The FDE AR-15

With the Holiday sales bug going around I couldn't pass up the chance to start my next build! I have the hardest part out of the way, the stripped lower. I have the BRD (black rifle disease) bad! But the lower was half off on Spikes Tactical's site. Only problem is you have to have an FFL transfer, meaning it has to be sent to someone with a firearm license. So I called around and the cheapest one I could find was in Clinton, a pawn shop just 6 miles from our condo. They were super nice and the deal was done.

This past weekend the stock, forearm, grip and trigger guard came in. I had ordered the LPK a while back with an order for the other AR, it was on sale.

I'm going with the FDE (flat dark earth) two tone look. The rest of the parts needed to complete the lower are on order. After they come in I'll probably wait a while before buying anything else. trying to decide if I want to build it up completely myself, go SBR (requires a 200$ tax and FBI background check, or a Addax GPU. We shall see cause for now I just need to get better at shooting my other one.

Titans...it's all over...sorta

Well the boys couldn't get it done. Chargers rolled over us 42-17. Not much to say besides the coaching staff needs to be replaced. CJ once again proves he is the best running back in the league. You'd think with such a one sided score they had shut CJ down. Welp, they sure didn't. He had his 10th consecutive 100 yard game and his biggest game of the last 3 with 142 yards. Putting him just 128 yards away from being only the 6th back in NFL history to reach the 2,000 yard mark. He also has some other records he could obtain.

What he needs to reach the records:
128 yards for 2,000
234 to break Dickerson's record
75 yards to break Faulk's record.

Picture this! Chris Johnson breaks Adrian Peterson's single game rushing record of 296 yards. That would put CJ in the record books in 4 categories, in one season, in the final game!

We are playing the Seahawks in our final game this Sunday at 4 in Settle. They are a weak team and can gave up big runs, but are they preparing and coming into this game with stopping CJ as the main goal? What else do they have to play for? A win for us puts us at 8-8, 500! Thats remarkable considering the start we had.

We I look forward to the game, but hope Sunday comes slow. I will be back from my trip to Boston and well rested but the day marks the last of the '09 season for the Titans, which is always a sad day for me. Let's just hope I'm making CJ2K shirts this time next week!

Merry Xmas!

Just had a great morning with my folks. Dad is a little under the
weather but we made to most of it. Lunch at 1with out family then off
to the Henkels house to Xmas and dinner. After that we have the Titans
at 7 in a must win game! What a great day!

Starting my new year...in Boston!

That's right! I got a call yesterday from Jason Zent right after getting off a conference call with him. He tells me he is very appreciative of all the work I have done for them and he has 2 tickets for the Winter Classic at Fenway Park for me if I want them! I was shocked, those are some HARD tickets to get plus it's the Flyers v. Bruins! I have never been to Fenway and never seen the Flyers, strange that I get to see both at the same time, haHA! He also says there's a hotel deal, 132$ a night at a downtown Boston hotel! My initial thought was, no I can't go. I knew Mary couldn't due to work. I thought more about and after I looked up airplane tickets I decided to go for it. My cousin James offered to help me with the plane ticket after I asked him to meet me there. It's about a 6 hour drive from Philly but he was more than willing to do it.

This obviously limits the amount of fun I can have on new years eve but it's cool. I can DD if need be. I might just stay up all night too, we'll see. We are still undecided on which party to go to or if we are going to have one ourselves.

Welp, I still can't believe they thought of me and got me tickets, I'm so excited!

Merry Xmas to me!

Some good tastin' stuff too!

RIOT INK: First big poster run

We got our first big poster job for a 10 Years show. The poster was and interesting design Alex thought up and Travis brought to life. It was a 3 color design and we need 105. 25 to give away to go up in shops, 75 to sell at the show and 5 for us.

Travis and I started on the first color around 4:30.

Alex showed up around 6:20 when we finished the first color. He started some stuff he needed to do and Travis and I ran to grab a bit to eat at... you guessed it, Hooters.

After din din, we started on color number 2, the black. I had to run home to let the pups out. After I return the black was about 30% done. Alex was printing and Travis and I were hanging/trying to find a place to put them. You'll see below we had them everywhere!

It was 10pm by this point so we decided to run 20 in the 3rd/money color that were to be delivered tomorrow.

3rd and final color, gold! I think it turned out great. It was a ton of fun and we still have 85 more to run the gold on. Travis can't decided last night if he wanted to knock them out during the day Wednesday or if he wanted to wait until I could get over there. I'm guessing he'll wait, haha.

Work showcase

We recently started working with Scripps on some pushdown banners. This is our first one. It came to us designed and I animated it and added the code. It went seamless and hopefully we'll get many more. Below is a screen shot for it "expanded" on foodnetwork.com. It pushes the whole site down and when closing, slides the content back up, pretty neat.

