Olessia and I tried B Spot. It is right to the point. Burgers. Brats. Beer. Olessia and I tried the burgers. Pretty tasty. The shakes are bad ass as advertised on the menu. I would highly recommend checking it out… Just plan a head, the wait can be kind of long.
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Went to the MAKS 2009 Russian Air Show two weeks ago. That was AWESOME! Lots of aircraft there that I will not see in the states any time soon. The airshow grounds are huge and can take quite some time to walk around. The performances were back-to-back too so there was always something in the sky to watch.  MAKS 2009 Air Show Yesterday, friends and I wen to the Cleveland Air Show. It was good. It was much smaller than the Russian show and dare I say, maybe smaller than I remember seeing at previous Cleveland air shows. The performances were great. I hadn’t seen in quite some time the F-15 demo, Harrier demo, and the Thunderbirds. To top it all off, my friend got us on to the tarmac where they keep the performance show aircraft. That was awesome.  USAF Thunderbirds It has been about a week or so on Vonage and so far it has been awesome! Once the gadget came in the mail (took about 3 days), I had it plugged in and set in about an hour (including the time it took to unplug the land line). I wanted to have Vonage enabled at all the jacks in the house so I was able to follow a pretty easy tutorial online. My router handles a lot of stuff and I wanted the Vonage gadget behind it and that is working great too. I had a slight hiccup with the security system, but a phone call with the security company and I found I needed to swap 4 wires (took 30 seconds or so). Pretty easy! Olessia has been able to call Russia at no charge (on the World plan). Plus we can call almost anywhere at no charge. We get just about all the phone features you can think of and at the same price I was paying for a basic land line. So no land line for us now! Ok, so now for the ad: click and sign up and you get 2 months free as do I! For me, that was a $50 savings! (Saved my friend some money too!)
Ok, I had issues getting pictures up on rsbauer.com so I put them up on Pathfinder instead (files are probably too big). Here’s the link: http://pathfinder.rsbauer.com/gallery2/v/MoreRecent/Russia2009/ Watch this gallery instead of the other one. The first picture is of Olessia and we are enjoying breakfast at a London airport restaurant. The rest are of Dubna and a party at Olessia’s friend’s house. Olessia and I arrived safely in Russia. We are doing fine and catching up on some rest. More news to follow later. Good news: I’m able to check my email. Haven’t tried sending though… Just a few days away from being in Moscow. This is just a note, if you’re interested, I hope to post pictures every now and then while in Russia. The gallery will be located here: http://www.rsbauer.com/wpg2?g2_itemId=9494 Any pictues
It has been so hectic, I almost forgot to mention this. Olessia threw a surprise birthday party for me! It was quite a surprise! She had about 30 people over, tons of food, gifts, and fun to be had. On top of it all, my friend John was in on it. He suckered me out of the house to fly with him. You ask me if I want to go flying and the answer almost always will be, “yes!” So I figured the flight itself would be a treat (it was! we had 3 60 degree banked turns, 3 stalls, and a touch-and-go at Lost Nation before returning to Burke Lakefront). This flight was a ruse to get me out of the house so Olessia could get the house and people ready for the surprise. Wow! Looking back, she had about two to three hours, I think. John brought me back to the house and I still didn’t have a clue until I got out on our patio and saw everyone (for a moment, I thought Olessia invited some friends over to hang out). If any of you attended: Thank you!! The pictures are up in the gallery. Olessia took pictures at the party. I took pictures while in flight.  John (took Rob out flying), Rob, Mr. Ezzo, David  Downtown Cleveland. Coming in to land at Burke Lakefront It has been a crazy 2 weeks. This weekend being MUCH better than last weekend. Last weekend, between Friday night and Saturday, my main PC (the one I use for development, photo editing, game playing, etc) locked up. I haven’t seen a computer freeze and lock up like it did for quite some time. Reboot and no luck. It was having problems getting past POST and if it did get past POST, it locked up on the screen where the XP logo fades in on boot up. Lots of potty language later, I realized this was a heck of a hardware problem. I ended up at the local computer store and snagged a new motherboard and processor. Of course, gotta snag some RAM since my former rig was as ancient and the old RAM was either bad or incompatible (maybe it would have been compatible, it definitely would have been a performance bottle-neck). Dual monitors? Need another video card for that since the old one doesn’t fit any of the fancy-pants new AGP slots. Also had to get a new hard drive, just in case one of mine died and a new DVD drive since all my gear is IDE and I was out of IDE connections for my existing DVD drive. I replace it all and thought I did a great job. The problem was still there! WTF?! After more trouble shooting, I determine it to be a 2 part issue. The mouse really wants to be plugged directly into the box versus the USB hub. Also, it would appear my USB LCD display (a little 4 line, 20 character display) is toast and appears to be the source of all my hardware problems. Oh well. That machine was at least 4 years old and an upgrade was about due. It runs Word really nicely (think how fast WordPerfect would be!). I picked up an Asus Netbook for Masha (Olessia’s sister). It is a spiffy little gadget! She will be able to use it to connect to Skype and call in whenever she likes (it comes pre-loaded and we tested it out and works nicely). It was so spiffy, I got one for myself. I’ve been able to toss all sorts of stuff on it without any problems. I’m looking forward to taking it to Russia and using it on the plane. I’m also looking forward to toting it around to class and using it for note taking. Olessia’s green card was successfully renewed! This one should be good for 10 years. She hasn’t received the card yet but has received a notice letter. I received my visa for our Russia trip. With this, we are just about set to go. I joined the Cleveland Photographic Society and have been busy snapping pictures. Check out the gallery at pathfinder.rsbauer.com/gallery2. Olessia got an A+ in her accounting class. She is starting her MBA at BW. I got kicked out of U. Akron for taking a calculus at Tri-C without Akron’s permission. Thanks Akron! I took the spring semester off and I’m taking classes at Tri-C to finish up my general education requirements I know I will be required to take when I transfer back to Akron. I’m taking a biology class, golf, and a humanities class. Olessia and I went out and partied in the flats with 13 of our friends. That was FUN! I got rear ended by a Progressive driver (no one was hurt). I got the Progressive concierge service experience and it was great (washed the car – inside and out). Olessia got a raise and a bonus at work. We ate at Lola’s with our friends. I know there’s been a lack of updates. We have been kind of busy… |
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