Schbligblog

hiking

mellowsardine — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:44:11 GMT

bear

shelter

mellowsardine — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:22:26 GMT

somewhere in North Carolina last weekend

Forearm Dressing

mellowsardine — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:58:06 GMT

(Not to be confused with Italian or Ranch!) The bandage goes up to my arm pit and inside of it is a splint that's supposed to keep the arm relatively straight and to prevent too much bending at the elbow. I am unable to use the arm, for example, to hold a telephone to my left ear. I've been wearing the dressing since Friday morning, 4 April 08, around 10:30 am. Tomorrow morning around 9:30 am I hope the Dr takes it off. It itches inside there and I cannot scratch the itch! I am interested in seeing the incision which I think is longer than I expected, based on the itchees. I think it may be curved, starting around the funny bone notch and proceeding from the back to the front of the forearm. The surgery relocated my ulnar nerve so it wouldn't stretch when I bend my arm and hopefully gave a blood supply to a bruised spot on the nerve so I can get the feeling back into the right side of my left hand.

I was about to complain about the clouds

mellowsardine — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:00:25 GMT

when they finally cleared

Hindu Temple in Lilburn, Georgia

mellowsardine — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 02:57:06 GMT

My daughter and I visited the temple in Lilburn today. What an amazing place. Italian marble, Turkish limestone, and Indian sandstone, all hand carved and put together without mortar or steel, just the old lock and key puzzle pieces with some help from gravity, 34,000 of them, carved and labeled in India and then shipped to Georgia, just east of Atlanta for assembly. Alec was in sculptor's heaven. More of my pictures from the visit are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mellowsardine/sets/72157603838783006/

I have that sinking feeling

mellowsardine — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:56:48 GMT

This story is pissing me off . . . I'm getting angry and I have no place to put the anger . . . She's 24 years old . . . I have a (nearly) 24 yo daughter who hikes . . . I hike . . . I've never met her, but I'm a fellow hiker who enjoys the same trails she enjoy(s/ed) http://www.wsbtv.com/news/14983460/detail.html if the authorities would let me hike and search I'd drive up there . . . it's only an hour and a half away . . . and I've spent several nights on Blood Mountain . . .

Happy New Year!

mellowsardine — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:28:43 GMT

The person in the moon suit is my daughter, pouring iron at about 11:57 pm on 31 Dec 2007 into a reactive mold. More pics here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mellowsardine/sets/72157603599009992/

soda/beer can toys

mellowsardine — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:42:35 GMT

my brother collects these toys from every place he visits around the world. The local Museum of Arts and Sciences in Macon, Georgia, borrowed a small part of his collection for an exhibit this December. These objects deserve better lighting or their images, but I did the best I could at the exhibition. At some point I'm going to get the chance to photograph them properly. More pics here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mellowsardine/sets/72157603526926627/

iron pour earlier this evening

mellowsardine — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 04:41:00 GMT

another detail

mellowsardine — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:58:44 GMT

She asked me to take her drawings to her house.

mellowsardine — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:54:20 GMT

I was gathering up her stuff at the sculpture studio and some one asked her "What's that?!" So she unrolled this giant drawing on the floor and everyone crowded into the room to look at it. She's wearing her leathers in the pic I grabbed last night, preparing for an iron pour this evening . . . I saw her begin the drawing on a visit to Macon two months ago and hadn't seen it since . . . back then it was just one sheet of paper. She calls it a quilt now. The assignment was "map yourself" . . . she's sitting cross legged on a ledge that juts out over nothing. She's been reading Lao Tzu this year . . .

who gives a shit about talented artists?

mellowsardine — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:38:28 GMT

really?

holy phuq'n she it . . .

mellowsardine — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 04:33:36 GMT

2 million galaxies and the milky way is jest ONE of them? and them 2 million are just in a wee tiny bit of the night sky? there must be trillions of them . . .

ha

mellowsardine — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:47:57 GMT

BiBi

RIP Marcel Marceau

mellowsardine — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 13:45:38 GMT

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/09/23/marceau.ap/index.html

the kid is gifted and talented

mellowsardine — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:10:47 GMT

http://photoshow.comcast.net/watch/ah8bk5FM she's way beyond me! I'll always be her biggest fan . . .

on the rising curve

mellowsardine — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:18:52 GMT

where the ways of nature will test every nerve you don't get what you don't deserve where you were born in time . . .

RIP Alex! [NOT Alec!]

mellowsardine — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:16:55 GMT

you were truly gifted and talented you were my favorite parrot of all time http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070911/ap_on_sc/obit_alex_the_parrot;_ylt=AtuCcgO0MWEslI3PGDHAnR6s0NUE

why i'm so fucking damned smart!

mellowsardine — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 02:18:15 GMT

I HAVE A MAN-YOU-ALL for my brain . . . (sorry babes . . . that's just the way the letters fell . . . I LOVE! you nonetheless!)

do YOU believe

mellowsardine — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:39:02 GMT

what you read? if it's on the inet?

Lunar Eclipse in Atlanta

mellowsardine — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:34:26 GMT

Clouds obscured my view and then the moon set, so I didn't get to see the whole shebang this time around. Here's the best pic I could muster with my wee little olympus. Just the hint of earth's shadow appearing near the top of the moon.

so I have this genius for a daughter . . .

mellowsardine — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 04:56:29 GMT

she's an adult now, but cannot buy ccoh until next month . . . she complained about my first effort to put her genius online: http://www.alecart.com so, now I'm trying again, using the 100 MB of free space that Google offers . . . what do you think? http://alexandraaddleton.googlepages.com/home [as an idea . . . I don't have Adobe's Dreamweaver, yet] she hates the drawing that shows up on the first page . . . wants me to change it . . . and I will . . . I'd like to figure out how to rotate pics through the first page . . . does anyone have the html for that?

phuque it

mellowsardine — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 04:16:59 GMT

i sent an email and it disappeared into the cyberspace graveyard . . . it's not there in the sent emails . . . and I don't have the wherewithal to send it again . . . get a grip, twibe, get a gwip . . .

Perseid Meteor Shower Tonight

mellowsardine — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 14:42:28 GMT

Tonight, if you have clear dark skies, you can lie on your back and enjoy the annual Perseid meteor shower. Here's an article that explains more about the Perseids and another, rarer, meteor shower, the Aurigids. And just so you know, your eyes won't see what you see in this picture; you must have a camera whose shutter speed you can control to see this sight. This picture was taken by leaving the film exposed for about 30 seconds and comes from my daily dose of astronomy at http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20070809/sc_space/perseidsprovidepracticeforseptembershower;_ylt=AkgbejSWH.X7fh6B1rxIWDOs0NUE

a bumper sticker I like

mellowsardine — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:29:03 GMT

you can buy it here: http://www.stampandshout.com/shop/bumper-stickers/coexist.php