I found the gasket set, in case anyone is keeping score. 🙂 I also found the new headlight and extra bulbs. Now I am having trouble with the electrical system (no spark) and am utilizing the collective wisdom of the Yahoo! C70 Group to help me diagnose the problem.

I bought a gasket set for my supercub back in October and put it somewhere… Now that I am ready to replace the gaskets in my carb, I can’t find it. Dang! Where could it be? I just need to fix that so that the gas doesn’t leak out anymore, then make sure my spark plug is getting juice and I should be good to go!

News flash! Henry Earl is back in jail! This guy has been popular here in the office, and around the net community. Check out his Department of Corrections file in Kentucky. He’s really a big drinker… You gotta look at all his mug shots, some are really good.

I had suspected that I was the last person in Austin to see this movie, and I thought that my suspicions were correct when I entered the theater five minutes before showtime and I was the only one there. Then I thought, this will be too weird seeing this movie, which will have some scary parts, alone in this big theater. Luckily, right before the trailers started, a bunch of people arrived, and I guess the total crowd amounted to about ten. Anyways, the trailers started and there are some cool movies coming out. The one that struck me the most was Captain Somethingorother (I forgot the name) starring Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow and the Tomb Raider girl, whose name I can’t remember right now. It’s got lots of flying scenes, which looked so cool. Ok, on to my movie review.

The Return of the King was one of the best movies I have ever seen. I was totally blown away! The thing about the Lord of the Rings movies is that they are only fantastic if you have read the books. If you didn’t, you’d probably enjoy the first movie, the second will have you saying, “huh?” a few times, and the third will have you saying, “What the f$*k?” a bunch of times. But… if you read the books, you will have already “filled in the blanks” in the plot.

If you like taking those fun online personality quizzes, head on over to Quizilla. They have tons. Some examples are:

Which Lord of the Rings character and personality problem are you?
Which Of The Greek Gods Are You?
What Snack Food are You?

Well, everyone else out there who blogs seems to have already posted their new year’s resolutions, so I figure I will as well.

First and most importantly is for me to save money. In other words, don’t spend it! No more impulse buys, less eating out for lunch, etc. Also, I want to update our Quicken file each day and follow the budget. Quicken is an awesome program, and when you hook it up with your bank accounts to download the data automatically, it is really convenient too. Anyways, I want to spend at least ten minutes a night updating it.

I need to throw out a lot of stuff that I never use or look at. I am sort of a pack-rat, and that is not good. Our computer room “office” has way too many things in it. I need to throw out computer software books, old toys, magazines, etc.

Another thing I want to do this year is to take care of our yard and garden, which had fallen by the wayside. That will be difficult with the new baby on his way, but something I think I can do. I found some old pictures of when we first created our gardens, and they looked great! I want to get them back to looking like that.

Take more photos. Not just of Bay, but more creatively and artistically. I want to use my film camera more, which kind of makes me think more about composing photos. With the digital, it is just so convenient to snap of several pictures that you end up not taking the time to compose the image.

Finish restoring my supercub. I think I have all the parts now. I just need to spend the time and apply a bit of elbow grease to get that thing running! I still can’t decide on a color, though!

I’m sure I will think of more, but that should be good for now.

I put in an old Bauhaus CD (Mask, not the one above) and have been listening to it all day. It is so awesome. I remember my friends and I would listen to them in high school, then Tones on Tail, Love & Rockets, etc. But Bauhaus was always the best. In 1998 my brother came to visit me in Tokyo and Bauhaus was in town with their Resurrection tour so we decided to go. We went with my friend Masami and had a great time. Our seats were pretty far away, but the sound was awesome and it was neat to hear the old songs again, live and loud! I’m glad I finally got to see them in concert. The graphic above is the album made from from the Resurrection tour recordnings, and is one of the discs I have yet to buy. *hint*