Saturday, December 26, 2009

Still good in the world.

If you really know me, you know that most of my time is spent observing others. I enjoy watching and listening to others, very quietly from afar. And if you really know me, and actually get the stuff from inside my head to the outside world you know I how displeased I am with the meanness and hatred in the world. I observe it all too often, more and more each day :(

Well, Christmas eve I was reassured there is still goodness present in the world. :) and I want to thank that individual for being good.

The story goes like this..... A week ago Friday we were hit with a fun at the time but annoying nasty little snow storm. Within a few hours of it starting we had a very heavy blanket of snow. Assuming (yes its bad to assume) my car aka "clown car" would go good in the snow I had driven it over the van aka "Thing" that morning. Also, since 99.9% of the time the weather men miss the forecast I was a villager when they cried wolf yet again. Well my assumption was dead wrong, the clown car is awful in the snow, actually one of the worst cars I have owned for snow travel. Well, by 2pm when I decided to venture home from work I couldnt make it far. I did get too, with considerable effort, to my driveway. Or better said the entrance of my driveway. Since I live on a hill, and its uphill to the driveway I decided that leaving my car at the entrance was a good place to have it slammed into by cars coming down the other side. So, I opted to move the car to the vacant lot next door (down hill) of which I did. Little did I realize of ever observe was that spot never sees the light of day.
Well, after many attempts all week I decided I was going to get the clown car out of the field and back home in the warmth of the garage. I like my clown car.....
Joseph and I venture down to dig it out yet again. No luck.... the car just spins. I really think the issue was it sits so low to the ground snow builds up under it and the wheels never touch the ground with 4" or more of snow. After a good half hour of digging and pushing I decided to go get the come along and winch it out.
Strapped off to a tree with 2 tow straps and the come along in between we start trying to pull it out. Now, let me say, that the main road (Concord rd) is maybe 20 ft from the car, and in full view of everyone traveling up and down Concord. I cant tell you how many 4 wheel drive trucks, redneck mobiles (4wd trucks jacked up) pass by. Many slowing up enough to watch me, in Santa hat, and Joseph attempting to winch out the car. I commented more than once "you'd think someone would stop and offer to help pull us out" of course with %#@^&%$ words intertwined.
Finally this truck pulls up and a guy jumps out and says need a hand? Sure do I reply! He backs up to my car, gets his front tires on dry pavement and we hook the tow strap to the front of the car. I jump in, start the car and he begins to pull me out. He blocked traffic coming down Concord Rd pulling me out, but within a minute had me pulled out of the field and onto the road!
I tell the guy, who I regret not getting a name, if you will come up to the house I will give you a few bucks! He said, No Thanks!, Merry Christmas.

There is still good left in the world! Thanks for that reassurance.

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Festivus for the rest of us!

Forgot to wish everyone a Merry Festivus yesterday! So made up for it with a holiday card sent to all my email friends. Grievances are aired here and you will have to see me in person for feats of strength!

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Those ribs be hurting

Several days ago, in my anxious-ness to get out early in the moring I took a nice fall. Walking thought the snow down to "thing" (van) I reach the area I had shoveled the day before. I remember thinking I wonder if this is slick..... well before I got "slic...." out of my head I was on the ground. As usual I had a camera sling over my shoulder, and I landed on my side on the camera. Yes, the first thing out my mind after the fall was what did I break on the camera, which happend to be the UV filter (again). But the fall took my breath as I hit hard. Well, I have cracked, broke, damaged or all of the above the upper section of ribs on my left side. DAMN they hurt! I forgot how much ribs hurt.... done this a few times before, that is crack some ribs. Once on a bike in the woods and several times through my life playing football.
Hard to sleep, as this is the preferred side I sleep on. You how it is when you get in a habit.... If I sleep on my back, Annette tells me I snore. Well I stayed up one night and I did snore ;), LOL. Been some restless nights of sleep since then, and I am sure more to come. Ribs are a good 6 weeks healing, Great! Hard to ride the bike too, tried the trainer and it hurt when I started heavier breathing.
On to other things.....

Been working on a cool wood design over at the house I have worked so much at in Bilomore Forrest. An angular design on the walls using 4" wide flooring red oak. Its coming out pretty darn nice! Pictures soon, I have been shooting progress shots so far.

Soon to start a large design project for Day International, which should provide me several months of steady work, lets hope it leads into more! I think the timing will work out nicely with the work I have going in Biltmore Forrest, should be close to finishing it as I start the other.

Computers.... Well Joseph's laptop is down, under warranty with Best Buy. Yet another Best Buy saga, with them sending it off to repair. What is it the Geek squad does? Its the hard drive, 90% postivie which is a quick easy fix for me. My laptop started acting up, thought it was the hard drive, which I am replacing anyway. I need reliable stuff when I start drawing and a hard drive deciding to crash isnt what I need with months of data (I do back-up to an external) Plus the larger hard drive I am sticking on will allow me to dual boot Ubuntu linux, which I will use to surf abroad.

Speaking of Ubuntu, when the drive crashed on this laptop I was unable to boot into windows. I had a few things I needed, my business books, a few drawing files and thats about it. Figured I would lose that data, but I was able to load a live cd of Ubuntu (runs the os off of a cd) and access my files in the windows system. Pretty cool trick! I need to verify those files but it seemed to work just fine.

Enough typing, my hand are frost bit from sitting in Starbucks and typing and not staching them in my pocket

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Snow!

Almost a foot of snow fell yesterday here in cool green Asheville! Pretty cool! We havent had this much snow is quite a long time.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Hey thats a bleeder....

Guess the big news of yesterday other than my venture to the mall (more on that later)was m mishap yesterday afternoon. After a day of trying to clean the carpet downstairs, which I am yet still unsuccessful I finished the afternoon with 5 stitches in my forehead.
The story goes like this: After renting a steam cleaner from Ace hardware I finally get my family out of the house and Josephs room picked up, which is a task itself. I mix the solution and dump it in the cleaner. Fire it up and squeeze the trigger and nothing..... Check my connections, still nothing. Vacuum works, no pump spraying solution. Great! Load the unit up and begin to take it back to Ace.
The I get a phone call from Sammie, the lady I work for in Biltmore Forrest. Her garage door wont open, and she's heading back to Atlanta. So I head over to her house and begin to work on getting the door up and her on her way. Now this is a commercail door, all metal and what ever width a 2 car single door would be, and HEAVY. Get it fixed after some work. Well in the mean time I am telling Sammie about the steam cleaner and she says borrow mine. Didnt know she had one to borrow but why not. So load it up and head to Ace to return the defective one, which I did.
Since I am in no rush I head to the mall, 2 Saturdays before Christmas, well you get the picture. It was bad, but I dealt with it just fine. Took all my usual shortcuts and was in and out without any major issues
Get back home and proceed to unload the carpet cleaner I am borrowing from Sammie. Carry the main unit inside and set it in Joseph's room next to the new (used) Soloflex I got for him and I. Go and get the 2 water containers that I had removed from the unit and carry them inside. I go over to where I parked the main unit, which is right under the Soloflex. I bend over to set the container down and WHACK!!! I slam my forehead into the end of the weight bar. Have you ever seen lights and stars when you hit your head? Well I saw them yesterday.... Holding my head I feel that warm sensation of blood running down my face. Great split the forehead open. Grab my shirt and put pressure on the cut, sit down on the steps and regain what little composure I normally have, then head up stairs to take a look. Lets just say that head cuts bleed, a lot. Shirt covered in blood and it wont stop. Change from my shirt as a pressure device to a clean washcloth. After 45 minutes of pressure its still bleeding. Oh joy a trip to the ER, Urgent care or something at 5pm on a Saturday afternoon.
Annette and Joseph arrive from the mall and as expected Annette goes nuts, and Joseph in the eyes of his Dad, starts wise cracking the situation. After a quick phone call to the Urgent Care, which has already closed its time to go to the ER. Fast Track ER, which means it kills 4 hours of your time instead of the customary 6 hours. A misnomer in words..... So I suggest calling a friend of ours, lets call him Dr. X just in case someone actually reads this and is mean enough to get him in trouble over whats soon to take place. Dr X is answers the phone, in the middle of putting a chest tub in someone, No lie here. He says sure send me over in just a little while and he will take of me. Dr X is a great guy, done a lot for us over the years and not one to follow rules, which is good. The world needs more people that do stuff because they should, can or want and not doing something because some bureaucrat says not to.
So off to Dr X's house. I have a bandage on my head as I am still bleeding if I release pressure, and of course my Christmas hat. Dr X and I shake hands and head to the kitchen table. Sure enough I cut a nice gash in my head, not that big but crescent shaped. He determines I have knicked a feeder vain which is why it wont stop bleeding. To bad, as that rules out glue according to Dr X. SO here comes the stitches. Michael, Dr X's son is recruited to be his assitant and Joseph is recruited to hold the flash light. The only that really hurt was the lidocane that I got to numb my forehead. I look over and Joseph is white as a ghost, LOL. Dr X sees this and suggest he sit down, no complaints from Joseph. Guess that rules him out becoming a Doctor, which is good to know. After some cleaning, scrubing, numbing the stitching begins. Joseph's color comes back somewhat and he is able to hold the light and begin to watch Dr X sew me up. I will admit, seeing that sometimes freaks me out, luckily I wasnt watching Dr X sew me up. 5 stitches in all and what soon will be a nice headache.
Whats cool about this is it was all preformed at the kitchen table. It was sterile, no worries there, I trust Dr X with my life, and have told Annette if they ever drag me in let him do the work if its in his arena. He preformed something that has long past, true medicine because he loves to help. Not forcing me to go to the ER, office or where ever, but at his kitchen table.
My Thanks for Dr X !

