Photography...

It has been a while since i have done a lot of photography with my Sony a200 camera. I have had a lot of things going on in my life and all of that is about over. It is time to get back to taking nice photos and going back to basics, the basic things that make me a good photographer that has a passion for it.

My phone pics have been good anf un, but now it is time to get to using my a200 again and posting and taking lots of Spring and Summer photos around the STL Metro Area. So Stay Tuned to see more coming your way!


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Self Inflicted...

I emailed an old friend around his birthday at the ending of November. This is the person that used to be my friend and that i had a very bad ending of a 18 year friendship with. A lot of stuff went down between us 2 years ago. I felt bad for my part in it so i emailed him and asked him to call me. He did about 2 weeks after the email.

He told me that he wondered if i was just messing with him or did i really mean that i wanted to talk to him as only 3 people called him for his birthday, hip parents, me and an old girlfriend. He berated me for about 30 minutes as was his nature about the occurrence and then tried to talk to me in his usual fashion. I was not at a place that i could talk as we were out shopping. Let me say he used to call at odd hours of the night all the time when we were friends. He was always an odd person but i overlooked that. He called me several other times that evening and i said finally that i could not talk as it was very obsessive to call that many times and could he call the next day.

When i got home, i did another email asking him not to call at odd hours of the day or night which i thought was not a strange request. He replied and said that we would have no more contact and it was left at that...

I started to think about this event and what had been said and exchanged between us during that several calls and i realized that i was not me but that it was him. It struck em very odd that only 3 people called him for his birthday and that one was me an ex friend.

Had no professional colleagues called, had no other friends called? He has or had other friends because i know them as well. Has he so totally fallen off the deep end that he has pushed everyone away from him? I guess that only time will tell but as far as i am concerned am finished with this event.



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Our Aniversary...

Last night we went to eat at Fleming's Steakhouse. It was a very nice restaurant that had a very loud and festive atmosphere! They boast about 100 wines by the glass at the restaurant which is an impressive list.

We started with an appetizer of Wicked Cajun Barbecue Shrimp that had a very robust and spicy taste. We then ordered our main course which was MEAT!! I have the Prime New York Strip (16oz) and Sondra had the Prime Bone-In Ribeye. Hers was well done and i ordered mine medium. We had two sides: Fleming's Potatoes and Chipotle Cheddar Macroni and Cheese. The sides were very good. I had to send my steak back as it was under cooked. They were very willing to make it correct for em and i was glad of that.

It was a very nice night and we really enjoyed each other!! If you get a chance to dine at Fleming's i think that you will not be unhappy with the food.

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The Time Change...

This mess is kicking my ass!! BIGTIME!!  Working nights lie I do and then loosing an hour has been very bad on me this week. I have been so freaking tired after I get home from work that I have been sleeping till 5 or so in the evening and I have not made it to the gym at all this week.  I did however, ride nearly 25 miles this weekend, so I hope that makes up for slacking at the gym…

 

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"Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced

equation inherent to the programming of the matrix.

You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite

my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate

from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision.

While it remains a burden assiduously avoided, it is not

unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control.

Which has led you, inexorably, here." - The Architect, The Matrix Reloaded

 

Shouldn't Life Be Easier?

Well shouldn't it be easier? It is a constant balancing act. Money, Gas, Bills, Happiness, all a balancing act with a very delicate equilibrium. IF you spend too much on a weekend, you are short for the week and that sucks. Spend too much during g the week and the weekend is shot. Have a car break down and you are just screwed! Most Americans are just 2, count it TWO, paychecks from financial ruin. With 100+ channels of crap on the TV, no one can decide on what to watch. You could have 10 TVs sitting beside each other and there would still be an argument on what to watch on 1 of them! That is just life I guess.

I am Tired…

You know what I am tired of? I am tired of people living in the past. I had a friend that he and I went way back together, back to the 11^th grade. We became friends and did lots of stuff together. He would come over to my house and we would go to the lake and hang out or go the clubs in Beaumont or Louisiana. We were big party people back then. I was in college and so was he. He graduated and I did not. He then went to UT Galveston to get his PHD. I played around for several years. I would go to Galveston and we would party together or go to concerts and stuff like that. He started to mature and I did not at that point. He would call me in the middle of the night to talk about some of his projects dealing with the splicing of genes.

Now, he ended up in Baltimore working for the government and I did the "American dream: Married, kid, house" He stayed single but dated around. We would chat and talk, visit when we could as he was busy and we were moving around the country like always. Then it started. We would trade music, programs like always, and then he would lash out at me to be a responsible adult like him. He said that he wanted what was best for me and to stop being lazy, that he was always trying to help me. He would send me "gifts" in the mail and then later ask me to pay for a bit of them.

I was and had done a lot of maturing by this time and gotten my life straightened out, no drinking or the such. We would get into a fight over him trying to push his "high" morals onto me and act like a father to me. We really butted heads and would not speak for a while. Then without warning, I would get an instant message and he would want to talk and be friends again. This was the pattern that we had for about a year more and then we got into a huge fight. He would act like he was better than me and was on top of the world, but remember, we both used to party very hard in the past. I guess that he forgot about that. He wanted me to come to visit for the weekend and I did not want to.

As our "friendship" progressed, he got stranger and stranger, almost jealous of me being married. The huge fight was between my wife and him. It was very nasty and that was over a year ago. We have not spoken since then and I guess that we never will. Our lives took different paths, both good in their own rights. Do I miss talking to him sometimes, yes, In the beginning we had lots in common, music, mutual friends, partying, but in the end, all we had was music. I have not been able to find someone to discuss in person music to that extent and perhaps I never will; time will tell about that.

Priorities...

You know how when you are younger and something is a "top priority"? Well, when I was younger I used to love to be tanned. I would have a beautiful tan from staying out on the lake or going to the beach or swimming in a pool with friends. Well, as I have grown older, things have changed. I no longer worries about a good tan much less have the time to get in the sun.

Normally, I would get burned like in March or April on spring break and I would not peel or burn the rest of the summer. That does not happen now. The only time I get in the sun is when I mow the lawn or on the off chance, go to the beach.

So, we went to the beach over the Labor Day weekend and we had a good time. On Saturday, we stayed out on the beach from 9.30am till 4pm and we all got burnt to a crisp. I did not use any protection unlike my wife and daughter, but they still got burnt as well. We were all hurting that night and next day. I have for the last week peeled off most of the top layer of skin! My face and chest, arms and feet have peeled off and are still peeling at this very day. I told my mother and she was like "I can’t believe that you got this burnt" and I said "I never get into the sun anymore, we don’t live close to the lake and we do not have a pool like when we lived in an apartment." She said "well, I never thought of it like that, I guess you are right."

Being tanned is just not a priority anymore and it is better for my skin anyway. I guess that I am just getting older and maturing a bit more as well.


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