Bike Before heading out.

Bike Before heading out., originally uploaded by hearsedrv.

I built a pedal bike for Burning Man. I knew from the year before that a bike is a must have item. Since Katy was going with me I decided to build a 2 person car type bike. I found plans to this one online. Its made of pvc pipe.

I didnt think it would last to long. It creaked and just didnt fell real stable. I had the kids test drive it in the neighborhood and it broke just about every time they went out in it. I would improve whatever broke but was still nervous.

suprisingly, it not only held together but others in our camp borrowed it and had no issues. I mean if stoned, drunk people can take it out and have a blast on it then its pretty bad A! (me and katy drove it carefully, were I know the ones that borrowed it were not all together sobber nor careful.)

For next year I am making a bunch of bikes, out of metal. stay tuned for more! One is already done, a tall bike scroll down to see it.

later in the week

car1, originally uploaded by hearsedrv.

I think this was friday. after 6 days in the desert. It drove great.

Pedal car in desert

IMG_0354, originally uploaded by hearsedrv.

This is the pedal cal after a day on the desert.

tall bike

IMG_0738, originally uploaded by hearsedrv.

first ride...and it worked.

tall bike number one

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Originally uploaded by hearsedrv.

My first tall bike. it worked great.

should I

Should I get this thing going again?

let me know

hearsedrv@yahoo.com

Companies are stupid, its not Wal-Marts fault

Went to Albertsons grocery store in Crowley Tx. yesterday for there 8 hour sale.

They spent thousands of dollars to bring people into the store. Basically for those that dont know, they have whats called loss leaders, items there selling at a loss in order to suck you into the store were you will have a pleasant experience buy other items and come back and spend money on high profit items.

So lets see...Wal-mart..no customer service, packed stores, they act like they dont give a damn about you...but there dirt cheap.

Albertsons, customer service...friendly checkers, someone to carry your groceries to your car... but higher prices..

You really cant compete head to head with wal-mart prices, you have to offer something better. Its so damn simple but you have guys with MBA'S that cant figure it out.

So I get in line with my on sale crap behind a lady who I would guess was 78 years old. Very frail, took her a bit to unload her cart onto the check out belt (I helped a little with the heavy items). She didnt know why it was so busy, this other older lady explained about the 8 hour sale. Ohh she says, normally its not like this.

so this lady asks for paper sacks and actually wrote a check. That should tell you a little more about her age. The punk ass worthless checker didnt even acknowledge her. that piece of garbage didnt notice a damn thing about her.

So she pays and has a full cart of groceries in paper sacks, did that punk call for a carry out? did any of the 3 or 4 carry out kids offer or ask if she needed help? Nope not a one did.
so she start pushing her cart all the way down past every check out (we were at one end she parked out the other) I watched her go the entire store and NOT ONE TIME DID SOMEONE OFFER TO HELP. Now I know some dont want help and I understand but no one even asked!

So my small purchase is done as she is walking out the store..(give you an idea, took her 5 minutes to push thru all the people at her slow rate) I stop this store manager lady and I ask

"Do yall supplie carry out service?" as the carry out kids are horsing around with the checkers.

she says "Yes sir we do!"

what I said next cant not be written here, but lets say the manager ran full speed to catch up with the lady and loaded her groceries in her car.

Now before someone trys to make me mad, yea I could have offered to help somehow. and would have if I wasnt trying to pay for my groceries. And at other times when I can I will. But thats not the point. The point is Albertsons spent thousands to get you in the store but treat you no better than Wal-Mart!

ALBERTSONS ARE YOU STUPID OR WHAT? YOU HAVE NOTHING TO OFFER OVER WAL-MART EXCEPT CUSTOMER SERVICE AND YESTERDAY NOT EVEN THAT!

I am easing up on wal-mart, hell its not there fault the rest of the world is stupid, there just smarter than you!

Now let me get this straight mrs. Dr. lady

Brother is going to love this?

so Dr. sis makes a post Here

so, a mom, trying to do what she thinks best for her kids spends the night in a parking lot in order to try and inroll them into what she believes will be the best opportunity for them. and her brother is gonna say something rude or mean?

How in the holy h e double hockey sticks (thats for you mcpan) can someone give someone else a hard time for spending there own time and energy to try and achive this?

Now if you had paid someone to stand in line for you, yea I would say your a worthless piece of garbage. But no you stood out all night and tried to get your kids into what you believe is a better school.

humm, I might not agree about private and public schools (and Im not gonna say either) but I can never fault a parent for sacraficing there time and energy in what they believe will benefit there child. Why the hell else would we have kids if we were not willing to do this?

so yea bro loves it but not the way you think and he was able to turn it into something rude and mean! HA!

oh and "I see your point but still think your stupid!" I love that shirt!

you make it too easy

So its only Feb but…

Hold that thought.

