Realities Note

Stuck at home sniffling through the night... yay me! Was almost able to go have some Chili's with friends and nope... snorted and sneezed my way through the day today. Blah! It all sucks majorly.

So on the way home I stopped at the Walmart on Ourey and I-40 to get medications.... what a rip off! Milk 3.88 a gallon. Its 2.30 a gallon at the neighborhood store at Paseo and Golfcourse. Also they were "out" of a lot of generic medicines. I can find those all the time at the other store. It is officially off my list of stores I will visit. What is very irritating is it is smack dab in a low income area and people who do not have transportation have to go there to buy their food. Nice that. 

So home.. medicated and staring at the walls. I did at last get the final storage drives sorted out. Its complicated. Between splitting drive contents to fit specifically sized drives and larger drives.. It gets confusing. If it was economically sound to just go buy three or four 4 gig hard drives I would do that. Sorry.. until I run out of space I cant justify the cost ( not that bad but unjustifiable! ). When I do I will be giving hard drives for birthday gifts hahahaha.....

Happy Birthday. here is a 1 TB drive... happy birthday... hope you like 1.5 TB drives.. YAY you!

Not much time to do much of anything with anything. Oh.. I almost forgot... I ran across a PHDick interview... he had much to say with alternate realities along the line of my story line enough for me to get a little worried. He had some quite interesting things to say about the whole thing. The link is below.

http://io9.com/philip-k-dick-on-fine-tuning-your-b-s-meter-to-spot-1688043158

Pretty freaky..... very freaky.

Until I know differently I will continue to roll with this reality.. if you disappear its because you never really existed... granted if the disappearance and appearance of things and people continue.. well.. then its quite apparent that you can cross from one to another.... be warned....

On the photography and editing plane of existence I have only these to posit....

Almost all of the below were made for Facebook profile pictures so the quality is low to fit that parameter.

Lindstrand Awesome burner edit.... 

New strange "art" at the balloon museum. Its a balloon catcher... cables poles to get stuck on... 

Fabric water colors.

My poem during this last Fiesta. Says it all.

I love polarizing then flipping these edits on their point. They would make great wall hangings.

Then there is the end of the Sandia range to the North... Something makes me love that last little ridge on the left.

And now its time for bed..... tomorrow... more......... medications... and edits....Yay again!

Trial and Errors.. many many errors!

Ever wonder what happens when a weather office has to stop processing the weather due to a main computer upgrade or a power outage or or or>?/??? Ya ever thought? Cant just not do the weather! Cant not just do warnings and watches and hazards.....

We just completed a pretty convoluted mod on the main computer system... so the forecasters couldn't not forecast.... They pretty much worked on what they could but there was no way to send that out or even get it out via NWRadio except manually. What is done is that one of our sister offices handled everything. In this case the weather office in St Teresa / El Paso handled their area as well as ours... They did great. The mod was two days with today being the second day. Nothing went as the process was supposed to. Stellar work by our ITO kept it from bogging down. ITOs are seemingly sitting around but they arnt. Removing an ITO from an office is like taking the wheels off your car and expecting it to keep going. Yeah.. the wheels sit there most times just invisibly holding things up.. but take them off and you are on blocks.... Yeah.. tortured but its the truth.

What made it better was the bagels and doughnuts! Oh and lots of coffee. Something like 10 hours yesterday and 5 today. Its chugging along and our forecasters took over from El Paso around 1pm. Seems the weather held off just until then because right after it started snowing in town. Whew!

Tomorrow its back to running around in circles, leaping to conclusions, questioning everyting that moves or not.... and hoping there is closure on other things.... I do have to bring in and replace the other side of my office, make calls, answer email.... If you ever want to see what we do.. come visit.

Now getting home and putting things away. Trying to do a few edits that are worthy of the wall. Separating hard drives and finding one that went missing. Gotta think about that for a moment and figure out what I did and why. I did find out that a surface pro computer will not allow the daisy-chaining of hubs without a dock. Add a dock and it runs everything easily.. why??? who knows but i t must be a controller thing. Now to sort more out. then move the backups to the office for safekeeping.

Here is what I played with this evening using the same process that I used yesterday except... well you can see....

FanTABulous!

OverCat.

KKLuminal.

Moo!

Fun things to do in your moments on mental breakdown.

