Yeah baby!

Nothing like a busting day... good friends... 

         Hard work.....  So many great people to talk to.....

      I don't know where to begin.. or where to stop it....

MEGA RANGE!!!

I have a plan.... for a shoot!  Not gonna say anything else right here right now but I cant wait!

Plans to make... Fantastic email that I have to respond to.... 

you will love it I'll bet.

Going to go off that for tonight.....

Did you know that the Albuquerque Bio Park has a new baby Giraffe? They are talking names...

I took one look at the cute picture and saw the pattern on its neck and said MESA!!!  looks like little mesas all over... LOL.  Go check out the Bio Park Link..

http://www.cabq.gov/culturalservices/biopark

Plus if your coming into Albuquerque.. or live here like I do and don't know what is out there...

Are ya hiding???  

http://www.itsatrip.org/

And if you just have to crash a deck!

http://www.cabq.gov/parksandrecreation/recreation/skate-parks

Sanctioned spots... but there are some places that just aint on the map that will curl your toes.

Albuquerque.. New terminology... The Burque....  All I can say is... its the place to be....

Four seasons.. no really.... but its so temperate...   It s a "dry" heat!

Oh.. and right now... sorry.. we do get winds here.. and now... Arizona is trying to invade... dust particle by dust particle.... for now.

I really should say .. come visit..... but... you'll probably want to stay. I did.

This is the first place in my life I have lived longer than four years.....

I threw my boxes away!

Enough about that.... here's some cool shots for today!

Oops... we have on and off Movie Shoots....  Mind they barriers.

Laid.....out!

Masks Y Mas

Yeah..look it up... hahahahaha...

Okay...... heres some help..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nob_Hill,_Albuquerque,_New_Mexico

http://www.saggios.com/

http://www.rt66nm.org/

mmmm......

need a balloon repair?

http://www.superpages.com/bp/Albuquerque-NM/Aerco-Balloon-Port-L0093602217.htm

                                         

This weekends fun and .... more fun.

The Roswell New Mexico Old Timers Balloon Rally is this weekend!! 

http://www.hotairballoon.com/OldTimers-Balloon-Rally/

Link to a youtube video..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXEPJbxk7qw

Link to my flight and video...

http://invisibleblack.zenfolio.com/p715442282/h28aef7b1#h28aef7b1

It was an awesome event. Three days of flying. Fantastic team putting the event on. Can't miss it unless there  is a major reason you can't help... go.. see... have fun!

We were put up in a nice hotel/motel that let us have our dog. We tailgated in the middle of the property. There was food from the local WOKS! I could go on and on.. but its just the highlights you should know about...

Flying.. excellent!   Stores and Shopping... "Out of this World"

Parties... neverending! Laid back enjoy yourself attitudes..... endless!

Here are a few shots from my chance to fly and shoot there.... sigh.... 

Loads of fun..... 

This weekend....

on facebook..

OldTimers Balloon Rally

Just for the heck of it.. here is the flight of Michael Glen in the baby bee....

http://invisibleblack.zenfolio.com/p715442282/h28aef7b1#h16d9e5cf

B-links.

Full gallery of shots from the rally...

http://invisibleblack.zenfolio.com/p847580020

http://www.hotairgear.com/

http://www.hotairballooning.com/

All Ballooning All The Time!

Overdoing it...

It looks like I have been overdoing it.... Im tired... Im put on.. Im frustrated.. I get walked on without recourse... Scratch...work hard... somethings there to take it away...  am I the only one???

Did this though.... Got the light switches working...

Its a dual switch to that light back there. I just wouldn't work with the switches I had. Then I thought about it and connected it the "right" way and ta da it worked! The walls are blank right there because the hall is too dark and the pictures hanging there were making it darker... looking to put up some lighter pictures with white frames.

Reading

Declare again.... look how the pages are so damaged. I've read it that many times. What an excellent movie this would make.. but then again.. look what they did with Tim Powers " On Stranger Tides" which is the basis for all those Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Def not a book to have certain people sashaying through...

Bet if you read the first chapter you will read the whole thing!

http://www.amazon.com/Declare-A-Novel-Tim-Powers/dp/0062221388

Oh.. and these.... I really like Oreos... but don't buy these... its a rip off...

Or.. MEGA = a tiny bit more than double but not twice the single Oreos.... 

Again... the packaging is deceptive also... where you used to get three rows of cookies... you get more freakin plastic than cookies... and the cookies don't even fill up those short rows... SUCKERS!!

No link for them!

I'll get some home made ones made.... please!

Since I "overdid" it today I was stuck in a chair.. since I was stuck in a chair and not very able to concentrate I tone mapped a bunch... a massive amounts of shots from the car show. Here are a few because thats all I have been able to do...this afternoon......

Links....  

If I link something its usually worth going to... not much out there today that I consider worth looking at...

here are some that made the list today

Plus this first one... its cool... Cant wait for it..

http://bubonicon.com/

If your in town and want to hang with Hot Air Balloonists and hear some stories...

http://www.hotairballooning.org/uploads/documents/AAAA_Happy_Hour_20130430.pdf

And the Balloon Museum I intend on shooting someday..

