I just got 3 Dirty Dicks Crab House T-Shirts hand delivered today! This all came to be after one of their owners contacted me on Facebook and asked:

“You did a handstand in front of dirty dick’s restaurant in the outer banks of North carolina. would you wear a Dirty Dicks t shirt if we printed it upside down for you?”

This all came to be after they discovered my handstand picture from last summer there:

They have added this picture on the top rotating banner to their website at http://dirtydickscrabs.com, check it out!

Of course the answer was YES! My family has been visiting the Outer Banks in North Carolina for years and Dirty Dicks Crab House is one of the most well known names there. I thought it was so cool. I even have a Dirty Dicks bottle opener on my keychain that I picked up from my visit last year.

In any case, I now have 3 awesome custom printed t-shirts that I can show off in some upcoming handstand pictures.

These shirts are AWESOME! Thanks!

NOTE: Don’t forget to add “crabs” to dirtydickscrabs.com because the other site might scar you for life.

Scalin’	Breakfast of Champions
Skype, with Jared	My favorite book yesterday
Hope they don’t mind that it got ripped…	Frustration, how can I make this work on my machine!

My 12 of 12 Archives.

Check out the Uri! Zone for his 12 of 12.

Where is the love for this blog?  I know I haven’t been to loving to the Handstands Across America blog lately, but I haven’t been traveling anywhere new lately.  We do have some handstands coming up in San Antonio, Texas soon so watch out for those.  Also, Saturday is a 12 of 12!

1 of 12: suitcase livin [Flickr]	2 of 12: favorite coffee cup at home [Flickr]
3 of 12: no desk in arlington anymore. luckily for only 1 workday [Flickr]	4 of 12: moved office downstairs after lunch [Flickr]
5 of 12: Architecting! [Flickr]	11 of 12: waitimg forever for a check [Flickr]
6 of 12: cheese quesadilla [Flickr]	7 of 12: bachelor [Flickr]
8 of 12: lighting here sucks [Flickr]	9 of 12: round of shots [Flickr]
10 of 12: larry and rich. soooo dark in here [Flickr]	12 of 12: finally made it to shellys, a cigar bar in D.C. [Flickr]

Check out past 12 of 12s here.

Here is a picture from the General Jackson Riverboat with the AT&T a.k.a. “Batman Building” in the background.

The Shrimp Connection

The Offer

• Joined the YMCA
• Joined a Soccer Team and first practice is today… first game on Tuesday
• Am heading to Nashville, TN on Thursday for a 3 day VACATION (You heard me right, not weekend, VACATION)

So life is good, but blog is not feeling the love. This update is for Uri! so I don’t drop off his list

Heading to Atlanta tomorrow for the Season Opener.  Watch out Alabama, here we come. Lets Go! Ho-kies!

This is a Car Handstand FAIL from one of my favorite sites, FailBlog.org

It is so incredibly aggravating having neighbors have sex SO loud that it wakes you up in the middle of the night. I have a hard enough time getting to sleep, but when I hear the floor shaking above me and hear high pitched sounds from a hyena while I’m trying to sleep, it really pisses me off! I should be asleep right now, but instead I’m awake and back at home because I had to get out of there. I felt like I was trapped like someone being torchered. Screw that, I am not dealing with those people any more. I have banged on the ceiling before but they don’t seem to give a crap. Should I go up and ask them if they’ve had any luck concieving? Or should I just kick him in the balls the next time I see him? AHHHHH!!!

I am not a person who gets riled up but I have been kept awake on too many occasions, and I am livid.

Word of advice for all you apartment shoppers out there. Get the top floor apartment. Pay the extra $50 dollars a month and consider it money well spent.

What the hell should I do? I really want this to stop.

1 of 12: 1:19am… Time for bed.

2 of 12: 8:47am – Good Morning Coffee.

3 of 12: 10:58am Late Breakfast. Team Cheerios.

4 of 12: 12:50pm Status Reports are Painful

5 of 12: 1:26pm Time to Shave so I Can Go Into Public Later

6 of 12: 2:50pm Rushing Past Ballston to get on I-66 and Miss HOV-2 Restrictions

I figured out once I was on I-66, that restrictions we not until 4pm. Doh!

7 of 12: 3:25pm Panera “Iced Caramel” Coffee Drink at Herndon Panera. My Favorite.

8 of 12: 5:28pm documenting his Steak Grilling.

9 of 12: 5:42pm Delicious Steak and Yuengling.

10 of 12: 6:48pm Brian’s cat likes to talk, and has no plan on stopping.

11 of 12: 7:59pm Messing with the Google Earth API

12 of 12: 9:45pm Rebecca made it home!

12 of 12 Complete!

Photos are in this Flickr Photoset and here …

Be sure to check out Brian‘s site and his 12 of 12.

Check out the other 12 of 12′s people have done on Chad’s site.

Well, it turns out that the “Random” handstands you see on the right were actually not all that random. They weren’t showing any from my roadtrip or beyond which was puzzling. I still don’t know exactly why that code didn’t work, but I have some that does now, which is less efficient (but works)!

For anyone who is a MySQL guru, I wanted to determine the MAX id, and then generate a random id off of that. Then using that id, retrieve the information.

I accomplish it by making 2 calls now:

• Call 1 (Getting a Random id):
  • SELECT FLOOR(MAX(id) * RAND()) FROM `$this->table` LIMIT 1
• Call 2 (Getting the properties out for that id):
  • SELECT `id`, `title`, `description`, `small` FROM `$this->table` WHERE id = $rand_id ORDER BY id LIMIT 1

How do I make a query that works in one shot, but accomplishes the same thing?

CSS Fix

My About page was looking messed up as the footer came up and swallowed the entire page. I ended up fixing that thankfully though too. Yay for fixes!