Two things are or have happened today...but I deleted that rant.....  Do not let the govt sell you anything... it will always cost you more than you think for less. Every damn time. I am tired of the stupid people. Idocoracy every damn day.

Signing off... tomorrow is "slap an Idiot day!"

Design...blah!

Watching designonhgtv... wow .. what a load of junk!

The judges are vapid and hollow... the designers are okay but its just meh!

There is an under-currant of favoritism regardless of what is being made or is made. Meh!

MEH MEH MEH!!

But that's me...

Since I am still having problems with hubs and external drives and controllers and such I didnt much do anything at all tonight. One thing I really did like and that was a redo of something I had already done already...again! Nothing says you can revisit something. Every time I turn around I can think of something else that might be done. This one I saw last night but could not get it out at that time. Tonight it came out nicely. I would put this on my wall at about 6 by 2 feet. Yeah.. not just because its my colors and envelope... but its cool!

I did get a note from a friend that my balloon was seen again in India on another huge billboard. It must have been a stock shot taken at ( I'm sure ) Fiesta. Surprised that they keep using the same one. I am not complaining.. I love it. LOL... Below is the banner.

Right behind the "28th" YAY!

Here is what I came up with tonight....


Love the little lights.... A single in the darkness.

Roadside rampage.

Highper Sky

Love the last one the most..... Ah well... I thing.. No I know I can recreate this again. I did write this one down. Something like 22 different edit runs. Maybe two to three hours.

I got a gig next month.. looking forward to it in a strange way as it is off my beaten path but doable and done. I worry because I would not want to make anyone unhappy. So.. fingers crossed on that.

It was a long and dreary day...... Humor was necessary and pretty much required due to some novel programming and instructions. I would wish that tomorrow was less novel and more straightforward.
I am all for getting things done and finished.... pushed aside into a good file and onto more interesting and functional things.

Oh.. we are back to it being cold outside again so I do not feel the need to go out and risk frostbite to take pictures... Wonderful for procrastinators everywhere.

Have a good one!

Divisional thoughts

Sunday meditations....

If you cant change it then go along with it?

Are we just a hologram and if so why do we feel pain?

What is the priority? When it changes every few moments can it be called a priority?

Why can I not hook up more than five or six drives before my surface gives me a "not enough controllers" error. Yes I am using powered hubs.

Minor questions and not the most important either.

Im stumped tonight.

I spent a lot of today looking through files getting run off track at almost every second. I achieved little except frustration.

What is the use of a file system if you can never remember how you filed something the last time?

The only thing I did do was a few edits including the one above.. which I did two different ways.. below is the other one.

Another hour edit for the heck of it.. crazy I know.

Here are three I did last night...

Zoomed in, hue adjust, crop, layer, drop shadow, title.

Slight zoom, massive tone map as it was a dark shot, hue adjust, drop shadow, title.

Crop,hue adjust, clip, layer, solar flare, fade, overlay, drop shadow, title.

 Fun but I keep getting carried away by trying different applications to find just the right one.

I never write anything down. I would be a bad scientist as would never write down my procedures and steps so i would never be able to reapply or verify. Perhaps I need to reevaluate my location of process so that I have a place to write down each step along the way.... so much thinking... so much work.

Maybe I just like the surprise! Yeah... that's it! Its always a surprise so I keep doing it this way! Whew!  Thought I was just going crazy.

Here is a twenty something step process I did on the crown of my balloon. I was really trying to make it look like an edit I did earlier with another friends balloon but it didn't come out right... I was trying to make a hairless hamster and ended up with a hamster that was 20 pounds instead!!! SCIENCE!

See.. this is what I was trying for.... I think I know what step I missed...

I really like how this turned out....

Maybe less sun in the middle.... Hmmm..

Off I go.

Nothin on the internet was interesting... mostly rehashes of other crap that other people had posted and gotten wrong or so skewed by their tiny minds need to force their reality on others instead of being the "supposed" open minded, free thinking, everyone leave me and mine along, I have rights but you dont people.... pretty damn sad.

Oh.. and my opinion.. if you let the govt regulate the internet and its content it will die in the US. Read Tad Williams Otherland series... A Subnet will or already exists that cannot be controlled by the tiny minds.  Sad that we have to be controlled by those same people who do not want anyone controlling them. Rant, rant, rant.

So.. no net links.. no story continuation either... geeee.... how scuzzy is this. Since its my blog I decided about five seconds ago that I can do what I want... Don't Oppress me Bro!

