Mountain Dewd

One year ago today a bald evil man, who always hated me, fired me from my job.
Two months later I was living in the foothills of the mountains of North Carolina working for the competition.
Ha Ha Ha. Oh how fortunes have changed. While the company I work is rising to the top my ex employer is making the long slow journey to the bottom.

It has been a good year if I analyze things from where I sit today. Much happier in my new job. Work for and with people who appreciate what I bring to the table. I get to go the mountains on a regular basis, explore new areas of the United States and meet new people. I also have my photography being displayed in a gallery thanks to a dear friend from high school.

Of course I greatly miss the beach and most importantly my family and friends in Florida but in reality getting fired was a blessing. I absolutely hated my other job and was getting sick of the long hot summer and was looking for things to change.

So here I sit today in a new state, with a new job, art for sale, temp of 49 and my head in a better place.

Thank you John Noone for firing me. I won.

Robert Plant Jimmy Page No Quarter Live

This is a fanstatic dvd. Well worth buying.

Jack Booted Tea Party Thugs

This is what will happen if the asshole Tea Party gains any type of control.
Assholes in the first degree. Go the fuck away.


Bad storms in some areas around here last night. Nothing at my place, but tornados were in thr area.

Rain Rain

Have had a decent bit of rain between yesterday and last night. We need it as things have been fairly dry around here. Many leaves have been going from green to brown fairly quick, Hope this helps the color around here a little bit,

They are saying frost in some areas around here Saturday or Sunday morning. Time to prepare a couple plants for the indoor growing season.

Interesting how gas is going up right before the election. Guess the republicans needed to raise so money to pay for all the smear campaigns they are running.

Not much else going on. All basically quite.

Have a nice day.

The Beginning

Dropped off 40 matted 4 x6 prints, 5 4x 6 framed prints, 3 8 x10 pritns and one frame with 3 pictures at the Green Goat Gallery in Spencer on Saturday. Hopefully they will get put out this week, The gallery will inventory and price them this week. Would have had more but I ran out of mounting adhesive. So my project this week will be to finish them and bring them down this Saturday. At least that is the plan for now.

Ineresting how the leak from Wikileaks is not getting any real play in the media. Nice job of censorship being done by American media. There are many things in there that show why much of the world is losing respect for America and we as a nation do understand this, or maybe we just do not care.

Christmas is nine weeks away. Get shopping.

Blind Boy Chocolate and The Milk Shieks

These guys were one of the bands busking on the streets of Asheville during Belle Chere.
http://www.myspace.com/themilksheiks

Well I will be bringing pictures to the gallery tomorrow and my march to fame will now start.
After that Autumn and I are going to head down to
Charlotte to Ikea. I will get a bunch of picture frames as they usually have frames at a decent price.

I think we are going to a corn maze someplace in the area. Not sure where one is around here but I suspect there are a few in the area.

I know what an ant feels like when it is under a magnifying glass. When I come home the sun is low enough in the sky and hits a window of the building behind mine and the heat/reflection coming off it is so intense it is amazing. At its peak you can not stand in the spot where it is at its most intense.
Sorry Mr and Mrs Ant.

Full moon weekend. Are you going to howl.

Peace.  Practice good thoughts for the good of others.

Half Way

In a writing slump. My mind is like sludge and my posts have been weak lately. Must break this cycle.

Got my matting yesterday so the next few days will be spent mouting pictures do I can go to the gallery Saturday.

Follow up sinus doctor visit today. Expecting nothing to happen.

So much

So much to say and bitch about, but I'll complain about one thing.

Why is it that the media does not do its job when politicians put out ads that are complete and total fabrications about their opponents. If they lie in an ad to get elected they lie after they elected. Lying in an ad to get elected is a crime against democracy.

A while ago I bought a book called "Daily Om" by Madisyn Taylor. The book is an inspirational book with positive messages each day. It is a great book that I am trying to use to be a little less negative.

Here is a little piece from yesterday's  message.

"The universe wants to see you accomplish yours goals. No matter how long you have dallied or hesitated, it will always be there, ready to put its plan for you in motion at the first sign of your faith. Nurture your dreams but do not attempt to micromanage every detail along the way"

Good message to start your day.

Bring the Boys Home

I thought I would start the week off with this song I heard yesterday for the first time. It was written by General Johnson who passed away last week.

Good weekend, weather was perfect, leaves were good, more on that later.
I will say it seems that this coming weekend will most likley be it for much of the parkway leaf watching so get out now or you will have to wait until next year.

Roadtrip Saturday

If all goes as planned I hope to make tomorrow a nice long gas wasting roadtrip.
I think I am going to head towards Boone and do some shooting then hop on the parkway and head down towards the Linn Viaduct and capture the leaves in that area.

Depending on how it all goes I may head towards Mount Mitchell after that and see how it all goes.
Looks to be a long day of shooting, However it should be well worth it. The weather looks perfect and all signs are pointing to the Boone Asheville area being at peak colors.

Have a fantastic Friday.

Got Nothing

Really got nothing this morning. Do not feel like complaining about politics and all else seems quiet.

Congrats to the team of people who brought the miners out. That is the type of thing the world should be about.

Thunderstorms happening right now. Cooler weather to follow.

That's it. Done writing for now.

Happy Thursday.

Happy Hump Day

Tired

Had a headache last night and slept poorly. Hope today is not to busy at work.

