Which I guess it had a fire last year and we found out it had just reopened.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKF78oeKsCW9QJVxkBBegcLf0__CPCarBiH0subW7EDxw6-s9atqmxhNLIyi6q7XoQ-cHh0cf4McHyH7I1s5jgxE-uNDx7fK-VPPna5D36FS68zLhk4h0NUPme2L9-Vin-cgZMafor1zY/s1600-h/034.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKF78oeKsCW9QJVxkBBegcLf0__CPCarBiH0subW7EDxw6-s9atqmxhNLIyi6q7XoQ-cHh0cf4McHyH7I1s5jgxE-uNDx7fK-VPPna5D36FS68zLhk4h0NUPme2L9-Vin-cgZMafor1zY/s400/034.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373834276197195346" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOHdvdVX9EaMAMA_f2aKAeEDrgjm_Pi4Dcy7vbruRXa6zgZegSK53YLlrDnNlFbL7mk78kWsJTNlVA2_5_XFsGDSIAG74gXqyP6Ql8UBArYXfTqLqElaN1j3hfWvNCGrU1WnFAWbaoWwA/s1600-h/028.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOHdvdVX9EaMAMA_f2aKAeEDrgjm_Pi4Dcy7vbruRXa6zgZegSK53YLlrDnNlFbL7mk78kWsJTNlVA2_5_XFsGDSIAG74gXqyP6Ql8UBArYXfTqLqElaN1j3hfWvNCGrU1WnFAWbaoWwA/s400/028.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373834266869149810" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I kind of picked a few caches on a kind of weird route I picked out and somewhat did it on the fly. There's a puzzle cache that I had an idea since I can't figure out the puzzle, that since I was up in the area I would try, and my hunch was wrong. But while walking around scoping out the area, I noticed something that kind of looked like a leg in the tall weed's right at the edge of the tree line. I got a little closer and it kind of looked like someone had stashed their camping stuff or someone had tried to hide some dark green clothes. As I got closer it started looking more and more like it was kind of in the shape of a body. Since we where in the middle of nowhere I was wondering, glad the rest of the family stayed in the car. As I got close to the tree this was leaning against, I saw a hat as well. So for a second, I was wondering what I had found.<br /><br />As it turn's out I found a dummy body for a search and rescue group, that was out practicing. There was a nice note attached to it that explained it all. Which was pretty neat to find. Never did find the cache, as it was a long shot on what I was trying to do, but I thought it did make for an interesting story.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/SpOwsi3vd7I/AAAAAAAAAXs/PHVlTqgNzCg/s1600-h/022.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/SpOwsi3vd7I/AAAAAAAAAXs/PHVlTqgNzCg/s400/022.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373833059704469426" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3yzwh5JPQONvIQ2rcMenB5VkvDe1zuXHXuefoQMBB5JOi7Bu5vtnJkcn6oKKjon6g5LxJzSPt_6QVRnRPMJnil4IzSA-PsGgQjiNsEZm83-qOyiJCfB_nKuArD93oWzGN9fj8Kc9971k/s1600-h/024.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3yzwh5JPQONvIQ2rcMenB5VkvDe1zuXHXuefoQMBB5JOi7Bu5vtnJkcn6oKKjon6g5LxJzSPt_6QVRnRPMJnil4IzSA-PsGgQjiNsEZm83-qOyiJCfB_nKuArD93oWzGN9fj8Kc9971k/s400/024.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373833078642654162" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The picture's I took where after I had stomped down the tall grass, and had moved the dummy so I could read the note. Plus I was coming at it from the other direction, to give more of an idea what it looked like.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhimitpngnUCMLIkW_AcHLfDRAoEIs-LXGWiDceyiBST7iEtO1FGxK9lKCoScAbHecuRCq1sGQ6vxkVw4-KsfLeIBYw5ZzX59d4n2rss37kkfr2vQGi6RsUYQ_A_vbOgs3agEjYJkYFYhc/s1600-h/023.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhimitpngnUCMLIkW_AcHLfDRAoEIs-LXGWiDceyiBST7iEtO1FGxK9lKCoScAbHecuRCq1sGQ6vxkVw4-KsfLeIBYw5ZzX59d4n2rss37kkfr2vQGi6RsUYQ_A_vbOgs3agEjYJkYFYhc/s400/023.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373833092369957426" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I just thought this was one of those thing's that won't happen again and a case of being in the right spot and the right time. I sure was glad it was just a dummy though.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Parabola</span>Tape wormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885732437210023344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664699508381317301.post-54059172609901236152009-08-04T20:00:00.000-07:002009-08-04T20:14:32.515-07:00Ready to rollI'm heading down in the morning to take a ride along the Rock Island Trail near Peoria, Il. Yes, it's a power trail. I've done a great multi cache on the trail before with some friend's, which sadly is now archived.