Colorful Friday

Waxy Delights
Work is sort of slow today, just preparing for the big Wii Olympics night over at K&A Wags, so I was just wasting time on the Internet. Headed over to GreenDaily and found an article that brought me flying back to my childhood...CRAYONS! I was never much on the whole coloring book thing, I preferred to use my crayons for other purposes, namely candles.

Making candles was number five on the list which included:

1.) Make a bigger crayon
2.) Sealing Envelops
3.) Paint using Mineral spirits
4.) Furniture repair
5.) Create new candles from scratch

Head over to the link and check out all the details, but I will say this, their candle making process was a little bit more "hi-end" than what I used to do. I would fire up the old gas grill to melt the old crayons that I had thrown into a pop can I had cut in half, or in technical terms, my 'crucible.' I would then melt the crayons on the grill then used spent shotgun casings as my candle molds. Poured the hot liquid in, placed a cotton string as the wick, and bam, redneck candles. Ah the days. Just a word of caution, if you ever drop a can full of liquid wax, it WILL NOT come out of ANYTHING, including cement. Don't say I never warned you!
Cheers!

RAC Attack and the Olympics

RAC arrived today after a long and dreary flight. First, RAC flight was 'delayed' for four hours in Memphis due to 'mechanical' failure and was eventually canceled around midnight. So RAC arrived at around 1 PM (cst) today into "The Rouge" and I was so excited. RAC presented me with my 'late' birthday gifts and it was a good haul. A much needed new game for the Wii and Pullens new book, "In Defense of Food." I can not wait for either!

We settled in for the evening with a delectable dinner of pizza rolls and salad and went at the new Wii game, Mario and Sonic at the Olympics! The main characters from the world of Mario and Sonic come together to compete in the Beijing Olympics in 16 classic events and 4 "Dream Events." Classics include the 100m, 110 Hurdles, High Jump, Long Jump, Triple Jump, Fencing, Rowing, and gymnastics.

Strengths and weaknesses were hashed out and at the end of the day...NEW WORLD RECORD in the 100m. As it currently stands with Zachawii holding the record, its at a blazing 9.64 seconds. I feel that I have a 9.5 in the legs, just need to train a little bit more. Oh the fun we will have this weekend....and its only Thursday!
Cheers