Nothing up my sleeve.

What a day.... I mean... I get no respect.. no respect! ( yanking tie ).

It was a delayed action Monday. Had to sit and wait for a certified letter from the govt. at the house because somehow they got my work address and home address transposed and so what should have been work time turned into me having to take leave to receive and sign for this important envelope.. cool huh! I even did some telecommuting ( computer work ) on travel and property from my chair. More free time I cant really charge anything to. Oh well... Part of that extra I do that I just write off. Which cracks me up when some people ( not all or eve most, but some ) say that govt workers are lazy and sit around doing nothing all day. Not in my office and not in my chair. I know the post office seems to have a problem and the VA if fully of problems too. I can honestly look at my branch and see that our HQ staff are running around like crazy too. See we have and are still way understaffed. Most people are doing two or three jobs as well as their own. I would still say I am not complaining... just mentioning. Our staff all want to be there and working to get out the best possible product to the public. Yes its very hard, yes sometimes its frustrating, yes there are tons of regulations.. so what..its a job worth doing. How to explain 10 % chance of rain in your area to people. LOL

I dithered around last night trying to learn Adobe illustrator. For such a supposedly easy system to use it sure is a pain the the tail end. Sheesh... I wanted to create a circle in black. I wanted to put a doughnut of red in the middle of that and then from there edit back the white areas to transparencies... yeah... PITA!

Not sure I have much to show you. I was working again with the British or really London Underground signs. Looking for their standards and parameters. I did at last find a link that led to a torn up and wrinkled copy of their draft of standards for Underground signs. From that I noticed that they dome follow it sometimes. That there is funny. So I am working along the lines of making Underground signs for specific places and or people houses or such so they can have something novel on their walls.

Here's your sign....

Normally the wording isnt in the red circle. The arrow through the red circle is pretty standard.

Here is a sign that is not quite to code.. but I think that may be because they needed to attach it to the tile.

The UndergrounD sigh is the correct programmed size. The signs below are again unusual.

This is my sign.... K9 K9 K9 K9... okay ...close...

Some education in the way of net links for today... Dont chew on the cover....

This kills me..really.. Why is there any outside connection to our power system or Nuke plants? There should be two separate systems with tunnels... idiots.

http://gizmodo.com/stuxnet-like-malware-from-russia-is-attacking-u-s-powe-1598091987

Ive said it before Ill say it again.. I need a grant!  If they will pay for these idiotic ideas... well...

http://io9.com/the-10-maddest-of-the-mad-science-projects-funded-by-da-1597799224/+barrett

Yes.. and yes.... and kinda...

http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/is-the-government-responsible-for-sheltering-you-from-n-503807811/+kcampbelldollaghan

Barf, Gag, Puke, Im too weak to go on... Beauty.. art... Lets dip .... No.. Ugly is the only thing that comes to mind.

http://gizmodo.com/the-troubling-history-behind-the-best-design-of-the-yea-1598103865

I've been sitting on ideas for ages because they don't sing... and the above building is like putting your foot through the bass drum! Look at the Sydney concert halls for flow and beauty..

As the last triangle of ? Light? Cheddar Cheese? Comes from below followed by another C Major of tonalities.. its coming.. I cant see it since I am looking at the hand/ arm..in the darkness.... With the glowing edges of the area surrounding me I can get an idea that I can touch the walls of light driving upwards and I get the feeling.. or the chilling, this inst your mothers strange light hexagonal tube to wherever... thing... I don't know if I can reach the sides.... I don't know what is going to happen when all the parts are in place. I am going on pure faith that I wont end up chop suey somewhere. Since I have yet to do anything but be assaulted by light and sound lets see if I can reach out to the hand.. and... yes.. arm... raise.... raise.... OH Sala Bim Sala Bim!

Scotchy Scotch Scotch

Its a bummer when you can do what you want to do because there  are things you need to do. I had to be at work this morning to help with some very important paperwork. It was made complicated by one fire. I also had to stay at home to be able to sign for a registered letter that has yet to arrive. Yeah... So... I missed some great ballooning and a good meal...but I am glad I have this job and I am happy I work with people I do because they will also work on a Saturday to make sure things get done. So, yes, it was not the weekend I expected, but it is, and its life.

I am eating Ben and Jerry's Scotchy Scotch Scotch ice cream....

Consider the lilies.....

I really would have liked a chimmi covered in green chili though..... sigh.


