If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch I would definitely order one of these.

Dax out-

I have had to try to get creative with some of the T.V. shows I like to watch since Halo 3 came out, Spracky has pretty much had the T.V. for a little over a month now, I don’t blame her, she had to wait 18 months for the game to come out.

I have been downloading a lot of shows and movies, and trying to set up Automator, to no avail.

We were able to pick up the Family Pack of the new Leopard Mac OS X 10.5 and two free t-shirts.  It’s a pretty slick operating system.  I have only installed it on my Black Macbook and Spracky’s Macbook, I haven’t taken the leap to put it on the iMac yet.

Today is Halloween and this is the first time since Spracky I have been together that we have lived in a house during this holiday.  So we sat outside and passed out candy to the children in our neighborhood.  I imagine just a few years ago I would have thought that that was pretty lame, but it wasn’t that bad.  The children were so stoked that they were able to dress up in costumes and to a whole bunch of free candy.

I guess that’s it for now, I promise that I will try to post more often.

Dax out-

Here are a couple of pic’s of the basic “un-boxing”, Picture 1, Picture 2, Picture 3, Picture 4, and Picture 5.

So, technically I have an iPod Touch for the next month.

I had been holding out till Steve Job’s announcement because I was hoping that they were going to come out with a 16 GB iPhone, but no such luck.  I do admit that I believe this prediction.

Dax out-

Let me back up a little bit. It all started a little over 2 years now, I think. Spracky told be I need to listen to this podcast from a married couple that sounded like they were around our age. They lived in Wisconsin and were putting on a show a couple times a week, sometimes less. Their names were Dawn Miceli and Drew Domkus.
First impressions, I didn’t get it, I just didn’t get it. Spracky asked me to listen again, so I snagged a couple shows and listened to them while I was at work. Next thing I know I couldn’t stop laughing. I called Spracky and let her know what a good choice it was, and I have been hooked ever since.

Spracky and I began to hang out on the forums, and got to know a couple other listeners. Eventually we had the opportunity to go to Lexington and hang out with some of the other listeners, and at the last minute Dawn and Drew showed up (I posted about this previously in my blog).

We got to hang out with them for the weekend and we became more friends then fans at that point.

Earlier this summer, Drew and Dawn’s father were driving near where we lived, and we got to hang out with them. Drew invited us to the “Dawn-a-pa-Drew-za”, which was to celebrate Dawn’s birthday. Of course we said we were in.

All of the folks invited would be camping out on Dawn and Drew’s farm in Wisconsin. We made arrangements and borrowed my brother-in-laws tent. We packed up the truck a week ago Tuesday, and went to work on Wednesday.

We left right after work on Wednesday and drove 18 hours up to Wisconsin, the entire time posting tweets on Twitter. We got to the farm a little earlier than we were expecting to, but Drew was down. We set up camp and started to help out around the farm.

It may be difficult to believe, but I really enjoyed it, working outside in the fresh air, on a beautiful farm…it was amazing.

As the day went on, a couple of more campers showed up. I believe Manda and the Wang showed up, Shultzman (who won the eBay auction to sleep in the RV), Mark, and Thursday76 (the smartest minion) and Lulu Zander. I can’t remember if anyone else showed up on Thursday. We started a small party and then crashed out.

Next, the weirdest thing began to happen, it started to get cool…maybe even COLD…in August…this was messed up. We packed for summer weather…hot, humid weather.

I have gotten a complaint that my posts are too long, so this will be a multi-post story.

Dax out-

Spracky’s GM is finally doing better and is under going physical therapy.

This blog had it’s one year anniversary on June 16th, which just so happens to be my 33rd birthday. And what else do you get for your 33rd birthday but an official Larry Bird jersey…number 33…get it???

Spracky and I had the chance to hang with Drew from the Dawn and Drew Show, and Showbiz Dad from Fireside Tales with Showbiz Dad in Gainesville. And of course we got to hang with Nick Starr, Ballroom Baby, and Tomit! You can check out some of the pictures here.

We recently got a treadmill so I can get into shape for surfing, and now I am about to run my first 5K race in two weeks. I won’t be “racing”, but I will be running. I don’t consider it a race if I know I have no chance of winning.

Spracky got an iPhone, spoiled brat!

I think that’s all I can tell you folks for now, there are a couple of really cool things that we have lined up for the next month, but we can’t tell you about it until after it happens…Sorry!

Dax out-

We had a nice swell come rolling in on the east coast of Florida this week, which was epic.

Spracky and I got to go see Captured! by Robots at JackRabbits, and it was a great show. J-Bot is an amazing one man band. And he has some really good lyrics. Go check out the website, it’s worth it. You can check out some pictures that Spracky took at the show in our Flickr account.
We are trying to plan another trip down to Costa Rica, but everything isn’t lining up like we would like, hopefully everything will come together at the last minute, we both need a break!

