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Losing weight and lowering BP

by Rick | Sat May 9, 2015 | All (Home), Health, Lifestyle, Runkeeper | 0 Comments

Regular exercise like walking 2.5-5K a day and eating right is paying off! Goal for now is to drop 47 pounds, hope to be there by mid August.

iPhone 3G Jailbreak pending…

by up10ad | Fri Jul 18, 2008 | All (Home), Web/Tech | 0 Comments

Link: blog.iphone-dev.org. I'm waiting impatiently for the dev team to release the jailbreak for iPhone 3G. Looks like it is still a few days away. While the new 3G has access to all the apps in the iTunes App Store, there are still a lot of programs...

Beer. Is. Food.

by Rick | Fri Oct 12, 2012 | All (Home), Lifestyle | 0 Comments

A Day at Lake Eola and Fireworks!

by Rick | Mon Jul 6, 2015 | All (Home), Landscape, Photography, Seasonal, Wildlife | 0 Comments

A few weeks ago I was re-reading Tony Northrup's great DSLR guide, How to Create Stunning Digital Photography. In the section on night photography he discusses his technique for getting pictures of fireworks and I decided to try it this year. His method is simple;...

Nests #egg #breakfast

by up10ad | Fri Mar 16, 2012 | All (Home), Photography | 0 Comments

Sizzle #bacon

by up10ad | Mon Dec 19, 2011 | All (Home), Photography | 0 Comments

Sunset and update

by up10ad | Fri Nov 21, 2008 | All (Home), Photography | 0 Comments

I have been remiss in my posting here so I thought I'd offer up an iPhone photo for your enjoyment. It was taken using the iPhone app called Panorama that automatically stitches together two adjacent photos. The frame was added wit the app Photogene. On the...

iPhone v3.0 Software Announced

by up10ad | Wed Mar 18, 2009 | All (Home), Web/Tech | 0 Comments

Scheduled for release in June or so. Major new features.

Happy New Year 2009

by up10ad | Thu Jan 1, 2009 | All (Home), Photography | 1 Comment

[taken with the online snapshot feature of my Canon Weather Cam and modified in Photoshop CS3] From a personal perspective, Christmas was wonderful, especially when compared to last year. Since I'm updating more often these days I won't add any details but Sandi and...

Just an update

by up10ad | Tue May 21, 2002 | All (Home), Weather | 0 Comments

Spent a bit of time updating the pics pages and moving the site as a sub-web of my weatherweather.net site. I've always been interested in weather phenomenon and after leaving Bakersfield it dawned on me that I'm finally living in an area that actually HAS...

Preparing for big yard/moving sale. Yes, those are pigs on MC on my head.

by Rick | Thu Oct 18, 2012 | All (Home), Fun Stuff | 0 Comments

First Spring Ride

by Rick | Fri Apr 22, 2022 | Food and Drink, Lifestyle, Runkeeper | 0 Comments

A quick ride on the first warm day

Hammocks rock

by up10ad | Fri May 29, 2009 | All (Home), Me! | 0 Comments

Yesterday, between setting irrigation dams, siphon tubes, and filling horse waterers I did manage to take a break. Today I intend to do the same with a Modelo Especial and a Drew Estate.

More iPhone stuff and NCT update

by up10ad | Wed Apr 8, 2009 | All (Home), Web/Tech, Work | 0 Comments

As if you were interested. I've been running the v3.0 beta for weeks now and it is nice. But the really exciting news is the new hardware that is probably going to be released, probably in June. I plan on pushing my current 16GB 3G phone to...

I took this pic yesterday morning.

by Rick | Mon Oct 22, 2012 | All (Home), Dogs | 1 Comment

About an hour later my best buddy Panzer ran out of the house while I was loading stuff into the U-Haul. He wasn't gone but a few minutes. I ran down the long driveway to the road but I was too late. A loaded gravel truck had just gone by; didn't even stop. He was the...

Early Morning Run!

by Rick | Sun Jun 14, 2015 | All (Home), Food and Drink, Health, Lifestyle, Runkeeper | 0 Comments

Got up early and drove 30 minutes north to Blanchard Park for the Orlando Runners Club 5K. This was a spur of the moment idea when I ran across a blurb for the run online. I haven't done a full 5K for several years but felt I was in shape enough to do it in 2min/1min...

Sunset in neighborhood

by Rick | Mon May 11, 2015 | All (Home), Landscape, Photography, Runkeeper | 0 Comments

Just a quick snap taken during my walk/jog around the neighborhood on my birthday. No exposure information saved since it was taken within the Runkeeper app on my iPhone 6 Plus. Editing with Snapseed app to underexpose the lower section and with Touch/Retouch app to...

Fall at the Park

by up10ad | Wed Oct 27, 2010 | All (Home), Dogs, Health, Travel | 0 Comments

Bette leads the way as we walk through the fallen leaves of autumn.

A Taste of Sanford

by Rick | Sat May 9, 2015 | All (Home), Wildlife | 0 Comments

Went to the food and music festival A Taste of Sanford 2015 and got some nice photos. Lots of local food, great band playing and fun stuff for the whole family. Even the local birds got a treat. Another view of the same bird was captured against the sky,...

Holmdel Park & Bell Works Ride

by Rick | Mon Mar 22, 2021 | All (Home), Me!, Runkeeper | 0 Comments

Longest ride to date. Left around 1pm and headed to Holmdel Park. Only took about 45 minutes. After cruising aropund there a bit on the wooded trails we rode to Bell Works, just over a mile away. What a neat place. Grabbed some coffee and headed home. Nice 3 hour trip.

Ma Famiglia in Meeker

by up10ad | Tue Sep 9, 2008 | All (Home), Food and Drink | 0 Comments

Went to lunch with Brandy, Matt, Justin, Dakota, Jimmy, Eva and Sandi. We were there for Justin's opening game 'Cowboy Football!' Beer choices are sometimes hard, but Drop Top carried the day, and we found that mother Eva reallllly liked it!

Great dinner

by up10ad | Mon Jul 14, 2008 | All (Home), Food and Drink | 0 Comments

Scallops on a bed of rice and romaine. This is part of the reason why I have dropped form a high weight of 282 in December of 2007 to 229 this week, My goal is to get to about 190 lbs.

Douglas Pass #mountain #sky

by up10ad | Thu Jan 26, 2012 | All (Home), Photography | 0 Comments

Bonfire for Jeff’s birthday

by up10ad | Wed Oct 1, 2008 | All (Home), Photography | 0 Comments

Sandi and I invited Jeff and Leta for dinner for his birthday and lit up a huge pile of brush and other stuff we had gathered from around the property over the summer. It was quite a display! I snapped this great silhouette of Jeff while he was tending the fire....