Max and Jade

My sister and brother in law went on a trip to Hawaii so i got to watch their dogs.

The fun parts:
- running around in the back yard
- afternoon naps
The not fun parts:
- getting drooled on by Jade - waking up to 2 big wet noses in my face at 6:30am ready to get fed
- trying to walk them together and having to carry around at least 2 pounds of poop in a bag after they both go, even though i let them out in the back yard right before we left





Checking out my new tent and sleeping bag

New TV Shows

Community
I think with these kind of "group story" shows the key is to cast all funny people and have good writers. This show is great and i think will get even better. The plot is that they all go to this community college, happen to be in spanish class together, join a study group and become friends. I think the funniest part so far was when Aved and Troy were just learning the first words and sentences that everyone always reads in those books:
"Hello my name is"
"Where is the library"

Modern Family
Some parts are really funny, the kids are definitely not one of those parts. The dialog the writers came up with for the kids to say is dumb and not believable. No little kids that are 9-14 years old talks this way.

One really funny part was when the "cool dad" sayshe knows all the moves to High School Musical.
(just skip to 30 seconds)

I also heard Dexter and Flashforward were good shows so i might give them a try.

Hotel, Motel, Holiday Inn

I started collecting room key cards from all of the hotels and motels where i have stayed. I've been going out of town for about a year now. All of these are actually from only the past 3 trips, just think if i had started keeping them from the beginning.

Pennsylvania - October

I got home from another work trip to Pennsylvania. I was told i would be gone around 4 or 5 days...i was gone for 10 days. It started with the usual 24 hour notice, we left Michigan around 6pm and didn't arrive at the hotel until 2am. Then the first day working we had the boxes for our GPS equipment stolen by a little old lady. We set it up in the right of way in a field in front of her house. After talking with her and telling her that if they find natural gas or oil on her property she might be getting paid thousands of dollars per month, she gave us back our boxes.

Also we had 2 run-ins with the cops. Once because a man didn't want anyone on his property. He didn't own the mineral rights and after a little talk everything was ok. The second time was when we got back to our motel. I don't know what the guy did but he got a ticket and they towed away his car.

For the first part of the trip we were working just east of downtown Pittsburgh and on one day that it rained we actually went downtown to look around and have dinner. It was great. We saw the city then walked along Carson street which reminded me of Wrigleyville in downtown Chicago. That street had tons of cool little stores and bars.

The second part of the trip was in Lock Haven, PA. There's not a whole lot there and out of the 3 restaurants, only 1 was open past 8pm. For this part of the trip we had to survey up in the mountains which was really cool. The bad thing is that the GPS doesn't work well up there and then it started raining and snowing. One day actually set a record low for the high temperature, the high was 38 degrees. I hadn't really planed on it snowing so i basically wore every piece of clothing i brought. The fall tree color was great but after 10 days in the wet snow we were all ready to come home.