Not all that much to blog about recently. I thought about blogging last night while watching COPS, but my computer was already locked and the monitor off. I also though about blogging about our little family outing yesterday as well - but thinking about it and actually doing it are two different things. This morning, I probably could have blogged as well, but I guess it'll all go together well in this one large entry.
Yesterday, I went with the rest of my family up to the CaliforniaScienCenter to see BodyWorlds 2 - it's a pretty interesting display - though after a while, you can only see so many muscles and tendons and nerve endings. The most interesting part of the day was seeing the BodyWorlds 2 IMAX movie that went along with the exhibit. In the movie, you learn a bit about everything in the human body - from the parts of your eyes that burn off each day when you open them and expose them to light to being able to actually see inside a beating human heart. In the exhibit they also showed effects of various diseases on various body parts - from smoking on the lungs to cirrhosis of the liver - a very enlightening experience. After the trip to the CSC, we headed up Western to Pico and ate at the original El Cholo mexican restaraunt. Boy do they have good tamales there - not only are the tamales huge with a good amount of pork filling, but the sauce was amazing. Not too spicy, but just the right amount of kick. Bueno.
Last night after returning home, I watched COPS on FOX from 8-9 (can't miss a week of that great show) and it just amazes me how stupid criminals can be. They'll be riding in a stolen car with an AK-47 in the backseat (which the cops know - and if they know that, they're not going to take you down easily) and then when you run in the car and then bail out and run on foot, do you think they're just going to take it easy on you when they catch up? It was actually funny to see this criminal go down. He turned a corner while being chased by a cop and was confronted with another cop and the television crew. He knew his luck was up and he went down to the ground, but when the two cops jumped on top of him, he wondered why they were using so much force and then as he sat handcuffed in the cop car, he asked them to loosen the cuffs. The guy fires an AK-47 earlier, leads them on a chase in the car and runs on foot...and expects leniance? Just like the guy that entered a pursuit and drove home, ran inside, locked himself in a bathroom, and I guess he expected the cops not to chase him. Unfortunately, he was able to flush the dope before the cop could stop him, but they still got him on a nice wide range of charges.
This morning, following up on my COPS experience from the night before, my dad and I headed for the shooting range to test out the new pistol we're borrowing from one of my dad's friends. After the current class I'm in finishes up, the second part begins wherein we'll pretty much do target shooting for two weeks for a half credit I believe. After getting a quick review of the range rules and having the gun examined, my dad and I took turns firing five rounds at a time (range maximum) back and forth for a good hour (we went through 100 rounds). Though I did have some problems throughout (I think the sight isn't properly aligned), I got the hang of it quite quickly - which is both good and bad - the fact that just about anyone can pick up a handgun, aim it at a target, and most likely hit it is a scary thought. It just reinforces the idea that I have to get my act together while preparing for the academy. You can't let someone get your gun. You can't let someone hit you from behind and knock you out. You can't be the weakest person on the field of battle.
After returning home, I went out and got some more work done on the new addition. The windows are in now, so it's a bit easier to see where things are going. The electrician comes out tomorrow, so we've got post-its up where we need the electrical outlets along with the coax and the speaker cables. I can't wait to finally get moved into that room. I've been scouring the internet for movie poster frames and found a couple nice ones at a few other sites than the ones mentioned below - might be able to get the cost per frame down to about $90 each. Here's a new layout with a couple additions - light switches are now penciled in along with another coaxial outlet on the bottom wall - one per wall sounds like a good idea. Also added the two lights in the room to the scheme. Looks like I might be getting a ceiling fan on the lower half of the room which will be nice - because with those big windows facing the setting sun, that room gets hot during the summer. Real hot.
URL: The First American Corporation
Yesterday, I went with the rest of my family up to the CaliforniaScienCenter to see BodyWorlds 2 - it's a pretty interesting display - though after a while, you can only see so many muscles and tendons and nerve endings. The most interesting part of the day was seeing the BodyWorlds 2 IMAX movie that went along with the exhibit. In the movie, you learn a bit about everything in the human body - from the parts of your eyes that burn off each day when you open them and expose them to light to being able to actually see inside a beating human heart. In the exhibit they also showed effects of various diseases on various body parts - from smoking on the lungs to cirrhosis of the liver - a very enlightening experience. After the trip to the CSC, we headed up Western to Pico and ate at the original El Cholo mexican restaraunt. Boy do they have good tamales there - not only are the tamales huge with a good amount of pork filling, but the sauce was amazing. Not too spicy, but just the right amount of kick. Bueno.
Last night after returning home, I watched COPS on FOX from 8-9 (can't miss a week of that great show) and it just amazes me how stupid criminals can be. They'll be riding in a stolen car with an AK-47 in the backseat (which the cops know - and if they know that, they're not going to take you down easily) and then when you run in the car and then bail out and run on foot, do you think they're just going to take it easy on you when they catch up? It was actually funny to see this criminal go down. He turned a corner while being chased by a cop and was confronted with another cop and the television crew. He knew his luck was up and he went down to the ground, but when the two cops jumped on top of him, he wondered why they were using so much force and then as he sat handcuffed in the cop car, he asked them to loosen the cuffs. The guy fires an AK-47 earlier, leads them on a chase in the car and runs on foot...and expects leniance? Just like the guy that entered a pursuit and drove home, ran inside, locked himself in a bathroom, and I guess he expected the cops not to chase him. Unfortunately, he was able to flush the dope before the cop could stop him, but they still got him on a nice wide range of charges.
This morning, following up on my COPS experience from the night before, my dad and I headed for the shooting range to test out the new pistol we're borrowing from one of my dad's friends. After the current class I'm in finishes up, the second part begins wherein we'll pretty much do target shooting for two weeks for a half credit I believe. After getting a quick review of the range rules and having the gun examined, my dad and I took turns firing five rounds at a time (range maximum) back and forth for a good hour (we went through 100 rounds). Though I did have some problems throughout (I think the sight isn't properly aligned), I got the hang of it quite quickly - which is both good and bad - the fact that just about anyone can pick up a handgun, aim it at a target, and most likely hit it is a scary thought. It just reinforces the idea that I have to get my act together while preparing for the academy. You can't let someone get your gun. You can't let someone hit you from behind and knock you out. You can't be the weakest person on the field of battle.
After returning home, I went out and got some more work done on the new addition. The windows are in now, so it's a bit easier to see where things are going. The electrician comes out tomorrow, so we've got post-its up where we need the electrical outlets along with the coax and the speaker cables. I can't wait to finally get moved into that room. I've been scouring the internet for movie poster frames and found a couple nice ones at a few other sites than the ones mentioned below - might be able to get the cost per frame down to about $90 each. Here's a new layout with a couple additions - light switches are now penciled in along with another coaxial outlet on the bottom wall - one per wall sounds like a good idea. Also added the two lights in the room to the scheme. Looks like I might be getting a ceiling fan on the lower half of the room which will be nice - because with those big windows facing the setting sun, that room gets hot during the summer. Real hot.
URL: The First American Corporation
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