New Seat Upholstery

After 6 years of sitting in a hole, I finally got the front seat of my Nova re-done. It cost a big penny, but is sooooo worth it because I found a guy that had the original material. Here are some before and after pics:
BeforeAfterBeforeAfter

WHEW, Party Week!

Today was a nice break from this last week of partying and it continues tomorrow night with the San Jose Grand Prix and Hot August Nights next week. We celebrated Regina and her mom's Bday's. What a blast!
Teena's Bday: This was the Sober, Sophisticated adults discussing business and eating Sushi at Nishiki party. (Yeah right, there were drunks everywhere and party poppers exploding randomly).
Regina's Bday: The crazy youngsters letting loose at the poolside during another nice-near-100degree-day. We put on a nice show for her with glowsticks, stunt men, and a syncronized swimming performance as seen below. (Did you know that you can shoot a glowstick out of a fun noodle using compressed air and it will go around 500+ feet high? Jon and I get the credit for discovering that one!)

Dirty computer screen?

Don't worry, I've got the solution! I've got what you need! It's a handy dandy automatic screen cleaner!!! Just click here and the work will begin.

Hollywood Marriage!!!

Usually I don't give a crap, but it's JESSE JAMES!!!! He married Sandra Bullock :) Nice! All the news sources are posting HER name and pics all over the place saying that she got married as if everyone cares about her and no one knows Jesse. HAHA Oh well, still a score for the gearhead!!! And better than the adult super star he was married to before :P Jesse James rules!

Very Cool!

Worthy of any inconvenience to the Sacramento community, hundreds of plice officers, sheriffs, CHP, and fire crews participated in a massive motorcade today to honor two Sheriff Deputies who died in a helicopter crash last week. I saw squad cars from Medford, OR and Sparks, NV and any city that you can think of in California. It truly is an honor and a tribute that shows what a brotherhood these workers have. Thank you officers.
Here is a pic of a small part of the motorcade:

Here are the firemen that were on the bridge with us. They put up their ladder with an American flag at the top:

Find info on your city

This is a cool site that can give you information on your city. Although the info is somewhat dated (2000 mostly) it is still interesting to compare it to other cities. Salinas has a very interesting division of races with 64% hispanic and only 24% white HAHA That was fun growing up in :P. Then San Jose is sad because the median income is around $70,000 while the average house is around $394,000!!!! OUCH! Sorry Sheri :(

Check it out your city here ~> City-Data.com

Here's some of what it had to say about Sac:

Population (year 2000): 407,018, Est. population in July 2002: 435,245 (+6.9% change)
Males: 197,784 (48.6%), Females: 209,234 (51.4%)

Elevation: 20 feet

County: Sacramento

Land area: 97.2 square miles

Zip codes: 95814, 95815, 95816, 95817, 95818, 95819, 95820, 95821, 95822, 95823, 95824, 95825, 95826, 95827, 95828, 95829, 95830, 95831, 95832, 95833, 95834, 95835, 95836, 95837, 95838, 95841, 95842, 95864.

Median resident age: 32.8 years
Median household income: $37,049 (year 2000)
Median house value: $128,800 (year 2000)

New: Sacramento, CA residents, houses, and apartments details

Races in Sacramento:

• White Non-Hispanic (40.5%)
• Hispanic (21.6%)
• Black (15.5%)
• Other race (11.0%)
• Two or more races (6.4%)
• Other Asian (5.2%)
• Chinese (4.8%)
• American Indian (2.8%)
• Filipino (2.1%)
• Japanese (1.6%)
• Vietnamese (1.5%)
• Asian Indian (1.2%)
• Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander (0.9%)

(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races)

Ancestries: German (8.4%), Irish (6.8%), English (6.3%), Italian (3.8%), United States (3.1%), French (2.1%).

For population 25 years and over in Sacramento

• High school or higher: 77.3%
• Bachelor's degree or higher: 23.9%
• Graduate or professional degree: 8.4%
• Unemployed: 7.9%
• Mean travel time to work: 23.4 minutes

For population 15 years and over in Sacramento city

• Never married: 33.4%
• Now married: 44.5%
• Separated: 3.1%
• Widowed: 6.8%
• Divorced: 12.2%

20.3% Foreign born (9.9% Asia, 6.9% Latin America).

Pools are fun, especially when it's over 100 degrees!!!!!

We had a nice afternoon hanging out in some friends pool for about 5+ hours. HAHA

Cleo

Isn't our puppy cute :)

Anniversary fun

So we went up and spend Sunday in Folsom at the lake and around there.


Very funny sign on this bridge:

Just a little kitten playing with his ball

Pic taken by James at Marine World.

