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Halloween 2009

2009-10-26T12:12:00.004-07:00

October has flown by this year. Not sure if it's because I'm busy working at the haunted house or what but all of a sudden it was time for our annual Halloween party. This year we had it a week early 1. because I wasn't sure I would be available on Halloween and 2. because Rob and Kristi are having a party this year as well.Once again people came up with some really great costumes, and we all had

H&M Oktoberfest

2009-09-28T16:38:00.002-07:00

Sept. 26th was the 18th Annual H&M Oktoberfest.This year was my second time entering a beer for the competition, and I had a great tactic up my sleeve; cater towards the crowd. That in mind I submitted a Belgian White Wheat dubbed Blue Saturn.Dropping the beer off the night before I learned that Potzler wasn't entering his Hefe this year so I was reasonably confident that I would place. Once I

The engine saga continues

2009-08-29T15:05:00.001-07:00

My Dad came over and we started working at 6:30 this morning.After lots of maneuvering, shaking, going up, and going down it's almost there The engine is nearly on it's mounts right now and the tranny has about 1.5" to go before it's nicely mated with the engine. I'll be working on it again on Monday and see if I can't get them the rest of the way.

I Fixed it!

2009-06-22T13:56:00.002-07:00

I am invincible!!

I Broke It

2009-06-22T13:52:00.003-07:00

Oh Noes......

What do you have on tap?

2009-06-11T14:44:00.006-07:00

Paula got me kegging setup for my birthday. Actually it was my birthday present but I got it a month or two early! She also bought me another fermenter so I can brew more beer more often. Yum Yum. My first kegged beer is Carbonating!And then Yesterday Paula called me with some great news: Her co-worker Andy gave me three more kegs :-O !!!!!! There is some additional hardware I need to purchase,

More rain!?

2009-05-25T09:54:00.003-07:00

This time we were climbing in Atlantis, we had put up 1 climb and the rain started coming down. Hmmm should I be concerned if it's raining in a place called Atlantis? Lucky for us it only lasted for about 10 minutes. It did make the rock a little wet at first but then dried up fairly quickly. The rest of the climbing was superb, I was able to lead 2 5.11's one that I had never been on before. I

Chihuly and rain?

2009-05-23T12:28:00.003-07:00

Paula and I went to see the Chihuly exhibit at the Desert Botanical Gardens.Man was it crowded, I guess everyone else decided it was a good day to go see the exhibit as well. Who would have guessed so many Phoenicians had umbrella's. Yup it rained on us the whole time were were there.... But we had a ton of fun!You'll have to excuse the quality of the pictures it was hard to work with the

Playing with engines

2009-04-21T12:19:00.003-07:00

This past Sunday I got my Dad and my Uncle to come help be take apart our Red Jeep. I had already pre-labels most of the hoses and electrical connections, so we just had to remove some of the major components from the engine. First came out the radiator, then the fan. Off with the Alt., A/C, and power steering pump. Removed the wiring harness, and the tranny-engine bolt. Unfortunatly we found

This just in...

2009-04-10T15:45:00.001-07:00

No Seriously, I just picked them up yesterday. Will try and post updates as this one gets swapped into the Red Bandit. :-D

2009-03-24T09:32:00.002-07:00

On Monday we took the day off of work and Gabe drove up from Tucson so that we could go have an adventure on the Salt River. We had booked a day trip with Mild to Wild Rafting for some fun class 3 rapids. We were all extremely excited because this was something we had wanted to do for a while.We got to the meeting spot in the Salt River Canyon and suited up: wet suit, booties, rain jacket, life

Vitamin D and Red Rock's

2009-03-17T12:39:00.003-07:00

This year we schemed with Dan and Lisa and instead of going to the Red Rock Rendezvous we decided to go the weekend before and just go climbing. This also just happened to be Lisa's birthday weekend so that worked out quite nicely. We loaded up Thursday after work and headed toward Vegas. Thursday night we stayed in Vegas, did a little gambling and headed out to the campground in the morning.Once

Results and more pictures

2009-03-08T12:02:00.004-07:00

Here are the Dyno and Speed comp results.Dyno ResultsGirls1 Sierra Blair Coyle 8502 Rachael Prokes 8103 Paula Barlett 30Boys <5'6"1 Mick Coluccio 23102 Kyle Wright 1320Boys1 Chris Lomas 39002 Shawn Mohatt 36303 Pat Maclane 29904 Burhan Qaddoumi 13005 Scott Markis 12006 Randy Barlett 11107 Marc Barlett 6408 James Burns 5109 Sean Shelton 31010 Daniel Pierce 30Speed Results

Dyno and Speed Rock Show

2009-03-07T09:17:00.002-07:00

The Dyno and Speed climbing contest was yesterday, and it was an awesome time. I'd been looking forward to this Rockshow/Competition for quite some time. Paula, Myself, and Marc along with about 20 other climbers all competed with maybe 30 more spectators cheering us on.At 5 the event started with a preview session, the wall was open for us to try out the dynos and the speed routes. There were

Valentine's Day Masquerade!!

