The Holtonian

Updates.

The Lovely Lamont, reminded me it'd been a while since I blogged in the Free world, so here goes. Work has been going ok, just trying to maintain my steam from last week, though I've found its hard to get "bust it out" weeks back to back. That momentum rarely carries over, especially after a very restless weekend.
      The wife and I are going camping this holiday weekend for a night to try out the gear. It should be an adventure for us as she's not a camper and I'm sort of an inexperienced one. I've gone a few times in my life, usually with just the clothes on my back, a sleeping bag, a can o corn, a can o beans, and a few hot dogs. This time we got the goods and also got some smores to livin things up a bit. I got a ridge rest for myself that Crabb dog gave me many moons ago and I bought on Campmor.com a thermarest for wifey. But if she's having back problems I'll give her the ridge rest too as I've never even used it to go camping. I've only used it to sleep in our apartment and house before we had a bed and also i used it as a pillow in the Dublin airport as Roe and I slept off our St. Patty's day stuper.
      On an annoying note, my car died the other day at work but I got it jumped and it was no big whoop. Then saturday as we tried to go hit the town, it died again and Obscene Gene push started it by pushing it down the driveway. So it was obvious my car was aching for a new battery. Well we figured maybe get the battery on Sunday or monday, it ended up sunday had no time so we figured monday. Well coming back from Church the wife's car's battery light comes on... now this is an American car and American cars are junk, face it. So we thought little of it as lights go on in her car all the time and nothing ever happens. Well the next day her brake light came on too, which is odd since she didn't have her parking brake on. So a guy at tortilla factory told her to take it to a shop cause it sounded like altinator problems. Well she took it to the our quick oil place on the way home and they told her to go to Auto Zone, auto zone informed her that she didn't have enough battery left to make it home and to go to NTB. So she did and the Ute's and I picked her up. So there we are, home, no cars. So we call up the super Andy Montomery and borrowed his car to go pick up wifey's and a battery for mine. To try to shorten this long and boring story, her car and mine were both fixed to the tune of 300+ doll hairs. It was very annoying and what are the odds both cars have battery problems at the same time?
      The wife's into school now and its pretty good since it gives me time to bike without feeling guilty. I went again today and made it farther than last time, which is always my goal. I made it up to the Craven's House via the Guild Trail. I must say that Jason Craven has a pretty old house. I'd never been there before today but it was pretty cool, a good view with some neat statues and what not. I started peddling really fast as the hill to the Craven's house (basically the Craven's driveway) is super steap and i started pedaling as furiously as I could when all of a sudden a popping noise was heard and something flew off my bike. I thought, "Oh great of course something broke!" But it was just a reflector on my pedal and I didn't really care at all.
    On a gaming note, Josiah has informed all that I have begun my quest for the four swords on Zelda. The game is ok, a great an most unexpected gift from Roe and Mesh which was more than I deserve. The game is fun, though its basically a super nintendo graphic game on a far superior system. The game play is similar to SNES's zelda if not the same and the plot is a little weird but I'm into it. The game play is different, instead of wandering around the whole world, you're restricted to levels and can go back and forth to each level but can't wander around like the traditional zelda. Its a lot like Super Mario World for SNES. However I do not have a Gameboy so I can't take advantage of some of the little tricks the game has. But its fun nevertheless. I'm trying to beat it quickly so roe can have it, though he might not need it.

Baseball Talk

Well a quick recap, apparently the Cleveland Yankees have been storing up all their scoring potential for one game, currently its 22 to zip vs the Yankees, eat it steinbrenner. The cards continue to do well which brings smiles to faces of many. Though I have a fealing Houston is going to get their act together (granted its almost there) and make a wild card push. I think they have a decent shot as they seem to finally be playing as a team. Plus I think they'd like to pull an Atlanta and rub it in everyone's noses that they made it in the playoffs.

