My hotdog octopus

Not knowing that Becky had made hotdog octopuses the day before I made mine, I took a shot at it. Here are how mine turned out.



Madelyn touches to see if it is still alive.










David tries to get a good look.

Stocks dropin like the're hot!

So....no $700B bailout. Can you tell when they voted by the chart? HA!

My new hat

I got a new hat at S&K Mens Warehouse the other day. I was not sure about it at first but have come to like it.





Here I am too cool for school.

Long weekend

I just finished a two day event this weekend. Freddie Fever said my magic was "Honk Honk". Here I am with Freddie and the dance troop. I did a total of 4 magic shows and walk around.


My friend Paul does an awesome pirate show.

Halloween Store

After our nice dinner out at Olive Garden last night, we stopped by the Halloween Store. We had fun.......

HOLD ON TIGHT!!

Washington Mutual Bank fell today and went down in history as the largest US Bank to ever fall. As a small business owner, the current situation with the $700 Billion bail out is concerning. But it has been said that people will spend their last cent on their own entertainment. Let's just hope that holds true.

My Crazy Street - Fast Edition

Political Fun....DNC Nanci Pelosi

How many times can Nanci say everyones favorite democrat's name......ohh 21 times in 10 mins.

Here is a video I made.

More people uploading Batman and from the event.

I have not uploaded any of my own video yet. This is all from what I am finding on YouTube.

Why yes mom...I have a REAL job.

I love my job :) And yes....that is me....and yes...it was 90 deg and I was well....everything you can imagine I would be in a full rubber suit.



Check out my moves!

Happy 4th of July from Techno Chicken

Why?...Because!

Florence Y'all

I had two shows in Florence KY yesterday. They were both at daycares. One at 10:30am and the other at 3pm. So in the between time I went to Panara Bread and ate, went and found a geocache with out a GPS, and stopped by to see the famous Florence Y'all Water Tower which was close to everything else. There is an interesting story about the water tower from Wikipedia. WIKIPEDIA IS THE BEST. It is best explained by Michael Scott of Dunder Mifflin



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The Florence Y'all Water Tower is a water tower that stands between the Florence Mall and I-75 in Florence, Kentucky.

History

The tower holds approximately one million gallons of water, and was constructed in the early 1970s by the Pittsburgh-Des Moines Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The plain water tower gathered little, if any attention. In 1974, the Virginia Erection Co. was contracted to paint the words "Florence Mall" to advertise the forthcoming Mall style shopping center - something new to the region. Mayor CM "Hop" Ewing was informed in July of 1974 by the Bureau of Highways that the signage was in violation of the law, as there was a restriction on how tall a sign promoting a business could be.

Many solutions were suggested, including everything from the obvious repainting of the tower, to covering the structure with a large tarpaulin. No inexpensive options seemed available.

During a brainstorming session with other civil staff, Ewing devised the idea of removing the vertical lines at the sides of the M in MALL to make it a Y; becoming Y'ALL. Ewing himself admitted at the time that it was a "corny" solution, but cost effective. The city paid $472 to the W.T. Marx Company of Cincinnati, Ohio to make the changes; whereas a complete repaint would have been nearly three times as much. With the completion of the modified paint job, the landmark was born.

The tower was recognized shortly after the change, in a national Reader's Digest publication. The tower is an instantly recognizable landmark, even inspiring the naming of the annual Florence festival to the "Florence Y'all" fest.

LED Kit

I know the last letters are cut off at the end...not sure why. Enjoy....and yes I am dramatic.

2008 Hope Community Church Golf Outing

Here is a video I did for our church. We had a golf outing on Saturday.

Garage Sale - Shameless Plug

Our garage sale is Friday and Saturday in Avon Trails subdivision. The whole community is having a sale some come on by.

Happy Father's Day

It's Fathers Day and I received a hand written ticket to get tickets for an Indiana's Baseball Game with the family.

Here is a video Heidi made for church service today. I have two moments in the video.



To my Father...

Thank you for being a great teacher, example, and Godly leader. I cherish the time you spent with me as a child and the time we get today as well. Most of all thank you for loving my mom and providing a solid family foundation that is rare in these days.

I Love You,
Daniel

P.S. As I look out my window I see the flag still up on the mailbox. This means I missed the mail so your card will be on its way Monday. HA! OOPS!