So....... Yeah.. the day was spend sitting, waiting, nibbling and getting cables, chargers and such together.
I would like to say its done but it isn't. Ill do some more after I finish this.


I did plan on doing things artistic but that got shanghaied by my stress bubble. I did some edits though... I didn't have the ability to stay on one task or type. I did load two different folios to my website that had been laying fallow for quite a while. Links later if I feel up to it.. or remember. I may forget.. I have gotten up three times now for something only to return without it.. and then remember what I wanted.


Oh... if the letter isn't here today I have to take time off work to be here to receive it. Yes, I have to have it for work. I could not change the address it was going to to work because I couldn't get permission in time to do that. Its all messed up and there is nothing to be done but suck it up. So I am sucking up Ben and Jerry's


No music today....

Links.... limited but interesting.

As if humans made the most ridiculous faces at times....

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/21-animals-captured-at-the-wrong-time-who-may-need-a-system-reboot

HDR.. yes it can be overused and overblown. Yes sometimes its terrible but hay.. do what you want to do.

http://reframe.gizmodo.com/enough-with-the-hdr-already-1589487629

I have yet had the time or need to do this but I do what to do so....

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/how-to-remove-tourists-and-random-objects-from-your-vacation-photos

This cracked me up to no end... so true!

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/and-this-is-how-you-make-a-hit-pop-song-in-four-easy-st-1596905945/+caseychan

Oh well... hope you enjoyed that.....

Yellow must be the color of the tile that is heading up at my feet now... why.. because I can see it reflecting as it hits my chin and, well, my eyebrows again.... must have those trimmed. Back to the hand! Still reaching out and still as still as carved ice. I wonder what sound yellow is? Lemony? or Bananaish.. what is a banana sound like...... sploomish? Oh well... a tubular bell.... Tanggg........... AH HAH!!! That hand which is attached to that arm is moving... Head fully up now and looking at the hand that now seems to be reaching for my throat..... perspective.... hell of a thing....

Nailing it!

Tango Uniform!

Tango Uniform!!!

Doorway to the weekend. Okay, I have to go back in for a while tomorrow. That's just to close up a few things due to the upcoming holiday. Cant complain about that. Gotta do a oil change too too. Lots done today... nothing that is worth commenting on other than...I cant find the codes.Ah well.. Tomorrow we will be able to knock it out in about an hour.

On the way to work today I thought we were going to get some rain. Major overcast with one stripe break in the middle. No chance. It was just mucky. Hay.. traffic on the way home was good. Nothing but a few ding bats. Its Friday night and I am washing clothes... yep.. I want it out of the way.

I have to make a list of stuff to take on my trips. I used to just fling everything I thought I needed into a bag.. I have to get it a bit more regulated. Another list. Many things are needed. What I wish I could do it take my monitor with me... That would be nice. Don't get me wrong. I can work with the surface display but its a little small to focus old eyes on. I can....it will just be tiresome.

Friend of mine did an amazing job of researching embroidery places. Pretty good job. Lots of information. Now to act on it. Or really to get working on the designs. I will I will!

Sadly no flying this weekend.. and not next weekend either.. and well.. for the next three weekends too... All work and no play........

I did go back and edit a few more shots from my walk of sweat... Below they are....

I will probably cut down the edits until I get the pin patch and such designs done. Plus there is the CB to deal with too... I have all the shots ready for that just no content.. okay.. I have finance docs and one ad.... sigh.

Links... pah!

Start of with this one.. if your not chuckling by the end.. well you are dead inside.. hahaha

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/18-funny-children-s-notes-that-really-need-spell-check

Sorry everyone.. I like Au natural more than cake....

http://www.neatorama.com/2014/06/27/Female-Beauty-Standards-as-Rendered-by-Artists-in-27-Countries/

If you really want to plod through all this.. be my guest.. but don't bother me tonight when you cant sleep tonight...

http://www.neatorama.com/2014/06/27/Female-Beauty-Standards-as-Rendered-by-Artists-in-27-Countries/

What you thought it was all about! Heads?

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/if-you-dig-up-the-easter-island-head-statues-these-are-the-bodies-you-ll-find-below

Time to go change the laundry around... brb.

