My Nephew Andy - Alcoa High School Band

Spread the Wealth

Heading to DC... Again

I'm planning on hitting the road by 5pm heading to the DC area. This is a short project and I should be home by midnight on Sunday.

Wagon Wheel -- Old Crow Medicine Show

Can't get this out of my head.

Delayed Departure

I finished up the previous project two days ahead of schedule, and arrived home about 4am Thursday morning (really late wednesday night). My next project has been delayed until the 3rd of September so I won't be heading out town again till September 2nd.

Just Back From Vacation

Becca and I just returned from our first real vacation in 5 years. We left on Tuesday the 29th and spent the night in Orlando, then checked into our hotel on the beach on Wednesday. Unfortunately we were having so much fun we forgot to snap many photos, but below is a link to the ones we did manage to take.



Click here to See the Full Size Vacation Photos.

Most our time was spent partying in the pool with our friends, and all of the other partying guests. We dined on the cheap, ordering pizza several nights, and hitting the ihop for breakfasts. On sunday we ventured out and found a sports bar called the Upperdeck and ordered the blackened grouper over spinach, blue crab, and sweet potatoes. OMG it was so fucking good! One of the tastiest meals ever!

We checked out of the hotel around noon, stopped for a bite to eat, and then reluctantly made our way home. After several pit stops we finally arrived about 2:30am.

I am headed back out of town on Sunday Aug 10 for the DC area to do an install project for Stop n Shop/ Giant grocery stores. I should be returning home no later than the 22nd. I'll have about 3 days and then its back to DC to start an ATM rebranding project on Aug 26th, for TD North Bank. It's nice to have some steady work, but I would prefer a little more down time between projects.

Breakfast

Cracker Barrel rules.

Great Acoustic Cover of "Hey Ya"

The embedding no longer works so click this link to view the video.

Hey Ya Video

Home Again

I departed Knoxville on 6/12 and returned home at 3am Wednesday (really late Tuesday 6/17). I had just finished up doing a software update on 150 ATM machines across the southeast.

Snake in a window

Yesterday while retrieving pool floats from the building behind our garage, we were startled to find this little guy sunning himself in the window.

 

New keg online

I picked up a new keg from Calhouns, they didn'thave any full size kegs so I had to settle for a mini keg. We learned a lot from the first keg so we made a sign.

Pile of cats

We blew the keg

may 15th the keg went online and today it dispensed its last beer. I will be making a trip to Calhouns shortly to replace the empty keg.

Indiana Jones

Today at 4pm Becca and I went to see the new Indiana Jones flick with my friends Gary and Marc. I had very high hopes for the movie, but was let down. There was quite a bit of action, but the overall story was a little weak in my opinion. They ended up going a bit Sci-fi at the end of the movie that didn't quite fit the feel of the Indiana Jones franchise.

Drunk Voicemail from Mom

My mom got a little tipsy and decided to call me.

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What is a Billion?

What is a BILLION??

The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of its releases.


A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.

C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.

D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.

E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.

While this thought is still fresh in our brain, let's take a look at New Orleans It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division

Louisiana Senator, Mary Landrieu (D), is asking the Congress for $250 BILLION to rebuild New Orleans. Interesting number, what does it mean?

A. Well, if you are one of 484,674 residents of New Orleans (every man, woman, child), you each get $516,528.

B. Or, if you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.

C. Or, i f you are a family of four, your family gets $2,066,012.

Washington, D.C .. HELLO!!! ...

Are all your calculators broken??

Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Perm it Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax),
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax),
Liquor Tax,
Luxury Tax,
Marriage License Tax,

Medicare Tax,
Property Tax,
Real Estate Tax,
Service charge taxes,
Social Security Tax,
Road Usage Tax (Truckers),
Sales Taxes,
Recreational Vehicle Tax,
School Tax,
State Income Tax,
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA),
Telephone Federal Excise Tax,
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax,
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax,
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax,
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax,
Telephone State and Local Tax,
Telephone Usage Charge Tax,
Utility Tax,
Vehicle License Registration Tax,
Vehicle Sales Tax,
Watercraft Registration Tax,
Well Permit Tax,
Workers Compensation Tax.

STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?
Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago,
and our nation was the most prosperous in the world.
We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class in the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

What happened?..... Can you spell 'politicians ?????'

And I still have to "press 1" for English.

What the hell happened?????

Duh

Becca's highschool friend Debbie & husband Bruce

Marc looking serious about the soccer game

Enjoying a cold draft dor the soccer game.