Monday, February 23, 2009 @ Out With The Old, In With The New
well it feels like i haven't done this in a lil minute and well i was putting it off for one big update which is well....now....so i thought id start it off with 5 random facts about myself that I've seen other folks doing now for a while. well some might not be so random but some you may not know
1. i listen to more old school records (50s, 60s, & 70s) than i do to today's mainstream stuff 2. I've only been to one funeral in the 23 years of my life...which was as recent as last year 3. i call my mama by her first name, and i have since i was a little kid 4. i used to call my grandpa by his first name as well 5. I've never been arrested (yes, a black man that's never been in cuffs, we do exist)
well i said this would be a big update but its really only one thing big that's happened lately which y'all will see at the end of all this, but mostly the rest are random thoughts i guess.
for one...today at church i noticed that...when i don't show up for a while...maybe 1 or 2 Sundays out the month when i do make it back that 3rd or 4ThSunday...how many folks noticed my absence. i ain't saying i got some kinda status within the church or anything but i guess since I'mthe youngest person on the male usher board and I'minvolved in some behind the scenes work, folks take notice of it, especially the older folks in the church, always shaking my hand....telling me how proud they are of me, etc etc. makes a brother feel damn good.
another random thought i was talking to somebody close to me last night was how its funny to see folks you went to high school with, just how much they've changed over time. looks and personality wise. these two dudes i went to school with came to church this morning and sat not too far from the door i was ushering on, one is cool and the other one was i guess you can all a trouble maker, but I'm cool with both of em. but as the service went on and stuff, as folks were really getting into the spirit i noticed him doing the same. now to me it was kinda strange b/c someone who always acted out, acted like a str8 up thug and what not...was actually feeling the spirit. it was just weird to me. then the part where the pastor welcomed folks to join the church, one of the associate pastors came over to him and the other dude was was tryna talk him into joining but he seems to turn it down every time. maybe he wasn't into it as much as i thought, or maybe he just ain't wanna walk up in front of everybody.....who knows.
Other than that, ion really like complaining about my job too much b/c i know I'm blessed to even have one these days. but i did have to show that i ain't no push over to one of the supervisors on Friday. my whole thing is. they got me learning so much stuff, doing this, and doing that, getting me into a class to be a hazmatresponder, etc. so much on my plate, but at the same time i don't think they get that b/c they try to put me on a time limit on how many hours i can work a day, that's cool to me cuz hell i don't wanna be there no longer than the next person, yet if i gotta make them hours to get shit done, then i ain't complaining either. but don't come at me sideways saying i gotta be done by a certain time when I'm up to my neck in shit to process then get mad at me when it doesn't get done. that's my only issue. I'm the only clerk staying after the trucks go out finishing stuff up. it used to be two of us but the other girl leaves at 9 to take her kids to school so its kinda like they got me doing all the stuff she used to do afterwards when I was leaving at 9 or 9:30. but in the end, i cant really complain b/c I'm starting to make the big bucks. so ill just roll with the punches cuz i know it'll all pay off in the long run.
well i think that's about it as far as shit that's been going on the past week and a half, still getting over this cold i got, probably from the cold snap we had early last week. i swear i must have been sick more than 5 times since this year started all b/c of them shits. smh.
Oh yeah and well i did title this "out with the old and in with the new" and that's b/c like i said in a previous entry i had a big surprise...well at least its big to me b/c I've been long over due for this for sometime now. and that is i finally got myself some new frames....two pair matter of fact. i was gonna get some Bulgari sinceJojo picked em out and liked em, but i couldn't find em in the store so instead i got some Sean John's...a regular seeing pair and another frame as sunglasses but also prescribed. and i swear when i tired em both on i felt like a new man i went and did the exam and everything Saturday...had me sit in front of some machine and looked at a green light and came out a lil and without warning shot a puff of air directly into my eye...shit made me jump back every time. only thing i was kinda worried about was the dilation b/c last time i got it done, my eyeballs felt tight as hell like i couldn't move em around for a good 30 minutes but it wasn't like that this time....just...dude said my vision would become blurry within 20 minutes and that shit didn't wear off for at least 5 hrs. had to be the longest drive home ever. but since they closed early on Saturdays and no one was there to make the lenses on Sunday i had to go pick em up today after i got off work. so yeah....out with the old and in with the new....I'm loving these joints man.....
that's about it for now....ill probably start doing these more often instead of just some random shit every other day.
ionno why these pics always come out un centered in my entries smh
Yeah its actually the 15Th now but after last night i kinda wish it still was the 14Th. Now usually id just treat that day as any other day b/c i never had any reason to treat it otherwise, but after a few years out the loop i finally had a reason to.
I wont go into much detail but it was definitely a nice outing for both of us, gave gift(s), good company, great food. A nice change of pace for myself. already looking forward to a second outing. its just nice to be out with someone and actually know that person is payingattention to YOU and not whats going on around you., its sorta bringing back an old feeling i haven't felt in quite sometime and it feels damn good and to be honest, ion wanna lose it anytime soon.
