It is still a possibility that I can get wireless internet at my home, but it will be a couple weeks before the company can get out to my place and do a site survey. Even then I may end up having to dig a trench across the yard in order to get the cable underground from where the radio will be mounted.
My latest interest are electric plug-in vehicles. I learned about these recently after watching Who Killed The Electric Car? which in many ways is more disturbing that An Inconvenient Truth. Electric cars are available from many small manufacturers now, but most cost an excess of $80k. Today I wrote a letter to the Ford Motor Company urging them to invest more R&D into this concept. It would take an effort my a major automaker to produce these vehicles in a large quantity and make them affordable for the average consumer. Learn more at www.pluginamerica.com
Here's one I like: http://www.teslamotors.com
01 September 2007
17 March 2007
The abandoned blog
Blogging is such hard work apparently that I haven't bothered to update this thing in ages.
News: I spent a bunch of money on Adobe Creative Suite Premium 2.3. The goal is to learn PS, Illustrator, and Dreamwaver cold and eventually use those skills for other endeavors. Flash will follow. A good first project would be to make a custom skin for this blog and integrate it seemlessly with my website. That would involve a little bit of PHP programming and a lot of formatting. It's good practice. The bummer being that I have to open my website to the Blogger server. In the past I've found that hackers have made trouble with my little old site just because they can when I install little add ons like message boards and blogs.
That's all. If anyone is reading this, I am still alive.
News: I spent a bunch of money on Adobe Creative Suite Premium 2.3. The goal is to learn PS, Illustrator, and Dreamwaver cold and eventually use those skills for other endeavors. Flash will follow. A good first project would be to make a custom skin for this blog and integrate it seemlessly with my website. That would involve a little bit of PHP programming and a lot of formatting. It's good practice. The bummer being that I have to open my website to the Blogger server. In the past I've found that hackers have made trouble with my little old site just because they can when I install little add ons like message boards and blogs.
That's all. If anyone is reading this, I am still alive.
07 May 2006
Hot, hot, hot
Well, the mercury isn't too high, but I got my first sunburn of the year yesterday. My parents are having a sale at the Stagecoach Stop once a month and this weekend the sale is going pretty well. One customer said she wanted to pass some infomation on to her editor of a newspaper that might be interested in doing a story on the building. I've been there helping out with the sale and pulling nails out of things. A few people have taken a good hard look at my drums for sale, but they haven't gone anywhere yet.
Today I'm stuck working in the real estate office and it is going a little slow. I've got too many art and music projects on the horizon. Some are things I'm finding out about recently that have deadlines and some are just things I want to do. I can't wait to get home and turn up the guitar real loud for about five minutes, then I'll go back to helping my folks out at the brick house.
Finally got a contract on the house I have listed in Somonauk. Looks like it's going to go through this time. Yesterday I finally procured tickets to see Radiohead. For about five years I've been trying to see this band and it looks like it is finally going to happen. My friend Mike suggested we go to Lollapalooza but I'm not sure I can afford tickets and it is the same weekend as my family's annual summer "Come to the Farm" party. So if you can't make it to Lollapalooza, maybe you can come check out our shindig.
Worried about gas prices? Drive a bicycle.
Today I'm stuck working in the real estate office and it is going a little slow. I've got too many art and music projects on the horizon. Some are things I'm finding out about recently that have deadlines and some are just things I want to do. I can't wait to get home and turn up the guitar real loud for about five minutes, then I'll go back to helping my folks out at the brick house.
Finally got a contract on the house I have listed in Somonauk. Looks like it's going to go through this time. Yesterday I finally procured tickets to see Radiohead. For about five years I've been trying to see this band and it looks like it is finally going to happen. My friend Mike suggested we go to Lollapalooza but I'm not sure I can afford tickets and it is the same weekend as my family's annual summer "Come to the Farm" party. So if you can't make it to Lollapalooza, maybe you can come check out our shindig.
Worried about gas prices? Drive a bicycle.
11 April 2006
"Grr.""
"Grr."
Itis the only word that I can think of that represents my state of mind. You can tweak it, add some R's, exclamation points, or even profane remarks preceding or following it. It all boils down to the same fundamental emotion.
