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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Very Interesting Contrast...

I found this on Eponymous Blog site.

Thanks for the pic, very awsome!!

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The Blog...

I have been into pictures more lately than I have been into posting simply because I have not found much that is interesting to me to post about. I like to do the picture thing with my cam phone because it is just so easy and it also takes very good pics. I have read some people's reviews of the phone/cam and I just don’t agree with them on the picture quality.

I am just in a holding pattern until we figure out when we will be going to St. Louis. It really sucks because I don’t know what kind of job to look for and even when we will be there to do this so it is just pointless to do that at the moment.

I have also slacked off of riding and working out lately. It is just hard to get back into it when you stop. I rode this weekend and we got in like 7 miles. I wanted to go on Sunday morning, but my right leg/hip has been hurting ever since I slipped in the pool while we were on vaca at OBX. I went to the chiropractor last week for the back hurting from this and that worked, but my right leg where it joins the hip hurts intermittently and I did not ride Sunday because of this. It is hurting me tonight and I do not know why as all I did today was sleep.

I am always in a constant search for content and readership on my blog. If anyone has any suggestions, please feel free to email me. What bothers me is that I do not get a lot of comments from people that "view" this site. I wish that I would get more. So if anyone is out there in cyberspace, please feel free to drop me a line or to or a comment.

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From work.

@6.21pm

Cloudy...

A chance of rain.

360 west & Courthouse

I took this at around 12.30am. I think that it has some neat lightening effects due to the use of the cam phone and through my windshield of my truck. I have done several of these types of photographs in the last few weeks.

Music and Videos...

It is cool that this movie has finally been released on DVD here in the states. I remember as a child, my mother taking me to see this show in Beaumont Texas along the 1980 time frame. I got it last night at Best Buy for $19.99!! Not a bad deal for it. The remastered the movie and soundtrack that was done by Queen. I cannot wait to watch it over my 2 days off this week. I found a copy on the net about a year ago and tried to get it. The quality of it sucked and i converted it to a DVD using WinAVIVideoConverter. The quality sucked even more and i never watched it.




Amazon.com
What do you get when you combine the lush electronica band Delerium with the Nashville pop group Sixpence None the Richer? The debut album by Fauxliage. Sixpence singer Leigh Nash has been a guest singer with Delerium, but she now teams up as a full partner with the Canadian band's Rhys Fulber and Bill Leeb. The dance beats are dialed down and the melodies have that pop warmth that Nash brought to Sixpence, but the looping grooves and chilled electro-timbres from Delerium remain, especially on tracks like the hook-heavy "All the World." Lyrically, Nash is concerned with love and loneliness for much of the album and tends toward a languid mid-tempo mode that could've benefitted from a few more kick-ass tunes to moderate the mood. It emerges occasionally, like the symphonic electronica cadenza that explodes in the middle of the otherwise wistful "Draw My Life." Despite years in Nashville, there's very little country in Nash's voice, but there is a purity and vibrato-free tone you can hear in country singers from Loretta Lynn to Emmylou Harris. It's a voice that almost demands a more organic, acoustic approach, and Fulber and Leeb provide it, often dialing down the sometimes suffocating synth pads that have marred the last few Delerium releases and replacing them with acoustic guitars and more organic keyboards. Fauxliage doesn't take all of the best from two worlds, but they get a lot of it. --John Diliberto


I have listened to a copy of this and as of now, i am very UNIMPRESSED!! I have followed their career for over 15 years and i have all of their music and many side projects and this is just really bad. Do not expect and of the "old-style" Deleriumish tracks.


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