2009-02-15T10:49:00.002-07:00

As you may know Paula and I are wild and crazy, so for this years Valentines day we wanted to throw a Masquerade Ball. We bribed Dan Davies into letting us use his nice big house, and sent out invitations months in advance just to make sure people put it on their calendars.It was a blast! We had a ton of delicious food and everyone looked great all dressed up and with masks. We were even able to

Outdoors is better

2009-02-02T09:47:00.002-07:00

This last Sat was a gorgeous day. It may have been January but we had clear sky's and temps in the 70's. It was a perfect day to be outside, and that's exacty where we were. Dan, Lisa, Paula and I once again headed out to Lower Looner Land in Queen Creek.We started a little chilli with our first climb in the shade; a nice 5.8 warm up.Once the sun came up in the sky we were able to defrost and

Looner Land

2009-01-24T18:54:00.003-07:00

So while Paula was off gallivanting with her girls Dan and I went Climbing up in Looner Land! It was a great day, lots of cloud cover but not really cold. Dan and I were the first group in the area, later two other groups came to lower looner near us and 1 group went out to magma gardens. Luckily only 1 group climbed even remotely near us and we got to talk with a gal with a Liverpool, England

3 years

2009-01-20T14:21:00.002-07:00

yup it's been 3 years already. Wow it goes by fast!Initially our plans changed a bit for out anniversary but Paula was able to take some time off of work and today for our anniversary we went horseback riding over at south mountain. It was a ton of fun!Paula's horse was Mississippi, and they gave me Grass as my horse.Tonight we are planning home made Gyro's for dinner and the normal Tuesday

Put me in a cage

2009-01-15T22:45:00.001-07:00

BeforeAfterThat is all

Mmmm Christmas!!! the late late edition

2009-01-05T17:08:00.009-07:00

Christmas Celebrations began a little early this year, and on the 21st we celebrated with the Barlett extended family. By extended I mean 28 hungry mouths were looking forward to some delicious Mexican food. There was beef and pork chalupa, enchiladas, taquitos, beans, a cheesy rice concoction, world famous guacamole, and Paula and I's delicious 5 pepper version of Becky's Grandma's salsa. Mmm...

Cold Climbing but Fun Climbing

2008-12-23T10:02:00.002-07:00

The morning was freezing, we hiked in over frost and ice, frozen puddles and lakes from recent rains all frozen over. We made it to Magma Gardens, oriented ourselves and found some climbs that looked promising. In hind sight our first climb should have been an east facing wall instead of west but we set up two shadded climbs anyway while all of our fingers went numb. The next set of climbs was

Lower Terminator - Girls Run

2008-12-15T08:03:00.004-07:00

This past sat was a girls run up at Lower Terminator. There was a really good turn out and Paula and I had a blast. Not to mention we had just gotten the Jeep back from Hunter with a shiny new harness bar!As always with our big clumsy beast we had a few carborator issues on tippy sections but Paula did a great job of triple footing the clutch, brakes, and gas. We also had a little breakage, we

Christmas Lights

2008-12-05T07:51:00.003-07:00

Hurray I got our Christmas lights up! Next week sometime we'll go get a tree.

Camping and Climbing, just can't get enough

2008-11-18T21:22:00.006-07:00

For the last 3 weekends we've gone camping and/or climbing. With the weather as beautiful as it's been who could resist? Here's a not so short summary, I'll try and let the pictures do most of the talking.The Pancake House5 of us went out for just a day trip to the Pancake House. This was actually Paula and my first time outside since her accident. Somehow I don't remember that area being so

Projects

2008-11-04T13:35:00.004-07:00

Now that Halloween is over I have to focus back on household and car projects...This morning I replaced the Shocks in the Van. If you can look past those light spots you'll see nice new shiny shocks! I was going to take pictures with the tires off but you know I was kinda busy and my hands were filthy...Also Just before Halloween our Garage door stopped working, so of course I took it down and

