Just stuff...

Sometimes I use the internet at work. Maybe I'm a bit spoiled by my internet at home. It's not blazingly fast, but but it runs around 4-5Mb/sec. But the net at work is provided by Hughesnet. Wow, what a turd that thing is. Here is a screen shot of it on a good day! Notice the ping rate...


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Here are a couple of photos that I took last year when we went to Lassen Park


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And one of a friend John when I was messing around with zoom exposure. Trippy!


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That's it for now. Back later...

Back to work, Shoot the moon and crazys

We I have finally gone back to work...sort of. I worked a full week this week, but probably won't next week. We are waiting on materials, but once here, we should be good for awhile. After having more than 5 months off this year, it almost feels funny working a full week.

I got a chance to do show photo work tonight. Thought I would try and learn how to photo the moon. It's not as easy as it would seem, Many, many bad photos later ( like 70-80 ) I finally got one that I liked. Here is the one I like the best...

Taken with the Nikon D50 and 70-300mm Nikor ED lens

I worked in Berkley, Ca. this last week. What and eye opener that city is. They drive like maniacs, and also act like them too. I'm really WAY out of my element there to say the least. Luckily, I spend most of my time there either on the job, or at the motel.

The highlight of the week was getting flipped off by some crazy bull-dyke. A wonderful place indeed!

More weather, more photos, work

Today we had more rain. The most in one day so far. I still don't have the weather station up, so I'll have to go check on the net to see what we got. Needless to say, it was wet. Didn't get anything done outside. As a matter of fact, didn't go out much at all today..

Still reading and working with the new (to me) Nikon D50. Took some pictures of our friend's dog yesterday. Of the few I took, this is the one I liked the best...

Still loving the camera. It can do so much. I think I'm going to pick a shooting mode and work with it until I learn it, then move to another, working my way down to manual mode. That way I won't be jumping around not really learning anything. I may even take some classes or join a photography club so I can learn from the experienced.

Looks like one more week off, then I should be back to work. I have had 5 months off this year. It's tough to pay the bills with that much time off. Hopefully, work will start and continue through at least the end of the year.

Happy Holloween!

The weather turned colder today with some rain. I didn't get much done except to chase down some plans in Chico for some possible future work, which is always good.



I don't drive the Cobra in the rain, so no progress on that front. I'm sure the drag races will be canceled tomorrow night because of the wet weather. That's a bummer because it's the last race of the season and I was hoping to get some pictures and video of a couple of friends cars on the track. It will have to wait until next year...



I did get to take a few pics in Chico this morning while there. It's such a photographic city, especially when the colors are changing. This is my favorite of the ones I took today.

4 more days until the election. Any comment on who will win?