365 Days Project

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The idea is to do 365 daily self portraits. I thought I'd give it a shot. My primary goal is to do this without being too narcissistic. Which sounds pretty stupid. But what the heck, let's see how far this goes. Here's the set. As of today, there are three pictures. I'm off to a rousing start.

THE KOALA AND THE LIZARD

I've never posted an Internet joke before, but this one made me laugh. Thanks to Duane for sending it to me.

A koala is sitting up in a gum tree... smoking a joint when a little lizard walks past and looks up and says, "Hey Koala ! What are you doing?"

The koala says: "Smoking a joint, come up and have some."

So the little lizard climbs up and sits next to the koala and they have a few joints. After a while the little lizard says his mouth is 'dry' and is going to get a drink from the river. But the little lizard is so stoned that he leans too far over and falls into the river.

A crocodile sees this and swims over to the little lizard and helps him to the side, then asks the little lizard:

"What's the matter with you?"

The little lizard explains to the crocodile that he was sitting smoking a joint with the koala in the tree, got too stoned and then fell into the river while taking a drink.

The crocodile says he has to check this out and walks into the rain forest, finds the tree where the koala is sitting finishing a joint, and he looks up and says "Hey you!"

So the koala looks down at him and says:

"Shiiiiiiiiiiit dude... how much water did you drink?!!"

Two more sets from Delaware and Cape May

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I've finished a couple of more sets on Flickr:
A Day in Delaware (nature shots and some gulls on the ferry - 17 pictures)
and a weekend in Cape May
(more nature pictures and a couple of bird pictures - 21 pictures)
The picture on the right is from Cape May, New Jersey

Jim

Christmas Count at Herrick Lake and other new sets on Flickr

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We were doing the Christmas Bird Count today at Herrick Lake Forest Preserve. See all 5 pictures in this set on Flickr.

Here are some other sets I've finished that are available on Flickr:

Nature and bathroom fixtures shots from our Thanksgiving in Sheboygan, Wisconsin 18 pictures

Some miscellaneous pictures from September 9 pictures

Scenic, nature, hisory pictures from our Door County vacation in September 51 pictures

Pictures of dancing and other stuff from a Pow Wow in Naperville in September 22 pictures

Nature pictures from a birding trip to the West Chicago Prairie in October 10 pictures

Airport and hotel pictures from a seminar trip to Jewett, Texas in October 6 pictures

Train and scenic shots from Harpers Ferry, WV in October 12 pictures

Jim

Jim's upcoming schedule

January
Sales Tax - Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas
(yea - I'm NOT in North Dakota in January! Sorry to you Dakotans.)

February
Payroll - Illinois
Sales Tax - Virginia (yes I'm back there AGAIN)

March
Sales tax - Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin (including, yes, Eau Claire!)

April
Accounting - Nevada, Arizona
Sales Tax - Kansas

May
Sales Tax - Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan

If you'd like further information (like specific cities - remember I won't be doing ALL of the seminars in a given state), please email me. Don't forget to put ### in the subject line!

Thanks for all of your support.

Jim

Jim's upcoming seminar schedule

December
Sales Tax - Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, Illinois

January
Sales Tax - Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas
(yea - I'm NOT in North Dakota in January! Sorry to you Dakotans.)

February
Payroll - Illinois
Sales Tax - Virginia (yes I'm back there AGAIN)

March
Sales tax - Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin (including, yes, Eau Claire!)

April
Accounting - Nevada, Arizona
Sales Tax - Kansas

If you'd like further information (like specific cities - remember I won't be doing ALL of the seminars in a given state), please email me. Don't forget to put ### in the subject line!

Thanks for all of your support.

Jim

It's foolproof

Picked this up off one of the news services today:

"Our policy, when it's followed correctly, is foolproof," said CVS spokesman Mike DeAngelis. "But if there's a lack of execution, that's where issues arise. "

In other words, your policy always works fine until a fool gets involved. Which is kinda sorta always the case.

"So we've enhanced the policies and procedures in order to make sure that they are followed."

Until a fool gets involved.

Geez.

I've completed a couple of more collections on Flickr...
Miscellaneous pictures from my three weeks on the east coast - they just didn't fit into any other collections - 15 pictures

A few pictures from August 26 - we ran some errands, saw some trains, photographed some flowers and bugs...10 pictures

Folkston Funnel on Youtube

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Since my "other camera" has the video function, and I wasn't in position to take a nice photograph, I decided to tape one of the trains blasting through Folkston, GA when I was there in August. Click here for the 30 second video. And make sure you have the volume turned up. Hee Hee. BTW, there are other neat shots from Folkston on youtube.

BTW, this is my first video posted on youtube. It's actually pretty easy to watch 'em and uploading is not that bad. Not as elegant and simple as Flickr, but OK. Don't expect lots of videos though.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfAJwZgNYH4