crap! i’m not ready for a new phone!

i am holding out for the touch pro. look at these reviews:

htc touch pro hardware hands-on
htc touch pro software and gui hands-on

now that is something to look forward to. look at the speed, the memory, the size, the keyboard, the flush screen, oh man!

let me know if you think there is something better and it doesn’t begin with the letter ” i “.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tzACnMd-F60

http://youtube.com/watch?v=L5WuICBqrVo

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aiLoimfMk-E

2 funny stories so far. first, tommy-o got a ticket on father’s day for going through a yellow in canada. yup, that’s against the law, and he knew it, too. tough break. second , this other dude’s story is that he doesn’t know what he got ticketed for. he blacked out after causing some sort of accident where 2 other cars crashed into him. good thing for him, he was the only one that got hurt, blacked out and spent a day or 2 in the hospital, his car was totaled, so he got cash to put towards a down payment! win-win! just had to take the class. crazy!

i gotta say that i got some surprisingly good news. it surprised even me, and that’s hard to do! so i’ll just spit it out. 230.5 lbs! after all those somores (minus the shmarshmellow and cracker, of course) and camp food and not really behaving once i got back to civilization, and skipping the morning exercize for 2 days, i thought that i would be looking at some serious flub. but nope and i’m glad. let’s hope that i can break into the 220s by his time next week!

after that storm passed, my headache, that i had for hours, got worse. and i couldn’t find my motrin! oh! it hurt so bad, i was getting sick to my stomache and i couldn’t fall back to sleep either. then my son falls off the cot. i jumped outta bad, startled by the noise but i don’t initially see him. oh crap! he fell right off the platform, outta the tent. the best part? still sleeping! i put him back on his cot, half in his bag, and he just keeps a-snoozin’ on. too funny!

but i wasn’t in the mood for funny. of course, now i really could’t sleep, with my head pounding and all worried that he would fall out again. ugh! who invented camping and/or scouting!! hate you!

i finally got some sleep, about an hour, 5:30 to 6:30, and i was looking and feeling ragged. once the natural light came, i was able to find the motrin, and popped a couple. it still took almost 3 hrs after that to feel somewhat better again. my neck was real sore and my back was still killing! and then the rain came! uuugh! nasty cold and heavy!

and with all that rain coming down, what did the boy want to do? fish. so we fished… and the rain subsided to a light drizzle. but when it was his brother’s turn to fish off the pontoon boat, we got to go along! in the middle of listening to the boat rules, the skies opened up again so we waited for the rain to slow down, and eventually it did enough to go out and have a go at some boat fishing.

but just as we got to our fishing spot and put ojut the lines, the thunder began to pound, so we had to head back to land. uuugh! and dodge ball it was until lunch! let me tell ya, those dodge ball kids are vicious! it’s just a game kids! geez!

during lunch the rain finally passed over us and the sky cleared up and my headache was completely gone and the day started looking up and the afternoon consisted of more fishing and another fishing boat expedition. this time, we had fun! lots of it! wahoo! and the boy even caught something!

after breakfast, we were supposed to start our activities, but my wolf cub refused… so we went fishing… until lunch.

after lunch, guess what we did? fishing! but for only a little bit, because it was only 92f degrees out and for some reason, the fish were not biting. so we went swimming! well, not really. we went to the beach and played in the sand. since i had to stay with my buddy, i couldn’t just go swim by myself. so i baked some more.

finally, we finished off the day with some boating and some more sand play. the boats were fun. paddle, paddle, paddle. i’m so glad i walk 4 mi/day or that paddle boat woulda kicked my butt!! here’s some interesting shots of playing in the sand. one boy, a bucket, and a shovel, and big dreams of a big hole in the ground. my son and i set out to dig a deep hole. why? who knows! er, i mean, cause that’s what ya do in the sand! and he was minding his business too. then one other boy wanted to help, then another, then a pair, then some of his friends. before we new it ther was a pile of kids working on this hole and a river from the hole back to the lake, and a dam, and filling the hole with water. it was pretty neat to watch the whole thing unfold. enjoy the shots.