Party Harty Like Marty

We had a bit of a belated party last night at the Holton Hood. The party was a week late as my parentals were gonna come the weekend of my b-day but backed out at the last second. The party was a blast, and unfortunately I did not get a lot of pictures, or one for that matter as I was seriously making burgers the entire time, I think i finally had a chicken burger (all that was left) at about 11 PM. Though I had plenty of beer and sangria?? to keep me running/buzzing. It was a lot of fun and interesting to get all my friends together. I wish our porch was bigger as the party sort of had to split into two groups to accomodate the size. Our back deck is kind of weenie and our front porch is good but putting a pit on the front is a little to southern for me.
      The wife made a great homemade chocolate cake from scratch which was very good and very worth her effort. It was the best choco choco cake i've ever had.
      I'm pretty whipped right now, as I went to bed at 1:30 after chattin it up with Obscene Gene. Then I got up at 8 am to clean the house before the wifey got up. Then at about 10 Jay and I went down to Guild Trail off Ochs highway and treked it up the hill for a good morning bike ride. It was good to ride with someone far superior than me as he pushed me a lot, but he eventually had to leave me behind as I was juggin along like the Little Engine that Wanted to But is Struggling To. We made it up past Ruby Falls and then up to where the dirt path ends and it sort of comes to a bunch of houses. I was pretty beat by then so I asked Jay to turn back and we cruised down. It was a good ride as I went farther than before, but I still had to stop a few times. I'm still out of shape, which is expected and I should make it out again Monday or Tuesday depending on if I can get away.

I need a Hero

I Just got back from the movie the Hero. Generally the movie was good, but I wouldn't recommend it to everyone. It was a bit boring at times, and the action though beautiful was not all it could be at times too much like Crotching Tiger. I realize they were made by similar or same people but it needed a little more to really bring it together. The plot was ok, very Chinese, hence the subtitles, but also the philosophy was chinese, hence the chinese people. But it was ok, not great, not as good as the trailer made it look to be.

Inaugural Bike Ride

      Well today was my first inaugrual bike ride, not to be confused with my second inagural bike ride, which is yet to come. I took my bike to work, just left it in the trunk, and then stopped off at the Guild trail up Ochs highway. I must say, I knew I was out of shape, I knew that, and I knew the mtn biking I did as a kid to teenager was not super intense nor necessarily that off road, but man this was hard, hard to a whole new level. I haven't ridden a bike in a long time. When we lived in Ft. O i'd run every once in a while but those muscles are totally different than you're biking muscles. So needless to say I had to stop a few times more than I'd have liked.
      One time I stopped and chatted with this guy who was coming down the trail. He felt a need to justify his, in his mind, "cheap-o bike." I too had the need to justify the fact that this was my first ride. So once we had justified ourselves and our short comings we talked it up a bit right near Ruby Falls, then went our ways, his down, mine unfortunately up. I didn't make it much farther up past ruby falls, maybe a mile up, but I wasn't sure. I basically went for about an 45 minute bike ride in total, but I wasn't feeling too proud of myself. I was glad i made it out there and look forward to trying to improve.
      I hadn't realized how much your for arms and triceps are used when riding a mtn bike off road. When I was a kid, I'm not sure if it was just my mtn bike's handles were longer or if I was stronger, or what but my arms got really tired going down hill trying to control the bike, which wasn't easy as I was going just about as fast as I felt comfortable with, which was pretty fast. It was a fun trip, hard going up, but fun coming back down. No wrecks, bruises or broken bones to speak of.
      I will say that biking shorts will probably have to be purchased though, the ones with the padding. The ride just takes its toll on you're dairy air. But have no fear friends, in the interests of everyone who would have to see me in bike shorts I've opted for the baggier ones that hide your figure a bit better. I would've bought them yesterday but they didn't have any at the shop.
      Shoes that clip into your peddals (which also requires the pedals) would be nice as well too. My feet kept slipping off on the way up and its hard cause you're working so hard to keep the momentum going and then one slip and you've lost it and its so hard to start it again.
      I probably won't ride tomorrow as i have a good deal to do, but saturday I want to get out and enjoy the day even if its yucky. Though the brewfest might cramp that, we'll see, maybe ride in the morning and brew in the evening.

Tron 2.0

Ok this is a game review, don't read it if you're not interested. Crabb dog let me borrow Tron 2.0, and if you're looking for a good game to play on the PC this would be it. Its got the cool plot based off the movie Tron, but takes the lame effects and gives them coolness to the 2.0 range. The story goes, You're the son of the dude from Tron, you're dad's this super wiz computer tech guy at this super computer firm. He wants you to start at the company, but you're more interested in the Tron game in the break room. You finally agree to take a gaming program job. Then all of a sudden you're on the phone with you're pop when you hear him go, "Oh no, who are you!" You rush to his lab to find him gone, then you ask his AI Ma3a where he is, she then digitizes you and puts you in the computer mainframe. You then must set to find out the mysterious mystery of what happened to your pop.

