Before and After

Bike Update. Coming along.

Here's the latest. BTW Running!

Bike hacking continues

Day 2 new bike

Day 1 new bike

SO UHHH Here it is. THAILAND 09

Yea, a little late. Yea there are hundred of different pix not included. You gotta hit all the facebooks, chrismcdowell.nets... but i tried to get the highlights here. So click through, i labeled them all....

CLICK ME whole set! Then click SLIDESHOW TOP RIGHT.

Where did my check go.

I was talking to my buddy Tim, wondering where did all the money go we made this year. Well... I found it.


CDL License Tax
Cigarette Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax (Fed)
Federal Unemployment Tax (FU TA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit 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
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 T ax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax

That's just the way it is!!!! Well,

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...
We had the largest middle class in the world...
And Mom stayed home to raise the kids.

Thanks to PJ for the heads up.

Backyard From Brynnieg.

Dan and I have been working on improving our backyard for a while now and we are slowly making some good changes.

We looked through some of Dan's architectural magazines and created an "inspirations collage"....pics of things we want to include in our backyard renovations.

On Sunday, we went out in search of patio furniture and found a STEAL at target....originally priced at $200 a piece, we got our new patio furniture at $47 each!

Here's some of the improvements so far and a picture of our collage to see how far we've come to achieving our ideas.

We're slowly getting there.

Our Pond Inspiration:



Our Actual Pond


Our Patio Inspiration:


Our Actual Patio

Summer -5 Cabin.

Earthquake tonight couple miles from Livermore

Nice little 10 second rumble tonight. It was 2 miles from Sunol towards Livermore, which is only a couple miles from here. It was pretty fun.

3.7 on the Richter, 5 miles deep. It registers as the red dot on the picture attached.

BITE ME SONY

Read this garbage.


Customer 10/12/2009 09:33 PM
I downloaded a movie Sin Nombre in HD, and we clicked play last night. The download speed was too slow and we were only able to watch 10 minutes last night before it caught up with the download. Tonight as soon as we returned home we turned on the movie, but couldn't finish it before the 24 hour expiration. Could you please refund so we can re download and watch again please
Thanks

Dan
Here is my transaction number

1253781710


Sony's email:

Hello Dan,

We apologize for any inconvenience you are having regarding your PlayStation(R)Network account purchase. There is no way to extend an expired rental period. The following Knowledge Center articles may help resolve your problem:

Article Title: Terms and guidelines for renting videos
Article Link: http://playstation.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/playstation.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1104&p_created=1216164427

Article Title: Requesting a refund
Article Link: http://playstation.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/playstation.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=344&p_created=1193166190

(these links are to articles online telling people basically to eat it)

Regards,
Catrina G.



HERE'S MY REPLY.

Wow really lame.

Last time we use your service. I'll use my XBOX instead, and as a tech representative will spread the word religiously about an extremely poor customer service.

If Sony gets my complaints, I will be sure to mention your name and save this email.

I could be a high revenue customer using your movie service, but it looks like that 5.99 is all you'll ever receive from me. All i want is to finish the last of my 10 minutes in the movie, and seeing how your poor upload speed was the reason for the problem in the first place, I feel extremely warranted.

PS> Apple TV does refunds, good luck on your downward spiral.

Mog Fever

I have it. The Unimog fever. I now know what I need. And it is a Unimog.

This 416 Doka is for sale by me for 10 k. Although I might hold out for one with the 20 speed tranny. This six speed might be a little lame. Wish me luck. PS. Andy, I have no clue why you don't have one.

D

Summer -4 Camping at Butano SP

Got one! A camping day. Thanks Brynn. So there were no campsites available in CALIFORNIA for the 3 weeks prior to this trip, then 2 days before one popped up. As we were speaking to the guy there on the phone he said, sorry all full, while refreshing the website said... NOPE 1 more!

We spent some time in Pescadero which is tiny, population under 2000. We went to a dog friendly beach.... hmmmm, Oh Bean Hollow. I thought it was great. It was warm, although I was the only one who thought so. We tried our new surf rods, to no avail.

