doing a search

Occasionally, when I'm incredibly bored or looking for something to do instead of what I should be doing, I'll spend time looking up information people. Not anything serious or incriminating, but just random people searches.

Apparently you can do criminal searches on people (for free. http://www.criminalsearches.com/) and find out some of the stupid things they did in their youth. Of course, I'm guessing that's what would happen, as I couldn't find anyone who I knew who on the list.

I was able to find out how to get a time-lapse program for the webcam on my laptop. Actually, it's a combo of 3 programs, but bottom line is you can set it up to take short video clips in increments of every 1 second or up to days. So for my next trip to Priest Lake or my sister's house in San Diego, I'm going to try to do take some pictures with my laptop, and broadcast them online somehow.

I'm thinking that if I can somehow hook up my laptop in my car, and have it do a time-lapse on the way to Idaho, that'd be perfect. Maybe do a picture once every minute or something. I don't know. I'll have to figure out if my adapter works though. I tried to test it tonight, but it wouldn't work. I don't know if it was because the car has to be one or not. It's been so long since I last drove my car, I've forgotten what the set-up is for my cig-lighter.

Of course, I'm putting the cart well before the horse, because my car isn't drivable right now.

Btw, that's one of those weird words you look at and figure it can't be spelled right. Looks like you're saying "driv able". why isn't it "drive-able" as one word? Never got that.

I'll probably do a test-run to see if it's worth it.

That's it for my neck of the woods..

What am I doing here?

There are times in my life where I have wondered just what it is that I am doing somewhere. For a while, I was happy with what I was doing, and didn't have many issues with it.

I've also wondered why it is, when you are procrastinating, sometimes the television openly mocks you. Mocks you, you ask? Yah...

Imagine if you will, you are home and you find something interesting on TV. So you change the channel thinking "hey, this looks like a neat episode of How It's Made, I should watch it. Only to change the channel during a commercial break. So you then to to another TV show you know is on (let's say..Survivorman) and of course, it's on a commercial too.

I have a serious question, am I the only one who doesn't really care about Tiger Woods or what he's apologizing for?

It's not that I condone or support it, I just don't care.

I wish I could finish the book I've started writing, and sell it. Of course, I've started this book several times, and never finished (obviously...otherwise why would I be wanting to finish it?).

I should really try to hammer the thing out this summer.

Because my family is awesome, we have a cabin on a Lake in Northern Idaho. It's always been a dream of mine to someday live in the area of Idaho, and eventually have internet up there, and potentially a webcam for us to look at (just our family) and see how things are going.

And the other day, I found a webcam that actually was aimed across the lake from where our cabin is, (it's facing our cabin). It is a place that has taken the place of an older resort that had been there for decades. The website for theat resort, http://www.kaniksusands.com/. So when I found the website (I had known about the webcams for a while, but none were pointed across the lake towards where our cabin is), I was super excited.

But this morning when I checked it, it turned out the webcam which points directly at our cabin, has been moved (or shut down). That really sucks because I really enjoyed the thought of being able to look at the picture, and doing control + to make it bigger so we could actually see a blurry picture of our cabin and boat-house.

:(

So I emailed the site, asking if someone had asked for that picture to be taken down. Not sure why that would happen, but it's a possibility.

I just got an email back (how sweet is that?) and they said they were having issues with the server or something, and it should be back up soon. On top of that, there might be a zoom option!

Farkin sweet!

A trip

I really want to take a trip. No where in particular, just a trip. I was thinking of going to the Oregon coast today, but other things changed those plans. I had planned to take a trip last summer, but I don't remember why I didn't. This summer, I really hope to make a trip or two.

I plan on visiting my sister in San Diego, that much I know. Not sure when, or for how long, but it's planned. I'd like to go for over a week, just to get out of the area, and semi-relax and just enjoy the lack of having to do anything at all. Then I want to go up to Idaho (hopefully with my sisters family in tow, but I think that's unlikely). I hope to go even if they don't go, and be like last year where I was all alone for a week or more, and don't have anything to deal with outside of my own solitude.

The guy who sent me one of the parts for my car, is sending me a 2nd (and by accident, 3rd) part for my car. I really hope that it fixes what is wrong with my car.

I'm toying with the idea of making a canoe this summer. Let me re-state that, in a little more accurate manner. Back when I was younger, probably early to mid 20's, I wanted to make canoes. I got a book on how to make it, and I even went so far as to buy some wood for it. But I never did it. And this summer, I hope to start that up again, and make one. Probably just a little 13 or 15 foot canoe, nothing extravagant.

I really enjoy working in wood, and it might be the only time I really get a sense of accomplishment or a sense of pride in something I do. I don't know why I've never done more stuff with wood, creating things or fixing/restoring/recreating things. It's where I feel my closest to a "calling", a true calling. Some people are painters, some people are musicians, some people work in wood. I'm one of those people who feels more at peace with myself when I'm doing something out of wood. I've allowed myself to get away from it for far too long, and that's a shame.

So...

The superbowl ended yesterday, and for the first time in probably 15 years, I actually watched some of it.

I've spent the last 3 months trying to fix my car. It had an OD problem, or more accurately, it still has an OD problem. I'm hoping it's the only problem with it.

I received a "new" OD in the mail a few weeks ago, and finally after not having my car move, I put in the replacement OD. But, the problem I had before (a reverse issue), reared it's ugly head once again when I test-drove the car and was on my way to IPD (ipdusa.com) to get it fixed. So, back under the deck it went.

I had been receiving help from a guy in Kansas and also from a guy in Southern Oregon. After I emailed the guy from Kansas again (for probably the 100th time), I think he'll be sending me the part I need. So right now, I'm waiting for that other part to come in the mail, and then put back together the original OD and put it back in the car.

In essence, I hope to have 2 working ODs. Right now, I don't know if I even have one.

I really want to get my car working, as I've been without it for such a long time I forgot how much I enjoy driving it. Plus, I hope to go to Idaho (or maybe the coast) in March, and then again in the summer.