Sunday, April 30, 2006

Jets Draft

Jets shored up their offensive liner with their 2 number one pics , A top tackle and the top center in the draft. Its not flashy like a QB or RB , but you need a line if you want a QB or RB to do anything productive

Saturday, April 22, 2006

I`m bored

life has no meaning
blah

Sunday, April 09, 2006

Its almost spring

April is here , we have a few nice warm days ...woohoo

Lori and I went hiking the last 2 weekends , this weekend the hiking was great , last weekend ....well...

We went to middletown ct , and hiked a trail called bear hill loop. It was to be a 4mile , moderately difficult trail. Well , about 5 miles in we realized that this damn trail was not LOOPING... and by moderately difficult , they meant at points we are on our hands and knees climbing up or down rocy faces. Then....
It starts to downpour ...Hard. Now I`m in a bit of a panic as we were COMPLETELY UNPREPARED for a real hike , I left my phone in the car , we had one 12 oz water , no backpack , flashlight , layer of clothes , compass , blah blah blah , All those things your supposed to have if you are hiking.
Well we find another trail that seemed to be going in the direction we wanted , Down and out...we walk this trail at like 20 miles an hour ...I may be exaggerating. And then ...
We find a road ....woo hoo , hee
This is NOT the road by our car ... This was NOT the Loop !
The road goes both ways as far as the eye can see , NOWHERE
I pick a direction
Left
Walk Walk WAlk WALK
2 1/2 miles later we see what looks like civilization
Its not
Its a pratt and whitney plant - and a DEAD END
Turn around
WALK WALK WALK WALK
back to where we started
Keep walking ...1 mile later we are at the road that takes us to our car
2.5 more miles
UPHILL (no lie , this time i`m not exaggerating)
A half marathon and 5+ hours later we end our hike and hop in the car

NOW we have a hiking backpack , a gps navigator , my phone always , first aid kit , flashlights , batteries , maps , water bottle , etc; etc;

Today we hike , with our stuff
We go to burlington ct , Sessions wildlife Park
3 miles , It actually is a real loop and the entire trail is gravel laid.
We don`t really need the gps system
We bring it all anyway

It was a pretty cool trail , had a lot of side trails (in and out style) that had Blind overlooks at dams , wetlands , beaver dams , tree and bird sanctuarys etc;
like the zoo , it had a bunch of signs with animal or habitat blurbs and info
The reason I picked this trail was the waterfalls , which didn`t disappoint
Not super long , tall , large or voluminous but was still one of the prettiest falls we`ve seen (appx 10-12)
Split boulders allowed 3 fingers of downward drops , in between sharp rocks and down a pretty stream. It was pretty neat
That was why we hike...
oh yeah , hit a nice chili cheese dog shack on the way home