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"Cisco Systems today will formally take the wraps off its long-awaited carrier-class router, a multi-chassis architecture approach that the company claims can process up to 92 Terabits of information per second." Zoom.

What a full weekend this was! Friday afternoon I headed down to the Flying Saucer for some brewhaha with colleagues from the office. They have this "new" thing called "The Monster" they didn't have when I last went. It is basically a cylindrical tube of glass with a draft tap on the bottom. It holds about 3 pitchers of beer and sits on it's own pedestal stand. Excellent. They will fill it with anything they have on tap (did someone say Guinness?). Nifty little contraption. Saturday morning was the first quality photography time I've had in almost a week. I spent a few hours at the Arboretum on the north side of town. Saturday evening started with a nice dinner at Perry's in the Woodlands and ended back at our place with friend's over for libations by the chiminea on our back patio. It was a lot of fun. Sunday was the baby stepped beginning of moving my home office upstairs and turning the room in which it currently resides into a photography studio. We headed south toward the beach in the afternoon for a 40 pound crawfish boil at Mike's pad. Good food, conversation, and a lot of partying going on down in the Friendswood/League City/Clear Lake area last night. It was an awesome afternoon despite the drive. Mike and I live on opposite sides of town... in the same metro area... Houston... yeah... 100 miles round trip from my door to his. Crazy. This morning got the week rolling with a meeting. All Monday's should start with a meeting to set the tone for the week. I hate meetings. I feel like I'm lagging behind in the consumption of coffee. Ugg. Really, I've been so unmotivated to write anything on this site. I feel like I don't have the time to think these days. Perhaps it's just the time of year? I mean, I notice a lot of people "neglecting" their blogs and such. Who knows? Anyhoo, I hope everyone had a great weekend.

Lilies for EL

a thistle @ ~1000mm

juvenile dragon in need of a shave

A few from this morning...

Baby hopper...

Bug smoothie... lunch on the go...

just some steps... I got all moved to my new office today... up to the 5th floor from 3 and a fresh view of adjacent skyscrapers with a wee bit of green grass in the distance. Baby steps. I wish I could share the shots from this weekend with ya... killer stuff. I shot some custom jewelry and put an artistic spin on the end of the session by getting some fresh Stargazer Lilies from the florist and using the huge and color saturated petals as props for the key piece of the shoot. They really turned out well. I am been a bit of a lazy arse when it comes to posting here... so busy recently. I assume that's everyone's story though... fair enough. Perhaps I will play catch-up soon. I have this huge departmental meeting-fest over the next three days. Can you believe that my meetings run from 7:30 in the morning to 6:30 at night one of the days with a company sponsored dinner afterwards? It's going to be a long week. It's off to a glass of red and some R&R with my better half... G'night.

"There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept" - Ansel Adams

Saturday morning at Mercer before my commercial shoot down near Galveston: It is weird to think that I held a quarter-million dollar 17 carat canary yellow diamond in my hand... briefly. Unfortunately, that wasn't what I was there to shoot, but still... that was a rock. Unreal that there are peops that can drop that kind of cash on a ring. Where is that money tree planted?

Bees getting killed seem to be the in thing... I mean, between that freaky video and this... poor little fellas. This is my first Robber Fly of the season. They are the mercenary assasins of the insect world. Powerful.

sun = bike rain = beer

Thanks to Greg, I now know what time it is: 202-762-1401

Rupert get the doe. Justice is served.

Be happy with what you have... it could be worse. Remember?

Oh yeah, my boys are back at it.