Lets go to the beach!!!!!!!!!!

Here is a picture to help warm up your soul before the snow storm hits. This was taken at Daytona Beach in 2006. This may be the last ass stamp you get to see at any beach for a few days.

I think I may head out tomorrow for a nice walk in the storm and bring my camera along with me. I may be able to get some nice winter shots are the hood.

If I have power I will finish up my Monsanto story and post that this weekend. There will be no driving if the weather is as bad as they predict.

Peace my friends. Enjoy your weekend. I know I will.

We are going to get hammered

I need to go to the store today and get new windshield wiper blades and an ice scraper. If the weather dudes are correct we are going to get hammered with snow. They are saying we are going to get 6 - 12 inches of snow starting late Friday and going through the day Saturday.
I may stop at Home Depot and get some concrete blocks or something heavy to put in the bed of the truck. The truck has no weight in the rear and some weight in the bed will help with traction.

I may end up taking a nice walk Saturday in the snow and get some pictures of the snow. If the predictions come true I will not be out driving this weekend at all. Should be interesting to say the least. Hopefully it holds off till work is done. I can imagine driving around here will not be good if this starts early.

This picture is from a car show in Georgia in 2006. I came across this car show in some little town while driving through the mountains south of the western part of Georgia.

Do you want to buy a Toyota?

Times Marches On Tracey Lawrence

Tammy said yesterday that time flies. Well this song is another version of that saying. Things keep moving forward even when the world seems to be going backwards much of the time.

The State of the Union speech is tonite. It will be interesting to see where Obama heads during this speech. Is he going to make so amends and try to make peace with the public or will it cause more divide. Interesting thing is many polls are actually not blaming him but blaming the Congress and Senate. Kind of amazing really.

ALL the people I work with are hard core Republicans. I love to spare with them. Once again the outsider at work in many ways. :)

Yes this song is a repeat post.

Good morning

I saw something on the news this morning about the Sawtooth School for Visual Arts in Winston Salem. They offer all types of art classes and many are one day classes. Some of them sound pretty cool. I am going to look into taking a one day class in something. I saw a class next month for making pottery bowls. You get to make three bowls in the class. You keep two of them and the third one will be used in a fundraising event in April. It sounds like a pretty neat event. Since I like pottery this may be a neat way to get introduced to it.

Looks likes another employee of Law Enforcement Supply will be leaving and coming to work at Dana Safety Supply. This will be big and really put a hurt on my old employers. Between the two of us we can get a nice hold on Florida. It will help the sales team we have there become really focused.

I have to get a new auto insurance company. Esurance does not write insurance in NC. I also am looking at a new bank or maybe a credit union. My current bank has just one branch in Greensboro and it is not open Saturday. This is a problem. Finding a decent bank or insurance company is a pain since so many of them suck.

And yes that is a woman.

Post 2 Black Lips Bad Kids

This is a pretty cool song. Check out the lyrics.

Review

So this weekend was close to being a washout. On Saturday I drove up to Mt. Airy on some backroads and got a couple shots and saw some things I will shoot in the future. It was sunny when I left however it got cloudy as I went north. Not the best for shooting. I also ended up with a massive sinus headache. I ended up leaving early and bought some aspirin on the way home to deal with the headache. I wanted to go to Mount Pilot State Park but was in no shape to do that.

Yesterday was just a crappy weather day. During the day it just misted lightly all day before the heavy rain came last night. I did manage to get out to my bank and make a deposit and drive through downtown and check out the "happening area" of Greensboro. Saw plenty to shoot there so I know where I will head some Saturday or Sunday morning soon and shoot downtown Greensboro.

Ken over at the "Loose Laces" blog mentioned a new style of camera that is a mix between a compact and dslr camera. They look perfect for what I like to do. I am going to start a little savings fund and get myself one of these. I always thought the standard dslr was to big and bulky to carry for the sake of convenience. This looks perfect from what I can tell. The models that have been released have received excellent reviews. It will be nice to have a small camera with the ability to change lenses. Woo Hoo...

March 16th is the date of the time change. It can't get here soon enough for me.

Happy Monday.

Picture was taken at an old abandoned property in Crescent City, California. The building had been many things over the years. It was a restaurant in its last life. This guy was practicing casting his fly rod.

Vanishing Point

So this is one of my favorite pictures I have taken. This was taken while I was driving to Crater Lake. While driving along I came along this area with all these pines and it looked so cool. This was taken through the windshield while zipping through the forest.

Thankfully it is Friday. I need to get out and shoot some pictures. Looks like tomorrow is going to be the only decent day this weekend. Might go to Mount Airy, NC and then explore from there. See if I can find some good streams and waterfalls in the area. Hopefully mother nature will give me some sun. Maybe I'll head downtown and see what is going on there this weekend.

Time to get out weather permitting. Need pictures..............

John Edwards please just go away.

Should be good playoff football this weekend. Go old man Favre.

Writers Block

Not sure what to write about today.

This picture was taken a Crater Lake on July 5th, 2006. There was still a fair amount of snow on the ground as we drove up to the lake. Paul and I went to go hiking but we did not make it far. The mosquitoes were so insanely thick and brutal if was not enjoyable to be walking on the trail.

The area around Crater Lake is quite lovely and is well worth a visit if you ever get the chance.

I see where local leaders here in Guilford County are talking about letting school resource officer carry stun guns. Come on now is that what we are coming to as a country. It seems like that is a bit much.

Ok, that is it for now.

Facebook and old connections

So I have been on Facebook for over a year now and for the most part it has been pretty fun.

I do not play the games and all that, however I have reconnected with people I have not seen or heard from in years.

Yesterday when I got home I had an email from Facebook. It was from the girl in this picture.

Michelle and I were great friends in high school. We worked together at Finast, a grocery store, and we went out on a few dates. We were great friends. However once I went to college we slowly lost contact. As time went on Michelle got married and the only connection we had after that was when she shopped at the A&P where my dad worked. She would always tell my dad to say hello.

This is not my picture. This is one that was taken when she was going to do some modeling.

In my mind she was the one who got away. I don't think she thinks that or anything. However it is interesting when you look back at your high school years and are able to analyze things from an adult point of view. She was sweet and I was a concert wearing, flannel shirt wearing, jeans and work boot wearing stoner. It is one of the things you always wonder what would have happened "if".

Anyhow it was cool that we were able to reconnect through Facebook.

Obervations

Why do so many people drive around their hometown using their GPS?

I am going to paint one wall in the living room. I need some suggestions. I am think of a yellow or some type of light green. Maybe a hot pink so everything will stand out.

My gut is getting big again. Time to start eating more salads for lunch. Since there is no break room at work, I do not want to eat lunch at my desk, I either need to bring lunch and eat in the truck or find a place near work that had good salads.

One thing I have noticed here that is different than Tampa is the traffic. There is plenty here however the speed of traffic is much slower and the red lights are much longer.

The Uconn women's basketball team won its 57th straight game last night. They are so superior to any other team it is amazing. You would think that other schools would step up their recruiting program to attempt to match Uconn.

If the republicans win the Senate runoff today in Mass. it will be a big indication of how much trouble Obama really is. This is one to keep an eye on.

I found out that one of the other companies that is trying to control the seed market has a big facility in Greensboro. They are called Syngenta. I will have to check them out and see how evil they are.

Have a peaceful day my friends.