I went fishing for a couple of hours in my kayak. It was hot as hell, but still enjoyable. I only caught one keeper, but it was a good one.
6-26-09
I'm not sure why I'm just checking out L.B. Houston, but I went for the first time on Tue. I rode on at lunch, so I didn't have much time. I did about 3 or 4 miles. It was flat and not really technical, but very much fun. I went back again on Thur with with a buddy from work, and did a few more miles of the trail, and found out they have this cool area with a bunch of ramps.
I'm not much of a daredevil, and really don't have the skills to get the full effect of these ramps, but just going over them and messing around on them was so cool. I went back on Friday just to screw around and I took some video. Here are a couple of video caps.
6-21-09
Here's the new design. It is so far from being finished, but I put it up anyway. There's a lot of little programming things that I have not done yet, but I'm a little wore out on it for now. I spend a lot of time on it this weekend, and I just wanted to have it up by Monday... ready or not.
Leave a comment if you have one. There's no filter besides stripping out HTML tags, so I know it won't take long to get the Spammers get to it, but I'll put some filter on it a little later. You would think I wouldn't need to worry about that. It's not like I get much traffic, but they find those forms don't they. There is no <form> tag, so maybe that's part of what their Bots look for. Who knows.
The "Images" and "Audio" buttons don't work yet, but I will that working shortly. The Video Player still needs scrubber and volume controls, so you will have to control the volume with your computer for now.
You can go to my MySpace page to check out some tunes, or to my YouTube page to watch more videos.
6-9-09 Opening Bell
Frog
Turtle
Sun 5-24-09
I went see Queensryche at the House of Blues. They were really really good. I had not really kept up with them for the past few albums, but they are alive and well.
Geoff Tate
Scott Rockenfield
Geoff with his daughter, who sang on a song, and on the new album.
Sat 5-23-09
It's car-fixing time. I have this freakin' exhaust leak that I have had fixed about a half-dozen times. So I decided to take a crack at it.
For starters, to get to the problem I had to removed the front wheel.
I was not feeling very good about getting under my truck while it was on this flimsy-looking jack
Here's the problem. The bolts keep coming loose and my truck sounds like a tractor. They have tried putting lock washers, but I don't see any washers. You can see that the bolt on the right is way loose.
As with most car repairs, the workspace is the hard part. It's getting to the part and having room to work. This repair seemed simple, but it was tough to wedge my hand in there and find room to turn the ratchet.
So as luck woudl have it, after my first few tries of turning the bolt, I sliced my thumb on a sharp edge.
After a quick thumb repair, it's back to auto repair.
I was able to tighten both bolts and my truck is significantly quieter, but still pretty loud. I probably need to replace the gasket, but it's livable for now.
Sun 4-19-09
April and I played at Camp Tyler for the Earth Day celebration.
April on a log.... heh, heh
What a fu!*&ing Cow!
Does somebody need a hug?
Lake Tyler
Me on a hay ride. I was actually sitting on actual hay. Really.
Fri 4-11-09
Rehearsal on the patio
If next Sunday is like this Saturday was, the Earth Day Celebration at Camp Tyler show will be very cool.
Fri 4-10-09
Nothing like a day off...
Here's my fishing stance.
First fish of the day. It took all freakin' day, but finally...
Second fish, and it was a nice big fat sand bass. It was probably full of eggs. She was released, as were all the fish we caught. Not that I have a problem keeping them, but we didn't catch enough to really have a meal.
Thur 4-9-09 Damaged Faith Rehearsal
Joey singing "Have Gun, Will Shoot"
Tue 3-31-09
Chick Corea & John McLaughlin 5 Peace Band
with Brian Blade. Kenny Garrett & Christian McBride (House of Blues)
Sat 2-26-09
Chester in his Flower Power Bug.
"Peace, Love, and Pho"
Sat 2-21-09
David Harbour and I did a house concert at Anderson Guitar Gallery in Frisco, TX.
I played a few solo acoustic songs, then Dave and played a few songs together. Then we played a few more songs with Dave on piano. It was a cool intimate show. I hope do more in the future.
April Samuels came out in support, but unfortunatly she is out of commision for a little while until she gets her new elbow implants. Hopefully soon 49th Vibration will be in action.
Troy Thibodeaux
solo and duo acoustic show
Sat Feb 21st at Anderson Guitar Gallery in Frisco, TX. - MAP
Show starts at 7 pm.
Troy will be opening for and playing with David Harbour.
Troy and Dave will be playing together on songs from the 49th Vibration catalogue.
(49th V drummer April Samuels is out of commission for a few weeks due to an injury she suffered in a gang fight. I think she's a Blood, but I'm not sure.)
Troy and Dave will also be playing individual solo sets, and Dave will play solo bass and solo piano pieces. It should be a fun time.
Listen to 49th Vibration at www.myspace.com/49thvibration
Listen to David Harbour at www.myspace.com/pauldavidharbour
Anderson Guitar Gallery
7185 Main St.
Frisco TX 75034
214-387-4050
www.andersonguitargallery.com
info@andersonguitargallery.com
MAP
Tue 2-3-09
My work tossed me a couple of sweet Dallas Stars tickets. It was a great game. The Stars beat the Flames 3-1. We were 5 rows off of the glass. The Stars are on a five game winning streak and have really rebounded from a slow start. They got rid of the nut, Avery, and seemed to get their team chemistry back.
Matt Niskanen
Marty Turco
Thur 1-22-09
Joey Gates and I talked about doing a Damaged Faith show, and we talked to Chad Litersky about playing drums. He said he was in, so the first rehearsal actually happened.
1-12-09
Birthday crawfish dinner at Nate's. Kick Ass!
1-10-09
Nothing like good food, good friends, good beer, and football.
In this picture you see Popeye's fried chicken, Zapps potatoe chips, Tabasco, searfood gumbo, Ayinger Dunkel Weiss beer, and some garlic french bread. Not too shaby of a spread I would say. And there is a salad back there somewhere.
We watched the Arizona and Carolina playoff game. I really felt bad for Jake after the game. He was not at his best. I hope this is not a sign that he is done.
Along with the seafood for the gumbo, I picked up some bouding at Bayou Brothers.. It was pretty good. Not "Best Stop, Don's, Early's" good, but pretty good.
1-5-09
Someone lost their Christmas bunny.
1-2-09
I went for a walk at Arbour Hills and took Daisy. It was sensory overload for her.
