yep, I have been behind on my personal updates, so here is a catchup entry to go with the pictures I am adding. It has been a Great 3 months :-)

 

Easter breakfast with my dad at our place - Album here

 

 

A walk downtown at the Canal - Album here

 

Our Anniversary - 24th - Anna gave me a Lilly and some Hershy Select Cholocates - Very nice! I gave her some sugar free candy she likes! We went to Maggiano's via a gift card from Carsey and Rick for helping with his computer issues. - Album here

 

Next day we went out for a ride (Anna's first for the season due to knee surgury) to see the new bridge from the trail and to see the new gate in the Jappeense Garden. - Album here

 

ICC - Indianapolis Childrens Choir with Stephanie Leppert, then we had dinner with Bob and Christa, Johnny and Sharon and our boys - Album here

 

Morris Lake on Traci's Party Boat - Great fun and then dinner at Wolfies - Album here

 

Josh's Graduation - Congrads and our good friends Son Kyle Yamafuji - Album here

 

Family day - Cards - Texas Hold'em - Anna won !! then off to see movie - Night at the Museum - Smithsonian. - Album here

 

Lunch with Clark, Angie, Rick and Carsey - Album here

 

Jeff and Debbies Wedding at Limetree - Album here

 

Sarasota Vacation - Album here

 

Thomas Carr Howe High School '84 Reunion - Album Here

 

:-)

 

 

 

Ah it is soo nice to have the windows open of the house open :-)

 

As a side note I have just created my Twitter and Technorati Profile accounts :-)

 

So now you can see my tweets and my blog rankings.

 

I have some photo's to add from dinners and lunchs with friends I will add shortly.

 

Ah spring ... I think Frank Sonatra has a couple great songs on this .....

 

 

Our Dinner in that we made for each other.

 

I did the Steaks and Potato's, Anna did the Salad and Wine. The Steaks where from Joes Butcher Shop with 2 Different Teriyaki Marinades.

 

We walked over with Holly, our bassett to get them and then while the potatoes where cooking, we went to the Carmel Valentine Walk in the Carmel Art's and Design district we live in.

 

The Wine was from Columbia Winery - Cellmaster Riesling 2007 that we loved and road to when we lived in Woodville, Wa. We get it here locally at Marsh Supermarke.

 

Complete meal under $20 and time together - priceless and OMG they where good!

 

He enjoyed his day off and his dinner followed by Shapirros's Cheesecake!

 

Enjoy the pictures!

Happy Birthday Lizzia!

 

Here is a video of the kids I have uploaded to YouTube! Enjoy

 

First a shout out to Kevin - Happy Birthday!!!

 

Here is a couple photos of Kevin and then one of us at Anna and my wedding!

 

Also I have posted pictures of the snow from yesterday's snow day!!

 

 

January is rocking along and I am very excited to have completed my first Video Shoot!

 

It was for my Dad to cover a couple of modification he has made for a wood working tool he uses.

 

He is active in his CarveWright community and this was to assist one of the postings he had made in the discussion forums.

 

The video, bloopers and lessions learned are all documented and available below.

 

I really enjoy this so far and look forward to more shoots, editing and posting.

 

Dad's blog entry with the video is at http://wwwshop-wwwshop.blogspot.com/2009/01/carvewright-quick-release-chuck.html

 

My bloopers blog entry and video is at http://dgrigsby.blogspot.com/2009/01/lessons-learned-from-my-first-on.html

 

Here is the video of the bloopers, enjoy!

Wow I am still on a feel good ride!

 

I was only able to watch 1 hour of the Inauguration, the swearing in and President Obama's speach, but it was deeply inspiring!

 

I had to watch it over the air via my media center as CNN like the rest was swamped and not able to handle the number of viewers - something to keep in mind and an area to improve in the industry.

 

I have two major personal projects I am working on concerning family pictures and video. Here is a teaser video I just uploaded to YouTube that was taken almost 20 years ago. I chose this one as it is short and a number of key people in the video have passed. It shows how YouTube can be annotated. I am looking for a complete list of who is in the video, so I can revise it with the names and links to other videos and pictures as my project progresses.

