Archive for January, 2009

BJ Nikkel Wins CO HD49 Vacancy

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

I’ll let the reporters do the talking:

http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20090117/UPDATES01/90117008

Suffice it to say I’m pretty proud of my ma.  She’s now the #7 ranked hit when searching our last name inGoogle’s search engine.  She even has her own Wikipedia page now (and no, she did not make it).

2009 >, < 2008

Friday, January 9th, 2009

First post of the new year.

2008 was kind of a lame year for me in some ways (although it did have it’s highlights)…some of my more ambitious efforts/ideas never really took off for various reasons.  Work was stellar.  The personal life suffered as a result.

2009 has me off to a much better start already on the flip side, and its looking like work is going to suffer a bit whether I want it to or not, due to congressional funding shortfalls.

Goals for ‘09:

  • Complete P90X - on Day 4 now…shoulders/back and ab ripper just rocked my world.  The diet is actually pretty sweet…its stuff I usually eat anyways, except loaded w/ way more veggies.  Aint like it starves you either…supposedly I’m supposed to eat 3000 calories a day - I don’t think I need that many.
  • Finish getting the Piety House tricked out - already making headway there.
  • Finish the pilots license - I haven’t flown in over a year now (well, except for work), but I’m only a written test and probably 15 - 20 flight hours away!  
  • Obtain IRAD funding at work so I can work up a demo for an idea I had…and keep myself employed…
  • Learn how to file a patent.  File a patent.
  • Dirt Bike at Glamis at least once.
  • Backpack at least once.
  • Get my average golf score into the low 90’s (yes, that is ambitious for me heh).
  • Build an automated video surveillance suite for my house.
  • Finish kitting out the AR-15.
  • Bag a Coyote with the AR-15.
  • Read at least one book each month.
  • Decide on what to pursue for an M.S…I’m leaning back towards astrodynamics again.  Starting to miss outer space.
  • Get the home electronics bench fully stocked.
Ok that’ll have to do for now.