The time has come for the big unveiling… Ok enough of that. Anyway I am moving my blog back to Blogger. Recently I’ve gotten more fed up with wordpress. So as part of the new year I moved! Sorry for the inconvenience, but I think the benefit is worth the sacrifice… Besides, Aaron and Jordan have blogger blogs, it’s the new cool.
My new/old blog- www.cupfullofjoe.blogspot.com
So most of you know that I like to get into alot of new hobbies. I am constantly making something or in the middle of a project. Recently I got into making knife handles and sheaths. I made three knife handles but quickly grew bored. I decided to move on to making the knife blades as well. I spent some time researching on youtube and other resources until I found some good plans to make a forge. I settled on making a ‘Brake Drum Forge’. I took an old brake drum off of a truck, turned it upside down and bolted a 2″ black floor flange to it. From there I put in a “T” with a one foot section to stick out the bottom of the “T” and a cap to screw on the other end. Then I stole my mothers’ dying hair dryer and inserted it into the non-threaded end of the 1′ section. I also took a thick wire grid and cut it to size to fit over the hole in the bottom of the brake drum. Fill it with coal, lit it on fire and Viola! a working forge.
Now all I have to do it get some metal to throw in, and make some knives. Hopefully they’ll turn out looking like an actually knife and not a ugly hunk of burnt metal.
This article came across on email and I thought is was very insightful. So many people like to frame the president as an uneducated, illmannered cowboy from Texas. If only they would take the time, they would find that he is a much different man than what they would belive. It’s written by Karl Rove, the presidents former senior advisor.
So I thought I would put up a couple airsoft videos from yesterday. We had an Alumni basketball game scheduled for a while and decided to play some airsoft before it. The woods beside my house was elected as the spot. We had 6 guys all together, I only have 4 pictured though.
The guys, and Nathan with his shoe untied…
A fairly normal ‘war’
Me attacking poor Andy…
So ya, Jordan, you need to come down here so I can whoop up on you, in Christian love of course. 
Happy 2009! It’s kinda hard to believe that is 2009. I remember when I was younger thinking how funny some of the year names sounded. I guess they aren’t really all that silly sounding now. Regardless, time does seem to fly even faster. Things are finally starting to slow down, or so it seems. Christmas was alot of fun, we spent most of Christmas Eve with the family. I got mostly clothing and a few other small things, even a really large lunch box.
Winter Camp just ended yesterday, I really enjoyed it. We had four different speakers, and all the messages were first rate. The last day we were there we go 8 inches of fresh snow, that made the drive home lots of fun.
I have some plans for my blog for the new year, hopefully I’ll be able to unveil them soon.
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