Holiday Shopping

As everyone knows Black Friday was this past weekend, the biggest shopping day of the year. This is the day that everyone wakes up early from their turkey induced coma to go shopping with about 70% of the states population all at the same time. Sounds like fun doesn't it? You get to jam yourself in line with hundreds of other people who are all out to get the same product that you want and are more than willing to fight over it. Other fun aspects of this “holiday shopping” are that you see all these wonderful sales on items that you want. You go to these places early in the morning only to find out, they do NOT have the product the advertised... but we have a more expensive model of the same type or your could shop around for more items. This tactic of bait and switch is used at just about every store around this time of year and is one of the many reasons that I do NOT participate in the "holiday shopping rush". All though I must admit, my wife and I did decide to go out that day... around lunch time to Milo's and get a gallon of milk at the grocery store. So I guess you could say I participated in Black Friday just a little, but aside from that, all shopping will be done online this year. You got to love having your purchases shipped directly to your front door with no line no waiting.

Sheetrocking is FUN

I've recently taken on a project at home to build a room downstairs that will be my office/workout room. The reason for this is that my present room upstairs will be converted into a nursery for our new baby when he/she get's here in May. I'm very excited about the baby and I hope to have everything ready for when they get here, but I know problems can come up and such but more to come later baby :D.
For right now, I've been hanging sheetrock (which is a lot heavier than you thing) and after finishing that, mudding the seams and nails in the walls. So far I've done an all right job in my book by things; I've learned a few tricks as I go, for example.
Use a lot of mud, then put the tape on, and THEN scrape off the excess, but I learn as I go since this is my first project of this nature I'm enjoying it. My plans are by this weekend to have all the mudding and sanding finished so I can start to primer and then paint the room. If anyone has any tips for me to try when finishing up this room let me know. I will also try to get some pictures up to show a before and after when I start to paint and add the carpet and everything else.

Hydrogen for Today

Today I decided to discuss new technologies that have come out to increase our fuel economy on our existing vehicles. The main one I am interest in is the one made by Hydrogen Solutions Inc in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the H2N-Gen. This device is the size of a large cable box, and fits right under the hood of your car. The system is designed to run off of your batter or alternator and uses the electricity to extract the Hydrogen from a potassium hydroxide solution, which is then injected into your car's intake Since Hydrogen is lighter than air, the combustion happens when the cylinder is at the top of the cycle instead of in the middle as with gas. This cause less gas to be wasted and a better more efficient combustion, increasing fuel economy by decreasing the use of gas in the system. This is a very simple and elegant solution to present cars with low fuel mileage. Claims are right now that this can increase your mileage by up to 40%, and the device itself goes on sell in the US in March for about $1000. Now personally I'm looking forward to this, but I'll wait a few months to see how it works well with other cars, but I am excited about the fact that at least SOMEONE is trying to make existing cars run better so we can all get more bang for our buck at the pump.

Car Show

All right folks, I had a good time at the International Auto Show this weekend in Birmingham. There where plenty of nice new cars to look at and sit in. My only disappointment was with Ford, (being a big Ford fan) they did not have all of their new cars there. Oh they had the Fusion, the mustang, and some f 150's but there was no Escape, Focus, or Ranger. Heck there wasn't even that much room to display the cars they had, but I guess they thought that the Fusion and the prototype Bronco and Fairlane would fix that. Ah well, it was still enjoyable and for your viewing pleasure here are some pictures from the Auto Show, just click on the name, and enjoy!

Big Wheel (yes that's right a giant working big wheel)
Corvett Motor
Fairline
Fusion
Fusion 2
Fusion Motor
Fusion Info
HHR
Porsche
Prototype Bronco
Viper
$300,000 Car

That's all folks, enjoy and if the car show comes to your town, check it out and send some pics please.

Ah Friday, the day before a weekend, the day when it seems everything is going faster and smoother.... Well some what. So far this morning my phone has been ringing off the hook with simple problems 'password resets, locked accounts, how do I do this' and such. I could almost swear that it is Monday, that's usually when everyone has forgotten their passwords and needs to get logged back in to get to work.
Okay, let me back up a bit, I work in a government job for a local city in Alabama, doing the computer tech support, basic problems with PCs, printers, email and such are what I handle on a daily basis. For me it's easy and a pretty good job. Most days I spend surfing the net waiting for problems to arise (got to love that type of job) all though you can get bored of this pretty quick, but I refuse to look a gift horse in the mouth.
Where was I? Oh yes, well so far Friday has had a lot of problems come up pretty quick, but that just makes the day go by faster. I am looking forward to this weekend; I get to watch my 2 month old niece on Saturday. I guess I need to practice since we have our own little one on the way in May. (BTW don't drink the water around here if don't want to have a baby :D). This should be a fun time to see how I handle having to take care of a little one for a few hours. I am also looking forward to going to the International Auto Show here in, were I can see all the new model cars coming out for 06 and some prototypes. Last year I saw the new O5 Mustang and got to sit in it for a while to get the feel of the car, (I loved the way it sits.) as well as the new Ford GT, now that was a piece of work.
Enough for now, I'll see if I can figure out how to get pictures up here that show some of the new model cars and such. Have a good weekend everyone and stay safe.

Hello all, my name is Adam. I'll be using this blog to post my thoughts and ideas about events going on in the world, my day at work, or about books that I am reading. I hope you enjoy, and I welcome all comments