History Repeats..Uh Duh! that is all. Fallout 4

Too bad they teach garbage in schools today and parents have been replaced by the state for upbringing and God forbid you try to have a little discipline in your household..and then there is the dumbing down of almost everything. Enough said. Lazy people create the situation we have now.



So...... If I could only find a set of chairs for the living room and maybe a couch or two that are comfortable to sit in. Even my den chairs are showing wear and tear. Whats next... cover sheets?

Its our Sunday Granddaughter time. She is much more in fine control than just a week ago. Working on her crawling and moving though she can move just fine she is still coordination out of sync....lol.. Its getting there. As soon as she is crawling we will be freaking out from her disappearing.. then the toddling... I need to get some gates for the doorways. Some bumpers for the tables though I am thinking to remove all that while she is wandering around. Not going to stop her from bumping into things ..just limit the damage. LOL.. learn learn learn.

Been a rough week with little sleep and tiredness hovering. The weekend was needed to recuperate and that didnt quite work well. Still over tired. Meh. Just meant I didnt have the willpower to get out and take any pictures. So that sucks..

I did process all the videos from the last couple of weeks to pano split. That took forever. You cant walk away too far since you have to watch it go then set the next file to match the file before. When you are changing a 360 degree globe view to splits where the frames sets and picture sits in the frames has to match the next file... yeesh.. So.. while that's going on I just ran around Fallout and updated more settlements.

Here are some pictures... I don't know what yet.. Ill say in the shots.

The fisheye video camera is excellent at catching those amazing shots. Pity there isn't the resolution to do anything with them. Gotta try some things with the main DSLR and fisheye to try and recreate some of these.


Chasing the Puff. Nice effect with my shadow between these.


Up and over. Just change the angle of the lens and it changes the view.. neat stuff.


Well other than trying to hunt down some good shots and stay awake.. well you gets what you gets.

Go away!

Fallout 4 is still going strongish. Its getting a bit ho hum. Still irritated with the dropping of raiders into the middle of a completely fortified location. Walls, gun positions, guards, dogs, robots, and they still just pop in. I am going back to the smallish settlements and rebuilding them with cement walls and taking out the cement foundation blocks. 1/8th the thickness. Below are some shots from all that..

Updated gating at Oberland park Settlement. Damn walls shifted and the base course had to be reset.. Thanks game.


Open secure gating at Kingsport. Except for Hangmans alley they all have an open area for traders to arrive.


Dalton Farm redone. Another place that had to be completely stripped down and rebuilt. Seriously silly how it is impossible to set some things in place and something pop in place with ease. Silly.


Verifying the height I can build to. Some places you have the space and most you cant do a damn thing right.


Scads of water is the place to make money. Way over 90636 now. Tons of water equals tons of supplies. No..I dont cheat with unlimited supplies. I farm for everything. I ran out of copper a bit ago. It sucked.


That's about the fun I have had. Mind has ideas. Time to do stuff linearly is missing. And having to use multiple programs to get anything done. spotty memory on how I did things... ugh!

Lookin like we will be heading to Cali for a wedding soon. Just a couple of days and a long drive out and back through the Mojave... Its something different and something interesting and we are going to enjoy it! I am hoping to get down into LA and get some shots on the street. Gotta let some people know we will be in the area.. Woo hoo.

OKay.. so that's about that... Next weekend I am hoping to get some more air and maybe some more pictures but at least some good flying would be nice.

Have a good week. Friday is right around the corner.

History Repeats..Uh Duh! that is all. Fallout 4

Too bad they teach garbage in schools today and parents have been replaced by the state for upbringing and God forbid you try to have a little discipline in your household..and then there is the dumbing down of almost everything. Enough said. Lazy people create the situation we have now.



So...... If I could only find a set of chairs for the living room and maybe a couch or two that are comfortable to sit in. Even my den chairs are showing wear and tear. Whats next... cover sheets?

Its our Sunday Granddaughter time. She is much more in fine control than just a week ago. Working on her crawling and moving though she can move just fine she is still coordination out of sync....lol.. Its getting there. As soon as she is crawling we will be freaking out from her disappearing.. then the toddling... I need to get some gates for the doorways. Some bumpers for the tables though I am thinking to remove all that while she is wandering around. Not going to stop her from bumping into things ..just limit the damage. LOL.. learn learn learn.

Been a rough week with little sleep and tiredness hovering. The weekend was needed to recuperate and that didnt quite work well. Still over tired. Meh. Just meant I didnt have the willpower to get out and take any pictures. So that sucks..