<br /><br />The trail is 26 miles long, one way. For someone that hasn't been on a bike in about a year this is really kinda dumb, but go all out or stay at home. (evil laugh).<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/Snj48l3m6kI/AAAAAAAAAXk/3m0DZSjP64g/s1600-h/power+trail.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 344px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/Snj48l3m6kI/AAAAAAAAAXk/3m0DZSjP64g/s400/power+trail.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366312675853134402" /></a><br /><br />I've done the check's on the bike, and it's in great shape to go. I got three water bottles, frozen in the freezer's, and my camelpak is full and in a cooling spot. I need to pick up a few pack's of peanut's, and a few other treat's for some food to munch on.<br /><br />I've also got some terra-caches to do in the area, so this is going to be a long day. Just going to dread all the log's I'll have to write, but none of them will be copy and paste one's.<br /><br />Wish me luck, if you have my # feel free to call me to tease me or see if I'm still peddling away.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Parabola</span>Tape wormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885732437210023344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664699508381317301.post-6822361903070671882009-08-03T21:50:00.000-07:002009-08-03T22:54:11.555-07:00InsomniaI think over the past week I finally reached my breaking point. The frustration of having insomnia can be very overwhelming. For the past two and a half year's it has slowly gotten worse. At first it was pretty easy to deal with since I have anxiety attack's, and the med I take for those usually make me tired. And for some reason I only have an attack in the evening when I don't really have anything going on.<br /><br />I have found or figured out I've never had an attack while out caching. Not sure if hiking and exploring an area takes my mind off of thing's or what. But this has finally progressed to the point to where I was lucky if I could get two hour's of sleep a night, and this was on prescribed medication for sleeping. I think I've about tried all of them on the market at some point. Which it can be very hard on a person cause they usually start you off with a very low dose, and increase it, but when they pull you off it, they pull you off it, leaving you with withdrawal.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/SnfMO1uoBoI/AAAAAAAAAXc/D1RDa_mPCac/s1600-h/PILLS.257174839_std.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/SnfMO1uoBoI/AAAAAAAAAXc/D1RDa_mPCac/s400/PILLS.257174839_std.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365982036348110466" border="0" /></a><br /><br />I was on one med for about a year that worked, but it literally turned me into a walking zombie and wiping out my ambition to do much. Which has gotten worse as well. Then here a while back I thought I finally found something that worked. Lunesta. But we switched insurance company's and for a person to be on that they have to try the generic first. Well, that was the one than made me a zombie. They assured me at the parmacy, it would take about a week to ge the paper work done and they could do a refill or I could pay for it out of my own pocket, which was like 10 buck a pill or something like that. So I figured I'd ruff it and wait it out.<br /><br />Two week's went by and still nothing. We called our Doctor and they had faxed the paperwork twice. Another week went by and my wife was picking up something else and asked about it, and they said yes it was approved about 4 day's ago. Thanks for letting us no.<br /><br />But then when I started taking it again, it didn't work. Not sure why. So after a couple of week's we talked to the doctor again and she put me on something else, and that went on for a few different med's, until last week when I was eating Tylenol PM like candy and taking the prescribed med's. It would be enough to knock me out for just a few hour's and that's it. After a couple of week's of that, I found myslef getting two to three hour's of sleep a night but by the time the weekend rolled around I would just completely crash.<br /><br />I had been put on this last prescription and it made my eye's look like I was hanging out with Cheech and Chong. My motor skills where not good and even was having trouble walking at times. I called in sick to work cause I wasn't comfortable driving to work.