OZFellalivinginMN: Keira eats spaghetti

OZFellalivinginMN: Keira eats spaghetti

Keira eats spaghetti

Sorry but I cant get enough of this girl and how she devours food

Some different pics from my Bday

Keira eats tacos...

Hard not to blanket judge

Every week or every other week we get emails on campus regarding crime reports... for the last 18mths every one of them has at least one story like this... let me be clear.. I have many black, brown or yellow friends who I enjoy hanging out with, so dont go that route you were thinking....!!!


On Thursday, September 12 at approximately 10:20 p.m. a University of Minnesota student was the victim of an armed robbery. The crime occurred four blocks off campus, near the intersection of 11th Avenue SE and 7th Street SE (see map below).

The victim and a friend were walking northbound on 11th Avenue when they encountered a group of six black males. As they walked through the group, the suspects surrounded the victim and one of the suspects pointed a gun. The suspects took the victim's purse that included an iPhone and other valuables, and the group of suspects fled. Neither the victim nor her friend was injured.

The only description available is for the suspect who pointed the gun. He is described as a black male, approximately five feet, ten inches tall, between 20 and 25 years old and wearing dark clothing.



EVERY one of these reports has the same description of the assailant... does that mean we are just racist? or is there an issue within this community regarding the way they raise their youth? Notice he had a gun... I am guessing also he wasnt legally licensed to carry it either.. but lets not take his gun away.. lets just take the law abiding citizens guns away...

This country is failing and fast... the whole moral system is getting turned upside down... this is what happens when the squeekiest wheel gets all the attention... minorities get the majority... typically there is a reason they are in the minority... and its a mentality issue... same as the whole racist crap... A black teen can call me a cracker, and that is a term of endearment (cause I carry a whip and a slave around with me), but if I on the other hand call him a N.......ice fellow, you could guarantee Id be in jail for a few days and Jesse Jackson would be walking down the street in front of a camera...

times are a changing.. and soon I will be carrying my gun EVERYWHERE.. even to work...

because GOOGLE are idiots...

1. walkingtonkids@gmail.com
   
   Apparently they dont exist... you sign up for an email account, have it for 12mths, and apparently because you dont fit 'their' profile to use google + you apparently dont exist...  morons... its so the kids can have their own email to email family from America back in Australia... its an EMAIL address you dumbasses...
   
   walkingtonkids@gmail.com

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   there is this enough referring to them for you at google.............................

Playing with the new phone

Notice anything strange in this picture??

Spring Clean before Winter

Its that time of year... where the bug that's been biting my ass to get my workshop cleaned up and re-organized has finally kicked into gear...

Every year it happens... over the previous months the junk collects, usually on top of any open flat surface... ie: if I need to weld something right now I would need a 4 hr lead time to clean the area before starting...

I have a pallet full of junk metal (not to mention crap inside the workshop) that I am too lazy to drive 45 mins to a recycling place as it is usually full of people and the line takes forever and... well it pays off regardless of the PIA it is...  last time I took half a trailer of scarp up and came away with $400 but that's cause I also had a couple of converters...

One of the things I achieved was moving my shelving with a bunch of 'crap' into the basement.. then I sorted out all of my Birchwood Casey targets.. Ava sometimes doesn't think through her questions but after all she is only 7 years old... She walks into the workshop and sees the wall... and asks.. "Are you shooting your gun in here now?"... No dear, your Mother wouldn't like that much...

Oh and my buddy informs me now that he is considering selling his car.. my dream car.. the car I convinced him that if he ever sold it (he said he wouldn't ever) I had the first dibs...

OK OK... so that isnt really the car... this is

Karen took me to Treasure Island Casino overnight on saturday night... both our nights were ruined when for her the BINGO was too damn expensive to play and she wanted me to play which doubled the cost, so then we went searching for the UFC fight... casino doesn't play it, so then up to our room where we find out the casino doesn't do PPV even though their directory tells you the way to disable PPV channels... So then after Karen got nice and cozy in the hot tub I decided lets go find it somewhere.. so an hour later we return to our room after failing to find anywhere in podunksville that had it on their screens....

