too much time on his hands?

One of harley's latest works. I have some other views i will post later.

too short, what?

He don't need no stinking benches! Haha... But he loves the sound it makes.

done (again)

Well, I made it through the first week of school again.  And I only had to miss 1 day! haha... I guess I didn't hide from all the sickness going around well enough.

I ended up getting a stomach bug, and well, I didn't think I would be able to make it across campus, so I had to miss 1 day.

But I think it should be an ok semester.  But only time (and grades) will show.. lol...

the boy that keeps on growing

A good smile and a full belly after a hearty meal. Sounds like his father! Ha ha...

"why?", that is the question

You have to love it when they cover a perfectly good road with tar and gravel!

t-shirt idea

This is a t-shirt idea that Harley came up with for me. This will be for when I get my Jmo site up and running, which is on hold at the moment due to school and work. But anyway, take a look at it and see what you think.



From Harley at www.harleylewis.com.

and it begins again

Yes it does.  It is like something that can't be escaped!  As much as you want it to go away, you know that you have to stay.

SCHOOL!

I started back to school this morning.  I'm taking Speech and Micro Econ.  I think it will not be too difficult.  However, the prof I have for Micro Econ seems to give about the hardest test I have ever taken.  My Speech prof is also the director of the theatre department.  So he is a bit out there.  But pretty darn funny.

So if I can just find a parking place closer than a mile away from campus then I will be on easy street! haha..

old phonograph

This is an old Edison Standard Phonograph that Randi's folks came across while going through Randi's grandparents stuff for the estate sale last weekend. The best part is that it actually works! The only thing they have to do is to replace the needle and it should work. They have the horn and everything. It is really neat!

awesome shirt ideas

I don't know how I ended up there, but there is a site called Busted Tees that makes just funny shirts. Or at least I think they are funny. And one of them is of an idea that I posted earlier that Harley had drawn on my board!

busy weekend

Randi and I helped her family with her grandparent's estate/garage sale.  It was a busy two days.  Friday started at about 5:30 am (getting my butt out of bed that is).  Her uncle said that there were people waiting to get in the shop at about 6:30 and the sale didn't start until 7!  So needless to say, a vast majority of the items went out on Friday.

Saturday Randi took the kids and went over to help while I did the house work  and grocery shopping for us.  And from what Randi said, the majority of what was left was gone that day.  So the family did really well in getting a lot of the stuff moved.  And there was some really nice items!

It seems as though we might have everybody over their sicknesses (I hope).  So maybe things will calm down just a bit.  But now I have to start school this week.  Normally I would be somewhat looking forward to it, but this semester is going to be tough.  My boss is going to be out for a month starting this week, I still have two developers out and the office building we are in keeps flooding.  So what a great time to try to be thinking of studying! haha...

just fiddling

First, thanks for the news in your comment on the previous post! Yes, DKM releasing a new album is awesome! I can't wait to hear it!

On another note, I am playing with a new site. That is right, as if you don't have enough to look at online everyone, soon you will be able to visit jmo.jonandrandi.com. Don't try to hit it yet, there is nothing there. Heck, the sub-domain doesn't even exist yet.

This is going to be my personal site for my portfolio, resume, mobile blog and lab. The lab I am pretty excited about. I am going to try and get back into programming. I would like to get up-to-speed on Wordpress too, and be able to build my own plugins. Right now it is just a time thing. In that I have none!

But I am showing off just a template that I have been playing with today. It will feature the logo that The Awesome Harley Lewis created for me. So I am really stoked. Anyway, not sure on a release date or anything. This is one of those things that I will work on in my "spare time". Which right now is about 5 or so minutes per week! haha... Later all!

the house of the sick

Well it has been really fun this week.  It seems that just about everyone has been sick, except me (knock on wood!)

Randi was down for several days with strep throat, Dylan was up at nights and coming home with fever from day care with an ear infection that we have cleared up now,  and now Kaitlyn has some viral "thing" that is going around that gives the kids fever and a hurt stomach for several days before it goes away.

So I guess it is true what they say, when it rains it pours.  Me, well, I haven't felt too bad yet.  However, I figure it is just a matter of time! haha....

randi's anniversary present!

From what we can tell, this is a 1973 Kimball. This piano belonged to Randi's grandma, and she kept it in very good shape.

rubber car video 2

This is the second video in the collection.  For this one, I placed my hand that was holding the phone on the wheel, so the phone was shaking like crazy!

Anyway, I thought these were kind of cool, so I thought I would put them on here (well, in YouTube actually).

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpOYiOX2qeA[/youtube]

i just kill me sometimes, awesome rubber car!

So I was driving home yesterday at about 65 miles an hour and my arms were about to fall off becuase my steering wheel was shaking so much that I thought it was going to break off.

I had a tire (front driver side) fixed. Well, they decided to swap the front and back tires on the same side. Needless to say, NOT A GOOD DEAL! At about 70 mph, it felt like the front tires were actually bouncing off the road! Anyway, I thought "this is kind of cool, I need to record this!"

So what do you know, I did. :) haha.. What turned out was really pretty cool! Do you remember back when you were younger and you discovered the cool rubber pencil deal? It is where if you hold a pencil by the end and shake it rapidly up and down it looks like it bends. Well, in this video, my arm with the watch was holding the wheel and shaking rapidly. My other hand (not shaking) was holding the camera phone. Thus, giving a cool "rubber" effect. This is video 1 of 2. Now watch it severel times to realy get a feel for it. If you look around my hand you will notice I haven't slowed the video down or anything (looking at the landscape going by).
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuFIzw5yMXI[/youtube]

fun office stuff

As some of you know, I work with this crazy cat named Harley Lewis (www.harleylewis.com). Harley is a designer/artist/guitarist/signer/songwriter/illustrator/(and I am sure I am forgetting some).

Here is a little of his work to give you a good laugh.

This one I will call "The Pacifist's Keyboard".



This one, well, my nickname around here is "Jmo" as you might have guessed by some of the links on the site. And you know, EVERYBODY needs their own corporate identity!



He is actually going to work this up in Illustrator so I can use it! How awesome is that!! haha..

Now for those of you that are laughing, trust me, this guy is good! Just check out his portfolio stuff on his site! (harleylewis.com)

everbody needs a logo

Courtesy of Harley Lewis (harleylewis.com). This is how we brainstorm! haha... Hey, we really do work!! I promise!

the next business keyboard

I think this says it all!

Courtesy of Harley Lewis (harleylewis.com). Another brainstorming session. Well, actually we just wanted to waste time towards the end of the day! lol...

watch for falling debris

As you may have noticed, things are going a bit nuts on the site right now.  One's first thought would be "man, they are having some bad server screw-ups!"  However, that is not the case.  The problem is a web developer runs this site! haha..

On occasion I try to mix things up a bit and make this site more interesting, however, in doing so I tend to mess things up.  So you should be able to access all the neat stuff that was here before, but as you are checking all that stuff out, I am trying to add new stuff to.

So from time to time you might access this site and get "Page Cannot Be Displayed", but don't loose heart, just know that it is me...  playing away!

My old tie

KC sporting my uncles old.