I am so incredibly bored right now. I am watching “Troy” for the billionth time on tv and surfing the same pages over and over. I am not sure how many times I can repeatedly cycle through visiting my home page to check on my friends blogs, to myspace, to facebook, to my forums and back again without going insane. There is nothing going on. My friends are going to the fair apparently, but that definitely does not interest me in the slightest. Every time I visit the fair I want to choke the hell out of the little gangster wannabe idiots with their pants around their knees. It’s not good. I honestly wouldn’t mind going with them today because there wouldn’t be so many idiots until later tonight… but I am completely broke. I don’t think I can even afford to get in the gate… much less eat anything. with my boss being out of town and everything done at the shop I have no source of income for another week or so. It pretty much sucks. I think I’ll sit here, refresh pages, and wait until night time rolls around and they are back from the fair. Maybe I can convince my friends to have a cookout tonight instead of going out and drinking again. I simply can’t take another night of it. I know I’m not going to get any amusement from this post since as of my last tally i had…… 3 readers? one is busy, one is at the fair, and I have no idea if the 3rd still reads…. maybe I’ll go rent a movie or something.

I was notified earlier this day by my good friend Justin Shattuck that he had finished his latest wordpress theme. I checked it out immediately and was very pleased with what I saw. Gray Incite is a theme created to remedy many of the problems commonly seen in the majority of publicly released Wordpress themes. By cleanly separating the banner image, Gray Incite allows the user to incorperate his or her desired image easily into the page. If you have ever used a Wordpress theme produced by someone else you will understand how great this feature is. Justin Shattuck did a great job of keeping the entire presentation very simple, but aesthetically pleasing in every way. I encourage anyone looking for an example of a great wordpress theme to check out Gray Incite by Justin Shattuck

I’ve been kind of stressed lately with news that the shop I am working at will be closing soon and the wonderul joys of single life. I really needed to get my mind off things. There was an event in Disney Oklahoma this weekend so I decided to go out there and enjoy myself. I hadn’t been wheeling in my own jeep in over a year and it was driving me nuts. I got to take my older brother David with me which made it all the better. We left Friday night and took his Boxer, Meshack, with us on the trip. We had a great time night-wheeling friday with a few guys from my group and then had the worst time trying to sleep. It rained so hard around 2AM (right when we were going to bed) that I didn’t sleep more than an hour or two all night.

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This past weekend I attended a woods race compeition in Salem Missouri to help judge. I have judged a few rock crawling competitions in the past so a woods race was something quite different for me. It was actually quite easy. Some of the courses were entirely visible to spectators while many of them were several miles long and out of view. This made my job quite easy because all I had to do was start the clock when the driver and spotter took off and wait for them to return. I still enjoyed the competition even though I wasn’t right in the middle of the action like in rock crawling. After the competition I went night wheeling with one of the competitors and the owner of the park for a few hours. We started around 7:30 PM and came back to camp at 1:30 AM. I then made a 5 hour drive back to Tulsa. With stopping to get food, and to sleep for half an hour because I almost went off the road I got home at 9 AM. I didn’t have time to take any pictures this time around but I have a few videos. The links will be at the end of this post.

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Just a week after the W.E.ROCK Eastern Finals in Hannibal, Missouri we returned for the third of four competitions making up the RROCK series. Team Rock Assualt made up of driver Bill Bailey and spotter Jason “Tolly” Tollison was fighting to keep in the top 3 in the series. I attended as a competitor this time around. Travis Waldher of Team Rockwild needed a spotter as his spotter had been injured a few weeks before the competition. I volunteered to help out and do the best I could. Travis has a Toyota truck which is much longer than any other vehicle in our class. This makes it much harder to navigate the tight turns and complete the course with no penalties. Helping Travis meant I had to compete against my friends but I did it anyways!
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The weekend of August 12th and 13th I attended the W.E.ROCK Eastern Finals in Hannibal, Missouri. The “Hannibal Rocks” site was a brand new site developed in less than a month by the people at Rockport Offroad Park where I have previously attended events. Hannibal Rocks is an abandoned rock quarry so it is the perfect place for rock crawling. My friends Bill Bailey and Jason “Tolly” Tollison were Competing once again in the stock modified class. Placing in the top 3 in this class at this event meant a trip to Dallas the weekend of September 23rd for the W.E.ROCK National Championships. Team Rock Assault had some trouble on the first day breaking a front axle early on one of the first curses.
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Well, tonight I spoke briefly to Justin and he informed me I was better off giving up on my old theme and going with something different. He rattled off something about it not parsing correctly or something but all I heard was ‘makeover’. I decided to change things up a bit. I hope you guys enjoy the new layout. It isn’t working quite right in Internet Explorer but I’ll try to fix that soon. Back-issue stories coming soon.

As you can see my site is not working properly. The content is still here but none of the layout. I have been reading up on some stuff and snooping around in my theme to try to find anything but thus far I have not been successful. I have about 4 entries stored up from some trips and competitions but I don’t want to post them until I have things working right. I will try to figure out what’s wrong in the next week but I don’t know if I will have any luck. I don’t do this web design crap anymore.