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Irregular time on regular Sunday 2007-09-16 15:48:00 Hello.Today was a wonderful day. I decided to get myself a new higher class stunt kite...and that's how my day started. I got HQ Salsa (1,80x0.9m). It's more difficult to pot together than the old one, but it packs up into a small bag and is much much much more precise. The wind was too strong so i broke one of its leading edge bottom tubes...nevermind :)I met lots of guys from the club, we tried eachothers kites, had discussions on the kite subject and enjoyed every single take off, every single turn, and every single crash.Here are some pics of Arturas (Senukas) kite that he brought from Thailand and him, trying to make it fly :)And here's my new Salsa kite:Kite stuff I've got so far (kites, bags, lines, handles...): Read more:Irregular
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Lymphoma day commemoration. Flying lanterns. 2007-09-14 15:12:00 Hi.15th of September is international lymphoma commemoration day. Here are some pics and a video from the Vilnius oldtown for you to get the idea of how we spent the time on the threshold. Read more:Flying
Death of summer 2007-09-14 11:22:00 Hello.Sorry for not writing for so long...I was too busy. Now about the last days of summer...The last weekend of the summer was simply awesome. Me, my sister and several of my friends went to the Be2Gether festival. The main idea was to promote democracy in Belarus, so the festival took place 300 meters away from the board of Lithuania and Belarus.The festival itself wasn't bad at all except for the lack of showers, toilets, thashcans and so on. We were a little late (because of standing in a line) to see all performance of Datarock, but at least we made it on "Fa fa fa" song. The band was great and that was the main reason we went there.We saw Morcheeba, Blodhound Gang, The Therapy?, Andrus Mamontovas, Pieno Lazeriai (Milky Lasers), G&G Sindikatas, Radioshow, Metal on Metal, DJ Alex Gopher and several more performers. I didn't have such a party in a loooong time. Mr.Gopher made me feel like I'm 17 again :)And now about something completely different :) I got myself a new kite. It
A couple of news in my digital life 2007-09-28 14:43:00 Hi, readers of my life :)Well, something new happened in my life again. And it has something to do with you knowing me better and imagining main reasons of my posts here. I started using Picasa. A tool by google which lets me categorize, sort, describe, edit etc. my pictures. Even more. I can upload full albums to web and make them public for everyone to see. The address is http://picasaweb.google.com/magnetas. Check it out regularly to see newest pics and album updates.And after putting some new software into my computer today I put some new hardware!!! :) From now on my oldie has 1280MB of RAM and I can feel that every moment I'm using it (even now, writing this post).Well...that's it for today. I was hoping to get some emotions from kites, to make some pictures, meet the guys from the club, but wind forecasts were wrong. I'm looking forward to do all that tomorrow.Take care Read more:couple
Countdown till take-off: 5,4,3... 2007-10-17 14:05:00 The day has come. After spending 200Lt. for my new power kite lines I decided to use old ones for replacing the broken pieces. It all went fine and took about 2 hours. So i have knots for lines to attach, the other side of each of them is attached to 5 more lines. And all of those together are connecting 136 more lines. So to sum it all its like...150 pieces of very thin and strong rope :)I didn't have an opportunity to try it out so it's hard to say if everything's fine now, but I hope it is. :) I also hope I'll know this answer after the weekend. So...a couple of days left to wait.The repairing wasn't too difficult, all i needed was lots of line, scissors and some precision. I'm adding several pics of my new lines and from the repairing process so you could have an idea of what the hell am I talking about :)Stay positive :DP.S. Paul Kalkbrenner was the right artist to listen to while working :) Read more:Countdown
Dust in the wind... 2007-10-16 12:36:00 Hey,Last weekend i finally got to understand why people call those things power or traction kites. The wind was as strong as 10 m/s so it was even a little bit too strong for my kite. But me and my friend Giedrius packed up and went up to the hill near Trakai town. I could feel the strength of the wind even without a kite.Giedrius helped me out unpacking ant preparing my huge bird and here came the first attempt. The lines broke down...and the next time...and the one after that.Then I remembered I have one more set of lines in my backpack. So I replaced them and tried once more. And this time was completely different. The kite simply picked and carried me up the hill 3 or 4 meters.Then me and Giedrius had several jumps, several falls and finally, when my cousins arrived, the other lines broke down.So now I know what the power kite feels like, but can't use my own yet.Waiting for enough patience to repair it... :)
