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Saturday, July 29, 2006
	Good Boy, Flash! by brian @ 12:25:30 - [perma-link] We walked up to Grand Central Bakery this...uh.. Afternoon. Flash is being a good boy wating outside and he's getting all kinds of attention from people passing by.
	Making the Vanagon Even Cooler with A/C by brian @ 12:25:49 - [perma-link] I found someone selling the Vanagon air conditioning setup on craigslist, so I bought it. The pieces are pretty big, so rather tan store them on the floor I went ahead and installed what I have so far. I can do all the connections with it already up. That is after I go pick up the rest of the parts I forgot yesterday. Oops. The guy has 6 vanagons parked outside his custom shoji screen shop. It was like driving up to a Vanagon car show or something. He also told me about the Bug-in VW show at PIR tomorrowM swap meet, drags, and show&shine. I'll go check out the swap meet and get some hubcaps and whatever else looks cool.
movie (click to play)	Picking up Parts by brian @ 15:40:05 - [perma-link] I picked up the remainder of the A/C parts this afternoon (the air channel that brings the cold air from the evaporator in the back to the vents at the front... you know, nothing important ;) and did another timelapse. I rigged up a real mess to hold the phone sideways, but I'll just put up with it for now. I'll be installing a Mac Mini in the van with multiple cameras when the parts arrive in a week or so. Then it's going to be much more fun.
Thursday, July 27, 2006
movie (click to play)	Back from the Beach by brian @ 13:24:03 - [perma-link] Last week Randy visited and told me how he used his camera to do a time lapse of his drive across the country. That inspired me to do the same. I found CoolCamera for my Windows Mobile phone, and set it up on the dash on the drive back from Cannon Beach. I think I snapped these at a 5 second interval which was just about right for the 1.5 hour drive. I'll do more of these for sure.
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
	Finally Finished the Table by brian @ 10:19:54 - [perma-link] Remember this thing? I posted about it back in November when I built it. I finally found some casters I like, and glued the border pieces. A 4x8 table on wheels is way more convenient than without. Two of the old tables are stacked on the bottom. Maybe in another 6 months I'll have them back up on sturdier legs.
	Sun Shades for the Vanagon by brian @ 16:50:02 - [perma-link] Bus Depot was sold out of the insulated sunshade kit for the Vanagon, so I made my own from a bunch of cheap shades from GI Joes. I have suction cups pushed through duct-tape button holes. This is the first time I've used them, and I hope they work!
Saturday, July 22, 2006
	Skatepark in Reedsport by brian @ 17:01:28 - [perma-link] Flash and I turned off of 101 in Reedsport where we saw this skatepark. There were a lot of skaters, but most of them were just kind of standing around. Flash played with a big dog for a bit, then we continued on our way home.
	Painted Tires by brian @ 17:11:41 - [perma-link] I colored in "SUPERVAN" on my tires with the Duplicolor Hot Tires red paint The pens work pretty well once the tip gets primed. If I can figure out how to lay on a fine line, I'll outline the letters in white.
Friday, July 21, 2006
	Motorcycle show by Connie @ 16:36:28 - [perma-link] Brian the pups and I joined Nikki and Josh at an exhibition at one of the motorcycle dealerships in town. There were guys on bikes doing stunts when I took these pictures. You can kind of tell that they are watching.
Sunday, July 16, 2006
	Better Brian has a Better Lens by brian @ 17:56:19 - [perma-link] On our tour of the Bay Area, we visited Brian and Erin. Brian has a very cool digital SLR with a 10.5mm (I think it was... "the widest view Nikon has") fisheye lens. I took some shots of Flash. He was just over 12 weeks in these pictures. He's grown a lot. Even since these pictures, not even a week ago, he's grown. 40lbs is probably a little low. Brian also took this spectacular picture of the Vanagon.
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