Kicked Due to Excess Flood

Over the next week, I will be updating this here blog with several backlogged things including, my trip to the Parallax Expo / UPEW, Maker Faire Bay Area, and more.

Don't worry! I'll go back to my more usual slower pace of updating afterwards.

Update:  Ok, so this never happened. Sorry, but things got kind of crazy with moving and stuff. I will post stuff soon(ish).

Walking

I started doing regular walks in early May. Since May 9th (when I started using Runkeeper to track them), I have done 54 walks with a total distance of 82 miles. My longest single walk was 2.34 miles on the trail behind my house. Most of the time I walk on the path at Miramar Lake which is between work and home.

Below are some photos from the lake:

Next are some photos from the trail behind my house:

And here's one showing the solar panels on my house (that I can see from part of the trail behind my house):

Star Wars Legos & Stuff

Someone wanted to see my Star Wars Lego stuff. So here's a few pics:

So I changed things again...

The previous setup I had here was kind of dark and depressing. So I changed it to be happier.

I've finally figured out what I can post here that I think I will keep me posting more regularly. Its going to be status updates on all the various projects I am working on around the house and whatever.

Here's the list of projects I have going right now (not in order):

1. Make a chainmail vest. Jaimie inspired me to do this. I am making it the same way he is, except I am using a little bigger rings.
2. Fix the steps going up the hillside in my backyard. The stairs go about half way up now before it gets to the part where it's all destroyed and stuff. Near the top is a nice clear area that I can setup some solar panels.
3. Fix the drywall damage in one of my spare bedrooms, and paint it too. I have to put in a new 4ft x 5ft section of the ceiling, and repair some of the joint tape stuff.
4. Clean out all the crap in garage that is blocking the way to my workbench. This will help with all the other projects since I will have my workbench and also room to saw and drill and stuff.
5. Work on my robot kits that I got from Parallax. I am using several different sensors to get the Stingray robot driving around my house avoiding bumping into things and doing crude mapping (I'm going to use XBee modules to communicate data back to a computer.) I also have a bigger robot in the works using the Parallax wooden platform base and various Parallax parts. It's sort of a kit, but I'll have to do my own wiring and also figure out how to mount some of the parts myself.
6. I have one of these: PSB and I am going to program it to be a programmable universal remote control for my tv, consoles, and stuff. Kind of like one of those fancy Logitech Harmony remotes.
7. Go through all the stuff in this book: Make: Electronics

Later tonight I'll post an update on the chainmail vest, and tomorrow night I'll post an update on the steps in the backyard.  Hopefully I can keep this up. I think it'll help me get things done more.

40

I turned 40 this month.
I don't feel any different.
Some people made a slightly bigger deal of it... like 40 meant something.

I met my second cousin Abi on my birthday. She's pretty cool, we got along really well.

My Wordle

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Sometimes things just don't work out...

No matter how much you plan, no matter how much you think about it, no matter what you do, sometimes it's just not meant to happen.

Of course, sometimes feels like most of the time to me right now...

Random thoughts...

Why do I leave everything until the last minute?
Why do I start "fun" projects and then never finish them?
How did I get to be 38 already? I feel like just yesterday I was 23...
Why do I worry so much about what other people might think or say?

I don't know why I blog... that's why I don't update it that much.
I don't even know if anyone is still reading this...

I'm a bad blogger...

As you can see I haven't posted to my blog since the reset... in June of 2006!

I read several blogs, I like the idea of blogs, but I just can't seem to get myself to post on mine very often. I could list dozens of excuses, but who really wants to read that? I don't even want to write them out.

I'm changing the links on the sidebar to be more relevant to what I'm into lately.