Coxenmore moves in

Pinky is Sceptical

The Snow Finally Came

more wed+recpt pics

Hoyt

Heavy Work

You need a tractor to do some of these heavy duty jobs on the property...

Todds Wedding

Then we went to Todd and Kellys wedding - that was fun and Matt Dorsey came as well, we had lots of fun - although not as much as the weekend before judging by hangovers anyway. :)

Gordo married

Gordo did marry Sarah the other day - it was pretty cool

back home

A few days later we went golfing

and another couple

after a while we got thirsty, and visited Fatheads brewery - the best one out of the three I have to say

and a couple more

at Great Lakes Brewing this time

had a couple beers

at Rock Bottom brewery, cleveland

Cleveland

So we went to some nice places in Cleveland, like this one

Atomic Vacation

It was so nice at this Ohio State park outside cleveland, with a pretty good view to the nuclear powerplant

Wide Angle

Angel is working on photostuff - this wide angle stretched one is pretty cool - next time we'll get the F-stop a couple steps higher! :-)

going on 5 months

Still Growing - 33 pounds now on 2009-07-09

Freya

A very good picture that Angel Took!

Freya is growing

Freya is growing - now 4.5 months old - this pic is a couple weeks old though...

Cat Crapper Ventialtion

Yep, we installed a new cat crapper ventilation system - after we started using the new stuff with plastic pebbles and whatever and what not the smells became airborne a lot easier than with the regular sand...

Freya Moves in

We got a puppy now - a Norwegian Moose Dog (Elkhound as they say here), Elghund, Aeljebikje, etc, this is this is the first picture of her pee'ing in our yard. She pee's like a girl, obveiously. Check out pics and stuff at http://www.stokkeland.net/freya/

New Hous

Forgot to post stuff in the summer about the new house.. so here it is, and one of george from the beer and sausage situation :)

Outer Banks

Going a bit forth and back in time here - we went on vacation to Outer Banks NC, here's Shawn and Russel in front of a wright brothers plane.. Hoyt

4wd

Really can't live without 4 wheel drive where we live now, as you can see - the 2005 Tundra and the 2008 Highlander is doing good though :)

Partially renewed kitchen

In Oct/Nov 2007 we got a new stove/range, so I did some partial renovation and stuff with fake tiles

Toronto

The RFP Team (3 of 5) went to Toronto for a product demo - afterwards we met up at a pub downtown, as you can see from the pictures everybody was refelcting seriously on what we just learned.

Filip Visits

These posts are a bit mixed up, filip visited in dec/january, then we went on a trip - then we bought the new car after filip went home.. anyway... just some pictures.

We went to a Bills Game - against the Giants, weather was crappy and the Bills lost..

Teds hot dogs tasted great

Due to Filip's serious eating habits, Pinky had a new best friend.

Got a new Car January 2008

Got a 2008 Chevy Impala from Team Chevy in Olean

It's a LT-2LT or whatever, leather seats with ass heat,

The trading post bar and restaurant in Great Valley (NY) now has more than 240 types of beer, here's a part of the beer menu!

2008 January Trip

Hot Dogs and Pizza in Chicago

Opry Mills in Nashville

Burbon Street, New Orleans

We went by many more places, 19 states overall, 3533 miles.

Made the new steps

The old steps

The old steps started falling apart, so I tore them out...

Birthday Party

Dawn and Steve tied it again :)

Wedding Cake

Going Home

The Boise airport is just as big if not bigger than buffalo, but still most of the planes are small and medium sized, or "Regional Jet" as they say, weird..

These where bad pictures as usual, but it was kind of cool to see that Windows XP sucked at a simple task like running an information and ad board in the terminal, it kept rebooting every 30 seconds or so, nice of you to be so helpful Bill and Steve, you should start manufacturing some cars that restart themselves and sell them as soon as 75% of the nuts are tightned.
Perhaps its related to how the Microsft wimps bailed out of the tech cummit sessions when they where getting too many critical questions about Vista licensing and deployment option. Why does Microsoft force me to have a machine running windows server only to run a "Key Server" to keep validating something I already paid for???? Its nucking futs you idiots.. kind of nice for the other side of the desktop, it will probably make many more be willing to switch to a usable operating system instead.

Casey likes french

BBQ - Sort of

I have never been to a BBQ where you sit inside on tables like this, there is a dress code, and no grills or grill smells.. Chicken and Ribs available, very good stuff..

Bathrooms upscale on this side of the valley as well

Those are the stalls..

Amazing place

Except for the good quality of these images it really was an exceptionally cool place architecturally - and upscale for a place where people walk in with ski boots.

BBQ Place

This is in a Ski place across the valley from the Inn and the Lodge, same people working here though so it seems one company owns a lot of the stuff here..