"I got a snowboard under my feet" 2007-11-22 15:01:00 Yeah, this Guano Apes song keeps looping in my head for several days now. And why is that? Maybe because I`m close to having all the equipment I need for snowboarding!!! :)I have a Gravity Lost 166 wide freeride snowboard, Factory FA22 bindings with aluminium frame, SPL leather boots and finally a set of snowboarding pants and jacket from Lithuanian sportswear manufacturer "Audimas". I'm wondering if everything`s gonna fit in my new car (but let`s keep the "car" topic for the next post)...Now I`m impatiently waiting for more snow to come and, of course, for the trip to Czech Republic next year.I`m expecting to get goggles, gloves and some arm protection till then.So what were the costs...Pants - 189,99Lt.Jacket - 289,99Lt.Snowboard - 780Lt.Bindings > 300 Lt.Boots > 400 Lt.After getting a discount for buying the board, the binding and the boots together I payed 1320 Lt.And it all comes to...1800 Lt.I also got "Go Snow board" book with DVD by Neil McNab as a birthday present from my cou
One more christmas without snow? 2007-12-17 15:34:00 People probably notice me being nervous and impatient because here, in Lithuania, we don`t still have any snow!!! Half of December has passed and that`s 1/6th of all winter months. And my snowboard is still lying on the cupboard, it wasn`t tried at least for once and it didn`t see any snow so far :)Anyways...we already started celebrating Christmas. Last weekend some of our kite club members met near Trakai town, let their kites in the air for a while and then left for some warmer place with lot`s of chats, games, dances(?), drinks and food ;) Can`t say much about the party, because It wasn`t meant for me to remember it all, but as much as I do remember it was great. It was another opportunity to make sure that people in our 108 club are warm, full of ideas and interesting.You can find some of the moments at http://picasaweb.google.com/magnetas/108KalDos2007This week we have to work for 6 straight days, but we`re having office Christmas party at the end of the week and then couple of e
FC Kahuna - Hayling 2008-03-03 15:44:00 Hey. Do you know that feeling when you hear a song that doesn't it you go for a long time? That's what happened to me last week listening to the "Groove Salad" Internet radio station on somafm.com. The song was so pleasant to the ear that I simply couldn't keep working like nothing happened. I found the video of this masterpiece that I want to share with you. And now, after the weekend, I have two albums from this miraculous duo. Enjoy Don't think about all those things you fear.Just be glad to be here.
New experiences and disappointments. Poland, Špindlerův Mlýn and Prague 2008-02-11 14:37:00 Hey. I finally made myself to write something to my blog. It's been happening so much and that`s why it`s especially difficult to begin with something. So...about THE trip. We left Vilnius at around 6:30 AM. My fellow-traveller Giedrius was examining Auto-route software while I was driving my BMW :) It didn`t take long to reach Kaunas and soon we were at the border of Poland
. After having a coffee and a sandwich in the last Lithuanian Statoil gas station we finally drove into the territory of Poland for the first time since we`re in Shengen area. We drove many kilometers through Suwalki, Augustaw, Bialystok, Warsaw, Wroclaw etc. and finally we reached the border of Czech Republic. That meant we`re almost there. Here started the mountain roads. I`ve never driven under such conditions befo Read more:experiences
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Packing up for Špindlerův Mlýn 2008-01-25 13:38:00 Hey for the last time before the trip. I understand it`s nothing big but for me it is huge. It`s my first trip to Czech Republic, my first trip to the mountains, the longest trip by car so far etc. We`re leaving in eight and a half hours and the stuff isn`t completely packed yet. But before that I decided to put some pics of the newest inventory parts and the route we're going to take :) Powerslide butt protection; Salice goggles with antifog double lenses; Pro tec wrist guard; Rossignol hat; Route from Vilnius to Špindlerův Mlýn;
A student...for the 3rd time 2008-01-22 16:26:00 Hey! You know what? I`m a student again!!! :) Regular people can`t even imagine what it feels like, but I do now. I couldn`t say its the best feeling. I couldn`t even say it`s a positive feeling. But..."Once you pop you can`t stop" :) Moreover on that comming soon. Last Sunday I got myself a mini remote controlled helicopter, but it broke down the first day. And I was really surprised when I could return it without any troubles at all. I got all my money back and I didn`t even have to wait in a line for too long or to do many explanations. Thank you, MAXIMA. The toy was quite fun, but I came to a conclusion: you have to pay more than 100 Lt. for a remote controlled flying toy... Me and my roommate Giedrius are planing our snowboarding trip to the Spindleruv Mlyn. Today I too
