tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69948222912895184192008-11-14T09:33:31.918-07:00Sally, Mo (the cat) and I did a 3 day road trip to move from Portland OR to Phoenix AZ. According to Google Maps thats a trip of 1,337 miles. We had movers for all our furniture, but we still had to drive our 2 cars down there, and start a new life...Rossnoreply@blogger.comBlogger197125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994822291289518419.post-62149576021656260862008-11-02T21:14:00.003-07:002008-11-02T21:29:38.065-07:00

If you read our my previous post you know we went to Tempe Marketplace last night. As we were leaving, I noticed they had a PetSmart and I managed to talk Sally into dropping by to take a quick look at the pets. Being dumb I thought they might have dogs, but they just had cats, which of course got us talking about wether the time was right for a new cat? Well it wasn't yesterday, but today we

Rossnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994822291289518419.post-26641790030623513852008-11-01T21:02:00.001-07:002008-11-02T21:13:00.592-07:00

Well it's finally fall here, which means it's cooling down at last. It's under 100º every day so we can get out and enjoy ourselves. We discovered Tempe Marketplace earlier in the week and decided to go back Saturday night and check it out some more. Of course it's basically a mall, but it's a lot better designed then many. There's a really long open area with lot's of restaurants dotted along it

Rossnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994822291289518419.post-29688629738637980302008-10-31T22:00:00.002-07:002008-11-01T07:10:15.467-07:00

Tonight we had just about the best Halloween night I can possibly imagine :-) Our local mall, The Biltmore, had another of their open air 'movie in the park' nights, and in honor of halloween, it was the Alfred Hitchcock classic "Psycho". We got there early so that we could hit California Pizza Kitchen for dinner. To our surprise, they had a station set up outside so you could order your food

Rossnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994822291289518419.post-29252682621495297962008-10-18T17:42:00.002-07:002008-10-18T17:44:37.627-07:00

If you're a child of the 80's, this video will finally help you understand what that A-Ha video 23 years ago was all about :-)

Rossnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994822291289518419.post-56352656836675801632008-10-18T17:00:00.001-07:002008-10-23T10:02:05.493-07:00

Today we headed way out to the west edge of the valley to the Wildlife World Zoo, which you can read more about on their website here. We had loads of fun there, and there's a photo gallery of some of the animals here.

Rossnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994822291289518419.post-46895730992313626672008-10-17T08:04:00.004-07:002008-10-17T08:10:42.019-07:00

My second iPhone app, "Feeder", hit the iTunes App Store today - yay again! If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, go check it out. It lets you read RSS feeds from all over the web, saving you from having to navigate multiple web sites in Safari just to catch up with all your news. You can find out more about the app on my iPhone website here, or download the app from iTunes here. The price is an

Rossnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994822291289518419.post-87796250696813488552008-10-16T07:58:00.001-07:002008-10-17T08:03:40.992-07:00

My first iPhone app, "Chordbook", hit the iTunes App store today - yay! If you have an iPhone or iPod Touch, go check it out. It teaches you how to play loads of different scales and chords on guitar, keyboard or bass. You can find out more about the app on my iPhone website here, or download the app from iTunes here. The price is a trifling $2.99 :-)

Rossnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994822291289518419.post-2289045390069790502008-10-10T22:00:00.001-07:002008-10-12T15:12:33.087-07:00

Ah what a great evening. Our local outdoor mall at The Biltmore (where the rich people live) is showing a short series of old classic movies every friday night for about 6 weeks. What could be better then laying out on a blanket in the 80º evening warmth (OK it was a bit chilly for us nowadays), having a picnic, and watching Sean Connery as James Bond in Goldfinger. We all laughed at every cheesy

Rossnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994822291289518419.post-6262710020028401192008-10-02T12:34:00.002-07:002008-10-02T12:40:22.236-07:00

I'm both a big James Bond fan, and an accidental collector of Swatch watches. I've owned many of their watches over the years and now I think about it, even Sally's SmartCar was designed by Swatch. However I can't help thinking they may have finally jumped the shark here with their "007 Villain Collection". I can't decide whether to laugh (diabolically, of course) or run out to the nearest Swatch

Rossnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994822291289518419.post-23039034456668973302008-09-13T21:27:00.002-07:002008-09-20T09:46:54.569-07:00

Tonight we headed back to one of our favorite cool local stores, Red Hot Robot, for another launch party. Sally works with Donna Davis, who along with her husband Daniel, runs Steamcrow Press. They are both fantastically talented artists and we already have several of Daniel's prints framed and hanging around our condo. Tonight they were launching Daniel's new daily (M-F) online comic, "Monster

Rossnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994822291289518419.post-14248654552844250022008-09-08T10:30:00.001-07:002008-09-08T22:13:29.708-07:00

Long time readers of this blog will be familiar with the exploits, and occasional blog entries, of our beloved little cat Mo. Sadly Mo passed away last night at the ripe old age of 16. She hadn't been doing too well the last couple of weeks, and although blood tests a week ago had all looked great, yesterday evening she had a minor episode that had us racing to a nearby emergency clinic. A quick

Rossnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994822291289518419.post-39300211571574907332008-09-03T19:41:00.002-07:002008-09-03T19:46:13.338-07:00

First, I finally got all my photos imported into Picassa so you can now view them all at http://picasaweb.google.com/RossCoops. While waiting for all those pictures to upload I decided I was going to do jumping jacks, and see how many I could do. Well during the final album upload I just hit 1,000 of 'em! Man am I going to be tired tomorrow...

Rossnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994822291289518419.post-37874031469851853472008-09-02T22:30:00.004-07:002008-09-02T22:59:37.966-07:00

I finally got tired of trying to maintain my old lousy photo site (http://photos.rosscoops.com/) and finally decided to move to something new. I tried Flickr but was put off by the fact that I couldn't do much with it without paying every year for the privelage! So I checked out my trusty Google and ended up using their Picassa Web Albums site. It's not 100% finished yet, but you can check out

Rossnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994822291289518419.post-34309777555097265522008-08-31T07:57:00.005-07:002008-08-31T08:10:48.603-07:00

Well, it turns out Sally & I really did get lucky during our big storm:Our neighbor diagonally opposite us got flooded out during the storm and had to call the professionals in to pump the water out of his house.We went shopping yesterday and several stores had small water pumps or heaters trying to dry out parts of their stores.Half a block east of us a power pole got hit by lightning which

Rossnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994822291289518419.post-85576463790729236902008-08-29T07:40:00.005-07:002008-08-31T08:13:35.067-07:00

Just heard from Sally, her school has power but lots of flooding going on. They have 4 other schools kids showing up there today, because they don't have power at their own locations.On her commute to school there where lots of traffic lights out, lots of palm trees down and blocking major streets, buildings missing their roofs, and power out everywhere.And last night was the one night this

Rossnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994822291289518419.post-8821946814855893852008-08-29T07:08:00.004-07:002008-08-31T08:14:09.106-07:00

http://ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=947641Well, we had the worst lightning storm Ive ever been in in my life last night. The lightning just didn't stop. The sky was flashing red or green at times because there was so much lightning going on. I think I read over 5000 groundstrikes in 2 hours?Then came the 100 mph winds, rain and hail. It hailed so hard the ground looked like it was covered in snow... on a

Rossnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994822291289518419.post-48521260255180665122008-08-23T19:53:00.005-07:002008-08-31T08:15:30.970-07:00

That's right, my Smart Car is here!! I got call this morning about 9:45 from Jessica at the dealership telling me it was here. She asked if I was going to get it today and I told her I can be there in about an hour. I had to wait till 2pm because they had people scheduled to come in already.  So, I did my best to waste some time. It did not drag out as nearly as bad as I thought it would. So,

Sallynoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994822291289518419.post-14100222557143615842008-08-21T11:44:00.002-07:002008-08-21T11:49:59.875-07:00

If you're into a) guitars and b) iPhones, then this post is for you! :-) I've recently invested some time in learning how to write apps for the iPhone, and my first app is currently awaiting approval on Apple's iTunes store - I'll do another quick post when it's actually available for sale, which will hopefully be soon. The app is called "Chordbook" and as you can see from the picture, it will

Rossnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994822291289518419.post-18528005267865788432008-08-16T16:50:00.003-07:002008-08-16T16:56:53.529-07:00

My car is in California!! It is waiting to get put on a truck, that will be 24-48 hours then it is on it's way here. I might have it next week!!! (Today is Sat 8/16 by the way) 

Sallynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994822291289518419.post-37085495714460829772008-08-09T11:37:00.009-07:002008-08-16T16:57:45.643-07:00

So here it is Saturday morning after the first week of school and I slept like 13 hours last night. That's what happens when you have two margaritas at before 6:30 pm and then NiQuil before bed. It's about 11:00 am and my phone rings. I don't know the number and think it is either another political recording call or someone else I don't want to talk to but I answer anyway, and it is my Smart Car

Sallynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994822291289518419.post-78452117567382827542008-08-09T11:29:00.003-07:002008-08-09T11:36:33.064-07:00

Well here it is August 8, 2008; the Olympics are starting tonight, I finished the first week of school this year and had the first happy hour of the year. Things are definitely different this year at the Prep. There is a new Principal and a new Vice Principal. There are fewer students, but I have more kids in each class than last year, and we there are 5 longer classes this year (last year there

Sallynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994822291289518419.post-59256082729961139212008-07-10T21:26:00.001-07:002008-07-10T21:26:24.316-07:00

We're just starting our monsoon season here in Phoenix, which means the days are still nice and warm but big tropical storms for an hour or two in the evening. Tonight was a doozy! First of all it was basically right over our heads, secondly it was unusually strong. About 5 minutes ago we had a gigantic simultaneous lightning crack and thunder roll that made us both jump out of our seats,

Rossnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994822291289518419.post-8539816072750583672008-07-05T22:17:00.001-07:002008-07-06T20:27:59.284-07:00

At the Wynn hotel they have an amazing waterfall surrounded by trees that they project all kinds of stuff on. Tonight we saw giant robot flowers dancing a duet, followed by a James Bond intro style version of Creole Lady Marmalade. Very cool...

Rossnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994822291289518419.post-31146226072641184422008-07-05T22:06:00.001-07:002008-07-06T20:26:50.437-07:00

Found this wonderfully gay statue of Siegried & Roy & a tiger outside the Mirage!

Rossnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6994822291289518419.post-47364898902172709042008-07-05T20:23:00.001-07:002008-07-06T20:25:51.760-07:00

I'm blogging from the Mirage right now where Sarah & Tony brought us to the Beatles bar 'Revolution'. The Cirque du Soleil show 'Love' is here so the whole casino has Beatles stuff everywhere. I'm off in search of the Blue Meanie...

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