I am off to edit my crown shot slightly.. need to get that hairless hamster!

Excursions

Interesting day going to Pets Mart and then "Wall" Mart....Ask me which had more nice animals in it... Go on.

Right.. Pets Mart! Met a couple of very nice dogs.. squeeked some toys and bought a muzzle ( had to clip some puppy nails ) ( said puppy is sleeping on my lap at the moment ). ( Oh..also some idiots tried to steal a puppy from the adoption area... STUPID ).

Most of the visitors to Walmart were grumpy, standing in the middle of the isle with their baskets canted across, creating log jams of grungy grumpy snarly animals. Just say excuse me and get snorted at! It was fun....not. Glad I didn't have lunch before. Bought things for work. Super tempted to buy a 30 inch tv for the office so I could put my calender on it so it would be in front of me all the time. I have a 22 inch monitor at home I could take to work which I could use. Not the impact but .. it might work.

I did finish fixing nets today. I was able to verify my mirrors of picture hard drives and also check that all the files were there. Comforting to know they are. Now I should be taking those drives to work so if there is a fire or break in at the house I wont lose both. I have to find a secure place first... I will think of that in a bit.

WARNING.... back up your pictures, videos, music... mirroring them is the hardest way but the best and easiest way to secure those precious data bits.

Notice the weird characters and highlighting on last nights blog. Yeah. Stupid site kept formatting weirdly. I could erase everything and retype or leave it. Nice. May have to find a better site to blog to.

I edited the take from my GoPro3. I had it on the side of the basket last Saturday. It died after 1 1/2 hours so missed the landing. I had it pointed in ( right )  too far so it was only okay. Its edited to 27 times normal speed and normal speed in other parts. Music went well with it. At 60 fps it turned out very clearly. Happy about that... Here is the link....

http://InvisibleBlack.zenfolio.com/p715442282/e30c09513

Here is the 360 degree fisheye unedit viewpoint.. Nauseous.

http://InvisibleBlack.zenfolio.com/p715442282/e21412a5

Last is the split of the 360. It still gets funny at the bottom and the quality isn't the best.

http://InvisibleBlack.zenfolio.com/p715442282/e18013d89

I will have to try some different settings.



I only edited one picture today with all the driving and shopping and net mending....

I like it..

Nice and green. This was a green light in a lit room..okay Saggio's restaurant. Took a bit to get it here.

Some that I played with earlier.... I changed a letter of a word.. which one was it?

Edited for level... touched the hue... Love the NO!

I have to print some of these soon darnit! I think the NO would be great at 4 foot by 1.5 feet over my desk at work. Hahaha

Stuffing fingers into vest pockets, slipping long coat backwards and glaring at the smirk... smirk smirk smirk..... "What are you smirking about?!" Drifts back..."this hallway... Have you had enough of it yet?" Is that even a necessary question? Clop, clop...walk walk... "Yes! Somewhat shouting through fixed lips, YES!"  About ten paces ahead the "butler" turns sharply stopping directly, causing me to come to a short quick halt... "Just say they word." .... Word?????  "WORD!"

BOOM!

Continuous preaching blues

The title of an Ian Anderson album I pretty much detest. Sorry but it had to be said. I've been holding that in for quite a while.

Aside from that little outburst it has been an interesting day. Hang on a sec.. gotta get some music on.

Okay.. some oddly strange electronic swing.

Woe be you who cannot find the E key.... nevermind. I kept typing the w or r key.. continuously. Wow.

I was about to start cutting bait instead of fishing and got sidetracked right away. I was looking for JPGs of 2014 and found a scad           noun : a large number or quantity or chum

of NEF files that shouldn't have been where they were and and a massive amount of Chum JPGs missing from where they were supposed to be.  So now I have attached all the NEF drives to find out what where and why.. so in stead of fishing or cutting bait I am mending nets. Weee!Aside from that though its been a temperamental week. But lets even shove that aside. Lets go to instead a friends video capturing of Saturdays balloon flight who was nicely close behind me. So the video was great and I was able to see what I was doing from a distance and it was a good video. Amazing how many wind changes were between where they were and where I was at very similar levels above the ground. Too bad you all are not on a facebook connection since that's the only place it is. I have one more video file to edit down.. and that was from the gopro 3 that was on my left side. I may do that tonight if I feel up to it. Searching for files in the evening is a bad thing.I did was to share more edits I have done since its been a while for blogsphere. Oh I put the gopro on 720 60 fpm this time so I wonder how that will effect the video. Time for some testing.... soon..Edits...

