The first part of April

A beautiful day for relaxing, learning, and having fun.

Clean batmobile

Ling Ling is clean too.

I took the first day of April off. We headed to my parents the night before. I helped out getting some things done at the new house. The weather was great. The first time you could really wear shorts. I took my truck in to get a bed liner sprayed on.

The next day was awesome. Sure I had to get up early to get my truck but after that I just chilled. First I spent sometime at a coffee shop. I just did my thing while enjoying some green tea. After that I headed over to Best Buy. I checked out a few things including 3D TV. I must say I was not impressed. Sure you got a bit of 3D stuff but the clarity and colors weren't what a nice plasma (or led or lcd) would give. My expectation...total flop. Next I visited a high end audio shop. Ok, wasn't much for high end but I did learn about home automation. Next stop Guitar Center to try out some active speakers. Very nice. I grabbed lunch a very unique 'flying weenie'. It was actually probably the first real Chicago style dog I had. Quite tasty.

The weather again was great. The next day we headed back through our old home town and then on down to my sisters. While the weather wasn't as nice, it was good to have the family together and be there for my brother in laws baptism. I also viewed the new ipad on it's release date. Not sure what I'd do with one of those.

Over the previous month or so our church small group had been studying a book on evangelism. It was a really great study. We had one session where we each gave a 90 second version of our testimony. What a great night it was.

More recently, I had a garage sale last weekend. I must say it was quite a success. I sold some extra ladders, my wife's bike that she hated and got a couple of leads on the sound system. During that time I washed and waxed the truck. It was looking great. Sunday I did Jodi's car. It looks even better thanks to what I'd like to consider superior paint. We bought a video camera last weekend as well. Jodi helped to get us an awesome deal on it. Maybe once I figure out how to use it, I can put some videos up here? If nothing else maybe some lions, sharks and elephants when we head out on our trip later this year.

Work is tedious as usual. My boss used the word monotonous. That is probably about right. Day in and day out...build build build. Anyhow, it should be worth it in the end. This week we got to deal with a volcano holding up parts. I guess everyday brings a new challenge however it all does seem the same.

We did get quite the hail storm one day. Fortunately both vehicles survived (would have made it much more difficult to polish all the hail dings). The house was less fortunate...need a new roof, some new siding, gutters, garage door trim etc. Hopefully it will be easier to get this done that the pain in the butt we had last summer getting someone to work on our siding!

Oh yea, I almost forgot. Tony came up one weekend and we hammered out some more drum tracks. Quite fun. Some really cool stuff going on. Probably one more session and we'll have it wrapped up. I can't wait to get out and get playing again.

The battle with the weeds has begun again. I think they probably won last year. I'll see if I can't improve on things this year. I did over seed tonight. Hopefully we get some rain to help with getting some new grass growing.