Great Halloween

2008-11-04T13:02:00.003-07:00

This Halloween was super fun. Not only did Paula and I host a Murder mystery Dinner, but we carved pumpkins, and threw a really fun Halloween party.First Our Pumpkins:From left to right: Kristi's, Mine, and Paula'sThen our Halloween party. We had told people that costumes were required, and our friends didn't fail to impress. We also had a costume contest with three categories. A bunch of Grapes

Complimentary

2008-10-29T09:09:00.002-07:00

Paula secured us an invite to the Grand Opening of the Gilbert Keg Steakhouse for some complimentary drinks and appetizers. Joe a guy that Paula works with is a regular at the Chandler location and has become good friends with the Bar Manager for this new location. So he was allowed to invite everyone.It was awesome!Our drink menu was limited to 2 kinds of wine, 2 cocktails, and 2 beers. This was

The Weekend Run down

2008-10-20T15:29:00.002-07:00

Sat was the REI garage sale. Basically REI sells off all of there returned merchandise for extremely below retail value. The sale started at 9:15, but we got the at 7:15. We were probably 100 or more people back in line!!! The first people in line had gotten ther at 4:30 the evening before. Paula was hoping to pick up another pair of climbing shoes but mostly we were just along for the ride, and

Tour de Fat

2008-10-13T07:27:00.003-07:00

Tour de Fat was a blast again this year. If you didn't come with us this year you should definitely come next year.There were probably twice as many people there this year most likely due to Flagstaff not having their own tour stop. Paula and I rode in the bike parade for the first time and it was a lot of fun. Here are a few videos from the start of the parade. If you didn't know what was going

Rocket Scientists Who Brew Beer

2008-10-06T09:23:00.002-07:00

Hurray for RSWBB Octoberfest!This year Paula and I decided to invite my parents as well as Don and Stella, and of course I prepared a very nice Black Ale for the occasion.This is always a great event when it's held and this year was no exception. There 15 different homebrews available including some homebrewed wine, mead and Sapparilla. And of course ton's of food with Kristin's world famous

It's Magic!

2008-09-30T12:41:00.003-07:00

For a while I've been wanting to take Paula down to the Gaslight theater, especially to see "It's Magic" with Gene. The problem being that it's in Tucson and the magic shows are only on Mondays. But knowing how fun it was going to be I went ahead and booked some tickets over the phone and told Paula we're going!It was really fun Paula went ahead and got off of work early and we drove down and had

Sedona weekend

2008-09-30T12:31:00.003-07:00

Paula and I took our Jeep up to Flagstaff/Sedona for some camping and scenic trails with HigherGround. It was a fun trip though I thought the trails left something to be desired. We drove up Friday night (Paula got off of work early) and camped with Mike, Team Yellow Sub, Alan's family, and Chris. The weather was beautiful and with our awesome tent and sleeping bags we stayed nice and warm

Dan, Drinks, and Jeeps

2008-09-22T11:50:00.004-07:00

Oh boy did we have a fun weekend. It started off with Dan coming into town so a bunch of us went to Four Peaks and then Casey Moore's on Friday night. It was a blast hanging out with Dan, Grant, Charlie, the Lamy's and a few others we even saw our old friend Bri at Casey Moores how cool is that!Even though we stayed us way too late we got us way too early and went off-roading with HigherGround.

Lady Jane Grey Taste Test

2008-09-17T14:40:00.006-07:00

So "Lady Jane Grey", my 1554 clone, was done conditioning and ready for drinking. My parents invited a bunch of family over and they BBQed up some delicious Carne Asada and we made some homemade tortillas. And then it was time to unveil the reason for the occasion!I prepared a bunch of sample cups, and actually went through a lot less of the beer than I originally expected. Everyone of age (

A Grand Vacation!!

2008-08-29T10:27:00.011-07:00

Wahoo for Vacation!!So, on Thursday the 21st after Paula got off of work we set off to the wild blue yonder on a grand vacation.The first order of FUN was Knott's Berry Farm, and we journeyed on out the I-10 to beautiful Buena Park, CA. We arrived at our hotel at about 10PM, and were surprised to find that the cheapest hotel within walking distance of the Knott's entrance that was recommended by

Mod Day

2008-07-14T08:59:00.002-07:00

Hurray for Mod Day's! Higher Ground had a Mod day/Wrenching party this past Sunday. Basically we all get together and help each other work on our Jeeps. This one was especially awesome though because Geoff works at a body shop and was able to get his boss to let us use it.Not only did we get to use all of the shops tools but it was a nice open space that kept us out of the sun. About 8 Jeeps

