Long Update

Sorry its been a while since my last post. I have been really busy at work and at home. We finally got almost all of our tools up and running at work, so we are able to produce balls and get them tested. So its like a big wave of work just came at us. I recorded a bit on the Callaway Golf Balls from the History Channels Modern Marvels that shows some of the things I do at work. I will try to post it.

On the home front, Megan and Chad were down last weekend and we had a ton of fun. We went wine tasting out in the Temecula Valley and we hung out at the beach. On Friday Karen took them to the San Diego Zoo and on Monday to DISNEYLAND! Totally wanted to go there, but I have to save my time off to come up to P-Town...

I got my contacts in, they make me look really creepy. But they are the coolest thing ever! Not only can I see super clear, they enhance everything cause they are tinted. The red ones make it look like I am wearing amber sunglasses, and the green ones just make the color green POP. Its like seeing things in high-def, I can make out blades of grass at a distance. It rocks. Can't wait to go golfing in these...

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My New Eyes

So I went to the Eye Doctor this weekend. I wanted to get some new glasses, since my old ones didn't work very well. And I have been interested in these Nike Golf Contact Lenses. I have never worn contacts before, hell I never wore glasses until 3 years ago (man I am getting old), so learning how to put them in and take them out was tough. It took me about 45 minutes and 30 tries to successfully take them out and put them back in...

Anyways here are the glasses that I am getting:

And here are what the contacts look like:


I am so EXCITED to be able to play golf and see the ball fly again. Its been a few years since I have been able to do that. Should improve my game a little...

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"Found" Pictures

So I have a few pics that I found that I hadn't scanned into the computer yet. So here they are.


This one is when my brothers and I spent a week up in Estecada and just camped and water skied.


And this is from my road trip with my brother Dave down to Northern Arizona University. We stopped at the Grand Canyon on the way back for an awesome bike ride that rand 15 miles right along the rim. Now that I am only 7 hours from there, I might have to go do this ride again!

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My Dumb Luck

I went out this afternoon to change the license plates on Karen's and My cars. Mine went fairly simple. And the rear plate on Karen's car went really well too. It's no big deal. It's just 2 screws...

Well the screws on Karen's front license plate were just spinning and not unscrewing. Now a lot of plates are just screwed into the bumper, this was not the case with her car. It had a rubber grommet in the bumper to hold it on.

Well the only way to get to the grommet is to take the bumper completely off the car...




And here is the beast itself. Looks like the screws were rusted to the inside of the grommet. I WON!


Anyways it took me 2 hours to do a ten minute job. Gotta love that.

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Cell Shot Sunday

Here are some random pictures that I have taken from my phone in the past couple weeks.

At the airport waiting in the security line that stretched all the way into the parking garage.

Saw this truck driving down to San Diego, think he needs more stickers...


And finally a shot of a truck that was twice as tall as our car. I looked out the window at this guys bumper.


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We're Landlords!

Well if you don't read Karen's Blog we finally got someone to lease our townhome in Hillsboro! The signed a 1 year lease. This is great since Karen is having some troubles finding a job, and my pay was just barely paying all of the bills. But now that we are landlords, this should free us up quite a bit, and make us much less stressed out.

Oh and sorry for the total lack of pictures lately on my blog. Cause I know I am not the best of writers, so i can't be that interesting to read. But I know I am a much better photographer... (Or at least I think so)

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More Tax Fun

I finally got my taxes done on Tuesday, thats right, the day they were due. I have always been done early but this year sucked.

Little note to everyone, NEVER go into HR Block. They are utterly useless! It cost me $300 to get my taxes "done". Which basically consisted of someone typing in numbers. Which I wouldn't mind if they knew what was going on... There were many times where they would ask me a question that was on their screen and I would say, "Not sure, what should I look for?" And I got a response back like, "Not sure what do you think?"

I could have received the same help from their software that is $25, instead I decided to pay someone to type numbers in for me...

I am angry about this! You would think that going in would provide more help than just using the software, so I am going to write a long email to them with a serious complaint. Because I am scared I will get audited now... I caught them 3 times in mistakes, had to mention it to them, then they would fix it. So since I was doing their work do I get a discount?

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