 

Most of all, please enjoy seeing those whom we have not seen for a while, think of good times together and smile :-)

 

If you click this link it will take your to YouTube player page for this video and you can add comments and rate the video. If you don't have a YouTube account, you can create one for free or use your Google account as your YouTube Account. Please email me if you have questions and I will help you through the process!

 

I am going to post a blog entry on my professional site tomorrow about how I am doing the VHS to DVD to YouTube conversion, the scope of the project and the effort needed to pull it off, so look for the post tomorrow evening.

 

 

   

 

 

I have my youtube account up and running as part of one of my Santa projects for me, family and Grigsby Consulting and I am excited.

 

I have been converting VHS home videos to digital media and then editing them to publish to Youtube.

 

This entry serves as a good test with more to come on a regular basis.

 

Okay, I have some pictures to load, but we have had a great holiday season and hope you have too.

 

Did I mention, that "Lives" new photo features are less robust than the old... sucks, can't move pictures or albums as far as order.... Really looking for a new home now.

 

Our family found a 1989 Vette that we are selling on eBay, sweet ride. Only down side is if it dosen't fetch the price we want, we will just have to keep it :-)

 

 

 

Happy New Year!!! 

 

  

 

Answer:

Poorly Functioning 1992 Sable known as Susie.

 

Warning --- I am going to vent here, but hopefully it will save someone the same result..

 

Okay, so I purchased/loaned/repurchased the 1992 Sable from my brother-in-law David Haboush 2 falls ago for Zach. It was Dad loan me the money to get this, good deal and I will use it to get to work and back and to College and back.

 

Okay car, thanks David Haboush.

 

So I didn't do a great job of explaining all the fluid locations for him, as I clearly stated "get a Chiltons" and read your manual, you need to get to know your car.

 

So after 18 months  I finnaly get my $500 back, $25 a week, after not paying at all (big dispute in March) in July of 2008. Then I have the fun of helping him limp the car from St. Fancis at Southport back to the north side after I am told it is smoking and not starting right.

 

Come to find out, it was 5 quarts of oil over full and the Transmission fluid was not even registering.

 

Now the engine knocks and pings - Probably lifters, bent rods and rings that are none to happy, and a transmission that wont shift out of first aka max speed 15 miles per hour.

 

Lesson Learned:

Watch over your kids vehicles fuild levels, till you know they have it down and know what is what.

 

So I bought it back for $50 bucks so I could take ownership after it sat for 4 months of him ignoring it (with expired plates since May), paid for plates and today I spent time after replacing batttery $80, to find out how bad it was.

 

Cost:

A. Do it your self Transmission: $300 and you need to be experienced, as anyone who has ever done this knows, most mechanics and shops farm it out to the guys that do it well.

B. Guys that do it well: $1275 to rebuild

 

$800 on a good day

 

So now two options to resolve this and get rid of an extra $95 in insurance for a non-functional vehicle:

$100 and free tow

 

1. No interest on loan to son of $500 for 18 months :-) (okay at least I got paid back :-) )

2. Sitll ended up being my problem - Arg matie, walk the plank!

3. Need to expect less and offer more guidance - I will try harder to educate and participate more supportively :-)

4. Total cost to me $50 buy back + $80 Battery -(refund of $35 for used battery <24 hours) + $35 title and plate - $100 salvage  = -($30) and learned alot about me and my son whom I dearly love. Cheep lesson learned in the whole big picture

 

Hope you have a great chuckle, I did :-)

Zach and Susie Sable - One last time together

 

 

Well it is the holidays again and Happy Holidays to you and yours!

 

Already it has been a fast month - Tree at our House, Tree downtown Indy, rememberance of loved ones who have passed before use, Holiday Dinner at Beef and Boards, Lunch with dear friends from my youth and I am on vacation till Jan 5th!!!!!!!

 

Enjoy the pictures :-)

It was a month of Birthdays!!! - Al, Mac and Eddie - 4th, Jamie - 11th, Theresa -22nd (Passed on the 12th), Beth - 26th and mine on the 29th!

 

Thanksgiving was great as was my birthday! I love the four day weekend, especially when my bday is on Saturday after Thanksgiving!! Food, Family and time to chill and relax!!!

 

I have updated the albums for most of November. I am keeping my status updates on Facebook and I may migrate my pictures to Flickr, as it has a map feature I really like, but we will see. I want Microsoft to add the people taging Feature like Facebook and the Map feature like Flickr as well as the picture info Flickr has. I will wait a little, but if no features, I will move them.

