Car go VRoooom!

No, this isn't the title of Emma's newest book or any of her books for that matter. My 1987 Honda Prelude hit 200,000 miles about 15 minutes ago on the way home from work. Pretty cool if you ask me. The darn thing is ugly as sin but I can't bring myself to get rid of it. At this point I have had it longer than most people keep pets for and it runs like it was 1989! In fact the other night this skater kid knocked on my car window and asked me if it was an 86' or 87'. He has one and it has 240k on it but he said it runs flawlessly. That gives me hope for mine. Shanna's car will be paid off in just 2 more payments. This means I will have the opportunity to by a new car next spring. Hmmm the real question is what to do with my Prelude. Since it's trade in value is $500-$750 and $2000 would be reaching if I sell privately I am trying to convince Shanna we should hang onto it. In 16 years it will be a classic car and Emma will be old enough to drive it. Pretty weird to think of any sort of Honda being classic. Somehow I doubt you will see my Honda in 2 years much less 16.

Sorry it has been so long.

It has been eight days since I posted. I have been working hard on a Flash site. Since I can either post to my new site or this one I haven't bothered to post at all. If I hit the new one no one will know because I haven't given an address for it. If I post on this one I have to change a bunch of settings on blogger. Lose lose.
I have been Flashing during every spare moment this past week. So far I can get the basic text blog to load but that is about all I have done. I finished buttons for my links and started animating the background. Once I add a title to the background and figure out how to show pictures I think I will launch the site. The animation will take a bit longer and you will see it when you see it.
I went kind of braindead this last weekend and didn't do anything productive. I hadn't been sleeping much because I was working on the site. I figured I would play some video games since I hadn't for a while and I wanted something that would just pass the time and not require much thought. Now I am at the end of Final Fantasy X and I probably won't be back to my site til I finish that up. Posts will probably be few and far between for a while.

More photos posted.

I uploaded more pics to flickr.
You probably notice I threw up my wildhog mascot too. I just made it into a jpg for now.
Just a heads up...I am working on some fun changes for this blog. In fact I am gonna give it a complete overhaul. Bear with me if you should wander on in and receive an error or find a strangely formatted page. It will be worth it someday. The new wildhog will be more vivid, exciting, entertaining, and even anatomically correct.Plus I will have complete control.

Mike Tyson Lookout!

She may look like a mad dog but this is just what Emma looks like after bleedin a cherry dry. She is starting to reach for food and other items. This is when all the books we have say she may be ready to try and eat from a spoon. We have a little sucker deal which will hold cut up bits of friuts for infants to gum on. She loved the cherry and we all had lots of fun.

My Evening with Billy Corgan

I just got back from Billy Corgan at The Moore. I have to admit I was pretty apprehensive going into it. Of course this may mean that it would be that much more easier to impress me but in this case I don't think so. I did have pretty low expectations going into the show but I would have been blown away even if I had expected the world. Billy was amazing! I was hooked from the second the house lights dropped and the stage lights came on. Honestly I was intrigued just watching them set up the stage.
I could go on and on about this show and I will, but it will be in a podcast so that anyone who wants to hear my review can download it. I think it would take up a couple of pages if I typed it up.

My quickie rundown would go:
-Billy played from 9:45- 10:53
-Encore till about 11
-14 songs plus an encore. 1 was an AC/DC cover. I am pretty sure he played his entire new CD but there may have been one song he skipped.
-The final song was a classic Corgan jam that sounded like a bunch of songs (including the opening riff from Today) mashed together.
-Something new from our usually shy hero... He greeted fans after the show then took the stage to explain that tomorrow is the final show for the North America tour. "This is coming to an end. It may be a while til you see me again but hopefully when you do it is with the Smashing Pumpkins."

GREAT NEWS! When the Pumpkins release new material I will be in line to buy it and as always I will be at the Show. If you have questions email me and I will answer them on the podcast. I think the next one will be entirely about this show.
BTW the above pic is just the one from www.billycorgan.com. You can see the screen in behind him and get an idea of what the show looked like.

WIldhog Icon

I made myself a nifty little icon for my blog today. Unfortunatly I can't figure out how to show it on my actual blog site. This is a link to a page where you can view the icon. If you have any suggestions as to how I might either post in on blogger or export it to a usable type of picture let me know.