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=Anderson+Abruzzo+International+Balloon+Museum,+Albuquerque,+NM&hl=en&ll=35.189522,-106.597939&spn=0.037528,0.055189&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&hq=Anderson+Abruzzo+International+Balloon+Museum,&hnear=Albuquerque,+Bernalillo,+New+Mexico&t=m&z=14

long link.... wow..

Balloon Fiesta Stuff..

http://www.balloonfiestastuff.com/

Yards... Mall... Trash!

Spent the morning clearing and cutting... cutting old bush roots.. and water sucking salt cedar roots... very hard to do... loaded all in the back of the truck... Dug up 20 pavers that were buried half way into the ground. Stacked and sorted. moved 40 odd boulders of various sizes and weights... that was a killer. Now a problem....  look at this....

How to remove that planter box on the top of the pic.. make the paver way go out to the right and down to be about 5 inches lower than the patio level for run off from that upper area. I have to figure this out because its not working they way it is now..

See where I am at... I see a lot more digging and moving of rock in my future.... Free labor.. my own....

So after almost passing out in from bending and shifting rocks it was time to walk away from it and go walk around the mall..... meeting this as we came to the doors....

When the trash is full... carry your trash to the next receptacle and use that one.... damn!

Went by Game Stop and wandered around.. as I have not been on my x box in ages and def not paying for a online account if I am never going to use it... still thought I could get some cool shots of the games and stuff....

No go.... they dont want any pictures of the inside of the store..

Game stop is an okay place to buy old games.. but some of the prices..... meh.

Wandered to the farther end of the the mall.... Spencers is gone but there is another shop open that is exactly like them.. go figure.... no pics in there either.... sadness...

Did stop and visit here... chatted with the nice people.... got a shot of yummy.

Cinnabon!

Another sweet spot...

Last place I stopped.... I walked in.. chatted with the guys... they had no problem with me taking some quick shots... Web address at the end of this segment . I will be calling them back to do a full shoot of their store if its good with the company... just a few....

Natural Decks...

Painted Decks...

The store.... Awesome ideas for shots here.... Wow!  Awesome gear! Great Guys in the shop.

inDusTRial

http://www.industrialrideshop.com/

Yeah... It was all that... but no real time to get in here and I didnt want to drive the guys nuts with the way I shoot..... Maybe soon... 

Going to go work out the backyard thing.

Here is a link to Lifehacker... Bunches of things I saw here I wanted to point out..

http://lifehacker.com/

Here are my points...

http://lifehacker.com/revive-old-nonstick-pans-by-seasoning-after-cooking-477584283

http://lifehacker.com/10-annoying-apps-were-all-stuck-using-and-how-to-make-483249258

http://lifehacker.com/catch-paint-drips-with-yogurt-cups-482704444

http://lifehacker.com/force-windows-to-use-your-wired-connection-instead-of-w-482614663

There are a bunch more.... but dang... get to the site... check it out...

Re freakin Diculous!

Just crusin through the web sites and I see the senate has okay on line taxing of purchases... There are people who think this is a good thing??!?!?!?!? Any tax is removing money from your pocket to the govt! For what???? Did the Govt make the thing your buying... doubt it! There are some major people with a numbness in the brain pan. Freakin heck!.... The deal that was good with shopping online was the no tax thing. In the article I read by some... "seriously disturbed blogger" .. not that I am so stable but this was Nucking Futs!.... He said... people will continue to buy online cause they dont want to deal with people?!?!??!  What is this guy.. a shut in.... Hate light???? look so hideous that everyone would run away!?

Here is my rant for the day... 1.... I buy online for the free tax... Take that away and I am back to the local store... 2... Online I cannot touch the  product I want to buy.... Local store I can..... 3  online stores have shipping charges.... most local stores .. woah... have no shipping!!! woah!.... 4   online stores... unless paying for premium shipping to get it the NEXT FREAKIN DAY... its usually cheaper to go pick it up at the LOCAL STORE!!!..

So... bye bye online stores.... there goes half of your customers... Hello local store where I can play and touch and check out physically something I want to purchase.. I pay tax there yes.. but no shipping.. and I get to enjoy it NOW!!! not in 3 to freakin 5 business days..... Bite me Big Govt!!

Rant rant rant..... LOL....And here this is supposed to be a calming event for me....

I am going to go tone map things and slam them here... a few...grumble grumble....

Nothing like a calm quiet ride on a bike in the middle of freakin nowhere....

Crossover... How many years have I been right here?

Surreal Targeting....

Serious Targeting...

I will be putting those galleries on soon.. Its all cut bait right now... sorry..

Or is that fishing.... and cutting bait is.... well... whichever... you probably know...what I mean.

You know what made me happy today? Getting the programming of a conference phone right!

And having it work after a password change. Some great guys ran the cable for it and that was excellent... but it works and it sounds.... fantastic...

Some links for you to look at... LOL

http://gizmodo.com/5995439/behold-the-fastest-cf-card-ever-made-for-now

http://www.ohgizmo.com/2013/03/11/these-are-some-awesome-artful-knives/

this one will crack you  up...

