Blog of Josh Hall

I’m like a car Once you get me to start I’ll take you near or far Just keep refueling my heart.   Cars are like birds. Achieving speeds so fast Able to make the sharpest turns but if not alert, it crashes into glass.   A bird is like a child They’ll go anywhere without [...]

When Kallie and I had our back windshield broken by some kids while she was at work, she drove it home and I started doing some research on getting it replaced.  In my online search, I found a lot of car windshield replacement services that boasted 24/7 hours.  What I learned though, is that just [...]

I’m a mile away from your bedroom door I wanted to get close, but I can’t go anymore There’s caution tape around the 1 mile radius of the crash site that claimed the life of one of us How vividly I can remember the events of that day And I thought that we both escaped [...]

I was driving in the car the other day and I heard a commercial for HD radio.  I remember hearing about these things years ago and thought for sure they’d go the way of the Betamax.  why would anyone want HD radio?  What’s wrong with normal radio?  Why are all these “extra stations” not on [...]

Kallie and I drove to Chicago on Oct 15th for the Urbanathlon on the 16th.  We were a little scared about the 7.5 hour drive since our car has been giving us so many (expensive) problems.  It lasted though, and hopefully we didn’t shave off too many days of it’s life. We stayed at the [...]

So this is a MOC (My Own Creation) that I did a year or so ago in a similar design, but never documented it. I’m a lot happier with the lower profile of this incarnation over the boxier first version I did. My initial intent was just to test my abilities with gears and the [...]