The Brinzio Band

It's 2 pics of the band! With all our instruments hehe.

New Trumpet!

Yup... I bought a trumpet. It was on offer and I couldn't resist. It's actually harder than I thought to play. I started out doing a classic scale C D E F G A and today I managed to play "Oh when the saints". I know it might seem easy on any other instrument but it was quite a challenge on the trumpet hehe. Here's a photo of the instrument.

Jam Session

I have always loved music and recently I started playing my guitar again after having left it sitting there for a year. A friend of mine brought his drum set to my house and we created a small "recording studio" so to say downstairs in my garage. I play rythm guitar, Andrea aka Zio plays the solo guitar, Carlo plays the drums and Eros sings. We might play in town at a concert just for fun but Eros will not be able to be there so we're missing a singer. Today we played a few songs including Guns n Roses, ACDC, Jimi Hendrix, White Stripes, etc. I envy Andrea because he plays really well... I'm pretty jealous! tomorrow Andrea goes back home to Milan but he'll come back next weekend so we can play some more together. Here are the photos of us playing and the improvised music room!

Painted Alloy Wheels =O

Okay so yesterday I bought the right spray paint cans. 1 can used as a base for metals. The second can was the silver colour that goes on alloy wheels. I must say it came out very nice. As you can see I also painted the center silver. As soon as it dries though I will colour in the red arrow as it was originally. You can see how it was originally a few posts down in the photo. After the red paint they will be ready to be used :)

Clean Alloy Wheels

Coming back from the rafting trip I told my friend about the alloy wheel job i'm trying to do. He told me that they can be cleaned by "sanding" them and repainting them. But more importantly he said he had a "sander". It consists of a 160 bar hydro compressor cleaner or whatever the english name for that is, with a special nozzle that sucks in a special kind of sand. The sand is sprayed with water onto the wheel or whatever you want to sand and it scrapes off the dirt and paint. So now the alloy wheels are sparkling new and all they need is a new paint job. Gonna go today to check out paint and prices. In the meanwhile here is the "sanded" wheel! Click on it for a bigger pic.

Rafting in Valsesia

Yesterday I receive a call from a friend asking me if I wanted to go rafting. I told him I had no experience (although i have rowed in the past years) but he said it was his first time too (he's a rower as well). So me and five other friends drive to Valsesia, exactly to Alagna. You can find it on the map I posted. They gave us a half hour talk on how to understand the commands given by the "guide" (the boat was composed by 6 of us and a profiessional guide), and basic knowledge of how to ride a raft. They then drove us at the start of the river Sesia and we started our 1hour and a half ride down ripples and waves. We started a bit further south from Alagno and finisheda bit before Mollia (you can see it on the map). I must say it was a great and fun experience and we also stopped in certain places to dive off a 6 meter cliff into the water and also further on to swim with the current for a while. We paid 30 euros each and unfortunately I have no photos of the event as they wanted 8 euros each for a cd with the photos they had made...that would add up to 48 euros and they were not worth that amount of money so nobody wanted them in the end. I will however post a link to this beautiful place if you would like to try it out yourself. Here it is: Valsesia Rafting. It's a great experience even if you have never rafted before like me. All you need is a little courage! By the way it's not us in the photo :( but it is taken at the Sesia River.

WORLD CUP CHAMPIONS

I won't even say anything on this post...no need.

New Wheels

As I said in a previouis post I recently cleaned up all the dirty alcoves in my garage and I found my childhood bike. What I didn't say is that I also found my father's old "centoventotto" 128 car's alloy wheels. He said he wanted to throw them away but I soon stopped him and told him I would take care of it. I cleaned them today, and i'm planning to put them onto my Fiat Punto as soon as I need a tyre change. One wheel is very dirty unfortunately and i'm going to try and find a solvent to clean it. The alloy wheels are "1000 Miglia" and you can see the symbol in the middle. The red paint has scraped off but i'm planning to repaint the middle in order to make it look a bit better. Hopefully I will be able to use these wheels once more as I think they would look great on my Punto. I'm going to post photos of an old Fiat 128 and also a photo of one of the alloy wheels. As for the second semifinal goes... Well what can I say. A very bad match yesterday between Portugal and France. It didn't even seem the two teams wanted to go to the finals. Boring... If France plays as bad as yesterday and Italy plays as good as it has in the last few matches we can certainly win the final! Fingers Crossed