New year, new hopes, new environment 2008-01-15 13:24:00 Hey, everyone!!!Happy new year. I wish you all could say that was the best year of your life so far at the end of 2008. That`s what I said to myself after last year. Especially when during the last days enough snow fell out to start snowboarding!!!It was like a miracle to wake up one morning and find lots of snow outside. And also a sign to get snowboarding gloves and a case for the board. Me, my girl and a friend were expecting to go to Eglukalns (www.sventesegles.lv) in Latvia for a ride, but they weren`t opened yet. So we decided to go check a skiing hill in Anyksciai. It wasn`t bad at all except for the number of people.Then my dad got a donor kidney so he went to the hospital in Kaunas as soon as possible. I didn`t want my mom to celebrate new year alone so I went to visit her again w Read more:new environment
Swimming cars without drivers 2008-03-18 17:06:00 Hey. Today after work me and my sister decided to go try her new HQ Bolero kite out. It wasn't windy enough and the surface was pretty wet, so we unpacked my old Salsa kite instead and tried keeping it in air for a while. It felt pretty good to control it after such a long period but that wasn't the conclusion of the day. Just after packing the kite up and taking first steps towards the car we heard a strange metallic crash and once I looked into that side I saw a Peugeot car falling down into Neris river. As we sorted out later, the car started to drive by itself, without human intervention, it broke a bench down and then, after going down the slope it fell into water. When we ran to the coast the car was floating in a stream. Then the front started to sink slowly, the headlights turne Read more:Swimming
Easter party...for dogs 2008-03-26 16:37:00 Hi. Happy Easter
, everyone. Mine was pretty ordinary...lots of meals with my family and my godparents, long discussions on many different subjects, lazy TV channel switching etc. And since we had more than one day-off me, my GF and her dog visited my godparents the next day again. It seems Tina and Tipas (my GF's and my godparents's dogs) had best time there :) Here are several pics of them having fun, dancing, barking, kissing, running, jumping, falling and fooling around. And the bathing process after all :)
Beaverdog 2008-03-31 14:42:00 Hey. Last Sunday we went out to Trakai town to see our coworker racing with his Opel Astra GSI car. The weather was simply great so lots of people came, some of them brought dogs, chairs, flags, meals, firewood and everything else that doesn't have anything to do with racing :) Andrius (the driver) was pretty damn good and really made us be proud of him. You can see his third attempt, taken by Mantas, here: Lots of pics from this event shall be available soon at Drawgas blog (he just got a brand new photo camera so we didn't have to remind anyone to shoot some frames) :) And between the interesting parts of the race me and my girl decided to walk a dog in the near-by forest. It was fun to do until little doggie found her new little wooden toy. Here's what it looked like:
Here starts the history 2008-04-27 14:52:00 Hi. How've you all been? Ain't it feeling great to live through the spring once more? :) It sure is sad that I'm gonna have till next winter to have aride on my snowboard again, but this way the weather feels much better and we get many opportunities to do other things. For instance, couple weeks ago we at work we decided to have a karting race. Just us, coworkers. It was fun to do, the track was a little wet so the kartings kept sliding on the corners and stuff like that :) They kept track of all the laps we made and then gave us printed reports. It seems that I made second best time in there :) But this isn't the biggest event of last weeks. Since the weather is getting better and better and the days are getting longer there's a need to spend more time outside. I started usi
Making history...and other things 2008-06-17 16:17:00 Hey, It's been a while since my last post, but today there's a special reason to brake that pause once and for all :) Did you hear that Mozilla Firefox 3 browser was released and they're trying to make a world record of most downloads in 24 hours. If you read this before 17:00 UTC June 18 you can still be one of those record breakers. Just like me :) Didn't notice many improvements so far, but t Read more:things
Three wonderful ways to spend your money... 2008-06-20 12:35:00 Hey there. I mentioned I started using eBay in my last post. Well...finally the stuff I ordered started coming. And I got my Tomtom One 3rd Edition Global Positioning System. The device, as they say, is "affordable navigation". That means it has limited functionality, internal memory and battery lifetime, but it still is a lovely little unit. I backed up all the original data first Read more:Three
Short nights in the forest and wonderful days in Poland 2008-07-14 05:24:00 Hey hey hey! Didn't hear from me in a while, huh? Well I was busy with my "do-all-that-you-want" time :) Well a couple of weeks ago me, my girl and several friends went out to the forest between Moletai and Utena to spend some quality time in the nature and celebrate the shortest night of the year. It all went fine even if the weather wasn't and we didn't have enough room to try my new Aerobie p Read more:Short
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