I did process all the videos from the last couple of weeks to pano split. That took forever. You cant walk away too far since you have to watch it go then set the next file to match the file before. When you are changing a 360 degree globe view to splits where the frames sets and picture sits in the frames has to match the next file... yeesh.. So.. while that's going on I just ran around Fallout and updated more settlements.

Here are some pictures... I don't know what yet.. Ill say in the shots.

The fisheye video camera is excellent at catching those amazing shots. Pity there isn't the resolution to do anything with them. Gotta try some things with the main DSLR and fisheye to try and recreate some of these.


Chasing the Puff. Nice effect with my shadow between these.


Up and over. Just change the angle of the lens and it changes the view.. neat stuff.


Well other than trying to hunt down some good shots and stay awake.. well you gets what you gets.

Go away!

Fallout 4 is still going strongish. Its getting a bit ho hum. Still irritated with the dropping of raiders into the middle of a completely fortified location. Walls, gun positions, guards, dogs, robots, and they still just pop in. I am going back to the smallish settlements and rebuilding them with cement walls and taking out the cement foundation blocks. 1/8th the thickness. Below are some shots from all that..

Updated gating at Oberland park Settlement. Damn walls shifted and the base course had to be reset.. Thanks game.


Open secure gating at Kingsport. Except for Hangmans alley they all have an open area for traders to arrive.


Dalton Farm redone. Another place that had to be completely stripped down and rebuilt. Seriously silly how it is impossible to set some things in place and something pop in place with ease. Silly.


Verifying the height I can build to. Some places you have the space and most you cant do a damn thing right.


Scads of water is the place to make money. Way over 90636 now. Tons of water equals tons of supplies. No..I dont cheat with unlimited supplies. I farm for everything. I ran out of copper a bit ago. It sucked.


That's about the fun I have had. Mind has ideas. Time to do stuff linearly is missing. And having to use multiple programs to get anything done. spotty memory on how I did things... ugh!

Lookin like we will be heading to Cali for a wedding soon. Just a couple of days and a long drive out and back through the Mojave... Its something different and something interesting and we are going to enjoy it! I am hoping to get down into LA and get some shots on the street. Gotta let some people know we will be in the area.. Woo hoo.

OKay.. so that's about that... Next weekend I am hoping to get some more air and maybe some more pictures but at least some good flying would be nice.

Have a good week. Friday is right around the corner.

History Repeats..Uh Duh! that is all. Fallout 4

Too bad they teach garbage in schools today and parents have been replaced by the state for upbringing and God forbid you try to have a little discipline in your household..and then there is the dumbing down of almost everything. Enough said. Lazy people create the situation we have now.



So...... If I could only find a set of chairs for the living room and maybe a couch or two that are comfortable to sit in. Even my den chairs are showing wear and tear. Whats next... cover sheets?

Its our Sunday Granddaughter time. She is much more in fine control than just a week ago. Working on her crawling and moving though she can move just fine she is still coordination out of sync....lol.. Its getting there. As soon as she is crawling we will be freaking out from her disappearing.. then the toddling... I need to get some gates for the doorways. Some bumpers for the tables though I am thinking to remove all that while she is wandering around. Not going to stop her from bumping into things ..just limit the damage. LOL.. learn learn learn.

Been a rough week with little sleep and tiredness hovering. The weekend was needed to recuperate and that didnt quite work well. Still over tired. Meh. Just meant I didnt have the willpower to get out and take any pictures. So that sucks..

I did process all the videos from the last couple of weeks to pano split. That took forever. You cant walk away too far since you have to watch it go then set the next file to match the file before. When you are changing a 360 degree globe view to splits where the frames sets and picture sits in the frames has to match the next file... yeesh.. So.. while that's going on I just ran around Fallout and updated more settlements.

Here are some pictures... I don't know what yet.. Ill say in the shots.

The fisheye video camera is excellent at catching those amazing shots. Pity there isn't the resolution to do anything with them. Gotta try some things with the main DSLR and fisheye to try and recreate some of these.


Chasing the Puff. Nice effect with my shadow between these.


Up and over. Just change the angle of the lens and it changes the view.. neat stuff.


Well other than trying to hunt down some good shots and stay awake.. well you gets what you gets.

Go away!

Fallout 4 is still going strongish. Its getting a bit ho hum. Still irritated with the dropping of raiders into the middle of a completely fortified location. Walls, gun positions, guards, dogs, robots, and they still just pop in. I am going back to the smallish settlements and rebuilding them with cement walls and taking out the cement foundation blocks. 1/8th the thickness. Below are some shots from all that..

