Cool Tangeman Logo

I found this on a google image search. Kinda nifty.

Yuki gets blinking ball toy

It was like Christmas day for Yuki when he recently got a new blinking ball toy! Happy day for Yuki!

DeLorean

No denying the Vette is cool. I hope Dad buys it. The car I'D love to get some day is an '81 Delorean. They're available on ebay for from 5,000 to maybe 15,000. Stainless steel, gull wing doors, a must have for a Back to the Future fan! Maybe I'll snap one up one day if I have some spare money and a good mechanic.

Blue Book - Corvette

California • October 9, 2005
1985 Chevrolet Corvette Hatchback Coupe 2D

Engine: V8 5.7 Liter Trans: Automatic Drive: RWD Mileage: 80,000

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Equipment
	Air Conditioning Power Steering Power Windows Power Door Locks	Tilt Wheel Cruise Control AM/FM Stereo Cassette	Leather Power Seat Alloy Wheels

Consumer Rated Condition:	Fair
"Fair" condition means that the vehicle has some mechanical or cosmetic defects and needs servicing but is still in reasonable running condition. This vehicle has a clean title history , the paint, body and/or interior need work performed by a professional. The tires may need to be replaced. There may be some repairable rust damage.

Private Party Value

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A Corvette for sale

It is a 1985 model. New nice paint, lots of new interior plastic.
Seats very bad. Figure a grand for new leather.
$6750 but it's been for sale for quite a while.

Mumm's the word

I planted some mumms at the house lasts year with the help of Mom. The mumms are looking especially pretty now in the early fall.

Shitty Football Week-end

All our family teams lost in close games.

Kansas
Georgia Tech
Nebraska
Michigan

Shitty with a capital S. Capital is a word people mess up a lot. Another is loose. You could say the following: I went to Sacramento, the capital of California. Upon arriving at the Capitol building I tied up my horse because I didn't want to lose him. After lunch, I loosed my horse and we went home.

Usage Note: The term for a town or city that serves as a seat of government is spelled capital. The term for the building in which a legislative assembly meets is spelled capitol.

A Picture

New Cell Phone

We're now getting a cell phone "allowance" at work, so I decided to upgrade my phone! It's a nice Motorola with a little vga camera in it. I think I may even be able to download a "P-Diddy" ringtone. My previous phone had been in use since 2001. Can you tell from the two pictures which is the old and which is the new?




If you look closely, you'll notice that the wallpaper photo on the screen of the new phone is actually a picture of the old phone. After 5 years of faithful service I felt it at least deserved memorial status.

If I ever get another new phone, I'll take a picture of the current phone displaying a picture of the old phone for my wallpaper.

Want better odds? Head to Tunica

Yep - the McDonald's Monopoly game is back. They don't publish the odds any more but you can bet you are better off sitting in front of a quarter slot machine than buying value meals hoping to get that one missing piece. Game looks about the same as always.

Here's where we can keep track of the pieces we run across:

Reading Railroad
Illinois Avenue
...

Raiders 19 Cowboys 13

Our second Raiders game was WAY better than the first. First of all, it didn't rain 3 inches during the game like it did during the Jacksonville game last year. Second, the Raiders won (which was fun even though I'm a Cowboy fan as well) The Raiders defense looked solid with the exception of two long bombs it gave up. The Cowboys were not quite as good.



The real highlight is the extreme tailgaiting prior to the game. We met everyone at a McDonalds in Sacramento at 6:45am. The game started at 1. We arrived, set up, had breakfast, walked around a bit and had lunch. Here is a picture of Steph and a hard core Raider pirate followed by a snap of "Darth Raider"

Dr. Skipper!

First things first. In prepping for tailgaiting prior to the Raiders-Cowboys game we went to Safeway to buy a few items when we ran across 6-packs of Dr. Skipper for only $1. We had to give it a try and it was OK. Clearly inferior to the Dr. it tries to imitate but drinkable.

Huskers win in double overtime!

The Huskers may not be world beaters, but they are 4-0. Yesterday's game vs. Iowa State was great fun. It's the only time I can remember seeing college football overtime in person. The Husker's QB passed for over 400 yards and there was only about 35 yards rushing...the fewest amount of rushing yards in a game since 1967. Here is the Husker's winning OT drive, and the celebration that followed!

Fruit of the month

Fruit of the month from Harry & David arrived! It was Riviera Pears. It's a high end pear. Yuki won't touch 'em.

A Bolted Chair

To complete this:

1. Unbolt
2. Sand and finish the pieces
3. Reassemble

Pipe Repair

Several months ago I noticed a wet area in the back yard that never dried up. Odd for a Sacramento summer where there hasn't been any rain since early June. A friend of ours was over with some pipe experience and we attacked it. Just a small leak (1 gallon/hour perhaps) in a joint to sprinklers on top of the hill that we don't use. After a quick trip to Ace Hardware we got the thing fixed and it was really quite easy. 1. Turn off the water main. 2. Cut out the problem portion of the pipe with a hacksaw 3. Replace pipe with new pipe section and appropriate couplings (applying liberal amounts of primer and glue) and wallah. Done. I'm far from a sprinkler/water expert but it was good to get this nagging leak fixed.

Chair goes to the Fair

This is the walnut version, built by R. Tangeman, of an old Frank Lloyd Wright dining chair design.

It took blue at the Craighead County Fair, and brought
a $12.00 cash prize.

Anybody else notice that A-State rolled?

Arkansas St. 66, Florida Intl. 24
Preview - Box Score - Recap Arkansas St.

September 24, 2005
JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) -- Joe Smith grabbed two touchdown passes as Arkansas State opened Sun Belt Conference play Saturday with a 66-24 victory over Florida International, playing its first game as a member of the league.

