The Beacon Big House: Life up river

Test- playing secret gig

2011-04-03T13:33:00.000-07:00

Playing with stones at stone pony.

-Dylan

Eft Test

2011-03-04T10:51:00.000-08:00

The Eft's song about US!!
Moving Away-The Eft's

Beacon Jr scientists club forms

2011-01-05T07:06:00.000-08:00

Membership doubled by 200% despite fears of being bitten or stung. Members still unclear about what they should be more afraid of.

-Dylan

Random boys summer

2010-07-30T10:34:00.001-07:00

More hole shots

2010-06-22T10:17:00.000-07:00

Wknd: Impromptu soccer game

2010-06-21T07:15:00.000-07:00

After a surprise visit from the Wolefinelli's good fun was had for sure. Whenever Bdub visits he's nice enough to indulge me in a little sporty horse play, which I always crave. And in honor of the World Cup(see post: TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 2010) we had a little scrimmage, Wiles, Giada, Josh, Dub and occasionally nolzie were all involved. It was a great peek into some future backyard sportage.

Wknd: Slip n' Slide

2010-06-21T07:06:00.001-07:00

(Picture not available, I was too wet to use camera) Pictures of bruises TK.

Wknd: Assembled and launched balsa airplane

2010-06-20T21:36:00.000-07:00

I purchased two, having working knowledge of the strength of this classic toy. On my first test flight ( I had to try it out before the boys were around, just to make sure it worked, and didn't disappoint the dudes.

SKY STREAK 1. Went so-so, but on the fourth launch, the rubber band powered vehicle ended up on the roof, they way highest point of the house.

WATER ROCKET 1. The boys were around so I busted out the Water Rocket (not pictured), but by the third launch, the pumped was already busted, so that sucked.

SKY STREAK 2. Was a semi-success with all kinds of tweaking and changing of trajectory and wing levels. It was good fun until wiles, in an attempt to really catch some height, gave it hard launch and busted the tail right off!! We managed to fix it up and we back on the flight schedule.

Wknd: Discovered secret swimming hole

2010-06-20T21:32:00.000-07:00

Wknd: Handmade bow and arrow

2010-06-20T21:29:00.000-07:00

World Cup warmup

2010-06-15T08:54:00.001-07:00

More swimmy

2010-06-01T17:44:00.000-07:00

Turtle feed

2010-06-01T17:43:00.002-07:00

Arrght

2010-06-01T17:43:00.001-07:00

Post swim chill

2010-06-01T17:42:00.001-07:00

Cheery

2010-06-01T17:41:00.000-07:00

Beacons bravest

2010-06-01T17:40:00.000-07:00

Fire breather

2010-06-01T17:39:00.000-07:00

Biz boy bond

2010-06-01T17:38:00.000-07:00

Boy bath

2010-06-01T17:37:00.000-07:00

Biz chills

2010-06-01T17:36:00.001-07:00

Wiles and Biz yard

2010-06-01T17:36:00.000-07:00

Blower

2010-05-14T20:55:00.001-07:00

So many pics to put up!!

2010-05-07T08:54:00.001-07:00

-Dylan

Shelves with junk

2010-04-28T09:00:00.001-07:00

New shelves for office!!

2010-04-27T08:13:00.001-07:00

Who gets washed first

2010-04-26T23:02:00.000-07:00

Foggy morning mountain down Main St

2010-04-26T23:01:00.000-07:00

Bumpbeds!!

2010-04-22T14:15:00.001-07:00

Sleepy train

2010-04-21T16:04:00.001-07:00

Paap gym!

2010-04-20T13:42:00.001-07:00

Moth babies!! In the house!!

2010-04-20T13:40:00.000-07:00

Shanlor visit

2010-04-20T13:37:00.001-07:00

Experiments with new "camera"

2010-04-20T13:34:00.001-07:00

Favorite app of the minute

2010-04-08T06:21:00.001-07:00

Star Walk
Cost: $2.99.
A bit pricey in the app world,
But well worth it. Especially when compared to other star gazing apps.

Why: I've always looked forward to the night. Especially now, when I
get home from work, I look up in the sky and can see actual stars, but
can never really remember formations.

Great for: Geo tagged star gazing. Uses your location to help you
spot the constellations above you.

Extras: right out of the gate on the opening screen you get, sun up,
sun down, elevation, 5days of the lunar cycle and the ability to move
ahead dates. Uses really nice shilloutes over the stars to illustrate
the name of the constellation. Really nice zooming and rotation.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/star-walk-5-stars-astronomy/id295430577?mt=8

-Dylan

Favorite app of the minute

2010-04-08T05:55:00.001-07:00

ColorSnap
Cost: Free!
Great for: Picking paint samples from the real world and color schemes.
Function: You take a snap of a color u like and you can buy it and see
color suggestions.
Extras: Great little additional color picker tool, does suprisingly
nice color choices.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/colorsnap/id316256242?mt=8

-Dylan

Invaders!!!

