The Search is On

I am hunting for pistons! I'm looking for the best price on JE custom pistons. They have a sportsman line known as SRP. The machinest told me to get part number 142995 by SRP. The best price I've found is about $517 for all 8. Nice that it's cheaper than the $700 JE pistons that I was looking at :)

502 update

Crank maged good, no cracks. Block needs to be bored .30 over. That's a bummer because the parts are expensive and I'll have to buy new pistons. $$$ + $$$ = $$$$$$

"OPEN"

Isaiah said his first word on Thanksgiving. "Open" was his word of choice. He has said it 3 times so far. Then yesterday he said "bye" and waved several times. I think he's planning on doing an open reading of the Declaration of Independence next Saturday if anyone is available.

Ummmm yeah

It's been a while. Latest news""""""502!!!!"""""" Chevy 502 cubic inch big block motor in my nova!!!! Hopefully some day anyway. I was building a 454 but my dad found the 502. A guy at my dads work was selling it for one hell of a deal! So I got it.
Me fisting my motor:

Dropping the block off at the machine shop:

New Toy

Radio Shack Pro 97 Scanner. Hopefully it'll help me learn the "Greek" that cops speak, and some 10- codes too. If not, it's fun to listen to what's going on around us. Plus I can listen to weather, traffic, and event coverage (like if I go to a Nascar event I can listen to their radio chatter).

I want one

Copperhead Cobra!!! Sweet! More on this car Click Here

Lame big block

Well, I tried again to take my big block down to the engine builder, and again he wasn't there. Some day I'll get this 454 built I hope. If I didn't work 55 hours a week I'd be able to swing it by there in the evening. Oh well.
Below is what it might look like some day:

This is just cool

Hot August Nights 2006

Pictures are up! Check them out here ~> Hot August Nights on Flickr
Sorry there are so many...255 I think....I got trigger happy I guess.

Hot August Nights Time!

Just got back from Hot August Nights where thousands of beautiful classics gather each year in Reno, NV to hang out and have a good time. Couple hundred pics on their way to Flickr.com soon. Here's a few favorites:

Bridge to Bridge speed runs

Here's a couple vids of the boats on speed runs.
Faster speed run (9Megabytes)
Another speed run (4MB)

Bridge to Bridge Sacramento boat races

Once a year Sacramento has a boat event on the river in front of Old Town. Some boats hit speeds close to 150 mph in the short stretch between bridges. There are also drag boat races and other cool events. Info here: http://www.discovergold.org/bridge2bridge/ Here are a few pics I got while standing in the water or on the bank:

Lake Don Pedro

Had a great time at Lake Don Pedro thanks to Phil and Kim. Wakeboarded for the first time and it was fun. Pictures on Flickr.

Cool Technology: Hover Creeper

Check out the Hover Creeper. Every mechanic is going to want this. Float around under your car, air tool attachments handy, and you can even be 300 lbs. and it'll still lift your big butt.

Flying Solo

Yup, just playing Home Alone this weekend. Regina and Isaiah have headed up to Tahoe to camp with some friends. I had planned to go, but was informed last minute that FedEx is having a management class on Saturday. So, to do the proper thing I stayed home to do something for our future. It would be great to get into management with FedEx for a period of time so that I could have that on my resume since FedEx has a lot of good things going for them and you learn a lot really fast as an Ops Manager for them. The perk this weekend is that I get to play paintball on Sunday :) Other than that, it was lonely coming home to an empty house with 2 nutty dogs. (where are they anyway?)

Old and Busted vs. New Hotness

Fathers Day Gift.....Thanks Regina!! Craftsman mower with a 6.0 hp Briggs & Stratton motor. Mows like a dream, nice and smooth.

HAPPY FATHERS DAY!

My first official father's day (kinda). Here's why: We found out that Regina was preggo last year on father's day. The cool thing was that we had the family together celebrating our fathers, but we surprised the mothers instead. Here's a video of how things went down. (Sorry about the bad vid quality, but I'm trying to keep the size small) 1.7 MB
BABY BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT

More baby pics for the Grandmas

I just added 70 new pictures of Isaiah to satisfy the grandmothers' hunger for........whatever it is I don't understand ;)

70 new pics

Long time, no post

Yeah, so. I've been busy and haven't had anything exciting to share, and Regina keeps hogging the camera to take pics of Isaiah. Actually there is something exciting to share, James and Lynsey had their baby Emma (Lynsey had her, James watched). HUGE Congrats!!!

Snowboard season ended in what seemed like record time :( I didn't get in as much boarding as I'd planned, but I did get to go to Northstar and I'm extremely impressed. Looking forward to going there next year.

Isaiah is at 18 lbs. now and wearing 12 month old clothes even though he's only 3 months old.

King of the Hill

Isaiah stole the throne! He some how snuck into grandpa's lazyboy ;)

Wassup!