All this time a virus has begun to destroy the computer, so you must fight the virus, but also fight the system constraints, think of it as Norton or McCafee--they're the red guys similar to the red guys from the movie. The virus cares only to destroy, the "Norton Red guys" care only about maintaining the system's order. OH and by the way you're an anomoly/illegal program.... so the red guys don't like you much. But the red guys i could handle, its the viral guys that are tough.

The games got the system upgrades that makes games like Deus X, the little gaming/computer nuiances that make it kind of funny/cool. Plus its got a killer bike game, much like the bike game from Tron. Its really cool.

The only problem I've encountered is my computer slowing up. But thats my computer not Tron 2.0

So go buy it, downloading is wrong! So go give the people at Buena Vista your money and try it out.

Hall Site Dug up

I was surfing the web and clicked on to my old hall's website, its still active though a bit out dated and dusty. Its mostly cause Crabby probably doesn't know who to hand it off to now at the hall, and I don't either. There's not as many computer geeks on the hall as there used to be.
Here's me at Randy's eating the 24oz burger

Here's me attempting to play basketball, you'll notice my foot is out of bounds, I hate that sport!

My graceful dive at bluehole

And me with the wierdest hairdo I've ever had.

Boring update on life.

Guh, So i haven't been in the mood to blog, really not much to say, though I started to and wrote this big long blog, then my ADD kicked in and i accidentally did a search on my window and left my page, GRR.

So whats new you ask?

Why do you care?

Bored?

Ok, I'll endulge

I went bike shopping with scott yesterday which was cool. He's a pretty big bike guru and knows his stuff pretty well. We found a Jamis that I liked, here's the picture
Its not the best, but I can't afford the best so I'm getting what I can afford courtesy of my parents. They gave me some moolah for the b day and told me to get either a lawn mower, bike, or golf bag. Seeing as my lawnmower currently is operating I deemed that a not wise purchase, a golf bag, well I need that but once i get it I still have to pay for the rounds of golf, so i figured Bike would be the closest thing to a gift I could use and enjoy. Though I do have to buy a helmet, but after that the extra stuff can wait till i'm actually in shape.

Also one of my philosophies (if you could call it that) is don't buy the top of the line or even the middle of the line stuff whenever you pick up a hobby or sport. Like my golf clubs, they're 10 possibly older years old. I got them as a hand me down and frankly they're still working. I could use new ones perhaps but I figure get good with what you got then when I'm shooting in the 80s I'll start looking at some new clubs.

Plus you always look dorky when you buy all the top of the line gear and junk and don't even know how to use it. I can just see me now if i bought this super duper bike, all the gear, and then got out on a trail and couldn't even ride the darn thing.

Any who, not much else is happening, wifey's engrossed nightly with the whole olympics which gets me off the hook for a while. But I've been busy doing errands and house stuff as of late. Well off to play with the dog, give him the attention he demands.

Birthday Wrap Up

So I turned the big 24 yesterday and had a good birthday. Like I said earlier I had a great one going, video card, baseball game, and money from the parentals. But the wife came out of left field with her gifts--Larry Walker Left field.... aka its a good thing. She likes doing gifts that are things that I would like but never buy for myself. She figures I'll buy cds, dvds, and other junk myself, so she goes for the stuff that I would never think to buy for myself, which is really cool. She also likes themes, so that being said this year's theme was camping. I got a tent, lantern, bug stuff, and air matresses. Also some tennis shoes and grill stuff but that was more out of necessity and had little to do with the theme. I opened up the gear and was like, "Great! But wait, you don't camp, who am I supposed to use this with?" And the wife explained that she wants to try to get into it as she knows its something I would like to do from time to time. So we figure labor day will be our trial run and we'll go some place close by (1 hour away the max) and camp it up.
      The mother in law gave me two rain coats which I sorely needed, and asked me to pick one I liked, however I didn't like either so we'll return them and I'll probably head to the REI in atlanta to get one that is a little better quality and is somewhat fashionable. Her internet was down after the move so she couldn't hit up the outdoors sites plus I'm not sure she knew what kind i was looking for. So its cool.
      I got a good bit of cash and I'm not sure how to use it. I don't need a new computer after the video card. Though i would like to get a little more memory. The dream of a bike is still there but its soooo expensive that its hard to pony up that much cash. I looked online at a few and found some at REI and llbean oddly enough that were in my range of price (they were K2's and Shwins---not sure if those are any good or not). I may hit up the Rock creek cycles just to check out the retail prices there but I'm afraid i won't see what I see online. Thats the problem online shopping is great, so much cheaper yet you have no clue what the heck you're getting. And a bike, much like an armoire has to fit and look right so i may just have to wait a long time. We'll see. But what I plan on doing is taking some of the moolah and having a bit of a spending spree, a few cds or something, and taking the rest and keeping it separate from our bank account (shoe box maybe) and just saving it for A. a rainy day or B. a bike or something cool.
      I thought about buying a gameboy, the new ones, but I'm angling to get crabby's when he goes to the PSP when it comes out. That or I'lll just stick with my sega nomad which takes 24 double A's and kills them after 30 minutes.
      We went out to dinner at the Brick Oven aka Hixson's answer to a nice restaurant. I mean's its nice, but nothing like the really nice restaurants in town. But the food's not bad, just got to order right. We got some calamari (we have to if its on the menu its the Holton Code), salad, then bread (which was kind of gross), so we're full now, then our dinner came. Me a huge pizza that was free cause it was my birthday. Plus i knew our waiter from Cigna so he hooked us up with the drinks for free as well as a salad for me, he was awesome. Wifey got a chicken pasta dish that was really good, and I actually liked hers more and vice versa. We ate one slice each of pizza and two bites of pasta and got it to go. My buddy asked me if I wanted the free birthday dessert, I said in the tackiest way possible, "I know this is tacky but can I just get it to go." And he just laughed and hooked it up and we took the cheese cake home and it was soooooo good. Super rich. So if you're looking for a good birthday dinner for free, thats the place, but don't go by yourself and tip your waiter as if you ordered everything and were paying for everything. If you went and just got the meal for free and a soda and tipped your weak 15% for the soda only.... ooooh I'd have to show you what for.
      But overall a great day, got donuts at work from Kochs which has the best donuts. So and today we might just relax and kick it, maybe check the mall out just for fun.