Spracky cranked her ankle a week ago while we were riding our bicycles. She keeps on trying to blame me. She was swatting at a fly that caused her to get off balance and sprain her ankle. And the fly in question was bothering me just a couple of seconds sooner and I didn’t kill it…Spracky’s logic!

I have been using Twitter lately which is like a real-time, one-liner blog, and it is pretty interesting to see what your friends are doing throughout the day.

Remember to try to think green, we have been riding our bicycles to drop off our dry cleaning, I know it’s not much but we get a little bit of a workout (nine miles round trip), and we aren’t using gasoline.

Dax out-

Nevermind the gratuitous use of such words like ni**er, ho, ni**a, nappy, bitch, and the like being used in almost every single modern rap “song”.

So it’s okay if you are of a certain race to use these words…the women of Rutgers were traumatized by Imus’ words…if that’s the case, I am traumatized by such things as B.E.T., the Miss Black America, the Ebony awards, the Source Awards, and the list goes on and on…but these things are not considered racist?????

It is 2007 people!!!  I will not apologize to any race for something that happened before I was born and I did not have anything to do with.  I do not think that just because you are a particular race, sex, belief, sexual orientation, or whatever that you should get a break in this world…this idea embodies the exact definition of racism!!

If a person of certain race can not speak their mind in America without having to worry about a lynch-like mob lead by Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, then this is not a truely free country, and we are letting racists, like these two men, decide for the masses, what is okay to say.

Mr. Jackson and Mr. Sharpton have made it painfully clear that only people of color are protected by the First Amendment.

Sorry fellas, but I have to disagree.  I am a white male in America in 2007…although I am not protected under the minority legislation that has been passed over the past couple of decades, I am still the minority.  Does this mean that I get special consideration when I go to apply for a job…nope.  Does this mean that I get special grants from the government…nope.  Am I going to get special considerations from the government if I owned a business because I am a minority…nope.

Who is truely being oppressed now?

Dax out-

I think I have gotten this board wet once when I was trying to show Spracky how to paddle around in the ocean.

This past weekend there was a little swell that came through Florida. Right after work on Friday, Spracky and I headed out to my favorite local spot. It was a bit mushy, but I would rather paddle around then work.

On Saturday Spracky and I were getting ready to go to the beach and she suggested that I bring the longboard just for fun. I thought it was a bit of a hassle, but I said sure. Also, the water temperature was still in the upper 60’s to low 70’s range so I purchased a short-sleeve wetsuit top to wear with my boardshorts.

We got to the beach right at high tide. There were a couple of guys leaving the beach and they said that the surf was getting mushy. The sets looked really fun so I headed out with my 6′4″.

After paddling around for a while I was getting frustrated, I couldn’t catch anything. I headed back to the beach and talked with Spracky for a bit and decided to try the longboard out.

As I was trying to get out I was getting pounded by the surf. With a shortboard you can duck-dive under the whitewater or a breaking wave, but it’s just about impossible to do it with a longboard, I’m sure somebody can do it, but I don’t know anybody that can. So you keep getting hit head on by the whitewater and the breaking waves, and you get drug back towards shore. One time I almost lost my shirt and the board kept on flying back toward shore. I finally caught a break and paddled like hell to get to the outside.

Handling the board was a real challenge, you couldn’t just whip the thing around like a shortboard. One good thing was that you could paddle extremely fast on it, compared to a shortboard.

Once I had regain some arm strength I started lining up for some waves. The first set came and I started paddling for the first wave that I was in position for. I wave was passing me by and I was able to actually catch the wave due to how fast I was able to paddle on the longboard. I immediately stood up and it was almost like instinct to walk up the board a little to get a little more speed, mind you that I had never ridden a longboard before. I tried to turn, and of course fell off. You have to be a little bit more patient when trying to turn a longboard.

For the next hour or so I kept catching wave after wave, making sure to try to catch one of the waves toward the end of the set so I wouldn’t have to keep battling the rest of the set on my paddle back out.

I caught a wave almost all the way back to the shore and rested for a little bit with Spracky. I just couldn’t get over how much fun I was having on the longboard, I had always ridden shortboards.

Once I finally had some arm strength back I paddled back out for just a couple more waves. When I was ready to head back in I was looking for just the right wave.

I saw a set building, so I started to get into position. Since I didn’t plan on paddling back out I was just trying to concentrate on getting the largest wave with the best form. I started paddling for it and stood up. I started trying to fly down the face and cut back a little here and there. The wave started to mush out, so I started looking for the fast section to catch the reform. I was able to slide ride into the reform and I could see the wave starting to wall up, so I tried to get right in the perfect section and crouch down. I rode the wave all the way to the beach.

I could not believe how fun that was…I just stood there in the shallow water in utter disbelief…I started to realize that I had become one of those older guys that I always made fun of growing up that were riding longboards and they had the complete look of STOKE on their face.

Dax out-