{A}ndy's Random thoughts

Reverse Geocache

2010-06-30T09:04:00.004-04:00

This is a good video posted by geocaching.com i want to make one some time

Get a tattoo for charity

2010-06-17T14:12:00.002-04:00

Last Saturday night Julie and i were watching the news when we saw a news story about a tattoo shop in Elkhart that was donating all the proceeds from Sundays tattoos to Church Community Services Church Community Services is a faith-based interdenominational non-profit agency that assists people in crisis and empowers them to move out of poverty. Services include a client choice food pantry, emergency financial assistance, plus our Soup of Success Job and Life Skills Training Program which empowers women in poverty to make positive changes toward greater self-sufficiency. We also offer public education on poverty. We had been looking to get a tattoo with our kids names on it or something. So we both said to each other. That is an awesome idea. I have never seen a tattoo shop do that. That is about as far as it went.

Sunday we were sitting around watching a movie with our kids, I looked at Julie and said. "Man that is tempting. I really want to go get a tattoo". I have three other tattoos Julie has none. So we started talking and decided to do it. We called Julie's sister to come watch the boys. we just told her. we were going out for lunch or something. The boys didnt even know.

So we started designing what we wanted and came up with two stars and a heart with each initial in it. We both got it on our ankle.

The shop raised about $1,500 that day for Church Community Services. How amazing is that.

Below are some news stories on the shop
WSBT
WNDU

Big Foot

2010-05-25T15:51:00.000-04:00

On Saturday we got to see Big Foot # 10 Monster Truck. It was pretty cool to see

BIGFOOT #10 - Specifications
Vehicle = 2006 Pickup Truck, fiberglass body
Engine = 572 c.i.
Transmission = C-6 automatic
Fuel Type = Methanol
Axles = ZF Axles with internal wet brakes/planetaries
Shocks = 8 nitrogen charged custom designed shocks
Height = 10' Weight = 10,000 lbs.
Tires = 66 x 43 x 25 Firestone Flotation Tires Width = 11' 9"
Frame = Computer Aided Design - Tubular Frame

It was pretty amazing to see. Below are some of the picts/ videos

A cookie cutter church

2010-05-14T07:34:00.001-04:00

This video is so true

"Sunday's Coming" Movie Trailer from North Point Media on Vimeo.

10! Years Of Geocaching

2010-04-30T09:20:00.000-04:00

This weekend Geocaching.com celebrates 10 years of geocaching.Wow it has really been 10 years. Personally we have been caching for 7 Years. We started on July 28th 2003 (my birthday)

Looking back it has been a blast we have gone places that we would have never gone if it were not for geocaching. It has been a blast watching the kids find stuff and trade stuff, Even placing "caches" around the house with what ever they can get their hands on. Wow not only do i geocache but i spend a good amount of time talking about caching on the geocaching podcast. It is because of geocaching that I have this fun hobby of podcasting.

We started caching in 2003 and we are not the fastest cachers. As of this point we only have 444 finds. But then again we do it for the hunt and the memories not JUST the numbers.

This weekend we are attending a geocaching event and it should be a blast. There are several geocaching events across the US this weekend celebrating that 10 years ago President Clinton turned off selective availability and our GPSr went from 100m to 10 m in accuracy.

What is Geocaching

2010-03-19T07:29:00.002-04:00

Amazing video work on this video

2010-03-17T10:40:00.002-04:00

First watch the music video then watch the how its made. it will amaze you the work that went into this

Producing Porn isnt Glamorous

2010-03-02T11:15:00.001-05:00

This morning i saw a post posted by a friend of mine who use to produce porn. He was responding to john mayor when he said that he wanted to produce porn. Donnie just told John all the reasons why producing porn sucks.

If you would like to read the article i am going to link to it. It is a good reminder what happens behind the scenes of porn. WARNING: there is some offensive language but it is necessary

http://www.donnypauling.com/blog/2010/03/01/dear-johncmayer-re-producing-porn/

James 3

2010-02-08T06:53:00.001-05:00

I was just reading threw james 3 this morning and it is such a good reminder. Last two weeks we are trying to be positive at work and just how hard that is. It is so easy to say something negative about someone. It is much harder to be the fresh water than the salt water

Sweet video

2010-01-25T22:20:00.002-05:00

This is a good video. show in three sections. can you figure out what the three parts are

Julie in California

2010-01-11T09:12:00.000-05:00

Julie is in California right now taking her sister to school. Then she is spending time with a family friend. She is only gone one week but wow it is strange how only 3 days into this trip and how much i miss her. It has been real good to be able to spend an extended time with the boys but strange how quickly i miss her and just how much i didnt realize just how much i love her untill she is not around every day. Sorry if i have taken you for granted julie. I love you.