So tv and chips in our room it was...

here is a pic of the hot tub-san Karen... hehehe

and here is some of the kids at MMA...

MMA Combatants Training (clickable link)

It been some time

It has been some time since I posted or wrote  a blog...  I just assume that seeing as I am always updating facebook I dont have much else to write about..

so I figured I would post some pics...


some things I have made or helped make at work lately...

The kids have started in the combatants classes which mean they pad up and punch/kick each other....  Quaid is doing well.. Ava would do better but she gets paired with Jentzen and he tends to space out a lot... although the other day he said I will do good today can I do the combat class.. he lasted about 15mins then started spacing.. hahaha.. but man at the cabin with his mates, he will do a 2 punch then a round kick to their stomach (when they have a life jacket on) and he pulls the kick perfectly and the punches.. crazy

It takes two to school the kids

One to organize and do it.. The other to oversee and capture it.

Not a PYJAMA Party

Well 2 days ago I started with my first class of Jiu-Jitsu at American Top Team.  Being my first lesson is mixed with other levels of students, I figured it wouldnt be a bad idea to learn the basics, but the class is mixed with a variety of belt levels.

The first lesson was torture.. The first lap around the mat jogging I thought my lungs would explode! Jogging on hard floors is one thing but on a soft wrestling mat it seems to make the task a little harder.  We then circled up and counted off 10 crunches each, while we only count 10 each.. it is still each.. so everyone does them as someone else counts off... let me state there was at least 20 people in that class... yes.. 200+ crunches .. I havent done a crunch (yet alone any major physical exercise for 5yrs), then we did the scissor kicks (the ones where your hands go under your butt and you lift and hold your feet off the ground scissor kicking)... again a 10 count each...

I could have swam off the mat through my sweat to get a drink of water. Yes I was getting a workout...

Please note this was the first 15mins of an hour long class...

The next stage of this nightmare was when the 6ft2in 260+ pound guy named Sue.... ok really his name is Bill, with a blue belt, looks at me and says.. "You are about my size !! (SIZE??? Dude I know I could lose some weight but you better mean Height or I am going to open up a can of..... lay there and get worked) we can grapple!!!"

Turns out it was ok... he is 53 yrs old in 2weeks so I had to take it easy on him... But really he is a super nice guy.  His wife and 2 teenage daughters do the same class.  Bill takes his time to walk me through some things and teach me some extra things along teh way.. (he is a Black Belt in Karate and Tae Kwon Do) and a blue belt in JiuJitsu and has been doing this stuff for 14yrs I believe he said...

Bill told me the other night (my 4th class) that I have already improved amazingly, my stamina has increased (I used to tap about 2mins into grappling) now it takes 3mins hahaha... Really though I had Bill stuck for about 3mins the other night and he admitted he didnt know what to do with how I had control with him... the problem was I didnt know what to do next as 1. Id never been able to stop Bill 2. this was my 4th class EVER!!   So we were sat in grappling mode in a stuck in deadlock with each other... until I tired and he got his arms free... rolled me and tapped me.. hahaha

I am hoping to get enough $$ together as Royce Gracie (UFC Legend) is coming to our school and you can get 2 days of class time with him.... I must also mention that our school is a Gracie Jiu-Jitsu school, a style developed by Royce's Father....

Good news is in 3 lessons I had lost around 14 pounds... Obviously the eating better has helped too...  Oats is a great natural body cleanser...

Also we signed up our 3 oldest kids.. KIDS MMA. it started with trying to find something for Jentzen to help him learn self control and confidence... the others wanted in.. (while I kind of feel bad that he didnt get his OWN thing to do it is a life long investment... Football, hockey etc are fun sports but why spend butt loads of money and time investing into your kids when they have a 1% chance of making it big in sport... Jiu_Jitsu however will always be something they know or can do)....

This picture has got to be one of my favorites... I am glad I caught it...

My Daily Grind

So school has started back up, its my first quarter of my final year. When I am finished I will hold 2 A.A.S. Degrees... yes TWO!! A guy who hated school growing up is in his 3rd year of school in his mid 30s (ok late 30's)

So daily I stand near this machine with Nate Roske and try to figure out how NOT to ruin a $40,000+ milling machine...


