How to renew your passport in 2 days

• Step 1: Call the San Francisco US passpost agency and set up an appointment for the next day (if your super lucky... I was lucky).
• Step 2: Drive to San Francisco and wait for 7 hours.

Thanksgiving Project

Recipe:

1 oak plank

1 grinder

1 dremel

1 sheet of sand paper

apply elbow grease liberally

Parker Executive

President Uchtdorf's Pen, or one like it anyway. Writes like a dream.

911 Carrera S

 Perfect for a sunday drive 

 385 hp @ 6,500 rpm
0-60 mph: 4.5 s
Top Track Speed: 188 mph

Four Streams

18th hole at dusk

Lake Tahoe

Lauren motoring along on a paddle board

They made it in Matte Green...

Triumph - made there scrambler in matte green this year... a very good choice. It's a classy meets adventure type bike. I like it.

Motivation Video

This is an interesting Video my cousin Andrew posted.

Mexican Riviera

Mazatlan


Cabo

Puerta V.


Back From Vacation
Various Noteworthy Activities may have included;

• Playing with a Baby Lion
• Sneeking onto crew decks and interesting levels of our 110,000 ton Boat
• Buying and losing a pair of Fantastic Fake Ray Bans
• Trying to Bamboosal the Black Market Rolex Sales folk
  
• Discovering "Angry birds" the game, thank you Christian and Andrew
• Eating the left side of multiple (more then one) menus

It was a wonderful trip. We saw some amazing things.

Clever Danes

www.wrenchmonkees.com

Foreboding

James is crazy about motorcycles. We took him to the Timp Harley Store, he would'nt let us take him off the bikes. Notice the Leather Jacket, (thanks Grandpa Haven).

Who exactly is paying for this?

(AP)-WASHINGTON By MARTIN CRUTSINGER — The government ran up the largest monthly deficit in history in February, keeping the flood of red ink on track to top last year's record for the full year.

The Treasury Department said Wednesday that the February deficit totaled $220.9 billion, 14 percent higher than the previous record set in February of last year.

The deficit through the first five months of this budget year totals $651.6 billion, 10.5 percent higher than a year ago.

The Obama administration is projecting that the deficit for the 2010 budget year will hit an all-time high of $1.56 trillion, surpassing last year's $1.4 trillion total. The administration is forecasting that the deficit will remain above $1 trillion in 2011, giving the country three straight years of $1 trillion-plus deficits.

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Just for reference 1 trillion is a million millions, its 1000 billion...to get a visual click here
(There are only 308 million people in our country.)
(There are about 6.8 billion people in the world)
Again who is going to pay for this?

James at the Park

See if you can spot Lucy, she has a drive by... I want to slow that part down and show her in slow mo. cause she flys.. its so funny.

Warming Up

We went to the park cause it was feeling a little warm. James loves to float in the air... I'm teaching him about hang time.

Preping for the Big week

Next week is National Engineers Week. (its always the 3rd full week of February) its in conjunction with George Washington's birthday because President Washington is considered the nation's first engineer, notably for his survey work.

My suggestions on ways to celebrate:

• Kissing your engineer, or an engineer.
  
• Asking them interesting engineering questions, that they might know the answer to. (act amazed and interested)
  
• Looking carefully at something that was engineered and marvel.
• Buy your husband a New Car.

ta da... A quick and easy list for anyone to celebrate the next very important week.

Valentine's Day Card

I'm thinking about this card for Lauren for Valentines Day. It has a manly feel yet just enough love to please.

My Brother started this Card Company called Cardsink They have some awesome cards. You can submit your own design and if it gets enough votes it will get printed and you get cash for your design, and you can buy cards like the one pictured above.

The question is will Lauren check my blog before valentines? Or should I get a different Card...

The Middle Ground

2009 Rossignol S6
186 (140-110-133)
My new Ski, not as big as the Moments. But alas, The Moment will have to wait because I got this ski with the Rossignol SAS 150 Binding (din to 15) for an excellent price... and it's a big mean awesome ski.

Happy Birthday!

My Boy Is One Year Old!
Check Lauren's Blog For all His Stats

Moment Skis

Moment skis are hand made in RENO! This will be my new ski... the Bibby Pro model. 190 cm 143-118-134 essentially 5.6 inches wide at the tip 4.6 inches wide at the waist... two skinny snow boards. 26.7 side cut. they are rockered (tips come up early for powder) and have normal camber in the middle (like normal skis). Medium stiff flex for my big self. Did I mention That I love that these are made it Reno! plus they have a canoe on the front with a bird lizard. and I'm gonna say a Reno sunset on the bottom. Yes please.

My little sister

My little sister made this video: a documentation of the drive from my parents house to the lake. and one of my favorite places at the lake. I really love Lake Tahoe. Good work Kerianne.

Keep Tahoe... just keep it. from Keri Dyer on Vimeo.

For Mother / Grandma

Plastic Peach - James was stumped

He was the camel for the nativity

First 4 wheeler ride - he was a little nervious... but no crying.

Trees and Apples

My Sister Posted these pictures:
I thought they were so great that I would put them up too.
Apples don't fall too far from the tree.

My dad going Scuba diving some where in Baja Mexico.

My Moms college ID. Looks like my sister..