Simply Put

HE IS RISEN!

I DECLARE BARBEQUE SEASON IS KICKED OFF

And it was goooooooood. Not too elaborate, just burgers, but they were good. Happy barbequing to all in the season ahead.

Bath time

Heavenly Trip 4

Not such a good success as the first 3 outings. We had an injury on this trip. Although it wasn't fatal, it did result in some urgent care by professionals. Here's what happened: Jerod and I had been cruising off some sweet jumps and having a blast for about an hour and a half (Here's a video of me jumping And Jerod Jumping). So, I went down next to a jump to take some pictures of Jerod coming over and getting air. On his descent he got a little off balance and the nose of his board caught the snow causing him to rollish forward and land on his shoulder with his 200+ pounds of meat. The result was a separated ACL (I think that's what it's called). There are 3 ligaments holding the bones together and 2 have been torn. The good thing is that one stayed; except it is the one that doctors have no idea why it's on our body as it serves no function! I told Jerod God put it there so our arms don't just fall of if we tear the other two ligaments. Anyways, here's the sequence of pics of the jump and the fall that resulted in his injury. OH, on the plus side he feared that surgery was going to be needed but the surgeon said that around 90% of these injuries heal on their own.

SNOWBOARDING TRIP 3

2 trips to go before I pay off the season pass. The weather was interesting. Ugly blizzard for 30 minutes then sunny for 30 minutes off and on all day. I found another terrain park though and it has great jumps. Also rode the Super Pipe and it's a bit too SUPER for me. Here's the pics. HEAVENLY TRIP 3

Daytona 500: The Fragrance!!!!>??

This is interesting. I REALLY want to know what it smells like!!!


Daytona 500: The Fragrance

Posted Feb 27th 2006 7:00PM by Erin Mays
Filed under: Motorsports, Trends

Marketing is an amazing thing these days... this is right up there with Tony Stewart's sweaty towel.

Elizabeth Arden announced last week in Daytona Beach that the company would make a new fragrance called 'Daytona 500.' The fragrance maker describes the scent as opening "with top notes of yuzu, bergamot and mandarin. Heart notes include tarragon, sage, maté and a watery accord, while the base comprises nutmeg, cardamom, amber and sandalwood." We're not exactly sure what all of that smells like, but if it isn't burning rubber and cheap beer, well...

The packaging is interesting in and of itself -- the top is shaped like a wheel wrapped in a thin rubber tire.

Autoblog

All is going well

Thanks everyone for the loving words and support. We're having a blast and learning a lot. We had a tuff night on Friday, but Saturday night and last night were great. Isaiah is spending awake time without crying which is nice...he just acts soooo cute now. We got a little 3 min vid of him on the bed. Sorry that the video is so dark, but as you can see he's still alive :) File size is approx. 5MB so it'll take forever if you use dial-up. We'll try and get a vid in better light.
Click here to view vid ~>Isaiah On The Bed

Load of ......

Pictures... Isaiah's birth pics
I finally got time to post the pics that we took at the birth and in the hospital. All is well. Regina is doing great and Isaiah is eating, pooping, peeing, screaming, and being cute. He is very strong and they thought he might have been over due because of his skin texture at birth. There was no white filmy stuff on his skin and he was able to hold his head up immediately. He's healthy and we're happy.

Unto us a child is born,

.. and unto us a son is given in the city of Davis...then we took him to Sacramento. More pics to come, but here are a couple. Isaiah Seth Nelson, 8lbs. 7oz., 20 in long. Born on 2/21/06 at 2:44 pm.

SNOWBOARDING TRIP 2

Finally, a month later I made it up to go snowboarding again. On our way in there wasn't much snow on the ground, but on the way out there was plenty. The day started out clear and a little bit sunny then changed to overcast then snowed from 1pm on. By mid-day I couldn't see the snow in front of me and I kept falling. Very frustrating and now I'm sore. It was very cold too....10 degrees at the peak 20ish at the base. Because of the cold my camera battery wouldn't work, and neither would my MP3 player. They both just kept telling me that my batteries were dead and then they would shut off. Once the got warmed up on the way home everything worked fine. You can see a few pics at Flickr.
Not much snow:

Very COLD:

Jerod gettin' some air:

New technology?

I guess we will soon be throwing away the little guy that sits next to our keyboard. That little mouse is about to go extinct. Looks like new technology will bring us to full touch screen interaction. Cool stuff supposedly licensed by Apple: Video of the TouchScreen Demo

He's gotta be comin' soon

I'm ready for this kid to be here. Here's the belly:

New Vehicle

As if we needed another one. Well, we do. We needed a family vehicle so we picked up a '96 Jeep Grand Cherokee. It has a 4.0 Liter straight six, power everything, 4x4, all the options. It's a sweet ride and we're gonna beat it up with a kid :) Here's some pics.