Archive for April, 2006
Spring Indianapolis USAmusement Auction
This was my first auction, and at that time I was only looking for a Ms. Pac-man, I hadn’t gotten totally sucked in my the hobby as I am today. Hence, I didn’t take photos or prices, but all of those are located at Madoc’s website.
30th April 2006
The morning started out pretty normal, I woke up with 5 minutes to eat and dress, and then I spilled half of a water bottle down my frontside so I looked like an elephant had spit up on me. But, ah, that is about par for the course.
After church we hung out at my parents, talked, did some sorting of piles of our childhood junk that Mom and Dad still managed to find somewhere. Was kind of fun to look through it, but even if I did keep some of it, I knew it was going to sit at our house too. But better at ours I guess so Mom and Dad can finally use that extra space and make us kids a jacuzzi room for when we come home.
The two families had lunch together, including the Nobles. Food was awesome, I about had a head rush over the stinkin pickles and brats my mom served, it was sad, no one else got second’s, I got fifthsies. Then, just the usual, talking, and then a family fun game or two of Sequence before we had to shove off. I called down to a contact to find out about some empty arcade cabinets that were being sold for some very affordable prices, but in the end, decided right now it made more sense to just go home then to drive a bit out of the way to check them out.
The trip home was long, especially that stretch right after Kokomo, but we finally made it home just after 10:15, and unloaded our feeding of the five thousand car which had tripled in load in the one day that we left. I answered some questions via email for some of my students and went to bed.
29th April 2006
What a long drive.
We didn’t get on the road until after 10am, which really sucked, putting us in MI somewhere around 3pm. But things just get in the way, packing, hanging out the night before, things that should be done around the house and are hard to ignore, etc. etc.
We made one short stop, dropping off a gift to my friend John, and then up to MI, and we did get there just after 3. That left us just a little time to get ready, dressed, and all that good stuff before the wedding at 4. I ended up wearing only my own underpants and shoes, and wore dad’s suit and dress shirt since we forgot mine at home.
The wedding was nice, pretty short. It was interesting to watch what happened with the Pastors though, what rules we thought couldn’t be broken and appeared to for the wedding, and how very interesting the guest pastor was.
Afterwards we headed back to the house for a touch before going downtown to the Legion’s building. I had never been there in how ever many years I lived in our small hometown, but I don’t know what sort of occasion I would have been there for. It would have had to of been a party using the second floor, where Doug and Erika had their reception.
The wedding was fun supafun. Sat with Justin and Jennifer, ate a ton of creampuffs washed down with a little known tap drink called beer and did some socializing. For a little while Sarah and I took a really great walk down the pier out to the lighthouse and back, had a great talk which I really needed cause I was a little mixed up about some things.
We didn’t stay long after that. We said our goodbyes, and talked with Justin and Jennifer outside for a bit and then headed back to the ‘rents. Dad and I had one Smirnoff after we got back, but other than a little chatter that was about it. We were both exhausted after a long day, so we went to my parents place and crashed.
28th April 2006
Productive day.
Went to the gym with John in the morning and got my membership started there since my 2 month pass is running out.
Came home, mowed the lawn, then I moved boxes from the garage into the attic and rearranged the mess up there. We had just throw all of the beams from the swingset up there and left it for about a year, so it needed so reorganization.
Work was normal, things were busy around the building for the event there that night.
Eric and Sarah met me at the building, and it was a great time, lots of great art, snackins, and a lot of wine. I met a ton of great people and got to see some really cool studios and catch up on who was where now in the building.
Afterwards we went to Taco Bell to get some real dinner since none of us had any, always a good fix and had some conversation before heading home.
27th April 2006
Figured out a whole bunch of cool stuff today on using Gmail accounts as a virtual storage. Seems a little risky from a security standpoint if you aren’t smart, but still can come in very useful for transferring large files across the internet without email attachments.
Got home and did a whole bunch of loose ends type stuff, caught up on the blog, and tried to find some more arcade cabinets as Sarah watched some of the LOST episodes that I had already finished. Then we watched two more together before she went off to bed.
26th April 2006
No LOST this morning, went into work out with John at about 6:25 or so. I worked my butt off, and I got dizzy towards the end of the lifting period that I had to quit, felt sick. The rest of the day my head hurt, was out of whack and all sorts of good stuff.
Sounds like we are going to get some great deals on a fridge, filing cabinet, shelve, and a couple of office chairs at the end of the week. There is a company that is consolidating and they need to move some stuff. As it is, I got a whole bunch of CD and DVD cases which I always desperately need.
We had Brent over for dinner, and it was awesome. Great conversation, great meal, a bottle of wine, just a nice end to the night.
Sarah and I made it through one and a half episodes of LOST before I gave into the throbbing head and went to sleep.
25th April 2006
More LOST tonight. We finished up the first season , and now I am trying to get a hold of the second season to get completely caught up. I am so thankful we haven’t been roped into 24 or something with 6 full years of episodes to catch up on.
I worked tonight more on getting dual Safari browsers to run on my Mac, and believe I was successful. The second one runs through a terminal window, so now I have to run tests to make sure it is the version I believe it is based on CSS rendering errors that were fixed between versions. I was mostly waiting for Sarah, she was watching some episodes to get caught up so we could watch some stuff together.
24th April 2006
Didn’t go to the gym this morning, instead got roped into episodes of LOST in the morning, and then there was some catchup for Sarah before we watched some sort of TV for the rest of the night, either LOST or 2 and a half men or 24. Too much, we have to finish up the first season of this show, maybe it will get better and loosen it’s hold on us.
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