Valero Memphis Refinery Fire Training

Valero Memphis Refinery hosted a basic psychomotor class for extinguishing high-pressure propane and diesel fires. Heres pictures and a brief rundown of the different scenarios.

Arduino Access Control

I’ve always been a nut for gizmos, and this has been one of my childhood dreams: have an access-controlled door by RFID. With my new Arduino in hand, I decided this was a noble first-use of it. Let’s see what a bored geek can do on a Saturday afternoon.

Cooking for P90X: Red Pepper Soup

Tonight, I cooked a batch of P90X’s Red Pepper Soup. My critique: a little too much celery.
Anyway, heres a few pictures from it. It took me about 40 minutes from prep to ready to eat. Very yummy. I bet itll keep quite a while in the fridge too! PS: It’s a good 8 servings or More >

P90X Nutrition Guide

I have a feeling that he’s going to get even more obnoxious this time through.

Let’s go, baby!
Hey everybody, I’m gearing up to start P90X up again. This time, it’s for real. Nutrition guide, situps, and sleep too! Anyway, since my second hand copy of P90X didn’t come with a nutrition guide, I had to get More >

Firearm posts gone missing

Some of you might notice that my firearm posts are now gone. Tonight, my parents found the posts; as I am still under their wing, I am forced to oblige to their requests. They viewed my posting of informative videos on the installation of firearm parts something that cast me in a negative light and More >

fresh start

So, after working on P90X for about a month and a half, I started to fall apart. College applications kept rolling over from one to-do list to the other, and eventually my list got over a page long. I didn’t have enough time. My daily to-do list turned into a list of long term goals, More >