Dogtown, not cat town

We're watching the inlaws cat while the rent a house and there house is being constructed. So far the dog and cat have not gotten along like peas and carrots. Here was last night a good old showdown. I have been teaching the cat that if he chases my dog and tries to swipe him with his claws that I chase the cat and then swipe the cat with my claws. So even though my dog can't stand up for himself I got his back. Also I growl better than he does. I think the dog is trying to mimic the scarriness of the cat so his growls sound more like "meows."

What can I say my dog's a lover not a fighter. Here's a pic of him with his favorite toys. He likes tennis balls cause he can tear the fur off them, and he likes the racket ball cause its crazy go nazy. When he bites down on it, it shoots out of his mouth.

End of Discussion for now

Due to some mass confusion, me miscommunicating, and a desire to take the pastoral discussion out of the public forum, I've deleted the past few entries dealing with the topic. I realize this may go against some blogging rules but oh well...

I found it best to have it be a more private discussion while I pursue this, so if you're interested in talking about it, email me call me or talk to me. Sorry for those interested, but when a decision is made I'm sure I'll want to blog about it.

Ice Ice Baby

After many long hard fought times with the fridge, I have finally created ICE!

This was by far the most annoying house project. It took over three weeks, 4 trips to lowes, drilling into an electrical wire, splicing that wire back together, kitchen flooding three times, and too much frusteration.

I've also added a few pictures on the side down below to update things. And updated the side info to provide more accurate diagnosis.

Weekend Results

Well the Cards Braves game was not what I was hoping for. We were an inning late due to the mess that is the parking situation down at Turner Field, I can't believe Marta's trains don't go to the stadium its rediculous. Though We wouldn't have taken it anyway. But the game was a rough one, Marquis would have these phenomenal innings followed by crap upon crap innings. So it was a real frusterator. Plus Womack's error and Larry's ball that he lost in the sun were pretty sad. But the time was fun, and I was so happy and excited that the wifey and the Crabbs surprised me with that one.
Here's a pic of the view of Downtown Atlanta

Here's the view from our seats

Here's when JD Drew was up to bat, Though a Brave now, I'm glad he's finally doing as well as he can do. Hopefully the braves won't have him choke or get hurt like he did as a Card every year. Though I did notice he sat out tonight, heh heh heh...

Here's the wife and I, and if you go back to July 13 post you'll notice we wore the same exact outfits to the Cards game in St. Louey, completely by accident. Though this shirt has all three cardinals colors, except white.

And here's the whole gang right before I hung my head and walked out of the stadium...

It was a lot of fun and was so thankful for the wife to be on the surprise ball.

