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Adirondacks

After a couple of years in the Florida sunshine, I found myself in upstate New York. Nestled in the bosom if the Adirondack Mountains, there isn't much SCUBA to be found. There are deep wrecks off the eastern seaboard, but those expeditions required time and training I couldn't afford at the time. Many lives have been claimed in those cold currents by the greedy sea. I took up rock climbing in the summer and snow skiing in the winter. Between New York, Vermont, and Massachusetts, I was busy with outdoors most of the time I wasn't indoors splitting atoms.

Gunks

During the years I lived in the northeast, I learned to fly and got my pilots license. The changing seasons are spectacular from the sky. Today is the birthday of my high school sweetheart. Jessica was probably the closest thing I'd ever known to true love before Erin. I don't have any photos of her due to a subsequent girlfriend destroying my sentimental stuff in a jealous fit of insecurity while I was at work back in the early 90's. It's a shame things like that happen. Happy birthday, Jessica... wherever you are. The weather is cool again this morning and I love it. Bob and I are headed to Fry's to look for some flash memory, a PCMCIA firewire adapter (so I can shoot tethered in the studio), and a replacement charger cable for his laptop. If there is a store in Houston that has one, it is Fry's. The proverbial mega-mart of electronics goodness. I found a stash of old photos and scans of me that I'll post later. I think I've shared a couple before, but after almost 60 months of blogging here, who can remember? Besides, I'm sure between publishing engine and server moves, the old media is gone daddy gone by now anyhoo. A few of them are old Halloween costumes from way back.