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HighperVideos! : Time: Been an age. Going from writing everyday to flinging this to the back corner. Is it worth dragging this tattered thing back. I don't ...

Time

Been an age. Going from writing everyday to flinging this to the back corner. Is it worth dragging this tattered thing back.


I don't know.


I'll think about it.


Laughable that it became too public.


I'll leave this here for now.

We are three days from the Albuquerque  International Balloon Fiesta....

I don't know how I feel about it.  Happy, distant, unready as usual, bored...

Let's hope it's safe and fun and talk about it later.


For those that read this to see what I'm up to from a distance.....

You have my address...type something.

There is about to be a balloon gravity well around Albuquerque....

Consider the Lilly's

Turning in circles

NO.1 Only the facts

I stopped blogging on my 555th blog in a row. The reason. It got out of hand with how much time I was spending and how poorly the advertising segment was being controlled. I never saw a dime from these people. I may be moving the blog soon. So we are in a transition right now.

For the time being I will only post a few things that I found interesting or caught my attention or happened that highlighted my day. Ill add photographs, taken, edited or not and what ever else I think is fun. Less structure all around.

Yesterday we flew Patturns Highperactive from Rainbow field in Rio Rancho. Other than the huge puddles everywhere due to the large and wet storm that went through the night before it was good and cool. Sadly it was also very humid after the sun came up. Humidity causes heavier air which is harder to get up into with a balloon.

I had three GoPro cameras attached. Two at the balloon / burner frame connection and one at the waist or bolster of the basket. We were about the fourth to set up but even with the fan on half power we also were the first to launch. Up, South as predicted but about 900 to 1000 feet up there was a slip stream of North. We grabbed that as best possible and moved off. Too bad there was no East or we could have landed back where we took off from.

All in all a good day which allowed for three hops, three people flown, two new people, lots of rotation, great ascents and descents, fun landings, one cacti into a crew member...Sorry bout that. I had the DSLR along. Took pictures when I knew it was safe to do it. Its a very fine line there. Below are some edited shots as well as the link to the multi clipped video of the flight. Like I said..lots of fun.

The link to the video. Videos are fun to make...mostly. This one was hard because there were so many good segments to use but without using a split screen you miss a lot. I took this one and split out exactly the same time frame blocks in line then selected each section I thought was fun. Finding the music is always the hardest thing. It worked...

http://InvisibleBlack.zenfolio.com/p715442282/ee669b7d

Stay tuned for more changes.

555 Posts.

I have posted 555 posts in a row. I have not missed one day. Regardless of where I was, how I felt, who was kicking me under the table. I am pondering dropping it back to weekly. It's that time thing. I find I have time and then I find that time has been upsurged by other important things. So weekly or every 4th day or something will have to change. This will allow me more flexibility and maybe bring more content into the blog instead of quick clips and such.

What do you think?

I am listening to Weird Al's new album.. Funny as all get out. Unfortunately listening to it is only half the fun. Flight f the Valkyries is playing now to introduce it.. which in itself is funny. I will have to purchase this one for sure.

A good morning. Very interesting content. From my view, we are working at doing what we are supposed to do within the rules an guidelines. Sitting all the time really sucks though. Chairs are fine. I just cant sit that long without my back screaming its head off. Which it is. I must look like I am fidgiting.

Last night since it was quiet and I got my paperwork done for work with time to spare.. another 2 hours plus of work.... I ate dinner while working on it. I ran a few more shots from Seattle. Still digging through them. There are so many that which to work with first is a hard decision. Check em out.


Two that I have to finish. I love clocks and this one was big

Transit. Classy and uiet.

Two that are going to a bit of work.... but worth it. Glass fields.

Rippling waves.

The last one was so very needing of attention. I took so many pictures from every direction because I didn't know exactly what I could capture and didn't want to miss any angle or view. I still may have.

Links for the day...

You can sit again!  I wished you could deduct from these nuts a percentage of their pay.. and have it deposited into your account when they go back on what the opine.

http://gizmodo.com/good-news-sitting-wont-kill-you-after-all-1608885900

Now you know.... Bruce.. I am looking at you....

http://gizmodo.com/this-slick-looking-map-tells-you-where-you-can-t-fly-y-1609798025

If and when you are bored....

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/10-more-cool-google-tricks-you-can-start-using-today

I am so going to do these.... I have NOT done them in the past... no never ever...