Much of this frustration comes when I start looking at bills that are due this month. This frustration is augmented by the fact that the majority of these bills originate from the real estate business. Office technology fees, monthly Errors & Omission insurance, quarterly Multiple Listing Service fees, and cell phone bill (because I might not have one if I weren't a Realtor).
What does a fellow like me do when the bills keep piling up? Spend more money, of course! I went and bought a drawing tablet, a little smaller and more economical than the tablet I had a couple years ago. I've been tinkering in Flash and now that I have a method to record audio with, I can start making some little Flash movies. Will they in turn make me any money? Not at first, but who knows? I could be the next Homestar Runner. Mostly I want to build my skills for future employment.
With that in mind, what kind of Flash movies would you most be interested in seeing?
The Story of John
Real Estate Transactions 101
Patient & Shrink serials
I Hate My F***ing Job music video
I'll take other suggestions too. Maybe I'll do something interactive
There are some buzzings around the office. I might find myself in trouble.
Itis the only word that I can think of that represents my state of mind. You can tweak it, add some R's, exclamation points, or even profane remarks preceding or following it. It all boils down to the same fundamental emotion.
Much of this frustration comes when I start looking at bills that are due this month. This frustration is augmented by the fact that the majority of these bills originate from the real estate business. Office technology fees, monthly Errors & Omission insurance, quarterly Multiple Listing Service fees, and cell phone bill (because I might not have one if I weren't a Realtor).
What does a fellow like me do when the bills keep piling up? Spend more money, of course! I went and bought a drawing tablet, a little smaller and more economical than the tablet I had a couple years ago. I've been tinkering in Flash and now that I have a method to record audio with, I can start making some little Flash movies. Will they in turn make me any money? Not at first, but who knows? I could be the next Homestar Runner. Mostly I want to build my skills for future employment.
With that in mind, what kind of Flash movies would you most be interested in seeing?
The Story of John
Real Estate Transactions 101
Patient & Shrink serials
I Hate My F***ing Job music video
I'll take other suggestions too. Maybe I'll do something interactive
There are some buzzings around the office. I might find myself in trouble.
30 March 2006
Fickle John Morton
Surprise, surprise, I'm starting to have doubts about going back to school to be a math teacher. It started sinking in today when I started looking over the curriculum. First off, it would take me more like 3-4 years to get through, not 2-3. Second, I came to the dreadful realization that during my second year in the program, I would have to work as a student teacher during the days and take classes at night. That's not terrible, but it would mean if I get the job at Target, I'd have to give it up because of my schedule during my second year. I really don't want to do that.
When I think about it further, teaching math to high school kids is by no means a dream. If I'm going to compromise what I'm going to do, I may as well work in a warehouse and save the tuition money for other things. What are my dreams? I'm not sure exactly, but it involves creating something. It occurs to me that with the effort it would take to work full time and go to school, I could forego school and teach myself things I really want to know. Get my Flash skills up to date, get better at drawing and music...these are all things I have wanted to do for a long time. Going back to school and working full time would make those things more difficult to do. There are only so many hours in a day and unfortunately, sleep isn't always optional.
My dream, vague as it may be, is to work for myself. I have some ventures in mind and nearly all of them can be started part time in the beginning. Some involve creating a tangible product, others involve creating online entertainment supported by advertising revenue.
Well, that's what's on my mind. Thoughts and suggestions are welcome. Thanks for tuning in.
When I think about it further, teaching math to high school kids is by no means a dream. If I'm going to compromise what I'm going to do, I may as well work in a warehouse and save the tuition money for other things. What are my dreams? I'm not sure exactly, but it involves creating something. It occurs to me that with the effort it would take to work full time and go to school, I could forego school and teach myself things I really want to know. Get my Flash skills up to date, get better at drawing and music...these are all things I have wanted to do for a long time. Going back to school and working full time would make those things more difficult to do. There are only so many hours in a day and unfortunately, sleep isn't always optional.
My dream, vague as it may be, is to work for myself. I have some ventures in mind and nearly all of them can be started part time in the beginning. Some involve creating a tangible product, others involve creating online entertainment supported by advertising revenue.
Well, that's what's on my mind. Thoughts and suggestions are welcome. Thanks for tuning in.
26 March 2006
19 March 2006
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