Updated gating at Oberland park Settlement. Damn walls shifted and the base course had to be reset.. Thanks game.


Open secure gating at Kingsport. Except for Hangmans alley they all have an open area for traders to arrive.


Dalton Farm redone. Another place that had to be completely stripped down and rebuilt. Seriously silly how it is impossible to set some things in place and something pop in place with ease. Silly.


Verifying the height I can build to. Some places you have the space and most you cant do a damn thing right.


Scads of water is the place to make money. Way over 90636 now. Tons of water equals tons of supplies. No..I dont cheat with unlimited supplies. I farm for everything. I ran out of copper a bit ago. It sucked.


That's about the fun I have had. Mind has ideas. Time to do stuff linearly is missing. And having to use multiple programs to get anything done. spotty memory on how I did things... ugh!

Lookin like we will be heading to Cali for a wedding soon. Just a couple of days and a long drive out and back through the Mojave... Its something different and something interesting and we are going to enjoy it! I am hoping to get down into LA and get some shots on the street. Gotta let some people know we will be in the area.. Woo hoo.

OKay.. so that's about that... Next weekend I am hoping to get some more air and maybe some more pictures but at least some good flying would be nice.

Have a good week. Friday is right around the corner.

July 10th with a little of the 9th thrown in... FIRST!

Ahh.. I need another day.... Ballooning two days in a row... I am feeling ever year past 22. But it was totally worth it. The saying .. you can sleep when your dead is a functional axiom for balloonists.



A nice edit of the Inside of my balloon cold.

So we started out this weekend going out to the West side of the Albuquerque / Rio Rancho area to fly two new friends. I love the crew who came out..many of them and their kids which was excellent! We had bunches and many hands makes light work... The flying was fantastic. My son flew the two new to ballooning and we had three cameras on him. One 360 degree Kodak and two GoPros...one of which failed right after launch. Go figure. Oh.. and I set the trapeze cam mount up and we got some good video from it. I have yet to edit it into anything so far. ..too busy... so Saturday flying went great.. Sunday was the Monthly AAAA meet, this time on Fiesta field. Lots of balloons.. lots of people. I went out to shoot for the CB and myself and I had a in the middle photo shoot of all the kids who were at balloon camp this week. I tried to not be intrusive but catch them doing balloon stuff... a lot of shots of them going off with their pilot trainers and then a bunch as a group around the Sid Cutter memorial statue... which turned out very nice even though I was shooting into the sun.

Whew!

So I took about 300 shots Saturday but I took over a thousand today. I had to take a lot of shots of the peoples as I didnt know which would be the best and I wanted many to choose from. That really was about 600 from the standard lens and about 400 from the fisheye... of which I have not looked at yet but I feel they are going to be wonderful. My favorite shot today was a quick idea to shoot the eye of a mounted patrol horse and try and capture a balloon in it.. I did.. it was sweet.. Going to have to do some more of that.. oh yes.... So below some shots.

Patturns Highperactive cutting down the arroyo with the wind.


PH baffled. Highperactive has a baffle about half way down the envelope to help keep the hot air up in the top. Its color coded to the balloon by Lindstrand USA. A one of a kind request.


They are having way too good a time up there. See the trapeze cam behind them. It was a bit too low.


A nice landing and now the packing away starts. Brian unhooking the throat from the burner frame. So many free range children around..LOL


All up on the shoulder and into the bag. Nice soft grasses.. if a bit too dry.


Todays favs... just a few of the many.. and many I have yet to clean up.

He didnt mind me getting up close for the shot though he did head butt me a few times just because he needed a scratch. Very nice model horsie.


Bags in Repose. Prepare to be opened!


When that many balloons show up many many people gravitate to the field to watch. These fold stayed on the tarmac even though they could have gone out on the field. They had as good a view as I did.


The HARE!!! Keith L does a fine job of dragging his tail outward bound so the other balloons can chase him. I didnt hear if anyone made it to him as the winds were completely weird again.


Crown line junkies. You can hold it you can U it around your butt but never wrap a rope around a hand, arm or leg, or waist or local unsuspecting person. It never is good.. always bad. They are steadying the envelopes as they are inflating.


Just a few ... I will post more to FB today and more tomorrow as I get into the side shots and more after that of the fisheye shots. Those will be interesting.

Fallout 4... game is glitching a lot with no mods active. Getting frustrating.