Monterey Pictures

2008-07-07T19:05:00.001-07:00

Go See Dan in Monterey, CA

Monterey, CA

2008-07-05T17:20:00.004-07:00

For our long fourth of July weekend, Paula and I decided to travel to Monterey, CA to see Dan McCarthy. It was a really fun trip. We flew out of Phoenix Thursday night, and after a tasty burrito in the airport and a shorter than expected flight we were there. Dan picked us up at the airport, and took the scenic route to arrive at his house. (Dan just got a gps from Costco, and it really likes to

Stubborn Jeep

2008-06-23T12:36:00.002-07:00

So I'm behind on Jeep updates.After fixing the clutch master cylinder I noticed a rubing and other odd sounds coming from the wheel area.I was able to figure out that the noise came from the rear passanger drum, so I popped it off and found this:That's whats left of my adjuster mechanism and one of my holding springs. Do a little research and find that the parts are nice and cheap and I picked

Purrrty

2008-06-23T12:33:00.003-07:00

Look what Paula got in our kitchen Plus a microwave that's not in yet. We've been trying to secure this set for 2 weeks now, and finally the guy came through Sunday night.So we ran up to pick them up, came home and of had to install them right away. Luckily my parents came over and my Dad was able to help some.

New Clutch Master Cylinder

2008-06-05T16:17:00.002-07:00

I installed our new Clutch Master Cylinder on the Jeep today. Yes that hard to find part that no one had we were able to order offline.I still need to bleed the line, but that's a too person job so I have to wait untill Paula can help. It was a pretty easy install, pop the old one out and put the new one in. The hardest part was trying to get around the Brake Booster that sits right next to the

The Cracks

2008-05-28T07:54:00.002-07:00

So the pre weekend story goes, our Jeep's clutch started peeing all down the clutch pedal and onto my foot. :-/ and of course no one in the state carries a clutch master cylinder for an '84 CJ7. Heck we even had trouble finding them online. So after much effort and dissappointment later we took the van offroading instead of the Jeep.We did have a ton of fun though Friday on the drive up it was

Girls Run - Lower Terminator

2008-05-11T09:57:00.002-07:00

We went off-roading with Rob and some people from azvirtualjeepclub.comIt was the first time we got a chance to take Raja (our black Jeep) out and it was a girls run meaning all the wife's, girlfriends or sisters are supposed to drive. There was a really good turnout with a bunch of nice looking Jeeps.Paula drove about half of the obstacles and I got to drive the other half. It was a lot of fun

The Growler!

2008-05-09T08:40:00.004-07:00

So we went to the tapping of Cerveza Especial at Rock bottom. I expected the beer to be a light lager similar to corona, but it was actually a red. They said it was a vienna style lager, and it was really good of course I love red's so I'm not going to argue with a Red lager!But the coolest thing is that I have an awesome wife and she decided to buy me an anniversary growler. These growlers are a

The Mad Mud Run

2008-05-04T11:02:00.003-07:00

Paula and I ran the inaugural Mad Mud Run this weekend. We were a2 man team, but also from Kairos was a 5 man team and a 5 women team. And actually both of those teams placed in their respective categories.The run was a 5 mile run with 5 obstacle area's. The obstacles themselves weren't too difficult but remember we did them while running 5 miles!The first obstacle was the hay hurdles:The second

Our new Jeep

2008-04-09T08:32:00.001-07:00

So we took the dive and bought another Jeep. She has some stuff that needs to be done to her to get her a little more street worthy, mostly all minor things so thats good.But she is a beaut.The fate of our red Jeep is still to be determined.......

The Rendezvous

2008-04-01T13:13:00.002-07:00

Once again the Red Rocks Rendezvous was great this year.Paula and I headed up very early Friday morning and setup camp hereNew Belgium was out with some fun toy's. Mini bikes from last year and a new 3 wheeled bike that went in a circle.There was Dynoing, Slacklining <~~ Yea that's a backflipApline Contests, and Humaneering Everything was a blast. In the Alpine contest, I placed 2nd, I think Pam

Easter Time!

2008-03-25T16:21:00.005-07:00

Yup it was that time of year again, Easter Time!My parents were hosting easter in their brand new house. It's great that they live so close. Paula and I were able to have a relaxing morning, and make a good breakfast. We also exchanged our small easter baskets, but then we ran out of things to do! So we took the 7 minute trip and showed up to my parents early.The kid's had a bunch fun activities

Flogging Molly

2008-03-18T12:28:00.007-07:00

Yes once again we were lucky enough to have Flogging Molly in town for St. Patty's day. Paula and I bought our tickets almost immediately, and were even able to convince some friends to go with us! Weaver, Rob, Kristi, Kelly Stutzman, and ourselves met up after work on Monday completely psyched to get our dance on.We got to Tempe Beach Park just before they started letting people in so we had

