8/28/2003 at 10:19am thursday when hard drives crash. i have seen many. i hate to bring the bad news to people. like a doctor coming out of the operating room with his head down. 'i am afraid i have some bad news'. sometimes the computer just doesn't see the drive or the partition is not set active, viruses can do that sort of thing, power surges too. this can be fixed. but when you turn on the machine and the hard drive ceases to 'spin up'. you listen...nothing...change out power cables...nothing...well i am afraid it is dead. a silent death. much better than the clacking and clicking of a drive on its last breath. fighting for existance. a few years ago i modified a hard drive power cord to fit into a 120 volt socket. i made the cord about 15 feet long providing a safe distance in case the influx of power caused the drive to produce wings and speed toward my head [potentially messing up my hair]. i plugged it in and the drive actually started to spin up, but then a loud crack and a pop caused the drive to flop around like a ground-bloom firecracker followed by another load pop, snap and then sizzle....sizzle...wow that was fun! as i unplugged the cord the socket had turned from beige to black. electrocuted. humph. have you ever seen the inside of a hard drive? i have and now you have too. 8/26/2003 at 3:01pm tuesday things are spiraling out of control. or actually spiraling in control. i still have my hands clutched to the wheel i just have no idea what lies ahead...limited visibility. i am going back to my hometown for about 5 days to visit friends from the past and future. my 10 year high school reunion is saturday. i hope we get nametags. . . . some links for today: tax my espresso? starbucks - phase 2 new york overheard 8/22/2003 at 9:35am friday i can't decide if i should say 'yes! it's friday' or 'Oh no, it's friday!!! no! no! no!' 8/21/2003 at 3:02pm thursday they're in the walls! coming out of the cracks, light switches, plugs, vents, door locks, floor boards. ants! ants.... i hate ants...give me any other bug and i will love it, feed it, pet it, and name it george...but ants...ants suck ass. they end up everywhere from yesterday's crusty pasta dish to today's fresh glass of water even to last week's dirty clothes pile (wtf?). the bedroom, the bathroom, always the kitchen...always. i make special industrial strength poisons that kill them where they crawel. but they seem to multiply. alerting headquarters to find another route to their pre-programmed destination. damn them! decades of poisons and insecticides have actually made these little fuckers into indestructible tanks. the only thing left is to squash them with an index finger...one by one. ...squish... the traps of borax left out in hopes they take the delayed poison back to the nest where the entire clan will feast on the sugary outside only to crunch into the hard candy center of instant-paralysis. i think the borax no longer works. when i put a small drop on the cardboard placer, i promise you i hear a tiny bugle. they swarm around the clear liquid in droves. if you look close some of them are wearing party hats and swim trucks. it makes them stronger. they are lushes. waiting around after the last molecule of the tasty goodness is gone...waiting for...seconds? they can't be! they will return, rest assured. every remedy is temporary. a small fix. i swear if there was an atomic fallout, ants would be carrying away the carcass of every dead cockroach. . . . some links for today: corporate alumni - enter company name to find past employees i like the last sentence of this story Woman Hurt as Cellphone Bursts Into Flames are you kidding me? 8/16/2003 at 9:56pm saturday more from that edna valley antique store area with heather and tyler. the first set is below this post if you haven't seen those yet. took one shot as a homage to angela over at slolane.org on her mailbox photo. 8/14/2003 at 9:44pm thursday a new series of photos. too many to display at once so i will post these over a few days. heather, tyler and i went to the old edna valley antique store which has a run down house adjacent to it and many, many things to photograph around the grounds. very intriguing to see the finished results of what each of us captured. between the 3 of us some photos resemble the same shot straight down to the frame. even creeping into the other's shots. 8/12/2003 at 10:03am tuesday 8/10/2003 at 11:57pm sunday exhausted i need out! i need to make plans. but making plans are easy. it's the follow through of the plans that becomes the challange. i made a plan to visit europe before i turned 28. well, i am 28. that gives me only 4 more months to take on europe which is not realistic by any means. so scratch that one off. but again, it will just be sent down the list. the list of plans that will more than likely never be set into action. so when the plans are made i just need something to click and go for it. mostly a break in work and some nice cash flow to ease the constant worrying about that cash flow. [wait...what?] let me out. the trips up to san francisco, up to seattle, down to la, down to san diego, over to vegas. i think out of those trips, my top 5 all time places - seattle is a must that is written in ink. you hear me james? kick my ass to get me up there!! so with that i pencil in the rest of my plans and shove them in my pocket, forgetting about them, then washing my pants, turning the list into a pulpy mess of fibers. start over: top 5 all tim..... 8/08/2003 at 12:00pm friday a break at avila pier and port san luis. 8/07/2003 at 11:21am thursday how retarded is the state of california? the recall is interesting. i don't really have any political stance on many matters. i am not a democrat. i am not a republican. i am me. a citizen. i believe the recall has now officially become a hollywood b-movie script. there are now about 300 people rallying to be placed on the ballot. only in california. a model, a porn king, conan, a different stroke, a politician, a comedian, a business man, a punk rocker...the list continues. reads like a hollywood post-oscar party. or the beginning of a bad joke... why can't there be a recall and some noteworthy candidates with some background in some kind of leadership come forth. davis has to be included on the ballot. i am guessing that he may win and tax payers will be stuck with the bill for this silly waste of time. i hope californians realize this is not a movie and their vote must be for someone who will help this state, not to vote because it would be funny to vote for gary coleman or that larry flynt is their personal hero. shock value? and of course, the biggest name being arnold [not little arnold], already falling into the name game calling him 'the running man', 'the terminator', 'total recall'....blah. it's a joke. 'step right up, gather round, you won't believe your eyes...' it's election 2000 - the sequel. . . . some links for today: cnn i hope you get my message in a bottle it was his ambition to walk the length of the country in the nude just for fun 8/05/2003 at 9:18pm tuesday a few days late but i just finished the 26 things project. there was a list, you find the items on the list, you take a photo, then you show them to the world. on august 1. i am a bit late. and i still need one more photo! very fun project. now back to work...you smell coffee? The 26 Things International Photographic Scavenger Hunt number 415 with a bullet - my '26 things'.

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