Monday, December 22, 2008

Yakima

Yakima, snow is off the hwy in our brand new Saturn handles like a vette, how gangsta is tbat?

1 night blog-a-thon

While the night of the 24th will be full of scripted NORAD tracking Santa news don't miss you night of tracking yours truely this evening as I attempt to drive 19hrs through the most snowy states in a hertz rental car. My goal will be a post every two hours with live tricia about the towns I'm driving through. Expect less trivia while I'm driving and even less when I'm sleeping. Because nobody will be reading this will be an extension of "who will check this first!"

Current location- tacos guyamas in Fremont, tminus 30mins to departure. Filling up on caffeine and tacos before the adventure. I'll check in again when I've hit the open road, snow should clear around mile 1200, somewhere outside Denver.

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Sunday, December 21, 2008

Jordy Jeff and Zach, this blog's for you


To the 3 people I assume will check this first, who will win the race none of you know your in? Zach? There will be a reward, maybe a beer or maybe a burrito, it will be good.

Just finished burning the Sh@#$# out of my feet. I cooked my ski boot liners in the oven at 240 for 10mins, they blow up like marshmallow men, then I gotta jam my feet (with socks on) into them then into the ski boots for thermoforming. They are both red and slightly tender, I hope I didnt just give second degree burns to my feet.

Why am I thermoforming at midnight? because Crystal has gotten 10" since 6pm, another 10+ to fall tonight and still falling all day tomorrow.

heres Seattle, I have yet to see a plow... the city may need to invest in 1 or 2 of those, otherwise there will be more of this going on...
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Saturday, May 10, 2008

Chicken Machines

Who doesnt like the show "How its made," I think I have nanna and grandpa to thank for my addiction to this show as they gave me a book by the same title when i was about 8. But tonight I've come across an episode that opened my eyes, its not graphic or going to make you stop eating chicken, but its the strangest episode i've ever seen. I wish this hadnt caused me to find lots of other food processing videos on youtube... I wont post those.

Chicken Hatchery

Friday, May 9, 2008

We got snow yes we do




Well I'm back from a quick 2 day trip to Mt. Hood, I've never been this time of the year and it didnt fail to disappoint. We skied under direct sunlight and warm temps the 2 days I was there, no small feat for the PacNW this time of the year. Here are a few pictures from the mountain, this was the first day they ran this upper chairlift and for good reason. You see the trenches they dug, those are to keep the chairlifts from dragging on the snow, there must be a solid 30' of snow below the chairs right now, very impressive. I'll write more of a re-cap later, until then these pictures will have to suffice.
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Thursday, May 1, 2008

just like riding a bicycle

Well its bike to work month, I thought i'd take this moment to remind you all about your impact on this world and just how much good you can do. It really only takes a little to go a long way... I for one am batting 1000 this month, 1 for 1 biking to work. But this is where it ends, I need you all to do your part because I dont think I have that much biking left in me, my little 5.5mile/way ride through downtown beats me up, I get to work sweaty and feeling like I'm going to vomit. Coming home is no different, maybe better because of the afternoon-tune-up i had at work on my10speed '78? Raleigh Grand Prix (dad please confirm the year of this bike) . Racing busses, other bikers, cars and of course the clock to get to work make it fairly stressful. I have committed to my work group biking 5 days this month, this is no small feat for myself. And so I ask you all to bike to and from work so that I dont have to, I cant keep up this pace of 100%, it will be dropping to 50% tomorrow as I plan on driving.

Friday, April 25, 2008

Engrish part deux



So this is the soap bottle in our factory, working on submitting it to engrish.com soon.
























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i'll update soon, Andy