Vola Italia Vola

After being taunted with whistles all through the match, with the Germans not giving the ball back when one of our players was on the floor, we still managed to win this suffered match. Throughout the game we played very well and missed 3 goals. First missed goal by Perrotta who didn't pass it to Toni. Then two posts. The match finishes 0-0 so the extra time kicks off. Italy seemed to have found hidden energies and since the start of extra time Germany got very scared. Second half of extra-time made it happen. 2 goals, the first by Grosso (who would've thought, even he couldn't believe what he had done), and second goal by Alex Del Piero. Truly amazing display of football. Finals here we come!!!!!
Yesterday I went to Milan as I had to attend a funeral of a friend's grandma.(Condoglianze Diego.Su di morale mi raccomando). I then had lunch with my father, and then whilst walking back to catch the train I stopped at the "American Bookstore" and I bought Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. As I loved the Da Vinci Code a friend told me that he liked this one even more so I decided to buy it. I have read the first 10 or 15 chapters and I can't seem to put it down. After I finish this book I think I'm going to start the Dragonlance series.
FORZA AZZURRI!!!!!!!

Geek Conversation over MSN

I mean we only realised this at the end but we were actually comparing 2 rpgs saying how ogod they both were. 100% geeks.Here it is, well unfortunately we spoke italian so most of you won't understand. I can translate if u like lol.

15:12:56 sandor: beh io da una 8mb adesso sono su una 640 vedi te :(
15:13:22 riccardo: beh fai poco lo schizzinoso
15:13:30 riccardo: che 640 è 1000 volte meglio di u 56k
15:13:36 sandor: hehe beh si
15:14:37 sandor: sei gia in italia suppongo?
15:15:02 riccardo: si da un pezzo ormai
15:15:23 sandor: hehe io non vedevo lora di arrivare in italia per il caldo hehe
15:15:33 sandor: e per fare il bagno etcl
15:17:35 riccardobolzan.com: io invece nn vedo l'ora di tornare a giocare a WoW
15:17:44 sandor: lol
15:17:56 sandor: non puoi giocare a wow su 56k?
15:18:09 riccardo: figurati
15:18:12 riccardo: e le patch chi le scarica?
15:18:19 sandor: vai in un internet cafe
15:18:51 riccardo: nono
15:18:57 riccardo: poi sai quanto spendo?
15:20:30 sandor: ma va
15:21:28 sandor: non hai qualcuno con l'adsl dove puoi scaricare le patch
15:21:40 riccardo: ma figurati se scomodo qualcuno
15:21:48 riccardo: riesco ad aspettare un mesetto
15:21:51 riccardo: o due
15:22:06 sandor: beh si tanto wow e un gioco di merda
15:22:11 sandor: hhe
15:22:22 riccardo: ...
15:22:25 riccardo: zitto
15:22:26 riccardo: nn acpisci niente
15:23:11 sandor: cioe un gioco dove vai in giro muori, poi dopo reappear senza avere perso niente mi sembra un po na cazzata "perso nell senso skills etc.."
15:23:24 sandor: no feeling of loosing something whatsoever
15:23:44 sandor: pero va beh sono gusti
15:23:50 riccardo: seeee
15:24:11 riccardo: tu credi sarebbe diventato un gioco giocato da miliardi di eprsone se ogni volta che muori perdi exp?
15:24:15 riccardo: come in diablo?
15:24:19 riccardo: io avrei smesso da un pezzo
15:24:54 sandor: appunto se combati non ti viene adrenaline perche rischi di perdere qualcosa su qui ci hai lavorato
15:25:00 sandor: quello che a me non piace in wow
15:25:10 sandor: per il resto e fatto molto bene
15:25:41 riccardo: adrenalina ti viene quando si è 40 vs 40 Ally vs Horde tutti lvl 60
15:25:50 riccardo: oppure i raid nelle città nemiche
15:26:03 riccardo: o raid lvl 60 con 40 persone in un dungeon
15:26:15 sandor: si pero se muori
15:26:23 sandor: non perdi lvl etc..
15:27:01 sandor: pero va beh io cio giocato 20min da un amico
15:27:25 sandor: quindi non posso guidicarlo propio bene, come prima impressione non mi piace :D
15:27:43 riccardo: ma se ci metti 13 ore per un level up
15:27:51 riccardo: spaccherei il gioco se a ogni morte perdessi un lvl
15:27:56 sandor: lol
15:27:59 riccardo: vabbè capisco
15:28:04 sandor: esempio
15:28:12 sandor: in eve-online il rpg che giocavo
15:28:26 sandor: tu sei in una nave che ci hai lavorato per averla "soldi"
15:28:41 sandor: se la nave si distruge entri in una capsule dove ce il tuo corp
15:28:56 sandor: in eve per usare qualsiasi cosa hai bisogno skills
15:29:10 riccardo: sono giochi differenti
15:29:14 sandor: il skilling di un livello continua anche quando non sei nell gioco
15:29:28 sandor: per esempio un livello da 4 all 5 ci puo mettere anche 40giorni
15:29:30 riccardo: mah
15:29:35 riccardo: questa idea nn mi piace
15:29:41 riccardo: avanzi anche se nn sei online?
15:30:10 sandor: hai clone che tengono diversi mill di skills, se per esempio il tuo clone non copre i 16m skills che hai ma solo 14m ne perdi due, e perdi di tempo di skilling
15:30:13 sandor: si
15:30:50 riccardo: vabbè nn ho capito una mazza ma sono due giochi completamente diversi
15:30:54 sandor: piu nell tuo corpo hai tipo implants che ti aiutano a skilling piu veloce etc...quelli costano soldi etc.. quindi li perdi se la tua capsule viene uccisa
15:30:59 sandor: lol
15:31:01 riccardo: a me piace WoW per la sua immensità e per il teamplay
15:31:06 sandor: beh si...un po molto diversi
15:31:21 sandor: beh anche in eve ce molto teamplay
15:31:33 sandor: ci sono battles tipo 200 vs 200
15:31:55 sandor: ci metti magari 1 ora prima che qualcuno retreat or dies hehe
15:31:59 riccardo.com: ma nel senso un dungeon in WoW nn puoi farlo se nn hai almeno uno di ogni classe
15:32:22 sandor: ah
15:32:37 sandor: bho... never rly got into wow
15:32:54 riccardo: tipo druidi sono curatori
15:33:12 riccardo: i warriors devono prendere le botte dai monsters e nn farli attaccare i curatori
15:33:19 riccardo: i curatori curano i warriors
15:3:25 riccardo: i rogues attirano i mostri uno per volta
15:3:57 riccardo: i mages devono attaccare da lontano e hanno abilità necessarie cometrasformare in sheep un mostro cosi ne attaccano di meno
15:34:03 riccardo: etc etc
15:34:05 riccardo: ognuno ha il suo ruolo
15:34:10 sandor: hehe sembra molto pako
15:34:21 sandor: pero suppongo quando le cose le sai e piacevole hehe
15:34:24 riccardo: ti ci abitui ma è molto divertente
15:34:36 sandor: :d
15:34:49 sandor: si come eve suppongo se lo conosceresti di piacerebbe
15:35:14 riccardo: chiaro
15:35:21 riccardo: sono di sicuro due bellissimi giochi entramb
15:35:40 sandor: my god....what a geeky conversation
15:35:44 sandor: comparing two rpg's
15:35:45 sandor: lol