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/10-easy-ways-to-appear-smart-during-a-meeting

Crack me up!

"So..... I have known you a long long time you say. You are familiar to me, but I have looked at man a face and it seem familiar. Why is it that you pop up now... In a subway station after being transported from a carousel in a tube of lights? Answer me those and then I have another stack in my head that I want answered. You will tell me this isn't some strange fantasy, because at this moment it looks like a major opera is playing wind instruments out their proverbial butts!"

Quantification

I hate being quantified. Or pigeon holed. I had the estimable chance to be quantified via myers briggs. It was illuminating. As it is only a general peek hole it was not too bad. It was a laugh how some of the foibles came out.

For some reason it shows me as an extrovert with introvert tendencies. It also went on to generally say that I am forced by my nature to know everything about everything. I need to know about people if they are someone I like or want to know I will do everything to know everything... Not too far off. It also said a lot of other things....

One was refusal to accept certain people or run far away from them. The classmates that had this same parameter as I did ( two others out of 20 ), were of a mind that its how those people act and control themselves. Most had stories that seemed to me to be similar. Mostly its noise and drama. The test said we don't waste time with that type of person and look for more interesting people... or something like that.

The other parameter test said that I like thinking space. I hate distraction and will remove myself from it. That's me! There were other things but it was all about ability's to work with diverse people and also much on having conversations that are full of real meaning. Does that mean I cant do small talk?

Bother!

Some more shots from Seattle... These are edits of signs I found singular.

All of the signs were shot at and angle and corrected. They were fun. Cant wait till I have time to edit it.

Links....

My problem is getting the person who trashed the microwave to clean it.....

http://lifehacker.com/deodorize-and-clean-a-microwave-with-baking-soda-and-wa-1609240120

Learn it, Live it.....

http://lifehacker.com/learn-the-basics-of-color-theory-to-know-what-looks-goo-1608972072

Microsoft surface mini... meh... The screen is at my smallest comfort size now.

http://gizmodo.com/yep-microsoft-killed-the-surface-mini-for-real-1609255504

I love how they say 7 hours is the sweet spot. If I could be "asleep" during that 7 hours Ill be I would feel its a perfect segment of my day....

http://lifehacker.com/research-shows-that-seven-hours-of-sleep-might-be-the-s-1608963716

Yawn...


"Know you?" as a mumble that is still responded to quickly enough that I wonder if the words are being pulled off my brain before my lungs can push air up to create sound in my throat..... hmmmmm....
"Yes, quite. We have known each other for years and years. Or, if you like, long enough to get tired of each other. Surprisingly we have gone years not talking. This "episode" right now has lasted  forty years by side real time and you have said nothing and have been quite rude. how do I take that? Dallied with women, poked people in the eye, become quite the proverbial pirate. Know me!"

Reflective

Day 1 or Management Class. Okay, half of day one. Lunch break and a bagel. Lots of email and phone calls for work. This portion was cool. beside the interesting topic there is a guy in my  course that I knew 22 years ago. Long long time. He still looks great and is now a Boss. LOL. His comment about upper management giving him a small and enclosed office to lead "just in case" was hilarious.

Getting my time schedule adjusted from Seattle is harder. No real sleep last night, just flinging pillows around. Since my eating schedule was shot already not great loss there. It looks like i will have time to do some picture edits here and there. I like that idea. I did some clipping below. Not completely done but just the first steps.


Looking South

Blues Ok.. Purples.

Feathers.

Pine Street.

Links.

Stop!... Oh that's not right...

http://gizmodo.com/why-no-one-bothers-putting-apostrophes-in-dont-walk-s-1608253909

Legos... a beach of them... almost..

http://lego.gizmodo.com/why-lego-pieces-have-been-washing-up-on-this-beach-sinc-1608257367/+ericlimer

Break those rules!

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/14-funny-and-weird-examples-of-first-world-anarchists

Fun until someone creates artificial gravity plates.. then no more fun.

http://www.cracked.com/article_21369_6-ways-movies-get-space-wrong-by-astronaut-chris-hadfield.html

novel in the least.

