Happy Fourth!
I hope everyone had a good Fourth of July!
I worked this morning... it's a retail thing, but then I like doing retail...
I've had more fun at work this last year than I've ever had before in a working environment... and as of tomorrow, it will be one year exactly. (Last year at this time, I was about to leave New Orleans... didn't wan't to, and then everything changed for the better).
I went to work for a wonderful company and because I've learned how to relax when I need to, I am enjoying mostly every minute of the work that I do.
I've been riding the new scooter around town for a week now, and I looove it! It's so practical and so much fun. It takes ten minutes to get to work and the ride is mostly lovely under old oak trees that span Esplanade. But I also had to go downtown to the dentists, and that was nice too, I got to park at the bike rack... the scooter thing just doesn't cost very much to do! The insurance is around $250 a year. The gas... well, after a week, I pulled into the station and parked the bike next to the pump, (I have to use premium...) and I went in and asked for a dollar on number three. I went back, splashed a bucks worth in, and I'm set for another week! About every six bucks worth of gas, I have to add an 8 dollar quart of synthetic oil to the oil reserve.
Did I mention that it's really a lot of fun to ride this thing?
And I am going to start a scooter gang! And for Southern Decadence... ooh, cher.... watch out! hehe.
The Fourth.
I worked this morning... and it ended up that I also worked this afternoon. That's all good, but I didn't get home until many hours after I thought I would, and I missed going to the Lazerous House function... so I missed catching up with Robert and Michelle there.
But I did find Robert next door eventually...
...doing his burning man thing! He kept setting of these firework things in the alley between our two houses and creating all this interesting light and I started taking pictures...
...and the result can be seen HERE.
It's a PhotoShow thing, (Dr. JJ uses the software to good effect, so I tried it.) It may take a while to load (not long at all for dsl and cable), but it should work for you. Let me know if there's a problem.
Very amusing, btw, while we were taking the pics, the local undercover cops came by and asked us if we were O.K. I told them that we were just making photographs, and they seemed to be satisfied with that.
I can't imagine why they thought something might be wrong in the alley... after all, it was only two drunk gay guys blowing off fireworks between two raised houses about ten feet apart so they could get some interesting photos...
bwahahaha... one tiny gas leak and you would never have seen this journal entry.
Anyway, check out that photoshow; I just used all the pics that I took and they seemed to work in the sequence that they were taken in. (The camera was a Canon S230 which I carry now all the time and like because it fits in my pocket. It takes pretty good pics also.)
Other Bits.
My Dad, my sister and her lover, my brother and his wife and my neice are all in Boston and going to the fireworks tonight. I wish I was there with them, but I won't get a chance to see them all until sometime in September.
I am totally booked and psyched for the American Cheese Society Convention in San Fran!
Two weeks later. I'll be at a condo on the Florida coast for 2 days, for store team building.
So, it will be late September before I get a chance to do the northeast...and visit my family.
But then, I must try to return in November... because the wonderful and most amazing FORD will be in NYC! And you know, I love my lovely Steven... he sent me a sarong from Mykoos, you know! Just the thing to wear while riding my scooter during Southern Decadence! Bwahahahaha!
I've sent off my color scheme to luca, so my room will be ready when we make our annual trek to Vegas...
And do you know what...
I'm having a pretty good time right now.
Wish you were here...
durlx
I hope everyone had a good Fourth of July!
I worked this morning... it's a retail thing, but then I like doing retail...
I've had more fun at work this last year than I've ever had before in a working environment... and as of tomorrow, it will be one year exactly. (Last year at this time, I was about to leave New Orleans... didn't wan't to, and then everything changed for the better).
I went to work for a wonderful company and because I've learned how to relax when I need to, I am enjoying mostly every minute of the work that I do.
I've been riding the new scooter around town for a week now, and I looove it! It's so practical and so much fun. It takes ten minutes to get to work and the ride is mostly lovely under old oak trees that span Esplanade. But I also had to go downtown to the dentists, and that was nice too, I got to park at the bike rack... the scooter thing just doesn't cost very much to do! The insurance is around $250 a year. The gas... well, after a week, I pulled into the station and parked the bike next to the pump, (I have to use premium...) and I went in and asked for a dollar on number three. I went back, splashed a bucks worth in, and I'm set for another week! About every six bucks worth of gas, I have to add an 8 dollar quart of synthetic oil to the oil reserve.
Did I mention that it's really a lot of fun to ride this thing?
And I am going to start a scooter gang! And for Southern Decadence... ooh, cher.... watch out! hehe.
The Fourth.
I worked this morning... and it ended up that I also worked this afternoon. That's all good, but I didn't get home until many hours after I thought I would, and I missed going to the Lazerous House function... so I missed catching up with Robert and Michelle there.
But I did find Robert next door eventually...
...doing his burning man thing! He kept setting of these firework things in the alley between our two houses and creating all this interesting light and I started taking pictures...
...and the result can be seen HERE.
It's a PhotoShow thing, (Dr. JJ uses the software to good effect, so I tried it.) It may take a while to load (not long at all for dsl and cable), but it should work for you. Let me know if there's a problem.
Very amusing, btw, while we were taking the pics, the local undercover cops came by and asked us if we were O.K. I told them that we were just making photographs, and they seemed to be satisfied with that.
I can't imagine why they thought something might be wrong in the alley... after all, it was only two drunk gay guys blowing off fireworks between two raised houses about ten feet apart so they could get some interesting photos...
bwahahaha... one tiny gas leak and you would never have seen this journal entry.
Anyway, check out that photoshow; I just used all the pics that I took and they seemed to work in the sequence that they were taken in. (The camera was a Canon S230 which I carry now all the time and like because it fits in my pocket. It takes pretty good pics also.)
Other Bits.
My Dad, my sister and her lover, my brother and his wife and my neice are all in Boston and going to the fireworks tonight. I wish I was there with them, but I won't get a chance to see them all until sometime in September.
I am totally booked and psyched for the American Cheese Society Convention in San Fran!
Two weeks later. I'll be at a condo on the Florida coast for 2 days, for store team building.
So, it will be late September before I get a chance to do the northeast...and visit my family.
But then, I must try to return in November... because the wonderful and most amazing FORD will be in NYC! And you know, I love my lovely Steven... he sent me a sarong from Mykoos, you know! Just the thing to wear while riding my scooter during Southern Decadence! Bwahahahaha!
I've sent off my color scheme to luca, so my room will be ready when we make our annual trek to Vegas...
And do you know what...
I'm having a pretty good time right now.
Wish you were here...
durlx