The Ren Fair

2008-02-20T10:36:00.007-07:00

I guess it was a Family weekend. Not only did we go Snowboarding with Mimi and Ralph, and go down to Tucson for my Dad's retirment party, but on Monday we had the day off so we decided to go to the Renaissance fair with Stella, Don, Mimi, and Ralph.Being that it was Presidents day, and the Kings birthday we were able to get buy one get one free admission. Of course everyone else thought this was

Squeeze in some Snow

2008-02-20T10:29:00.002-07:00

Hurray for snow, Az has been getting epic snow this year and we've been dieing to head over to sunrise. Unfortunatly we are busy adults and seem to have no free weekends on out calendar. Luckily we are still a little wild and crazy and don't might driving 4 hours for 1 day of boarding. This last Friday the 15th we headed up to Sunrise with Mimi and Ralph, we could only stay the one night and

Sightless Summit

2008-02-10T12:27:00.000-07:00

Well after some uncertanty of whether we were going to participate or not we went over to Climbmax sat morning to watch Marc and Pam climb in the Sightless Summit challenge.The deal was you climbed blindfolded while your belayer tried to direct you to the holds. You recieved one raffle ticket for each route attempted and more tickets if you finished the route.Watching Marc and Pam was hilarious,

You can do that when Randy gets a tattoo

2008-01-28T19:20:00.000-07:00

:-) Yup, Last Friday Paula and I went and got ourselves tattooed. We'll still wear our normal rings but this way when we do outdoors stuff we can take them off and not worry about them. Especially not have to worry about Paula's stones being banged up.So did it hurt? I've heard that fingers hurt a bit more than other parts of the body because they don't have any meat on them. That said it didn't

PF Changs Rock n' Roll

2008-01-18T10:17:00.000-07:00

See all the pictures here: PF Chang's 1/2 MarathonThe race is over and the muscles feel all better. And the girls are looking into sprint Triathlons :-/I'm glad I did it, even gladder that I don't have to do it again. I think 10k's are a better distance that 1/2 marathons. Who knows we might do the New times 10k again next year.Funny costumes we saw at the race:2 people dressed as the blues

The Half results

2008-01-13T16:29:00.000-07:00

RESULTS!Pictures and other stuff to come later:41456 • Randy Barlett • Chandler AZ • M-26 • Half Marathon •Gun: 8:32:38 AM 5k Finish O'All Sex DivChip: 9:06:27 AM 35:22:00 2:38:37 12793 5758 786Race Pace: 11:23 12:0641455 • Paula Barlett • Chandler AZ • F-25 • Half Marathon •Gun: 8:32:38 AM 5k Finish O'All Sex DivChip: 9:06:27 AM 35:18:00 2:31:53 11676 6248 1285Race Pace: 11:22 11:3636682 • Kelly

Falling down a mountain

2008-01-01T12:26:00.001-07:00

There's a saying when you are first learning to snowboard. The first day you hate it and never want to do it again, the second day is awesome. After a 4 year hiatus we went through this again.The day after Christmas Paula and I flew up to Lake Tahoe for a snowboarding trip. Paula just got a brand new snowboard for Christmas and of course we wanted to go use it! Our resort was located near

Christmas

2008-01-01T10:05:00.000-07:00

Wow It's the 1st, and I need to catch up on my blog.Christmas this year was fun. We had our lights up and our Christmas tree decorated (see below). Christmas Eve was with the Barlett side at Mimi's house. It's been a super long time since Mimi has been here for Christmas. The food was great and our Potato thing was a big hit. This year we did the everyone at once style for opening gifts it was

To Keep You Entertained

2007-12-17T14:20:00.000-07:00

Christmas Tree

2007-12-14T14:47:00.001-07:00

HigherGround 4X4

2007-12-02T13:40:00.000-07:00

Us crazy Jeepers. I wish I could have helped with this project....

To start the season

2007-11-29T20:11:00.000-07:00

We got our Christmas lights up the weekend after Thanksgiving.What do you think?

My Goodness, My Guinness

2007-11-27T21:27:00.000-07:00

On Guinness Can's it say's to pour into a glass, but on Guiness Bottles it say's to drink straight from the bottle...Could this be because of a difference in their fabulous widget?November 27, 2007Dear Mr. Randy Barlett,Thank you fortaking time to contact Guinness. We appreciate hearing from our consumersbecause your feedback is important.When drinking the Guinness Draught in abottle it is

Turkey Day

2007-11-23T15:40:00.001-07:00

Turkey day has come and gone.Wow what a day full. In the morning we got up and ready, headed out to run the 10K turkey trot. It wasn't that great of a run but we finished in 1:07 just a few minutes longer than we had hoped.Then we rushed home changed and went to the Wilson's. We ate our Thanksgiving meal at 1:00 and visited with them. And zoom it was over to Stella's for that side of the family.