Friday, December 11, 2009

Brrrrr, its cold

Its cold out, 22 degrees as of when I drove in, and as usual Starbucks isnt a whole lot warmer inside. Suppose to get up to 42 degrees today, not real warm to me.

I guess if I didnt have a family (glad I do) I'd migrate with the birds south. Just dont deal with the cold temps as well as I did when I was younger. I now understand why the "old" folks go to Florida for the winter, its not a bad idea.

So a good friend of mine, someone I consider more of a brother than a friend sent me a joke i thought was pretty funny yesterday. EVEN though I really could care less what Tiger did.

"Q: What is the difference between Santa and Tiger Woods?

A: Santa’s not greedy, he stops with three ho’s!"

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Solar Flares

Thats my excuse and I am sticking to it, Solar Flares that is.

Started off as one of those days yesterday and never got much better. First, unable to connect to the net at Starbucks in the morning. Thats my peaceful time every day, I check and answer most of my emails, surf, learn or what ever over my daily coffee. When I cant get hooked up I get cranky.... Thought it was a ATT connection problem with there hot spot, but turns out it was a puter issue. Not sure actually what was going on, I had logged onto this computer mid day the day before to register my design software so I could pull up some design work. No problems at the fab shop, worked just fine. Next morning, nada.... All I can think is either 1) Solar flares 2) some sort of virus, glitch or something when I logged into the hot spot.

So I spent most of the evening screwing with this computer. Now, the FIRST thing I tell people when they are having troubles is STAY OFF THE PORN SITES and you wont have issues. Well, I can honestly say THIS computer doesnt see those sites, this is the business computer.

So, what to do..... Did a system restore and that fixed the problem, updated Vista (crap compared to 7) Slapped the Ubuntu disk in and almost stuck in on the puter as a dual OS, and may still. Have a Win 7 disk and prod key free, really really should put 7 on it, but that leads to software issues. I typically run 1 version back of my design software, just becasue Autodesk products NEVER work right on the latest releases. Running 2009, but 2010 is out. Always, always bugs with the latest and greatest. SO, not sure if 2009 runs on 7, Autodesks site is a bit unclear on if it does or doesnt. SO..... I cant install a os that blows my money maker up, which is also why I dont go surfing on this puter much, no bugs, virus's or goofy programs that mess with the video drivers. Still not sure what I am going to do on this system...

Then Joseph and I get the new released Harry Potter in Blue Ray. FINALLY sit down to watch it at 8pm last night in the theater room on the PS3. PS3 tells us we gotta update the software to watch the movie, WTF! SO that turns into a issue.... PS3 doesnt want to connect to the server either wireless or wired, ended up d/l'd it on a flash drive and installing the update that route. All to watch 45 minutes of the movie before Joseph decides he was bored (almost 10pm) which was fine I was tired.

On top of all that I have a banking screw up on MY part..... Damn.

Must have been the solar flares. Lets hope there better today, so far so good.

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Happy happy Joy joy rain on its way.

Happy happy joy joy, more rain on the way.

Anyone remember the "happy happy joy joy"? Came from Ren and Stempy cartoon (I guess it came from there). I used to love Ren and Stempy!, guess I still do.

