Well third time is not a charm, but I did manage to get to the vista this time. I did manage to get within 100 feet or so of the cache, but where my GPS said I was and the hints provided didn’t match up. I had been hiking for about two hours at that point so I didn’t care. Reaching the top was enough.
View from the Airport Vista
Some ferns
View from the Pico Vista
A frog, or toad.
Oh boy, lots of stuff going on.
I went on vacation last week on my annual trip to AC. I took about $250 to play around with and the idea that I would put everything else on credit card. Well I ended up putting nothing on the card, and payed for everything (2 nights in the Tropicana hotel, food, a pretty big shopping spree, etc.) with cash and still brought home about $600. I’m considering trying to become a professional poker player now 🙂 I also ended up with a nice sunburn even though it was so hazy I couldn’t see 100 yards away.
My uncle Johnny Dente died on Monday. He was 81. I bet there’s one hell of a pitch game going on now with him, my dad and my uncle Walt. He even asked my aunt Ruthie to marry him again on his death bed. Stuff like that just kills me.
TSW returned to the Armory on my birthday Saturday. This is the first time I actually got to work in those hallowed halls (not counting the 10 seconds I was in a battle royal at the last show there in 2001). I had Hale Collins vs G.G. Von Bathory, Cheech vs. Swinger Sidusky vs. Jav Calero for the Zero Gravity title, and Punk vs. Hoss in a Old School Hardcore match for the Heavyweight title. Hoss “broke” his wrist during the match, but kept going. Then he was supposted to take a back body drop out of the ring through two tables, but came up about 2 feet short and just bumped on the ground.
Sunghee got me a new air conditioner for my birthday, but the included hardware to mount it didn’t fit. None of the screws actually fit in the holes. I had the freakin’ electic drill on that and I couldn’t get any of them in. So we returned it. We were going to get a replacement, but about half of them had already been opened and then taped shut so I guess some other people were having the same problems I was. We ended up just getting a refund and got one from a different store.
Newest member of the household. BTW “Houk-tauk” is Korean for “food”, and I’d be much more amused if we named a dog that, but it works pretty good for a cat too.
The miniture train in Quechee started running for the season on Saturday, and CJ loves trains, so we were there. I also found that they had a pretty neat toy and doll museum, and I was all over that.
CJ and Sunghee on the Merry Go ‘Round
Robin consoles the stoned monkey.
I used to have one of these guys. It’s apparently from the ’50s, just after WWII. I guess it was my brother’s or sister’s toy and it stayed around for me. It was strange seeing a copy of a toy I used to have in a museum. But it’s not as strange as…
Holy Crap! That’s where my Etch-a-Sketch went to. The kid next door kept taking my stuff and saying it was his. So my mom would write my name on all my stuff. That didn’t stop him, as he went off to private school a little later and kept my stuff there. Then, somewhere in the next 20 years, the thing was sold at one or more yard sales / flea markets until the curator of the museum found it and made it an attraction. I told this story to the woman running the museum, and she wanted to give it back to me. I declined as if I really want a Etch-a-Sketch I’ll go buy a new one.
At the end of the museum is a couple model railroads set up. One was very very detailed with mountains and what not. After closer inspection I found some disturbing scenes:
Poor cow, she seems to have slipped down under the train tracks.
It’s the General Lee going to get Uncle Jesse out of jail!
Will noone help this poor woman up?
Or this man? Is this from The Sopranos?
Can anyone make out the license plate? Or maybe they’re stopping to help?
This reminds me of Fargo.
Sunghee’s back from Korea, and look what she brought me:
It’s actually from her brother, but this is probably one of the coolest things I’ve ever been given.