Two more....two more..... head almost raised straight on. The bad... I can see a hand in the darkness beyond frozen in its stretching accusation! I'm innocent... I think. while still requesting my neck muscles to bring my head level with the ground and it is an ever so slow process that hand.. that hand isn't moving at all. Two fingers are pointing towards me... index straight our and middle three quarters to straight. Thumb and two others bent inwards, fingernails are cared for and lightly pink but no polish, hand that I can see is also thin and feminine. Do I know this hand? Is it attached to the wailing sound I heads....eons ago? Its all darkness past the edge of a black wool coat sleeve. Possible hint of a white cuff... upward! Lights brightening again and the aural area around me feels like its sucking away, preparing to be filled with something .... much much bigger!

Three lines no waiting

Passwords, property, travel, documents, charges, power runs, Voip operations, programming, re-programming, training scheduling... all in one day.. all in 9.5 hours minus breaks to visits to the men's room, the water fountain and microwave. Funnily time went from dragging ( while waiting for people to show up)  to speeding off on its own vector when I had two people on hold and talking to another and also indicating to another person about something else entirely. I have to remember this for my next fitness report. WAH!

Pretty awesome day.

Tomorrow its going to be, barring other incidents tonight, time cards and reports, travel, reservations, travel documents and then property work. I have to go in on Saturday right now. Stan Ridgway - Goin Southbound.

Should be interesting non the less. Told you that every day is different and every day the priority list changes. It is going to slow down soon...but it will probably speed up before that. If I have coffee... we are good ( two thumbs up ).

I got a request for an edit of a pretty nice picture. Since it was so nice already I couldn't just chop it up. I decided to flip it.. enhance the top and bottom desperately, use a little repair in the middle and straighten it out. After that I bordered it..found a complimenting color, added some lighting effects and then bordered and titled it both ways. Nice subject and nice final.

Last night I went over a few shots that I took walking around and paid for by becoming dehydrated again. Loved them all as they came out in front of my eyes. Subtle, calming and generally nice to look at. All of them would easily fill in a 2 foot by 4 foot space on the wall. I am using them for desktop wallpaper right not.

What trouble am I going to get into tonight... I dunno.. but it will have cookies in there somewhere. Zero 7 - Somersault. Saw a friends blog on a drawing it took her three years to complete. I was amazed. If I were in here shoes.. I would have bloomin well lost it already. A bow to the rabbit. A musketeer bow with all the flourishes and sweeping the floor with huge feather topped hats... ( without the tripping and falling on the face bit ).

Since I came home late and then had to re-cable my surface and hub I didn't have much time for links. I did find a few things... I really want to run off and look at things to see in Seattle Washington as I am heading there soon for a law course. Well here you go...look these over... Oh and I have to get the box of Otter Noses to my brother for his birthday.... oops.

Know your rights... follow instructions, behave, be nice......

http://gizmodo.com/4-things-you-need-to-know-if-the-police-try-to-search-y-1596678292

Zero 7 - Swing.

I wonder what fashion trends are killing who at this time..... botox anyone?

http://io9.com/the-7-deadliest-fashion-trends-of-all-time-1595312875

Oh Oh .. number 11!!!!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicamisener/30-things-only-antisocial-people-understand?bffb

Sadly it was not that can that was the problem.. it was the large tiger in the laundry hamper...

http://www.neatorama.com/2014/06/26/Schrodingers-Cat-Furniture/



pause...

pause... Tangerine Dream... No future

Purple comes drifting up and smacks into red without a by your leave... cymbals, chimes.. and little tinglings or those small bells you see on baby shoes before they were outlawed, arrive with the settling of that lilac color. So far there hasn't been a bad segue from one color to another.. two more to go...unless something is going to get very different.... raising my chin from the wonder of wonders below me, slowly..very slowly time has slowed without my knowing it. Its taking ages to just look up through my eyebrows, which furrowed as they are make it devilish to see through. Watching the shapes below me move so quickly I never noticed how slowly everything else is around me... I can see I need to get said eyebrows trimmed soon.... At least the bells and gongs and chimes are flowing smoothly, up, up, up..doooooowwnnn... done dooowwwwnnnn...... Homeward bound.... I know this song.... I know it....

Edge Detect

lED zEPPElIn.... gOOD tIMES bAD tIMES......

Followed by Goldfrappe - Strick Machine...

Wednesday.. or........MONDAY Thrice!

You choose. Got's stuff done..... Took a lot of time but there ya go... More to do tomorrow and yep.. if I can keep my eyes from burning in their sockets from the screens....... That and the disaster that is my shattered memory computer. I can say I am happy because our ITO is back. Why... because he always has his head on.. while mine is spinning around in circles.