Glad Monday is behind me, it was one of those Monday's. Today is shaping up better I hope, long but better.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Weathermen missed, back to the cold

Weathermen missed the storm, after all the storm warnings, accumulation forecasts and all the other stuff they posted we got the Nada..... It was cold, they did get that right.

Starbucks is back to its frigid temps inside, Brrrrr.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Will the weather guys get one right?

Snow in the forecast, raining now.

The question is will the weather guys actually get one right? The weather channel is already preparing a future show on the yet to happen snow storm forecast for today. Not sure there title but my suggestions are as follows: "The great storm of December 5th, 2009, that never happened....." or my favorite, " How weather changed history; Grandma got below a 1/2 gallon of milk and 8 pc's of bread but still survives."

On another note, Fox News is also hard at work on the pending storm and how the current administration is to blame. Current program direction is for a round table discussion including chicken little's caulk board diagrams.

Apologies to anyone that reads this and enjoys Fox News and their preconceived notion programing. I had to suffer through a hour of it last night while working at a home. The homeowner had it on the whole time I was there and honestly hadnt ever really listened to station that long, I unfortunately left my Ipod and headphones at the house.

Friday, December 4, 2009

New tripod? Sofia!



Shot some moon setting shots on the way to Lowes yesterday and used the tripod since I was shooting the long lens with tele-converter. STRONG wind.... tripod wouldnt be still, all shots were blurry. SO, my stash cash may have to go initially towards a new tripod :( Wish the shots would have come out better, but I was on a ridge top with no shelter with 20mph winds, but to shoot good landscape I need a decent tripod....

Well still saving towards the new camera body.

Did shoot some nice images at the Grove Park last night. Rather proud of myself overall. I am shooting fully manual, and have been for some time now, but was shooting with the dreaded pop up flash plus manual and still got some good shots.

So far my favorite.... still needs some post processing.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Warm and Cozy

Starbucks is warm and cozy and has been since I arrived at 6am!

Early start this morning, guess going to be at 9:30 made me wake up even earlier. Already spent 40 on the trainer, probably do so again this afternoon. When the weather sucks its nice to have that set up. But, seems like I have been riding it more and more and less and less outside.

Speaking of outside riding, NPR did a pc on the cyclist in Cal that had the altercation with the car. The outcome of that altercation was better than the one locally where a local fireman shot a guy in the helmet. Luckily for that guy, his child who was in a child carrier on the bike and his wife the fireman missed the guys head and it only went through his helmet. The fireman got 120 days.....

The whole situation is getting out of hand IMO. I really think the news media and their constant hate campaigns against whatever then can stir up is carrying over to the real world. To easy behind the wheel of a car to act tough and take cheap shots at not only cyclist but other cars.

I will admit there are as many poor examples set by cyclist as there are drivers, but thats no excuse for EITHER side to carry on like they are, maybe its time for some education on the behalf of both sides.

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Who cares what Tiger was doing.

Honestly news media, do we really care what Tiger was doing? Lets see, a low speed crash in front of his house with no causalities. But, the smear stations need more ammo for their daily programing.

Starbucks must have found the heat button today, or so it seems in the past 10 minutes. Cold to start but warm air blowing from the duct work!

On a political note, Not real happy with our current administration, of whom many including myself voted for some change. Same old war crap from the govt....

I am against war, against killing of human life. Killing another human being solves no problems, it only creates more problems. And for all you bible thumpers out there who support the current wars (or any) and the death penalty. One of the commandments says thou shalt not kill. I dont seem to remember any foot notes.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Mr Moon is oh so quick!

6:20am, crest the hill on Mills Gap on my way to Chill-Bucks (Starbucks) and there is old Mr Moon on it decent below the horizon. Very large and bright orange, something I seem to chase as a photgrapher. But, about as quickly as I descend Mills Gap Rd on a quick venture to some location close, other than framing the shot over Ingels, Mr Moon disappears.
Not sure how many realize that the Moon moves quick, and the close it gets to the horizon the quicker it seems to go. From 6am to 7am today, the move drops close to 20 degrees above to below the horizon.

If your interested in the moons movement here is a good link http://www.dailymoonposition.com/Default.aspx

Monday, November 30, 2009

Well it was warm for a day.

55 degrees outside, drizzle and I think its 50 inside the Starbucks again. You know I hate using this site as a "bitch" site but seems to be what I am doing with it.

I think its about time I nicely suggest a good HVAC company to come fix their system.

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Where is the dollar?