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/18-weird-gadgets-accessories-geeks-might-want-but-don-t-need

Dream Job?

http://geekologie.com/2013/04/dream-jobs-stonehenge-seeks-its-first-ge.php

Have fun with that.

Can you say.... Little things....

What fun.... What a day... another... Thursday.... Thursdays are good.  I was going to do a bit of a blog on Albuquerque.... then just balloons.. then sites... but nothing hits the fun button today. I took some shots of my wall at work... its just here and there.....

Close up..... Insulator at work... 

This is a lens from a celeometer... an old one. replaced and supposed to be trashed... we took them apart and kept mementos... Plus the little wire doggie from REI.

NCO academy and ribbons plaques.. and edit of balloons... 8mm cam the kids got me... a squirrel! No really... and End plug from a Upper Air ( weather balloon ) tracking system ART2.

The kids, 2 Stone Farm in England.. Mo and 2nd Kiss... my DAD paperweight and patches.

Another edit of Kiss A Hoy against the Alps... a lazer cut plaque I designed and drew another lens.. insulator and doggie.

Top Shelf.

Board below....

Left side.....

Right side....

Creative X-Fi ... it does wonders to compressed music files..

Sound system controller... the top spins to change the volume and there are plugs for inputs and outputs.. not bad sound either....

Desktop... Normally you cant see my background.. there are normally 12 windows open that hide that excellent background... yes... those are my burners.... I do not have enough room to do what I want to do.. or maybe I try to do too much at one time. I am still way far from grasping time and quantity. I want to do everything NOW! and process it NOW! and get it done NOW!

Gotta work on the steady one job at a time thing... any help would be appreciated on how to go about that.

Now... as I spoke of REI.... I like the store... they are cool... One of my favorite cool things is waterproof dust proof bags..and doggies.... heres a link for that..

http://www.rei.com/

For insulators, antiques.. and at a far price... no kidding...

http://www.legacyantiqueshop.com/LegacyAntiques/Home.html

Creative music... X-Fi... nice..

Old version.... but still excellent..

http://components.productwiki.com/creative-xmod-x-fi/

New version...

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_05716847000P?sid=IDx01192011x000001&kispla=05716847000P&srccode=cii_17588969&cpncode=30-163356541-2

Sounds systems?!

.. cheap but sounds great...

http://www.staples.com/Cyber-Acoustics-52-Watt-3-Piece-Speaker-System/product_493135

Oh... and I really had some great shots to put here today... but I think I will put a few on facebook instead..

Have a great night!

Splits....

I noticed that I have been digging into the websites and blogs a lot... mainly because there is stuff there that I dont think is being seen by people who I think might be interested in it.. So... I am grabbing things that are .. in my mind...cool.. or worthwhile and popping them here... I do want to get back into balloons.. ballooning and that very interesting subject but go a little deeper.... Just for tonight though.. here are some sites and blogs that I found worth it....Then some links to some pretty cool objects de flight....

http://gizmodo.com/5995314/why-time-travel-is-confusing

The blog is worth reading but wacked also.... I like that there is a Blackadder segment...

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/15-breathtaking-places-for-book-lovers-you-never-knew-about

Good blog on some nice places to do the book thing.. I love books... I wish I could write because there are a bunch of ideas in my head ... they wont go away..... not the same as the voices in my head.

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2013/04/invisiplug-helps-hide-your-power-strip-with-wood-grain-patterns/

So.. I read this blog and all I could think was.... what were they thinking... I want a power strip I can't see... I can see this... even with it being wood... woop de doo.... I think I will think about this.. I can think of four ways already to make this idea better.... time time time time....

I was going to put a link here to reasons to encrypt your drive.. thumb drives.. whatever you store your data... But I didn't like the inferences in the article so I dumped it....Encrypt your data.. banking, data, that kind of stuff.. I see no reason to encrypt your music, pictures or regular crap... but personal data... lock it down!

I can say this... there are a good bunch of on the fly encryption programs out there... On the fly is better than laggy processing. I couold spend hours on it but thats far too boring... ask me what my favorite is I will let you know.... but go look...

Now..... part two..... the Split!

I was checking out my friends website to see what interesting things are on it lately.... and saw there were some cool updates ..but that led to looking at what other things were there....

  

Here are my fav three..

http://www.aerostatz.com/Richardsonbarchetta.html

ITS A RACER... ITS GOOD LOOKING... Its called BARCHETTA!!!

http://www.aerostatz.com/Chemello77.html

BALLOON WORKS.... the fabric on these and the gore and panel pattern are beautiful!

Last I saw this.. 

http://www.aerostatz.com/Smithposters.html

That is a lot of posters and not all the posters on the site are in this picture..... History and awesome posters...   

I only put three sections here.... these caught my eye.... I will put more as I go on because this blog is about ballooning as well as the other things I am interested in. This site has it all when your looking into the ballooning world. 

Cool stuff... great pictures.... best buys... neat things!

Well worth bookmarking.

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