Sunday, May 19, 2019

The days are going faster

The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta is 138 days away...

You should be getting worried about now...


Not in any priority.

Insurance renewal.
Steps for the truck.
Food and Drink.
Full clean of the balloon system.
Full clean of the trailer.

Before that though we have the Angle Fire balloon rally in June!

Things can get away from you very fast. Summer is here and next, it will be September and just too late.

This weekend was minus flying. Saturday the winds were too high and Sunday I needed to get some sleep as my neighbor had decided to hammer on things in his back yard until midnight and that killed any rest I got. Had to raise my voice, at last, to have him cut it out. I did and he did say sorry but ... sigh.

So a weekend shattered.

What I ended up doing is editing the remainder of my Nieces wedding photographs.. my outtake shots.

That and dusting, which is a fool's errand as it will just be as dusty in a few days. Can't get away from it here in the desert. Not unless you have a positive air pressure house with airlocks. I didn't select those options when I bought my house. My mistake... I also reorganized my stuff.

Stuff means, all the DSLR pieces and parts, GoPro and Kodak 360 pieces and parts, all the chargers, all the radios, all the plugs, all the music players, all the memory, and all the cables... I'm sure I missed something. I removed one huge bin and two smaller bins and added four medium sized bins that equal the huge bin. Halved the stuff in the closet. I feel better.. the closet can breathe a bit and all the items are with like items.

Amazing how you can build up so much ... well... stuff...

So much stuff. Laid it out on the floor and grouped all of it. Out of the big bin and separate.

Surprising how many velcro straps piled up. What was I strapping with all of these!

An abundance of Nikon camera straps. Since I took them off all the cameras I had they are sitting around. Now they are strapped with velcro straps until I can find someone who needs one. That and lens caps. I lose them all the time so I have spares.

My CDOTV ( OCD Tourettes Version ) is satisfied with the below picture. I have many many chip adapters which are worth nothing but I can't seem to throw them away. Lots of stereo plugs I never use anymore but might someday find a use for...

My last two Archos media center players. Both had 500 gig drives in them so you could watch movies or listen to music and such....but now you can do that on your phone so why carry around one of these clunky things. Amazing how fast the process changed and Archos saw it coming and changed too.. so now these are defunct. just bits of old tech now.

Almost everything I reboxed or separated and stored has no intrinsic value but to save me buying a new one in the years to come if I ever need that three-headed whoosits.

It still feels good to have completed a task that was pretty daunting. Now to make sure nothing gets put back in there nor have whats in there get messed up again.

I also wanted to relocate my second very old computer. I only use it when I have something time consuming to do or I need desk space. Sadly the table it's on is small but too big for this space.

So do I pull an old roll around table to put it on so it can be moved where ever I need it or should I dispense with it altogether or should I just leave well enough alone because in a few weeks ill change my mind on how I want it? I hate this... If I swap it out will it work or will I want to return it to whatever way it was before? Too limited space but is it too limited or just not functional.

Still mulling it.

Having fun yet?

Some of my favorite clips from the interwebs.... Because I can.





On my front door.
 Its a new Mexican thing.











Best of what's in my brain right now.


Lastly... before I go soak my head... The Rio Grande Classic Top Gun Competition is this next Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Come out and see the antics of this wild bunch. I will be taking photographs and trying not to fall down.