<br /><br />I'll finally call it my breaking point but we went and say the doctor today, and she gave me a "knock your ass off, see ya next week" pill's. But the best part she thought it was time to have a sleep study done. Which I am wondering why this was recommended two year's ago, but hey at least it's going to happen now. We had a couple of choices of where to go, U of I, The PCI building (which I've said I'd bleed to death before I go back there due to their shady business practices, and for some reason they charge 12 % interest rate, even if you set up a payment plan and pay as agreed. I figured out my credit card had a cheaper interest rate. And then the last choice was the mayo clinic in Rochester, Minn. After hearing about how they do some extra thing's with sleeping test's we choose to set it up there, so now we are just waiting to hear from them.<br /><br />I was hoping my accidental insurance (hey I have that policy cause me and the boy are accident prone) would cover some of my lost wages, but nope. We haven't gotten that far but I hope we will figure it out.<br /><br />So I guess this is good news for a change and they are leaning towards sleep apnea or restless leg syndrome. Not really sure what those are but the sleep apnea, I know is you don't get enough oxygen when you sleep and you quite breathing from time to time, and you never make it into REM sleep. I have no idea what the restless leg syndrome is, and haven't looked it up on the net yet.<br /><br />Just the bad part is my boss is on vacation and i would really like to talk to him about this, so he knows what's going on, and to make sure it's all ok. we are in our busy season, so this is kind of bad timing.<br /><br />I've got one other major thing to talk about but am getting sleepy (YEAH!!!!) So I'll try and get another post up on it in the next few day's.<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Parabola</span>Tape wormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885732437210023344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664699508381317301.post-77171648758829258202009-08-02T03:45:00.001-07:002009-08-02T03:45:32.705-07:00Testing a widget<div><script src='http://www.nvidia.com/content/includes/js/AC_OETags.js' language='javascript'></script><script>AC_FL_RunContent('flashVars', 'widgetVersion=horizontal&widgetLanguage=en-us','src', 'http://www.nvidia.com/content/DriverDownload/widget/v2/driver_widget','width', '550','height', '480','align', 'middle','id', 'driver_widget','quality', 'high','bgcolor', '#869ca7','name', 'driver_widget','wmode', 'transparent','allowScriptAccess','sameDomain','type', 'application/x-shockwave-flash','pluginspage', 'http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer');</script></div>Tape wormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885732437210023344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664699508381317301.post-46824908456144756762009-08-01T11:57:00.000-07:002009-08-01T12:16:37.112-07:00RockStock 3Just some random picture's of who's playing tonight at Hitter's Ball Park. I don't have time to properly flip the R around at the moment but I'll do a little updating later.. The show start's in a few hour's. Also playing is Halestorm, Chevelle, possibly Destrophy (a local band that is on it's way up) and KoRN.<br /><br />Not sure yet on photo rules for the venue, but I've been burnt on that the past couple of concert's, so I'm taking my camera. If I can't have it there, well I guess it will hit the garbage. And cause I just love saying thing's that are song titles. Well, "more to come".......<br /><br />So of these picture are old. They are down to three band member's but had recently hired on a full time drummer to replace Dave. Head has left due to his meth addiction and has "found Jesus". But is clean now, and doing his own thing. More power to him, he's a heck of a guitarist. He put out his first solo album but is not longer in KoRn. And Dave, well it's never been said what happen to him, he kind of just disappeared, but does have some restaurant's he owns.<br /><br />Later FREAKS<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj64_2W2LEFHq_xtCMAQZu1gryxYJQlwE1meraPqIuMTWMKmTdl_c-1JZrTHjd2GB8e-LZS9SKDsgXamJY_3yHAXUzbNEuQ1SmNWnmvpv1fJC3Je0LsC4GJoP5V3HUaGjjYb1HdeVWr4Dc/s1600-h/Korn-band-2002.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj64_2W2LEFHq_xtCMAQZu1gryxYJQlwE1meraPqIuMTWMKmTdl_c-1JZrTHjd2GB8e-LZS9SKDsgXamJY_3yHAXUzbNEuQ1SmNWnmvpv1fJC3Je0LsC4GJoP5V3HUaGjjYb1HdeVWr4Dc/s400/Korn-band-2002.