Friday Dec 18 2009

Temperature 70 clear no wind

Drove down to San Diego with Edgar to pick up a Sail Car. For those unfamiliar it is a three wheel cart with a windsurfer sail attached to it. You sit down low between the rear wheels and control the steering with your feet. These 'boats' as they still call them will do 40+ miles per hour. Professional boats will do over 70 and ice versions of the same have been clocked well over 100 mph. The boat I got is in OK condition but old, either way it is well worth the $50.00 and 6 hours worth of driving I did to day to get it, will probably take another 100 to 150 to get it going. I am suprising Jacob with it for Christmas in addition to the normal gifts he is getting and hopefully he will get excited about helping me fix it up.

Tonight is the judging of the Christmas Lights in our community. I've never really thought about it much but believe that I have a good chance of winning with the Nightmare Before Christmas themed characters that I have made over the years. I'm posting a couple of pictures of them but they are made of a symphony of different materials and methods all of which I learned as I was doing it.