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Paul bought Megabyte one of her favorite balls this weekend. She hasn’t had one in a long time…since at least last spring. She went nutso when she saw it, she was so cute we had to take a video of her. Check it out:

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Since November of 2005, I think I have put about 450-500 miles on the talon. Not from lack of desire to drive, it, but the Talon has been in the shop for various repairs. Had the clutch, brakes rotors, brake pads, left and right lower control arms, and tires replaced. And the driver’s front axle. And then the driver’s front axle, and then the driver’s front axle.
Got the car back on Feb 26 with its 4th axle. Drove to Louisville this past weekend to visit Sean, who was in town for the annual MERA convention.
Car sat all weekend until I left to go home Sunday night. Sean was pulling it out of the parking garage when he heard a clunk. Axle broke again. AAA to the rescue (thanks Megan).
Not sure what I want to do now, or what I can do. Its eaten the stock axle, two remanuf. axles, and a brand new axle. Axles aren’t cheap. My next step is either 1) try an axle from raxles.com or 2) toss another axle into it, and put a for sale sign on it.
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Emily’s cousins Jeremiah and Kim had their first baby this weekend! His name is Nehemiah Blaise and he is CUTE CUTE CUTE!!

He was born on March 3, 2006, 7lbs 7oz

See more pictures on their website: Click here

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Please read this if you own paintballs and have pets!

Yesterday morning we had all of out paintball gear laying in the living room before we left. One of my mom’s dogs, Lizzie, rooted through the stuff and ate about 50 paintballs. Since they are non-toxic we thought she would just throw them up and it woudlnt’ be a big deal. My mom called the vet just to be safe. The vet ended up ordering Lizzie to the doggie ER, where she stayed for 12 hours!

Apparently, even though the package says paintballs are non-toxic, they contain extremely high levels of sodium, which depletes the body of liquids, and causes the brain to swell which will kill the animal. Lizzie had to get blood and electrolites drawn every few hours, had IVs in, and her prognosis wasn’t all that great. She ended up being ok, and allowed to go home late last night.

The vet said that paintballs are made with fish oil, which is very attractive to animals. They think it’s food and will eat them ALL.

Lizzie’s large size helped her out in this situation, but the vet said that smaller dogs or cats have died from eating just a few.

Please be sure that your paintballs are stored away from children and animals of all sizes. I’d never want anyone to have to experience the scare that we did yesterday.

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What a day! Paul and I started the day off yesterday playing paintball with some friends. The weather was perfect, probably the best that I can remember. We had a great turnout, 17 people! We played a couple games of capture the flag, then 2 games of protect the pope, then a 20-round capture the flag (each person only get 20 paintballs for the entire game).
Got some great pictures of it all.

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After paintball we went up to Dayton to watch movies/play poker with some Cincy DSM guys. Paul won the $25 pot at the end of the night (yay Paul!). We learned a few new games that were really fun…we’ll have to have a poker party when we get into the new house!

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My brother just got a new posistion at CarDomain.com (aka Soundomain.com) as a merchandising head guy. I’m not up on what the actual position does, except I know he will be in charge of the new products and the desciptions they get on their online store as well as work with the tech department on support calls.
Sean worked basically as the tech manager at CarDomain.com. If a call came in or a product was returned because it didn’t work he worked with the support dept and the customer to determine the problem and resolve it. (Which can be a challenge when you get a customer who thinks they are a “pro” and a company who doesn’t research every make and model vehicle). The market for these parts and hobbies have really gone from a specialized business to a mass market hobby.

I won’t go into the marketing and support details, but for an indiviaul non-NYSE company to show its head above big blue (best buy) or Circuit Shitty (Circuit City), its pretty amazing. CarDomain.com offers more than a shopping environment, they offer a place where you can customize your car or truck and show it off in a community that supports your addiction…er..hobby. Even if your car is bone stock, their members will support and encourage you to keep at it. Rock and Race on CarDomain.com. Keep it coming!

