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Romney Rally
I happened to attend the Mitt Romney Victory Rally in Cedar Rapids on October 24th, 2012 at the Landmark Aviation Airport. When I arrived at the airport I was immediately greeted by police that told me to turn around and drive to the “Post Mills” building down the road 3 miles so I could ride bus all the way back. I was quite disappointed by this, but I had driven entirely to far to simply turn around. When I got to the “Post Mills” building I was surprised by all the vehicles and this extremely large bulldozer that was completely painted in the typical patriotic colors, red and blue, with the two names “Romney” and “Ryan” on the blade. In hindsight, I wish I would have taken a photo of the massive bulldozer because it was quite impressive to see the paint job on it but also that someone is just hauling it around on the bed of semi to promote a political view. But anyway, I got on a completely full bus with quite the mix of a crowd that was seemingly the stereotypical conservative voters, and there is nothing wrong with that, and drove back on over to the airport. We arrived at the airport for the second time and drove on up to this airplane hanger that was covered in not only political campaign signs on this inside but also security on the outside. I suppose I should have expected as much since Mitt Romney is someone [...]
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Team Fortress 2
I’m a big fan of the game Team Fortress 2 (TF2) ever since the first version of Team Fortress Classic came out back in 1999. It was possible to get a head-shots using a 56k modem connected to the internet back then, but sadly those days are long gone. Seeing as I’m currently using only 0.3% of my monthly bandwidth on my server, I will hopefully make better use of the massive bandwidth that I’m allocated. With over 12 years passing since playing Team Fortress for my first time, I’m proud to say that I now have my own TF2 server today. If you don’t know what TF2 is, watch these teaser trailers that I conveniently posted below for you. But before you watch the video’s below, let me tell you the best part about the game… It’s completely free for anyone to play. I’m serious, that wasn’t a joke. All you have to do is go to Steam’s Website, download the software and install, after which you need to create an account that is completely free and finish by clicking install TF2 in the tab labeled “Games” and after few hours of downloading your set. If those videos didn’t get you pumped to play Team Fortress 2 then this post is lost on you, because I re-watch those video for fun from time to time. But anyway, to get back to reason for this post I have my own server now and you can connect to it by going [...]
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Badlands Appreciation
I met up with some fellow Hummer owners to do some driving off-road for the first time since I first got ownership of this H3 on October 6th. We happened to all meet up in Attica, Indiana at Badlands Off-Road Park which is for the most part the mid-west’s one and only off-road park. Badlands used to be a quarry but has since been converted into place for having fun with your dirt bikes, four-wheelers (or should I say quad?), and of course full size vehicles. The park has a little bit of everything from rocks, mud, deep water, and huge hill climbs with in 800 acres. It happened to be customer appreciation at Badlands that day, and it is a great event to go because of free food, drinks, night races, fireworks, and all such things going on at night. However I was just there to get my name out about the H3 Hummer parts I make and to test out my H3. Hopefully by spreading word about my parts that one day I can bring H3 Hummers up to the point where they can easily compete with a mildly modified JK Wranglers. I define “mildly modified,” as some where in the range of $5,000 dollars invest into making it drive better off-road. Basically if you can buy it and for the most part are able to bolt it on over the weekend, it is in this category. For the most part, no one will be messing with the [...]