I should be sleeping...instead I'm thinking. That sucks. Can't turn my mind off some days.
What am I thinking of, you ask?
Life, Love, All that Jazz
I’ve only ever truly loved three women in my life.
Jamie Vavak, Catrina Granados, and Jill Johnson.
One of them felt the same about me. Obviously, it didn’t work out.
I’ve had a few crushes in my lifetime, of course. Many of the women I had crushes on when I was younger have ended up being some of my closest friends. And before you ask, yes, all of them know I had a crush on them at one point. I’ve told them all, though it took a few years. Though I’m amazed any of them didn’t know. I’m not exactly good with the subtle. Of course, a couple of them had a crush on me, too. THAT floored me because I’m dense when it comes to people liking me. Hell, I don’t always like me.
As for lust…heh. Name a day, I can probably through you for or five people for that day. But there’s nothing wrong with that, I’m single. Or maybe I’m single ‘cause I see nothing wrong with that. Food for thought. And there have been a fair amount who have returned THAT feeling. Till they get to know me. Let’s face it, I’m an AMAZING guy…if you like big brothers or best buddies. Dating material? Heh. Let’s not go there. I’m USED to not going there. It’s ok, I know me here, I’m infamous. ;)
But it's a good thinking...I'm not melancholy about it, but bemused. I know in my heart there's the One out there for me. I've just not met her yet. But recent events have shown me I'm getting closer. And YES, CM, I AM talking about you. But you know that, too. Ok, I really need to hit the sheets, I'm supposed to be up in 3 hours.....
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
And Here....we....gooo...
April is here.....My busiest month by far. True, the pictures on this page were not taken in April, but the last weekend in March, but April is the month when many of my favorite people on this earth were born, as well as the month when I have something going on almost every weekend.
And it looks like Vegas is on....yeah, can't wait to see Kody, Jenna, and possibly Lacey ad Brianna if they're around!
Oh, and though NONE of the above applies to this...I wanted to wish all of you a Happy April Fools day!!!
Thursday, March 19, 2009
2009 Schedule updated
2008 was a busy year for me, and 2009 is shaping up to be just as wild, if not more so. You all know I've already gone to Texas, from February 8th through the 10th, I hit a pretty nice auto show on Feb 21st. I managed to miss the TICO air and car show on March 14th due to my work hours, the alarm not going off, and being sick. No more of that shall I let myself do. So, here's my upcoming photography/event schedule:
March 21, Boston Red Sox at New York Yankees
March 29, MacDill AirFest featuring the U.S. Thunderbirds
April 5, Honda Indy Grand Prix of St. Petersburg
April 5, Honda Indy Grand Prix of St. Petersburg
April 11, Mustang Meet, Fantasy of Flight
April 21, EAA Sun 'n' Fun Fly in
May 17-19 (tenative) Museum of the United States Air Force, Wizard, Mayhem, Ohio
June 22-28 (possibly) BWHS 15 year Bellevue, Nebraska
The second half of my year is yet to be determined, but I am hoping to include a trip to Germany in October and determined to hit Vegas in November for my birthday, amongst the other events that may crop up. Any other suggestions?.
April 21, EAA Sun 'n' Fun Fly in
May 17-19 (tenative) Museum of the United States Air Force, Wizard, Mayhem, Ohio
June 22-28 (possibly) BWHS 15 year Bellevue, Nebraska
The second half of my year is yet to be determined, but I am hoping to include a trip to Germany in October and determined to hit Vegas in November for my birthday, amongst the other events that may crop up. Any other suggestions?.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
And the Hemi says VROOM!!!!
For Your Viewing Pleasure.....
Some of my fave shots from an Auto Show at Lifestyles Family Fitness here in Brandon last Saturday. I wanted to start March off on a high note, blog-wise ;)
Love to all.
And yes, Jedi, I see you lookin ;)
for more of this set, and my photography in general, click here: http://picasaweb.google.com/Strikeeagle137
Some of my fave shots from an Auto Show at Lifestyles Family Fitness here in Brandon last Saturday. I wanted to start March off on a high note, blog-wise ;)
Love to all.
And yes, Jedi, I see you lookin ;)
for more of this set, and my photography in general, click here: http://picasaweb.google.com/Strikeeagle137
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
San Antonio Vacation in Words and Pictures
The trip to San Antonio started innocuously enough, go off the plane at SAT, and discovered that the rental car area was under construction, so I went and caught the shuttle over to Enterprise.
They gave me a cream colored 2008 Chrysler PT Cruiser. Joy. The car has a smaller 4cyl engine than my S-10, but weighs more. Luckily, Texas isn’t all that hilly.
Called Matt after leaving the Enterprise lot and followed directions over to his place on the west side of San An. The rest of Sat was just spent relaxing and catching up with Matt and Juneiva.
Sunday rolled around, and the three of us went over to Whataburger for lunch, at which point we split up, Matt and I taking the rental to head over to the SCUC area, where both Matt and I had lived back in middle and Jr. High schools.
