17 years ago, I had a Cox EZ-Bee r/c plane. It’s fate was doomed after only a single flight. My interest in model aircraft has until now been limited to plastic scale models. Now, however, I can finally bring my dream of flying into reality with my purchase of a radio controlled P-51 mustang. I have yet to “take to the skies,” but have been spending as much time as possible training on the included flight simulator.
As you can see, I’ve finally changed the website over to a new design. I’ll be tweaking it here and there in the next few weeks, but the basic design will stay the same. It took me two days to transfer all my old posts into the new format, but I can scratch that task off my list. The old photo album is gone. I’ll be looking into a new one, maybe using Flickr, but that will be at some later date. For now, The man, myth, legend will be primarily text posts, with multimedia in the future. Hope you like it.
~Dave
It has been way too long since I’ve done anything with this website, so I figure that sometime this month, or January, I will completely revamp/re-structure the whole thing. I’ll try to keep all the posts and most of the pictures, but I want to try something more multimedia, where I can post pictures more easily with my posts. I doubt many people are actually reading this anymore, but if you are, be prepared for a New and Improved site in the coming month(s). Any suggestions from the outside would be appreciated.The Man
***This is an Update***I am still here, but have not had anything worthwhile to post since August. Life is good, still working, loving and living. rnThat is all.***End of Update***
Last weekend, Frank, Jason and I went to Vegas. It was a joint-venture on my part, because Jen and Alex were also in town. Jen had arranged for some of Alex’s friends to surprise him for his birthday. It went off without a hitch. He was speechless. It was a pretty good trip… I got to see some “old” friends I haven’t seen in 5 or more years, and I got to play craps some more. I didn’t win any money, but Frank came out ahead for the weekend. Jason spent most of his time playing Poker, but didn’t make it to the WSOP yet. As for the heading of this post… My birthday is next weekend, and lately I have been mulling over many aspects of my life: what I’ve accomplished, what I have failed to do, what I still want to do, what could have been different, etc. All these thoughts have kind of put me in a dark/less than happy attitude. Not that I have many regrets, but I’m looking at what I still want to accomplish in my life, and the list just seems to be getting longer, without checking anything off. I’m sure I’ll get over it, it’s just one of those things… The wife and I just pruchased new couches, which should be delivered on the 22nd. Also, the mother-in-law (MIL) offered to buy us a new king-sized mattress for my birthday/xmas present. Next on the wife’s list is new bedroom furniture. I’m happy with what we’ve got now, but I guess part of being married is making sure your spouse is happy too. So, I guess we’ll be getting new bedroom furniture sometime in the future. Eh, as long as I don’t have to sleep on the couch I guess its OK. Anyhoo, I think I may take the Street bike down to LA on Friday night so that I can ride Asuza Canyon Highway with some members of the bike forum. should be interesting, but I’m still not decided if I really want to ride down or not. Mebbe I can truck the bike down, and just ride from my dad’s. We’ll see.~The Man (who’s getting older)
Plumbers came Monday morning and re-snaked the drain from the front access. Didn’t hit any type of blockage whatsoever, and ran a total of 75 feet into the pipe. THat put them out in the street close to the city main, so I am hopefull that whatever was blocking the pipe is gone, and that they only go stuck because of the length they has in the pipe. OH happy day… no $1900 repair bill!!!!!! No dug up yard!!!!! Woooo Hoooo!!!!!~The Joyous Man
Spent the day lounging and doing as little as possible. Took the wife out to dinner, and when we got back, I figured I’d try one last time to locate the sewer cleanout in the front yard. Well, after digging out about 3 feet in front of the guest room with no luck, I tried in front of the dining room window. But first, I had to dig up two rose bushes blocking my way. Sure enough, I found the damn thing about 2 inches down and an inch away from a sprinkler head. At least now I can have the plumbers come re-snake the line and *Hopefully* find out if I actually have a collapsed pipe, or just a lot of crap in there (heh). Anyways, now I’ve got to figure out what to do about the landscaping I’ve tore up in the process of all this. ~The Man (who accomplished a small personal achiement)
OK, so the guy that owns the plumbing company came out the other day with 2 plumbers and was able to remove the drain snake from the pipe. He still thinks that I have a damaged pipe right near the sidewalk, and wants to dig it up. I contact my insurance company and they tell me that due to the fact that no damage has occurred to the residence, i.e. seage backing up into the house, it is not covered. WTF?!?!?! What is the point of having insurance? So apparently, the area of your property between the foundation of your house and the city/utility connections is the sole (out of pocket) responsibility of the homeowner. ARGHHHH!!!! I am so frustrated at the whole situation. My options right now are:1. Let the plumber dig up my yard, find the damage, submit claim to AHS and Insurance with my fingers crossed, or pay for it out of pocket.2. Ignore problem until another blockage or backup into the house, then submit insurance claim.3. Dig it up myself (5 feet down X 45 feet long) and have the plumber repair/replace just the pipe.Any other suggestions???