You can see it now on:
www.foodnetwork.com
www.recipezaar.com

Titans in December!

Well the Titans are doing what they needed to do, win! We walked over the Rams last week and CJ didn't have a big game as expected. Only got 117 yards rushing...hahaha, only. Today we played the Dolphins, which looked to be a tough match up. Could of gone either way. Titans come out strong and VY and Gage hooked up on 2 beautiful TD passes. Miami has only allowed one 100 yard rusher this year so a big day for CJ wasn't expected. Well, he did it again 104 yards, 9 consecutive 100 yard games! Just 270 yards to go! Bulluck got hurt in the 3rd and we sorta dropped the ball. The Dolphins were able to catch up due to one player in my opinion, Nick Harper. They attacked his side all game! They through to Cortland's side maybe twice. Anyways they got within 2 and had lined up for and I told them, "They are going to give it to Ricky!" Guess what they did, and he got in for the 2 to tie it. Grrrrr... Dolphins won the coin flip so here we go. 3rd and long, Griffin comes up with a pick and Miami throws in a personal foul putting us in field goal range to start. 3 short CJ runs later Rob lines up for a 38-40 yarder. I told him if he hits it I'll forgive him for the Steelers misses. Welp, he is forgiven, he nailed it. 27-24.

We are at 500, 7 and 7 which is simply amazing given our start. We are now still in the hunt for a playoff spot and tied with 5 other teams. Besides us winning out (beating the Chargers is going to be our toughest game of the year) lots of other things need to go our way. Judging by the numbers and schedules it's not very likely but who cares it's a great ride and been very fun to watch. Also even given Sunday, anything can happen!

GO TITANS!!

DMGx Xmas Party

We had the company Christmas party this year at Wade's house again. Second time in a row. Each year it gets smaller and smaller, which is very unfortunate because it use to be huge! That was my 5th xmas party with this company, sorta crazy to look back.

Well, I of course had a little fun...no I actually didn't drink to much, my fun was had with my wardrobe. I have a picture I'll add later.

It's later!

We sat around a talked for a while then headed home. Not a big crowd this time, half of the office didn't even come.

At the Christmas Carol

Mom dad Mary and I are at CBT to enjoy the play we see every year and
it's always awesome.

The all over the place day.

I had a crazy day today and the best part was I spent the most of it out of the office! I had a 9:30 appointment (more to come, sorta secret for now). After that I knocked out my xmas shopping. Pretty much done with that! I got back to the office around 12:15, Brian and I planned lunch with Travis. It was Travis's Birthday so we met him at Cafe 4. Had a nice meal and I picked up Travis's tab. He drove us back to the office since it was 30 degrees out. I just finished up some work and now it's time for dinner and some football!

Worst traffic day ever!

Today I rolled to Travis's after work and decided late to turn around
and roll down central. Cross the interstate take a left on central and
guess what?! Construction with detour. I turn onto the road opposite
of the detour thinking I'll find a back way. Wrong, cemetery! So next
I follow the detour over the interstate only to realize that road runs
into Clinton hwy. Traffic is backed up not to mention I'm behind a
bus! After what I can tell 3 light change cycles I make it to a road I
can turn right on and find my way to Inskip rd.

After Travis's house I'm heading home. I crest the hill in the road in
central to se the light at merchants is green and it turns yellow as a
semi pulls out of Pilot to the light in front of me. The semi blocks
all 3 lanes (each way and the turn lane). People can barely get by
coming the other way. The light on merchants changes...no green for
us, a guy at Pilot pulls out and squeezes his car between me and the
semi. Green light for merchants, the light for us never went green.
Guess the semi wasn't heavy enough for the sensor.

Light goes red for merchants again, no green for us. The semi driver
decides to run the red and slick in front of me follows. I'm nxt at
the light and sure enough on the 3rd cycle I got a green.

Each trip took 30+ minutes when should of taken 15 or less.

I hate traffic!!

My poor Mary

Arlowe the Henkel family dog (age 13) was put down late lastnight. She gets to work and finds out a lady that's been with Walgreens for 25 years and runs the register at her store past away this morning from a heart attack. She had an ink cartridge explode all over herself. A customer slipped in the parking lot and broke her tail bone and one of her best friends grandmother just died!

Man what a bad day. Going to have to get the bubble bath going for her accompanied by some flowers and a chilled glass of wine!

AR goodness

Finally got it all together. Had to order a Mil-Spec buffer tube to fit the stock. Can't wait to get it out again! You'll also notice the LPK! Yup that's nice, going to build another one. Going to the gun show this weekend in search of a lower!