here is my synopsis of day 1 of 4 at camp. we were early birds. that means that we left home at 6:45 am to be the first ones to camp. that way, we got great parking spots and went through the tour of all the activity stations first to get it all out of the way. then we decorated our camp site with our khights of the round table themed stuff. one of our moms is really creative and designed this huge castle front that we had to figure out how to string up between the trees in our entry way. it turned pretty impressive.

we then did afternoon activities. boating, outdoor skills, and swimming. of course my younger boy was not interested in following the schedule. he tried the boating and loved it, until the heavens opened up on us. boy did it pour!

beyond that, all he wanted to do was fish. so we did. for 2 hours… fish, fish, fish. we caught pearch and blue gill. this other kid caught the beast under the dock!! a large mouth bass that is about 15″ long. that kept us planted on the dock for the rest of the day.

after dinner, we watched the staff do a boat load of skits, that were pretty funny, and sing camp songs. we then ended the day with our own site camp fire and lots of shmarshmellows and chocolate!!

hopefully, we don’t get any more rain. the puddles are massive and deep!

the topic of this show was a hard one to decide, because i had several ideas that were all sensitive to the time of year, but i settled on “speeding ticket” for reasons that are discussed in the show. feel free to go to del.icio.us and type in speeding ticket and follow along with the links.
here are the show links:

10. link is a bust
… so let’s go up in the list to find something interesting to take it’s place…
18. phantomplate: license plate spray and covers to defeat red light and speed cameras
16. how to get out of a speeding ticket | slackermoney
12. fyst - fight your speeding tickets page
9. duplicate of #1
8. link is a bust
7. link is a bust
6. speeding tickets, beat your traffic ticket
5. link is a bust, so a new link is inserted in it’s place as a warning - beat speeding ticket defense
4. bear trap guide for all interstate highways in the united states–avoid speeding tickets
3. beating a speeding ticket
2. duplicate of #1
1. cars: how to beat a speeding ticket (or at least better your chances)

i also talked about a couple interesting sites at the beginning of the podcast that you should visit.

1. hype machine - an intersting way to discover new music and get other people’s thoughts and comments about it.
2. dr horrible’s sing-along blog - a josh whedon writers strike 3 episode project for the internet. In his words, “it’s the story of a low-rent super-villain, the hero who keeps beating him up, and the cute girl from the laundromat he’s too shy to talk to.” the episodes go up july 15, 17, and 19, and stay up only until the 20th.

left: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlxk6U9mo60
right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9oWz-1mELY

on to the scale!! i finally have some good scale news, but i will disclose that i hopped on after the workout. so it read 233.5 lbs. down very nicely from last weeks evil 238 reading. so, i guess this is finally a skinny update again. now i gotta make it 2 in a row! possible? tune in next week to find out.

update, 4:25pm est: never mind. I have chosen to use speeding ticket as my theme because my wife just got one, on her way out of town. this was her first ticket ever for anything. it was bound to happen sometime.

actually, i freaked on sat morning when the scale read 241.5 before the 4 mi workout. luckily, the workout brought me back into the realm of possibility. i want to thank all of the commeters on the last skinny update for telling me that the workout diff is just water weight. i still have a hard time with it, because i sweat, but i can’t believe that much! but my commeters are a smart bunch and i trust them…

i want to leave you with these parting words, i’m back off sugar!! i have been getting up at 5:30am and intensely working out 6 days/wk, and have nothing to show for it. i am practically the same weight as when i started. so i have to go drastic. tune in next wk for the shocking continuation of my saga: will it be skinny update or flubby blow-out.

and thank you all for the encouraging comments (aka. getting laughed at on friday during thai lunch by my friends, you’re the best). i will keep this going just for you, danni!

update (6/22): after all of those complaints from my faithful listeners, a new audio file has been pushed upto correct a few of the problems that people found in the original. enjoy the new version.

well, besides the scientific inquery, i’m comforted to be back to heading in the right direction. i truly thought i was going to have to take drastic measures today, but maybe they are only diverted for another week or so. who knows. we’ll see.