We started off by heading over towards Randolph Air Force Base. Not only would they not let us on the base, they wouldn’t even let us take pictures of the “Taj Mahal” from the main gate.
In retrospect, this should have been our first clue.
We drove from Randolph through Universal City and to Cibolo, where I took a couple drive-by shots of J. Frank Dobie, where I went to half of sixth grade. What used to be a large field behind and beside Dobie is now housing….a lot of it.
We then went over to Schertz, and I shot Ray D. Corbett Jr. High school from across the street before Matt and I headed into the development I used to live in. I recognized the old house at 1308 Oak Street by the tree on the left that Shawn and I used to climb to get on the house’s roof. Stopped the Cruiser and pulled my camera out, intending to go knock on the door to get permission to shoot the front of the house. Walking towards the house, I went to turn on the camera and noticed the batteries were dead, so I went back to the car to put new ones in. While doing so, the policeman for Bexar County (Which Schertz is not in, being in Guadalupe), who now lives in the house came out and walked over to me, asking what we were doing.
I was honest with him, and told him I had lived in that house back in the late 80s and wanted to take a picture of it.
He asked for my driver’s license.
Yep, southern po-po. What you gonna do? So, not content that he is not flustering me, he starts asking me why my license is from Florida but the plates on the Cruiser are Texas. I calmly explained about the theory of rental cars, and that I had picked it up at the airport.
He pointed out it didn’t have a rental sticker on it. Matt pointed the sticker out to him, at which point he asked why I was in town and where I was staying. Matt gave the guy his address, and then he asked Matt for HIS driver’s license, writing information down the whole time. Now I am starting to get annoyed at this guy. I am on a public street, just looking at an area I happened to have once lived, and he’s trying to give me the go-around. He wrapped up, stating he had no reason to hold us and that we were free to go. I resisted the urge to take his picture to post online. So we left the area, and I didn’t take any more photographs the rest of the day.
Honestly, though, it only reinforced memories of how the area was, and, if anything, it has become even more run down and squalid than when I used to live there in 87-89.
Monday, though, was completely different. After a few games of Ghost Recon, in which Matt and I kicked ass….eventually, that is, we headed into downtown.
We scoped out the Alamo and a couple of the Missions, walked along the River Walk before having lunch over at Fuddrucker’s.
After lunch, we walked through and hung out at HemisFair park, going up in the Tower of the Americas. That open-front elevator still wigs me out, but I am better able to deal with it now.
Once we had spent some time there, we went back to the rental car and headed south, where I wanted to check out the Texas Air Museum branch at Stinson field. It is a small museum, but it has a couple of pretty rare birds, like a 1914 Christofferson, Northrop F-89 Scorpion, and a Focke-Wulf Fw-190 A-7, among others. Unfortunately, the collection is in pretty bad shape, as you can see from the pictures.
From there, purely by chance, Matt noticed a sign for an aqueduct, and we drove over, finding ourselves at the Espada Aqueduct. That was really cool, considering all the history behind it.
Monday was definitely our best “going places” day, and we capped it off by heading to the other side of San Antonio near Lackland to meet up with Nate for dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings. Nate’s changed a tonne, and yet not at all, and I’m sure he would say the same about me.
After Nate left, Matt and I headed back to his place, where Juneiva kicked us BACK out to the bars, since she wanted some time for herself. I can’t blame her, spending time with a pair of geeks gets tiring, especially when they are rambling on about Naval weaponry and the like.
Though we really didn’t go anywhere, Tuesday was my favorite day in San Antonio, because it was just Matt and I chilling out. I’m a simple man, I like just spending time with the people that are important to me. We played a lot of Project Gotham and watched parts of movies and some episodes of Futurama.
Oh, and a gratuitous full frontal shot of the little milk truck rental ;)
They gave me a cream colored 2008 Chrysler PT Cruiser. Joy. The car has a smaller 4cyl engine than my S-10, but weighs more. Luckily, Texas isn’t all that hilly.
Called Matt after leaving the Enterprise lot and followed directions over to his place on the west side of San An. The rest of Sat was just spent relaxing and catching up with Matt and Juneiva.
Sunday rolled around, and the three of us went over to Whataburger for lunch, at which point we split up, Matt and I taking the rental to head over to the SCUC area, where both Matt and I had lived back in middle and Jr. High schools.
We started off by heading over towards Randolph Air Force Base. Not only would they not let us on the base, they wouldn’t even let us take pictures of the “Taj Mahal” from the main gate.
In retrospect, this should have been our first clue.
We drove from Randolph through Universal City and to Cibolo, where I took a couple drive-by shots of J. Frank Dobie, where I went to half of sixth grade. What used to be a large field behind and beside Dobie is now housing….a lot of it.
