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Name: Chris
Country: United States
State: New York
Birthday: 12/17/1978
Interests: watching movies, reading, singing, playing drums, film special effects, pizza, root beer, Legos, engineering (yes, I really love it!)
Expertise: mechanical engineering, film special effects, movie quotes, changing diapers
Occupation: Engineering
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Member Since:
3/1/2005
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| Busy day today. Dad and Nate helped me move big stuff, for which I am very grateful. We picked up an oil tank and peripherals for installation in the basement. I just don't trust the current tank. This was a big step in getting us on our way. With the gutters installed, this is my one remaining big house project for the year.
And... we got a piano!!!
Our chiropractor didn't want his piano anymore, and he was giving it away. It actually fit in the middle of our van; Nate played "The Entertainer" from the back seat as we drove it home on Route 9. And it is now sitting in our living room.  The piano is in decent shape. Good action, good sound. It really just needs a tuning, but it's not even that bad. The bench needs new hinges, and the music stand is broke, but those are minor items. It's a little shorter than many uprights I've seen, which works out great, because the only logical spot for a piano in the living room is right underneath a bank of lightswitches that a typical upright would cover up. But this model sits below it, which is perfect! Good deal for free! I'm psyched!
Now to start gathering some sheet music. And I want to compose again.
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| Big News x 2!!!
We have gutters! Oh, I'm psyched! No more waterfalls off the roof. When you can't get the door unlocked quick, and you're standing in a sheet of water, that's not fun. But no more! Hah!
Disney buys Marvel?!?!?!? Gah! Nooooo!!!!!! Why can't Disney just leave little bitty comic behemoths alone?!? Why do they have to own everything! They can't restrain themselves! They can't NOT touch!
Ok, I'm done.
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| We took the kids to Splashdown Beach yesterday afternoon as part of IBM's employee event. They had a blast! Jeff dug the kiddie slides, Gwen liked the "classic" slides (the ones that have been there for the past 2 or 3 decades), and Sam was gaga over the wave pool. Joe and Rachel came along so we could do a buddy system with the kids. Nikki and I traded off on Libby, who spent most of the time in the sprinkler pool, which she (Libby) apparently wasn't that excited about. I did go down a couple kiddie slides with both Jeff and Libby, which worked out surprisingly well.
A high point (literally) for me was the Humunga Half Pipe. This is 4 stories of terror, folks. We finished dinner at about 6:15 and decided the kids really didn't need to get wet all over again. But, as much as fun as I'd had, I felt my day would be incomplete without riding the Half Pipe. So, we loaded the kids in the van with Nikki, since I had to take Joe and Rachel home in the station wagon anyway, and the three of us raced back to the Half Pipe to attempt a ride before the park closed at 7 (there's a line to get on, remember). We just made it. Rachel and I rode the 2-person tube. Laying back with our butts in the tube holes, it was at the moment when we were practically in an upright standing position that I shouted, "Oh, CRRRAAAaaaaaaa aaaaaap...!" You have to see it, better yet ride it, to believe it. Look at the first photo in the slideshow here.
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| We went out to the Newburgh McDonald's the other night for dinner because they have AC and an indoor playland. The kids always have a blast, while we watch and sip a drink. It was late in the evening, and the place was nearly empty. Sam struck up a conversation with an older boy, Danny, finding that they both knew stuff about Pokemon. Gwen and Jeff put their two cents in every so often. (Jeff ex: "I'll be Squirtle!")
Danny is almost 9. His birthday is Aug 24, but he's having his party Aug 22. Danny is a thinker. His speech to Sam (age 6, remember) went like this:
"We think this is a free country, but it's not a free country. If it was a free country, I could... join the army. I could... drive. I could steal stuff. But you can't do that, because we have laws. And that means it's not a free country. And that sucks."
Danny, you're on the map, but you haven't quite found the right road, yet. Keep thinking, though, buddy. | | |
| I took Sam to a post-op office visit with his surgeon yesterday. Sam's urological surgery earlier this year was the 8th in a sequence that began when he was 9 months old. The doctor checked him out and pronounced that everything is looking great, and he doesn't need to see Sam again for 3 years. | | |
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