Nightmare

Oh my gosh I have a severe LOVE/HATE relationship with technology.  I have been trying to put the final touches on the sign I am making up for Brady and pretty much all that could go wrong did.  I had to fix it all and it was a real nightmare.  I think you can't tell the difference, but non the less here are the images that the CNC will see.  So yeah soon one 4x8 sheet of 16ga. steel will have a new birth...soon.

Peep

Over at Front Street Cycle they made these killer bars.  I think I can modify these banana bars and make them a little sicker.

http://frontstcycle.blogspot.com/2010/08/production-banana-bars-for-customer.html

Nerd Alert!

It's late and I'm tired/bored so why not make a post.

This is a concept of some new bars for my bike.  I don't know when I'll get to them, but I have it ready to go I suppose.  I also want to make a Coffin Tank for my bike, so I'll probably model that first cuz it's always good to have a plan before you start.  Also on my list is to make the holes in Brady's sign, which will happen much sooner than my tank or these bars. 

School has started and got into safety with the beginners this past week...I'm just gonna say I love to be descriptive when we start talking about First Aid.

I have a lot of previous pictures that I haven't loaded up yet, but this was from Go Skate Day 2010.  My bike was so close to being done but alas it was not.  So I followed in my tuck and had a blast, even lost a toe nail.  We went all to a bunch of parks here in Utah, this picture happens to be from the American Fork park. It was loads of fun I hope next year my bike will make it up parley's if we go that way.

Well I guess thats it I hope you liked it.

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So a teachers day is never over, after a crazy day of again running between two schools and this time with students, I will now sit down a develop a safety test for my advanced kids as a refresher and go over my safety curriculum for my beginning students.  Just think about that the next time you vote NO on a education bill to give us teachers in Utah (who are way underpaid) less money for our classrooms to better the education of your children.

Well I have more stuff I need to add on here.  Sunday I went a quick ride up AF canyon, and as it turns out we pretty much did the Alpine Loop, pretty sketchy in some parts but loads of fun.  We had the rain on our heels, the wind blowing us over (seriously I thought I was going down), oh any my tail light broke SOB!

Us at the Aspen Grove side

The Storms coming from the AF side

Dang Light!

Solo Ride

I was so stinking bored today so I went on a 30 or so mile bike ride.  I decided to ride down by Utah Lake.  It wasn't that smelly, it was mostly the cattle that stunk.  But I figured I would take some pictures with my phone.  It's a sweet phone but it can't take a picture for crap.

So I tried to get creative, but eh whatever.

Well not that more people read this but, riding alone stinks.  We need more ride events in the UC.  Ok well I'm going to watch the news.

Summer #2

So being back in Ohio we were able to do a small mini vacation with in a vacation.  We drove up to NY to see some crazies run all over a hill.  Here is my old boss from college!

Mormon 

On our way back we noticed that Niagara Falls was on the way, so we stopped.  We didn't have any money except for tolls, so we found 2 hour street parking for free.  The wife was worried we were gonna get towed but have no fear.  We parked about .5 mile away got in line for tickets, got in line for the elevator, got in line for the boat, got on the boat, got wet, and got off the boat, walked back to the car and on the road again, it all took less than 1.10 hours

Thats how its done!

So we rented a car when we were back in Ohio, and for 2 weeks we put about 1400 miles on that bad little Accent!  Got our monies worth.

Summer #1

So I did a lot this summer with my wife, so I need to do some catching up.  First off I have to say I love roller coasters!

So this is me and my wife in front of the awesome Millennium Force at the World Renowned Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio.  Yes the main town from Tommy Boy.

This place totally rocks and the coasters there are even better.  Check it out someday if you have the chance.






One of the sad things of what I do is that I am always looking at things that could be projects for my students.

So we also went to Amish country in Ohio, and I peep this at a flea market (totally not Amish), but it tried to capitalize on the tourist market.  This is a pretty simple candle holder but I think it would be a simple project for a n00b.


Well I have other pictures from Ohio, and my trip to Wyo Tech in Laramie, WY. So that will be some other post as well as some Moto Runs to post about.

School

So I don't have much to say, other than meetings are not the funnest thing.  So school starting up and the copies are being made and the material is being ordered.

Signage

So a good buddy of mine has a shop in SF, and doesn't have a sign.  The first time I went to look for his place, I couldn't find it at all.  So I talked to him and we came up with a sweet idea.

It should be about 4'x4' and black base with white letters all powder coated.  The letters are actually lifted off the base.  T is 2" W is 3" F is 4" M is 3" C is 2" and the ~ are at 1".  I think it will look sick, we should be able to get it cut out pretty soon.

white season

The snowboarding season is upon us...I need to find a cheap seasons pass.  I'd love to go back to PCMR, but they don't offer any sort of teacher discount.

Off the deep end.

Well I decided that I might want to blog about the stuff that I go and do and see.  Also of current and past projects.  I like to work with metal, wood and other media, so I have a few projects completed that I could share with all of you down the road.  Well I guess until my first real post I'm done.