No swat, no jacket just that almost Cheshire cat like smile. "And you are?" I said expecting a four headed fanged flipper-ed creature to burst forth and eat my face... you know.. there was a film I saw once...somewhere... everyone was wearing helmets.. and because one idiot thought it fine to take his helmet off so did everyone else.. even the so called security enforcer person. That guy should have stunned the first idiot and slapped his helmet back on, which would have made everyone else think twice about doing such a stupid thing.... but I digress.... John said.... Quite quickly even with my musing in the middle.... " You already know me."

Two from the back

I have found that when you fly Southwest ( Proviso 1, check a bag ) about the best place to sit ( Proviso 2, are not an A pass holder ( Proviso 3, didn't pay an extra 40 dollars for the chance ) and are in the "B" pass section is about the second or third row from the back window ( Proviso 4, you have a strong bladder ).

Aside from the tenuous wait to board and that those that paid the extra cash for a seat in the very front, or at the emergency rows are going to board ahead of you... well ... I have found that that seat.. on the starboard or port side are great for just twisting your body and resting your head against the inside bulk head. You get a bit of the front of the arm rest, You are not rubbing shoulders nor knees. Oh.. I forgot a proviso. Proviso 5, you have everything out of your carry on bag and have placed that bag in the overhead container. Legs stretched and ankles crossed, sound canx headphones on and music player in hand, you can fall into a snooze just fine. My back sucks and this is a good position for me. You can bring your legs up and flex them and you can bring your arms forward to flex them. I'm a pretty big guy and I had no problems.

PS. By the time all the noodle heads have banged into each other trying to de plane you can saunter off and get to the baggage carousel just in time to pick up your luggage. On flights over three hours though i would get up and do some flexing in the isle or potty at least every two to three hours. If I could get where I wanted to go by train in the same time I would take a train. Or Drive. Since neither one was possible ... well....

Some unedited shots from the top of the bag of Seattle, Land of missed friends and strange connections. Love the transit system!


2.75 gets you downtown, all the way from Sea-Tac. Lovely

Novel and nifty stations. The Beacon Hill station has led boards in the tunnel that display "things".

The Seattle Space Needle.....oops... wrong one....

The fish flinging market. Local of the first Starbucks ( to the right a bit ) and basically a stacked hodge podege of every boardwalk you have ever been on. Wish I had more time.

Touch of the top of my shots. Nothing of the cream. Whisker City baby,

Links were in one place... or at least these I ran across first were very interesting....

These little things might just do for a nice day commuter..... If I could find a safe way to get to work from the house on one without becoming part of the road side shrubbery.

http://deals.kinja.com/put-yourself-on-an-electric-bike-today-for-500-off-to-1607961405/+shaneroberts

At this point the RIAA and record?! companies are all just bullies trying to squeeze the last drops from anyone they can get hold of. They are old, dead and time to be put out at the roadside for trash day pickup. Everything is digital except some cool retro vinyl people.

http://gizmodo.com/riaa-even-bullies-small-non-profit-music-sites-that-pay-1607973952

I will touch on one thing here... Stop giving money to panhandlers. Give it to your favorite association that then gives it out to the real needy ( at least 80 % ). It get to the real people in need, families and those that could use more than a buck, perhaps mental or physical health help. I saw a pan handler in downtown Seattle ( not picking on Seattle ) that had better shoes and, help, looked like a YUPPIE! Still trying to get money. I have seen the same thing in Albuquerque too. Please do everyone of our homeless a favor and go through a group that is trustworthy. Take a little time and research it.

PS to this. If you are able bodied but homeless you should expect to do "something" for the assistance. I have no problem with a tax for the poor and I do practice what I preach ( 95% of the time ).

http://gizmodo.com/anti-homeless-laws-and-hiddencash-whats-ruining-our-c-1606648025

Rest stops.... I ahve a very good idea... I just need to get on those grants things.... time will come when I ahve the time to sit down and do that. Till then... rest stops... Some are fantastic.. some are trashed.... Few have bathrooms you would dare to get near to use.... I know some and I am NOT TELLING1!!

And that is that!


Stepping forward again... one foot ahead of the other.. like a child knowing he is going to get a belt across the backside or a shot in a doctors office... delay and maybe, maybe they will forget you are there. Another step. John.. i call him John too.... John, slight smile on his face... you know the smile... kind, caring, and sure that you are nuts... play along till the white jacket comes out... yep.. you know the type.. with the long arms and those so in fashion leather straps..... baby you are so in vogue!