It was a big day for the Indians (2-2, 1-0 SBC) both offensively and defensively. They scored on their first four possessions and averaged nearly 20 yards a play in the first quarter.

But ASU's Antonio Warren, who rushed for 143 yards on eight carries, suffered a high ankle sprain on the final play of the first half and did not appear in the second half. It was Warren's fourth straight 100-yard rushing game.

Smith caught a 9-yard touchdown pass from Nick Noce in the first quarter and a 49-yarder in the second quarter. Noce finished 11-of-13 passing for 194 yards and the two TD throws to Smith.

Shermar Bracey, who filled in for Warren in the second half, finished with 105 yards rushing on nine carries and scored two touchdowns, on runs of 16 and 34 yards.

The Indian defense made five interceptions. Koby McKinnon returned one 85 yards for a touchdown and Tyrell Johnson returned another 92 yards to set up Chris Easley's 3-yard touchdown run.

ASU had a 35-17 halftime lead.

After an interception by James Johnson at midfield ended FIU's first possession, Warren raced off right tackle 50 yards on ASU's first play for a touchdown with 11:48 left in the first quarter.

The Indians made it 14-0 when Oren O'Neal scored from the 1 at the 9-minute mark of the first quarter.

FIU (0-3, 0-1) trimmed the margin to 14-7 when Cory McKinney caught a 28-yard pass from Josh Padrick with 5:01 left in the opening period.

But ASU came back with a 16-yard scoring run by Bracey with 4:19 left in the quarter. The Indians made it 28-7 when Smith grabbed a 9-yard scoring toss from Noce.

Josh Padrick's 1-yard run trimmed the margin to 28-14 early in the second period. But Smith's second touchdown made it 35-14. FIU finished first-half scoring with a 29-yard field goal by Adam Moss.

A 27-yard field goal by Eric Neihouse gave the Indians a 38-17 lead going into the final quarter.

The Indians then added 28 points, scoring on a 5-yard run by Chris Easley, Bracey's second touchdown run, McKinnon's interception return and a 21-yard run by Chris James.

FIU closed out the game with a 16-yard scoring pass to Sanchez Anderson from Tavar Kendrick.

The Mini

One of the highlights of the recent Nebraska trip was getting to see and drive the new Mini. We drove it around the Kearney's only traffic circle (round-a-bout) several times and then went to an empty parking lot to do the tightest doughnuts ever.



Here's a cool snap of Bill, Yuki and I on top of Horsetooth Rock in Fort Collins. The peak in the back is Long's Peak (elevation - 14,255)

Something for Robert

Here is a link to the official "Californians for Nebraska" website. Included on the site is a place to buy t-shirts.

http://www.cal4ne.com/cfnshop.html

Dad's Bacon Chili Cheeseburger

We ate at a bar called Brewskies. Dad wanted to experience a new culinary delight: the bacon chili cheeseburger.


Here dad piles on the chili

It looked good enough (for someone else) to eat!

The Husker Game

We all went to the Nebraska vs. Pittsburgh football game. It was fun and the Huskers won...barely.



Nearby, we noticed an attractive girl who appeared to be drinking a pepsi.

As it turned out it wasn't pepsi...she was using the bottle for chewing tobacco spit.

The Colorado Hike

Robert and I hiked up Horsetooth near Fort Collins Colorado. Yuki hiked along!



Yuki was a tired animal at the top of the mountain.

iPOD Nano Crash Test

Steph and I decided to order two iPOD nano's for our 2 year anniversary. I got black and Steph got white. While we wait for them to show up here's a neat site the conducted a test on what it took to destroy the nano.

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/nano.ars/

Heading to Colorado tomorrow to visit Bill. Should be fun. Will post snaps and details later.

Tiny train toils in tabletop

I saw a coffeetable containing a train for sale in a magazine ad, and decided to do my own.
The table is oak and the train is an n-guage Atlas 2-6-0 Mogul pulling four cars. There are also buildings, people, and cows.


Another recent activity: Memphis Mensa is running a bad fiction contest, in the tradition of the Bulwer-Lytton contest at San Jose State. This is a whimsical literary competition that challenges entrants to compose the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels. Edward Bulwer-Lytton famously wrote the sentence beginning, "It was a dark and stormy night..." which has become his legacy. The Mensa contest asks for something along the same line, but with Memphis references. Here is my entry, or at least my first one:

It is January 8, just another bleak winter's day for most people, but for me the day that carries the heavy double shoulder-burden of Elvis' birth in 1935 and Dave Thomas' death sixty-seven years later; my battered Buick station wagon roars through the morning mist out of Bear Bryant's childhood homeland, crossing the black father-of-waters into the looming triangular grip of a strange Egyptian icon crawling up into the gray Tennesse sky like the dark fist in the opening scene of some grotesque Nazi propaganda movie.

The Cali Week-end...

will be somewhat dull after our visitor from Jersey last week-end. We concluded that trip with a trip to Coloma (where John Sutter discovered gold while working on his sawmill) and a trip to Apple Hill (loads of Apple Ranches where you can buy fruit and veggies...but mostly, as you might expect, apples.

Last week I went by a record store and snapped up a bunch of used CDs which were really cheap: Bruce Springsteen - The Rising, Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger, Madonna - Erotica.

This week-end we'll likely watch Michigan - Notre Dame and work around the house. Nothing too exciting really.

The Weekend!

I'm off call at work which is great because I've been paged a million times this past week. I'm going to Huskers v. Demon Deacons tomorrow. It's a night game and should be a blast! Hopefully the Huskers don't blow it. Considering Wake lost to Vandy last week the Huskers OUGHT to win. If not, we've got trouble in Huskerville.
I got the new Sarah Macglaclin (sp)remix disc and it's pretty good! Good Sarah tunes turned into techno/trance electronica. Nifty.