Marine World

Well, yesterday we were able to go to Six Flags Marine World with some of our friends. We had a great time! Jeremy and Kristi had four free passes that they got when they bought their season passes so Steve, Trish, Brenda and I all got in for free. Chuck was able to go to, but he had to pay half price. Anyway, we rode all the roller coasters and then watched a bunch of shows. We even got to see a guy eat fire, lay on a bed of nails with 5 people standing on him and hold a cup of water on the end of a chain attached to fish-hooks which he hooked into his bottom eyelids. Very Exciting!!! Oh yeah, we saw the killer whale show aswell and it was really cool!!

I know it's hard to see, but I found this picture on the net, this is exactly what the guy did with the fish hooks, and I am fairly certain it's the same guy! Check out this website for a little info about this guy. He's pretty cool!

This is the killer whale that we got to watch perform.

His name is Shouka and he was really cool. All in all, I would say our trip was a great success. Thanks for taking us Jeremy and Kristi!

Home is where the router is.

Yes, many say home is where the heart is, but for Brenda and me it definitely starts to seem like home when the internet is up and running.
Just the other day I was able to buy my wireless router. (hence, the title) I bought a D-Link DI-624.

For anyone who doesn't know, this allows me to have a wireless internet connection throughout my house and it also lets me network all of the computers in my house wirelessly or through ethernet cables. Pretty exciting stuff if you're me!!! Much to my surprise, the ethernet hub that I was networking through previously was dramatically slowing down my internet connection speed. I can now happily report that I am getting full use of my 3MB internet connection.

In other news, I got part of my aquarium lid finished, but I still need to do a little finish work prior to posting any pictures. Also, we got our queen mattress for our extra room this morning so now we have some room for guests!! Come see us!

New home for the turtles!

Well, yesterday all of the things I ordered for my aquarium arrived. I bought a filter made for up to a 50 gallon tank even though I only have a 20 gallon. I am hoping that it will keep this tank very clean so that I don't have to clean it very often. I also got a new heater to keep the turtles warm over the winter months. Now I just need to make a new top for the aquarium so that I can mount the lights where they will look nice. If anyone knows where I can get some stuff to make a smooth flowing waterfall that won't take up the entire tank please let me know!! Once I get all of this finished I will post a picture.

My favorite carnivores are eating the fish!

Well, last night Charter finally came out and hooked up my internet. Although there are still a few problems that they are coming back to work on, I do have a decent internet connection once again!!!
We had Neil and Alicia over last night and Neil convinced me to go and get some feeder fish and see if the turtles would eat them. So far the only ones they have eaten are the one with a messed up tail that couldn't swim very fast and the one that swam up the filter tube. When I let him out he was pretty slow as well. I also bought a sucker fish and he is doing his best to clean up the aqaurium. Anyway, I am really enjoying my turtles and can't wait until next week when I get their new heater and filter!!



They really like to sit on this rock and breathe.



Can you believe this cute little guy is a cold blooded killer??

I nearly forgot to ask, what do you think of all the changes to my blog?? Make sure and check out the new video!!

Changing my font color, finally.

So Grandad, is blue easier to read??? I got a special request the other day from one of my loyal readers to change my font color to make it easier to read my blog. Of course I will change it, I don't want anyone to struggle to read this valuable, informative blog!! Anyway, I hope this is better. Please, anyone not using Firefox, I don't know how this looks on your browser, you have to let me know if you can't view it in all its glory!

Anyway, I am sorry for the lack of posting recently, but Charter still hasn't hooked up my high speed connection at the new house so I have been waiting on them. I want to post a new video and change my song again, but I can't do these things in a reasonable amount of time from this dial up connection. Anyway, I am supposed to have internet again on Wednesday, but with the record Charter now has with me, I don't expect that to happen. Hopefully though, the next time I post I will be back on the internet super highway instead of this rough dirt road!!