What did you think of spacing pictures between paragraphs... meh? It was fun while it lasted. Missing Persons - Surrender your love... oldie but goodie. The way this blog site is set up and how some things are selected to share limits me to where I can place some things. I would normally start out with a joke but if I do it gets messed up. Yes... Goodies... as in "The Goodies". Oh well...

I also gots lots done after work. I split, got gas in my truck, raced to the wife's SUV, grabbed that, ran to Sams club, got tires put on, ran around a block in the 96 degree temps taking pictures of plants and flowers and trees, ran back to Sams, got a 5 lb bag of sugar, got the SUV, got gas in it and boogied back to the house.. Then I parked kitty corner...hahaha.... cant wait to hear about that. Had to get a car seat out...stopping to figure out how car seat was installed, Removed it... Clean up and fell into the house. Bleeping too hot to be wandering around in the heat taking pictures.

Stopped there to change the track.. Little Dragon - Twice. This is a good song but always puts my mind to friends who drift away. Just sitting here wondering. Well, It is a song that is interesting in its lyrics as well as its melodies, It always feels like a daydreaming song, or a just waking on a sunny Saturday morning, sun streaming in...

Ah well.... hang on a sec.. gotta find a head banging song,,, brb.... Stan Ridgway - operator Help me.... hmmmm...... Downbeat.... Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls... So insular in their thinking... Small world... Afraid of the big world? Hmmm....... No..... Joe Jackson.. Stepping out...

I love music but it easily drags me in and adjusts my mood. Not a good thing sometimes.

So, in a need to go elsewhere in edits and art or just trying things again. I edited some shots for long, weird, basic,, glow.... Meh....

See... Just dragging.....

I must find some links.. I did see some a bit ago but I erased them by accident.... Let me find them again.

Zero 7 - Destiny....

Not sure I care enough about this anymore.. Its on your writs... yawn..

http://gizmodo.com/samsung-gear-live-hands-on-turns-out-smartwatches-coul-1596056417

Good idea... yes.. I really like it.... I also like the idea of functional non destroy-able bathrooms...

http://gizmodo.com/a-refurbished-bus-will-bring-showers-to-the-homeless-in-1595973406

I can think of four ways to make this better..... no.. sorry.. five.. and cheaper!

http://www.neatorama.com/2014/06/25/The-Forever-Alone-Pod-Is-Exactly-What-It-Should-Be/

And..... Cool.. I wanna go there and shoot the whole place.. Oh man!

http://www.neatorama.com/2014/06/25/Churches-Underwater/

Fun city.. Okay.. Wet City...

Alan Parsons - One Good reason....

There triangles of light out of a hexagon of  WHO THE HELL KNOWS WHY AM I STANDING HERE!!! Oh.. right.. to find things out.. How much time has past since the last peal? Id say I was getting tired of the whole thing if it wasn't for the colors, and the jiggly feeling... Reaching out to touch the... will it hurt, touch the flaring color wall that is from my back to my front.... one finger...chicken ( my brain says )... touching the flares of color speedily dripping upwards.... tingle... boom or just cut the tip off.... well here goes... Well! That's just novel... I cant touch the color at all.. my index finger just stops before actually touching the color runs.... Push harder just makes my finger hurt. Okay... Whats the next color to go... Orange, Blue, Red...and...... and....

Obscurity....In plain sight.

Just a note to let on about titles. I usually put the title in as a little bell to what most interests me today.. Or this day.. being the day it is. Sometimes though I get carried away and all hell breaks loose, goes for coffee and ends up slouched down in the chair the rest of the day.

Today's insanity was brought to you by the letters, T, M, A, O, and T again. Too Much At One Time. Its like spikes in your head to make your nerves just sizzle. Problems here, problems there, all at the same time. I was grinding my teeth for a bit there trying to process very important stuff while being chewed away but little things. I never want to turn anyone away and there are some things that just cant be done by someone else so that I can pay attention to the primary. If I stopped to explain what was needed I would spend twice the time it would take me to do it myself and also cause twice the delay in the hot topic. I have to still learn to asses priorities on the fly and categorize quickly, then act. I did it but it sure did cause me to stop and get mad at myself.

Hot Inflation. Purpose built Racer envelopes always lift in a odd way compared to standard envelopes or modified racer types. Ask and I will tell ya.