Very nice Mustang

Another new Mustang looking VERY Nice!

Happy Anniversary!

Just wanted to wish Regina a Happy Anniversary! We have been married for 6 years now! I can't believe that it's been that long. I've had a great time. Here are some classic pics from our wedding (scanned so the quality isn't the greatest):

BABY ON BOARD!!!!!

This is amazing! Regina is only 6ish weeks pregnant and we've got a hearbeat. The first Sonogram was today and here are the results: A Baby! (no recognizable gender yet since it's the size of a peanut)
The baby is the fuzzy blotch in the black circle ^

^ This shows the heartbeat (158 beats a minute) and the little fuzzy blotch above the larger fuzzy blotch is the yolk sac (nutrition giver). We could hear the heartbeat and see the heart fluttering. It was cool.

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!!

America Rules!!!!

Be Safe Everyone

HAPPY BDAY SUE!!!

We all had a happy time a Sue's Bday. Here are a few pics.
The group:
It all starts with a little drink:
Then it's all over from there:

And it ends with the waitress sitting in your lap:

Nishiki Sushi is the best!

New paintball gun

At the pump day tourny I picked up a new gun. The guy was nice enough to let me have it for $18. I was blown away and couldn't refuse :) It had leaky air problems so I fixed them. It's a 32-degrees PTXtreme. It's semi-auto, holds 10 rounds, and uses a CO2 cartridge. Fun gun because it's so compact.

Paintball: Pump Day Tournament

Here's where I was Sunday:
It was a 3 vs. 3 random draw tourny. There were 7 teams. We lost our first game against Team 1 then won the rest of our games. Team 1 went undefeated. We had to beat them twice in the finals to win because it was a double elimination tourny. More Pics
I'm the one running and shooting (because I'm that coordinated) :P

My team got second place:

ROFL Waffles on Ebay:

you gotta see this! This guy is over the top:
ROFL Waffles

(For those who aren't computer nerds:
ROFL = Rolling On the Flool Laughing
BRB = Be Right Back
WTF = What The F*&$
OMG = Oh My God
I know I missed some but those are the most common
What is ZOMG?)

DODGE CHARGER POLICE CAR

So, when the new Dodge Charger came out no one that I knew (including me) was very thrilled at the fact that it was going to be a 4-door. We were all very sad actually. However, If the following happens then it will be well worth it! The Charger is looking to become a police car. It will have the 5.7L Hemi and put out 340hp and will be quickest 4-door cop car since the '69 Polara (according to Hot Rod Magazine). I hope the CHP is getting them too. It should be showing up this fall so watch your rearview mirrors :)

Lazy

WOW, I've been lazy lately. My last post was over a week ago and I didn't check my e-mail over the weekend. We had a great weekend with the parents celebrating Father's Day and giving our family a nice surprise. We got to see Cleo's puppies and they are all grown up. Here are a couple pics:
The 3 (mom in my arms)

Bro and Sis

Mom and Daughter

Dogs

Pic of our Dogs. Still looking for the owner of the black one.

Triumph the Comic Insult Dog does it again!

This time at the Michael Jackson Case:

IFILM - Viral Videos: Triumph at the Jackson Trial

Thanks Ted for this one!

Raised from the dead?

Not really, just from a four year nap. I took the AMX out for the first time in four years (maybe more) and washed it today. Then put a car cover on it and put it back into the garage until funds provide a means to work on it. What a beautiful car! (I don't care if you don't agree)

Petals Around the Rose

How many Petals are around the rose?

The smarter you are the longer it is supposed to take.
Regina got it on the first roll. I spent 10 minutes and never got it :)

I think it's because the more schooling you have the more close minded you become.

Hot August Nights!!!

2 more months until the biggest car show in the Western United States!!!! And I got my hotel room today! The Fly White Guy crew will be in Reno from August 2nd to the 5th, let me know if you'd like to join us. We'll be staying at the Sands Regency Hotel, a couple blocks off of Virginia St. in downtown Reno. Lots of hot rods and muscle cars like this one:

And these ones:

WOW golf

It's Friday and I'm dead tired. I played 81 holes of golf this week and had a blast!

Sunday:
Rancho Cañada golf course in Carmel Valley (Monterey area)
Monday:
BBQ
Tuesday:
9 holes at Twin Creeks golf course in Salinas (Head back to Sacramento)
Wednesday:
18 holes at Cordova golf course (I shot 13 over)
18 holes at Bradshaw Ranch golf course
Thursday:
18 holes at Arcade Creek golf course at Haggin Oaks (I shot a 92 Jerod shot an 88!)

Our game got better the more we played. It was a perfect start to summer!