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That will be the big day.  Amy and I are getting married on June 6th.  It seemed to be a good date, filling in the 6 month void of birthdays and anniversaries.  March is my birthday.  June will be our Anniversary.  September was when we met.  December is Amy’s birthday

It is kind of fun letting people get the joke of hyphenation vs. non-hyphenation.  Amy has picked the best option, just taking Sacher.  Although it would be fun to watch people snicker as they ask for Mrs. Cox-Sacher.  At least people will still get a kick out of it on Facebook, where you need to keep your maiden name to be recognized by really old friends.

I have my laptop going now, since my desktop has still not been setup from the move.  I will try to rekindle my postings of the Trans-Am tour.  I will need to boot up my desktop at least once to get the files off it.  We will see how that goes.

Today marks just over a month since I posted anything new.   I have tons of things I want to put up here, along with getting back to my trip reports from my Trans-Am.   Hopefully I can do that soon.

What have I been doing?

I’ve been shopping for a house.  I think I found one.  I’m working out the details and getting inspections and all that jazz.  Hopefully I’ll have everything worked out soon.  Then I get to move a bunch of stuff into it.  Needless to say, I’ll be busy for a while.  I’ll try to do better, but no promises.

Adam and I both woke up a few times and went back to sleep. We finally started getting up around 8:45. We grabbed our things and got out of the motel room at check-out time (11 AM). As the trash can indicates, we might have over done it a little, staying right next to a Wal-Mart.

We carried out our bikes empty, then loaded everything on to them in the parking lot before starting back into town. We made it to the Post Office and began packaging our less needed things. As time goes on, you find that the weight up the hills doesn’t pay for the convenience of some items. Adam shipped a package back home to Omaha, and I sent one to Jeffersonville. Around 1 PM, we left the Post Office on our way out of town.
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Today I read of an engagement gone seriously wrong. Although, reading through the article I realized that had I been in that situation, things would have gone differently. Amy and I are a little different than the two in the article.

The incident started with a man concealing his $12,000 engagement ring in a helium balloon, with the idea of actually ‘popping’ the question. I don’t understand why he had not attached the balloon to something of a greater weight than the buoyancy. Long story short, his plans of proposing went up, up, and away with the ring. After following it for a couple miles in the car, he lost the ring.
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Thanks Scott for pointing out that you don’t know what Amy looks like. I’m know that many of the people I sent the engagement notice out to have not seen her either. Well, here you go! Enjoy.
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Hurray for me. Today is my birthday.

Last night, I decided to make a German Chocolate Cake.  Amy thought I shouldn’t have to make my own cake, but I wanted to try one from scratch.  The cake used real melted chocolate and I folded in whipped egg whites.  The frosting was pretty standard fare with egg yolks, evaporated milk, sugar, etc.  I didn’t have a piece until tonight.  I cooked the cake a little too much and it was slightly dry.  I’ll post the recipes on here later.  It is my birthday, after all.

While searching for property around Indy, I found where people are playing Tic-Tac-Toe. Underwhelming, I know. It gave me a chuckle.

On September 24th, 2004, I met Amy for the first time on our date at Acapulco Joe’s in Downtown Indianapolis. Amy’s car broke down just before we met, so she was driving her dad’s old Ford Ranger. We have been seeing each other since. On Tuesday, we were going to reach an obscure and geeky anniversary. We will have known each other for exactly 30,000 hours. About two months ago, I targeted this date for something I had been planning for almost a year. She said, “Yes.” I’m now engaged. Here is how it happened.

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One of the first things I did, as a kid learning to sew, is figure out how the lock stitch worked on a sewing machine. You had a bobbin of thread in the bottom and the machine wrapped the top thread around it without getting tangled up (for the most part.)

This image is the best explanation I have found for the process. Very cool to see how it works. The bobbin is feeding out the blue thread and the main green thread comes from the top. Compare this image to your sewing machine and you will be able to identify the portion around the bobbin that fills the role of the red section in that animation.

Here is the most ambitious thing I’ve made with a sewing machine.

This is one of the cooler images I have seen in quite a while. A couple million dollars and you can create you own little tornado too. But, the F16 is an expensive method of drying the tarmac.

This also shows why FOD is such a risk. Here is a higher resolution version of the image taken by Keith Blincow. I haven’t been able to find a home for Keith.