Quills: A Call To Quills by Del Albright

Quills: A Call To Quills by Del Albright

San Jose Four Wheel Drive Club

Attended the safety clinic last month and the club is full of experience. Crisy and I intend on joining.....once my Jeep is put back together!

Insurance diagram of accident. Cant be much clearer than that..... 

Is that the fram I see there? Pushed in just a tad. 

Damn, airbags freakin hurt! 

Poked eye! 

Makes me sick! I got a fractured wrist and tons of bruises. 

Head-on Collision 6-3-05

Making my way home from a nice sunny Friday evening after work, I turn onto Downing and get blasted by a kid rolling through a stop sign. 17 year old was looking right and driving left like a damn idiot. He took my 3-month old baby (Jeep) and crushed it in his 85 "tank" Volvo. Freakin Bastard. Do they learn anything in drivers ed these days. Guess not! Where are my tax dollars going anyway.....

Hollister Hills trail 

Ravine Crossing 

Chillin at the house (BBQ Season!) 

ED4 Safety Clinic 

All ready to go home 

Hiking....he loves the outdoors! 

Desi graduates! Yippee 

Did I say I love this thing? 

Driving around Cali 

Look its the Easter Bunny! 

they love each other. I think? I hope! 

Got my XM all hooked up..ready to roll! 

Aw.....buddies. Look at the love! 

First trip to the beach! 

How could you pass this little guy up? Look at those eyes! 

New Dog! Desi

Now that I have new job and new Jeep, I needed a new dog too! Crisy and I adopted this little fella at San Jose Humane Society. Named him Desi and he is now a freakin terror with the two cats we have. They are awesome pets....just keep you busy!

I love this thing! 

Got it a little muddy! 

First night home! 

Found a job!

After 8 long months, I have finally found a job worthy of accepting. I feel less stressed that things have come together and back on track. Now we can start getting things for the house and start looking for my new car.

{whistle}......Calling all squirrels....the yellow substance is food..I repeat, the yellow substance is food! 

They have arrived!

The squirrels have finally discovered the custom feeder I have built for them. However, I think they are only there to eat the sunflower seed that I placed on their chair in order to lure them to it. I think these city squirrels have no clue what corn is and they still have yet to nibble on some. I will report this occurance when it happens. Stay tuned for the next episode!

Nibbling away at the sunflower seeds placed on the chair. Does this idiot realize that corn is a squirrels favorite food as well? Hello...... 

Skeptical that this contraption is not a trap after harrassing these little guys for so long. 

This is where the leaping squirrels performed their scheme. 

They chewed through the hanging handle on the bird feeder to feast on the scattered seeds.  

What's left of the plant holder that once embraced our spider plant. Notice its mangled threads tethered twenty feet above its previous hanging spot. 

just look at the possessed little eyes he has when looking at the seeds in the feeder. It's like 'squirrel crack'....I am serious! 

Yes, you.........you are a bastard! 

Adorable? More like....'little bastard' 

Pete the turtle even looks at the squirrel as it lays on the fence directly above his waterhole. 

Sleeping away the day! How adorable? 

Tuga waiting for the Hummingbird 

Leo enjoying the outdoors 

Hummingbirds 

Squirrels....love'm..hate'm

I have to talk about my latest battle at the 'homefront'. Being that I am unemployed and going to school full-time, I have the ability to spend my days at the house. I am enjoying my time with my cats while my wife is at work and also getting to know the wildlife that surrounds our little house in Campbell/San Jose. Noticing the hummingbirds enjoying our landscape was pretty interesting and also noticing little holes dug throughout our yard was not very interesting. I now notice after a few days that we have the privilege of being the new property owners of a family of squirrels. Yes....these guys run like gypsy's tree to tree until they feel comfortable enough to make one particular tree its resting place. This resting place happens to be our back-yard. The holes are from the little baby monsters figuring out that they can hide things in the ground. They are also munching on little twigs and branches like little beavers and have dropped all kinds of brush into our back-yard. There is now a squirrel city in this tree as all the nibbling was leading to the construction of new homes for the growing baby squirrels. A few days ago, I awoke to find that our tree-hung spider plant was laying upside down on the ground and the hanging plant holder was gone. As you will see in the pictures, I found it a day later 20 feet up in the tree. The squirrels wanted to make luxury sleeping quarters with the material the plant holder consisted of and getting it stuck on a branch while trying. Only to leave it at an unreachable spot at the top of the tree.

A few days later, I felt it would be a nice idea to get some bird feeders in the back-yard for the birds. I think it would be interesting to watch wildlife in your yard. What I forgot to think about was that sunflower seeds are a squirrels favorite. Almost like it could be sold on the squirrel black market for 'squirrel crack'. Maybe not quite like that...but you get the idea. The feeder only lasted 2 days until the squirrels leaped from the trees and held onto the cast-iron pole that the feeders were suspended from and ate the seed. Not only did they eat the seed....they were so tired of the balancing act they had to pull of each time, that one ate through the handle that allowed the bird feeder to hang. This action left the feeder in its most vulnerable location as the squirrels took advantage of the scattered seeds.

I am now trying to train my cats to attack the squirrels because of their nuisance behavior. However, I am an animal lover and began to construct a squirrel feeder so they could have their own little chow table and they can leave the bird feeders alone. I spend 2 hours constructing a squirrel chair that they can use to feed on corn. I will be sure to report their behavior in order to see if my plan to...'All get along' works. If not...back to training the cats! :-)

Being Unemployed Sucks!

Let me tell you for a brief second just how much being unemployed sucks.........It's pretty sucky! That pretty much sums it up! What is even worse is that I sit here each day trying to do the responsible thing and work on School work morning to evening to move as far forward as possible and I still feel like a damn loser. Then you have to deal with the pressures of society and how they view unemployed individuals.....they write you off as a washed up loser. Society can be a real pain in the ass, especially when they feel you have to work a minimum of 5 days a week from early morning to late evening until you are 65 years old. What? Hey Pfizer.....forget about trying to find the female version of Viagra....do studies on slowing down the aging process! At that age, I am going to be laying in bed hoping all my internal organs operate properly so I see another day. Not that I would not take a job working long hours...I have been doing it for years and well into my early years starting at the young age of 13. I have held a job every year following and at the age of thirty....(do the math here)...I have worked for myself and our society for 17 years. That's a long time! Still feel like a failure...not really...but {through the eyes of society}. I am a hard worker and very much a self-starter....so anyone interested in someone with a passion for marketing give me a call! Google....anyone? PLEASE {free plug there...why not, this is my blog}

I am not certain as to what started this whole rant, but all I know is that I am no longer working for the fake people I once was and feel I owe myself and SOCIETY by being back out there working my fingers to the bones............Because being unemployed Sucks!

MF From Hell, by The Datsuns, sung by angry chinchillas. Animation by Joel Veitch, rathergood.com

MF From Hell, by The Datsuns, sung by angry chinchillas. Animation by Joel Veitch, rathergood.com