OK, so plumber #1 shows up Monday morning to fix our little problem with the drain. He is unable to find the cleanout in the front yard, and after researching the neighbor’s yard, He and Heather come to the following conclusion: rn1. The builders did not put the cleanout in the same location for each house in the sub-division.Great. So, plumber #1 goes back to the office for a piece of equipment. At 11:30, the wife receives a call saying that plumber #1 has called in sick, and another technician will be out between 1:00 and 5:00pm. I come home to assist in locating the cleanout with no luck. Did I mention that it is humid as hell and 100+ degrees? Plumber #2 shows up and is also unable to locate the sewer cleanout access point in the front yard.Plumber #3 arrives and is able to locate a cleanout in the back yard. They proceed to use a commercial grade drain snake which seemed to clear the blockage. Plumbers #2 and 3 leave. Dave comes home and finds that toilets are not flushing properly, and that they are back-draining out the cleanout in the backyard. The wife calls the plumbers who return around 5:00pm. Plumbers #2 and 3 proceed to re-snake the drain from the back yard access point, inserting 108 feet of line into the pipe. Blockage is cleared and toilets, and showers drain properly.Plumbers attempt several times to remove said commercial grade snake without success. They leave the snake in place, and recommend coming back in the morning to retrieve it. If further attempts are unsuccessful, they might be left with having to dig up my sewer line from the house to the street, which means a 5 foot deep, 60+ foot long trench in my front yard. Oh yeah, and there is a tree that might be growing directly over said sewer line. Good thing I have homeowner’s insurance. Deductible would be $1000, but American Home Shield better cover some of this. My overall reaction to this= f#ck.
So, I get a call Tuesday morning from my dad. He’s very sullen because his computer has died. He mentions something of a *huge* error and the hard drive is making funny noises. OK, I’ll take a look at it on Thursday night or Friday. The wife decided to join me on the drive down Thursday night. We bought a new hard drive for him, and I attempted to switch over his old internet favorites and documents and settings. Needless to say, I was unsuccessfull at first. After working on it till 11:00 that night, I decided the best course of action was to take it home with me, fix it, and drop it off Sunday morning on our way to Thousand Oaks. Well…….. this thing is about 4 years old, and becoming slower than molases in the arctic. I couldn’t leave my dad without a connection to the interweb, since he’s so tech savvy these days, so I opted to buy him a new computer from Staples. Its a decent machine made by Compaq, which is really HP these days. Anyhoo, I got everything transferred, and he was very greatful to be back up and running. Played Texas Hold ‘Em with the guys Friday night till 2 in the morning. Around 1:45, some random chick shows up at the door looking for some guy named Jason. Frank, being the knucklehead that he is, starts in with the classic: “Is she clean? Is she cute? Let her in…” Shut up, dumbass. Helped Michael Saturday morning at the butt-crack of dawn fix the flashing and trim on the roof, so he can get it up for sale this week. Got finished around 9:00 am, so I went back home and slept till 1:00pm. Went to a pool party for one of the wife’s teacher friends later in the afternoon, and spent the rest of the evening updating the new computer for my dad. Sunday, we got up around 6:45 so that we could drive to LA, install the computer and then head up to 1000 Oaks for a visit with my relatives there. We had a nice visit, and then had dinner at Red Lobster. Mmmmm, cheesy biscuits….Oh yeah, Saturday night, we noticed that the shower was backing up and neither toilet was flushing properly. We called American Home Shield after we came home Sunday night, and the morons there set it up as an emergency repair, calling us at 1:30 am to have a repairperson come out. At 1:30 am !?!?!?!?!?! Retards! I can wait till morning to have them fix this. It’s an inconvenience, but its not like these are the only bathrooms we can use. sheesh. Let me sleep for God’s sake. I’ll worry about it in the morning. So, that’s my week(end) in a rather large nutshell.~The Sleepy Man
