Oh man, we had an awesome trip! I saw Crater Lake in Oregon, which was surrounded by snow. Beautiful! Then, we had just gotten to CA and Jack saw the sign for Reno and he said, "Want to go to Reno?" I said, "Sure!" So, he quickly took the exit! On the way, I got to see this totally awesome waterfall! The next day we went to Lake Tahoe, which was gorgeous. We did some gambling and some hiking and then headed for Sacramento. I lucked out and was able to get on an earlier flight so I got home at 7pm instead of midnight. And I took about 1500 pictures in two days. How was your weekend?

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Drats....you figured it out...lol

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So that's why my left leg is longer than my right!

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LOL....I was just pullin your leg.

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All that dough will eventually buy me a new camera and an African safari.

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Fine....with all the dough you'll be making you can fly down here....or fly me up......lolololololol

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Well, I won't be as far south as where you are. We're going to leave Thursday night and stop at Crater Lake in Oregon. We'll probably spend all of Friday there and then get to CA on Saturday. He'll be in Stockton and then drive to wherever he needs to be each day. I fly out on Sunday. Unfortunately, the time between when I get to Seattle and when I leave is about 6 hours. Ugh.
Thanks. I just signed up for 4 more sites. $120x5=

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Well that's not fair....you told me!....lol Not fair, Not fair, Not fair.....lol

Congrats on the nice chunk of change!!!! You do such great work....it's only right that you should benefit from it.

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Actually, I will drive down with him and spend a whopping one whole day down there before flying back. I'm not even telling my family I'm coming down because I won't have time to visit with them. He will actually be up and down the San Juaquin valley because they want him to look at other fruit, too.
Hopefully, instead of getting out of hand, I will focus more on my stock photos! I'm signing up to other sites since the first one has gone so well. In my first month, I've made $120.

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Three weeks?....if last week was any indication of how you're going to be.....it's going to be a wild three weeks.....lol Down here for cherries....that means he'll probably be fairly close by. Bummer you're not coming too.

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I really have a hard time with stupid people. And there seems to be an abundance of them!

Having Jack back is great. Unfortunately, he's going to be gone for another 3 weeks starting Monday. He has to go down to CA for cherries.

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LOL....so true. It's one thing to be ignorant....it's another to be just plain stupid....and wallow in it.

If we ever get to spend some time together.....I'll try to remember to tell you a funny story about a guy named Jim Kemp....who I had the "luxury" of training while in the Navy many years ago. But that's ok....you and I can sit up above all the peasants.....and giggle at them....lol

I hope you have a great weekend celebrating Jack's return...and a wonderful trip to Seattle.

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The sea monkey has my wallet.... ~Dori the fish... "Finding Nemo"

I find it a bit irritating when I'm trying to teach someone something new and it's obvious they don't want to learn. Makes me want to just get up and walk away and mutter something to the effect of "stay stupid then".
Learning is what keeps your brain functioning at optimum levels.

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So sad....but so true. The level of intellectual apathy among most people....can be mind boggling.

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Yeah, it's amazing the lack of knowledge people have. And I also find that many people don't even care to learn anything new.

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Sad that people don't know what a typhoon is.

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Yeah, I know they're called typhoons, but every time I told someone, they asked me what it was so I just switched to saying hurricane 'cause people know what those are.
I'm surprised your kids didn't care for it. My son was ready to join the circus!
I finally had my two batches reviewed. The first one was about right....24 accepted out of 50. The second batch, however, had 34 in it and they only accepted TWO! @#%* But that doesn't discourage me. I just keep submitting them. Part of the problem is that most of my pictures were taken with my old camera and the small sensor had more noise than they care for. I use noise reduction on them, but sometimes it just doesn't help enough. Eventually I'll get through all the pictures on my hard drive and only have to upload what I've currently taken. Right now I'm to November of '06, so I still have a ways to go!

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Well that's cool. You had told me he was going. For the record....they are called typhoons on that side of the globe. (former Navy meteorologist/oceanographer....who spent 3 years over there ) Cool about going to Seattle...and seeing the show. I took my kids and mother to see one of their shows a few years back. The kids weren't thrilled but I thought it was cool.

Neat about the stock work....I think they should take everything you shoot...but I'm biased....lol

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The sea monkey has my wallet.... ~Dori the fish... "Finding Nemo"

Jack will be back Friday. He's in China for a week. When he left, there was a hurricane over there and I was sooooo worried about his safety. But he emailed me that he arrived safely and has been emailing me every day to tell me about his adventures. This Saturday we will go to Seattle to see Cirqu du Soleil, which I'm very excited about. My son is going, too. I always enjoy getting to see him. In the meantime, I have been working on submitting new pictures to my stock site so I can make more $$$. So far, I'm averaging about 44% acceptance of what I submit (would like to get that % higher in the future) and I get an average of 13-14 downloads per day. So, at the moment, I'm not getting rich...but it's better than a sharp stick in the eye!

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LOLOLOL Twinkies....that will get ya up to 400 in a hurry....lol Awwwww....I thought you'd save the zit popping for me.
Moving on to reality....when will Jack be back?

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The sea monkey has my wallet.... ~Dori the fish... "Finding Nemo"