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700 billion dollars / 138 million American taxpayers = approx. $5000.

Why are we not just giving all the taxpayers who pay mortguages, rent and loans $5,000 right now so they can get back on track with their payments? Then WE can bail out the lending companies by increasing their cash flow against defaulting loans. Those taxpayers who do not have loans can further help by investing the
money, or spending it to reverse this recession.
Seriously, who would vote against it?

well, school has started and so far all looks well, I have 4 classes and am considering going toward and MBA in conjunction with my EE bachelors. We shall see how things work out.

I managed to get first and second at round 10 and 11 this weekend for the Trials meet. I got second the first day and first the second day. I actually only managed to pull first by one point. It was looking to be a good day of riding, and for the most part it was, but it started raining and drenched the afternoon riders with some pretty heavy stuff. What we rode in was murky, muddy, and nasty. The creek at the bottom of the hill went from a tiny one inch deep trickle to a 2 foot deep torrent. The fun part was pushing my car out of the mud to get us up to the main road. We made it and headed home happy.

Yeah so my summers are always hectic. This is mostly because I am in Santa Fe all summer. I spend 7 days a week working at Santa Fe Skies RV Park for my family. I mostly do repair, upkeep, and tech work.  I also help with the Vacuum truck when my brother Tim needs a helper.  Between construction, repair, accounting, web design, and computer work I have little time for everything else. Time to do a little of the talky…

On the 2nd and 3rd we had another motorcycle comp. I took 2nd place the first day and 5th the second day. Saturday was a really close ride, the sections were fairly easy, this meant that you really had to be on top of your game. First place had 2 points, I had 4 points, and last place had 11. That is all out of a possible 120 so it made for and interesting turnout. Day two was not a day I am proud of, I was just off my game and made stupid mistakes. I missed a section and got a five for stalling. It was really bad. Here’s to next time being better.

Drupal is awesome, I love it, I am theming a site for an RV park right now and it is cool how I am totally waiting on them to get their act together, I am pretty much done. I started a reservation module but got sidetracked when I found the major differences between 5 and 6 meant I had to start over. After a lot of complaining and ideas and beer, I am back on track and will work on it more while at my apartment.

Last night I went to an HN-88 show at W21, they are actually really good, if you are into punk rock, check them out www.hn-88.com I am their web designer so I am somewhat biased, but they have to meet my critic standards so it evens out.

I installed openSUSE on my desktop, I played with it a little but the linux versions i have found seem to have heartburn over the MP3 issues. Thanks to the RIAA for making the open source world a  bunch of  kids scared of their lawyers.  GRR. Samba works great, FF, OO, and all the rest come preinstalled. I think the idea of a ready to go OS is just brilliant, too bad windows can’t figure that out. VNC over SSH is pretty cool too. I will probly put apache, php, mysql etc on it soon enough so I can skip that whole “upload your life” step, didn’t we make compiling for small projects obsolete? Oh, yeah, we replaced it with uploading. I am used to using textpad on windows, but moving to a linux distro means I would have to use wine to get at it, I would rather not, guess I am going to have to find a linux parallel.

My current main computer is running 3 Sata drives, two are RAID 0 500 GB and the third is a 80 GB where the linux os is installed. The BIOS boot settings allow me to run vista ultimate off the raid if i need to but I would like to get more familiar with the 64 bit capabilities of my linux distro. Now to find a way to tax the hell out of a 64 bit install with dual-core 2.2 ghz and 4gb of ram………….

figured i would put up a post about things in general.

got a lift kit for the jeep. it is a rubicon express 4 inch lift. the install was not that bad but i would suggest that anyone who is going to do a lift on any jeep older than 97 years should have access to a torch, plenty of jackstands, and a couple of pipe wrenches. the most awful parts of the install were the brake lines, the pitman arm and the chassis side of the leaf spring.

my room flooded. the rain from the new mexico monsoon season managed to find a way in and destroyed my carpet and my tv stand. i replaced the carpet and got a metal tv stand this time. dad and tim fixed the exterior. we also put in a new downstairs door to help with flooding of the hallway.

i won first place in sportsman at angelfire. i managed to get 34 points at the event taking first place. it was a lot of fun.

i got a new phone. bought a nextel i580, hopefully it will last longer than my last peice of junk.

i am working on websites using the drupal module api. i want to build a reservation system using D6, it is an upwill battle.

Evolution is like a drunken Irishman walking out of a bar. We know he will get where he is going eventually, but there are going to be a lot of odd directions along the way.

-JB

Today I started my summer calc 3 class. Anyone who has had to repeat a class knows how utterly boring the first week or so of a class is. Once it picks up, it is not so bad but what makes this class worse is the fact it is FOUR HOURS LONG, it runs from 10am to 2:30pm twice a week for 8 weeks. I have already almost fallen asleep three times in the first day.

Recently I started a small to medium php system called smooth that is designed to allow anyone using php and mysql to create configurable forms using xml and css. This means that anyone with a little html and css knowledge can make a custom form for their site. Much like the code snippets that make up wordpress and drupal, smooth is designed to be fairly easily configured by the end user. I am not up to the drag-n-drop stage of development using javascript and ajax, (this would mean I would have to learn ajax modules) but the idea is sound, make a system that allows for more general application of the code.

The vacuum truck biz has been fairly busy, we have made about $6000 so far this month and have a job planned for tomorrow. We will be digging holes for PNM to set new electric poles in where their equipment is not powerful enough. As much as it is hard, nasty work, it make money and at the end of the day, you really feel like you have accomplished something.

Recently I took over a website called www.nmtrials.org it is a site for the motorcycle club I belong to. I am using a suite called drupal, it is the awesome.

Get this, I actually managed to pull a C in my probability and statistics course! I was shocked to find I don’t have to repeat that damn course. There is only one more class I have not gotten the grades for, but based on my prior grades, I should pass that class fine. This summer I will be taking calc 3….. again. This time I will pass it. I want to get all this stuff done with. If I pass the physics and the calc this summer, I will have gotten all my math and physics classes out of the way. That is huge for an engineering degree.

In other news, this is the first day I have not been driving to albuquerque. Since monday tim and I have been working out in rio rancho on finding lines using the vacuum trucks. They were long, hard days but we made around $7000 or so for the business. It is good to see that your hard work can actually help the business afford you.

So I have been sweating over my status in school this semester, I have had a tough time focusing in school and it has shown in my grades. I just got word that I managed to pass one of my more on the rocks classes. I was so happy, I actually jumped for joy! Here’s to three more successes.