Just put on a new exhaust onto my titan. Its not as loud as I thought it would be but has a really good tone to it. I've seen the dyno charts for this exhaust and it does provide a bit more torque and a little more hp. I've also put in a better breathing air filter (airfram airhog) and I seem to really feel a power difference. Perhaps some of its psychological but certainly feels like a huge change.
So Vanessa and I went to First Friday to see my sister and her husband's artwork. Turns out we met up with Claudia who is a total fanatic about copying everything Vanessa does. See the copy cat purse she bought. Oh yeah and look she's even wearing jeans like Vanessa and highlighted her hair to match. Look at the shock on Claudia's face when she noticed she didn't get the right state license plate. She was so horrified she threw the purse away minutes after this photo was taken. I've had an eerie feeling that someone's been rummaging through our trash. We're going to have to stop leaving it out on the curb the night before pickup. Perhaps a restraining order is in order. Anybody know a good attorney?
I worked out at the test site this week and got to sit in on a meeting for setting off an undergound sub-critical nuclear explosion. I kept hearing statements that sounded like sexual enuendos, so I started jotting them down. Here's a few of them:
"i want clair to crank it 10 times in & out"
"activities down hole"
"activities up hole"
"probe insertion"
"shot system"
it Got a white frost overnight but held up well. Decided to give rob a game set I had around the house. Its still new in box.
here's my office christmas tree. I grew it today. It's carboard with crystal leaves. Kind of neat to watch grow through the day. We'll see how it lasts overnight.
Today we picked for secret santa at the office. I got my office buddy Rob as my giftee. I don't know what to get him. Supposed to be somthing around $15-$20. any ideas?
-brad
donovan loves airplanes. He's excited about these infront of nellis. He does the sign for airplane and says "paayne".
We're going to the BX and the comissary. The BX is cool. Its cheaper than wallmart and you don't pay any sales tax.
I recently had a debate on shannons blog reguarding the productivity of the usa. The other person claimed that we had the largest GDP (gross domestic product) and therefore the US was more productive than lesser poor nations. My argument is that the productive people in society are usually the poor working class and so is the case on a country to country relationship. That is the poor countries perfrom the productivity that the US reaps the benefits. When looking into GDP I found that services count in the GDP. So while it may appear we have a large GDP, its really only so big because we perform _highly_ overpriced services for one anther here in the us. So that bellagio valet attendant who parked cars contributed an unrealistic $100,000 to our GDP. Same with the pimply teenagers who charge you $7.99 for your upsized combo meal at Jack in the box. A similar meal would cost you pennies in India and probably be more labor intensive to prepare.
I support my argument by identifying where the various belongings I use everyday are laborously created. Here's my list of what I have today.
Cell phone - taiwan
cell phne battery - korea
watch - japan
blue tooth headset - malaysia
ball point pen - japan
shirt - el salvador
shoes - brazil
jeans - bangledesh
underwear - el salvador
pocket knife - USA (ironic only my weapon is USA)
laptop cmputer - malaysia
scisors - china
coffe mug - china
desk fan - china
even my house was created largely by illegal immigrant labor.
how does your list come out? I would bet that 95% of everything you own was produced outside of our country.
its not that americans are productive it's the fact that americans are in control which makes our country rich.
-brad
Vanessa's in the final round of a 16 player game of hold'um. I brought my poker table over to bruce's house to assist in the tourney. Hope vanessa wins.
So we spent sunday afternoon taking a behind the scenes tour of MGM's Ka stage offered by our local chapter ASME (american society of mechanical engineers). Donovan had quite a bit of energy wanting to play with everything and get vocal. It was quite a chore between vanessa and I to keep him safe and quiet. The stage is quite impressive having a 130 ton movable/rotatable cantilevered platform. Now I want to go see the show. I hear from others that its pretty good. behind me in the photo are the acrobats wheel machines.
after the tour we stopped and had starbucks with marty and sara.
My boy is starting to be a real kid. He's starting to get upset when he doesn't get what he wants. This morning he wanted vanessa's new phone and didn't get it so he threw himself into high speed wobbles, crying up a storm. After a bit of crying and never getting the phone he has decided to take a big nap. Grandma had fed him a big breakfast. So he should be ready to go this afternoon as we are taking a behind the scenes tour of th Ka theatres at MGM.
We were at lonnie hammargrin's house last weekend. Man that place is huge and a huge mess. Thought this lightswitch was funny.
Now that I have my new phone i'll be able to post better pictures on my blog. Here is one of my desk at work.
That's me and dick's pumping gas behind me. We just got done with a two day long training session in los alamos national laboratories. Man that training was long and lecturous. Plus I got sick the first day here. By the end of todays trainimg I was feverish and delerious. Hope I passed the test. It did seem overly simple training, so I prorba ly did pass. Can't wait to get back home.
So one of my half-brothers randomly contacted my sister about getting some artwork done for him. Turns out he's planning to cycle across the country in an effort to lose weight. It's weird to see the videos on his website fatmancycling . He looks like a mix between my full brother Aaron and myself. I think it's great he's going for this ride. Hopefully he succeeds and gets some kind of recognition. I think i'm going to buy one of his Tee-shirts from his website.