Ze French Won

Okay so the french won against an apathic Brasil. I have never seen such bad display of teamwork as yesterday. This demonstrates that Brasil is just a group of superstars that are not able to play together. At least I guess it's that. Ronaldinho was tackled as soon as he got the ball because nobody freed up for him to pass the ball. Everyone just stood still... Ronaldo....Well he just stands there and pats his big belly. Not the way to play Brasilian Football. France on the other hand played a great match. Zizou is just an amazing player even at the age of 34, pity he's leaving football next year. Rivery is another great player. Anyway enough about football.
Yesterday I finished painting 12 panels soooo there are24 left hehe. Well at least until i have to give a second hand of colour....Ah well I might just relax today and paint a few panels in the evening when it's cooler. Here in Italy it's boiling hot and there's also a drought as it hasn't rained in months. We can't even water the garden otherwise if they see they could give us a fine.
I was checking out blogs at random and I found this disgrace to humanity...Jessie-Ray@FMS... I mean what the hell is wrong wis these guys.... Ah well...Americans...

Here we come Germany!!!!!

Yesterday Italy won against the Ucraine 3-0. This sends us to the semifinals of the world cup against Germany. This is the first decent match Italy deserved to win. Zambrotta, Toni and Buffon are in my opinion 3 of the best players in our team and hopefully we will thrash germany next round. Finally it seems that they put themseleves into gear and are ready to play some real football for once. I also join the Italian team and the whole of Italy in giving all the best to Gianluca Pessotto, great football player who did not deserve what happened to him. He recently attempted suicide and has now been unconcious and in hospital for three days now. Nobody understands why he could've attempted suicide as it also happened the day he got a new job at Juventus as team manager or something like that. I just hope he lives through this because he has 2 kids and a beautiful wife to go back to.
Enough about Sports and sadness. I gotta go paint now :|