······I got home today and copper missed us dearly and took him outside and played for a while. Now we're trying to get the cat and the dog to like each other, well that is the cat to like the dog. So now they're in the same room with me locked in and we're having a bit of a showdown. Copper is wagging his tail and the cat is being a menace just hissing, though I've taught the cat "any time you hiss at me or my dog you get a smack." So he's learning Hiss = Fresh one. And a clawing equals me barking like a dog at the cat.
······Macon was fun we went to the wedding, which was boring cause i didn't know a soul outside three people. It was almost a high school reunion for wifey's school and so they were all gabby and I was sort of bored, I took the wife's camera and mine and just sort of took some random pictures for the heck of it. I took a dozen of this awesome chandeleer but none of them came out well. This pic of the band was ok,
But the wife's camera might have handled the night better.

······Sunday we went to the inlaws church for the second weekend in a row and I don't but Pastor Jordan's been really hitting it home for me. I must say the past two sermons from him really seem to be pushing the seminary idea. I don't know, I don't think I'm looking too much into it as today's sermon was on 1 Cor 1:17-31. I mean the whole passage as well as the sermon just seemed to emphasize my desire which was cool in a way but still intimidating. But the whole verse of "God chose the foolish things of this world to shame the wise, chose the weak to shame the strong." I mean I'm pretty foolish, and I am about the weakest guy I know so that struck a cord. I joke, but it really just was like, BOOM! As his sermon last week was too. But, still in prayer phase. I talked to Crabby a lot about it and we had a great talk, and as my closest friend he had a lot of insight and was glad to see that I wasn't going because times at the Cig, were tough. As I explained to many people, the rough times at my job the past few weeks did bring to light the desire to go to seminary, but the desire to go there has been in me for quite some time, I'd just been keeping it to myself. But more of that in the next entry.
······I got home, unloaded our car filled with carap, and went to work on dinner, then went to work on the fridge. I got the ice blockage ok'ed but I'm not sure if the water pressure will be good enough for the thing to make any ice so I may need to hirer a plumber to come get me a water line that's a true water line and not a little teeny plastic pipe.
······After I got the fridge squared away I hooked up the video card and it works great. I finally got to play 10 seconds of Iron Storm. Its ok, kind of cheesy shooter game. I still need some more memory and a new hard-drive would be good, but the game runs fine and I'm sure so will all the others that I have. I may finally get to play the Breakthrough for Medal of Honor, my video card broke right before it came out. Then I might get Call of Duty too, that's a pretty fun one. But alas, I need to save my pennies, For starters I have none, and also because Metroid Prime 2's coming out as well as the new Zelda which both look too cool for school.

Killer B-Day a Week Early

So we're down with the Crabb dogs and my birthday has already gotten to a kick butt start. Crabb dog has proven his sainthood and bought me a 128 Raedon Video card for my once crappy computer. Now it should be able to run most games that I have missed out on. Such as Ironfist, Warcraft 3, and all the other kick games I've missed out on.

And if that weren't enough, the crabbs and the wife got some cards braves tickets for tomorrow's 1 pm game. Granted, we have a wedding at 7 to go to so hopefully the cards will handle things swiftly and get a W for the old Holtonian. Its awesome, a Cubs Cards game and a Braves Cards game in the same year. All I would need is to go to the World Series to see the Cards win a WS. But I'll settle for that on the TV as long as they just do it! OK well I'm stoked, things are great, and I've had a few beers.

Quiz, who knows me.

Thought I'd quiz you and see if you were paying attention.

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Can You Honk the Horn

Jimmy Fallon's Idiot Boyfriend video still stands the test of time as being histarically funny. Oh man, it still cracks me up. I GOT A SWANSON"S DINNER IN THE FREEZER WITH YOUR NAME ON IT !!!

In other news I updated the blogosphere today and added Krazy Kyle to the list of Holtonere's. He's a buddy of the Holton Family back from St. Louey who's always willing to hang with the fam or to a cards game. Check out his blog for some good insight into life, love, and the pursuit of happiness.

Larry Walker Walks over to the Cardinals

Oh yeah, the hitters just keep on hitting. The cards got Larry Walker today which is kind of cool. Larry Walker is one of those hitters who's always been pretty dang good, but on a pretty dang bad team. Now that he's with the cards maybe he can make some waves. Not sure where we'll put him as we seem to have an abundance of hitters at the moment... maybe he can pitch? I'm guessing Walt Jockety thought it'd be a good deal for walker, get him out of the dead end job of Colorado and into a real baseball town, as well as get some insurance if someone gets injured on the way to playoffs or something. I like it because its not a high profile trade in the sense of randy johnson or something like that. It was totally out of the blue which is the way i like my trades.