 

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

I don't want to complain, but I am putting in a statement that I am really tired of Funeral homes.

 

I am sad to say that Theresa Barger-Haboush, Jeff's ex-wife, Ryan and Chelsea's Mom passed away last Wednesday, 11/12/2008 and the Funeral was Monday.

 

We don't really know how, why, that will come from the coroner's report next week. Regarless it is untimely and sad.

 

So we got dressed up, tooks some quick pics on the way out the door, and then later that night came home and player risk with the boys. The pictures are so we can restart the game this weekend from where we left off. Anna is Green, Matt is Gray, Zach is Red and I am Blue.

 

I am looking forward to next week, as it is Thanksgiving and my birthday falls on the that Saturday!!! Whoot !!!!!

 

Be Thankful for all that you have had, have and will have, most of all your Family and Friends :-)

Well a very interesting election and I am so glad that Anna and I voted absentee, as yesterday was very hectic and didn't quite go as planned.

 

We stopped by to see Al on his birthday, family was to have dinner and party, but to say the least there where serious timing issues with others not meeting their commitments. He got out to vote yesterday and will go home in a week per the case workers.

 

I was commenting on facebook on Sean's comment about Obama, Branding and delivery. Here is my take on a successful 4 years :

I hope you all have a chance to vote today. I think we can all say positive change through either candidate is needed, America can be more than it is presently.

 

Happy Birthday Al, Mac and Ed. This is a busy month for Birthdays - Three just today :-)

 

Also, check out my facebook for more moment to moment blurbs.

Ah the fun of trick or treaters!!!

 

I have a couple pictures of the kids that stopped by tonight!

 

Great day, can't remember a halloween so nice as this one was weather wise.

 

Hope you had a great day!

 

 

 

okay, sorry been a while, but I have been really busy and as always learned some new things about me and the world in general.

 

I have lots of pictures I will add tonight and over the weekend. My office has been relocated from the second floor to the basement. We did this so we could make the office for the whole family and I could be next to my lab area as well.

 

I like keeping this space for personal items, so I will update my professional site with what projects I have been working on.

 

Also, I now have a facebook site, so check it out for "more in the moment" items, but pictures, etc will stay here.

 

Big items: Apple Orchard, Al back in hospital (still there), IKEA/Brands/Micro Center trip to Cincinatti, OH, I am returning to IUPUI in spring 2009 to complete my BA in Computer Science thus the math studying :-), etc. As I load pictures I am sure the last 90 days will come flooding back, did I mention I was really busy - (lots of work).

 

Yep, and the memories did come zooming back- Visits with Audrey, Lilly, Birthday Parties, Everett and Barbara Cass (Judy's oldest brother - first wife Barbara passed 8 year ago, Yep second wife is Barbara as well), End of Summer Concert by Endless Summer - Nick Lemo's band, College Day with Matt and Clint at IU in Bloomington, Sushi at Kona Grill, drinks with Jim Hochstatter when he was in town last week - No pictures to protect the innoc... well us :-)

 

Happy Halloween!

 

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Here is the obit from today's Indianapolis Sunday Star.  I have posted the pictures we are sending for the DVD that the mortuary is creating.

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Judith A. Cass Haboush 73, Indianapolis died July 22, 2008. Mrs. Haboush was a member of 2nd. Presbyterian Church, attended Butler University and had worked at Shell Travel Division of Shell Oil Co., a substitute teacher with Indianapolis Public Schools, DNA Software and retired from Nursing Services Administration at St. Francis Hospital. She was a loving wife and mother. Survivors: husband, Alfred A. Haboush; children, Gregg M. Haboush, Jeffrey A. Haboush, Anna L. Grigsby and David G. Haboush; brothers, Everett E. Cass Jr. and John L. Cass;8 grandchildren. Friends may call from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 7th at Flanner and Buchanan Funeral Center – Washington Park East. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Friday, Aug. 8th at 2nd. Presbyterian Church, friends may call at the church one hour prior to the service. Interment will be in Washington Park East Cemetery. Contributions may be made to the Kidney Foundation or the American Diabetes Association. Online condolences may be made at: www.flannerbuchanan.com

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