Birthday Today

So its my birthday today..


I took this photo of Ben Stillers house in Hollywood. I love it... I will have one of these.....

also I took this photo of my cars...... also chalk one of these for me for each day of the week.

Guitar fun

My girls and their cousins came over one day and they wanted to make a video so we all went in the backyard and had them play guitar and goof around. It was fun. Here is the result.. Oh yeah this was about a year ago. So Kaylen has no front teeth.

p.s. as always..... pause the music player to watch.
Backyardagirls

King of LA

I figured I get to do some fun stuff every now and then and I figured why not go back and retro fit this blog with some older stories and what not.

Last summer We all went to my cousins wedding in LA. The day before there was the King of LA comp. in Downtown LA and the community college. We were there about an hour and a half and I got some footage there. Mostly amature skating but some pros where there. Danny Way, Colling McKay were the two well known names. They were not skating but there for autographs and what not. We were hoping to see Rib Dyrdek and Big Black but we had to leave early. Anyway we had fun, my brother Chad came with us. It was good times.

Here is a little vid I put together of the event. Pause the music player on the right if you want to here the video.

DC King of LA

A family that rides together stays together.

So as most of you know I am a snowboarder of about 16 years or more now. Nothing can take me from it. My kids now are catching the bug and hopefully we can have the opportunity to go more often in the future. Heather has been excited to learn to but something always seems to get in the way, so this year we are committing to the whole family riding the lift and learning for real. I look forward to the day that Heather and the girls can keep up and we can all go fast and get hurt together. It will be a good day when we all four can drop into East Bowl at Summit and get some first tracks in a foot and a half of fresh on a perfect blue sky day. For now we are learning on the beginner hill and having a great time. Of course the speed limit is limited on the "bunny hill" but I never pay attention to that anyway, but someday the family will be carving big GS turns at 40mph down express. Will be good times for sure. For now we are happy sharing the best breakfast burritos ever at summit and watching the kids have fun.

Official Burton Snowboard Tester

So the head guy from Burton R&D called up a while back and asked me to test some new fangled mini board for the park. I figured sure why not. So I meat them at Summit and grabbed what sure looked like nothing more than a couple lunch trays duct taped together ( yes that is how "duct" tape is spelled). So anyway I take the board up on the hill and begin strapping in. I was hopefull but had my doubts. So did the other kids around me. Take a look at the photo and you'll see what I mean. Anyway if you have not yet figured out the above info is not entirely accurate, well now you know. Truth is that its my daughters board and figured I would give it a whirl. It worked for about 30 feet before toe drag got the better part of my skills. But with 5 inches of toe drag it was inevitable.

Redneck Ingenuity

So I saw this and had to comment on it. Hands down I have to admit I love redneck ingenuity. I am sure the story on this one goes something like this:

"Hey sugar hips, come here a sec, I got and idea."
"what do you want earl"
"Well, I was thinking we should open a Vegas style high-rise theamed motel with all these extra trailers laying around."
"Hot damn! That is a great idea, Lets do it!

Broken Elbow Update

So.............Anyone who knows me knows I have a dangerous life. I am a secret agent, chase bad guys down in south-east Fresno, attempt to clean my kids room, etc., etc. However the real danger we all know is my habitual nature to throw myself off of perfectly good cliffs and spin recklessly through the air on my snowboard. I am not quite as daring as I once was, and never would claim to be a master of the skateboard, more of a recreational user. They have therapy groups for guys like me: old skaters anonymous.

So one day about 12 weeks ago,I am on the way home from Modesto out taking photos, and I was passing through Madera when I noticed the skate park there starring me right in the face. Well it just so happens that the park is more like a park of the 70's then a modern cement paradise. I also conveniently had my gear in the trunk. So I pulled off the road to get a quick 10 minute session. Sure enough about 10 minutes later I ate it really hard when in all reality I was not doing anything crazy. I was barely rolling. Wish I could say I was was setting the bar for Tony Hawk and Shawn White but such was not the case.


So I figured I was only bruised real bad and I was ok. I get home and told Heather I fell and that I am alright. Well about 30-45 minutes later I was like; "Heather, I think I need to go to the Hospital." So off we go. Now here is where is gets interesting. I was already in the hospital earlier that day with my daughter Kaylen who was having some asthma probs and her doctors office was closed. So I sat in the ER yet again for a second time that day, waiting in terrible pain. After about a day later or so the guy comes in and says yeah you got a broken elbow. So sucks to be me.

All in all after a visit to the ortho I learned that my arm did not need surgery. My boss yelled at me, which is funny because technically he is not my boss as I am a 1099 contractor, anyway regardless the guy never said sorry hope all is well or nothing. Anyway...........12 weeks later I am fine and healed up well, minus the scar tissue, which still makes some tasks hard to accomplish. I am in the gym as often as time allows to do some self therapy on it and the arm is getting better each week. But the cool thing is and fact remains, that even with the broken elbow, I can still ride better than most so even for an older guy and will be back on the board soon.