I have 7 sisters and 6 brothers…you would think that it would be hard to name the dumbest one each year.. (and I include myself in all calculations)

Year before last I won the award, since I started building a pool in a flood year, broke my foot and numerous small things. It happens.

Last year it went to the lawyer chick. She passes the law bar thing and then moves to a city and gets hit with a hurricane. It happens.

But this year, now take in this, its only February but Dr chick has set the bar so low that it would take a vice president shooting to be any dumber. (speaking of which, I now wear body armor and have put a republicans are GOD sticker on my car, I don’t want to get accidentally shot!)

This girl who went to college for what 10 years? And is held in high regard by the general public has done more dumb things in 2 months than most people do in 10 years. (except them stupid democrats who are all about love and peace, they should all be taken bird hunting with the VP! ((that is for GW and the NSA so when they read my blog they know I am a GOD fearing IRAQ killing blood thirsty kill em all and let god sort em out type of guy))

Poor DR. she gets laser surgery and her eyeballs fall out. Then goes on a helo ride and gets sick knowing good and well she will. (and she prescribed something for pop so he didn’t get sick. So she knows there is stuff out there to help just doesn’t take it for herself)

“While in Vegas we played a little black jack and watched a hilarious hypnosis show. Then we went on a helicopter tour of the Grand Canyon. Beautiful! But halfway there I got air sick. Ughhhh. I kept taking deep even breaths and willing myself not to throw up. We landed in the Canyon and had a Champagne toast. I drank Sprite. The nice pilot asked if I was sick.

"Yes," I said.

"Does this happen often to you?" He asked.

"All the time. I get sick on boats, planes, back seats of cars and now helicopters. . . "

"Did you take anything before we left?"

"No." I replied as I rubbed my arms to keep warm. I was freezing in the Canyon and only brought a short sleeved shirt.

"Oh, brilliant." He smirked. "And what is it you do?"

"Uhhh. I'm a doctor. . . "

Yeah. My brother is going to go off again on that one. I may as well own a cat and vote Democrat now. That would complete the Moron of the Year Award in his mind.


I had to change a word cause she made a mistake…don’t want anyone to get confused on were I stand on this great country of ours! (ok I don’t want to get shot. Hello I won the dumb guy award once already don’t need it again!)

So DR. yes your at the top of the list, lets hope you win it because for one of your bros or sisters to top it would take a screw up of ungodly imagination!

But keep this in you mind. You didn’t accidentally shoot someone while hunting illegally in Texas and then try and cover it up like no one would notice! You are way out classed in the stupid acts category. You don’t even rate compared to what happened Saturday.

So keep your chin up!

I’m not cruel I just act that way

Some people would and do spend good money to save a cat.

Let’s look at them stupid animals.

1. They don’t have enough meat to make a good size hamburger.
2. They sit around all day
3. They run around all night (mom told me nothing good happens after midnight)
4. They don’t bring you the paper nor will they fetch anything.
5. They leave hair everywhere.

You get the idea. Cats are worthless except if you get one that catches mice and just because its a cat does not mean it will.

so my evil sister in law brought over this stray cat because she felt sorry for it, but she couldn’t take it as she already had 2 cats and for some stupid reason she thought we would want it.
well after about a year we kicked it out of the house because it pissed all over the carpets.
I should have put it down right then but no, we let it stay outside and it just hangs around the front yard and the side yard. I even tried to get my neighbor to put it down.

This stupid cat got itself hit by a car. The dumb cat can’t even get killed properly, it has to dislocate its hip or something.

So the wife calls and finds out its going to be at the very least 250 bucks. Probably alot more to fix this thing. My wife is a practical women. She didn’t even question the cost, she knew that was stupid!

The cat does not seem to be in pain, just crippled. We are debating now on whether to take it to the city animal shelter and for free they will "take care" of it. If it acted like it was in pain we would have done that already but it seems to not be. We will watch it and if that cat so much as acts like a uhhh acts like a wimp and starts whining like its in pain we will take it in.

This chick nearly lost a job over her cats tooth. A tooth? but then again she wants to be a lawyer and anyone that does that is probably a few tacos short of a Mexican Plate.

My mom got me addicted to a bad drug

Its her fault. yeap. bottom line all her fault.

so Mom buys and sells a small country worth of stuff on ebay every month and she got me addicted.

Kids want new shoes? Oh look on ebay.

Need a 1965 chevy truck re-ring kit? ebay right here.

Vacume cleaner part for wifes vacume. Did it last week.

Pitcure of Jesus on some cooked toast, no problem.

