Sunday, October 30, 2005

The music man

Captian Biggs (Joe) performed several very funny songs through out the night. Here he is capping the evening off with an original piece about how life is a little messed up now and and example is that cartoons moved to things like Sailor Moon (little girls) and away from GiJoe and Thundercats (Ho!) Posted by Picasa

Saturday, October 29, 2005

Wrap the Pole

Amy made quite a lovely pole. We had to use 6 rolls of toilet paper and completely wrap the pole using all of the paper. We did not win but it was fun. Posted by Picasa

Costumes

There was a wide array of interesting costumes. At the peak of the evening there must have been 30 - 40 people there and most of them in costume. Posted by Picasa

The games begin!

Here Mr. Prostitute (April) is explaining the rules to the ship race. We had four teams and we had to compete on several different games like: Hum that tune, Sharades, Pictionary, Wrap the pole. (They are way too organized) Posted by Picasa

A Pirate Tavern

April and Joe spare no expense. Joe built this very mood making set in front of his house. With out a flash it had much more effect. They had a fog machine hidden in the bushes and a sign on the door saying "Here there be Pirates (and Rum!)" You have got to love these guys. Posted by Picasa

Captain Biggs and Mr. Prostitute

This is April and Joe getting ready for the most excellent party. He actually shaved his head for his costume. I am not worthy! Posted by Picasa

A highland Laddie

We had several costume ideas for me but we ended up just going with my scottish highlander outfit as we could not figure out a way to pull of an Internet pirate or Jimmy Buffett (A pirate looking at Forty). We are at April and Joe's Halloween party. It is quite an affair. Posted by Picasa

A wench and a pirate

Amy and John in their very excellent costumes. Amy is very fetching as a wench! Posted by Picasa

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

My friend Jill

I hung out with Jill today and helped her bring her very own blog into existence. She is getting close to having her first baby and it seemed like a very cool way for her to be able to keep her family involved in the whole experience since they are not close. Her blog is at jilllustberg.blogspot.com.

Sunday, October 23, 2005

Amy and Raven

Amy does look great on Raven, or is that Raven looks good under Amy. Hmmmm....

Tom and Dixie

Dixie is a much better fit for me than Nipper. Amy, Karen and I went out riding this morning and a good time was had by all. This is shortly after Amy and I put the spurs to Dixie and Raven and really stretched their legs. Dixie is a great horse and is a blast to ride.

Saturday, October 22, 2005

Sony Camera Failing

My Sony camera is really starting to fail as you can see from this horrible picture. I called Sony to get support for the camera when I discovered that my camera was purchased at a time they had issued cameras with bad CCD's. The Sony rep asked me a ton of very ambiguous questions and then proceeded to tell me that my camera was not failing due to a bad CCD. He never asked to have me send him a photo or anything. When I expressed my surprise that he could so absolutely diagnose my camera by just asking me questions and not examining the camera or pictures he suggested I send it in and if they decided I had the problem they would not charge me and would reimburse my shipping charges. (Yeah Right!) I said thanks but no thanks as my family has owned several Sony laptops and every time one of them has had to be "serviced" they would disappear for three to four months!!! That is the most ridiculous and terrible service I have ever heard of in my life. I will never again purchase a Sony product. Amy looked around and we have a VERY good warranty with Wolf Camera on the Sony so if they can not fix it they will give me a new camera thankfully. I guess I will have to purchase a new one so Amy and I might have a camera for the coming Holidays. DOH!!!!! Sony you suck! Posted by Picasa

Monday, October 17, 2005

The Parental Blog

Well I spend sometime yesterday showing my mother and father how to Blog. They have a new blog up at victorjones.blogspot.com. I am very excited to see if they can keep it up at least for the trip to New York. It will be fun to get to see and hear about their trip as it happens. We also played with the very interesting feature of Picasa to do collages. The picture pile was our favorite one but unfortunately it seems to be tied to the resolution of the computer making the collage I guess so that it can be used for a desktop background. On mothers computer at 1024x768 this means her collages get very crowded very quickly. On my fathers computer as 1400x??? they are very nice and spacious. I will have to file a bug report and see if they can make it an option to set the desired resolution of the collage instead of using the computers current resolution. Hmmmmm.....

Saturday, October 15, 2005

Horseback Riding

Amy and I went horseback riding today. We took out Nipper and Raven and rode around the area of the barn. I managed to ride Nipper at a fast gate and not feel like I was about to fall off. Amazing. Posted by Picasa

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Hapgood

Mom and Dad had extra tickets to the play Hapgood at the Alley Theatre on the Neuhaus stage. Amy rode in with Mom and Dad and we met at Birraporetti's for dinner. We had an excellent wine and a very nice dinner. The play was a spy thriller / physics lesson. It was quite excellent. Mom did not feel good so she and Dad left at the intermission. Amy wore her new sexy tight fitting brown zip up shirt and form fitting brown skirt with her tall brown boots. Yummy!!!! I am a very luck man.

Sunday, October 09, 2005

Dutch at the Dog Park!















Dutch is having a blast playing with all of his new friends at the Millie Bush Dog Park. Posted by Picasa