Three guys were visiting the city, and it began to snow hard. The 3 guys decided that they couldn't drive home and would get a motel room for the night. They find a motel with vacancy and are told by the hotel desk manager that the room will be $30.00. The guys all agreed to pay their share of $10.00 each and take the room.

Later that evening, the hotel desk manager realizes he made an error and charged too much for the room. The cost of the room should have been $25.00 instead of $30.00. The desk manager calls the bell boy over and hands him 5 $1.00 bills to return to the 3 guys.

The bell boy goes to the elevator and heads to the 3 guys room. He decides that since the guys were okay with paying $30.00 for the room he would keep $2.00 for himself and give the 3 guys $1.00 each back, which drops the cost of the room to $9.00 each guy.

So where is the dollar?

Sometimes you just got to ask...

The refugee's, or that is the displaced Greenberry's coffee drinkers seem to also have found Starbucks down the road. In the daily meeting of the refugee's yesterday we all commented on how cold it was inside. So, I unannounced to the others went and asked the barista why the place was so cold, several minutes after that, Dan another refugee asked the same question and then some other nor refugee customers also inquired. Well, it became noticeable warmer, and today its not as cold. We were all told they had no control over the temps in the store, has always been an issue and it was either the extremes in temperature.

Well its good to be warm ;)

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Best Buy no more!!!

Made my last purchase at any Best Buy. There are so many other places that you can get better deals and way better customer service. The 2 I highly recommend are www.newegg.com and www.amazon.com I've been blown away by both places, Newegg for electronics and Amamzon for just about everything else.

Let me say the "smurf's" at Best Buy are not the problem. The Smurf's as I call them are the guys and gals that work the floor, most all of these people are great, offering good advice from a non commission employee.

The problems I have fall further up the food chain of Best Buy. First are the customer service individuals behind the counter, the nice knowledgeable attitude is gone, or so it seems to be with the stores close to me. Yes, I understand that working a desk where some not so nice people come complain can test your nice-ness. I ALWAYS treat people the way I expect to be treated, and the same goes for her too. Last night in my latest adventure this was pushed to the max, well, the breaking point with Best Buy.

Here's the start of this adventure. My son Joseph, is 14, enough said, and owns or has owned 2 Ipod touches. The first touch was lost, stolen or vanished somehow within months of him getting it from us as a gift. Sorry, but our money doesnt grow on trees and the 2nd one he had to purchase on his own. Both Ipods have or had warranties, as do all my electronics. I own an Ipod, actually 3 Ipods and all but the shuffle have warranties. Well, by pure accident Joseph drops his Ipod touch and cracks the screen, a common problem (another issue I have with Apple). I haul it up to Best Buy for him, warranty in hand to have it replaces or fixed. Oh, that warranty doenst cover that, used to when we bought it, or so we were told, now there is another warranty that would have covered that. (Warranty trick IMO) But, I was told I could have upgraded my warranty and it would have been covered. So, as an owner of a Ipod touch myself I decided I needed to upgrade mine. Joseph's, which has been fixed no has a null and void warranty of which I canceled last night after 3 phone calls and 2 run around conversations with Best Buy CS.

I proceed into BB, my Ipod in hand as I assume they will need to inspect the unit before allowing me to purchase the upgraded warranty I was told I could do at another store. Well, first they couldnt find any record of my purchase of the unit, knowing damn well it came from BB with a warranty. BB CS cant seem to find it anywhere and I was told I must not have gotten it at BB more that once. I may be old but I am pretty bright and have a really good memory on some stuff, I know I got it at BB. I was told I can call 888-bestbuy and maybe they can back up my store of purchase it from BB. So I did, within 30 seconds of talking to 888-BB they had found it, found the warranty, told me when and where I had gotten it. Actually I had to purchase this online because there was a gift card that was associated with it and in-store wouldnt honor it. I actually purchased this Ipod in the store online, with the assistance of a BB smurf. I was told the order and warranty numbers and I could go back into the store at my leisure and upgrade the warranty.