Looks like I can get everything we need for chases truck on ebay except someone to put it all together.
Good thing him and his sister know how to fix things. A few months ago working together they took the seat out and took the gas tank apart. I will just get the parts on ebay and let them put it all together!

Just about anything you want or dont want or need or dont need can be found on ebay, except the 12 step program for getting yourself clean of that addictive drug!

Not all girls are stupid

My sister (not the DR but the PHD one) can fix a toilet in Honduras. Heck she called me once after she had taken her fan apart to fix it. (and was a good call too, I was clueless on the fix)
So I have always known that not all girls cant fix things.

Well my daughter has me and my grandfather on my mothers side's ability to fix things just by taking them apart. Her and my sister (The PHD one) could probably fix the space shuttle while in orbit without knowing a thing about it. Some people are just born smart. (Others become lawyers)

So I should not have been suprised when I was searching the internet for the possible problem on my ford focus when I came across this website

Lucky I am not one of them male pigs that think women are only good for making babies (I will admit they are damn good at that but I dont believe that is there sole purpose in life, and by saying that I think the Southern Babtist just kicked me out for life from there devil worshiping church, oh well) so I did read the whole article even though I knew right away it was written by a girl. And low and behold I found my problem and fixed it all because of her!

So power to the girly girl and thanks for blogging the fix to your car!

Ok what are the odds...

First concerning my last post. My wife slapped me into next week. she gave me all sorts of grief over it. Evidently my sister saved my daughters life and I should be grateful and not such a butthead. ok ok damit. (I do know she fixed up chase's finger when he nearly sliced it off at x-mass a few years ago but didnt realize how much she helped with the daughter) so no more giving the stupid DR. a bad time. But it was so much fun!

but back to laser eyeball surgery. I went for my last post lasering check up today. good news sir, you have followed all of our stupid DR. instructions and you have 20/20 vision. come see us in November! Sweet!

I am sitting in the waiting area at 2pm on a work day in the middle of Dallas Tx. I dont live in Dallas I live 70 miles away. In walks this lady that looks familiar. she gets to the counter says some stuff and the lady said " ok Cindy we will call you when Mary is ready" and Cindy turns around and its Cindy Cantrell, my friends mom from boy scouts and high school who I have not seen in 15 years or more! The odds of that can not be computed by me but I am buying a dozen lottery tickets for this weekends drawing!

Eveditenly all of her kids and her and her husband now live north of Dallas. Small world I tell you.

so now my Laser eyeballs not only is making my hair grow back, my gut shrink, and getting me a raise at work it reuniting me with people I have not seen in many years!

(and a side note, my wonderful wife pointed out every one of my spelling mistakes on my last post and will do the same for this one so no need to tell me)

DR's are not the sharpest tool in the shed.

From my sisters blog

“I haven't blogged in a while because nothing interesting has happened to me. Now, finally something has.

My brother got LASIK surgery on his eyes and declared it a piece of cake. Please understand my brother is a wimp. First class baby. He wimpers at a stubbed toe (claims it is broken) and then cries foul at all doctors' knowledge, saying they're all "dumb."

Lets go over this together shall we.

“My brother got LASIK surgery on his eyes and declared it a piece of cake”

Yes I did get LASIK eye surgery and yes it was a very easy. In my opinion only someone mentally retarded or a DR. would have problems. I could see hours after the surgery and was better than 20/20 the next day and took no pain meds at all. But I did listen to the nurses at the DR's office and obeyed what they said.

Next she says
“Please understand my brother is a wimp. First class baby. He wimpers at a stubbed toe (claims it is broken)”

Yes I broke my big toe, then 2 weeks later broke it again. Did not miss a day of work and didn’t bother going to the stupid DR. I did learn to be more careful.
But lets look at other things.

25 years ago I cut my thumb down in Big Bend Park, I could see the bone after I cut it. Hour and half drive to nearest hospital and a drunk DR. refused to sew it up until he had our insurance numbers. So I call mom and get them and then that SOB sews it up. No after care pain medicine nothing. Hell the buddies grandfather that drove me to the hospital passed out from drinking while I was getting fixed and I had to drive back to camp.

In the Marines I broke my collar bone and dislocated my shoulder in the first quarter of a football game and played the whole game and didn’t go to the DR, until the next day when I couldn’t move the dang thing anymore

Another time, I got my leg slammed a car door. Got home grabbed the crown and slammed a shot, my wife looks at the cut and says “Dear, I can see your chin bone you need to get that stitched up” Well I cant sew for crap so drive to stupid DR. and get it sewn up. Again no after car pain medicine.

