Disher Family Fodder
Thursday morning…
Dad, I and a couple other guys are heading for the motorcycle holy land in West Virginia. That’s the location of this years FJR Eastern Owners Meet (or EOM).
We’ll meet up in east gate around 8am and then head to Lewisburg, taking scenic twisties along the way and avoiding all the highways we can.
Test embeding Google Maps:
We’re looking at 3+ days of fun riding the mountain roads… More later…
Wow, what a game. I think *most* Bengals fans expected a win. But nobody expected this.
The talk of the town today will be the ‘D’ and with good reason.
When a team give you 6 turnovers, or a +4 differential you need to win by more than 7, and the game shouldn’t come down to a goal line stand.
The O? What the… Carson is awesome, no doubt about it, but that might as well have been Kitna. No wait, Kitna would have made a few more of those short passes that were just bad. Over thrown, on the wrong shoulder, behind the receiver. Was he trying to get TJ killed? Carson didn’t have a good night.
The D? Much more aggressive than anyone thought, but if it wasn’t for the fact that the Ravens ‘gave’ us this game by virtue of (6) turnovers. It would have been much uglier.
The corners still need work. A more mobile QB would have killed us last night.
Rudi, lets talk about Rudi. 18 carries for 50 years, one of those a 15 yarder, nice, but the highlight still was his give away. 1 good run by Rudi late in the game isn’t what we need. We’ll take it, but Rudi needs to make an impact, early in the game, not when the game is already decided. Take away the 15 yarder and you have 17 carries for 35 yards. That’s horrible, I don’t care who the other defense is. His fumble let the Ravens back in the game. I certainly hope he’s buying the defense dinner because they saved his bacon.
All in all though, that was probably one of the most up/down/exciting Bengal games I’ve watched in a long time.
Chad? That celebration was weak…
Well it didn’t quite take a year, but it seems like it.
We started finishing the attic a while ago. The roof is now completely enclosed, and we cleaned, and cleaned, and painted this weekend. It’s almost ready to move in. This past weekend Claudine too Maria to Vermont to visit relatives. Maggie, Molly, Michael and I attacked the attic ‘trading-spaces’ style.
This was the perfect opportunity. On that show you turn over a room someone who you trust (hopefully). While they are totally changing your room, you have no say in what stays or goes, what they toss, or how things are done. That was the logic behind last weekend. With Claudine out of town, she wouldn’t have any say on what we tossed during the clean out phase or what we painted either.
The photos below don’t do it justice. I didn’t take good photos of all the crap we has stored up there. While we all like the ‘natural’ wood look, the attic isn’t as bright as we wanted, and since we’ll be moving two girls up there, it wasn’t very ‘girly’ either. It turned out really well.
Now we need to tackle the air-conditioning or lack-there-of problem. We’re looking at installing a stand alone PACT unit up there.
More on that later.
Photos:
All I can say is WOW! She’s not getting charged… I previously wrote how this really bothered me here.
It was all over talk radio today.
I ‘get’ that she has to live with this the rest of her life.
But this lady… Put her 2 year old in the car, and then ‘forgot’? So this lame duck prosecutor says this doesn’t make the grade for ‘Child Endangering’, it is clearly negligent.
I *knew* as soon as I read that she drove a Mercedes that no charges would be filed. This is absolutely crazy.
“While he believes Nesselroad-Slaby’s actions were a substantial lapse of due care, White said, they didn’t rise to the level of recklessness.”
Isn’t that the grand jury’s job to decide?
You ‘forget’ where you put your keys, you don’t ‘forget’ where you put a 2 year old, when they are strapped into a car seat on a 95+ degree day.
She even went back out to the car to get donuts…
“Usually, “she dropped the child off (at 7 a.m.) before she went to school,” Croswell said. “She started to go to the baby-sitter but realized at 6:30 a.m. that she would be a half-hour early.”
Nesselroad-Slaby “turned around and went to pick up the doughnuts and focused on her school projects and became distracted and forgot she had not yet dropped the child off,” Croswell said.”
So she ‘forgot’ to drop the child off? How do you do that? I’d tell you how, but this is a family oriented blog. I would bet good money that if you checked her cell phone she probably used it on the way to work. It’s people that like this that scare the hell out of me when I ride my motorcycle.
She was focused on her donuts and school projects…
Accidents happen, I get that, but this accident killed someone.
I didn’t produce these routes, the fine folks putting on this shin-dig get all the credit.
The thread with info about these routes is [here]
I’ve posted them here for convenience sake…
I have stuffed all of the .GPX routes into one Mapsource .GDB file here: ALL EOM-07 Routes in one GDB File.
(I have pushed these routes, through this file to my Zumo, then from the menu, chose ‘User Data’, Routes, select them, import, and it works nicely. I cannot comment on how well this will work or not work for any other device.)
For those folks who are GPS impaired, I’ve bundled up the Adobe PDF text directions for all routes and put them here:
All EOM_Text_Directions in one handy .zip file.
This should include all the latest changes that have been blessed by Heidi. If not, then they’ll be updated again.