Help is on the way. I will be able to relinquish two and a half of my extra duties. One I cant let go of because its such a mess still and I am just starting to get it cleaned up. I will see it to the completion. Plus there are tons of things I end up having to field because of where I sit. Not complaining.. never that.. just going on because I can here. No, really, Id rather be busy than twiddling my fingers in a pattern.. like this............ ( I was flicking my fingers about there ). I think that once I let go of those two things I can pay direct attention to the one thing plus my job and get the training running and be happier with knowledge of what I need to know not just this wandering about. Its all good and will work out in the end.


Not being followed... HAH! Ive lost the chase crew. Really, flying a balloon you are always doing 260 degree checks. This was while I was ground tracking at 12 mph per the gps and getting ready to do my first landing of the day.

Editing last night I thought about what I was doing and how scattered I am.. I get bored with things quickly and am off to try something new. Its not that I wont come back to it later.. or on a minutes notice but yeah. things get stale to me..


Who got out of the basket? I am in my normal position in the back right corner, legs crossed at the ankle and relaxing over Southern Blvd.

There is a chance to fly again this weekend. Not sure I can do it though. Short crew, other items needing attention and little time to attend to them. I even thought for a while that this daily blogging was taking too much time to do... I spoke to myself sternly. This is more than a blog.. Its a place for me to blow off steam, rant, show some pics, edits or what not, also put some web pages and ideas in front of you that you might not ever see.... and try to write a coherent sci fi story with absolutely no talent, just ideas.


What a go pro video looks like when it falls from the uprights, then gets slammed and graded under the front edge of the basket.

You will have noted I spaced pictures in between each section of writing... I felt like it. Did you understand the descriptions? All good then.


Left behind gopro. Dragging for about 40 yards or so... it still recorded the dust blowing past it.

 Camera works fine with a little cleaning.

To the links... which is not the same as what a golfer would hear...

If it would just stay with me flying it would be great...but it don't have the legs.

http://geekologie.com/2014/06/video-cam-qaudrocopter-that-automaticall.php

We are in the age of scientists creating stuff that might be useful, dangerous, deadly, stupid... here come the zombies!!!

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/scientist-discover-new-material-that-makes-objects-invi-1595555948/+kcampbelldollaghan

I thought this wa waste until they mentioned bacon...

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/10-extremely-useful-life-hacks-for-everyday-situations

Who would have thunk it. Also.. deleting or editing well known pictures to shield children is only going to backlash in the future.. Quit editing the future to fit the ridiculous PC morays of the world now.

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/47-more-fun-and-random-facts-you-probably-didn-t-know-about

Two triangles and two colors and a slight ringing in my ears... Hard to hear much of anything for all the pyrotechnics around me. as the orange and blue wedges sit melding together the third is spinning down below... A buzz-saw of red... turning white along the edges....a fish on an invisible line.. flashing this way and that in the murky depths.. rushing left, then right and around counter clockwise and back again.. ever closer... is there some thing special about the red spinning thing... .... ah..no... it tries to break the line by slamming into place next to the blue with another deafening tone... B flat I believe.... har har ahr... BLoooonnngggg!

Flash Traffic

Keep your pants on!

Mega Monday. Walk in and start running. Yen.. just the way I like it. A little breathing space in there but a lot of typing, letters, paperwork processing .. and I did move a few cabinets just to stand up. This did not do my back and arms any good so I stopped it right away. When it screams you stop.. when it pulls you stop. Not a bad day and I did get a LOT done. More to do tomorrow and more on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. I wished I lived closer to work.

I put pause my decision to redo the fish pond. I ripped up by the roots the month that was choking the waterfall and pump output this last weekend. That and cleaning the pump filter helped a lot. I am now worrying that if I change them out now that there will not be enough scum in the bottom to keep the fishes alive over winter. I do have two bats worth of filter fabric still and so I can do another filter change in September and that will keep them happy until next spring. If I buy my metal pond in December I might bet a better deal as well. Stage everything for March and then run at it then. I do have other things I could get done in the meantime. Good idea self.. slapping my back here.

( Here are three shots from my GoPro while flying and beating myself up landing Saturday..woah ) ( Because I can! )

Title : How to get from point A to point B when winds are going from F to P. Not Happening. : 

Or Wistful Thinking.

32M Btu is beautiful

Over You Go!

Yeah it was an awesome day of flying... followed by the payback of pain... But you can get past that.

