What a find. Reverie 2004. This has been hiding.

Cracked open a 2005 Hatcher Mourvedre. Mmmm

Several years ago Krissy, her sister Linda, Lindas' husband Jerry and I went for a wine tasting weekend in Murphys California. This is the last of the wine cache brought back from three years ago.  See my entry.

my rig at work

I work with 4 panels at the job.

Reno High School 30th reunion for the class of 1980

You all know that I graduated with from Wooster High school (go Colts). But you might not know that I went my first 2 years (1.5) to Reno High (go Huskies). I went to my Wooster HS reunion two weeks ago and it was the best. This week I went to the Reno HS reunion at the Coney Island Bar and it was also the best. I actually knew a ton of people - Great fun!

Sisyphus was made to roll a huge rock up a steep hill, but before he could reach the top of the hill, the rock would always roll back down. This is the same story of these rock stacks on the hill next to work. Once in a while someone builds these and the next day someone knocks them down.  I met a guy named Dave with a couple of dogs that told me this story and how it relates to these rocks.

My wine cellar is getting empty

Drinking Valley of the Moon Zinfandel 2003 that I got from the Nevada Museum of Art wine taste 2005. The color is great and the taste is on the money. I did have the cork break.

Jordan's crazy bug story at Pop's Birthday

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXIuPJNE_a8&feature=youtube_gdata

The garden is producing some tomatoes.

The backyard is looking great in the 100s

The daylillies are showing their colors

my sister is in the hospital

Looking out the window of my sister's hospital room while she chats with friends. Get better sis!

man, I clean up nice

I was the photographer for my friend and cube mate on his wedding today. I washed behind the ears and buttoned up the shirt. Hmmm.

my birthday present arrives

The girls got me the new iPhone for my birthday and it was delivered today! No problems with signal loss as the pundits state.

map of trails through the neighborhood

On a walk through the neighborhood I found an original community path map showing some great access points between houses. I followed several of these through the golf course watching for flying balls. The best access was along the water down the center of the photo.

A self portrait

an Eagle on Cog Hill CC done twice Booyah!

a simple Monday for just messing around

I played Tiger Woods 2008 for the XBOX 360 and half my shots were at PAR!!!! first time for that. The other half were double PAR.

We went over to Krissy's moms house for a little after the July 4th BBQ and E shows up to take some photos. She is very cute!

Happy 4th of July

Mojave passenger

Mojave passenger, originally uploaded by yodamon.

Krissy was driving through the Mojave portion of our trip going home on California highway 14. I was staring out the window looking at the huge empty desert blurring by and it completely reminded me of when as a kid driving this route and being completely bored. That's why the black and white.

lunch with Scott Logsdon in LA

Scott Logsdon and I just happened to be in LA on the July 4th weekend at the same time.  We are rarely in the same place, same time ever.  Tami Scott's wife, Scott's sister Kim and Scott's youngest daughter Amber  met me for lunch.  It was great to see them all.  I sure do miss having Scott around.

the girls and friends at Disneyland.

I've finished Alan Wake on the Xbox 360!

This is a great game! I saw it at the Red Box and played the entire day. Mad and I immediately went out and bought it. According to Wikipedia; "The plot follows suspense-thriller writer Alan Wake in uncovering the mystery behind the disappearance of his wife while on vacation in idyllic small-town Bright Falls, and having to deal with blackouts and visions of characters and ideas from his latest novel, which he can't remember writing, coming to life." I have been playing for 3 -4 weeks now and finally I have finished it today! On my profile I broke the script and couldn't continue without starting over. Even though this happened I truly enjoyed the game. The ending of the game is not so clear so I will have to go online and see what everybody thinks. 5 stars ***** I watched the prequel to Alan Wake and even more questions arise.

Bright Falls

The Alan Wake Live Action Prequel Check out this blog site that tries to explain it all: http://brightfalls.blogspot.com/2010/05/bright-falls-explained.html

a nice fire in the backyard

look what the puddy tat brought me

M lost her retainers and guess where

She searched the whole house, the cars, anywhere but guess where we found them. After we dug in the trash for a half an hour there they were. Yea!

it looks like a jr employee is marking up the boards

at work late working on Umbraco

Bonsai show and lesson at the Garden Shop

YUKIYAMA BONSAI KAI had a very nice bonsai show. Good Job!

Me, Krissy, Scott and Brian having fun at the Aces game

Voting to put Harry Reid out of office

I voted early today and was 5th in line. Voting was fast and easy. I hope Harry Reid gets booted out of office. Go Tea Party.

@punkass and @aka_chachi recomended the Ranger India Pale Ale

You want one hoppy pale ale? I found it! Ranger India Pale Ale from New Belgium Brewing. WOW! Great Graphics!

Layer Cake from Argentina is procducing some fine wine, Malbec

I was digging around the grocery store for a new wine and noticed the Layer Cake Malbec 100%. It happened to be on sale from $18 to $12. I do love a good Malbec and I was not dissapointed. This wine was very smooth and had a lovely taste. A definate re-buy. My birthday is coming up so maybe a case of this will show up on my doorstrep. Hmmm.. or Mmmmm. You will not be dissapointed.