See how I transform this old rat into a most delightful hat

2007-11-01T09:47:00.000-07:00

Halloween '07 has come and gone.We did a pretty good job of decorating this year. Even borrowed Marc's fog machine to add a little creepy atmosphere. I think I had two kids say they liked our decorations and at least two that were too scared to come up to our house without their parents! *evil grin*We had a TON of kids come by, but we had the perfect amount of candy, gold star for us. Throughout

Carved Pumpkins

2007-10-31T10:50:00.000-07:00

Here's our pumkins for this year. The yard is almost done being decorated, the finishing touches go up today just before the trick or treaters come out. I'll post yard pictures later.Janell, Paula and I are going to Chipotle together again this year, I think Paula and I are going to be taco's! :-) that should be fun to throw together.More pictures to come.....

Magic Mountain - Fright Fest

2007-10-22T11:29:00.000-07:00

You may have heard, Paula and I took a weekend trip to Six Flag's. Actually it was a surprise trip for me (although I kinda knew we were going).It was a fantastic trip, we spent all day Sat. at the park, and of course Fright Fest came out at night.Our first ride of the day was X, and we proceeded clockwise through the whole park. We were able to ride nearly everything. The only two we really

3rd Thursday - Authority Zero & Liar's Handshake

2007-10-19T07:03:00.000-07:00

The Edge and The district at Tempe Market Place, have been putting on these free Third Thursday shows. I didn't make it out to the first one, but for this second one Liar's Handshake and Authority Zero were playing.Music was supposed to start at 7:00 but of course in typical venue fashion Liar's Handshake didn't come on until 7:30. I don't think I've heard much or any of their music before but I

A new dog park

2007-10-09T20:15:00.001-07:00

I took the dogs to a different dog park today. This one is out in Gilbert and it's really nice.The best part is it has a lake!!! It was really fun watching the dogs swim, although they didn't go out very far they really liked it. This park also has a few really fun ladder obsticle things for them to play on. Floppy was way too busy running around to pay attention to me but I got Sasha to go up

Oktoberfest

2007-10-08T10:46:00.000-07:00

Oct. 5-7 was Oktoberfest at Tempe town lake. It was a lot of fun!Mark Kaech, and a bunch of Paula's friends at Orbital came out with us.Prices were a little high but that didn't stop us from having our fill of beer, and brats. We even ate a struddle and a fire roasted corn! Yum thats the best way to eat corn....There was probable 10 beers on tap, and another 30-40? that you could get in

Crazy Hippies

2007-10-08T08:02:00.000-07:00

So last week I was driving home from work.Up ahead of me was this hippie guy riding his bike, and he had a nalgeen bottle in his hand.But wait ---- He takes his nalgeen put's it on top of his head and keeps riding his bike. He continued balancing the nalgeen on his head untill he was out of my view.I was impressed, but hippies are still funny.

New Job

2007-09-10T08:55:00.000-07:00

I guess I owe a "New Job" post.Well I am starting my second week (first week was only 3 days though). So far I'm still trying to learn the process that goes on here. I'm getting most of the outer non-tech process down, but still need to learn a lot about what is actually going on behind the scenes.This week I should end up spending a lot of time with their Network consultant guy, so I can get up

The Cracks

2007-09-04T07:41:00.000-07:00

Pictures:The Cracks 2007I went out to The Cracks with Rob and Higher Ground 4X4 over Laborday weekend. It is an off-roading area just outside of Heber, Az. In our Higher Ground group we had 7 people and 3 Jeeps (and 1 X-terra but that was just for getting there), but there were alos some other groups there so all in all there were quite a few people and a bunch of Jeeps.Camping was fun even

Hurray for Camping

2007-08-21T12:25:00.000-07:00

Colorado Springs 2007A nice long weekend trip to Colorado Springs! Make sure to see our pictures above.We woke up early Thursday and hit the road for 12-13 hours. We ended up staying in the Crags campground where the base of the trail to Pikes Peak is. Thursday was pretty much taken with travel so there wasn't any time to play, and of course it rained that night (actually it rained every night).