Guess I will go to the mountains this weekend. The matting and backerboard are supposed to arrive this coming Monday. That's just a day short of two weeks from when I ordered them. All I ordered was white matting. Not sure why it is taking so long. They claimed most orders shipped within a day. Kind of messed up my plans for getting stuff in the gallery. I wanted to get stuff in there this weekend.

Hot the last few days. 85 yesterday and will be close to that today. Close to record breaking heat for this area. Then maybe a little rain the next few days.

I just heard about a movie, documentary, called "Budrus" about a town where Hamas, Fatah and Israelis work together to save a town from destruction. A true story and it seems to be very interesting. Something not covered by the mass media.

Off to shower and wake up.

Good Morning

Did you all have a good weekend? Mine was quite fine. The concert at Shakori Hills on Saturday was pretty cool. A great site for a show. Its out in the country a decent distance with some rolling hills and plenty of trees. Very nice area. Lots of great bands on four different stages. Mostly bluegrass or mellow rock music for the most part. Good size crowd with a great vibe. Lots of people of all ages. Lots of kids and they had plenty of events to keep the kids happy and busy. Very well run event and worth going to and seeing again.
Autumn had a great time. Excellent day.

Did not go to the mountains yesterday since from all reports I could find online are still saying the leaves are still mostly green.

Hopefully I will be able to bring some prints to the gallery Saturday and start making some money and get my work out there. Also gave some to Autumn to sell at a show down at Edisto this coming weekend.

What the hell is it with all the gay bashing in the news recently. Now you have that jack off who is running for governor of New York popping off. What a messed up world.

Happy a great Columbus day.

Happy Anniversary --- Sorry I forgot your Fucking Card

Yesterday marked the beginning of ten years of war in Afghanistan. What the fuck. Tens years and we have not been able to accomplish a darned thing. Think about it. Ten years. How can we not have been able to win this "war". We have been able to garner more hate for the United States. That's something the government should be proud of. Thousands dead, billions spent, more terrorists. Yup, sounds like something to be proud of as a nation. Of course most of us are totally disconnected from the war and could not care less about what is going on unless someone they know gets killed in the war.

I am sick of the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Fuck em. Let them be controlled by the Taliban and they can go back to being third world backwaters as the rest of the world progresses around them. Let the people of these countries rise up against their own governments if they want to join the rest of the world.

Have a hippy Friday.

Sleepy Time

Feel asleep at 9:30 last night. Nice long nights sleep.

They are building a volleyball court outside my apartment. Just what I asked for.

Gonna be a busy weekend. Autumn is coming tomorrow and we are going to a concert all day Saturday.
She has never been to anything like this. I will fun. Check it out. http://www.shakorihills.org/ Big time hippy type fest. The camera will be taking lots of shots. Maybe head to the mountains on Sunday.

Working on a big manufacturers day at work for mid November. Vendors and hopefully the people we sponsor for the hunting show on tv will be there also. Need to do something to kick up the sales a little more.

John Lennon's seventieth birthday is Saturday.

Peace.

The Prints

Although I would have loved to use the company Ken recommened for getting prints done there is no way I could afford to use them for now. I ended up getting my prints done with Shutterfly and the bought matting and backer board from Redi Mat. It cost me $225.00 to get that done. Down the road I will use a professional printer to get prints done. I just need to sell some prints to get some money generated.

Did you see this story about the toxic sludge that spilled from its holding lake. Killed a few folks. burned them. Just lovely.

Its only money

I wanted to print some pictures last night and ran into two problems. My black and white pictures are much darker than the photo and I also kept getting a green streak at the end of the photo. Not sure what that is all about. I really do need to step up and buy a real printer.

I was going to order prints from Shutterfly. I have 50 pictures I was going to order 5 prints of each until I saw I the cheapest I could get them was .69 each if I signed up for a yearly plan at $29. That would give me 30% off all Shutterfly prints for a year. Otherwise they are .99 each.. Guess I will cut back on the group for now. Can not afford to spend that kind of money. All that before I even get large prints mounted and framed.

Time to go. Have coffee, shower, toast and off to work.

Sleep

Well this weekend was the weekend for insomnia. Slept like total crap both Friday and Saturday night. Did not end up going to the mountains Saturday since I did not sleep that good and the fact that Ken said the leaves have not really started to change that much. Seemed pointless

The weather has changed quite a lot. In the upper 40's the last two mornings. Quite nice. The days in the low 70's.

Seems some of the pictures I took at the beach down at Autumn's have generated some interest from people she has shown them too. She asked me to print some for her to sell at an art show she is participating in on Edisto Beach. I am going to mat some and I am going to mat and frame some also.

Did you hear how the U.S. government secretly did syphilis and gonorrhea testing on citizens of Guatemalan citizens in the 1940's. What the fuck is that all about. How would anybody even deem anything like that to be acceptable? One has to wonder what other awful testing they have done to people without their knowledge.
Sick bastards.

Congratulations to the Tampa Bay Rays for winning the American league east pennant for the second time in three years over the high payroll Yankees. Lets win the World Series.

TGIF

Thankfully its Friday. This has been a pretty good though. Nothing to complain about really.

Thanks for the picture reviews. I am going with those for the most part. I have one or two I am going to change out. But those are the ones basically. Now to get the large ones mounted, matted and framed.
The small one will get matted and put in those little sleeves you see them in at art shows.

Lots of rain this week and the temps dramatically colder. Upper 40's tomorrow morning. Going to head towards the mountains tomorrow and see if the leaves have changed at all. Not sure where I am heading. Depends on how I feel in the morning. Will also look at some leaf watch websites and see what they have to say.

Goodbye Rahm Emanuel, glad to see you go.