Another Day Another Blog Post

Well, Saturday is just about over.....so much fun!

Saturday's are nice...about the only day I really get to work on my website somewhat awake.

Another nice surprise happened though today.
A completely built processor, two wash tanks, and a bunch of other goodies got delivered to me in my driveway, right next to the Vanagon.

The guy that got me into biodiesel in the first place, Mr. Jack Jones, the person behind Riverstones Biodiesel and one heck of a biodiesel maker, had it delivered to me via his diesel truck which is headed up to his dad's for a while.

The processor setup is really nice and is the one I based all of my processor's on.
Click here to see what it looks like:

It was kind of bitter-sweet really.

Bitter, because Jack is getting out of biodiesel, sweet, because I feel like I now posess some awesome peice of biodiesel homebrewing history, plus, the very first wash tank I ever made is back. You see the first wash tank on wheels I built Jack bought from me and has used for well over a year now. The thing is still in great shape & works great. It's always cool to see something that you built after it's been in use for a while stand up well.

Anyway, so now I'm in posession of this really kick butt processor that made most of the biodiesel that ran in my truck last summer. It'll live in my storage shed for a while unless someone offer's me some dough for it (it's technically for sale. The whole setup, processor, 2 wash tanks, a bunch of hand pumps, hoses and everything will go for $2500 to the first one that beats a path to my door w/ cash in hand).

So, that was part of my biodiesel related day.

The other part of my day involved going to see a bunch of model trains with my family. My daughter, although only 2, is a die-hard railroad fan. Ok, not just a train fan, but a die-hard train nut! She know's all of the Thomas The Tank characters and loves to see a train go by.

When she was about 1 1/2 years old we were standing outside our house & she started saying, "Train, train, train!" My wife & I both looked at each other & told her, "No, there's no train (we live a good 5-7 miles away from the nearest train track)"...but she insisted that there was a train.

Well, the little kid was right. When we listened REALLY close, we could hear the faint sound of a train whistle. She'd heard it & knew it was a train (smart kid!--that's my girl!)

Anyway, I got to walk around a huge exposition center looking a model train's w/ my daughter in sheer joy. It was fun!

The rest of the day was spent wrestling w/ our 6 month old son to get him to take a nap. Seems he must've had heartburn or something, cause the kid DID NOT want to sleep much today (or last night, or the night before, and on and on....)

Anyway, so this post is probably kind of dull, I know, but, well, if you've had kids you know EXACTLY what I'm talking about. Kids=Lack of sleep, lot's of trips to the Dr. & pharmacy, & a mess of the house in 3 minutes flat!

But, they're worth it & they're a lot of fun.

Back to biodiesel.....I got a shipment of stuff in from my shirt/hat/decal vendor today (wahoo!!!)

He's clearing out the rest of his stock on biodiesel shirts so I'm throwin' a sale to clear out mine too. He sent me pretty much most of what he had left & I'll be selling it off for a good price to anyone that's interested in braggin' via a T-Shirt to the rest of the world about biodiesel.

You can see the shirts here:
http://www.utahbiodieselsupply.com/biodieselapparel.php

Anyway, lot's of fun things....

Other than the stuff above, that's about how the day goes....

-Graydon