No Green Golfing

2007-08-03T08:13:00.000-07:00

Instead of our normal C-Group this week we went Goofy Golfing. Our group of five played no green golf, of course. It was super fun, but very humid out.While waiting for everyone to show up, Mike and I played a little DDR and then Paula and I played the boxing game There's a great story to this picture. Once you get the ball into the volcano it's supposed to go in. Well it got stuck on the lip and

The Dogs

2007-08-02T07:18:00.000-07:00

I think you know we are doggy sitting Lady, while my parents are on vacation. It's so much fun, the dogs are getting along really well. After the first couple days Lady doesn't even mind that the other two are super playful.Look Floppy is giving Lady a kiss!Paula and I were playing settlers of Catan, and as usual the dogs were all laying around us. Floppy got up and got their tug of war rope, but

Bridge Cam

2007-07-24T08:38:00.000-07:00

My parents ship's bridge cam: Your browser does not support inline frames or is currently configured not to display inline frames.

Ton O Rock

2007-07-20T13:06:00.000-07:00

Actually 13 tons of rock. That's a lot!!!We had it dupmed on Sat and started working on it on Sunday. Suday we had Gwen and Holly to help us but the rest of the week, it was just me. 13 tons of rock 1 wheel barrel full at a time. And it only took me 5 days!!!

Stray too far

2007-07-19T15:59:00.000-07:00

So I was working on my rock pile this morning like I have been all week, and this little guy comes running down the street!He's soooo cute. I kept working and he kept playing around the house. he wandered up and down the street a couple of times. I though maybe he had moved on or went back home, but nope he kept coming back to our house. So I gave him water and he liked the shade of the

The Party

2007-07-11T16:05:00.000-07:00

I should have posted this earlier but uh, I didn't.Anyway last Friday we had Paula and my birthday party over at Mikes house.We invited a ton of people, and about 30 of them came. Phew there was a lot of people in that house, luckily it's a great big house so we had plenty of room.I BBQ up some great tasting Chicken and Burgers.Mike owns Dance Dance Revolution, and Brian brought over Guitar hero.

I'm a Simpson Character

2007-07-06T08:42:00.000-07:00

Ever wonder what you'd look like as a simpson character?Go make yourself an avatar Randy Paulahttp://www.simpsonsmovie.com/main.html

Birthday funness

2007-06-28T11:24:00.001-07:00

So yesterday was my birthday celebration with Paula, it was definitely a full day. At midnight I was awoken to open one of my gifts and then at 6:00 (when we normal get up) I got to open another. I got a ton of gifts from her, apparently I'm easy to shop for... I received Star Wars Episodes IV, V, and VI. Each DVD had the new remastered versions and the old original theatrical versions, very cool

:-)

2007-06-27T07:33:00.000-07:00

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY(Details to follow)

Birthdays!

2007-06-19T07:35:00.000-07:00

Hurray, Sunday after Paula and I got back from Mexico we met up with my fam at California Pizza kitchen (which has a great Carne Asada pizza btw).We were celebrating June and July Birthday's aswell as Fathers day.It was great their were presents flying everywhere, I got the propane burner pictured on the left. Wahoo!!!! Time to brew some beer in my garage! Between us we also got gift cards, a

Mexico Update 2007

2007-06-19T07:14:00.000-07:00

We’re back in Arizona and had a wonderful time down in Puerto Peñasco (Rocky Point).We left Tempe Monday morning the 11th, and started our drive down to Mexico. Crossing the border was uneventful, hurray, and we arrived in Peñasco around 1:00. Our plan for the week was to work on building the youth center Tues.-Fri. during the day, and have nightly VBS Tues.-Thurs. So Monday after we got there,

It's ALIVE!!!!!

2007-06-04T11:02:00.000-07:00

Muahhahahahaha the garage door is fixed!!!!!It took some muscle and would have been easier if Paula was here to help, but I did it!It's fixed and running smoothly!! :-D

Snap Crash!!!!!

2007-05-29T07:49:00.000-07:00

We pull the car into the garage and lower the garage door.....BANG-CRASH!!!!!Paula: what was that?Randy: Our garage door broke!Paula: Are you serious???Randy: Yup...... :-/Yessiree our garage door broke last night. Luckily it's nothing to do with the motor but the metal cable that helps the door up and down snapped.As I cross my fingers it should be an easy fix. Granted I have to find the right

Memorial Day Camping/weekend

2007-05-29T07:32:00.000-07:00

Hurray for long weekends!!Paula took Friday off of work and we made a 4 day weekend out of a 3 day weekend. Originally we were going to go to the Flagstaff Lavatube with some of our friends but no one could come with, so we decided to take our dogs and just go camping instead.We drove up Friday around 12:00, we had a small idea about where we were going to camp, but weren't sure were we would

