Winding Down and Winding Up

Well, it's been a pretty quiet year. Not a ton of photography going on, but I did get out and shoot infinitely more than years past. Here is a link to my top 10 for 2011. I'm sure there are some more cool pics in my folder, but these are the top ten EDITED pics. I'll do more when I retire. Gotta have something to do while sitting in that Airstream after dark!

Plastic. Where?

Why can I not buy a box of knives? My eating habits somehow use up more spoons and knives than forks. I can get spoons. But not knives! So I end up with no knives, a few spoons and tons of forks. Have you ever tried to spread mayonnaise with a fork?

Before the iPhone:

Bet you haven't seen one of these in a while. Maybe you've never seen one of these. In the spirit of trashing 365 things, and the end of the year coming up, I decided to dig this out of the closet and liquidate it.

As I flipped through all the cards, deciding which ones to trash(all), I had quite a trip down memory lane. This unit covered 20+ years of owning a print shop.

I'll bet my iPhone won't last this long(although I'm still operating a 3), but fits better in my pocket.

Days Are Getting Longer

Thank GOD we are past the Winter Solstice. I hate getting home from work when it is pitch black. It irks me to no end to think I spend the entire daylight session sitting in my office. But, alas, that is the way it must be for now...

Thirty Years Ago Today...

... I was tragically sucked into the Imprinted Sportswear Industry. Yeah, without my knowing it, I suddenly became self employed. And even though I had no knowledge of the industry, no business savvy, no capitlal and no motivation, somehow I weathered the storm and have cranked out over 60,000 projects. So far.

That was 1981, back before the Right To Know Law, and the working conditions were crap: lead based ink, bad ventilation, solvents that made the Fire Marshal cry.

Visualize running a business without: Computers, cell phones, internet, on line banking, debit cards, accounting programs, email, printers, digital cameras. FedEx only delivered documents, and UPS didn't even operate in Texas!

On the plus side, I never had to chew out my employees for gabbing on their cell phones or texting all day. And I lost zero productivity to surfing. Actually, today I don't have that problem either, because I have no employees. I work for someone now and I'm in a 'position of influence' rather than owner or manager. Much nicer.

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like... Uhhhhhh...

Hmmmmmmmm...These pics were shot at almost noon on a Saturday, 22 days before Christmas. Maybe a lot of people on the 'naughty' list this year? Or maybe it's because we just finished a $6 Billion week of on line shopping.
Scary.

101 Reasons To Leave This Town:

Reason #56: 843 Top doctors? Out of how many?!? Is this supposed to help us narrow down the choices? I suppose if you take out all the plastic surgeons the list would become quite small.

I know where they all practice. All you have to do is drive around town for a while and you will pass dozens of ever growing widespread multi billion dollar campuses of hospital after hospital.

Conclusion: This town is sick!

It's That Time Of the Year Again...

You might be thinking you have seen this pic on my blog before. But indeed I did shoot this pic last night while doing some chores over at Big Bro's place. You can compare it to this pic. And I can shoot one next year and it will be identical.