So, I haul it right back into BB, as I was in the parking lot when I call 888-BB. Once again CS hell desk, I mean help desk, and gave them the order numbers. Still a major issue with finding it, this time I am told its online and thats just problems. Funny, online was WAY LESS of a problem than the BB cs reps run around I was getting. I was told on the first trip into the store, after their in ability to find my Ipod, that I must call online to cancel Joseph's warranty on his repaired unit. 888-BB said, no thats all done in store, and tried to cancel it for me over the phone, but it was 8pm at night and didnt have the right people to do so. Well, finally the cs reps pulled up the order and then started the next run around with upgrading the warranty. I was plainly told if I had purchased this in store there would be no problem with upgrading my warranty but since it was done online then it had to be done online or over the phone, BULL SHIT! I was beginning to lose my nice demeanor at this point and said no, you will take care of this for me, I am tired of getting run around, still no luck. So, I suggest we speak to the manager now, which he happened to be right there, what luck. Well, he tells me its against the law to upgrade my warranty, you know its like insurance and its against the law to change insurance policies. Funny, call any insurance company and offer them more money to upgrade your policy and they turn back flips to get your money. But, if it was purchased in store he could "make" an exception. I bluntly told this manager that www.newegg.com and www.amazon.com was looking much more appealing.

The issue isnt the fact I cant upgrade the warranty. Had I been told this up front I would have just dealt with it. The fact is I was told it was possible, had I bought it in the store and not online from the same company.

So, long story, but no more BB.

Friday, November 27, 2009

Times are tough......

Times must be tough for Starbucks, or at least the Starbucks close to the house. They must be making extra money by renting out the shop as cold storage for meat. I've came here 2 days in a row, now that my old haunt has closed, and the place is frigid (warmest comment I can make).
Not sure how much I can handle a place this cold first thing in the morning. I'm cold natured anyway, and I dont need any help getting colder.

On to other stuff....

Annette got up at 4:30, without the aide of an alarm clock, which is an amazing feat! I decided I might as well get up to being an early morning person. Off to Walmart for Annette in search of the trampoline in the sale flyer. Joseph, had one, that got ko'd by the latest tree falling about a year ago. As much as I fought the idea and danger of a trampoline he had a good time on it, and wants another. Well, why not.... She got one, with minimal effort considering what she said Wally world was like at 5am.

I went to Kohl's to get a few things for Annette, but after I saw the checkout line that stretched around 3 sides of the inside I decided that hour plus wait wasnt worth the trival stuff she wanted. I will say, if it would have been something she really wanted I'd have stuck it out.

Okay, I really need to warm up since I am at Starbucks typing this blog. I think the bathroom's are warm, maybe its time to head there.

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Turkey Day

Nice Day.... Had an enjoyable evening at the neighbors over dinner and wine, and more wine. Really is great to have good neighbors considering what we used to have for neighbors.

Had a nice walk on the Biltmore Estate, even with two dogs pulling us like dry land skiers.

Web site up and running, even though its only partial finished, at least its up on the web. More to come on the site as I get it all together.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Another one bites the dust.......

Last day of Greenberry's coffee shop, the spot I find tranquility every morning. The spot I read, surf or just meditate. So far this is the 2nd coffee shop I have hung out at in the morning that has closed, the first being PJ's, and New Orleans based shop.

So now where? The evil empire of Starbucks. Not that I am against the evil empire or any evil empire (I like Wal-Mart) Coffee is fair, but palatable, but the internet costs $$.

Once again time will tell where the winds blow me.

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

You Got Money!

A first...... I have now been paid for a picture I took :) From the pictures I took of the Shut In Event this year I posted and offered files to any one of the participants through word of mouth. Sent several off so far with a note at the bottom of the email saying :
"
Like the Images? If you would like to contribute to my hobby for use of my images please consider using paypal, Biciclettapc@gmail.com"

Well received my first payment for the picture.

Monday, November 23, 2009

11/23, Greenberry's.


Sitting yet again in Greenberry's coffee shop, my normal "haunt" of the morning. Last few days of this coffee shop, as they are closing Wed. Sort of bummed about that fact yet another coffee shop is closing up, I seem to close them down. First PJ's that was located in the old Gerber Village and now Greenberry's. I guess its on to Starbucks after Wed...

Actually Starbucks coffee has gotten better, when I am away I drink the stuff and its not bad overall, compares to the median coffee tastes of Greenberry's. My complaint with SB's is the stores are overall cold on the inside. Not sure if they really want you sitting inside fro long. Wireless costs, temps are cooler and just seems to be a cold atmosphere.

So on to something I found hillarious! Hopefully the picture I am attaching works. Now I find this so funny....

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Working on Web site

Working on my website...... Serif Webplus X4 is what I am using, not sure if its a good or bad pc of software yet, still in the learning curve.

Time will tell