2010-04-07T18:22:00.000-07:00

Randum Beacon

2010-04-07T18:18:00.000-07:00

Pa gets a well deserved nap in

2010-04-07T18:17:00.002-07:00

Easter fun with germs and pa

2010-04-07T18:17:00.001-07:00

Yard sale booty

2010-04-07T18:15:00.001-07:00

Deej stops in for a visit

2010-04-07T18:14:00.000-07:00

A few visual catch ups

2010-04-07T18:02:00.001-07:00

No more soot!!!(?)

2010-03-31T17:43:00.001-07:00

After starting the job at 11am and working into the cold beacon spring
nite we finally have a new chimney!! Or at leasnt partially new
chimney, just a top and a liner. And a fat bill.

Hopefully this will stop the incesant coughing and black lung the boys
have developed.

-Dylan

First visitors to my office

2010-03-19T13:17:00.000-07:00

Home office v.0.1

2010-03-19T08:06:00.001-07:00

Not so tranquil

2010-03-17T16:38:00.001-07:00

I made it!!

2010-03-17T08:31:00.000-07:00

Oh crap, it's St.Patricks day

2010-03-17T07:33:00.001-07:00

Hot enough for ya!?!

2010-03-17T07:30:00.000-07:00

Curly attempts a shower last night for the first time in days. No hot
water, she blames the washing machine. I roll over and go back to sleep.

Wake this morning good and early ready to catch the 8:57 train. Still
no hot water. Head to the basement to check the water heater as if
that will help. Pilot light is on, this much I can tell. Not sure
what's what, so I begin to read the instructions on the labels.

The graphics of blistered red hot hands and sticked-figured guys
flying backwards, warning me of "possible scalding" "explosions" "etc"
make me feel a little woozy as I roll around the frigid basement in my
towel looking for clues.

After many trips up and down the stairs making calls to plumbers
looking to rip me off and finding all the same bullshit DIY info and
internets videos on how to re-light the pilot I decide and finish
reading the instructions all the way thru. Upon further examination I
discover that someone has simply switched the gas to the "off" position.

Water isn't even near warm yet, it's actually freezing, but I get wet
enough to call myself clean, and rush the family in to the car to
shuttle me to the 9:57 train with 2minutes to spare. Can't stop
thinking about getting my own set of wheels.

-Dylan

One giant step

2010-03-16T21:20:00.000-07:00

Walked on to my snowless grass yard for the first ime as a homeowner.
Felt pretty dant good. Kicked a soccer ball.
Dean and the dudes spent the day out here lunch and all.

-Dylan

First set

2010-03-16T16:28:00.001-07:00

Holy Shift

2010-03-16T08:38:00.000-07:00

Waiting

2010-03-16T06:37:00.000-07:00

Morn

2010-03-16T06:34:00.000-07:00

Second set

2010-03-16T06:22:00.000-07:00

May be time for another mode of transport. Missed the 906 so now I'm
standing at the platform waiting for the 957. Couldn't muster the
nerve to wake a sleeping dean and babe after her long day and nite
without me. I'm thinking a simple moped as a band-aid fix. Might be
kinda fun cept when it rains.

-Dylan

All this for power

2010-03-13T13:07:00.001-08:00

A present for Cakes

2010-03-11T18:34:00.001-08:00

We call him "cakes" for a good reason

2010-03-11T18:33:00.001-08:00

I'm two now muthaF**cka!!

2010-03-11T15:32:00.000-08:00

Dancing on the island

2010-03-10T16:10:00.000-08:00

Box man

2010-03-08T17:59:00.001-08:00

House spider

2010-03-08T17:58:00.001-08:00

Girl on a train

2010-03-08T17:53:00.001-08:00

Gone Bananas!!!

2010-03-07T23:22:00.000-08:00

Did I really just go shopping today at a TraderJoe's 21minutes away from my new diggs?!!
I celebrate this thought at 2:20am with a ChocolateDippedBanana. Why am I awake, I just don't know.

Rocky attacks!!

2010-03-07T14:02:00.001-08:00

An uninvited guest at the Beacon Big House!!

Actually he's more like a stowaway. Any raccoon wearing a Fez is welcome in my house.

Dinner anyone

2010-03-07T13:26:00.001-08:00

Spent Saturday doing an insane trip into the city to try and close out 400 4th. So not only did we fill a three Axel moving truck and filled up Pa's pickumup truck, we still left stuff behind for another day. Wall street was a bit of a bear, with super tight security and a crazy heavy dinning room set secured, we headed back north. The result was well worth it all in the end. Thanks to the B-man's generosity we now have a great start to a formal dining room. Can't wait for our first dinner party.

-Dylan

First splinter

2010-03-07T13:18:00.001-08:00

Wilsey became the first victim of our beautiful wood floors. It was a doozey. Lots of tears and such. I told every splinter story that I could think of, but to no avail. So after about a half an hour I decided to just pin the little guy sown with Geeme's help, and pluck it out with my fingers. That stopped the water works and we implimented the slipper rule.

