All and Nothing

99%.....

2011-03-18T14:51:00.000-07:00

complete and my 99th post......

well the backyard is finally complete enough to blog about it. there are still some fine tuning things, plus adding furniture and a grill (i mean better chairs and a bigger grill), but here is the completed yard......

finally......

2011-02-11T13:06:00.000-08:00

that finally isnt necessarily for long gap in blogging, but moreover for getting a backyard. we have gone a long 16 months with nothing but dirty dirt or muddy mud in the back. we are about half way through the installation of the backyard. this first blog is going to be the progression up to yesterday, and later will be the rest and completed backyard.

all of this started last monday, january 31, and has been progressing nicely.

here come the pictures.......

this here are the plans that we had made up for the backyard. we had to cut a lot of the details out of this to keep closer to budget, but this is still what the cement, patio, raised flower beds, etc are going to look like.....

this is the water feature we picked out to have put in the raised flower bed.....

the rest of these are self explanatory. drains, sprinklers, electrical.

this last picture is of a biplane that flew overhead.

well that is what pictures we have so far. as i am typing this the crew is putting out the forms for the cement. the cement should be poured on monday and the patio cover should be started soon after that. we probably have about another 10 to 14 days left until completion.

happy birthday......

2010-11-07T19:27:00.000-08:00

happy birthday annie!!!!!!!

taylor made this for you last night, but forgot she took the picture with the digital camera, not her phone so she couldnt send it to you yesterday.......

wrong place at the wrong time......

2010-06-25T23:24:00.000-07:00

so i was reading todays fresno bee today (june 25, 2010) and i ran across two completely separate articles that i am now going to piece together.

so i first ran across this horrible article.....

if you dont want to read it, i can sum it up pretty quickly. this lady who has had a history of miscarriages decides to fake a pregnancy for nine months. then, she goes and stabs a couple, trying to steal their newborn baby to claim as her own.

that seems like being in the wrong place at the wrong time for that couple.

wrong. it was the wrong place for the women who was doing the stabbing.

imagine if you will, if she had only been in california instead of indiana. she being the frugal woman i can only assume she could be, is just coming out of walmart taking advantage of those unbeatable prices and she runs into these two geniuses.

again if you dont want to read the article.
these two people were standing outside of walmart in salinas trying to sell their 6 month old baby for $25. freakin $25.

so back to the beginning. how would life be different if this indianapolis woman had only been faking the pregnancy in salinas and walked out of walmart at the most opportune to find a couple that she didnt have to stab to get a baby for the rollback price of $25. who would have been the wiser?

can two negatives equal a positive? everyone would have got what they wanted, even if they are two of the most reprehensible people.....

finally new york.....

2010-06-11T21:27:00.000-07:00

sorry that this has taken so long to get to. we are busy people. i just went through all 1400+ pictures taken on our trip and will now just post the select ones in the order taken. easiest way to walk you through our journey......

this is micah. she had been living with us since easter. she drove us to the airport and then drove out of our lives. (she actually moved out the day before we got back)

this here is a picture from the airplane of my work.....

and a close up......

so taylor and i found out that you have to pay for ABSOLUTELY everything except non-alcoholic beverages. so here were are enjoying our free drinks. im to stingy to pay for stupid peanuts....

since tsa took our yogurts we brought for the trip (really? sealed yogurt? totally not a liquid....) we were really hungry when we finally got to new york. first thing we did was have cory take us to get some delicious falafels......

annie was so happy to see us she was willing to do what ever we asked. taylor asked for a back massage, since her back was sore from the tight fit in the plane.....

cory walking us around the big apple.....

on the staten island ferry. going to staten island.......

it is a free way of getting close to the statue of liberty.....

enjoying the great weather......

eating bagels on staten island. everything bagel with cream cheese. the best......

on the ride back to manhattan. cory checking out the many bridges......

cool piece of art along the streets back in manhattan......

i got a delicious panini from zabars.....

we went to the museum of natural history during our first full day in new york. cory treated us to the museum by paying for us, showing us that suggested donation means just that. its a suggestion. our suggested donation amount was $48.00, we got in for $1.00. thats only $0.33 a person. great deals in new york.......

here is us in front of dumdum (if thats his real name).....

guess whos hand that is? there is a way to positively identify it......

bee loving the swimming fish on the big movie screen......

cool subway tiles......

we also went to the museum of modern art (we didnt really take any pictures) then afterward we had our first of many sushi meals. it was delicious......

walking around brooklyn one morning on our way to breakfast at toms.....

we took annie and bee out to breakfast at toms diner......

we then went to the brooklyn botanical garden. here are a select few of the 200+ pictures of the beautiful living museum......

annie actually left bee with taylor and i so she could run home real fast. i think bee had a great time.....

bee loved taylor. the are actually stopping to smell the roses......