Camping was pretty awesome, we ate super well thanks to Brynn. It was like 4 star camp food.
Also we learned that the explosion from beer cans in the fire is epic, except for the 15 minutes of putting out burning embers in the forest.

It wasn't a heavy picture weekend, and like usual Brynn and I don't have any together, but here are a couple.

Like them Indiana Boys on an Indiana night Summer -3

5 days in Madison was totally fun. And super exhausting. Andy out on the first ever danfest.




Shipleys, Don't be Jealous
tractor Show. That's how we do.
Hanging Rock 1
Hanging Rock 2

YUP its Tahoe Bitches Summer -2

Brynn and I had a bad ass tim in tahoe. Chillin with the locals. The McCrew in North Lake. Good times. Got to do a tour of the lake, and a little beach time at Zephyr Cove... Countdown, negative two weeks of good times during the summer. I'd definitely chalk this one up as a win. Don't forget the M's first time around the lake. BTW Tre Stone was a sleepy bad ass.

Summer of Activity in Reverse Order. P 1 -1

Gary Allen Concerto at Konocti, Clear Lake. First, let me say that this could be (although undoubtedly) the last time he plays here. Rumors of the place closing, but for 15 mil... shoot I'd buy it!

Steve, the Dave's and I hit this one up. Good times, super close. Caught a catfish, played 5 hours of tequilla music with big Dave. Damn good Clear Lake weekend...

I'm going to post all the weekends for tracking purposes up in reverse order.

Fifth Gear makes me want to vomit

Seriously. Lets talk about this.

Are they joking. Do people drink that much in the UK to tolerate this garbage.
How many times do i have to see Tiff (who at one time was cool) and Jason,(cool normally) do some dumb race. Buses... WTHell. It started out bad, got worse throughout the season, next episode if they keep up they'll be racing their own deficant and pretending its cool.

Speaking of deficant, the boobs that host. Tim should just end it. It would be more entertaining if he was a cutter. Tom Ford is a lame fatso, I think fatso as a term would make a comeback if it was just related to having to sit through a season 16 episode. Now sometimes he shows potential when he ditches hosting duties, but honestly is 2009 the year of lame.

Johnny. What happened. When you weren't constrained to your little 3 retarded tests, like this season, you were becoming a favorite and a reason to watch, but lately... Dude. I loved the old quirky, bio diesel Johnny. It is clear Tim and Tom are writing his scripts.

VBH. Crap. Where did you go . Have you abandoned a sinking ship, or can you be the captain titanic never had. England needs you, TV needs you, People in the US need you..... STOP, CARS... and maybe even Frodo and Ben Wise Ganjee deserve your intervention. Give her full production duties, let her fire the tards... and save Fifth Gear.

In short, Fifth Gear WAS a slightly less cool version of top Gear... lately, just a reason to delay starting your Top Gear episode... cause sometime when top Gear starts, you wish it would never end, and fifth gear just holds back the pain of hitting start, cause start means you will soon have a stop.... Fifth Gear is akin to a zit... a nasty sore to be popped, so that the normal bronzed muscular skin that shall be known as Top Gear can show itself again next week. Hope this makes its way to Five / BBC, cause we really want another quality show to hold us over between Top Gear episodes.

More Cabo Fun

Old School. Cabo Cribs

Brynn de Mayo

Whole countries came out today to celebrate the birth of BRYNN!!!!!

WOOOOOOOO Happy Birthday Brynn

Patrick Would be Proud.

Latest from the Style website UNCRATE. What's this, a pension for Oliver Peoples glasses.

C'est Bon.

And yes Jud, I have these.

Kelley Park 2009

200% improvement this year at Kelley Park. Last time, 2 malfunctions tried to prevent me from getting there. This year, 0!.
So here are some shote from this year. Tried to get some different shote than usual. Using a 50 mm prime lens

Link to more shots.

Click to go to set

Stop action Graffiti AKA somebody with too much time

CIO


MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Show numero Dos

Tim and Dan Radio Show #2.
1 hour this week. We don't come back after the break.