The set of posters I did last night were a hit. I really liked them and will try and do more tonight. For now you will have to settle for a few things I did on the side. Its funny how 5pm can turn into 9pm in the blink of the eye. Well hang on because I am blinking a lot.

Links

Mother is the name of invention… Woops.. got that wrong.

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/7-amazing-gadgets-accessories-that-might-change-the-world

Love it..Very cool… Water based softer clothes.

http://gizmodo.com/how-innovations-in-water-based-printing-make-clothes-so-1593191500

Do this now.. do it so it.. can I have one set up across from my office?

http://gizmodo.com/inside-the-disaster-housing-nyc-is-testing-for-city-eme-1592805305

Oh Oh… funny…. Dinner and all..

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/24-funny-examples-showing-why-parents-grandparents-are-masters-of-social-media

Reminds me.. I need PIE.

Rumble rumble rumble..

Hexagonal surround, with some cheese sauce on the side… Uh .. no… Each triangular segment of the hex is .. well it looks like its coming from way below me.. rushing up…. One.. Orange.. Tone! Sound of a gong… KaGonggggg! Another is rushing up br far below.. I dare not lift a foot to see if its solid because it still feels damn well like I am not on the ground, boads, earth! What the hell! Blue hits… BAWooooommmm….. its like being the the flipped middle of the bells of Notre Dame! No muffles and the wounded reverberates upwards in a tube of vibrancy and crackling voltages. Not that its electrocuting me in any way but the little hairs on my neck are sticking up all over. It must be alarming the whole countryside. What the fair owners and this carousel owner thin at this moment I don't know… Hope I don't end up on some tower roof…. Orange and Blue triangles are jiggling together between my knees.. just happy to see each other…. Bloody marvelous!

Listening to Zero 7 and Kimbra while considering reality. Stop and just try to do it. 

Cards, Deuces Wild

I was supposed to get up this morning. I was supposed to be out to see the Top Gun balloonists try to make the targets, I was supposed to see the two new Zing Racer types fly. My creaky old body decided I would lay in bed groaning from the abuse I put it through yesterday. Unknown I had used my left arm as a prop, brace, locking clamp through the three/four hard landings I did yesterday. Watching the video take I can see myself just jolly well setting my left elbow jam into the crook between bolster and upright and just bounce off it over three hits into the ground. That plus using my right arm / hand to control and work my lines. Crazy over use. I am paying for it today. Muscle relaxers and aspirins and not doing anything quickly. Best choice.

I did get the bed linen washed and back on the bed as well as packing away cameras and equipment. Nothing hard, nothing fast. I did watch the end of the Star Trek ~ Darkness movie and also the whole of the Avengers movie. I am glad I didn't pay for either. Aside from the more excellent cinematography and a few good bits of dialogue neither was worth the time logically. Avengers ending was so campy I was looking around for the white tracking dots. Yawn. Lets try something original and clean instead of expecting the special effects to carry the movie. Another yawn. I am reading. Brian Daley's Requiem For A Ruler Of Worlds for the ..... 50 something-th time. Why.. Because its a slap your chaps hooten hollerin fun time in space, earth, elsewhere. It never tries for the cheap laugh but cracking you up just there without the least need for you to fill in a blank off the cards your kindergarten teacher held up. Three books in total. Everyone worth the time to read ( okay, Number three is a bit of a yawn across the middle ). Why not produce that as a movie. Would easily make six movies out of it. Please do not in that destroy it like was done with Tim Powers, On Stranger Tides... which was the core of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. The original movie was ten to one hundred times better... But I digress.....

I did while sitting and trying to NOT MOVE my arm nor piss off my back... do some edits in kind of a set of shots.... Look below. I may have to get better shots but I worked with what I had... And yes I wanted them exactly ( somewhat ) how I have them. Don't ask foolish questions.... unless you cant help yourself.

Hard to get equator shots unless you are flying next to that balloon. Colors and size are limited on this set because of the need to do it NOW and not wait till I have a chance to get Just That Exact Shot! Yeesh!

OKay.. Links today are iffy...

For those of you that are aged and trying NOW to learn tricks.. Like training wheels.. exactly like training wheels...

http://www.gizmag.com/skatertrainer-stationary-skateboard-tricks/32625/

Many comments come to me of drives failing or iffy. Buy two of the same drive.. mirror everything. If you thing a drive is bad.. change it out. This is a test before...

http://lifehacker.com/test-a-new-external-hard-drive-by-doing-a-secure-erase-1593457120

 Windows Surface 3...really? Getting a bit like Apple arnt we? As much as I love my surface, and I do... I am not stepping to 3 for what they did to it. Many more upgrades need to be done before I would.. Like dual USB 3 ports. Dual bootable Micro chip storage..things like that...

http://www.gizmag.com/surface-pro-3-review-initial/32640/

And.. off on the stupid...

