Brian Gallimore's Blog

We drove out the the Frisco Bridges today to take a few pictures to use on our Christmas cards.  Brandon and Shaun met us out there.  This is a very neat place.  There are many statues of longhorns and and waterfall in the park.

We are going to take monthly pictures of Amber’s belly.  Here is the first one!

Also, I talked her into starting her own blog.  It is at blog.360.yahoo.com/amberb791, but you have to be on her list to view it.  Send her an email if you want to view it!

First off, I have to tell you that I have spent time down at Dealey Plaza, listening to the people talking about conspiracy theory.  I even bought a booklet with “proof” that there was multiple shooters, CIA involvement, etc.  I walked around the area, going through all the information, and I was convinced that the grassy knoll was the place where the fatal shot was fired from. 

I just watched a show on the History channel “THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION: BEYOND CONSPIRACY”.  If you are interested in this subject, this is a great show to see.  One of the most impressive things is the 3-D computer model created from all the film footage filmed that day.  It clearly shows how the single bullet traveled through both JFK and John Connally.  Very interesting was all the information they presented on Oswald’s past.  This guy was a nut.  His own brother said that in the 40 years since the assassination, he has had no reason to believe his brother was innocent.  The show debunked the theory of the second shooter from the grassy knoll too.

Now that I have done some searches on the Internet, I see all kinds of controversy over the film itself!  Where does it all end?

The long weekend is over.  I had big ambitions…  I needed to get the bookshelves emptied and the office cleaned up.  We need to get things ready for a baby!  I did manage to get a cabinet installed in our bathroom.  That was something I was going to do three years ago and never “got around to it”.  I glued some oak trim boards to the sides of an unfinished cabinet to make it the correct width, then stained and polyurethaned it all.  Now, after living in this house for over four years we have a place to store towels in the master bathroom!

I also worked on my paintball box.  I installed the lid hinges and did some sanding.  Then my sander broke… I’ll put getting that fixed on my list of things to do now.

Anyway, the worst thing that happened was that I started poking around on myspace.com.  It is consuming to start searching for people you once knew and reading about them again.  I went through some of my old school rosters to find people’s names just so I could search for them on myspace.  I must have spent the majority of my holiday on the computer just screwing around on that website. So make me feel better and take a look at my pimped out improvements.

I found several interesting items in this week’s mail from snopes.com:

1-       If you buy a gift card, don’t buy one from a rack out in the open, buy it from a sales clerk that has had them hidden from the public. http://www.snopes.com/fraud/sales/giftcard.asp

2-       You can take a tax credit when filing 2006 federal taxes to get back money the phone company has been screwing you out of for some time now.  http://www.snopes.com/business/taxes/excise.asp

3-       Don’t eat lots of green potatoes.  http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/potato.asp

Funny Video with Richard Simmons

The spirit of hidden paintballers visited me again.

Jonathan stayed hidden while we wiped out his team, until we turned our backs.  Next thing I knew, I was running from people!  Then in the next game, the trees started shooting at me… yup same guy!

Nine players showed up on Saturday for the big-boy games.  I used marbleizer paint this time.  I guess this was the first time I used good paint with my hammerhead barrel.  It was very accurate!  I was able to hit people first shot from 75 feet away no problem.  I single-handedly killed the whole team during civil war.  I gained the dishonorable distinction of being the guy who “shot a man in the nuts” this game.  I wonder how long until I live that one down.  After we were all tired of playing paintball, we lined up the horse apples and shot them with rifles.