Pirates of the Great Salt Lake

2007-05-15T18:30:00.000-07:00

This looks hilariousPirates of the Great Salt Lake TrailerAdd to My Profile | More Videoshttp://www.piratesofthegreatsaltlake.com/

dos menos dos equlas cero

2007-05-07T07:26:00.000-07:00

Happy Cinco de Mayo!So as per tradition we spent our cinco de mayo with my parents and aunt and uncle. But instead of El Charro this year we tried to goto somewhere in the phoenix area. After some talking we picked the new Dos Gringos in Mesa. Even though after a couple of phone calls no one was able to tell us what specials or events they would have we met there at 3:30. It's a pretty nice place

Another 5K

2007-04-28T10:57:00.000-07:00

It's done we ran it this morning. Paula and I came in at 34:48 so we beat our last time by 2 mins WAHOO!!! Stephanie got 38 mins, Gwen came in somewhere around 40 min and Kristi ran it in 41 mins very good although Kristi was a little disappointed that hers was slower than last time. I'll post the "official" times when they are posted on the website but their not as accurate anyway ;-)Comeing

Preparation

2007-04-23T10:11:00.000-07:00

In Preparation for our 5k next weekend, of which we really haven't been training for enough, Paula and I decided to try and run 3 miles yesterday to see how we would do. Sort of a mock next weekend. We didn't take the dogs because they(mostly sasha) make running a little harder. So I got on google earth and mapped out 3 miles down to the park around the park and back home.Our goal for the 5k is

Easter 2007

2007-04-11T11:41:00.000-07:00

Easter this year we went down to Tucson to celebrate at my parents.It was a lot of fun. Below is a slideshow of pictures and then a link to my picasa album incase you wanted to grab any of the pictures. They are mostly of the egg hunt.Here's the album:Easter 07

The Red Rock Rendezvous

2007-03-26T16:24:00.000-07:00

This weekend was a Barrel of Fun! Early Friday we jumped in our car and headed to the Red Rocks, just west of Vegas, Nevada.There were ton's of vendors, tons of professional athletes, and tons of climbers.The clinics being held were taught by the pro's as well as a few guides. Paula and I decided that we weren't going to do any clinics but instead just watch some climbing and participate in the

The Killingsworth's

2007-03-17T09:08:00.000-07:00

March 16th they tied the knot. We were able to go early to help out and hang out, especially with Gabe who was in town just for the occasion.I guess Gabe and I get silly sometimes.I love how these pictures turned out, who knew I had such skill.....And Here comes the Bride!!!Cake will they smash or not smash that is the question at every wedding.Sarah gets vicious.And then get's even.More pictures

:-)

2007-03-07T09:41:00.001-07:00

This makes me laugh. It's from the movie Click. The singer is Terry Crews a football player/actor

Addition to the Family

2007-03-03T16:41:00.000-07:00

We got another Dog!! :-)She is a Australian Cattle Dog Mix, we decided to call her Sasha!

Beer Beer Beer

2007-03-03T16:28:00.000-07:00

So on March 1st it was time, time to test my first bottle of my very own homebrew. I've called it "Liquid Courage Ale" :-)There's so much going through my head, I tasted it before bottle and it didn't seem too bad, but I know there are a couple of things that I did wrong, and a few that I can do better. I poor mine and wonder....So will taste like this..............................or like this.

Habitat 4 Humanity

2007-02-26T16:22:00.000-07:00

Pictures from Habitat Last weekend.It was really fun, a few people flaked on us but Kelly, Holly, Tara, Justin, Paula, and myself had a great time working on the house. We did some clean-up making sure all of the exterior ply-wood had nails where nails needed to be. Placed a couple interior walls, added some top plates all getting the house ready for Trusses. We did actually get to put the

I would walk 1000 miles

2007-02-21T21:57:00.000-07:00

When I wake up, yeah I know Im gonna be, I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next to you When I go out yeah I know Im gonna beI'm gonna be the man who goes along with youAnd If I get drunk, yes I know I'm gonna beI'm gonna be the man who gets drunk next to youAnd if I haver whatever that meansI'm gonna be the man who's havering to youBut I would walk 500 milesAnd I would walk 500 moreTo be the man

Weekend with the Rents

2007-02-20T14:42:00.000-07:00

Last weekend Paula and I went down to Tucson to visit the rents.We had a fun time, Paula got a professional massage from my parents favorite masseuse. We also went to Sprouts and Trader Joe's to pick up some graceries and vitamin's, Paula and I of course went off to the liquor section and purchased some lovely Oatmeal Stout, an Irish Red, and later and FRY's were able to find Mississippi Mud.