the girls.....

after the garden, annie took bee home for a nap and we met up with cory at the brooklyn library. we then went to prospect park to play frisbee and taylor could start her new book she got at the library book sale. (taylor finished this book before we even got home....)

we went to an awesome pizza place. apparently the pizza place of choice on hbo's bored to death show. ive only seen the first two episodes and have yet to see the pizza place....

we took a nice walk through brooklyn to the brooklyn prominade. it has one of the best views of south manhattan.....

where all the annoying jehovah witness material is published.....

a brand new park sitting next to the brooklyn bridge. so new it was cory and annies first time there......

bee loved making this face as she pulled her sunglasses off of her face......

as it sometimes goes when you drink too much and blackout, so it goes when your camera battery dies right before an awesome party at the store design within reach. there was lots of free alcohol and snacks. but, alas no camera to take pictures of cory and i living it up with free drinks. annie and taylor met up with us when we urged them to stop by.

i had taylor bring the battery charger and was able to get a couple pictures at the end of the night. here we are at lombardis (sp?) pizza. great pizza.....

those free drinks were kicking in on cory......

of course we couldnt go to many days without sushi. this place became our place of choice because their 5 month grand opening had all sushi half off. very affordable and still great......

sunday was brooklyns street market. beats hanfords farmers market hands down. in this picture is the sea of people extending over a mile.....

more street market......

we took a trip up to rhode island. we were thinking of relocating over there within the next 10 years. not so much anymore, at least not to rhode island. this picture here is about the only pic of both of us actually in rhode island. after about 3 hours of driving around, we decided not to spend the night and headed back for new york.....

a huge burrito from a place we ate last time we were in brooklyn......

it really only rained good one day. here is taylor walking the streets of park slope....

we went into manhatten. here is bee enjoying the horses.....

walking around by the central park zoo.....

fao schwarz......

the BIG piano. you know from big......

we ate at a place called pop burger......

pop must mean small. and still expensive......

stopping for a picture in the manhattan streets.....

again. free drinks at a store party. this time it was diesel clothing......

we went to the times squre web cam. called a couple of people so that they could see us standing on the streets live......

the m&m store. we were professing our love for chocolate......

i know i already posted this pic, but now you can see where abouts in our trip we saw freakin batman.....

he must have been looking for this pizza place.....

so there is a little bit of a story behind these next two pictures. we were sitting in the middle of times square on some bleachers watching this huge american eagle light up billboard. we found out that with any purchase you can have your picture taken and displayed up on the huge screen for all to see. i came up with a great idea and cory and i went to work......

here we are taking our picture.....

you also were able to put a caption.

*******sorry mom and dad. i meant to give you guys a pre notice of this before you left for china, but i forgot. i hope you arent mad********

this got so many laughs. we stood in the middle of many hundreds of people watching our picture come up on the screen. it was really funny......

the end results.....

later that night we got some delicious korean bakery goods......

one afternoon, annie made us a great homemade organic spaghetti dinner.....

we went to the highline park in manhattan. this first picture is just funny picture of a guy with funny hair taking a picture of a not funny girl......

a view from the highline.....

artwork on the highline. as you look through the first box to the white metal cutout, it perfectly outlined the windows and other shapes of the building across the street.....

more cool artwork.....

we went to the chelsea market. here is a funny portrait.....

had ice cream at a milk store.....

lower manhattan.....

odd sculpture on top of a tall building.....

annie suggested a place called the chocolate room. they served exotic chocolate dishes and premium wines. fantastic.....

uncle moes family feedbag.....

agian more sushi from our favorite half off sushi place......

bee playing on a slide.....

relaxing in cory and annies living room......

our last night in new york we went with cory into manhattan and got some sweat sweat cupcakes......

and some sweat balls......

here is a pic of the west coast on our way back to fresno......

hope you enjoyed our trip as much as we did.....

(i feel you marlene. 3 hours as well......)

W.T.P.E

2010-06-04T00:49:00.000-07:00

i know that all of you out there are waiting for my new york 2010 blog update. sorry. i am slacking. i hope to get to it soon enough.

but for now, i found this in thursdays fresno bee and it truly makes me laugh.

i know thats all i think about during the summer.......

freakin batman

2010-05-20T20:51:00.000-07:00

keeping times square safe from the terrorists......

better late than never.....

2010-03-08T11:23:00.000-08:00

well it has been a month since our friends moved out, but here they are on the day they left. they moved to england. time to start enjoying our house with just the two of us again.
we really enjoyed them staying, but there is something extra nice not having people staying with you.....

why not.....

2010-03-06T21:01:00.000-08:00

add a couple more pics from the home show.

this is a backyard situation that taylor and i would love to have. its elevated so it would sit perfectly up against the brick wall, where we could be standing on it and looking over the wall. even sit on the wall easily.

so i realized that i only took these two pictures. so its not really an extra post.

one in a million.....

