Found this image that explains where Google gets all it’s hard drive space. This makes complete sense now. It might even be a fair jump to say that google is taking it’s adsense and adwords earnings and then digging… which in effect may be contributing to earthquakes around the world. So, the jump is “Adsense and Adwords are contributing to Global Earthquakes”
The users of gmail may very well never have known about their contributions to this problem either.
Here is a pic of my buddies Burt, Adam, Scott Myself (in the orange shirt) and Rasta playing paintball on early Saturday morning in Sept while in California this summer. Hadn’t played in about 5 or 6 years and was a little out of paintball ‘shape’ as it were. I spent about a month or 6 weeks in California this past summer. Survived through some record heat waves while camping out about 30 miles from Palm Springs. Survived a fire evacuation at the Highland Springs Resort from where we had to “Bug Out” and retreat to a school a few miles away. The grass fire came right down to where we slept. Water bombers and helicopters were called in and bombed them and put them out.
These are my buddies Scott (formerly of the Canadian Armed Forces) and Rasta playing paintball that day while hanging out in California. Below are a couple more.
This is Eric from Ring Homestead Paintball park in New York. He was going over the safety mechanisms, paintball safety procedures, how the guns works and some basic rules of play. On the right above is Adam Jacques of Winnipeg Canada sporting his dual paintball guns.
We played paintball on Saturday, and then on Sunday we had to deal with what you see below. These are actual pictures of the Highland Springs fire while were were evacuating. The fire came withing 50 feet of where we slept.
Adam hanging out for a quick picture of him with the fire behind him. He’s so tough…..
This shows how close the fire got to the Highland Springs Resort. As I said, we watched about 5 or 6 water bombers bomb the hell out of here with water. Rasta was sleeping when the fire department knocked on his door and asked him to leave. “Why?”, he asked. “Um, have a look out your front door!”. Then he started giggling and got dressed. lol.
And to balance out the destruction displayed above.. the paintball, the guns, the camo, the fire and all that macho shit, here’s a nice pic taken one of the nights either before or after the fire.
Now on to the title of this post: My Least Favorite Day Of The Year. I hate winter. I hate it being dark all the time and the short fucken days. Dec 21st is the shortest day of the year here in Edmonton (least amount of sun hours). So This is my least favorite day, while being my 2nd most favorite days of the year. I really hate christmas, so this is a very shitty time of year for that reason too. I mean, I hate christmas.
My Most Favorite day of the year. I love June 21st for the opposite reason. Most Sun, warmest, best outdoor activities, least amount of clothes on the little ladies and when I celebrate my half birthday, or at least pretty darn close to the day.
So here it is, Dec 21st 2006 and we’re spinning back towards the sun… tilting and pointing our northerly continent back towards sunlight. Thank Gawd! The days get better from here on out.
Hey, I just got the coolest christmas gifts from my trainer. She got me a bunch of tealights and a couple of those big huge Guy Type column candles for my desk. I had texted her the other day hinting (ok, outright asking for them) and today she hooked me up.
Then… then… she gave me my birthday gift. She got me a thumb ring made of some sort of special metal from metalsmiths in west edmonton mall. I’ve promised to get her my DVD of “the secret” as a christmas gift for her. I’ve told her to watch it a number of times because of how powerful the secret really is.
I had a really shitty christmas last year when I was with my girlfriend. I spent a lot of time and energy (and love) to create an amazing gift for her and I got a toy car and some personal toiletries. Kinda wrecked the energy that year for me and I should have know we weren’t on the same page.
So this year, I am already so thrilled with my christmas gift. Not quite a homemade christmas gift idea, but awesome, amazing. I’m very happy.
Update: I realize now after I wrote this post and got the comment, that I had not considered what the intention was around the toy car. And also that I celebrated Christmas in Arizona a few weeks later and got one of my most prized possessions, a very special earring. This earring has gotten my more touches from women as well as comments due to it’s special design. I’ve worn it faithfully now for almost a year and I see no time soon in which I will change it up. Thank you for the great gift Sonja.
Congratulations to Eric Chopin of the Biggest Loser who dropped 214 pounds over the course of the show. Eric started at over 400 pounds and while utilizing the tools from a weight-loss ranch in California, got results. Still not quite the same as my own 300 pound weight loss, but welcome to the 200+ club Eric!
Eric had considered gastric bypass surgery after being diagnosed with diabetes and other weight related health challenges. He joined the show, got coached and got results. Here is the report from the news
NEW YORK (AP) – Erik Chopin, who dropped 214 pounds to win NBC’s “The Biggest Loser,” was prepared to undergo surgery to slim down before he was chosen for the weight-loss competition. “That’s how hopeless I felt,” Chopin, a family man and deli owner from West Islip, N.Y., told The Associated Press in a phone interview Friday. “I felt like I needed to go for the surgery but, really, I’m so glad I didn’t. … I knew the whole time, I honestly knew, I was copping out, I was quitting.”
He added: “Now, there’s no stopping me.”
Chopin, who weighed 407 pounds at the start of “The Biggest Loser,” said he had considered gastric band surgery to shrink his stomach.
Instead, he went to a weight-loss ranch in California to film the reality show with 49 other contestants. On the finale earlier this week, he weighed in at 193 pounds to win the title and the $250,000 grand prize.
“It’s surreal. I’m on top of the world,” he told the AP. “It was such a long journey, probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life. But it’s just so rewarding. I’m getting paid now for something I needed to do. You know, I needed to get healthy.”
Chopin, 36, was diagnosed with diabetes and other obesity-related problems while on “The Bigger Loser.”
“Everything fits great and I’m comfortable and I need to stay right here,” he said.
Chopin said he’ll continue to run Emma’s Delicatessen and will use his prize money to “pay some bills” – and maybe get a new car. Another plan is a long-delayed trip to Disneyworld with his wife and two daughters.
“I see a big guy somewhere and in my mind I’m not critical of him,” he said. “I’m more like, ‘I need to help this person.’ I like to help them, because I know what it’s like and how awful it feels to be obese. And I was morbidly obese.”
[Rob’s note] First, congratulations again Eric. Well done. If you’re looking for the best Fat Burning Solution out there, check out www.burnthefatbook.com by Tom Venuto
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