Here are a few pictures of stuff...

My work mill
My toolbox
Current program/job - make soft jaws

Suspense & Surprises

So today my good friend and I surprised our wives with a day of adventure... well the day wasnt the surprise but the events of the day were what was... they had no clue what we were doing to or for them this day...

Deb had previously blogged regarding the upcoming date day...

http://justthetwoofus.typepad.com/just_the_two_of_us/2011/07/leaving-us-in-suspense.html

So the day started with Wayne picking Karen up at around 7am and taking her and his wife (Deb) to a Nail Spa place thing in Plymouth where they were given a Manicure & Pedicure treatment.. we asked if they had a rabies-cure treatment but alas.. they didnt...

I stayed home and watched the children... aka slept till around 8:15am until one of them (usually Keira or Ava) wandered in asking to eat...

Then I met the rest of the party back at Wayne and Deb's house in Chaska where we transformed the ladies from their Mall cruising outfits, to a more safety conscious bike riding outfit.... ok we made them put shoes and a helmet on.. and I asked Karen to wear jeans as the denim mini may distract tooooo many other drivers and we may die... she is the hotness after-all....

After we finished taking pics, we jumped on our bikes... and took a 1hr or so cruise around Lake Minnetonka and the various lake roads towards the next surprise.. the best part of the day.. my part!!

this is the route for the most part...


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Then we ended up here... Icon Theater in St Louis Park...

First stop,... the Bistro where we ordered some drinks and some light lunch

At Icon you can sign up (free) for VIP membership and then reserve.. YES RESERVE your seating up in the balcony VIP section 21+ only... woot woot... (you can reserve your seats on the normal level too - sweet concept)

View from above.. sorry bad cell pic...

Light Lunch previously ordered... the chicken burger things were amazing.. I was tempted to go back for more...

My baby ordered some pizzas thing... it was... different!!!

We saw Cowboys and Aliens... it was A-ight... as they say around the St Louis Park area... ok maybe a little south of that particular area... but there was 2 options for the VIP section.. this movie or some stupid one about a guy whos wife cheats on him so he goes out and does whatever I guess.. Steve Carroll.. so yeah DUMB.. and not really the particular theme we were aiming for by spoiling our ladies...  I thought the movie was 3D so needless to say when it wasnt I was a little pis..... upset... but the chicken burgers.. did I say how good they were...?!?!?

After the movie we jumped back on the bikes... no cruise, just a straight highway drive back to the Hardison Manor where the ladies played Dr Mario, Wayne took my bike for a ride and I well....

Made room for dinner................... NO I TOOK A NAP ON THEIR COUCH!!! not a dump!

So then Dinner it was... We took the gals to Suzettes south of Jordan.. Amazing food for a dinky little diner on the side of the Highway... the Chef had turned down a job as the Head Chef of the Sofitel chain or something years back as they wanted to dictate his cooking too much, so he started this little restaurant..

Banrith was one of my customers back when I owned Meineke... A very gentle, joyful Cambodian man who escaped a hard life by moving to the States and is living a dream...  Seriously if you want to try some fine dining with exceptional food then I recommend this place... Banrith hand makes all his sauces, puddings, etc... no bottled or microwave crap here... the prices are a little higher than a theme/chain restaurant, but the first bite you take you wont care...

Wayne can be particular about his food.. and he knows his food.. (Wayne knows food)  He said he didnt want the Caesar salad and we convinced Deb to try it.. they both stopped short of licking the bowl after... and the desserts... MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

So all in all it was a success.. we pulled it off... Shame Karen left in a car about tonight on a road trip with her sisters to visit their brother Bob in Colorado or I wouldnt have had to settle for the cherry from my dessert to complete a perfect day... hehe

Overall... fun day with great friends and the perfect wife... then I get to come home and hang with my amazing kids while Karen is gone.. I have a blessed life...

I had too...

Once Deb posts her blog I will link for her side of it and pictures...

 (cant believe I beat her.. maybe she is busy 'thanking' Wayne...)



edit: finally she posted it 2 days later
Debs Version