Le Tour de Tennessee

Typical view driving in the country in TN.


Into the tunnel of green.


The tunnel of green.


An abandoned old barn (Also typical in TN)


A cool rock formation (man made to make the road) TN is full of these.


Open Road. I found out later that I was on the wrong road here and ended up in Kentucky.


I hate this shit.


This is the reason. The Speed limit is 55. At the very least people should be going the speed limit.


Another cool looking rock structure. It was carved out to make an intersection.


Cool looking rock structure.


Traffic Jam 65SB @ exit 98


The Traffic Jam behind


Off the Highway on 31


On I-40WB before Gordonsville


Fog at Gordonsville


the setup :) Very professional setup here :)


Gordonsville weather station at the rest stop.

Procrastination

I keep meaning to do so many things but they never get done. I keep meaning to pay the rest of the phone bill that was my monthly flogging from Bellsouth.net but I keep hitting a few snags. Last night I managed to pay my AMEX bill. But today a typical day goes like:

06:00 Wake up and check email for today's jobs.
07:00 get ready for work
08:20 Leave home to go to the office to see if I need anything for today's jobs cause I didn't get an email response.
10:00 arrive at first job, work through doing other jobs until
18:20 When I make my way home. Hauling some serious ass.
19:50 Arrive home to eat dinner as I am starving (hadn't had but 2 sandwiches and a fruit cup for lunch, 5 hours prior)
20:10 Play with Daniella since I hadn't seen her all day.
22:00 Daniella is off to bed and I head upstairs to start the paperwork for today
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2006.06.29
00:05 Finally done with paperwork. Now I have to check jobs for tomorrow (well, today (29th Jun)
00:14 Log on to Blogger.com to bitch and complain about my busy day.

The good thing about busy days like this is it makes the week go by so much quicker.

Bad Comfort

As discovered on the cloneshit podcast Bad Comfort is on the Phonocake label and thanks to Creative Commons they can be heard online. I will repost the links here so you can just listen. Have a feel for what I am playing in the iPod lately.



Postplatz EP

melodie denise
platzregen
sommernacht



Phonocake 01

14 04 03
31 05 02 kinderlied

Daniella

This was back on the 16th. We were eating breakfast. She was eating a pop tart.

Tour De Tennessee continues

Some Random town East of Carthage.


Take 2

Volc

I would try and use an original image but volcs size limitation is quite restrictive (7KB) and no amount of compressing, resizing etc. will help.

Sorry

Phat Bites

Phat Bites

I found a sweet ass place to eat with free wifi (if you buy something) and great food. It reminds me of those quirky little deli's in Massachusetts that I miss so much. It looks like I am going to be eating here quite often, when I am in the office around lunch time. (its near to the office)

Awesome. Anyone in or near Nashville -I recommend it highly.

Some photos -Tour De Tennessee

I plan on posting regular photos of my daily travels here. Ill snap something that I think is cool to post on. Here is the first series of many more to come.



On I65 going South near Exit 97. Big and strange looking cloud.


On 41A in Oak Grove, KY -just right outside Ft. Campbell. This Cow probably has been a landmark for years. I remember it from when I was living on Ft. Campbell. I tried to take a good photo of it while driving past. It is some kind of steak house - I never ate there.


A house in Guthrie, KY


Really Cool looking building in Guthrie, KY.


Stuck behind a slow-ass truck from Guthrie, KY to Adams, TN and Springfield, TN. I didn't really mind though as I was enjoying the scenery and my iPod in the car.

Japanese Spam?

I wonder if this is some new form of spam as this is the first time I have gotten any spam in Japanese. I have gotten Portuguese Spam and Spanish spam.

Odd

Summer now

Jacked another photo for my own personal use. I would credit the photographer but I dont know who it was. Excellent photo though.

Allergies acting up again. Sinus pressure and seasonal allergies. As well as allergies due to dogs/cats. Got to get to a doctor sometime soon and maybe get some allegra.

Crappy TStorms

So much heat in the South makes for so much T Storms - playing havoc with sophisticated electronics everywhere. I have to constantly power down and unplug my PC out of fear of it getting wiped out. (with 18.5GB of music -not written to backup CDs)

18.5 GB is equal to 18,944 MB and 18,944/700 = 27.06 so I can see how burning 28 CDs could take some time....

Dont have a DVDRW otherwise it would take less CDs ..

damn.

New Av

Its been so hectic lately. I have been back in TN since 5th May and I am just getting used to working in this new job and its great. But what is hard is money management. We have so many freaking bills its bullshit. But anyway, I am using the above image as my new av I found on Cloneshit.hu Its hilarious. It looks like someone manipulated a sign in a customs or ticketing area somewhere -like a train station.

Its great how I can work from home and also how each day is different. Like tomorrow for example. My morning Appt. Cancelled so I basically just have a 2pm and a 530pm.

More from Florida

Because the self timer on the camera doesn't put out good photos.

