So I decided to drop some cash Friday and buy the new iPhone.  This is my first time owning one and so far I’m pretty impressed.  Although I knew it would outshine my POS Windows Tilt phone.  So I went with a 32gb iPhone 3G s..

Today I decided to check out the video function on the phone and I like it..

Here is a clip I took and uploaded to you tube right from the phone:

This is Mazzie our Rat Terrier..

I still have a lot to learn about the phone but I think it was the best phone buying decision ever..!!
Well minus the part of telling everyone on the planet your new number!

Granted there is still 9 hours left in the work day, but hey, it’s Friday right?

I have a semi busy weekend planned out.  Although the rain and storms today and tonight might put some of those off.

If the rain calms down by 5ish we decided to head out to the horse races.  It will be the first live race for us this racing season.  We really enjoy going out there.

Saturday morning we will be having our last spring league soccer game (if the weather holds) and then hopefully that will be followed up by a 2-3 week break.  I think the team is burned out and they do not want to give it there all anymore.  In fact two days ago at practice it was a horrible turnout and most of them (90%) just wanted to be lazy and walk around.  If they were able to drive I would have just canceled practice since they were wasting my time.

Saturday Evening we are going out to dinner some friends from church.  It should be a lot of fun and to hang out with them.

Sunday morning is church and then in the evening community group so that will round out our weekend pretty much.

Any big plans?
What are you going to be doing?

Way back like right after graduation days, a couple friends that I had just met were starting to get into mini-trucks, later to be known as lowriders, etc.  So they got me hooked and I was out buying my S10.  My friend Brett had the S15 (GMC) equivalent so I figured it would be good since he knew some things about it already.  So after getting the S10 and buying some low profile wheels, we dropped the sucker on the ground.  We used some drop spindles and then we cut the coils as well.  Some people use coilovers to help in the stabilization.

Well I got the truck in 1989 and I just sold it this last April.  Almost 20 years I owned this truck.  Kind of miss it.  Over the years it had a convertible top, shaved door handles, custom front end work, various paint jobs, etc.

It was some good ole times…

Here are a couple pictures:
Here is the truck after my convert and a new white paint job..  I have all Chrome Wire Wheels (Mclean)

Here is one shot before I sold it:

Last night we had a really fun night.  We went with a couple friends to the Dallas Theater Center to watch “A Christmas Carol.”

In my last post A Christmas Carol I pointed out that it’s been awhile since I have been to any type of play and last confirmed again how I love going to watch them.

The Dallas Theater Center is a rather small but very intimate place.  There is not one bad seat in the house.  We got lucky and our friends tickets were about the 6th row center and couldn’t have been better.  The story line was good as always and the cast was fantastic.  The props/set was designed really good and everything seemed to transition smoothly from set to set.  Scrooge was played brilliantly and the kids did wonderful.  All very talented.  I hope to see this again next year to what has changed.  This is our friends 4th year of going and still enjoy it like the first.  I would recommend this to anyone in the Dallas area.

So I looked ahead for the next summer season of plays/musicals coming to Dallas/Fort Worth and here is my list of the ones I want to see:

• Fiddler on the Roof
• Happy Days
• Wizard of Oz
• Mary Poppins

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‘A Christmas Carol’

So tonight the wife and I and 2 friends are heading in to Dallas to watch ‘A Christmas Carol‘.  It should be lots of fun I’m certain.  The last time I went to a play or musical was over 5 years ago.  I think the last one was Beauty and the Beast (which was really great).  Our friends go every year and watch this, so it will be our first time.

Maybe tonight will spark or renew interest in going to more plays through out the year.  I would love to see Phantom of the Opera.  I’m trying to think back at all the other ones I have seen in the past and which were my favorites.

What I have seen:
Showboat
Grease (with Rosie OD – Long time ago)
Peter Pan
Stomp
Beauty and the Beast

I’m sure there are a couple more I just can’t remember them.  One of these days I have a goal/dream to go to a play in New York on Broadway.

scrapbooking that is.  For the longest time I could never figure out the hype about it really.  About one year ago our neighbors across the street had a room, somewhat like a home office, set up just for scrapbooking.  And come to find out that her mom and her have a business doing scrapbooking retreats.  Wow I would have never known.

So a couple weeks ago we were at the wal-mart super center picking up a few things and as we were looking around we ran across the crafts/hobby section.  I couldn’t believe just how much stuff wal-mart had.  They have tons of stuff, so I can only imagine what a real hobby store would have on the shelf.

Speaking of hobbies, some day I want to finish up a bunch of car models I started on (1/24th scale) and start doing some military and car dioramas.

Do you have any hobbies?

The weekend is here, and not much to do.   Hold on..  I have tons to do this weekend really.  It all started last night by doing nothing after dinner but watching some TV, and then staying up really late playing our new Wii.

Now after this I suppose I will get up and start cleaning the house.  It really needs it.  I think the rest of the weekend I will clean, play the Wii, watch the BIG12 Championship (Go Sooners) then Church in the morning and then I’m going to spend some time with my Little Brother (I’m a Big Brother) and then do some work from home and that will pretty my conclude the weekend..

Who has some plans for the weekend?  Anything special?

There are a couple of pretty cool online games that I partake in and thought I would just talk a little about them.  The first one is called Hattrick.  This is an online mmorpg based on Soccer.  I have done this for close to 1 year now and I have taken my crappy new user team and I have rebuilt the team to go 14-0-0 last season so I could be promoted to the next league up.  I’m now in league V.152 and there is some stiff competition.

I also just joined another one that looks really cool and its called Goal Line Blitz.  It’s an American football mmorpg.  So far since I have just joined, I only have 2 players.  I actually hope to build up enough to have my own team and manage it with other real players.  If you have any interest in this one, click the link above so I can get referral credits to buy my team.

I started a Blog to write down my history and progress of both these games:  fctwisters.wordpress.com

Recap of Links:
FC Twisters on HT-Arena
fctwisters.wordpress.com

Yesterday we went to the last day of the Texas State Fair.  It was such a nice day out too.  Upper 70’s maybe 80-81 but it was really nice.  Last year we didn’t go to the fair since I have Celiac disease it make it rather difficult to eat any of the fair foods.  I mean isn’t that the reason you really go to the state fair, to eat and eat fried fatty foods?  I know it used to be my reason.  Corn Dogs, funnel cakes, and belgium waffles, yummy.

So yesterday we really wanted to go.  My wife is a teacher and they get a free ticket so we decided since it was the last day lets just go out there for a few hours.  Glad we did, as I said before it was a really nice day and by the time we left around 4ish, the crowds were still not that bad for being a Sunday.

Overall we had a really fun time and did a couple things we have not done at the fair in years past.  Here are a couple of pictures that I took.

Yep I almost crashed when I was driving downtown this morning.  They were not even going to tell me that I was a honored person and they were painting me on the wall..  lol

Go check out this site:  PhotoFunia

Originally found the idea here:  Game FreakZ