How I know...

How I know I've taken too many pictures. This is my latest offspring. Shaun Patrick O'Connor. He will make a great addition to my family as you may be able to tell he'll fit right in.

Haven't you heard?

This is easily one of the better Family Guy episodes. Yeah, over half the episode was Peter doing Surfin' Bird jokes but it was good. For example, the beginning of this clip of him reading the paper. Classic.

It's Log!!!1!

Pwner McPwnerson

Apparently if you want to take on WOW (World of Warcraft, in case you didn't know, lol jk!!1) as a "hobby" you need like 36 different accounts and the setup pictured above. Maybe its just me, but this seems a little excessive (and obsessive). And what the hell kind of internet connection does he have? If you're running all 36 accounts, fiberoptic wouldn't be enough. Who knows? Or maybe this is just an inside look at my setup that I only use for updating the blog (I have another exact setup for just general computering)?

Our engagement picture

I think this picture is enough without any words.

See . . . it can go off-road

This past weekend, Susie and I did our engagement pictures at various places around the lovely county park at the river bottom. What a perfect time to drive through some of the trails. It started out tame enough. And then we decided to go to Gold Mine. A little creek runs through the road. No problem for the FJ (or the Ford Taurus that we later saw make it through). No, the mud isn't from this. The mud is from the other trail we decided to try (unfortunately, we didn't take any pics while we drove through this) or I guess at one point it was a trail, now it was more of a couple of deep ruts left by some. We ended up bottoming out on a couple of places on this one. Thankfully the front wheels were on something somewhat solid and that FJ has a skid plates. And later we jammed through the bean field by Buck's. Oh yeah, the lights in the front and center, are pretty functional (even though the are only on if the high beams are).

DON'T FORGET TO ORDER FIREPROOFING

I FIGURED OUT HOW TO MAKE THAT BUS PICTURE MORE AWESOME BY USING SCIENCE. ALL IT LACKS IS SOUND


BOOM MOTHER FUCKER MMRRRRRAAAAAAWWR PEW PEW PEW PEW *WICKED GUITAR RIFF* *CANNONS FIRING* *BITCHES SCREAMING*

Jen's Birthday and The Patio

This is over a month old already but these just got taken off the memory card (and if you're keeping track at home, these are from the D50. For some weird reason, the D50's pics seem to look a little better than the D70's. Anybody got any ideas?). So this is from Jen's (of Tim and Jen fame) big birthday party back in August. And it was also the first time of a party on the patio (Tim and I finished it off the weekend before, oh yeah, Tim's dad Tim helped on Sunday too. It was a good time even though it sucked butt) Kick ass time. I'll let the pics do the talking (actually I'll just add more after the pics):





Here's the rundown: 1) You know its a good time when Dave E. Boy shows up, even if he's rockin' the same shirt the past 3 times you've seen him. OR You can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning (ok, it was 11 . . . I think). OR We're trying to activate beard powers. 2) Hottie. . . enough said. 3)For some odd reason, the beer tastes better when you're on the patio. 4) "That is the last time I let those drunk bastards (or it could have been Jeff at that point) fly my kite." 5) Weird, pic 5 and that's also the same number of beers in Tim's staff and he's trying to impress the neighbors with that. 6) What can I say, it was hot out and the beer makes you a little tired. 7) On Sunday we went to the Dead Animal Zoo of Owatonna, Cabela's. Tim wanted to get a bigger clip for the SKS. So you gotta go big, 50 round. Awesome (not quite bus jumping over a bunch of motorcycles while the whole thing is engulfed in fire) right? Well apparently it was too awesome since it didn't want to take all 50 rounds (I think there might be a porno movie joke somewhere in that) so it had to get returned and Tim stuck with the 10 round clip he had.

FJ Limits

I happened upon this handy guide on Toyota's website. Pretty typical measurements and approach angle and the whatnot. But then you start to wonder why its blue on the bottom. Oh that's just a little thing showing the water fording depth of 27.5". Yeah, this needs to be tested (I'll probably either, cry while driving through the water or get stuck or both). And the rustproofing is getting done tomorrow, so it should be good to go (yeah, it probably was a waste to get the rustproofing considering the FJ already has a ton of stuff that keeps it from rusting but we figured what the hell it won't hurt especially with the metric shit tons of salt used on the roads).

FUCKING AWESOME

LOOK AT THIS SHIT. YOU WILL NEVER SEE ANYTHING AS AWESOME THIS EVER AGAIN IN YOUR ENTIRE LIFE.

THIS IS MORE AWESOME THAN EVERY MOTORHEAD SONG. THIS IS MORE AWESOME THAN HUGE FLOPPY TITS THAT LACTATE MILLER HIGH LIFE. LOOK AT THIS SHIT. LOOK AT IT! FUCKING AWESOME!