My new ride

I will soon be the proud owner of a 1972 BMW R75/5 motorcycle. This motorcycle has been in my family since about 1974 when my dad bought it. My mom had it in her garage for the past 10 or so years, and will soon be in mine.

There will be much work needed to be done. I figure at least the carbs need to be rebuilt, and all the rubber tubes on the air shocks will need to be replaced and of course new tires.

Once I get it down to Austin, I will get some pictures of it posted and keep y'all up to date as the work progresses.

See ya in the funny papers

NEED MONEY!!!!

So Apple has done it again! My former employer has pushed out more Aluminum and Plastic covered crack.

13" MacBook Pro

That's right I said MacBook Pro and 13" in the same line, and no I didn't stutter.

The "New" 13" MacBook Pro; what makes this a MBP? Spec wise it isn't much different from the previous unibody 13" MacBook, slightly faster chip, same GPU and shared memory, same max RAM. What is different, and thus the "Pro" tag, the screen is now the higher grade OLED, the new industry standard mini-monitor connection, back lit keyboard, and FIREWIRE is back. And the price tag is not bad either; at $1199.00, it is only $200.00 more then the white MB. Add to that AppleCare is still the MacBook price of $250.00 instead of the pricier $350.00 for the 15" and 17" MBP.

All this makes the "little" MBP the laptop for me. I really miss my old 12" G4 PowerBook and this updated 13" model should fit the bill nicely.

iPhone 3G*S

It looks the same on the outside, but is completely different on the inside.

It has a brand new 3MP camera with auto-focus that can also video capture at 30 fps. Not only can you capture video but you can also edit the video right there on the fly with all the elegance and panache on would expect from Apple.

The iPhone also now has an actual magnetic compass that is used by the map app and gives you your orientation on the map. This feature will be available to other app developers as well. And speaking of maps the 3.0 OS will allow integration of the Google Maps in other to other apps as well.

The iPhone is also getting a longer battery life. It is now on par with other cell phones as far as talk/standby time, but is still has features that make it a class unto itself.

There are many, many new features and wizgogs with the new iPhone. I will just have to go play with one to see all the great reasons why I need more money.

To the old geezer.

Happy birthday to me. Another year older and another year bolder.

Now where are all my presents.

Thanks to Cruft, Jay and Donna for their appropriately timed gifts. All well thought out and will be put to good use.

What a month

First, I want to apologize for not keeping up with the blog like I had intended. A lot has happened in the month of May. It started with me running around Texas like a chicken with its head cut off.

First, I get picked for jury duty. This causes a great deal of shuffling of my work schedule.

Second, we moved into a new house out of our apartment.

Third, my promotion finally came through.

Finally, my mom passed away on the 13th, ironic since she always said the number 13 never gave her any problems.

The jury duty has been postponed because my mom died and we are now completely out of the apartment. So now we are just faced with getting the house in order.

I will be posting a tribute to my mother later next week, as i get back into my regular schedule. Also my birthday is coming up so I will tell y'all about my presents.

Until then, see you in the funny papers.

TANKS, again.

Well with the completion of my first rifle platoon I finally get to work on my M4A1 Shermans. I have put a bunch of work on them already. I have drilled holes for the rare earth magnets in both the turrets and the hulls as well as ground down the area between the treads on 3 of them (these are the one piece resin models from "Open Fire") so the won't look like Patton's mock army in the south of England before D-Day.

I will post pics of them once I am done with them.

First Platoon finally complete

And here are the pics to prove it. I know they aren't the best, but they pass the three foot test and they aren't supposed to be individual masterpieces.

Here is the whole platoon, including CiC and bazooka team.

Another shot of the platoon.

Here is the company command section with the Cic, 2iC and two bazooka teams.

Here is my company CiC stand.

And here is one of the bazooka teams.

I plan on adding some sparse grass and small shrubs. They are supposed to represent 36th ID in Italy.

So, what do y'all think.

I know, I know,

I'm late. It has been a crazy week. I will be posting about the Fiesta trip and the awesome American Heroes celebration last Sunday, in the near future.

For now though, you get this.

I want to have the crew visit the Aberdeen Proving Ground Armor Museum.

This place looks so cool.