2010-03-06T20:58:00.000-08:00

or at least not very often.

so taylor and i went to the home show up in fresno today. as we were walking around if found this construction company. i dont think that i have ever seen anyone with the exact same initials as mine......

sorry for the bad pick.

wheres waldo......

2010-02-09T22:06:00.000-08:00

or a white and red guy.......

i think thats you steebo.

coupons now used to save portion sizes......

2010-01-24T22:05:00.000-08:00

(or i cant believe i ate the whole thing.......)

so taylor and i decided to treat ourselves to applebees tonight. i had received some coupons in the mail that made it quite a bit more affordable, so we decided to get it without a special purpose.

to save the extra couple bucks on a tip, we decided to just call in the order and pick it up ourselves. so i called and told them what we wanted, i got the "NEW Asiago Peppercorn Steak" and taylor got the "NEW Spicy Shrimp Diavolo". i told them that we had a coupon and they said that it would be ready in 15 to 20 minutes.

we go pick up the food and head back to the house. i open up my entree and i find not only a skimpy portion, but a retarded amount of potatoes and unproportioned vegetables (i like broccoli the most and yellow squash the least). there wasnt even A (1) whole piece of broccoli. there was however an ENTIRE squash in there. i almost didnt even choose that meal because of the squash.....

now on the menu this meal lists for $10.49. my coupon boasted $5.50, i read the fine print, but there must have been finer print that says the portions are also halved. im kidding. applebees is just dumb. would they really try and get away with this meal for over $10? there gimmick for these meals is that they are only 550 calories, but if i really wanted to only eat 550 calories id just buy a smaller meal for cheaper.....

maybe i should have gone to papa murphy's and got a family size cowboy? for only 10.99.....

oh. and happy birthday kevin.

david and goliath......

2010-01-22T07:18:00.000-08:00

where david got pretty messed up too.......

i was on my way to work yesterday and came up to this accident. it happened less than a minute before i got there. people were still crawling out of the cars. miraculously as far as i know, no was was seriously injured.....

this site was actually exactly one mile away from where my accident was that i posted back in june.....

my kind of work......

2010-01-12T01:22:00.000-08:00

whatever gets the job done

a little late.....

2010-01-11T01:48:00.000-08:00

just like parking farther from the store and saying its exercise for the day, so is making a quick post and saying im sticking to my resolution.

here is taylor and i standing in front of our house the day we got the keys. we love it so much and already have lots of memories......

new years resolution......

2010-01-01T02:32:00.000-08:00

sorry i know that it has been a while.
i will try and start updating this blog more regularly. it has gotten a bit more inconvenient ever since my hard drive has filled up on my laptop and i have to put all of my pictures on my external drive. that means i have to be in the mood, have time available, have the external drive close by, and something to blog about all at the same time.

heres to a new year.......

picture update......

2009-06-09T04:46:00.001-07:00

the first picture you can see where she slammed on her brakes, ending up directly in the middle of the road and me then having to go around her. i had already been slamming on my brakes before she even saw me. if she would have just kept going, i would have had to swerve around her and go off the road. she was at a complete stop when i had to start swerving. so picture her car stopped where her tracks are and going highway speeds around a car.....

then narrowly missing the stop sign. i remember this part in slow motion.....

then fishtailing for about 50 feet trying not to make the jump onto the airport runway, gouging out a piece of the curb.....

no, thats my parents car, not mine.....

with my car settling about 5 feet from another street sign that i luckily didnt hit.....

all of this because she froze up and stopped in the middle of the highway. (insert woman driver joke).....

if its not one thing......

2009-06-07T17:45:00.000-07:00

so i was on my way to work today when a car pulled out in front of me on the highway. i slammed on my brakes to avoid the car. the car finally sees me and slams on their brakes, stopping directly in the middle of the intersection. i now have to swerve around the car, since they are sitting in the middle of the intersection, narrowly miss hitting a stop sight post swerving back trying not to jump off the road onto the airport landing strip, with my car finally settling feet from a street light. my front tire got shredded from hitting the curb and hopefully that is all the damage that happened. the front end may have a bit of damage, as i hit the curb at like 35mph.

here is the kicker about the whole thing. because i missed hitting the other car and i my car was the only one with damage, the accident is my fault, until i prove otherwise, and maybe not even then. i guess i should have tboned the other car doing 55 and made it their fault. i guess i should at least be happy that the other car turned around to make sure i was okay. which i then made sure she stayed until the highway patrol came.

this camera phone picture is all i have of the accident right now. my parents came out to help and i have a couple more pics of the skid marks i took with my moms camera which i may post later......

the funniest part about the whole ordeal, is that just before my parents made it out to me in corcoran, i called them to see how far away they were. as i was talking to my mom she says "uh oh, i think your dad is about to get pulled over". he did get pulled over and it was the same chp that helped me with my accident report. as the cop walked up to their window, my dad was like, "are you officer krahn? you just helped me with my son and we are on our way out there right now...." funny. since no one died.

hit and run.....

