http://www.bfaber.com/blog Just another weblog Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:50:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yehhh!   We picked up our new HiLo trailer yesterday.  Fun times!  Its a 17' HI-LO.. towed with my Jeep Liberty and an equilizer hitch with some break controller who's name fails me now..   I'm happy I did all the online research I did..  The equilizer hitch was a necessity and ... http://www.bfaber.com/blog/2008/11/29/we-took-our-new-camper-home Mars Landers is dead. Somebody at work caught a picture of it with a Tektronix oscilloscope in the cleanroom before it left earth.. http://www.lockheedmartin.com/data/assets/15009.gif [caption id="attachment_84" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Tekscope withMars Lander"][/caption] http://www.bfaber.com/blog/2008/11/10/goodbye-and-farewell Pictures of my nephew..  Whee!! 24461 http://www.bfaber.com/blog/2008/07/13/aaron http://www.bfaber.com/blog/2008/06/17/its-firefox-download-day 24329 Michele and i went to Fern Hill bird whatever (I'd call it the Fern Hill sewage pond, but birds and fish don't seem to care)...  Not a whole lot of birds, but nice and quiet.  Some of the photos are actually at 500mm (which explains the lower quality in some ... http://www.bfaber.com/blog/2008/06/15/bird-watching Michele and I waited in line at a local Toys R Us for a Wii.. (which Michele has been wanting for ages).  We also managed to get a Wii Fit for list price..  (they got in 6 and we were #5 in line).  A number of people were peeved they ... http://www.bfaber.com/blog/2008/06/08/zomg Michele thinks we should get a camper so we can go camping more often.. even when its rainy, so we stopped by a local camper place and checked out a 16.5' one of these.  Looks cool and is (in theory) towable by liberty, though I have to check about getting ... http://www.bfaber.com/blog/2008/05/26/camper-what All uploaded here:  15972 http://www.bfaber.com/blog/2008/05/23/way-too-many-hawaii-pictures Day 1 in Hawaii..   16147 http://www.bfaber.com/blog/2008/05/22/hawaii-day-1-pictures So I bought one of these around Christmas, and let me say that in heart-rate mode, its a harsh mistress..   Except for a too-long period where we were painting the bedroom, I've been trying to keep up the 30-minutes a day 5-days a week routine. Its ability to just ramp-up tension ... http://www.bfaber.com/blog/2008/02/20/its-a-harsh-mistress