Titans

Welp, the Titans winning streak comes to an end. But only comes to an end at the hands of ourselves, again. We shot ourselves in the foot... a few times. Colts remain unbeaten due to bad play calling and inability to execute. Washington dropped a prefect pass that no doubt would of been a TD. Britt gives up on a route while the CB doesn't and gets and INT which leads to a TD and Hall's fumble. The 2 blown 4th and goals killed us though. We defiantly showed promise and no doubt would of won with perfect execution, but I think we'll finish out the season strong and CJ still has his changes at history, just 491 yards to reach 2k! We are playing 4 teams that aren't exactly known for run stopping:

vs. St.Louis Rams : 28th Rush Defense: Allows 146 yards a game.
vs. Miami Dolphins: 11th Rush Defense: Allows 107 yards a game.
vs. San Diego Chargers: 21st Rush Defense: Allows 121 yards a game.
at Seattle Seahawks: 17th Rush Defense: Allows 110 yards a game.

Still a fun season to watch! GO TITANS!

Silas snow

Silas in the snow for the first time this year and it was a good one!

Find the cat.

Mary thought of the brilliant idea to put our overwhelming amount of
dirty clothes in the spa tub (yeah we have a lot of clothes). Earlier
today I tackled Mary into the tub and we tried to get the guys to join
us. Mako got the closest and in doing so he decided it'd be a good
place to sleep! Haha.

Work Showcase

Site done for Rebecca Claire Photography.
Website

Crazy paint job

This van was parked in the lot by my office. Had to snap a shot.

Titans win 5Th in a row!

Titans pull out another close one, like a touchdown pass with no time on clock to cap off a 99 yard drive close! Believable! 5 wins in a row after 6 losses is another NFL record. Vince Young is back and in this game proved without a doubt he is a NFL caliber QB! He was 27 of 43, 387 YDS, 1 TD with a 99.7 passer rating. And of course who can forget CJ! 154 yards with a 85 yard TD! 604 yards away from 2k! He now holds a new record! Has 3 rushing TDs of 85 yards or more, which no other player in the history of the league has done throughout their whole career. He did it in just 8 games! Still tops the charts with 6.4 ypc! They are talking about him in the MVP talk now as well. VY could get comeback player of the year and if they run the table the MVP fight could be between VY and CJ!

And with that...

The Titans Win Tie!

Now on to slaughter the obiovusly beatable Colts! Going to be a good game and hope the Titans can hand them their first loss!

The boys are ready!

Si and Zo got their game faces on for the Titans game!

Hooters, AR, 4 wheelers and Vols

Went to lunch withTravis at Hooters to discuss some business and hang out. After I headed to Byrds house to shoot the AR. While there I mentioned to Byrds dad that I was having problems sighting it in with the red dot and he said he'd help me out with it.

He grabbed his gear and we headed out. He measured out 50 yards and we put up a target. First shot at 50 wasn't even on the board. We decided to try at a out 25-30 yards. Way low. After about 20 shots it was pretty right on and I think with more practice my groupings will be alot tighter. I'm a lot happier with my purchase.

After shooting it was 4 wheelin' time. I jumped on one and Michael and I headed to the farm to find Byrd and James. This was my first time with them and oh man!! It was so fun. They have tons of trails and open fields to run wild in! Can't wait to go again.

Michael bought 3 more 4 wheelers on Friday morning to add to Byrd and his collection of now 6.

It was getting dark and we parted ways to get ready for the vols game. Michael came and picked me cause Mary was going to join us after work. We headed to the Spice Rack, 2 hour wait!! Chilis next. No seats by a TV. Brandon and Will met us there and we decided to try Bullfeathers to our dismay. It was a go! Pretty empty, smoky but empty. We got our seats in front of a TV and beers all around. Catie Tappen was in town so she came and hung out too. Vols won in over time on a play I called!! It was awesome!

New parts are here!!!

After debating and debating on a red dot I decided to go with a cheaper sight than the EOtech 512 I was looking at. A member of the AR15armory forum pointed out the group buy to me when showing my build on the forum.The price was great and I was able to pick up the sight, a Magpul CTR stock and Gear Sector receiver end plate with sling loop for 100$ less than the EOtech. The stock is a Mil-Spec version and my buttstock tube is commercial, which I didn't know until I tried to install the stock, meaning I can't until I get a mil-spec tube. I called to return it for the commercial stock but my new found best friends Addax Tactical doesn't carry them due to the fact that commercial tubes are a dying breed and only 1 or 3 manufactures make them. Obviously yet not surprisingly I found one of those manufactures. So I have a tube a new tube ordered. This is way there are no new pics of the AR as of yet. Should be so late this week I hope. God this is addictive!

Such a good day!

