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Hotel Wailea in Maui

jape — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:17:47 +0000

Hotel Wailea, Maui, Hawaii

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Get Glue

jape — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:13:55 +0000

Recently I’ve been using this app from my Smartphone called Get Glue. Get Glue lets you “check in” when you are watching a TV Show, or Movie; or reading a book, drinking wine, thinking about a specific subject (which includes most anything). You can ‘friend’ other users of the app, and follow them, similar to Facebook or Foursquare. When you check in to certain movies or shows, others see your check in and can follow you. Also, when you check in to a specific show, movie or book a certain number of times, you can qualify for stickers, which Get Glue will mail to you for free once you obtain a certain number of them.

Also, Get Glue links to your Twitter or Facebook account and will update your status on each service whenever you check in to Get Glue itself. I’m adding a widget to this blog that will track my check ins. If anyone has an account on Get Glue, or wants to create one, add me as a friend. My username on there is kc5hwb.

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Avengers Trailer from the Super Bowl

jape — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 05:38:06 +0000

Loki: I have an Army
Tony Stark: We have a HULK!
/win

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Eviction Court Today

jape — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:46:14 +0000

We went to eviction court today for one of our tenants who is 4 months behnd on rent. She didnt show up at court so we won by default, but we would have won anyway, with TX being a landlord state. Court was at 10am this morning, after leaving work only 4 hours earlier. After it was over, I came home and went to sleep until about 5pm.

Tonight I am working some overtime hours from 11pm-5am. They offered a lot of OT hours at work this week, so I decided to take advantage of some for the extra cash. I’ll post more tomorrow…

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Gun Control Fails

jape — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:50:34 +0000

http://reason.com/archives/2002/11/01/gun-controls-twisted-outcome/singlepage

This article is from 2002, but it is awesome.

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Nothing Today

jape — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:47:36 +0000

That’s about what I did today: Nothing. I woke up around 1pm and watched TV for a while. I had plans to go up to my office and trade out some hardware, but I emailed the person I was supposed to meet, and he wasn’t in the office today.

Tomorrow I have a dentist appointment after work, so I’ll sleep even later than normal.

I did re-start my P90x workout again today. I took last week off due to vacation. It felt good to get back to it.

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CHL License Renewal

jape — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:39:36 +0000

It sure it easy to miss a day of posting if I am not paying attention. I’m trying to post every day, but obviously I might miss a day here and there.

Yesterday I finally renewed my CHL, which expired in March of 2011. You actually have a 1-year grace-period to renew the CHL license. If you wait longer than the 1-year point, you have to re-take the entire class over again, just like starting from scratch. I believe a background check and fingerprints are required again too.

In the renewal class, which costs less than the first-time class, all you have to do is attend a 2-hour classroom session, take the final exam (most of the questions are common sense, and the rest are updates on the law from the last test you took), and fire your gun at the range, scoring at least a 175 on the targets they use. Shooting is extremely easy. I scored a 243, which was actually lower than most of the others shooting with me. I need to put some practice time in at the pistol range.

The best place I have found to take the first-time test or renewal is Safe Shot in Ft Worth. Sgt Keith McGuire is a Ft Worth Police Officer, and he only charges $95 for the first class, and $60 for renewals. This includes all fingerprints, paperwork, etc…everything but the state fee for the actual license. When I took my original class from him 4 years ago, there were other teachers in the DFW area charging $150 or more for the same exact class. I would highly recommend Sgt McGuire; he makes the class fun, he is very well-informed on the laws of CHL, and he is easily accessible after the class is over, both through cell phone and email. There have been times during the year when I had a common question about a CHL law. I could email Sgt McGuire and receive a reply within a day or 2. He is always willing to help with any questions or issue you might have.

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Underworld: Awakening

jape — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:19:54 +0000

Just finished this movie, and it was a GREAT addition to the series!

I don’t want to give away too many spoilers for the movie, but it remains consistent to the storyline of the original 2 movies. The 3rd movie, being a prequel, also fits nicely into the franchise. This 4th installment left the door wide open for a 5th installment as well. I’m not saying who dies and who remains alive for the next movie, but I don’t think any fan of these movies will be disappointed.

The only disappointing this about this movie is that Michael Corvin is played by a different actor than Scott Speedman. Again, I don’t want to spoil too much, but Michael isn’t in very many scenes in this movie, so it didn’t make a large difference, but if they plan to have Michael appear in the next installment, I certainly hope that Scott Speedman accepts the role.

If you enjoyed the first 3 movies, you will like this one also. Its a good addition.

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Back from Maui

jape — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:09:24 +0000

We arrived home this morning around 7am from our red-eye flight from Hawaii. The first class cabin was comfortable enough to get some sleep in, but it wasn’t very comfortable sleep, so we both took a nap when we got home. Since waking up I haven’t done much today; I just had some cleanup to do around the house and some updating to do online on some blogs. I also am writing some reviews on the last couple of books that I read and will be posting them to my reading blog over at www.readingrookie.com

From the Maui trip, I have some additional photos and a couple of videos to post. I’d love to hear comments on them.

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Maui – Road to Hana

jape — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:37:06 +0000

Yesterday we drove the road to Hana, which is a 33-mile-or-so drive up a road through a mountain, which snaks along the edge of the island on the North-North East edges. It took aboout 3 hours to drive the 33 miles trip, but that was due to severral stops for photos and the limited spped limit, and of course the tight turns where youy have no choice to but slow down. It was a very fun drive overall, but tiring. Emily and I both took some good photos wwith oour phones. I made the mistake of leaving the media card for my camera at home. Rookie mistake, I know, but these days I don’t consider myseelf a professional photographer. I’m not sure I ever reaally did. I am an avid amaateur, with 20 years experience.

Today is beach day. We have noothiing planned but to lie on the beach. Tonight we are taking in a L

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