Busted

Today I found out the my 16 year old nephew was hanging around a bunch of kids at school yesterday and somebody thought they were dealing drugs. They got hauled into the office and searched, nothing was found. However they called all the parents. When he got home with his father, his father tore the room apart and found some weed. Oops, not good. He does very well in school. He is a junior and has made the deans list every semester but one and he wants to be an engineer. I am not one to preach so much, and he knows I smoked in high school. It is not a family secret. However I told him that things are not the same as when I was in school and if he gets busted things will be much different for him. Being 16 he of course has no clue about this and I explained this too him. Hopefully he understand and is not giving me lip service. However being 16 I am sure he does not really want to listen to any adult.

Things

This past weekend while I over on the east coast I got to see the latest rocket launch from NASA. They launched a Delta rocket late Friday. There was not a cloud in the sky so you could see it quite well. It is very cool. If you ever get the chance to see one lift off I urge you to go. This one you could see it several hundred miles down range because to weather was so nice.

On Sunday my father and I went to a flea market on there was a guy in drag walking around. He was getting pissed because people were laughing at him. Well he did actually look quite odd as he looked like and like a big old guy with scraggly hair wearing a women's outfit. No attempt to hide the fact he was a guy by any means. He just looked strange.

Melbourne

Off to the east coast this weekend to visit my parents who are down from Ct. on vacation.
It should be a good time as I only see them once or twice a year. The weather will be great so we should be out and about having fun.

My cold has about run its course finally. There are a lot of people with colds, sinus problems right now. Pollen count is very high.

Its a good thing the stock market keeps falling so my IRA continues to fall like a stone. I always planned on working until I was 80 or so. They better get that shit fixed. Many more people have been affected by that crap than anything else and nobody really says anything about it. Nice job guys.

Pollen, Snot and Aches

Wow, the pollen is kicking my ass. I have been down for the count for the last three days. Can't breathe one minute, runny nose the next. Headache and body ache all day long. I even went out to my truck at lunch today and slept the whole hour. I did feel a little better after that but not much. I would have called in sick if I did not have to use vacation time for work missed. I will not call in sick unless I am at deaths door. I wish we would get some damm rain and wash the pollen away I can not take much more of feeling like crap.

Arson and Cigarettes

Red lights flashing, betraying the dark of night.
Lucky Strikes laid upon the ground, things to come.
Eyes in the alley, searching, seeking, knowing.

Air full of nicotine, flesh, pain.
Retribution smiled, things to come.
Footsteps near, evil arrived.

For I am the the one of Arson and Cigarettes, I have no fear.
You have taught me well, I have no fear.
I bring you death, pain and tears.

For I am the one of Arson and Cigarettes, I am your fear.

Bluefield West Virginia, Flickr, Photo Thieves

So a few years ago I bought a piece of property in Bluefield West Virginia and the following spring I went up to visit the property and roam around West Virginia. While in Bluefield I took many pictures of the town and some of the pictures I took were of the Hotel Matz and the Colonial Theater. Yesterday I received a comment on one of the pictures and they told me the Hotel Matz had collapsed and it had also destroyed the front of the Colonial Theater. A bummer because they had been left to rot for way too many years. Anyhow I decided too see if I could find any pictures of the collapse on Flickr. Although there were none at the time I did discover something else. I found that some fuckhead with the Flickr name, randygilpin, has stolen some of my pictures and pictures of one of my Flickr contacts. This douche had two pages of pictures in his stream all of Bluefield and all of them stolen. Nice work sheet stain. Both of us have contacted Flickr and your stream will be taken down. What the fuck makes you think you can do this? Now let your Mom out of your bed so she can make your breakfast asshole.

House Cleaning

Wow, the Bucs sure did some house cleaning yesterday getting rid of some major players. Derrick Brooks and Warrick Dunn were big surprises. After all that Derrick has done for this team over the years they could have treated him a little better than by just releasing him. But it is about money so I guess it is to be expected. It will be a vastly different team next year for sure.

fadingamerica.com

It is up and running in its infancy. Still need to figure out a few things but at least it is running.

Let me know what you think and give me tips. This is what I hope to be the beginning of some type of career in photography. Now I really need to go out and get some shots on a regular basis.

http://www.fadingamerica.com/

Its time

Well it is finally time to start to riding my bike every day and lose some weight. If I do not lose some weight and lower my cholesterol then I have to go on meds. I have three months to lose 20 pounds or so. I guess I will ride in the morning before I do anything else. Hopefully I can get it done. I do not have any desire to go on cholesterol medicine at all.

Once the time changes I can take the bike of the trainer and start riding after work. I would like to have most of the weight lose before the heat gets to be unbearable.

Artist of the Day---Johnny Cash

Killer version of this Soundgarden song. This opened Johnny to a whole new group of music fans.