Titans played Monday night football last night against the Texans. It was a huge game for both teams. Titans on a 3 game winning streak with the Texans on the verge of making there first winning/making to the playoffs season. I told Mary if we won I'd wear a tie to work (been wanting to wear one and it was a good excuse). The game was intense, nerve racking, and exciting. It came down to field goals. 14-14 in the 4th after both teams missed fields Rob hits a 53 yarder with less than 3 minutes left. Texans get great field position, like they had all night, on the kickoff. Texans are out of timeouts but put a quick drive together, get into field goal range and run a questionable play for 3rd down and set up an field goal to tie and send it into over time. I had been standing the whole 4th, I was biting my nails. They split the screen showing the play and Fisher. We had 3 time outs so surely we were going to ice him, make him think about it a little longer. While maybe Brown thought the same, ball snapped...kick is up...wide...TITANS WIN!!!

VY had a great game, converted several 3rd downs and CJ again had a GREAT game, again. 151 rushing yards! The man is a beast. He is 758 yards away from 2000! The single season record is 2,105 set by Eric Dickerson in 1984. Only 5 rushers have hit the 2k mark in the history of the NFL. He is also on pace to have his name amongst a VERY short list. He currently holds the record for average yards per which is a little over 6 (insane!!). Only good things from here and if he's healthy throughout the season more records could be set!

Mary and I made plans to meet a few friends, have a few drinks and go see The Christmas Coral tonight. So since the game last night kept me up (Mary is off today) we planned on her driving me to work at 9 so alarms set for 8am. I woke up this morning at 5:45am, which is 15 minutes before my alarm goes off normally and about 46 mins before I get up. I laid there for a while and got up around 6:45. I have since working out/running and since I missed last night and knew I wouldn't feel like it tonight I decided to go for a run. I got a mile in running and half walking. Headed back in for a shower, shave and some sports talk.

I guess with that huge win last night, it just made my day. I feel great today, rejuvenated. Excited about tonight and I have an order of AR parts coming in tomorrow.

And as promised. I broke out the tie!

Thanks Titans!

Titans game day!

Woke up to a beautiful day and a great view! We got up and started the morning around 8:30 central and head to the tailgate. It was the same one we went to last year with the gotitans.com guys.

Not to many folks there but we were welcome and had a great time.

The burgers and hot dogs were great!

We were playing Buffalo, get it?

They came prepared with the satellite TV so we didn't miss a thing.

We bought some gotitans shirts and decided to take them back to the room and head to the game. We said bye and headed that way.

Someone was rolling in style to the game, to bad they pick yellow, yuck!

Right outside, almost there!

Inside and our seats are at up there! Actually they are to the left of that little room up there. That's were the cameras are housed, the one for the main shot on tv. Walking up to our seats!

Almost there!

VY and Bulluck high fivin' and CJ walking to the sidelines. Of course with a camera in his face.

Good ole TO

Mary got her preztel again.
The defense coming out.

The team was introduced and CJ came out with an Amreican flag at the end. Since veterans day was during the week they celebrated it at the game.

Field sized flag! Styx sang the national anthem.

The F-16 fly over! I knew it was coming

Opening kickoff. We went 3 and out and the Bills scored on there opening drive.

At halftime each branch of the military was introduced.

Titans owner Bud Adams made an appearance. He is right above the "eck" in Wycheck in the blue coat. Roger Goodell, the NFL commissioner, was there as well! After the game and after Goodell left the booth to go hang out with fans Bud was busted. Bud started quite the bird flipping route towards the Bills bench. There has been a long rivalry between the Oilers/Titans and Bills. Will he lite them up with left and right birds. I didn't see it happen but heard about it later on ESPN. I thought it was pretty hilarious but the Roger Goodell didn't. Bud was fined $250,000! Chump change to him but wow!
This is in the fourth quarter after an INT they decided to bench Trent Edwards for Ryan Fitzpatrick. Bad idea. You can see in the pic Fitzpatrick had just released the ball to a seemingly open TO (right at the arrow in the 30 year mark). You can also see Fuller reading the pass and he jumps it. Fuller gets a hand on it and pops it right over TOs head straight into the waiting arms of Ron Hood (37). Hood returned it for a TD, the finally nail in the coffin.
Victory is ours! 41-17! Mary is now 4-0 in Nasvhille at Titans games and 6-0 counting the Preds games!

Seating at our seats.

Walking back to the hotel.

Stopped by the gas station for a snack.

We chilled at the hotel for a while and had planned to walk over to Hooters to watch the Pats Colts game. We decided to just stay in and order some pizza. Of course Mary was out right after dinner and I followed soon after. Really sucks I missed the rest of the game. Love watching the Pats lose! haha.