2009-06-03T14:46:00.000-07:00

so this is what i woke up to this morning. what seems to be the trash truck taking off my mirror, picking up most of the pieces and continuing on its route. of course i dont have any proof that but the cop that took the report agreed with me (the tire tracks in the road support my hypothesis). but of course the city is denying everything. this is the second incidence that happened to the car im trying to sell by leaving it on 11th ave......

catching up.....

2009-06-03T12:56:00.000-07:00

mindy is doing well. she has to stay in her bed for most of the time, but the most recent check up says she is healing nicely.....

my surprise birthday party that taylor had for me.....

fun in the sprinklers.....

milhouse......

relaxing. we just finished s03e02 yesterday......

dog "walking".......

lenny.

lenny, oakley, milhouse

fail......

2009-06-01T08:29:00.001-07:00

tread depth is measured to the 1/32. thats a fairly precise amount. read number 2....

mindy......

2009-05-07T16:47:00.001-07:00

it was a hectic day today. as i was pulling into the parking lot at school i get a call from taylor saying that mindy was hurt. i didnt even stop, i just turned around and headed home. it turned out to be a broken leg, a costly one at that. taylor was picking her up and she was squirming and fell awkwardly on the concrete.
she is spending the night at the vet tonight and is going to have surgery tomorrow morning. pray that everything goes well.....

the last xray looks really cool. they said that they needed to take it to make sure nothing else was hurt. it was obvious that it wasnt, but it meant being able to charge for an extra xray so they pushed it. i guess if she got hit by a car, maybe do it, but it was obvious what had happened to her and what was possibly broken....

family and vegas......

2009-04-25T15:04:00.000-07:00

not vegas family.

first. my uncle john and aunt karen came for a visit palm sunday weekend. my bro, sis, sis, and niece also came for a visit.....

then on thursday and good friday taylor and i headed to vegas for kristen and johns wedding....

our view of the airport and half the strip....

lyle recommended the steak dinner special at ellis island. we went, but there was well over an hour wait, plus we seemed a bit to dressed up for the place. dressed up meaning not old enough. so we didnt end up eating there.
this picture is for lyle showing that we did make it there to try and try it.

we did go to planet hollywood in caesars palace to eat. we stayed at planet hollywood last year for our wedding night.

we walked around thursday night and friday before the wedding.
pictured is susan and her boyfriend jason. she is the manager of taylors starbucks and they let us stay in there room when we got kicked out of ours because of checkout.

at the wedding......

kristen and john eymil. with taylor.

we headed home after the reception around 11pm. we had to get home to the house full of animals. sorry lyle.

and sorry for the delay in posting. i have been really busy. and my camera has been dying so i dont have as many pictures as i use to (except for billions of animal pics). i just got a new camera in the mail though, so i hope it will pick up.....

first times a charm......

2009-03-18T19:29:00.000-07:00

brother jed came back to fresno at the beginning of the month. you may have remembered my post on him about a year ago. he was the ultimate crazy "preacher" guy. i only made it to the end of his day at fresno state, so maybe i missed the main fireworks, but i did end up going out to dinner with him and had a chance to talk to him one on one....

didnt seem as crazy one on one. i guess we will always have 2008.....

here are the pics from last year, and a video that i previously couldnt post.....

this is how id like to remember him.....

homemaker my eye.....

2009-03-18T19:26:00.000-07:00

more than just a wonderful chief.....

yeah. i know. chef.

one year ago......

2009-03-01T21:16:00.000-08:00

about one year ago, taylor and i got married. since we were married on the 29th of february, we chose to celebrate our anniversary on the 28th, the last day of february (that and my brothers anniversary is on march 1).

here was our night......

first, stephen was a singing telegram singing "you are so beautiful to me" a la the simpsons season 2 episode 2, where marge gets a singing telegram on their anniversary.

i should have had great video of it as well, but my camcorder didnt record. blast. it was great anyways. much thanks again steebo.

we then went out to dinner at a restaurant in the lobby of the visalia marriott called zhou, very upscale, meaning very expensive for very little food.

because it was our anniversary, they gave us free wine to go with our meals, on the house....
(let the comments begin, at least make them clever.....)

as well as a complimentary cheesecake......

after dinner we went to tulare to go and see the movie coraline. it was the closest theater in the area showing the movie in tru3d. the story/movie was alright, but the 3d was amazing. if you see the movie, you HAVE to see it in 3d. these are the special polarized 3d glasses they give you to watch the movie.....

well it was a fun and special night. to many more......

murphy's law.....