Then kidney stones. Go talk to any man that has had them and they will tell it’s the worse pain in the world. I got them at about midnight but didn’t go to the DR, until 8:30 when they opened because the stupid DR. book we read said they couldn’t do anything for them. Well some compare them to a woman having a baby. I would not insult someone that had a kid by natural birth by saying that, but they do hurt. Oh and did DR sister have her kids without an epidural? I don’t fricken think so. Our mom had 6 kids that way and my wife had one! (the second kid was by C-section because of the stupid DR. and I tried to get them to do it without pain meds to save money but for some reason my lovely wife said a really bad word about doing that, guess she was in a bad mood)

Then just this weekend, I did my first stupid thing in a few years and sent a nail all the way thru my little pinky to the back of my fingernail using a nail gun. I DIDN’T EVEN STOP WORKING UNTIL I HAD ALL THE BOARDS NAILED UP. I HAD A COMMITMENT TO FINISH THE JOB. And I sure as heck didn’t take pain medicine for it or goto the DR. I knew what I did and how to take care of it.

And a year and a half ago I built a pool with a broken foot.

Chicky poo you don’t know what pain is.

So if I say LASIK surgery was a pice of cake, keep in mind I can handle getting my shoulder broken, bones broke, kidney stones, nails thru the finger. A little laser in the eye aint anything.

But lets move on to the bigger issue.

“then he cries foul at all doctors' knowledge, saying they're all "dumb."

ok Missy Dr. did you ask the eye surgeon about care after the surgery? I bet he or she spelled it out in detail that rubbing your eyes will make your pp fall off or words to that effect. DON’T RUB YOUR EYES FOR TWO WEEKS. Everyone that has the surgery learns this and listens to the DR. Unless you’re a DR yourself then you figured “Ohh he just means the little wimpy people not us other DR’s who are so smart!”

I am at a loss on why you didn’t tape your goggles on. You rubbed your eyes in your sleep and moved the corneas…DUHHH

And then this line

“I then drove one block and realized I was too blind to drive. No wonder they told me not to drive the day after the surgery”

you didn’t listen to a thing the Surgeon said. Damn girl are you stuipid or just a DR?

I shouldn’t be shocked but for some perverted reason I am.


But then you read her blog and she mentions Nannys about a dozen damn times. What in the holly hell. Nannys? Don’t you mean baby siters? If having a Nanny makes you act like her, I will go without thank you very much. Fricken nannys jeez. When our kids were young we were lucky to get a baby sister. And we called them just that “baby siters”
My wife was the mom I was the dad and the baby siter kept our kids from killing themselves while we went out once every 3 months for 4 hours.

I should have put a disclaimer on my blog about LASIK. It’s a piece of cake unless you’re a wimpy, stupid, nanny using DR. then you will get addicted to valium, have bad eyes forever and your PP will fall off.

LASIK surgery was great for me. I have 20/15 in one eye and 20/20 in the other, and I do believe my hair is growing in fuller now, I have more energy, my gut is getting smaller and I think I am getting a big pay raise from work, all because of my laser eye surgery.

banana

banana, originally uploaded by hearsedrv.

Ok Elaine who lives with her parents says she does not like bananas. Well I am calling BS. when she was how ever old she was in this photo (and I have another one) she was eating the heck out of em. she loved them. I think she needs an exorcist to rid herself of them demons.

You can go here I hate bananas

and try to read about it/her problem with bananas.

Updated truck blog

chase and I updated (small one) the truck blog. We have been working on his truck.

wedding

wedding, originally uploaded by hearsedrv.

January 11th, 1986

20 years ago Katy and I were married at her moms house in Arlington.

Katy looks just a beautiful today as she did that cool January day 20 years ago.

Me I have lost the hair and gained a few pounds.

We have lived in Lubbock, Plainview, Midland, Arlington, Fort Worth and now Burleson/Joshua.

We moved from apartments to dorms to rent houses to a trailer (6 months is all she put up with that!) to a nice house with our own pool.

We went to New Orleans for our honeymoon in her 1974 vw bug. My hearse wouldn’t make that long of a drive!
We had planned on going back for our 20th, been planning that for a few years. We could still go but decided to pass instead we are taking a honeymoon to Austin. We are getting tattoos to celebrate!

I don’t regret a single thing. Its been a great 20yrs and every year just gets better.

I don’t know how I would react to my kids getting married as young as we did, but we did it and it turned out great.

Is it normal to bleed from your ears?

I was complaining to dad yesterday that I was still sick and didn’t have a clue to why.

He said “well if you we not such a butt head to your DR. sister you could have called her and asked, I guess you fell pretty stupid!”

So again my big mouth (I guess this time it was my writing) has got me behind the 8 ball.

I would call her and ask if its normal for blood to ooze out of your ears but she would just give me hell for talking smack about Dr’s so I will just use more cotton to stop the bleeding, or at least keep it off my nice shirts she gave me.