Home For Christmas

Nice having Wes, Kim and Victoria home for Christmas, Please note: Not "Holidays". We all got "Wonderful" Gifts, especially my Starry Nights software Linda got at McDonald Observatory a couple of months ago. Wes is loading it onto my computer and we can watch it on the Sony 55" HD TV. Carl is interested in astromony too. Mars, Venus and Saturn are out now. Linda and I have seen a star cluster, the Andromeda Nebula, the bursting comet, and the full Moon lately also. Software helps find and identify objects much easier. I have downloaded my stars, nebulas and interesting images so I can view them later and in my screen saver. Works with our telescope too.

I have really torn my BMW motorcycle apart this time. The reverse quit working, rear swing arm pivot bearings gone bad, transmission has a leak, Aux. lights quit working (bad ground), drilling a hole in the clutch system to prevent future problems and maybe found a fix for the ABS that doesn't work.

Wes and I are having fun with Radio Controlled Helicopters. The Starry Night software is better than I thought, many options, hundreds of objects to look at.

Crashed both helicopters, and broke them. Went to ToyRUs for another one and they were totally sold out.

Linda bought a wired Dune Buggy toy for me, that is boring, can't steer it.

Bubble Nebula above.

Ok, this is got to stop!

Looks like the 4th weekend in a row for bad weather to go riding. Of course it's nicer during the week, warmer and drier.


Linda is home HURRAAYYYY! Back to boring Chuck and Linda.


Boloraa and her family went to LV, LA and SF. Been there done that, but it will be new to them.


Holiday's are near, Wes, Kim, Victoria and all will be here. Looking forward to having male members in the house, sorry ladies but you still out number us. Wes, I cleaned to race track.


Coldest December I can remember. Hoping it warms up in Jan. It has before.


My friends sold their 3rd and final rental house. Saving them $4000 a month WoW, congratulations! Maybe now we can get back to playing on bikes, rebuilding, BS'ng, laughing.


Teaching Benny more about Spreadsheets, yes computers are addictive. I only have about 250 now!

Picture is a NASA graphic taken by different types of cameras. We have been watching Mars Venus, Saturn, exploding meteor, star cluster and meteor shower lately. Mars is very bright with a reddish glow in the early evening low eastern sky, Saturn and Venus are now seen in early morning sky directly overhead and to the west. We're talking about a used much more powerful telescope. I did see a Saturn Moon recently.

Mongolian's

I really do like Boloraa's parents. Dumaa (her mother) and Ganbold (father). He rides on the back of my BMW very well. So far we have gone on 3 rides. 1st to Barnett's Harley-Davidson, The Academy Sports and out to Ft. Hancock. The 2nd was to Hueco Tanks. Today our 3rd ride was to 3 M/C dealers and a tool store, yes all guy things. Thursday I want to take him to LC, Columbus or Cornudas.

I still want to get him on my older Suzuki 1100 to see if he can touch the ground. His legs are very short. Also I only found 1 helmet that would fit him at Mr. Motorcycle today. XL 1/2 helmet.

They are bored so I loaned them 10 DVD's (Star War's, 2 M/C movies, and Top Gun) They can't understand the words but they mostly understand what's going on.

Sunday I took them and their son, Erdene, out horse back riding. No, I did not get on. Erdene could not stop talking about it when they got home, Boloraa said. I want to do it again for him.

Raining or windy about 3-4 days a week lately. Over 10" rain this year, avg, is 6-8"

The picture is real, not copied in digitally. Under Golden Gate Bridge.

Suffering Again

Had to go riding again, in the high 60's. Tuff job but, you know the rest... Suppose to cool down into the low 60's and rain, but at least it's not that white stuff. OR in the TEENS, you know who I'm talking about.

Mom's leaving me again, BOOOOO.

Windy today, ride tomorrow, life's a B____.

No new projects. Haven't even worked on my bikes much except to make sure they are serviced.

Taking Ganbold and Dumaa for bike rides, they really like them especially since it's 50 degrees warmer here. Went to Heuco Tanks today, they have closed off 3/4 of the park except to guided tours. Sunday, Benny's friends with horses are going to let Ganbold and Irdene ride them.

Yippy tomorrow's Date Day! I like it more than when we first started it, something to look forward to and get out of the house.

Picture is a BBQ made to look like a V-8 engine

TUFF JOB being retarded, No retired.