2009-02-21T02:32:00.000-08:00

i really hate murphys law. i havent wandered downtown for months and months, and of course the one time i decide to stop by to see what i have been missing, a fight and me without my cameras....

it wasnt the best fight, but it was the funniest one. all i had was my camera phone.

it was two brothers who were mad at each other. they actually waited for me to get my phone out and ready.

i also have a bit of bad quality video of them fighting later, with words. funny, funny, crying words.....

i was so mad that my phone only shoots 20 seconds of video at a time, then there is like a full minute of file saving before i get to shoot again....

Warning: contains profanity and crying. about equal of each.

"I DITCHED MOTHER!!!!!!"
"I KEEP THINKING ABOUT UNCLE RIGHT NOW....."

if i would have only had my real video camera. this was like a 20 minute ordeal....

du jour?

2008-12-16T02:49:00.000-08:00

get them while they are hot or else.....

r.i.p.......

2008-12-16T00:45:00.000-08:00

henry.....

license plates.....

2008-12-16T00:17:00.001-08:00

corying?

got it all on.....

for kevin.....

for little moe syzlak.....

rotflol.....

i dont like that band either.....

old school.....

....rfi?

random.....

2008-12-15T23:25:00.000-08:00

its been a while since my last post. here are just some random pictures i have taken over that past couple of weeks.....

bees.......

the oc......

thanksgiving......

overrun with animals.....

birthday party at bbbbbq. (big bubbas bad barbeque).....

crazy toilet handle.....

and crazy mother in law.....

awkward.....

2008-10-23T15:39:00.001-07:00

am i either.....

2008-10-23T14:41:00.000-07:00

it seems that people who love obama and hates jews really play this game.....

maybe i should just stop playing this game.

i wonder what kyle and katie think?

good idea, bad idea.....

2008-10-21T14:11:00.000-07:00

good idea....shaving.

bad idea....waxing.
ripping the hair from your face in a process that takes hours and makes you want to punch a baby. seriously.

daughter of a diamond.....

2008-09-30T15:30:00.000-07:00

another animal.

by popular demand.....from one special person. you know who you are.

the newest, first, and only female dog from the biggest female dog we have.

still unnamed. any suggestions?

is it in me?

2008-09-18T16:55:00.000-07:00

its not even in you.......

blogging a blogger.....

2008-09-10T23:40:00.000-07:00

every wonder how blogs are made? here's how....

first and foremost make sure you take a lot of pictures.....

multiple angles......

and close-ups of the important things....

and lastly a picture of the blogger, blogging the blogger....

its just that easy.
check out lyle and marlenes blog to see her pics...

thanks for the model work marlene....

its a girl!!!!

2008-08-28T17:38:00.000-07:00

claire elise schaub bringard
born 8/27/08 10:49pm
7 lbs 3 oz
18 inches
cute

newest (and last) addition....

2008-07-30T08:18:00.000-07:00

da-da-da-da batman....

2008-07-30T08:11:00.000-07:00

batman at the imax.

afterwards we had a little south of the border action....
(cory if you can come up with something better let me know.)

taylors suprise...

2008-07-20T16:20:00.000-07:00

i took taylor on a surprise trip up to a cat haven i saw on my way up to camp a couple of days earlier. they had like 20 something cats. it was a fun trip....

this black panther (yes it is a black panther) supposedly hates men. it was growling and attacking me. fantastic.

this girl was our tour guide. she was kind of a know it all. and not in a good way...

this was the snow leopard. it was my favorite i think. if anything because it can apparently just 40 feet from a stationary position and use its tail to change direction in midair. amazing.

the tiger was huge and lazy. it reminded us of how lenny sleeps....

ok. the last cat is ours. her name is maggie. but she is a hunter and stalker....

then we ate at a burger place in dunlap on the way home.

420 bro....

for annie....

2008-07-17T20:19:00.000-07:00

here are some of my pics of cory's trip to california.....

first that came second. camp.

second that came first. the wedding.

cr*p extravaganza.....

2008-07-17T20:17:00.000-07:00

happy fourth....

2008-07-04T15:41:00.000-07:00

nintendo = nazi?

2008-06-14T13:17:00.001-07:00

catching up....

2008-06-14T12:49:00.000-07:00

i realized that i havent updated many of you about our newest addition to the family, milhouse....

and for an update on lenny, he is doing and looking a lot better.

who knew.....

2008-05-25T12:57:00.000-07:00

i wonder if they saw this coming.

dog fight...

2008-05-13T00:40:00.001-07:00

our little boy got the bad end of a pitbull. lenny may be big but he is still just a puppy....

misleading advertising....

