Category: Blogging

  • Open the Covered Bridges Project Website!

    After much planning, and some recoding, I have finally started this Website Area, that is dedicated to Covered Bridges!

    Update

    Since this original post, I have switched my nomenclature, in an effort to accommodate the visitors…

    Am I correct?

    I have no clue…

    If you have a better answer to presenting the data and images, PLEASE let me know!

    Smiles and happiness,

    – Andrew
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  • Not invited to the Party…

    Not invited to the Party…

    I just got back from trying to vote in the PA primaries…

    As the volunteers were schmoozing my six-year-old daughter, I was asked what Party I was with, to which I said, “I’m unclaimed”, and proceed to look at the map of where to go.

    I heard a women behind me say, ‘you need to think quick or you can’t vote’, to which I turned around and said that I am a registered Independent. (Have been since I was 18)

    The group of volunteers then told me that during primaries in PA, only registered Democrats and Republicans can vote.

    Yes, I had forgotten this little detail of politics, and yes it ticked me off the last time…

    So because I have declared my independence of either party, I am segregated because… Why?

    “Not good enough”?

    “Not clean enough”?

    “Not a follower”?

    Folks, it was called the Declaration of Independence, that formed our government here is Philadelphia over 234 years ago!

    As my daughter and I left, I did have some comments to the volunteers about how this “rule” is just part of the corruption of a two-party system, and that both parties are failing the people, and things need to change.

    So much for trying to illustrate to my daughter the importance of voting as a civic duty.

    She and I did talk more about it back at the car…

    Wonder which “Party” she is going to choose?

  • Confessing my Addictions…

    To All my Friends and Readers –

    According to the “experts”, the first thing I need to do, is to admit to my addictions.

    So, with your help, I am admitting to the world via my Blog and Facebook, I have two addictions that I am trying in desperation to “kick”, and I am looking for your support.

    I’m not sure when it started, but I have tried very hard to remove these items from my life, and it has been difficult.

    How did I get myself into this mess?!

    Some would say, it comes with the profession…

    All ways being out there…

    But now, all I can think about is the time and money that I spent…

    How will my wife and kids forgive me.

    I tried to keep “it” out of sight… in my office… after they went to bed… in the middle of the night…

    But I was just drawn into “it”…

    “It” was all around me…

    Then about 3 weeks ago, I had enough of “it”.

    So far, the withdrawal symptoms have not been as bad as I thought…

    ‘One day at a time’

    For the most part, I have been able to ignore the lure of “it”, but today, about an hour ago, I looked at one…

    I stopped myself, and started this public confession, and maybe, I can finally “kick” this!

    Started to Google for some answers, and did you know, it is not easy to find information on “How to sell your Farm or Café on Facebook?” or “How to quit your Farmville or Café on Facebook?”!

    Tons of places for Cheats, but little useful info on Selling or Quitting.

    So as I ask your help here:

    – How does one Sell their Farm or Café on Facebook?
    – How does one Quit their Farm or Café on Facebook?

    If anyone has an Idea, PLEASE let me know!

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    Follow-up

  • No More Long Hair!

    Today is the day that I finally get all my hair cut off!

    Hope you enjoy the pictures!

    All the hair was donated to “Locks of Love”

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    Tech Info

    – All images taken with a Kodak DC50 camera

    – Andrew
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  • Tour of Tokyo

    Bus tour w/Yuri

    Drove past the Emperor’s Place

    Edo Period Museum

    Beautiful scaled models of Old Tokyo City

    • Scale Model 01
    • Scale Model 02
    • Scaled Model 03 (Boat)

    Lunch near Red Gate

    Group Lunch

    An elderly man tried to speak to me in English

    Shopping after lunch

    Exchanged money w/Yuri
    My “local bank”

    Geisha Theater

    Daimo de jour!!

    Shopping in Harajuku

    Bought: Tea pot & T-shirts

    Very LARGE dinner at Ikebukuro in downtown Tokyo

    Actually a feast!!

    Back at Akasu home

    Yuri and her brother looked up in dictionaries what the tea set said
    Writings of an ancient poet

    – Andrew
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