Frank Caico's Blog

This was indeed a great weekend of unseasonably warm weather for Rochester.  I spent a good deal of time in my workshop working on my latest project:  A krenov style Wooden Hand Plane.  Its coming along real well and I suspect I will finish the woodworking this week (if the weather report is correct).  Its a real cool project that has forced me to learn some new techniques.  The book I am using as a guide (Making and Mastering Wood Planes) is pretty amazing.  It goes into great detail on each and every step and really keeps your confidence up as it documents the possible pitfalls involved.

Mike had his annual X-Mas party this weekend. Good fun was had by all!  We even got to experience some actual Myrrh!  For those of you interested;

Myrrh is currently used in some liniments, healing salves that may be applied to abrasions and other minor skin ailments. It is also used in the production of Fernet Branca.

Look for the holiday group shot pictures to be posted within the next day or two.

Of course nobody's watching lost.  It won't reappear on network television until February!!!  In the meantime though, you have to check out this video's hilarious parody of a couple of serious Lost fans:

So I've been doing Physical Therapy for the tear in my right arm's biceps tendon and the tendonitis I got in my left arm (probably as a result of above said tear). They seem to be getting better, but its only been a week so I'm trying to be conservatively optimistic.

The end of the year is coming up pretty fast. I can't beleive its almost 2007! Time just seems to be accelerating. Hopefully this affect applies to winter too and not just the good times/weather.

Angela and I went to Art and Jess' games night this last weekend. I had a real good time - it was nice to just not worry about anything for a few hours. It gets harder and harder for me to just relax and not think of any and every thing that is going or could go wrong. I now understand why it always looked like the weight of the world was on my Dad's shoulders. I assume this would only be worse with an entire family depending on me.

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Fred (My boss) has been judged a finalist in a national photography contest sponsored by Canon Inc.   Here's the image he got in for:

If he wins, he gets a Canon Rebel XTI!   You can find a link to the competition where you can vote for his photo here.  Regardless of whether he wins or not, if you vote you could win!  Please don't try and vote multiple times as cheating could get him disqualified, but please do vote!  It would be great to see Fred take this thing.

I thank you, and Fred thanks you!

I order things on-line alot, so I tend to get a good share of packages delivered through Fed Ex, UPS and DHL.  I have noticed the disturbing trend of having my packages more and more carelessly delivered. 

Today I had a package delivered by Fed Ex.  They left it on my porch in a *very* visible position.  In plain sight from the sidewalk only about 10-15 feet away.  The annoying thing is that someone was home to sign for the package, but its obvious that the delivery guy didn't even bother ringing!

This is the third or fourth time recently that a package was left in this obvious location.   One of the times, it was a very large package which had the contents plainly displayed on the outside!  That time the package was stolen (big surprise!).  I didn't have a problem getting Amazon to ship me a new package (at their cost), but I find it aggravating that these delivery people can't tage another few seconds to at least tuck the package in behind the porch railing (where it wouldn't be seen from the street).  They could at least ring the doorbell and wait a minute to see if someone is actually home instead of assuming no one is.

This one should resonate with you guys. 

Apparrently the California Milk Processor Board's "Got Milk?'' campaign decided to place chocolate chip cookie-scented ads in outdoor city bus stop shelters in San Francisco CA.   I guess they thought the smell of cookies would trigger a pavlovian desire for milk...

Anyhow, don't hold your breath waiting to see (smell) one of these ads, because thery are now being pulled!  The MTA received complaints over fears of asthma, respiratory and other environmental illness triggered by chemical irritatants.  Read the full story.