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We moved to Fairfax, VA from Brandon, Florida when dad got assigned a job at the Pentagon. This is probably where we had the most fun growing up. School was a short 9/10ths of a mile walk or bike ride. The community pool was one street over. We had a lot of friends in the neighborhood as well.
On this map:

Here are the points of interest:
1) Our house. Catty-corner (er..diagonally to the left) lived Michelle and Nicole something or other.
2) The pool. We literally lived here during the summer. Sean and I would show up when it opened and leave when it closed. Best babysitter my parents ever had 😉
3) This is the intersection my mom worked as a crossing guard as. People thought she was a cop!
4) This is Rick Dean’s house. He is the only person from Fairfax I have heard from since we left there. Still have him in my AIM contact list too! There was a nice lake in our neighborhood and we used to get there from the creek by Rick’s house.
5) This was our friend Mark’s house. His dad worked for the Library of Congress.

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No, the question is where…not when. When is to be determined 🙂 I decided to play on Google Maps to see what I could come up with. I’m going to be posting these out of order, but I will include the years 🙂
Torrejon AFB, Spain – This was not easy as google didn’t have a record of it, no matter how I typed it into the search box. However, I did find the long/lat of the runway and was able to figure it out from there. Here is the Google Map Link
Click the image below to view a map marked with the following areas of intrest:

1) This was where our little house was. The parking lot behind it was the Hospital.
2) This is where the BX, Commisary, movie theatre and ice cream parlor are/were.
3) This is the pool we spent all summer at. Bowling Alley is also here. Spent a lot of quarters there.
4) This is the elementary school.
5) Can’t really see it, but this is the high school.
6) This is where I got into my first fight. I kicked the guys butt. He picked the fight.
7) This is the TLQ (Temp. Living Quarters…basically a hotel) and the Officer’s Club (O-Club).
I think the area between 1 & 4 is my dad’s office area. (without the orange roof, next block).

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Chris tagged me, so I thought I should follow up:
FOUR JOBS YOU’VE HAD IN YOUR LIFE:
Car-Part.com – Systems Administrator
Best Buy – 1) PC Tech at store 31 2) Dept. Manager for the Home Theatre Dept, store 30
Veterinary Software Publishishing, Inc. – Webmaster, Tech Support, other stuff

FOUR MOVIES YOU COULD WATCH OVER AND OVER:
Office Space (owned four copies of the DVD now)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (own two copies)
Four Rooms
Billy Madison or PCU – toss up here…

FOUR TV SHOWS YOU LOVE TO WATCH:
LOST!!!!
Invasion
Scrubs
Two and a Half Men

FOUR CITIES YOU’VE LIVED IN:
This is a toughie..I’ve lived in probably 10 cities, 5 states and three countries..so I’ll list just four..
O’Fallon, IL
Torrejon Air Force Base, Spain (outside Madrid)
Fairfax, VA
Murray, KY

FOUR PLACES YOU’VE BEEN ON VACATION:
Sanibel Island, FL (twice)
Seattle, WA (three times)
Chicago, IL
my Cruise for my honeymoon: Keywest, Grand Cayman Bahamas, and Cozumel, Mexico

FOUR PLACES I’D RATHER BE RIGHT NOW:
Sanibel Island
My new house
In Bed
my mother-in-law’s new cabin in the mountains.

FOUR OF YOUR FAVORITE FOODS:
My wife’s cheesy-chicken-n-stuffing thing.
My mother-in-law’s roasted beef with bernaise
My Mom’s Brisket
twice baked potatoes

FOUR OF YOUR ALL-TIME FAVORITE RESTAURANTS:
Anything by Jeff Ruby in the Cinci area
Margaritas
O’Charley’s
Nothing But Noodles
(There are really too many of these to list only four!!)

FOUR SCHOOLS YOU’VE ATTENDED:
O’Fallon Township High School, O’Fallon, IL
Murray State University, Murray, KY
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Buckhorn Elementary, Valirco, Florida

FOUR WEBSITES YOU VISIT DAILY:
(other than all the servers for work…)
AutoBlog.com
KyBlogger.com (for comics and blog)
Digg.com (nerdy news and info)
Woot.com

FOUR TAGGED:
Nothing to post here really. Don’t know anyone else with a blog besides Chris…but he already did this! So I’ll put people with no hopes of seeing results!
Megan
Sean
Emily
Stephen

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Well, this weekend I got up really early (6am!) and drove to Dayton, OH to meet up with my ride and caravan up to Detroit, MI for the North American International Auto Show. This is my third year going to the show with friends from the local Cinci/Dayton DSM club.
It was a lot of fun, very tiring (total of 9 hours of sleep from Friday – Sunday night), and always worth it. I will have some photos online tonight, but probably won’t get them all up (think about 75+ and a couple short videos). They will go up on my other gallery.
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