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365073401418821730" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho3YSakaeYIlFqp15zP1Rnv78VVMBnvw-HhzCxEWR5QLZnMxWmLXdqUt5bJMMbOrxKws8PdyKi_sVWNs16nMZ49mAKfGnpidjM3yb7WTH5YqGO2m7oAci_m3WDM2WEv2n18eFR8fcIjJs/s1600-h/KornMilWauk.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho3YSakaeYIlFqp15zP1Rnv78VVMBnvw-HhzCxEWR5QLZnMxWmLXdqUt5bJMMbOrxKws8PdyKi_sVWNs16nMZ49mAKfGnpidjM3yb7WTH5YqGO2m7oAci_m3WDM2WEv2n18eFR8fcIjJs/s400/KornMilWauk.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365072385831233266" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA1HuGTzJZO4GNd3AO6eIfEf76hdhAdee3ST2HLWnW4r-sXv6RWysqvUGcuWiJNDFTTEHhefhdBExdU6cZt4dz9ypveD62EHbi7QraK7HHKs0FfgCUSg4RQ1TyWhbgwzzVZq_rvfNsLE0/s1600-h/Korn-Monkey.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 342px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA1HuGTzJZO4GNd3AO6eIfEf76hdhAdee3ST2HLWnW4r-sXv6RWysqvUGcuWiJNDFTTEHhefhdBExdU6cZt4dz9ypveD62EHbi7QraK7HHKs0FfgCUSg4RQ1TyWhbgwzzVZq_rvfNsLE0/s400/Korn-Monkey.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365072373933254546" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/SnSQ5V5KCgI/AAAAAAAAAW8/4CTDr2Gs3Ew/s1600-h/fieldy.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 93px; height: 140px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/SnSQ5V5KCgI/AAAAAAAAAW8/4CTDr2Gs3Ew/s400/fieldy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365072370908924418" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/SnSQ5TCVZ1I/AAAAAAAAAW0/sJynCCKMxm4/s1600-h/JD.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 120px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/SnSQ5TCVZ1I/AAAAAAAAAW0/sJynCCKMxm4/s400/JD.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365072370142111570" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlEgg6iE_5Rl72Q-ZIi7Mh-srdH2mLM7EbKElE5pOVjDPkcCO6JLKJden6fGXwxlnWaFsr2ASJd6V2zscFgECFM6LRqpGjoz5gpZia-TjlqWpPJCD7KFxDAAidqUeNnM9YaJsZTom-3B0/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 135px; height: 79px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlEgg6iE_5Rl72Q-ZIi7Mh-srdH2mLM7EbKElE5pOVjDPkcCO6JLKJden6fGXwxlnWaFsr2ASJd6V2zscFgECFM6LRqpGjoz5gpZia-TjlqWpPJCD7KFxDAAidqUeNnM9YaJsZTom-3B0/s400/images.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5365072366771939826" border="0" /></a>Tape wormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885732437210023344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664699508381317301.post-82723248477065280502009-07-24T17:20:00.001-07:002009-07-24T17:33:24.002-07:00A new TOOL CD coming???<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPLQzjPqEw_7kTUQf3yD-kXrgytFXwac7PAPIZr4x2TyXQjJzBfMsVpn9VxCml7Z-6wf9BiwWtvB4saTowPNn8ROOdSi7azCZMk2obniP84U9Y-VmB12A7k3pQi70LUSNfof39MyUlH40/s1600-h/denshow.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPLQzjPqEw_7kTUQf3yD-kXrgytFXwac7PAPIZr4x2TyXQjJzBfMsVpn9VxCml7Z-6wf9BiwWtvB4saTowPNn8ROOdSi7azCZMk2obniP84U9Y-VmB12A7k3pQi70LUSNfof39MyUlH40/s400/denshow.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362186258005736082" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Ok, I'm excited. I know three show's have been played so far, and in the final rehearsal they did preform the "new cover". Which mean's, new song. They have done just about every album like this. They do a small tour of a dozen or twenty show's, and preform just a few of the new song's live. Then comes the big announcement, and it's been said they had been in the studio and one a few of them have been out at Area 51 shooting more footage.<br /><br />That may sound really weird unless you've heard and understand the song, but the lighting director wanted more footage to play with from area 51 for the effect's while they play "Rosetta Stoned".<br /><br />I still don't know what Maynard was using to distort, and almost repeat his voice very fast and I was about three row's out. But it was some bag looking deal with a cheap looking mic attached and he was holding it in front of his main mic.<br /><br />I'm excited and hoping some of these shows will hit near the Iowa area, really I think it's about time for another show in Moline and one in Cedar Rapid's.