MattCalhoun

jim calhoun to the rescue

2011-12-09T19:42:00.000-08:00

jim's 40 hours of running the sander and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

HARD WOOD FLOOR REVIELED

2011-11-08T05:56:00.000-08:00

LUEON AND LINOLEUM REMOVED.HARDWOOD FLOOR READY FOR SANDING

front window before and after

2011-10-26T18:54:00.000-07:00

Painting on Bolton Ave. 10.24.11

2011-10-25T05:02:00.000-07:00

Powerful bid sniper for eBay auctions.

Finished painting the bathroom white. 10.24.11

Finished the window replacement last weekend. 10-22-11

HUD HOME OCT 16TH 2011

2011-10-16T20:05:00.000-07:00

The roof is complete. $900 for shingles. $100 for tabs, 60$ for vents. and only $400 for labor.
Did some landscaping with more flowers. I bought some mums.
Aquired a free fridge and 2 free fuzzball tables for the game room.
gas furnace installed with a honeywell thermostat $500. not too shabby.
next big project is the big picture window.

southeast back bedroom

2011-09-29T12:51:00.000-07:00

hired the southeast back bedroom painted

2011-09-27T13:47:00.000-07:00

I finished painting the living room, dining room, and hallway with primer white paint.
The back bedroom trim paint complete and new color completed. Touched up some graffitti with menarads conco brand primer.

Bolton Ave. Project Home

2011-09-11T19:57:00.000-07:00

I took possession wed. sept 7, 2011. So far, I have managed to rip out all carpet and get this stinky house less stinky.
Sept 9th, I was able to get some air freshners and put them in all of the rooms with the windows cracked. This has helped alot. I purchased cleaning materials such as fabuloso bleach, and buckets mops and brooms. I swept the entire house.
Sept 10th, removed alot of the carpet tack in the living room. Swept the floor. 9-11, I cleaned the gutters all the way around. They were filled with horrible leave decaying crap. There are missing down spouts which I need to replace. And, the slop of the gutters aren't flowing the water to the downspouts. I need to address this. The other major accomplishment was that I removed all the lower cabinets. Owe the horrible smell from the drain pipes. : (

HUD HOME BLOG

2011-08-20T03:18:00.000-07:00

I BOUGHT ANOTHER HUD HOME. LAST ONE WAS IN 2004.
I THINK THAT I WILL DO A STEP BY STEP ACCOUNT OF THE PROGRESS...
PERHAPS PRIVACY IS AN ISSUE.
SHALL I DIVULDGE THE LOCATION?
NOT, SURE...

Africa 2009

2009-12-15T21:14:00.001-08:00

What a wonderful Trip!

I will need to spend some time copying down my travel log. Bare with me. I'm getting older and slower at this stuff.

COSTA RICA

2008-03-23T21:43:00.000-07:00

I'm here on business and it is beautiful

2007-05-29T14:19:00.000-07:00

My War Against BIG OIL

Here is my latest weapon to fight big oil.

So far I am

1. Car pooling.

2. Biking where I can.

At War with BIG OIL

2007-05-17T08:07:00.000-07:00

I refuse to buy gas. I know I have to go to work, take my kid to day care, and move my overweight American ass around, but I just don't wanna pay anymore.

action items: WTF do I do about it?

Bug my friend Wes to carpool with me and pay him $2.50 for round trip. It costs me $6.00 per day now to get to and from work
get a bike and ride to work. (get a workout and screw big oil at the same time)
work from home via VPN (virtual private network)
buy a scooter (tried that and it was too dangerous)
buy a motorcycle. (wife was upset. have to get a motorcycle license, insurances and too much hassle)
get an electric car (still requires energy and batteries too expensive to replace)
hybrid car (not cost effective yet. big oil companies' fault)

Hmmm....

Dean and Olivia 2005

2006-07-06T11:10:00.000-07:00

This is a picture of Dean and Olivia July 2005 at the Lake House on Morse Resevoir. I forgot my camera this year and I regret it because dean rode on an intertube while Dan Eicchorn pulled us with this Carvelle super duper ski boat. OH well, I hope that Dean has a great memory that is more permanent than a photograph of our time on the Lake together! I love you Dean..

LOST

2006-05-07T07:36:00.000-07:00

Lost
The pieces of the puzzle are coming together.
The hanzo foundation offers a promise of longer life spans. Michael shows up after being with the others only to kill off Anna Lucia and the blonde girl.

Here is my hypothesis.
The island and the people on it have somehow harnessed the power to live longer, heal quicker, and possibly have immortality; however, with this there is a cost. They can no longer procreate. They have to take babies from strangers of air plane crashes that they (the others) cause. Also, they only try to "recruit" or brainwash people into their tribe that are "good". They don't want murderers and trouble makers to cause issues once they become bored with immortality. And, they don't want people who are motivated to escape and tell the rest of the world their secret.

Backstory
The Hanso foundation was a prosperous company that created these ideas of a longer, better life. They decided to test their findings on humans via the "dharma experiment." They placed life pods on a deserted island that wasn't yet discovered. Of course, the experiment went ary and the people that survived formed a "lord of the flies" sort of government where a leader cropped up. They banded together and formed a coalition. They decided how to operate and how to keep their society going.

Current episode.
Michael was not an other. He was brainwashed into their immortality spiel or they might be holding Walt hostage and they told him to use any means necessary to get their "guy", weird bug eyed dude, back. I like the brainwashed theory. Michael's main motis operandi is to never be separated from his son again. Now, the people of Hanso, have given him the means for life forever and never separated from his son. And, perhaps, because he is not an original other, he can procreate. There isn't enough info about the procreation problem yet.

Quarantined.
The people that are so called infected with this virus are the ones that can no longer procreate.

"Him" Their leader
I think that the "other" guy that they are keep in the hatch is, in fact, the "others" leader. He uses serious mind games to get out of dangerous situations and his followers come to his rescue, ie Michael.

Pieces that don’t Fit
Hurley’s hallucinations and the dynamic that this island is all in his head.
John Locke’s almost being pulled into a hole by “the black smoke”
We saw that they used fake beards and actors glue to hold the beard on. Perhaps this black smoke is the quintessential smoke and mirrors game. They are using smoke and mirrors to make the people from the plane scared?

Alternative Fuel and Vehicle Websites

2006-04-10T14:04:00.000-07:00

http://www.esolartech.com/

http://www.greasecar.com

http://www.austinev.org/evalbum/

http://www.evtrader.com I used to own this one and I sold it to a guy in CA.

http://www.biodiesel.com/
http://www.eaaev.org/
http://www.commuterpage.com/carfreealt.htm

Matt Calhoun

2006-04-07T07:42:00.000-07:00

I feel that blogs are a giant trendy bandwagon like 8 tracks, hoola hoops, slinky's, rubix cubes, adkins diets, or whatever a gaggle of people cling to and pretend to be an expert of, but
hey it was so easy to sign up that I couldn't help myself. So here it is the ugly Matt Calhoun bandwagon trendy blog.