2008-05-07T00:27:00.001-07:00

call the cory hotline now for some out of this world conversations that will leave you shirtless and wanting more.....

if you like what you see call cory now. (212) KL5-6033...

im a dad!!!!!!!!

2008-04-25T15:49:00.001-07:00

's friend......

actually its brian and christina's.....

chipotle vs. mcdonalds......

2008-04-24T11:27:00.001-07:00

big n tasty and large fry equals my chipotle burrito. quarter pounder and large fry is actually better than my burrito. hmmmmmm........

mcdonalds.......

chipotle......

check out the chipotle website to make and check your burrito.....

breaking news......

2008-04-22T11:33:00.000-07:00

glayde fresh and the beach.....

2008-03-22T15:40:00.000-07:00

so glayde coleman and family came out to california from texas for spring break. taylor and i met them over at the coast for a little beach time on tuesday. lenny loved it. the visit was short. josh, leigh, and samson (their black lab) came as well.....

then glayde gave us some wedding money to eat whatever we wanted. we had a great seafood dinner. that is swordfish and some great fish and shrimp, plus some delicious banana creme icecream pie or something......

we also say them briefly back in hanford for a sizzler brunch.....

a few pics from the awesome steebo.....

2008-03-13T11:31:00.001-07:00

there are over 1,200 more pictures, so the rest can come later....

thanks again steebo. it was fun......

it is done and it was good.....

2008-03-03T01:55:00.000-08:00

for those of you who didn't get burned from the information that spread like wildfire, here is an official update.
taylor and i were married on feb 29 in las vegas. it was awesome. the whole family scrambled together and came it into town, which made it perfect.
thank you family, both old and new.....

these are a few of the pictures i took while out and about....

stephen followed us around the entire time (excluding the wedding night) taking a whole lot of pictures. more to come once they are done....

thanks steebo....

2008-02-19T02:48:00.000-08:00

stephen abbas recently took some engagement photos of taylor and i. they are great. here are a few of them....

to see many more of his pictures check out his blog if you dont already. its listed on the side under "blogs i read"

get better seabiscuit

2008-02-12T13:41:00.000-08:00

yesterday a cop friend of mine was in a bad accident while in a high speed chase. he has moved from serious condition to fair condition.

you can read about it here....

http://www.ksee24.com/news/local/15516552.html

this montage of pictures was my very first run in with him a while back at the great bastille brawl. we became friends because of this....

this one was for you ab or is it as....

happy days?

2008-02-12T13:33:00.000-08:00

just 4 months and 1 day left.

oh, and for those who don't know and get their news from this blog, i am finally going to be an uncle....

this guy is amazing....

2008-01-24T12:43:00.001-08:00

eugene levy?
fred willard?

i got like 8 minutes of video of this guy. he was at the free speech area of fresno state. the stuff that came out of his mouth. "female ucla women charge $100, fresno state girls only go for $50. they are putting professional prostitutes out of business." paraphrased. im in class and cant review the video for exactness....

check out his website. brojed.org

search bro jed on youtube and you get a bunch of results.....

wow.

R.I.P.

2008-01-22T14:44:00.000-08:00

new york hat trick.....

2007-11-28T10:16:00.000-08:00

well sorry about the delayed blogs, or insufficient blogs for that matter.
i have been busy with restricted internet access.

here are pictures from my third trip to new york this year. i sure do get around pretty well for a cripple.....

taylor and i left for irvine back on november 9, flew out the 10th, and got back on the 18th. it was an awesome trip that was way to short.

the night of our first day we got to go to an improv comedy show featuring all four upright citizens brigade troup with horatio sans. it was such a great start for the week.

though after walking all day, waiting in line to get in, having to stand during the show, and then walk home, my ankles hurt so bad and were very swollen. i was worried about how they would be the rest of the trip. they worked well enough the rest of the week.....

random ice in the middle of the city.

one of the days we went down to coney island. it was actually my first time to this area. first we went to nathans original hot dogs. it is where the hot dog was born. they had good garlic sauced fries....

the atlantic ocean. it was taylors first time on the beach of the atlantic ocean. we shared a moment.

here are some random pictures from around manhattan....

oh yeah.....

an outing with cory and annie.....

waiting outside the ucb theater for a night of standup comedy.....

intermission of about 4 hours of mostly great stand up for a total of only $5.

it was a long day. taylor slept on the subway trusting that i would make sure we got off at the correct stop. i missed stops and got on wrong trains frequently....

foods of new york....

more random pictures of the city.....

wonderful rice pudding on the subway.....

we found a hula hoop on the sidewalk....

here are some pictures from central park.....

statue of liberty. it was a very cold night.....

random picture of us eating.....

after another wrong train boarding we ended up back in coney island at around 1am. so we walked the boardwalk and found a sandcastle with real starfish as decorations and jellyfish along the beach....

toms restaurant from the seinfeld show.....

burrito before.....

burrito after.....

an awesome cat we found during a midnight ice cream run....

entering the toy r us bathroom in times square.....

the webcam that many of you readers watched us from.....

the barbie house in the huge toys r us store.....

breakfast at bj's with cory and annie before the trip home....

people we saw. minus the millions of new yorkers.....

well that was the trip. hope that you enjoyed it. we sure did.....

still cool after all these years.....