<br /><br />Also if you've seen the show from the last tour from what the posted picture is from this I'd have to say is one of the top two in special effect's. NIN being very close and to me to close to call. After all I was SOBER at the show's. Wonder if anybody will catch that reference. <br /><br /><color=red style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Parabola</color=red>Tape wormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885732437210023344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664699508381317301.post-18822245692462086162009-07-11T00:07:00.000-07:002009-07-11T00:13:25.163-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht6UUqTALyFWk2gq6wQXZ0uZ0dkHAF5-vJ2KvAWlrVCn0fh4CJyMjBwTQh17uJffozqIZPDNQhghKPzZH3BZJ3OpNMPZDdbRiHw40C_6ZaY8dIfs23PQBIeKoK3fIQwcZSUuYnf8VIZ_8/s1600-h/Shiba+Inu+Puppy+for+Sale1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 294px; height: 237px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht6UUqTALyFWk2gq6wQXZ0uZ0dkHAF5-vJ2KvAWlrVCn0fh4CJyMjBwTQh17uJffozqIZPDNQhghKPzZH3BZJ3OpNMPZDdbRiHw40C_6ZaY8dIfs23PQBIeKoK3fIQwcZSUuYnf8VIZ_8/s400/Shiba+Inu+Puppy+for+Sale1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357095820069484914" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Here's our new puppy a little over two week's old. We have to wait till he's at least 8 week's before we can bring him home from the breeder. Getting excited about getting him. He's a pure breed Shiba Inu, that has also been breed with the ability to sniff out ammo can's.<br /><br />We are having a huge debate on what we should name him. I want to name him Manson, but the wife doesn't care for that. One name that's been said is Rusty. I thought "Fieldy" would be a great name for him too.<br /><br />Got any name suggestion's post them. :)<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Parabola</span>Tape wormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885732437210023344noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-664699508381317301.post-67583746351746061252009-06-21T00:51:00.000-07:002009-06-21T01:09:05.256-07:00New PuppyThey where born on 6/16/09. The mother had a little of 4 males and 1 female. We finally got a photo of them at two day's old. Now we have to wait 8 week's till we can go up and pick up our pup. It's a Shiba Inu breed. Here's the picture of the males.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/Sj3nCzyiSaI/AAAAAAAAARw/aztG7bRhtrE/s1600-h/Male+pups.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/Sj3nCzyiSaI/AAAAAAAAARw/aztG7bRhtrE/s400/Male+pups.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349685967833942434" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The one we are getting is the one that look's like he's laying on top of two others. I think he may be the runt of the litter, but that's the one that PJ really want's. Also here's a picture of the female.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/Sj3nd8SqGUI/AAAAAAAAAR4/ju30fzX-ET0/s1600-h/Female+pup.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nnnf-mc9MLA/Sj3nd8SqGUI/AAAAAAAAAR4/ju30fzX-ET0/s400/Female+pup.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349686433972623682" border="0" /></a><br /><br />She's a little cutie too.<br /><br />We have been looking for a Shiba Inu for what seems like forever. We found one a while back at a pet store, which I wasn't too keen about getting another dog from a pet store. I don't know why but it seems getting one from a pet store are much harder to train. Our pug is a great example. He's a great dog, and has been great as PJ ruff houses with him a lot and he's never snapped at him at all. But the price tag on the one at the pet store was 1300 dollar's. Forget that!!!<br /><br />We found a breeder on the net, and since this is a newer breed to the U.S. is why we have had such a hard time finding one. But the breeder is in Iowa and about a 3 hour drive from us. We are getting pretty excited about getting him and now we need to come up with a name for him. If you ask PJ it would be Bolt after the cartoon movie. I kind of want to name him Manson after Marylin Manson. Or I thought Noose after the guy in The nightmare before x-mas. Who knows yet.<br /><br />I'm really hoping I can get him trained to go caching with me. Our pug can't take the heat, since pug's can easily get dehydrated, I've been leary about taking him out.<br /><br />I would give a plug to the breeder we are getting him from be he's told us don't e-mail him with Shiba Inu in the subject line. He said they are in high demand right now. But this breeder and his family seem to do a great job with the breed's they offer and raise.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 102);">Parabola</span>Tape wormhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09885732437210023344noreply@blogger.com0