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Stimulus Slight of Hand

Excited about the stimulus? Ohhh, that $13 per paycheck is going to be spent well, perhaps I'll enjoy a few more slurpees per month.
Well, $13 a check will fail to cover the proposed carbon tax in 2011 which will send gas up an estimated $1.30 per gallon.
But thats tertiary to what I want to share with you.
If you are on un employment, you get $25 a paycheck extra. A caller today told El Rushbo her unemployment after taxes is $2000 a month +.
Thats HOPE and Change you can count on.

Brynn's Baja Update

Couldn't say it better, so thought I'd link Brynn

BrynnieG

Storm Party, keep eyes open for sightings.

Went to a great event tonight at work, and Ubergizmo Live blogged it, thought I'd share the link, not sure how long it will be up. Also, make sure to check Gina's blog techiediva.com also.
Got to take a shot on the red carpet! WOO.

www.live.ubergizmo.com for the liveblog, pix are up now.

www.techiediva.com, check tomorrow.

Cool Event, Turiaf was there from the GS Warriors, Gabrielle Union...

Here it is

Tim and Dan Radio Show

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MMMM Harley PIX

Thought I'd get up some posts from the Harley trip. Visited A and K for their wedding, grabbed a Road King Classic for the weekend. Pretty bitchin. In a nutshell, here's the crazy stuff. Slept on a Bench in IN. hotels... overated. Lost shades, rode with no shades. Hitchhiked, Found out ABS on a bike is nice.... Hinkles Hinkles Hinkles. Of course the Wickersham experience was great. Oh and got to feel what a stun shot from a blowdart feels like. Its Awesome FYI. So as Reno Raines from Renegade would travel... Not bad.

So your saying there's a Chance

Here's how I figure McCain can pull off the win. I took the current Electoral College Map, and analyzed a few key states. FLA, NC, OH, CO and NM. These are currently in the Toss Up category. Well in NC, FL, CO it's advantage McCain, so I took those liberties. NM is a gonner, and OH has the possibility of going Red, so Basically if he can get Ohio, and split the rest of the toss ups, he's Good to Go.

Fiji Pics

So We've been a little lazy getting these up. Mostly we had to compile all thee different pictures from cameras and such.

CLICK LINK TO GO TO FLICKR PHOTOS

Bad Day for Chemtrails

So I went out today about 11 am. Clear skies. Blue, sunny. Gonna be nice. 1 plane flying overhead. Mad this shirt, its another story. Then I looked up. 4 Chem trails. There hasn't been this much plane activity over my house ever. Normally a plane every few minutes. Maybe a chem, normally nothing. A contrail that disappears. All of the sudden, and don't tell me this is normal, I have two planes flying next to each other. like they are racing. And in a 2 hour span, I have more flight activity above the house than in a normal 4 day period. And boy are them chem trailing. I've got criss croses. The sky looks like a checkerboard. The pic of the chems crossing. That's the first time in history that two planes have flown that path above my house.

So here's the pix, say good bye to todays sun.Who wants to bet the weather report changes. This morning 90's all week. Nothing but sun. Topping out at 98. We'll see. What a bummer.

Lunar Lights on the Aquarium

Just got this new light. It pretty much lights up the entire room. The cool thing is that at night, the lunar blue LED's pop on.

Just wanted to share the pic.

Kelley Park 08

ITS BACK.

It was the best show I'd been to in 6 years. 4 times bigger than the last 5 years... at least. The swap was good, the show filled all the pavement. What more could you ask for.

Funny, it took 11 hours to get the bug ready to make it. Then It broke three times on the way... but in the end, as you can see. For the first time in 10 years. The bug made it. And stood among 8-10 other conv... yes the only other verts there.

And only 1 67' as well. The red beast I parked next to. Take a look at the jump for more shots from the show.



So I met a few people there I knew. Some complained, "Yea I didn't make it down. The.... broke down..." This is the general excuse. I saw more air cooled VW's at the side of the road SAT. Well. I sure as heck wasn't going to not make it. If I had to push the bug there. I would make it. That's the real spirit of old... almost 50 year old VW's I think. BTW plenty made it.





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