Happy birthday to me!

Yes it's that time again.  And it's why I have had the past week off.  Normally I don't take time off for my birthday, but I felt why not.  I have seen a couple of movies so far: The Amazing Spider-Man and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.  Both great movies.  The Venom Creeper has been worked on, but still not running yet.  I haven't gotten to any guitar playing as I am waiting for an item to come in.  Apparently it got damaged during shipment and the carrier actually contacted the sender and sent it back.  And no power tool try outs either.  But I have been relaxing.

This has been a good week.

"I'm on vacation!"

A birthday vacation that is.  This year I decided to use 1 of my vacation weeks during the week of my birthday.  No big plans, just staying home.  Going to work on my Venom Creeper to get it up and going and get some actual video of it.  Might try to catch the new Spider-Man movie.  I'll even do some guitar playing/practicing (don't expect any videos).  Heck, I might even try out the new hedge trimmer.  Mmmmmm...power tools.  All in all, just a relaxing week away from work.

July 4th Fun

Well July 4th off was fun.  We had the eldest nephew spend the night on July 3rd.  Up at 06:30 and watched him and the wife play Lego Star Wars.  He was a blast to listen to as he played, really getting into the game.  While they continued, I decided to work on my Venom Creeper truck, trying to get the remote diff locking feature working.  Didn't happen.  The truck is still in the "garage".

At some point in the morning, the middle nephew came over to join in the Lego Star Wars.  After awhile, we decided to go see movies.  We all didn't want to watch the same one.  So wife and oldest nephew went to see Brave while middle nephew and me went to see Madagascar 3.  Madagascar 3 is a great movie continuing the NY zoo animal's quest to return back to NY City.  The penguins are awesome as always.

After the movies, we went over to the in-laws for dinner and fireworks.  We had a fun time with the family.  Pop in-law grilled up the typical burgers and dogs.  Yummy as always.  There were some salads, chips, and watermelon balls.  For dessert, younger sis in-law made up some home made Oreo cookies ice cream.  Yummy yummy.

Then it was time for the lights and noise in celebration of our great nation.  I was the designated igniter, or I guess the proper term would be the amateur weekend Pyrotechnician (not a professional of course, not yet anyways).  The nephews selected the fireworks to light, and as each was done they used their squirt guns to water them down.  The event photographers got some great pictures, especially of the nephews with the sparklers.

All in all, a great day to celebrate our Independence Day.

H a p p y 4 t h o f J u l y ! E n j o y g r e a t f o o d , f i r e w o r k s , a n d b e s a f e ! Ø<ÝúØ<Ýø

Justice League...Assemble!

I was just going through some YouTube channels I watch every so often, and came across a trailer for the new Justice League movie:

Had you going there a little, huh?  Well this is a parody by ItsJustSomeRandomGuy on YouTube.  He does a lot of Marvel/DC parodies, the best of which are the "I'm a Mac...I'm a PC" commercial parodies.  I prefer his parodies, but he does do some story lines.

Sunday update

A little slow on updating Sunday's cooking.  The meat turned out good.  We're all still alive and not in a hospital.  And it's good to know that at least my smoking won't be the cause of a zombi outbreak.  We had leftovers Monday night, and I enjoyed it.  Popped it in the nuker for a few, and yummy warm meat.  I prefer eating meat with some heat.

When I do another smoke session (and I know that it's coming), I want to do some bacon.  Not sure how to work that and smoke another meat too, so I'll ask and search ye old world wide web.  Or internets as those young hipsters say now a days.

Peace out!  Errr...smoke out?  Out-out?  Oh heck...laters y'all!

New crawler videos

Here are some recent crawler videos.

Helios - Mission: Patrol

SCX10 - Night Run Trailer

Helios - Mission 2: Survival

For more info on these, check out my Chuckwalla Crawler blog.