It will be good to have her back but i am glad she had some time get rejuvenate

I am getting old

2010-01-05T23:05:00.000-05:00

This new years was like no other for me. I realized i am getting old. I couldnt even stay awake to watch the ball drop. I fell asleep 5 min before the drop and woke up after. I was so disappointed. I have ALWAYS stayed awake. But i got over it the next day. I have to apologize to my wife. I was mean to her when i woke up.

Inside A Redbox Dvd Vending Machine

2009-12-23T07:47:00.002-05:00

Last night I was walking in to the store when i saw the redbox being serviced so i stopped and looked and took some pictures. they are kind of blurry but that is what you get when your trying to not get seen. Inside is a huge DVD carousel and a Dell computer running windows XP

If you know any more specs on the redbox please post them in the comments

Hosea 9

2009-12-03T06:57:00.001-05:00

I am reading threw Hosea right now. Wow. All I can say is wow. We normally think of God as a happy cheerful God. However it seems that if we rebel and reject him he gets mad and jealous. That is my small thought for the day

No sleep

2009-11-12T07:48:00.000-05:00

Last night Micah didnt want to go to sleep. He just kept playing around in his room. Finally he went to sleep. Then about 2:30 eli woke up and wouldnt go back to sleep. finally we moved him to our room floor and and after a while (about 3:30 he fell back asleep) Then about 4:30 Micah came in to our room and wanted to sleep in bed with us. but guess what. You can sleep on the floor so he did. So need less to say then at 6:00 i had to get up and get ready for work. I am tired today. The silly thing was that just that morning i was saying to Julie how it was nice that the boys were sleeping all night again! :( that will teach me to say anything

No Week in review

2009-10-12T15:51:00.001-04:00

Sorry all it has been a while since I did a week in review it has been a long couple weeks. Basically our dog tried to eat a skunk and we had to move out of our house for a week. But we are moved back in now. I will try to do more week in review soon

Interview with Jeremy Irish from Groundspeak

2009-09-28T12:09:00.002-04:00

I found this on the web at
http://coastcacher.com/blog/2009/09/24/jeremy-irish-interview-metaplaces-conference/

Week in review 09/19/09 - 09/25/09

2009-09-25T20:00:00.008-04:00

This week on Monday I started my new job. It was great, it is a slow week though for some reason. I took a tour of the warehouse which is a refrigerator. I also found out that i have to work Saturday as it is inventory and everyone works. My parents also showed up on Wednesday night which was nice to see them for the evening. Also we have been working hard to get Julie's grandparents house gutted everything we want to save we are!

That really is about it. There wasn't much going on this week to blog about but ya know how life is, sometimes there is and sometimes there is not. See you all next week.

Week In Review 09/12/09-09/18/09

2009-09-18T20:00:00.001-04:00

Wow the list of things that happened this week is chocked full. On Friday night the boys wanted to go to a High School football game. We went and watched and it was so fun. Next thing is we Finally got Julie's grandma and grandpa out of their house. We moved them Saturday. It took a while but it was worth it. There was a safe under their floor boards and and they wernt going to take it with them so i grabed the saw and cut the floor out and took it. It was kinda like a real life Geocache. Thing is they arnt sure what the code is they know they have it somewhere but they arnt sure what it is or where it is. So i think i am going to take up safe cracking :). On monday i woke up and jumped in the shower and there was no hot water. Not a drop. I knew this was strange as no one else was up so i knew that there was no one taking a shower and using up all the water. Come to find out the water heater pilot was out. luckly it was an easy fix. Then drove to work and i locked my keys in the car. luckly julie and kim and the boys could come over at lunch and we had McDonnalds and unlocked the car. On Tuesday Julie and i went to the doctor and got to hear the heart beat of our new baby. wow that is cool. Anyone that dosnt think life begins at conception should hear a heart beat. Really not much more happened. We scheduled a geocaching event and that should be fun. Today is the last day of my job here at Bosch. i am starting a new job on monday