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/24-bizarre-warning-tags-and-messages-that-actually-exist

Told ya.... Its like that.

With the wail on the storm the blue flaming tendrils suck below my boots. The planking is highlighted as streaks going across and over and around in two dimensions just below me. I can, it seems, like I am about...okay it looks, when looking at my feet that I am half inch above the boards. Whoa.. and I say this because there is a reflection as the traces go beneath the leather bottoms and create shadow streaks.. back and forth. A very loud feminine "Damn it all!" rages closer, about where the outside of the carousel might be if at this time I could know that. Still looking at the feet and not gonna raise my head, the traces rush outward to start building a hexagonal border about the inside floor-space centering on me..... whoa baby again!

Soreness but with it.

WHATAGREATDAYOMGIEVENFLEWIN13MPHWINDS!!!

Yeah. I'm cool. WE got out to the launch area via Starbucks. Got there about 10 minutes early. Stuck myself out of the way of the other balloonists but with room around. Everyone else showed up and I started getting things out, even though the wind was up a bit. I was told that it was going to die off so we set up and with my little balloon it gets filled fast. Tested, prepped, cams on and up and out. Then the winds got friskier. What was going to be a couple of elevators turned out to be up, over, down, and the winds were going 13 mph...screaming over the motor-cross area and not feeling like bouncing off ever darn lip of every turn, ground tracked ( I've seen the video.... awesome) and dropped it on the other side. Winds were so fast that the dust when I do stop dragging is streaking past my basket bottom. Did this four times. The two in the middle were from altitude to ground tracking to touching then lifting out... those were at 10 mph. Up and out and over some power-lines, looked for a clear non cactus infested area and put her down nice and sweet as you can please. I did in the 60 yard drag have a go pro camera pop off then bulldozed under my basket. I went and got it.. works fine. What a rush. I don't usually fly in anything lower than 5 mph but this was just me... and a lot of open area. I could have planted it directly on touchdown but it was better to not be hard on the equipment and did her up a treat!

Late Night Insanity

After a good chat with all the friends at the launch area we bopped back to the house for showers then over to the Brothers house for a semi surprise party. Had to leave and do werk but it was good. They said they would save me some cake. It was fun to natter about stuff. I did get a few shots of their flowers before we left. I edited the shots I took at the brothers and made them up nice. They are below. Slight tweaks and crops with highlights in. Fun bloomin day due to all to good people who came out and helped.


Bright Tinkles.

Lilac Fairies.

NTBlooms.

Velvet Blue.

Elena Petals.

All from my Brothers house.

Links..

Nifty cool. Gotta get this app for my phone. I need to get one that translates English to Spanish and back. speak and spell... I can learn on the fly.

http://gizmodo.com/electronic-wristbands-translate-sign-language-into-smar-1594190782

Funny things....

http://lifehacker.com/top-10-silly-but-awesome-products-that-make-life-easier-1592546403

Strange cat noises. but cool. The holding purrs are amazing.

http://www.neatorama.com/2014/06/20/Cat-Welcomes-Soldier-Home/

THis just made me laugh so hard I had tears in my eyes. Especially the Devon area accents... I would love to hear one of the US.... that would be a laugh.

http://www.neatorama.com/2014/06/21/One-Woman-Seventeen-Different-British-Accents/

Oh.. and I ache a lot. I braced my left arm and while bouncing it took a lot of hits. Ill try and get some clips out of it to post.

Onward!

Chimes, a tinkle, ring ring, rumble of lightning. Quiet... I can hear the winds rolling across the the tarps over the outside of the carousel. I am, in this center of calm aware of the thrumming coming from my watch pocket. Rumble of thunder, closer, thrum of the watch, and peak of lightning and boom of lightning closer still.... The, the.. dammit! The St Elmo's fire! That's it... Its touching along each sharp edge highlighting the whole carousel. Blue licks, very tight, very organized and pulsing along with the thrumming of the watch... A loud feminine yell comes on the wind with the rumbling of the storm, clearly picked out of the noise because of the tight register of a female voice... Peal, crackle, BOOM!