My time away in Tampa, Florida

Its been a month now that I have been in Tampa and haven't even updated this blog at all. Mostly because I have been extremely busy. I will try to update this a bit more. It has been a treat staying here with the nice weather. But also at the same time a bit stressful being away from my family. 10 weeks is a long stretch but it should be OK.







We are eating like Kings here. Which probably doesn't help me lose weight.



-View outside my window each morning.

New Job

New job starts on Monday. Will be working here in town for a week and then its off to Florida. I am unsure if I will have internet access during this time. But I hope I do. If I do I will continue to post but if not, well then you will know why I don't post. Will find out the answers next week. Going to have the dog groomed. Will see how that goes as his little patella has been giving him problems lately. Also need to get his shots soon.



the Massachusetts registry of motor vehicles requires that I return my licence plates to them. So this whole troubling process of changing over licence plates is getting to be a pain. I also got my new Tennessee Driving license. The photo is so bullshit its not even funny. They were still using 1995 technology cameras and its utter shite. Anyway I got a new Registration a new insurance and a new license and everything is legal. And it felt sad surrendering my MA DL which I paid $75 for to get a TN DL which I paid $19.50 for. The photo on my MADL was at least good. They fattified my photo on the TNDL.

Cool ass hacks and mods

Saw this on Slashdot. Check this out. A PC installed into a Whisky Bottle! (the photos etc continue at the bottom of the page)

Dark

mp3
1. Tale From The Sea (Breakin' - BRK005)
2. Bad Karma (forthcoming soon Vibe'z)
3. Tribes - remix (Warm Communications - WARMLTD001)
4. Footsteps Concealed (forthcoming on Warm Communications)
5. Orient Dawn (forthcoming on Vibe'z)
6. Defunct Drums' Depression Decade - VIP (forthcoming on Offshore Recordings)
7. Jason - (forthcoming on Thermal)
8. Jungle Got No Ranks (forthcoming on Make-Shift Recs.)
9. Leave The Natural World Behind (forthcoming on Vibe'z)
10. World Behind A World (forthcoming on Soothsayer Recs.)
11. The Circle of Sycamore Trees (forthcoming on Warm Communications)
12. From Afterlife She Speaks (forthcoming on Nerve Recs.)
13. Toshiro - (forthcoming on Darkestral)

OK I heard the Hangover mix, and its good, but I like the All Fanu Mix Part 2 best.

Situation - no improvement

Asshole neighbor is home. Note, his stupid ass truck.



Poor damn dog is stuck outside in the snow. Though barking and howling has gotten to be less of a problem. It still happens -like 0600 this morning.

Hangover Mix

mp3

Found this on the fanusamurai site. Havent heard it yet, but then again, my iPod is filled to capacity. I have to constantly delete podcasts more than a day old. Will make room for a listen.

Daniella

Newest Avatar / Alaska Pictures

This is the full image. I took it back in July 1997 when I visited Seward, Alaska. At Exit Glacier there is a hiking trail where you can hike up and view the Harding icefield. I took this when we started to run into some snow. It was a beautiful day. The sun made the air temp to be about 70 degrees F and there was still a couple of feet of snow on the ground. As we neared the top there was probably more snow than just a couple of feet but I had no way of knowing.

Photo #2 then (not an avatar but maybe I'll make it one later) you can see Exit glacier down near the bottom. This is the same glacier that I have a picture of me touching down the page a bit (I think it was a post in Januari)


This was taken in July 1996 on the Dalton Highway driving north. This patch of fireweed was just before crossing the Yukon River Bridge. There was a forest fire before you can tell due to the black trees and black dead open field. This fireweed grew up in its place and it was very beautiful. I don't know where else fireweed grows besides the arctic but it is lovely.

I don't remember if I posted this one or not. Its of me on that same trip up the Dalton Highway. The time in the photo was about 11.30 pm (I was a skinny bastard eh?)

Farmer's Loop just outside Fairbanks. Wanted a photo of the Moose sign. I had seen many moose on this road before -this one and the Steese Highway.

Again I don't know if I already posted this one or not, but it was taken on 6th, Sept 1997. Driving down to Skagway for the Klondike Road relay race of 171km (?-forgot) but I thought it was really cool how the trees were cut to form a line on the border. (US/Canada, Alaska/Yukon) My right foot is in the YT and my left foot is in Alaska

I think this was when we stopped in Destruction Bay, YT. Stay tuned to the blog, I will post loads more. I still have a big box of the pictures I need to scan into the PC. So I'll try to do that sometime. Enjoy.

Added a Frappr Map for the Volconvo Community

http://www.frappr.com/volconvocommunity

Alone at the weekend

Well the wife is gone to Memphis, until tomorrow sometime. Daniella went to stay the night with family. So its just me and the dog. It snowed last night a light dusting. If this had been a school day they probably would have closed school here (the wussies!) No superbowl parties to attend this year. It might just be some down time (chill) with my iPod and also watching some DVDs