My truck in our shop on one of those rainy days.

MOM'S NEW CAR

I know you are probably expecting me to write about my mom's new car, but I'm not. You can go see what she wrote about her new car on her blog. I am writing about my truck, however I am writing about my truck because my mom is writing about her SUV, and I realized I never made any mention of my truck, probably because I owned it before I started blogging. Anyhow, I bought my truck last August for $14999.00 which was $500 under blue book, and just a little over factory invoice. It was a good deal so I got funded through my bank and bought it. A few months later I refinanced my house and used some of the equity to flat out but the truck. So it is completely mine, and only a year old...who would have thunk it?

From left to righ (also birth order)t: Logic (Tail being the object furthest left in the picture), Junior, August, and Friday

KITTENS

The kittens have opened their eyes
and begun exploring the living room
Miako (the eldest cat of the house)
hates them and hisses at them, but
the kittens don't flinch about it
and waddle straight for her anyways
which makes her scatter off in the
other direction. It is pretty funny.

GALACTIC BATTLEGROUNDS

So I have been playing Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds as of late. It is based on the Age of Empires II game engine, and for most of the people who actually read this, that won't mean much to you. Anyhow, I have been playing way too much, but its my prerogotive, so thats that.

I am headed to Livermore to go to N's family reunion this weekend. There should be lots of food, it should be fun.

Just about ready to start school, having registration/admission problems as is the norm, but hopefully it will all be squared away by the first day of school (Monday)

thats all for now, enjoy your day.

Black Monarchs Castle, one of the best presents I ever recieved as a kid, Thanks mom :)

LEGO MANIAC

The other day N came to me to ask me to help her buy four lego sets for her boss' son A from ebay. A had given her $280 to fund this buying. This combined a couple of my favorite things, EBAYING and LEGOS, so I took no time in siezing the opportunity and in no time was bidding on one of each of the sets. Then I saw it, the motherlode, 29 Lego sets, all castle and pirate, in one huge lot. Initially the lot was at $120, but after some calculations, I decided that this lot was worth $340 on the conservative low end. This lot included 3 out of the four sets that A wanted and a whole lot more, I figured I could buy it, give him the ones he wanted, then sell the rest and buy the final set and then keep whatever profit was made. I was willing to put $50 on top of A's money so that we would have a grand total of $330 to work with. Then I waited. With a minute and thirty seconds I put in my bid of $333.33 hit the verify button and immediately was out bid...I reacted quickly and put in a desperation bid of $350.00, but to no avail. I was out bid again and the auction was over, sold for $355 and no cents. But i was glad that I had not won, my desperation bidding could have gotten me in over my head. I emailed the winning bidder, who used the same last minute tactics that I had but bid higher, and asked him what his highest bid was. He emailed me back, suprisingly, and told me that he didn't really want to pay more than $350, but that he had bid $375 just to make sure. I don't feel so bad about losing it :)

Anyhow, I did find and win one of the large castles on German Ebay, and am currently trying to land the other three.

All this Legoing got me to unpack my own collection. I found a site that has a list of all the lego sets there are and also inventories each brick from each set. Counting only my complete sets, the site tells me, my collection is worth $180, but I have not entered all of my complete sets yet. The site also provides instructions for sets. I cycled through several of them finding various sets that I know that I have or finding sets that I didn't know I had. One of the spaceships I have is near complete, but is missing a wing and sveral 1x1x3 blue pieces. I built it excluding the missing parts...it is near complete, but looks like it flew through a meteor shower, or was in a severe firefight.

I also bought a couple lots of various bricks on ebay...AND I am going yardsailing this weekend to go see what I can find :) I want to start selling stuff on Ebay too. N laughs at me but understands, thanks honey, I love you.

BUT NOW I'M BACK

And I can really shake em down. Anyways, so I have been unable to access the internet for a week or so because my office changed from AOL DSL to SBC since AOL dropped their DSL service. It was inconvenient, but what can you do?

I am glad that I don't watch TV, I am hearing there are all kinds of new and crappy reality shows that I am glad I won't be subjected to. I have been watching a steady stream of Movies though, and some of them, namely THE LIFE AQUATIC & DOLEMITE, which both made me wish for the 2 hours of my life back.

The highlight has been the GUNDAM WING series that I have been watching, 5 episodes at a time. Last night I got to the point that I had seen on cartoon network when it was aired there, so from here out I haven't seen anything. I was glad to see that Quatre(who is my favorite character)was able to beat Hiro (who was supposed to be the best gundam pilot) in a 1 on 1 fight, but luckily Quatre came to his senses before he killed Hiro, thinks he killed Troa though (but troa is still alive floating about in space) anyhow thats all for now

The five Gundams