Bus Ride to bbq

Nice and clear pictures

Interresting Transportation across the valley

Golf Scenery again

Nearing Hole 18

More SV Golf Stuff

Balls

Chad had to use the Balls washer at this point

Sun Valley Golf Scenery

$2M+ houses all over the place

Pro Golfers

Golfing

Then we played Golf for half a day, neither me or Chad had been on the course before, just a few strokes on a driving range - there was no warming up here, we played a scramble and ended up at 73 - it was a lot of fun, the balls went everywhere we lost a crapload of them.

Geeks Dancing

Then some of use went out, some event went nuts on the dance floor - we didnt find those with the buck skin though.

Dinner at the lodge

Couple of minutes of walking is the lodge, we had a very nice 4 hour sitdown dinner there.

Casey doing a "Gun'at"

Upscale

This is the bathroom on the seminar area, note that the doors to the stalls look the same as the door out (furthest away from the camera).

Sessions

I hope you are all enjoying my sharp and pro pictures

TJ On the way to get some coffee behind there

Slide

Data Vaulting Software Demo

More SV stuff

Sun Valley Stuff

Chad

Sun Valley Inn

Its a Nice and Upscale Place - staff where from all over the world.

Nearing the Valley

Some hills and greener landscapes appeared closer to the valley, it was quite a relief at that point, after 2.5 hours on a bus at 4PM hadnt eaten much since 9AM and had nothing to drink or munch on... We'll blame MPC for that part :)

Where's the Mayors office?

Napeleon Dynamite Lands

You Can Eat at Texaco I guess

still flat

If you have ever been to one of the later Howie Mandel shows you probably know what I mean when I say that after 30 minutes this landscape started feeling like the opening music to that show... for like 2.5 hours (on the way to Sun Valley)

Not here either (Notice the quality of these)

Idaho Flatlands

Didnt see no potatoes here

Trip To Idaho May 2007

Me and Chad took off to Boise Idaho, I was up at 4AM EST and traveled for a bit, didnt take any pictures until 10 minutes from the aiport, taking pictures through dark bus window doesnt really turn out very well so the next few pictures are all bad... And then of course I am a great photographer picking the right kind of scenery, Nancy and TJ that was sitting behind us noticed my skills early on, we became good friends throughout the MPC event.

Imperial Beach Again

even more zoo

Zoo Stuff

Zoo Misc

Zoo Apes

Zoo Birds

Imperial Beach San Diego

Palm Springs CA

California Scenery

Nevada to California

Very Expensive Gas in the Desert (25 miles later it was a dollar less)

Wiener

At a Coco's

In California they put stop signs on the freeway!

Vegas Excalibur

Tree by the Walk way Entrance

Walking up the Entrance, or rather Standing

Vegas Monte Carlo

Ok, so Monte Carlo offcially suck now, they shut down the brewery - although they did have ok beers on tap and pretty good food, filip got his meat the way he wanted

Hoover Damn

Water level was pretty low - lots of people there and quite warm

Grand Canyon

Arizonas bigb hole in the ground is kind of cool

More Utah

Utah has many interresting road features

Utah

Dont see this in New York

Wyoming

Driving on the edge of the Rocky's through Wyoming is kind of fun, at 85MPH :)

Denver in March 2007

As we arrived in denver we sort of got dissapointed with the views, we thought there would be like big mountains on all sides, but it is really not more like some distant ones (later on this trip we saw that Salt Lake City UT was kind of what we though denver would be like as far as mountains go... Denver had great beers though, and great weather for march!!!

Purchased this one today

Purchased this one today: 2004 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 LS - 2WD - V8 5.3 - 48000 Miles.

Traded in the Mac'n'Cheese Truck

My 5 year journey with the Mac'n'Cheese (aka 1994 F150 v8 5.0 double gas tanks) is over, today I traded it in for a 2004 Chevy.
It had 147000 miles on it when I purchased it in May 2002, it had 168400 miles on it today, 6 month old tires and a brand new starter (3 days old!).

Didnt by this one

Here is one of the other ones we looked at, we couldnt afford it though... 

Here's what we got now

So these are our vehicles right now, they are 11 years apart, so the big one is a bit jelous, even though he has another liter of volume and uses much more gas. 

2005 Pontiac Grand Prix

Here is what we purchased :)

 

Sold the Sable

On 3/30/2006 we sold our 2000 Sable LS Premium with 68000 miles on it, or rather, we traded it in, its amazing how the deals get better when you "fight" with them for a couple of weeks and wait until the end of the month :) 

Salamanca Skyline :)

 

Christmas Tree

Its from a couple year ago, this year we saved ourselves some work and kept it in the basement 

Screenshot

They said installing GNU with Linux operating systems can be confusing, this is actually Red Hat, how can Debian be any trickier than this? 