Enough of that.

Yes I know someone who is glad of that.

LOLOL

Have a great week. Almost two weeks into July already and August and September are right there waving.

Westside Sky Dancing and Fallout 4 still

What a weekend... and what a day. Let me skip to today as it was the best. Started out with another try to fly Nick for his birthday. Last weekend we sat and kicked dirt. Today we went out and there was some breeze but it was pretty nice.. sadly going the one direction we really don't like to fly due to congestion and many many power lines. So.... we decided to go up and see if it was possible to find something up there going a different direction.We also had a new mount from to try out. Its a trapez type connected to the envelope by magnets so that if it got hung up it would pull off. Yeah.. lose the camera but save other damage. It worked a treat but I forgot the allen wrench to get it set and had to jury rig a way to connect the camera. Better next time.

The video did come out and its pretty good. The fisheye version of the flight can be seen here.....

http://InvisibleBlack.zenfolio.com/p715442282/e72808a99

Ill work on the regular hanging version later or tomorrow. I bonked my head so hard today while in the trailer that I have a bum bigger than an egg on the side of my head. It hurts quite a lot but not enough to stop me doing videos or holding my granddaughter when she got to the house. Nice and she was fussy but then fell asleep for almost two hours..

I took only the fisheye camera lens today and that was a bummer because it was a nice day to take pictures.. especially since Eric and I did some roll overs.. He went under me as I went over him and then he came up and flew over me and then we piddled off to find a landing spot short of the bad area. Since we were getting close to bad areas I dropped out to find a road or space to land in but instead found a trickle of west wind and rode it out to get to a place to lay down safely. ... which we did... it was awesome. Nick got a great ride... I got some fly time to enjoy the handling on my Lindstrand... which is awesome too... Now the whole system needs a cleaning but that will have to wait till after next weekend where me or my son will fly two more people on their first time up in a hot air balloon. its so much fun flying people who have never flown before. Really fun. Some shots I was able to get.. not many...

Nick's view out.

Trapeze mount of us going over Eric. it was closer than it appears.

And down the other side.

Now following and flying at the same altitude.

Off we go to find a different bit of air.

Kodak 360 camera capture of the same.

Weeee..

And Hi!

Landed and happy.

The whole week prior is but a shade compared.

Oh.. Tim Powers came out with a short story and I am reading it now... pretty novel story line so far and pretty captivating... you can find it on Amazon...

https://www.amazon.com/Down-Out-Purgatory-Tim-Powers/dp/1596067810/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1467600612&sr=8-1&keywords=tim+powers

We have had a conversation on that a soul carries after death... is it still evil or is there a cleansing or even what that would be about... no spoilers. Most interesting.

okay.. that's about it...

Now its going Fallout....

Since the contraption DLC dropped i've tried to use some of the stuff but found most to be pretty ho hum. Even the elevator which i really wanted to use is next to useless. Its not set so you can stack but are preset and they done line up except for the warehouse and I don't use that junk. I've been able to incorporate it into one place... Bunker Hill.. and that place was a total pain to work with too. So.. after all that I had all these supplies and nothing to build so I went back to the red rocket station and thought about rebuilding it... and I did.. It was one to two levels of 10 by 10 block and then metal and wood all the way up.. that made it very tight... I was able with a lot of work to switch out the 10 x 10 blocks with cement walls. And I replaced all the armor levels with mesh metal floating and the walls of the housing area with nice tall glass walls and even got a weapons display in there too... Look below.

Old version with cement blocks and wood levels.. Yay old school.

Updated house level with nice walls.

Now nice and fresh. open and clear. I even added some mesh walls to let some light in.  

Below that is the new weapons area. Not bad but very restricted in what you can add and all.... 

After I got most of that done while protecting a lot of settlements I finished it and I only ha a few things I am going to have to fix sometime...

I did after this insanity go back to Hangman's Alley and fix that as best as possible with all the glitches in that area... Glitch. Its almost impossible to seal off from attack. Most items are too hard to fit into the limited area. The settlers will not go past an invisible line and into the other part so no matter what you build or plant they will never go to it. So I ripped it all down except where I had sealed the holes in the place and rebuilt it with cement walls and opened it up as best as possible.. i even fit a bunch of water filtration... Yeesh!.. below.

New housing with living below and sleeping above.

Stairwells nicely set this time with a bathroom even!

Living.

Down below where there were a few places to buy things.

More things to go on and I have more stuff I want to do.. we will see....

Its almost time to shelve the game.

Cheers!