2007-11-06T07:50:00.001-08:00

oh happy day....

2007-10-31T12:51:00.000-07:00

new screen = new post. $133 later my camera is in working order again....

little little, little late....

2007-10-17T13:14:00.000-07:00

so this is a little bit of a late post, but last week i had the great privilege of attending the weird al yankovic concert at the fresno fair.

i ran in my good friend loren who was equally excited about the event.

weird al is such an amazing performer.

well thats all for now.
just an update....i am in the process of getting my camera fixed. we will then be able to see if there is any correlation between more posts and a properly working camera. there i go again, talking econ in my blogs while in my econ class.....

its a sad world, after all. its a sad sad world after all.....

2007-09-29T03:48:00.000-07:00

in my worst blog disaster ever, the inevitable happened. my camera screen is no more.
here is a picture of myself after i first saw it. it was horrible, i didnt even know how the picture turned out until i transfered it to my computer.

i am still very depressed.
i couldnt even look into the camera.
apparently it can at least still capture the beauty of sadness and pain through the 10x optical lens, it now just cant display the wonderful pictures on the once amazing 2.8in(7.1cm) screen.

here is what it looks like.....

i dont know whether to just keep going with it broken, try and fix it, or replace it. if anyone out there know the best cheapest way to fix lcd screens let me know. my camera "was" a kodak V610 dual lens 6.1Mp.

thats all for now. i am now going to cry myself to sleep....

my special day......

2007-09-24T12:52:00.000-07:00

well here i am on my very special day. today september 24, 2007 i am 10,000 days old. this goes out to all the people that didnt think that i would make it. that includes myself.....

give a little, get a little....

2007-09-12T13:05:00.000-07:00

well there was a blood drive at school today. i was in a giving mood today.

i was also in a receiving mood as well. free lunch. awesome.

now im actually in my econ class making this post. you may think that i should be paying attention, but the way i see it, the demand for a new post is very high since the supply of new posts are so scarce. hence i better supply the post while i can. that justifies it for me. i guess my subconscious is learning enough for me anyways....

Schools back from summer, Schools been Forever....

2007-08-31T14:11:00.001-07:00

HOCKEY!!!!!!

2007-08-15T18:15:00.000-07:00

this blog is for the german. he was pushing me to post the hockey pictures, since out of the four of us bloggers that were playing, i was the only one who took pictures....

alex being the T-1000....

everyone sleeps.....

2007-08-06T20:11:00.000-07:00

sorry that it has been a while, but its been a while since i have had a good blog topic, not that this one is that good.....

yeah bryan sleeps a lot....

maxing and relaxing....

2007-07-10T15:50:00.000-07:00

so one of my sisters professors from chicago was speaking up at hume lake and i made a trip on up the mountain for some thinking and personal reflection....

as always i slept in my car

and hanged out on the rock

a lot of cool things happened throughout the day. they had the bike jump....

and the high schoolers played their recreation games...

i ran into almost all of my friends that live and work up at hume. this first picture is of jerry root. my sisters professor that i mainly went up to hear speak.

this is norm. hes awesome.

i forgot to take a picture with darren so i got a picture from across the lake...

same thing with christian. this picture was actually taken last time i was up there back in april...

uhh and as well with eric. this picture was taken last year sometime. random fact. this picture is the 42nd picture i ever took with my camera....

so i was walking around the lake and i found this dude. i dont know what his thing was.....

so i found a nice shady spot and relaxed and enjoyed the wonderfulness of the lake.

so the last night i was up there i sat down by the lake and was playing with my camera. this first one is of my shadow relaxing...

then an ehh long time exposure picture...

well that was that. i hope that im not leaving anything out. it was a great time of relaxation and meditation.

happy 4th

2007-07-05T04:14:00.000-07:00

so the fourth of july, or july 4th to the layman.
it was a great day. i spent most of it hanging out at the local starbucks playing with 2 year old fireworks.

even the off duty employees had a blast with sparklers....

as well as gary, the local homeless guy that "lives" behind walmart. he loved it....

i also headed over to the hanford east campus fireworks show where i found the abbas family relaxing on the grass. before the show started, sparkler fun again...

here are some of the firework pics i took....

this is just a cool picture of steebo and i enjoying the show....

well that was that. i think that this was the first year that i actually didnt spend even a dollar on fireworks. i had many, many though left over from previous years...

my perfect night....

