I’m sick. This sucks. It’s been a while since I’ve been really sick like this. The worst part is that I know who I got it from. My conductor last trip was sick and didn’t have the courtesy to stay home. So I was trapped in a 10 foot by 10 foot are with this sick motherfucker for the trip up and back. Your going to pay for this Sugar Bear.

Hops Update! They are all coming up really nice. Even the transplants are all coming up. EEEEEeeee. I’m really happy about the hops. So check it out.

Dogs had a good time hanging out in the yard also. Both shots are HDR.

So not much with the words. Just some fun pictures. Oh and Jacki predicted the Pennsylvania primary result pretty damn well. Better than any of the fuckheads on TV. Of course I might be a little bias…. Check it out on her post here.

This was an idea that came about when I brought home several glass insulators from work. I was bored and picked them up out of ditches. So today I actually pulled the parts together and went for it. The one thing I didn’t have was a power supply. So a quick stop at Goodwill produced one for $1. You can’t beat that. Here are a couple pictures of the finished project. A complete rundown of the build under the fold.

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Jacki showed this to me on Neatorama. I just had to share. What an awesome video. It’s in German, but you’ll get it….

Last night I finally got out my vacuum tubes and looked them up by their numbers. I have: 1 3B25 Half-Wave Gas Rectifier, 2 5U4-G Full-Wave Vacuum Rectifiers, 1 5U4-GB Full-Wave Vacuum Rectifier, 1 6850 Twin Power Beam Tube. Then I hooked up one of the 5U4-G to some power. I didn’t push the voltage hard on it, but take a look at it lighting up! :)

Then I finally mowed the yard for the first time today. What fun. While I was doing that Jacki painted the Toby step for the bedroom. After I got done mowing we cleaned up the garage some more and dug out to the lumber pile in the back of the garage. Cut the top to the Toby step so that Jacki can upholster it whenever she gets the fabric woven.

While digging to the lumber pile we had to drag out the half made bench that I have had shoved back there for probably a couple of years now. Jacki suggested that we finish up the bench today. So we drug out every say saw and drill I own and had at it. The only things left are to Polyurethane it and For Jacki to upholster the top/seat. It’s made out of old barnwood that I’ve had for a while now.

So I spent most of the day yesterday cleaning out the garage. That is about as fun as you can imagine. I also tidied up the attic a bit. Put up some more shelving and fixed some flooring up there. I have more to do today and I need to mow the yard for the first time. I hate mowing.

Anyway in the midst of cleaning we had some running around to do and Jacki was going to take some film in to CVS. For some reason I remembered that I had an old disposable camera in a drawer. So we shot up the remaining 19 pictures an took it in to be developed. This camera was a Kodak Max Sport disposable camera. It was one of the waterproof jobs and I think that was why I got it. I think I got this camera in 2000 and took it with me on my National Guard AT to Fort Polk. Apparently there wasn’t much to take pictures of since I only took 4.

Thats me looking like a complete douche with my sleeves up.

More under the fold…..
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So this post is going to have a lot of pictures even for me. I’m pretty much going to give the wordy part first with a couple pictures and then a bunch more pictures under the fold. Everyone with me so far? Hey get your head off the fucking desk! Here we go…

So Jacki and I started Saturday out by going to the antique mall and flea market here in town. Jacki talks more about it here. We had a good time doing that as usual. I got the most badass lamp evah! I’m going to have to replace the guts to it, but just check out the shade and imagine this hanging over my keggerator.

Then we met up with Andy and Carly again. No one really had any big plans in mind, so we kinda talked about what to do and Andy suggested going to a weird little ghost town called Santoy or San Toy depending on which map you look on. Seemed like as good a plan as any, so we camered up and climbed into Andy’s much roomier than it looked Focus. So Carly drove a fairly unruly bunch down to the ghost town with only minor detours for getting lost and people yelling to stop for bathrooms or to take pictures. BTW Carly you do a great job driving. I’m a horrible passenger since I almost always drive everywhere and I didn’t panic once :) Andy, Carly and Jacki hangin out at the stop sign…

After that we drove up a big hill to the Chapel Hill Cemetery. Cool little cemetery with a really creepy old house across the street from it. By this time it was getting cold and everyone needed to get home to feed their dogs so we headed on home. We went to our respective houses and took care of our dogs then met back up at the new Indian/Greek restaurant. Had a good dinner and called it a night. Tired but very happy at the end of the day.

Sunday Jacki and I went running to a couple of HUGE antique stores in Columbus and I picked up some more beer stuff and Jacki got…You’ll never guess….more camera stuff :) The Polaroid Land Camera she got is particularly smokin’. Check the link to her post above for that as well.

Ok come under the fold if you want to hear me babble more and see more pictures….
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How much more awesome can something get? Not much!

I also have real stuff that happened over the weekend to write about, but I’ll get to that later. This just couldn’t wait…

So Jacki and I went running around Sunsbury and Columbus yesterday. We hit up a bunch a antique shops and thrift stores looking for camera (not Gamera even tho that would be fun:) stuff. I ended up finding a bunch of CRT and radio tubes. I only bought 5 cause I don’t really know what I’m going to do with them. They look mighty cool tho. Now I’m going to have to do some research to see what I can do with them and how to make them work. Code I need help!

Here is an HDR of one of the RCA tubes…

This post is a bit overdue, but I haven’t felt like blogging and damn it it’s not a job so I don’t have to. :) Anyway, Jacki and I were a Kroger get some baking supplies and while looking over the yeast selection were accosted by another couple infinitely more knowledgeable about baking than us. This was a interesting situation for us since we are normally not very social people. It was a fun talk and we actually (gasp) like the people. They ended up talking to some other friends of theirs that showed up and Jacki and I had a quick conference. We decided that I should give them one of my Moo cards with the invitation to hang out some time. This was a couple weeks ago I guess.

So we conversed via email and blog and ended up going over to their house for dinner on Sunday. We seem to be referring to them as Bread Friends :) Anyhow, they are Andy and Carly and they rock. We had a great time hanging out with them. Hopefully with my stupid schedule and them being busy we will actually be able to see them again one day….

On to the Cemetery pics. This is a panoramic that I cobbled together out of about 6 pictures.

And here are a few more. All are HDR and tonemapped…..

Also one giant hop rhizome. I found this on top of the dirt under a bunch of leaves when I was cleaning up around the hop mounds so I could fertilize. I went ahead and planted it at the edge of the woods so maybe I’ll get an extra plant this year.