Kung Fu Panda Practice

Since some of you know my brother now from camp.....Abbey.....here is a video of him practicing his moves. I am behind the camera.

This video is over 2 years ago.

WE ARE SOUTHERN BAPTIST!!!!

I love this video that was just launched in the Indianapolis market. You can click on it twice to go to YouTube and watch in high quality by clicking the link under the video. Anyway.....enjoy.

"There is hope for every man!"

Jump Jump

Seven Mins in a Drive Thru

McDonald's Has not been very fast lately. Here I am waiting 7 mins for one double cheeseburger. I sped up most of it.



Next Post .... The Storms

Our final night - Awana Games

For the last three years I have been the Awana Games Leader for our church. With magic shows now showing up at all times it has been hard to lead the games. With that said, I bowed out of games and will help with Puggles next year. Thank you to my great team and friends. Josh Washburn (left) and Shane Thrasher (right). You guys are the best. Shane filled in a lot for me in the past year. Shane will be moving on from games as well. I am not sure of Josh's plans.

Thanks for a great three years!!

Yesterday was my Birthday....and I still got it!

The grass is greener on my side

Original Post 05/15/08

Happy Mother's Day Becky

Original Post 05/11/08

Becky got a flat...I changed a tire

Original post 5/10/08

Original Post 5/08/08

Becky tried to make rice but forgot to add water.

It's a miracle

Original Post 5/05/08

I had a very odd experience today. A miraculous event!!

I went to place my contacts in my eyes today. I figured it was time for a new pair. Each comes in their own package. I opened up one and placed it in the right eye. I did the same for the left. I then realized I had a very hard time seeing out of the right eye. "Hmmm...bad contact", I thought. I took it out and cleaned it off. Placed it back in the eye. No good. "Cheep Wal-Mart brand", I murmured under my breath. Did this same routine a few more times. I then took the right one out and placed it back in the package with solution and tried putting one of my old ones in since I had no other new contacts. SAME RESULTS. Very very blurry. "Oh no somethings wrong with my actual eye!", I thought to myself as panic starts to sit in. I then took the old one out set it aside and took the one I KNEW I could see clearly from in the left eye and place it in the right eye. SAME RESULTS.

"Great I have developed a eye problem over the course of the night sleeping". I took the contact back out and placed it in the left eye again and did not place any contact in the right eye. Getting ready to head downstairs to have Becky look at my eye I notice something very strange. 20/20 VISION! "Ok! What is going on here" I rubbed my eye and no contact. I looked and both old contacts were in the case and the "bad" new contact in the packaging with solution. One good one in my left eye....that makes 4 contacts. WHY CAN I SEE PERFECT! Ahhh it was not an eye problem I developed overnight it was SUPER EYE REGENERATION! Now I am super confused.

I head downstairs with a bewildered look on my face. "Becky I am wearing only one contact and have perfect vision. Do YOU see a contact in my right eye." Bending close to her with a crazy look already in my eye from the event that just unfolded I hear, "Uhh Yea". Sure enough I pick out a contact from my right eye. WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!

I walk upstairs more confused than before. "OK" standing in front of the sink "One...two old contacts, One new contact in the packaging, One new in the left eye, and one renegade contact in the right". 5 contacts! I am not sure how I did not feel it in there before but here is what I have concluded.

One of the new packages actually contained 2 contacts stuck together. An error at the factory. One poor sap probably got an empty case and is still on their bathroom floor looking for the contact they "dropped". It obviously was blurry with two contact and when I took it out I only got a hold of one of them. Craziness then perspired.

What a long story to tell you I got a FREE CONTACT but a small mental breakdown.

Yard Sales

Original Post Made 5/02/08

I went to a lot of yard sales today to get items for my magic business. Here is the list.

Elvis mask
large flower
toy clock
2 fish tank bubblers
colored rainbow streamer flags
spring eye glasses
2 nose and glasses
handcuffs
magnetics game
lots of mismatched socks
bag of pantyhose (you would have to be a magician to understand that)
pin the tail on the donkey

I also got something real cool form a free bin.


I love garage sales.

p.s. no jokes about the pantyhose......I did not have to tell you. :)

Ok I got my own blog

Everyone said I needed to get my own blog.....so.....Here it is.

Above is postings from my wifes blog that were mine.