Questions for Emma

If you could ask Emma anything, what would you ask? This may sound wierd but I am putting together an interview and I need your help. Email me your questions to ask Emma. No question will be overlooked but I can't promise that all of them will be used. Like I said, it sounds wierd but send me some questions you would like her to answer.

Direct all inquiries to grod@spu.edu

Nothing

Boone is posting more than I am and it has been a week since my last update so I figured I should toss something up here. Nothing is going on. Work, walk, sleep, wake, rinse, repeat. I have been learning Flash this past week and I am going to start a project that should be entertaining enough to make up for the lack in posts. Till then you should hope something worth posting happens to me. Should your need to read a blog become too great you can start a blog yourself and post about how much you miss fresh wildhog updates.

I did add a funny file to my mp3 page.

Podcast is ready

I posted this weeks podcast. If you want to get the audio files I mention then click here, not where I say to in the audio.

2 posts in 1 day!

I was just finishing up the lawn as Shanna arrived home. She had a package for me from Gabe and Ashley. THANKS GUYS! They got me a book by Wolfgang Puck. AND they got Wolfgang to sign it and personalize it to me!!! I didn't have time to look at it yet. One, because my hands were still dirty from mowing. And two, I am in the middle of a 24 hour juice fast. Shanna and I are trying to shrink our stomachs down and "reset" our systems so all I am having is juice and a lot of water. I think if I looked at the book I might actually eat some of the pages. This is totally the coolest present I got this year and I got an IPod! (Sorry Mom and Dad) Last year Gabe and Ashley got me a signed Alton Brown book. I was so happy(and dorky) I took a picture of myself holding the book and emailed it to Gabe. Well, different book same story(and same dork). You can see page Iron Chef Puck made out to me too!
I also wanted to update my weight progress. I had managed to only gain about 3 pounds since I fell in the creek. Any doctor will tell you that is not bad for an injury that takes you off your feet for one month and limits your activity level for the next two. I decided I would try and maintain my weight by watching what I ate until I went back to work. Then back to work and back to working out. Shanna and I have been walking almost everyday. Even though I haven't been able to hit the gym in two weeks I have been able to walk. I am down four pounds in three weeks. This is on par with my goal of 50 pounds over one year. I am aiming for a pound a week. So far so good. Thanks for your prayers, advice, and thanks again for the book. Keep em coming.

Garrett vs The Jungle part 2

I went back into the Heart of Darkness again today. I had mowed my lawn three weeks ago. I was sure I had the beast under control. Out of sight, out of mind! Without Henry I just don't have a reason to be in the back yard. It is far too small to run laps but the grass was so thick I thought I might be able to "swim" in it ala Uncle Scrooge in his money bin. In the end I just ended up with a heinous rash from fro to toe.
We opened the back window and realized that the 70% I had mowed previously had almost regained its former glory. The other 30% actually had three plants that were taller than me. I suited up and headed in. The first round, as expected, was the worst. I had to mow the grass down to a mowable level. Uhhhh, I don't know if that makes sense but just ignore your yard for the month and it will. When I hit the tall boys they went down harder than the Mighty Casey Jones. The scary thing is that they released some weird smells once they had been cut. I can only assume that scentual release was some sort of defense mechanism because it made me want to stop mowing and go back inside.
Once I had the flora under control it was time to deal with the fauna! Spiders and moths and bugs OH MY! There were all sorts of multi legged critters fleeing the blade of my Lawn Hog. It would have been funny to view this mass bug exodus from my neighbor's yard. Hopefully they won't be too upset at the sight of a couple dozen bugs creeping through the fence and into their yard. I ain't no bugologist but I reckon some of them critters may have been endangered. I would probably be in trouble with environmentalists if they had been around to witness the destruction of such a wildlife sanctuary. I felt as if I was destroying a jungle that has slipped under the radar of humanity. Then I was reminded of where I was when my Lawn Hog started choking. It had tried to swallow one of my old shoes that Henry had partially burried. I had checked the yard for all foreign objects and had found a respectable four out of five of them. I removed the shoe from the blade and finished the job at hand.
I went back through with the old Hog on a lower setting. I can proudly say that my lawn is looking much more respectable. It is completly mowed, trimmed, and edged. Now if only I could say the same about Emma's rat tail!