Box

 

New Years

 

Tuco and Maximum Bob

Tuco and Maximum Bob (Pedro) is waiting to open presents.. 

..Exciting new years party...

Everybody thought the New Years party at the Seneca Allegany Casino was very exciting... :)

 

ADSL

Nice speed in salamanca at an affordable cost... Now we are just waiting for the 15Mbit fiber to show up in this area, that could be years I am guessing...

 

cleaning stuff 

just found a very old picture of Nacho.. 

oh, and yeah we went to a Bill game, they beat the Jets 

Erie PA is so nice in the winter 

Vikings gone berserk 

If this isn't self explanatory then I know what isn't, or something 

Halloween 2005 - Carved from left by Filip, Santa, Angel, Rachel 

Crab Meeting 

downtown 

oops 

Bedroom 

View from the other side 

Jonis Suite - livingroom 

One the way to vegas sept 2005 - flew right over hoo ver damn 

a very unclear picture - looks like it might be Nacho by the stairs 

2004 - Alta turning 96 - at Myers steak house, they where out of Sam Adams Lager, damn it! 

This is _not_ nacho, it is what we call double nacho (A&S cat) with the tale of horror 

Its not everyday you see a cisco router with 4 serial lines an 2 ethers, unless you work in a NOC or something :) 

this is one of those I am going to post on idiotlabels.com some day 

..and we are just getting to know Rachel :) 

Cronic fear of pretzels is common in the geeky comminities :) 

Hard drives rule! 

From the beer bash last year (2004), from left Terry & Lori, George, Kathy, Hairball 

Las Vegas Rules - Sept every year! 

going back to older stuff here - home made stereo bench with an alien cat :) 

How many shrimp coctails per person you said??? cheers! 

Hmmm, what did I buy again? 

...enough fishing, time for a beer! 

You dont have to go far from land before getting the fishing pole out 

Filip is being a true fisherman.. or boatman.. or bird watcher.. or whatever.. Watch out fot those islands in front of you 

Lisbeth and Sigmund arriving at the reception 

Here is an unsharp picture of my dirty pda at work (x30i). in the right hand corner is the end of a screwdriver handle, reflected you see a Dell diagnistics cd (internal dell use only) and some crap hanging on the wall by my desk. The paperclip is green. 

Green tomato with a wiener, and one with a butt, and a couple of crap'y ones... Did these tomato plant seeds come from Aldi's? :-) 

Russel with a wiener 

Sarge needs to pee now and again. If anyone would like the full size pictures of these send me an email (whatever over-at sauen.com). Most stuff taken from sept first and on we have in 5MP (2500 wide) 

Day before Labor day 2005 - The annual beer bash went well, nice weather and really good beer. Not as many people as it could have been, around 20 (?), but everything was fun! 

2005-09-05 Sarge giving G.P. Shongo a kiss before getting his food 

We only drove 1000 miles like this, half of it with 4 people in the car 

Useful Christmas Tree (Linux) 

Medicine Lamps 

Natural born golfers 

Interresting place to set up for the picnic 

Me and Angel decorated for Halloween, guess who made which :-) 

... and it appears it was some exciting times during those speeches... 

The main drop-rack at the Plummer Building (Allegany) - For the ones that know that 01+01=3, there is qty 7 of Dell 6024 in that rack (Layer 3) 

What a Natural Smile - From The 2004 SNI Christmas party at McKinley 

This was back in September of 2003 at the Scandinavian festival in Jamestown, Rick got talking to this guy, he's from Buffalo. He is not Norwegian, he had never even been there, he got the traditional suit (Bunad) from some lady somewhere, he doesnt really have any relations to norway other than that he liked this suit, that is how we know the story anyway. 

This is a closeup of my moms keyboard, its some fancy buttonized thing, I really wonder what the vendor had in mind for this top-left one with a light (of th fancy ones, right next to the www button) Does it have anything to do with Java or taking a break? Beats me

2005 August 13 - At the reception of Lisbeth and Sigmunds Wedding - I thught this was a good picture 

Norway August 2005 - Me and my grandpa walked a 5 mile route in the woods, this was one of the places we rested (It was really me that rested, at an age of 80+ he outwalks most of us). I thought this was a nice picture and stuff, pieceful place! 

Jonis Blazer - Rear View 

Jonis Blazer - Side View 

Jonis Blazer - August 2005 - 5 minutes after a wash 

First post on dritksalle.blogspot.com

This is my first post here, the main reason I created this was to share pictures and stuff easily with others, using Google's Picasa, Hello and Blogger, we'll see how it turns out.