Each bleak and chilling.. okay.. maybe the Shamrock isn't but it could be. More adjustments to these before I am ready to print.. hahah.. print....

Listening to Alan Parsons .. Id rather be a man.... Interesting lyrics. Oh can I get lost in my head. Good day for it.

Shotgun! Yup.. totally shotgun thinking.

More of yesterdays rambling man....

So.. question.. When do you stop taking pictures and do something with them? Right after.. Or is it.. pictures then edit then print then pictures then edit then print... or what.

Ah well.. I will figure it out soon.

Question.... Do you really need to be so into your phone that you need this?

http://gizmodo.com/the-most-flexible-phone-stand-home-theater-upgrades-a-1687000407

For a friend who is always pinching a flower here and there.. be cautious girl!

http://geekologie.com/2015/02/mantis-mimics-orchid-to-catch-bee-for-a.php

Just funnin ya!

Like nesting dolls.. hahaha..

http://www.neatorama.com/2015/02/20/CT-Scan-Reveals-That-Statue-of-the-Buddha-Is-Actually-a-Mummy/

How many other secrets are sitting there waiting ....

Wobblingly at this point.. asking.... "what is the meaning of all this.... this... hall? On and on... flat out tired here... still stumbling along.. hopefully an answer is to be had along the way... even a kiosk that had lies Id accept a newspaper from at this point.  I think even some Edison Medicine? "Hay!"... a slight twitch from the head ahead of me... did I catch a smirk? Bah!

Chinese New Year 2015

Rambling.. I'm a rambling man.... ramblin...... ramble....

Here we are again.... A new year... for the Chinese! Us descendants on Genghis Khan are working on February 19th of the new year. So far it a bust. Along the lines of lets get it over already and see what that next year might bring.

Yeah, yeah yeah... I know.. not all cherry pie and all but hay, I need daily affirmation!

Alright.... I was going to write up this awesomely detailed blog on using Cyberlink Power Director to make that go pro video into a watchable movie with titles and cuts and speed changes and audo overdubs and mods... but after clipping shots everywhere I came to the realization that it was too long and too boring. So I cut it!

I am now thinking on a short video showing the steps it takes. That will take a quiet room, much needed setup and hopefully not too many retakes. I have high hopes... but I said that for the year too.

Watch this space...

What I did come to this last evening was that the hardest part of building a movie for myself was the music. I can and do use music that is free in different forms but most times I want something I enjoy listening too and would if I could listen to music while flying... which I cant.

Music for videos/movies has to fit the mood. I have a vast list and a whole bunch of favorites but I went looking on the nets for something I didn't have. I ended up not using any but they were great.. here are some I hit.

Very cool video... Love the tonality...wish it had been used to greater effect without the blob being dropped...  but here...

https://vimeo.com/119439725

This has always had a place for me. Fantasticly drawing chords...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42MAk4_DBFc

And ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmJZRt3I9D4

Which is just haunting in my frame of mind.

Oh... there are more but thats enough for this first blog of the "year".

I have been working on all sorts of stuff edit wise... from cell phone wallpaper to shots of my friends to three hour edits... ( I lost track of time ) .. No direction at all yet. I was hoping something would come but... nope.. everywhere and anywhere.... Sorry..you have to suffer with me.

A few of my favorites...

So many layers and edits I lost time.... But its awesome.

Net shot of game I edited for my phone.

Try and figure out what I edited.

Quick shot which I loved because of the horses AND the motorcycle.

This was from a T-shirt from a web site I loved. I reedited it for the cell size.

I will pass along the tag later. Good prices too. http://www.neatorama.com/

I expect to get some idea of where I am going later.... So many things going on and no idea where to go with it.

Merry happy New season year time! Pounce pounce pounce pounce!!!







Walking along...following... following.. nothing very descriptive to point out... like.. Oh.. here is a monet.... a Rembrandt... Oh... its a drawing my my daughter when she was in third grade.. I thought it got tossed! Wow.. no.. nothing but a corridor now. Floor is a floor..walls a monosyllabic wall.... back of a butler.. or one supposes...... tap tap tap.... no tigers here.... no rabbits... no moose.... I wonder what for lunch?