-Dylan

Cars

2010-03-07T12:17:00.001-08:00

Bowling local

2010-03-05T20:02:00.000-08:00

Coca and slots

2010-03-04T21:01:00.000-08:00

First man of snow

2010-03-04T20:59:00.001-08:00

Pumped for cars moofie

2010-03-04T20:49:00.000-08:00

I think he's saying Guitars?

2010-03-04T20:48:00.001-08:00

Ohhh mannn

2010-03-04T20:45:00.000-08:00

Wednesday morning

2010-03-04T20:43:00.001-08:00

New pets

2010-03-03T06:06:00.000-08:00

Chim-Chimney!

2010-03-01T13:42:00.001-08:00

Absolute Precision came by this morning for an assessment of the chimney situation. Theyre giviing me a quote of 5k to fix the whole thing. Wait, did you just say 5K!!! HOLY SHIT!

Superfriends

2010-03-01T10:32:00.000-08:00

A really amazing group of pals stopped by for drinks and a heartfelt "send-off" Friday at UnionHall. It really was touching and I'm praying that 1hr10minutes of distance wont separate me from my peoples.

With this move and all the chaos surrounding it, I was reminded just how awesome my friends really are. Non stop support and going above and beyond the call of friendship. Special shout out to Joe, Eric, Deej, Heather, Stacey, Jarret for pitching in and putting themselves out.
Love you all so much.

Carless!

2010-03-01T10:04:00.000-08:00

Turns out the car has a blown alternator, that took out the battery. That explains the dead car. And of course they think the front end struts should be replaced. The Civic is out in brooklyn, and will require me to go out there for pickup. Cost: $1200

Luckily Deanie wasn't stranded out in Brooklyn, and thanks to the kindness of JB she was able to borrow a ride back up to The Big House. I got to deliver the car back to it's rightful owner, which meant my first commute to work was a pleasant drive to work. City traffic sucked, and I saw a dead owl on the side of the FDR. Sad and odd.

Oh and holy shit, in the middle of all this MOBIZZO went live this morning!!!
www.mobizzo.com.
Let the gaming begin!!!

Bleeding Walls: Update

2010-02-28T13:22:00.001-08:00

Ahh, yet another wrench

2010-02-28T13:18:00.001-08:00

Just got word that Deanies Sunday jaunt into the city to close things
up, has now resulted in a dead car. Hopefully that TripA membership
will finally pay off.

Now suddenly realizing that I'm a little bit stranded out here, with
the dudes. Also every car that passes or noise I hear outside results
with me running to the window to see what's what.

Not used to this kind of exposure. City boy has some adjusting to do.

-Dylan

Old furnace

2010-02-28T13:00:00.001-08:00

Scrap metal guys and former owner of 131 stop by to remove old
furnace. They decide to disassemble it before moving it. This requires
the dull side of an axe, and lots of muscle. They got the job done.
Ears still ringing even though I was sitting on the sideline and
watching. One thing off the "to-do" list

-Dylan

How's the move going?

2010-02-28T12:55:00.001-08:00

Day One: Oh Snap!!!

2010-02-28T12:44:00.000-08:00

Snapping skills and not really sure whats going on here.

Boxes everywhere

2010-02-28T12:42:00.001-08:00

Kitchen: FUBAR

Sitting room: FUBAR

Eric saves the day.

Always time for a little play.

And some "unpacking"

Above ground view

2010-02-28T12:37:00.001-08:00

I scooched the sofa near the window so the dudes could get a better view.

More room for...

2010-02-28T12:36:00.001-08:00

Ash takes advantage of the new found space as he is quickly surrounded by an ever growing wall of boxes.

Snow blind

2010-02-28T12:30:00.001-08:00

After a greuling 7hr pack and load out in brooklyn, I hop the metro-north to beacon. Call to check-in on deanie, turns out she cant even get to the house since theres about 3ft of snow. Thats like 3/5 her height. Luckily my step-sis came by to save the day. They shovel a path to the house only to discover that the powers out, as it is in half the county. Luckily our power somehow flickers back on after an hour. Then the movers arrive, and I make it back for load out.

Holy SHIT!! Our house is fucking haunted!

2010-02-24T10:56:00.001-08:00

So after the walk-through and meeting the super nice people selling the place, we go off to sign a shit ton of paper work. After a small celebration Deanie and I return to the house to drop off some things and see our brand new place!! Suddenly we notice something that wasn't there before. ITS BLOOD!!! is my first thought of course. Turns out it's just Soot leaking thru the walls!?

Sold!

2010-02-24T10:42:00.000-08:00

It's done! We own a house now in Beacon NY. Very exciting/scary stuff. Now sadly we have to move out of Brooklyn. Lots to take care of to get the house up and running. Making the boys feel at home will be top priority.