Week in review

2009-09-11T20:00:00.001-04:00

This week is actually for two weeks. I forgot to post last week Sunday we went caching and hit 8 caches. On Tuesday the 1st Eli turned 2. Wednesday i planned for 4 caches but only found 1

This week it was nice to have Monday off work and we worked in the Garden. Then on Tuesday i found out that i got a new job. I will start a week from monday at the new job. it is a smaller helpdesk non of this huge call center stuff

Elkhart County Indiana Geocache Stats

2009-09-01T12:17:00.006-04:00

There are currently 107 Active caches in Elkhart County Indiana

49 out of those 107 caches were found in the last 7 days

Top 5 placers
XpunkX & Julez placing 12
Wanderindiana placing 10
Span 24 placing 8
midnightrosefassions placing 5
FloatingSpots placing 4

I have found 66
30 I havnt found
23 I own
2 are disabled

18 or 26.8% have TB

Week In Review 08/22/09-08/28/09

2009-08-28T20:00:00.001-04:00

There really was not much happening this week. However a few notable things

We found our #400th geocache and also got a FTF on another one. Another notable thing is that we had planned to have julie's grandparents out of their house by this weekend But things change and now we dont know when they will be out. It has been rainy this week soe we have not done much outside

Week In review 08/15/09-08/21/09

2009-08-21T20:00:00.001-04:00

This week's week in review is interesting. Saturday we spent a day out with Thomas the Tank Engine with our boys. I think i liked it just as much as they did. We went to Flint Mi. Got to rid on Thomas and just spend the day doing all sorts of fun things.

Sunday we had a work day with the church to help move julie's grandparents. We did lots of work and got lots of dirty.

Twitter was unblocked this week at work. well come to find out EVERYTHING was unblocked at work. For some reason the firewall blocker was down. However that didnt last too long as someone was made aware of it and today it was back online. :(

So after the big to do that was made about me taking Firefox off my work computer guess what a few days later it is now approved. i have to request it and the computer automatticly installs it but it still gets installed so guess what i have FireFox again!

Anyway that is my week in review. It was a good week and see you all next week

Week in Review 8/8/09-08/14-09

2009-08-14T20:00:00.001-04:00

Ok so here we go for the second week in review. Wow this week was interesting to say the least.
It started with more moving.

We were packing on Sunday Julie's grandma they are moving soon and we are helping them pack. They have a lot of stuff so it takes a long time to pack.

This week also brought lots of changes at wor. We found out that one of the people who was laid off a while ago is comming back. Which brought up the question who is leaving. We dont have that much work that we need another person. Come to find out another one of our people here is leaving. There own choice but they are leaving. More changes here at work. I was told i had to remove Firefox and only use IE6. IE 6 that is like going back to horse and buggy from cars. Come on now. Also twitter.com was blocked at work i mean i can find an alternitave site that pulls that information but still i dont want to.

The main thing this week that happend was yesterday Julie called me at work and said. "I need you to call me as soon as you can" So i did the natural thing and picked up the phone and called her and i heard her say "There are cats in our van" Now at this point i knew i left the windows up and the doors were shut so i was wondering how they got in there. So went on to say "They were in our engine and i turned the engine on. Come to find out there were three cats. First one that fell out only had a broken leg. Next one was dead and the final one was just fine. Julie felt so bad. So i went home after work and dug a hole for the dead one. Then we went to red lobster for dinner and and when we came back there were more cats on our drive way. Go away cats!

Week In Review 08/01/09

2009-08-07T20:00:00.005-04:00

I have decided to start blogging a little bit. I am going to do a week in review post. These will be posted Friday nights at 8:00 PM so here we go witht he first post:

The following are things that happened this week (Saturday-Friday) On Saturday i gave blood this is the first time that i have given blood on the left arm and the first time i have done it in a while. Julie and i got busy and just havnt given in a while. And the first time in a while that Julie was not with me. She cant give for about 9 months or so now.

The next thing that happened this week was to do with twitter.com. Besides that fact that twitter was down all day on Thursday due to a DOS attack. Twitter was blocked here at work. I felt like i was cut off from the outside world. Dont worry i found some ways around it but still. it was just the idea of being cut off. (am i addicted?)

Next thing i realized this week is that some people just like to pick on people because they can. They go looking for things to hold against you just becasue they can.

I will try to keep the Week In Review posts fairly short. Thanks for reading