Just as I suspected

Well, just as I suspected, this stupid head cold kept me from some of the Bachelor party activities this weekend. We all went shooting out at Blackhawk. There were 8 of us, which was a lot of fun. Then we came back to our house to fry fish. We had crappie from our spring fishing trip. They were GREAT. So after the fish fry we all went home to take showers and meet back up at 7:00. Well between the sun, the fried food, the beer and this head cold, I was done for. I called the guys as 8:00 and threw in the towel. I felt like crap. I think my head hit the pillow at 8:10 and I was out. Slept right through to this morning. Sounds like the guys had a lot of fun. Now I MUST kick this cold before next weekend. I don't want to feel crapy at the wedding (that's crapy not crappie).

Today the wife and I are just hanging out at the house. Watched a little bit of the ass kicking the Cardinals were receiving from the Mets. Our wonderful darling daughter is being a little bit of a pain in the butt, however, she is stuck inside with us today and I think we are all getting a little stir crazy. Thus why I'm writing this. Here's to Baby Einstein! See ya.

The Summer Cold

DAMNIT!!! I am getting a summer cold. Started yesterday with that little sore spot in the throat. You know, right were the sinus drains into the throat. I thought to myself Maybe I just scratched my throat or something. But no... that's not the case. Drained all night and now it's continuous. I just don't want the rest of the family getting sick, and I don't want to be sick for the festivities this weekend and next. Here's a Denison Law for ya. If there is a big event that you really want to go well, something will happen to spoil it. Yeah, the story of my life. Like our honeymoon. Linda was sick the first half, and I got a head cold on the second half. This kind of stuff always happens. Oh well, as long as it's gone before we hit the river again. I've already missed enough of the river for this year.

A Hole in the Water...

Into which, you poor money... I worked on the boat on Saturday. Just a few things that needed to be fixed. The built in depth finder wasn't working and the horns (as usual) weren't working. Of course one thing leads to another which leads to another. When I went to start work on the boat, I found that the No. 1 battery was shot. It lasted a couple years, but would not hold a charge. So up to Walmart to get a new battery. Next I took the dash apart to get to the horn switch and the back of the depth finder. The depth finder was easy (or so I thought), the in-line fuse holder had broke, thus cutting the power to the unit. Easy enough, buy a new fuse holder and be done with it. But, being wiser in my older age, I moved on to the horns before going shopping. My thought with the horns was that they weren't getting enough power to make them work. They were replaced last year, so I figured the horns were good. When I tested the switch I found they were getting plenty of juice, so I pulled my little 12V battery out of my fish finder and ran a straight wire to the horns... Nothing. I was pissed. I have to replace these horns every year, and every year they quit. So up to the store I go, I need a horn and a fuse holder. As I am looking at the horns, the replacements for the trumpets are $120. So I ask the guy at the store, Do these things fail frequently? I have to replace them every year. He looked at me kind of funny and said, Every year? Maybe every few years, but not that often. When I told him that I had finally put them on a quick disconnect he laughed. Needless to say, there is now a plastic $20 horn under the dash like every other boat on the water. So the horn is fixed and the in-line fuse is replaced. Out on the water we go. Only to have the depth finder come on and off continuously during our trip. There must be a loose wire at the connection points. So, there is one more thing that needs to be fixed. There is always something that needs to be fixed, especially when the boat is 18 years old. The good news is (knock on wood) the boat is running, almost everything is working and the water is down far enough that we can enjoy it.

The Canada Post

I've gotten a lot of crap about my Canada post and that it's not very interesting and that no one cares that I was 30 feet off a bank, etc. Well, I did write this each night as a journal with no intentions on blogging it. But after it was done, I didn't really feel like doing something different on the blog, so I just posted my journal which was written so we could go back to the place we were and we could remember what we caught when.

Wednesday...

It's Wednesday and I'm off today to watch my little girl while mommy is at work. Our sitter is on vacation this week but our old sitter (June) has been filling in. It's hard to believe that Savannah remembered being there, but she did. Even remembered where the snack drawer was. I wanted to post some information about some new things that are on the blog. On our main blog on the right hand side, down at the bottom you'll see a map. This map shows where my phone is, thus where I am. Now, this isn't on ALL the time. I have to turn the service on for it to work, but when I think about it, I flip it on. The way this works is I have a PDA type phone (the Sprint Mogul) which is basically a small computer. I downloaded a program called TrackMe. This program, when running, talks to the phone's GPS and then uploads the information to a public server. This file is accessible to anyone that has the address (http://luisespinosa.com:80/trackme/routes/Camalama.kml). If you open Google Earth, you can set this up as a network link and it will give you LIVE data of where I am when the software is running. Anyway, I thought it was pretty cool stuff. My buddy, Jeff, has a brother that is on a 5,000 mile motorcycle ride with another guy and they are utilizing the same software to allow friends track their trip. They also include some texting information on their site so they can send a text message from their phone to their website to give updates of what's going on. Check out Kevin's trip. The map below is a larger version of the one on our main page.



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