2007-06-28T04:37:00.000-07:00

still more entertaining than spiderman 3....

2007-06-24T00:15:00.000-07:00

so i found this tv in an alley.

and this is what happened.....

this one here i was riding it down a ramp...

cheaper than a movie.....

2007-06-16T02:50:00.000-07:00

better than spiderman 3......

crazy shotgun dude.....

who shoved girls by the head.....

fights, tasers, resisting arrests....

all in a night of watching people....

still curious after all these years.....

2007-06-13T23:10:00.001-07:00

..................

2007-06-13T03:18:00.000-07:00

well i wasnt going to embarrass the other people that did the head shake picture, but tonight i was asked why their pictures werent up on the blog as well. so i am now adding them. hmmm, i guess people really do look at these posts....

the first is amanda bear....

then there is sarah hartley...

and stephanie hartley....

and of course the available handsome guy is me. i had to show them how it was really done....

bbbq

2007-06-10T02:36:00.000-07:00

the extra b is for birthday.

so church in the basement had a bbq on thursday. it was quite a bit of fun, as are all of our get togethers.

sarah brought a big elastic thingy that we played with. it was a great childish fun.

then we played the broom game. you spin in 20 circles with a broom above your head, then you throw the broom down in front of you and try and jump over it.
the best part about this picture is matt and his note.

brownies......

then friday we had a birthday party for rachel mcfarren.

it was fun. ted, steph, sarah, emily, and amanda from citb came down from reedley for the occasion.

ted upside down.....

and drawing.....

sarah sleeping

my snail

crazy wall ornaments....

well that was the highlights of this week. i dont remember if anything else happened.

for those who dont know and only contact with me is with this blog, i now have an official return to work day. june 18. i start back with babysitting. i dont know what is going to happen with the chu chu though, because of needing to work the whole first week down in delano getting re-certified.

those two pictures from the last post below are also from rachels birthday party as well.....

wedding and stuff....

2007-06-06T18:07:00.001-07:00

well, not to much has happened. so to keep everybody interested in checking back every so often i do a random post of josh vogelgesangs and leia eilts wedding.

this first picture is at joshs bachelor party the wednesday before. we ate and played some pool. josh was told that there was whiskey in the cup. after drinking the whole thing he said "that tasted like soda". it was soda....

on to the wedding...
josh and his mom.

leia and her dad.

my bro and sis and i...

the awesome mundys...

i waited for josh to take a big bite...

catching the garder...

i tried my hardest, but didnt succeed....

well thats that. i will try and come up with something else soon so that it can keep peoples interest....

guess who i saw at the fm?

2007-05-31T21:15:00.000-07:00

I ran into LB, so we stood in the same spot for an hour and a half as person after person came by to pay their respects to me.

i let people know that i just got back into town.

Lyle borrowed my signature shot. i signed the waiver.

It got to the point, i was knocking people down to talk to them.

The gas man.

Will it ever end?

It was time for lyle to go and let Dennis babysit me.

home sweet home...

2007-05-25T16:47:00.000-07:00

the last days.

well i arrived back in chicago tuesday morning. my third time there this trip. exciting.

i found an internet connection and went to work on my blog. this picture is me blogging the last post.

and just around the corner which actually turned out to be next door to caribou coffee, chipotle....

i ate. it was all that i could have hoped for. then i was still able to connect to the caribou internet from inside chipotle and downloaded some media for the long ride home.

and so the trip started. chicago to los angeles. this was the first and only trip that i felt restless on. since i was finally heading home, i was familiar with my destination, so i wanted to get there sooner rather than later.

i found a nice bed in the lounge car. i got a very good sleep in here....

waking up. still out of it, but feeling refreshed....

albuquerque. about half way there...

finally after 2 days. i arrived at union station in los angeles. i had about 2 hours before my bus to bakersfield left, so i headed out in search of food.

i ended up wondering through chinatown. but couldnt stay long, i had a bus to catch....

thursday, may 24, 2007. here i am finally back in hanford, ca.

and back to my house. it was a very interesting trip. i am so glad i had the opportunity to take it. everything worked out nicely, even when they seemed like they wouldnt.

i quickly took a much needed shower and headed out for the evening. i went over to the farmers market where i got to run into some great people.
first here are the bruces. i stayed with their son cory in new york. they started up a blog as well that i enjoy reading. its listed on the side under "blogs i read".

then there was steebo abbas and his mom joanne.

it was nice. i ran into (actually he ran into me) my good friend jason, who i havent seen in almost a year. we caught up a little.

there was also dennis. sorry about the bad picture, but we only took one.

well that was my trip. i hope that whoever has been reading this enjoyed it. i will try and keep on top of things and blog whatever else is happening in my life, so check back every so often. if you really know me, you know that my everyday life is just about as exciting as any given day of my trip.....