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About Me

I believe that the measure of a person is in what they have done and what they will do, not only in their accomplishments, but also how they handle adversity, failure, and defeat.That said, who I am is about what I do. I work for a family business and we custom fabricate heavy machinery, mostly for the coal mining industry. Some of the more interesting projects have been converting military Hummers for underground mine duty in the state of West Virginia. The requirements for diesel powered equipment in these mines require the use of technologies in exhaust aftertreatment that are ahead of what manufacturers are putting in on highway trucks right now. I have worked on a joint research project with NIOSH dealing with exhaust aftertreatment devices and we should be publishing some SAE papers this year about it.The job that keeps me moving though is our radio remote controlled track loader. We call it a MICROTRAXX, it is used to go into confined spaces and hazardous areas where manned equipment will not fit or it is too dangerous for the operator. Mostly we use it to clean sedimentation out from drainage culverts and under low clearance bridges. Some other places I have been with it include cleaning debris off of a higwall bench in a destabilized area, and a steel mill to clean slag out from under the furnaces. I will be posting blogs about it as I travel and work in different areas of the country.Seeing the country is truly awesome, driving across it is very tiresome...
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Hot

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Exciting

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Wet

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Shy

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Violent

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Sweet

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You Are Wind
Strong and overpowering
A force to be reckoned with, no one dares cross you
You have the power to change everything around you
You are best known for: your wrath
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My Interests

Motocross, Ice Hockey, Football, Snowmobiles, anything with an engine or an impact, NASCAR = Both

Music:

Brad Paisley, Sara Evans, Garth, AC/DC, Metallica, Audioslave, The Clarks, Godsmack, Snoop, Nelly

Movies:

Pirates of the Carribean, Tombstone, Click, Waterboy, Varsity Blues, Saving Private Ryan, We Were Soldiers, Saw I and II, Spiderman, any football related movie

Television:

Rots yer brain!

Books:

Anything Mark Twain, Lord of the Rings

Heroes:

Lance Armstrong, Doug Henry

My Blog

Sunshine is not so kind to the fair complected

Got my first sunburn of the year yesterday. I had to fly clear to Alabama to do it, called home and still in the 50's, called my co-worker and brother in Portland, OR to tell them how hot it was...
Posted by Jeremy on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:09:00 PST

Cavers and Imposters

Saturday evening was a rebirth for a few things in my life, First being the longest road trip my 79 Chevy pickup has taken in 3 years or better. Admittedly, it is sitting in my best friends gara...
Posted by Jeremy on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 04:38:00 PST

Air Travel Adventures

To all of my friends, acquaintances, and anyone who can read this, DO NOT EVER fly Northwest Airlines!!!!!! I was flying to Madison, WI for a conference, so I left the house at 6 am, flew out of...
Posted by Jeremy on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 03:10:00 PST

Armadillo tastes like Possum

I saw my first ever armadillo today while driving from Tuscaloosa to Houston. They are neat looking little creatures and I'm sure that they are interesting to watch. Mine though, like many...
Posted by Jeremy on Mon, 14 May 2007 07:03:00 PST

On the road again

It's been a while, but life has taken some twisted turns in the last few months and the pace seems to have increased exponentially. First of all, most of you know about the passing of Rena's dad and f...
Posted by Jeremy on Sun, 13 May 2007 08:22:00 PST

Blowing up a Skirt

Is usually something that a guy would enjoy seeing, until it involves the piston in your 2-stroke Polaris Snowmobile engine. Long and short, I was out riding with my friends in some of the best...
Posted by Jeremy on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:44:00 PST

Once Every 3 Years it snows in El Paso, TX

SO yeah, I look out of the hotel window this morning and there is 2 inches of snow on the ground and the news stations and everybody here in El Paso is flippin out. When talking to the people th...
Posted by Jeremy on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:21:00 PST

The Day I hit the Crow

I must admit that I don't know the point value on this, but I recall that for the longest time when driving to college classes on WV highways, anytime there was a crow between the ditches, you mashed ...
Posted by Jeremy on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 09:18:00 PST

It's Cold in Friggin Texas!

So I am on my way to El Paso for work on Monday and after 2 days of driving the International South it is freakin cold down here, I thought it was supposed to be warm when you get this close to ...
Posted by Jeremy on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 08:50:00 PST

Sittin in a hotel in Indiana, bored and scattered thoughts

So as I mentioned before, my job involves a lot of travel at times, right now I am waiting to deliver a new machine to the Indiana DOT, watching CMT and talking to my boss on the phone. Yesterda...
Posted by Jeremy on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:44:00 PST