We then went over to Schertz, and I shot Ray D. Corbett Jr. High school from across the street before Matt and I headed into the development I used to live in. I recognized the old house at 1308 Oak Street by the tree on the left that Shawn and I used to climb to get on the house’s roof. Stopped the Cruiser and pulled my camera out, intending to go knock on the door to get permission to shoot the front of the house. Walking towards the house, I went to turn on the camera and noticed the batteries were dead, so I went back to the car to put new ones in. While doing so, the policeman for Bexar County (Which Schertz is not in, being in Guadalupe), who now lives in the house came out and walked over to me, asking what we were doing.
I was honest with him, and told him I had lived in that house back in the late 80s and wanted to take a picture of it.
He asked for my driver’s license.
Yep, southern po-po. What you gonna do? So, not content that he is not flustering me, he starts asking me why my license is from Florida but the plates on the Cruiser are Texas. I calmly explained about the theory of rental cars, and that I had picked it up at the airport.
He pointed out it didn’t have a rental sticker on it. Matt pointed the sticker out to him, at which point he asked why I was in town and where I was staying. Matt gave the guy his address, and then he asked Matt for HIS driver’s license, writing information down the whole time. Now I am starting to get annoyed at this guy. I am on a public street, just looking at an area I happened to have once lived, and he’s trying to give me the go-around. He wrapped up, stating he had no reason to hold us and that we were free to go. I resisted the urge to take his picture to post online. So we left the area, and I didn’t take any more photographs the rest of the day.
Honestly, though, it only reinforced memories of how the area was, and, if anything, it has become even more run down and squalid than when I used to live there in 87-89.
Monday, though, was completely different. After a few games of Ghost Recon, in which Matt and I kicked ass….eventually, that is, we headed into downtown.
We scoped out the Alamo and a couple of the Missions, walked along the River Walk before having lunch over at Fuddrucker’s.
After lunch, we walked through and hung out at HemisFair park, going up in the Tower of the Americas. That open-front elevator still wigs me out, but I am better able to deal with it now.
Once we had spent some time there, we went back to the rental car and headed south, where I wanted to check out the Texas Air Museum branch at Stinson field. It is a small museum, but it has a couple of pretty rare birds, like a 1914 Christofferson, Northrop F-89 Scorpion, and a Focke-Wulf Fw-190 A-7, among others. Unfortunately, the collection is in pretty bad shape, as you can see from the pictures.
From there, purely by chance, Matt noticed a sign for an aqueduct, and we drove over, finding ourselves at the Espada Aqueduct. That was really cool, considering all the history behind it.
Monday was definitely our best “going places” day, and we capped it off by heading to the other side of San Antonio near Lackland to meet up with Nate for dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings. Nate’s changed a tonne, and yet not at all, and I’m sure he would say the same about me.
After Nate left, Matt and I headed back to his place, where Juneiva kicked us BACK out to the bars, since she wanted some time for herself. I can’t blame her, spending time with a pair of geeks gets tiring, especially when they are rambling on about Naval weaponry and the like.
Though we really didn’t go anywhere, Tuesday was my favorite day in San Antonio, because it was just Matt and I chilling out. I’m a simple man, I like just spending time with the people that are important to me. We played a lot of Project Gotham and watched parts of movies and some episodes of Futurama.
Oh, and a gratuitous full frontal shot of the little milk truck rental ;)
Before I Die
I've been thinking a lot about mortality lately.
And, before you ask, no, I'm not sick, I haven't recently discovered I only have a certain amount of days to live or anything, I'm not depressed or anything. Just been thinking a lot.
Going to see Matt (More on that in another blog) helped me bring a few things into focus, as well.
I know what I have done, and, most people would think it's quite a bit.
But there are still a few things left on my list I'd like to do before I day.
See all of my friends again.
Have one true meaningful kiss.
Drive a 1969 Dodge Charger with the four-speed manual and a 426 Hemi.
Own the above.
Fall in love. Just once.
Finish the next novel.
Have it become a success.
Have all my friends happy and healthy.
(I know, I don't ask for much, right?)
And, before you ask, no, I'm not sick, I haven't recently discovered I only have a certain amount of days to live or anything, I'm not depressed or anything. Just been thinking a lot.
Going to see Matt (More on that in another blog) helped me bring a few things into focus, as well.
I know what I have done, and, most people would think it's quite a bit.
But there are still a few things left on my list I'd like to do before I day.
See all of my friends again.
Have one true meaningful kiss.
Drive a 1969 Dodge Charger with the four-speed manual and a 426 Hemi.
Own the above.
Fall in love. Just once.
Finish the next novel.
Have it become a success.
Have all my friends happy and healthy.
(I know, I don't ask for much, right?)
Sunday, February 1, 2009
A Photo Shoot thought
As most of you know, I love photography. I love taking pictures, looking at pictures, and discussing pictures. I love taking pictures of aircrfat, cars, scenery, and even friends. If I were ever to do a photo shoot that I were able to call the shots on, I would want to shoot friends with aircraft and cars. I would REALLY love to shoot a few of my fave models (Or women that I think SHOULD be models) at a couple air museums I frequent and with some serious automotive mastery. For me that would be the Dream Shoot. What about you?
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