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Day 2 of the great costume build:

I finished assembling (for the most part) the modem box, and took the thing out to be sprayed! Despite my using the Garage as my paint room, the whole house stinks of Paint and Rubber Cement 🙂 Funny thing is you don’t notice it until you go out and come back an hour later.

The thing you saw in yesterday’s picture is now black. I glued on the top panel and sprayed the whole thing. I picked up more paint and more foam board today bringing the project over budget. It started to win the Costume contest at work on Monday… Grand prize is $100. I don’t think I’ll even break even if I win, but it WAS fun to build and should be a good laugh on Monday.

Tomorrow, I’ll secure the top panel better, Caulk the entire innards of the thing. Glue the back together (It’s painted and complete, but just in sections now), Figure out what to do for a handle/shoulder straps, and cut out the lights and mount the actual lights (yes, this thing will have authentic working lights on the front of it!)

It looks awesome! I am excited. I need to get out more!

While on the subject of my creativity, I started my next Haloween costume…

As some of you know, I work for a company that provides Internet service via cable modem. (Yes, It rhymes with circumcision!). I decided to create a new costume from scratch this year. I decided to be a “Motorolla Cable Modem” :)….

Using tons of Foam Board, Masking Tape, and Rubber Cement, I managed to put together the bulk of the unit. I only have a few days as there’s a costume contest on Monday. First prize is a $100 Gift Card (No, I don’t know where to). I even made a Coaxial connector for the back. Tomorrow I have to pick up more foam board, some paint (I’m paranoid I may run out) and finish assembling it.

Note that I have not attached the top or back yet, cut the holes for the lights (yes, they will be working just like on a real cable modem), nor painted it. Lots to do tomorrow.

At work today, I arrived at the location for our event early so I decided to take a few random shots by the Nautical Mile in Freeport. I got this great shot of the American Flag and with a bit of tweaking in Photoshop, I was able to come up with what I think is a pretty stunning shot of the american flag. Now, keep in mind the ONLY modifications I made were to adjust the coloring a bit and increase the sharpening quite a bit. I didn’t even need to crop the image. It came out just right (I just cropped the edges so it would fit in 640×480)

Picture behind cut…

This sucks!

I sneezed, and immediately felt a sharp pain behind my bottom left rib. I think I pulled a muscle….Grrr

My heart just stopped… for a good 30 minutes!

I take pictures for work (KJOY-FM) using my own camera and submit the pictures to the webmaster via email. I lost my Memory Card Reader so I tried to hook my camera direct to my computer. It worked for a bit then timed out after copying only about 5 pictures. I tried using my DELL Axim to move the pictures over and thats where it began.

I “Moved” the picture directory from the PDA to the harddrive. When it said a folder by the same name already existed, I canceled the operation. The PDA instantly erased the entire CF Card.. All the pictures from 3 events, GONE! Do I blame DELL for the hardware, or microsoft since I was using Active-Sync?

Thank god I’m a geek! I just happened to have file recovery software on my laptop, so after a half hour of franticly looking for my card reader, I finally found it and was able to recover most, if not all of the pictures. Whew!