My Gay Dog

Here's my dog sitting co pilot as i blog...

And here is why I think he may be gay...

That and I took his you know what away... so he's no longer all male.

Irony News

In Irony news tonight... I applied for a drug rep job... Thought that was a bit ironic after last week's blog. Just thought it might be a good career move, though I doubt I'll hear anything back.

Home sick, or if you will sick at home, not the other home sick, because I'm at home and I'm not sick of it or sick in the sense of missing my home

   I opted to stay home today as I'm still on the mend from my cold. Its one of the weirdest colds I've had. I have a sore throat that no lozenge seems to be able to quench. I have a cough that hurts so bad I double over in agony. And I'm as week as a school girl. Well... I was always that week, so I guess I'm weaker than that. I tried to eat some cantaloupe this morning and I could barely lift the bowl the cantaloupe was in. Plus with the busy weekend I didn't really get a day of rest or any chance to recover.
      I'll probably wash the dog and just try to rest as I'm still very poopered. OK, well that's all, you're dismissed to go do stuff.

Tim Allen, I AM: Part II

So If yesterday's festivities in home improvement weren't enough... I awoke to find a giant puddle in my kitchen. My first reaction was, "Dumb dog." But I realized that the amount of water was too great for young copper. I realized the source of the water was the fridge. And as I went to the back of the fridge to check on my crappily installed copper tubing, I saw water coming out of the connection. SUPER! Nothing greater than having a flood in your kitchen on a sunday morning. So I shut off the water, and took some towels and dried it up and told the wife, "I'm out to Lowes, the kitchen flooded..." So i went to lowes about 9:30 AM and bought the plastic version of what I bought yesterday and went back home to fix my mistake. I got home and did it and fixed the problem. But I was so exhausted from my sickness and the home improvement disaster that I skipped church and stayed home. This seriously has been the home improvement weekend from hell. That and I'm still sick and grouchy too.
      I made a dozen mistakes on this thing and just want to pretend it never happened. GUH!

Tim Allen, I am

So I spent most of the day wallowing my own sickness. I did make it out to Lowes and bought the necessary stuff to hook up the ice maker/water machine. I also picked up some Great stuff, its great. Talk about a marketing gimic, naming your product "Great Stuff." It says it fixs cracks, so I sprayed up my butt, but alas....

   Anyway back to the point. So i get home and decide to measure the distance from the walls so i can get a good spot to run the copper tubing and all that jazz. I figure I got a good spot and decided to drill down into the basement instead of up into the kitchen (from the basement). First mistake! I drilled right into the wires that go to the stove outlet... power goes out a small fire of sorts starts down stairs (no flames just a small electrical burnage) and I'm left in the dark. I go downstairs, see what I've done and the explatives flew like a flock of seagulls. So I figure i disconnect the stove wires from the box. Then I tried flipping all the circuit breakers... nothing. So I sort of panicked, tried messing with it for a while but to no avail. I looked around in the dark for some phone numbers of friends from church, but couldn't find the church buzz book. Then decided to call my dad, after him laughing at me for a while and relaying to me the importance of not drilling into wires, he told me to call an electrictian. I called one, but they never returned my call.       It was then I realized A. I couldn't afford an electrician, and B. I had to find someone who could help me. I tried the electrical guy at lowes, he had no clue about anything. So I called the father in law as a last result. Its not that the father in law doesn't know his stuff, its just that, he knows it completely. So I feel like a total shmuck calling him, but I bit the pride and he walked me through getting power back in the holton house. Basically the main breaker was tripped, even though it was still in the on possition. So I flipped that and my problems were solved, all but the stove cord drilled in two. So I flew down to lowes for the second time tonight and bought some massive large pig tail connectors. I shaved off some of the insulation and just tied them together. I think it worked but its probably not to code. But it will do for now hopefully. Then I spent the rest of the night till about mid night working on the water hook up.
      I got it done with some help from Andy Montomery. It was pretty confusing, as most plumbing is, and I realized I should have just gotten the plastic water pipe instead of the copper as the copper was dang annoying to work with. But it was hooked up and Now everything seems a ok. The water tastes funny but i'm sure that will change with time.
      It was seriously one of the most frusterating nights, though I did push my sentra to the limits as i left here at 9:20 to get to Lowes before ten to buy the electrical stuff. On top of my sickness which leaves me ina crappy mood. It was totally one of those moments where you try with all your will to reverse time or hit the reset button and do over what you did but no matter what you did, you're still an idiot that is lucky he had an insulated drill.