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  • If you had a school for professional fireworks people, I don't think you could cover fuses in just one class. It's just too rich a subject.

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Happy Thanksgiving

Well, there’s no escaping it. It’s that time of year again…a time we often greet with equal parts joy and tension. Of course, I’m talking about Thanksgiving — the one day where my family gathers ’round to see how much I can actually eat in 24 hours. It’s sort of like a contest where no [...]

Mcdonalds and a new pasttime

Went to lunch at mcdonalds here in weslaco. They have been doing some remolding behind the counter over the past few weeks. I was curious as to what had changed. It looks like they installed a robot in the drive thru lane. This thing would read the drink order from the [...]

Weekend

it’s been a fun weekend.  Got to help Randell at the race track for “Nationals”  It twas actually kind of fun.  Watching 28 cars on the track all at once and everyone is tring to be in the top 12.  It’s kind of like watching hockey but instead of sticks the guys have 1/4 tons [...]

exciting afternoon

For the past week, i’ve been working on planning the transistion of moving our telephone provider at work from Verizon (yuck) to Smartcom (yea)  This includes adding a PRI circut and a channelbank from Smartcom to provide our CO trunks.  No big deal right?  well.. all of our current CO trunks are comming from a [...]

the most annoying sound in the world

as much time as i’ve spent in the live music world, it’s odd to say i still have my hearing.  Actually i have fairly accurate hearing.  It’s extremely annoying though hearing the high pitched whine from external power-supplies, CRTs or even LCD monitor inverters.  It’s like wearing a hearing aid 24 hours a day.  I [...]

it’s a wonderful day in the neighborhood

ever had one of those days when you feel like skipping down the hallway or jumping up and kicking your heals like in the old Toyota commercial?  no.. well.. too bad.  It’s been one of those days.  It’s actually been one of those weekends.  Yesterday i reformatted my vista laptop.  Helped tori work on another [...]