But yeah, it was definitely dope. hope to do it again real soon. and other than that, ain't really no other stuff going on. i said i wasn't gonna blog again anyway until probably the week after next for something else but it felt like i ain't did it in a while anyway. so whoever does read this, 'i shol do appreciate ya
I was actually asleep when i woke up and heard this video on 106&park as the new joint, i was still half asleep so at first glance i really thought it was Andre 3000 but the beat is the first thing that caught my ears. the concept is pretty dope too and reminded me of outkast so I'm guessing dude gotta be related to em or something, especially having a name after one of their biggest hit songs. i think this really gotta be one of the first joints that i really digg since '09 started. ill definitely check out his album when it drops.
Ain't too much else to talk about other than that tho, had to take my mam truck back to the BMW dealership to have it serviced, and i realized just how bad i want an 7-series now. cuz them things bad, especially the 760 Li. but i still think ima leave that as a retirement present to myself, whenever i do retire which ain't gonna be til I'm damn near 60 and hell, it might be an 790 Xi out by then lol.
Hit up key Biscayne after that for a lil while to enjoy whats left over of this cool weather and take a few shots, and that was about it for this Saturday, got church in the morning so ima cut this off right here and catch y'all good folks on the next go around.
Ill leave these two pieces of HDR work i did on one of the shots i did earlier.
Thursday, February 5, 2009 @ Now I Usually Dont....
I don't consider myself the MichaelJordan of this whole photography thing, hell ion even know if id consider it mediocre, I'm still getting my feet wet in it and learning more and more as time goes on. but the stuff i am learning and the more i press the shutter release button (to take the picture lol). i begin to notice just how nice some of em turn out...well at least to me and maybe others.
for example, the picture up top....i don't really like taking pics of myself b/c well, i know i ain't the ugliest dude around but hell i know i ain't no Reggie bush either. but i don't know, it was just something about this one that i liked which is why i posted it up and i mean thx to this wireless remote, which even made it possible.
I told myself id start getting more and more "into" my pictures and this here kinda gives me some reassurance that it ain't about tryna take the best shot to please folks, but what looks best to me. in the end, i AM the one taking the shot
Other than that. shit......it was so got damn cold this morning down here. checked the outside temp in the car and it read 41. plus it was a lil breeze which made it that much more worse. even with gloves on, my damn hands still went numb as hell. i had to watch how i moved every package just so i wouldn't jam anything up or worse, break something.
Even right now its still damn near in the 50s with the same breeze but i must admit, it feels damn good. but I'm wondering, why the hell do we get all our cold weather down here AFTER the holidays? ion think i can recall one cold thanksgiving or Christmas or even for my birthday., too bad this cold snap will be gone by Saturday tho.
But ain't really too much other shit going on, hardly any complaints, I'm just living and doing me and enjoying it. i think ima do something this weekend i haven't done in what feels like some months......turn on my xbox 360 and finish assassins creed lol.
Oh yeah before i forget, shout out to Paris if i didn't do it, she'd probably never let me forget it
iight so, you ever had a situation come up to the point where it kinda brought back a feeling of dejavu from a past experience weather it be good or bad?
Well something like that just happened to me not too long ago. basically some dude that rides around on a bike came by the house, knocked on the door and started asking my mama questions about lawn care (she let him do some work a while back and he did a shit ass job) so she basically gave him the cold shoulder and he took off.
Now most probably wouldn't think of it as a big deal, but with me, it brought back a feeling of something that happened around this same time back in '07. i think i wrote about it way back when but ill just retouch on it.
Basically i was here home alone asleep one morning, somebody comes knocking at the door, now back then id usually just let em knock until they realized nobody was home and went on about their business but this dude just kept knocking and knocking so eventually i got up and as i made my way to the living room i heard the front door being kicked, jumped back, grabbed my phone, started to peak around the corner to see what was going on and he kicks it again knocking out one of the panels on it, so i dip out and i guess he saw me run across the room so he took off on his bike and around the corner, as i made my way out the back door, and ran to a neighbors house i saw him riding off but ion think he saw me.
But the whole point I'mtryna get across here is, just that one lil situation just now just seemed to bring back all those feelings.....piece of mind....sense of security...etc etc. i mean you really don't know how folks act these days when somebody talks to em a certain way, they'll either just let it ride or might come back to prove a point. cant just put shit pass nobody nowadays, which is why my mind starts to run with hellascenarios, what if this happens, what if that happens.
which is the reason why i want some vicious ass guard dogs, the reason why i want an alarm system on this house, the reason why i wanna get a CCW license and keep a weapon in this house. only draw back on all of this is, that if its gonna happen, its gonna happen. ain't no ifs, ands, or buts about that. but that's why i keep this iron baseball bat across the bed from me.....just in case.
Its kinda funny b/c i just got done watching Gran Torino and the whole message of the movie was to stand up for yourself, i guess even if it means costing you your life.
I don't know tho, i mean this whole thing was always in the back of my mind and thought i was getting over it, but just like that.....back to reality....
What can i say? 22, negro, FL bored and raised, part time photographer, part time
graphic designer....well used to be, part time drunk, full time UPS clerk, and a whole bunch of other boring
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