12voltman59
May 23, 2010, 11:40 PM
I have not been on too much lately---kind of the normal way it is for me when the weather gets warm it seems----lots of stuff goes on--but it seems this spring----my pickup in being busy has hit exponential.
In the past 14 days or so---I have been "on the road" for most of them and that is continuing--I am off for Florida on Tuesday AM, bright and early for a direct flight to Orlando--providing the Air Tran pilots don't make good on their strike threat by my scheduled departure time.
I will be driving back and making various intermediate stops---in the Savannah/Hilton Head area--then HOPEFULLY in Louisville, Kentucky sometime next week after the Memorial Day holiday.
I say hopefully because tomorrow---as a family joint purchase---we are making our first offer on a very nice and very big river going houseboat. Its 70 feet long.
Providing we come to an mutually satisfactory agreement with the seller of the boat---once some technical issues like a marine survey, hauling the boat out of the water to inspect its hull and "running gear" are taken care of and they hopefully show no major problems that need to be addressed-----we will be taking delivery of the boat, then running it for a two day run up the Ohio from Louisville to Cincinnati.
Once we get it-I expect to make a first pleasure trip shortly thereafter---and I am also very much busy with some other things as well including becoming associated with a documentary film producer, possibly joining her staff to work on her next film project----a documentary film that argues for the legalization of pot. She already has lined up a number of celebrity figures such as Willie Nelson, Bill Maher and Cheech Marin from the Cheech and Chong, 60s/70s "stoner" comedy team to be figures in the movie--Marin spent some federal prison time a few years back due to his selling nothing more than pipes the government said were purchased by customers for the sole purpose of smoking pot.
I am also going to start doing my own film projects since I think as a lone media form---print media is pretty much a dying, if not dead duck already. It has gotten easier to produce quality work these days for not all that much money--and with my new connections with the filmakers I have now come to know in recent months--that does help me get a leg up when it comes to knowing who to try to pitch films to for funding, distribution and possible showing either in theaters or television. The real cost of filmaking now is more the ancillary things like having to pay for the rights and to get permission to use things like music produced by major stars and things of that nature.
I am going to start out doing some locally oriented projects--so they should not be all that expensive to produce and I can
"cut my teeth" on them, so to speak, learn by trial and error and all that----get a few such productions under my belt before I attempt something of any major scale.
So--with all that is going on in my life---I am very damn busy these days and don't have much time to hardly even sit down it seems.
I will pop in from time to time--and maybe post up a few things, not much though--for some---they are probably gonna be glad I am going to be scarce on here in the coming months.
If we don't somehow make contact on here--I want to wish everyone in the Northern Hemisphere, a great summer season. Be safe, have fun.
Same goes for those "down under"--I hope you enjoy your cold weather season as much as you can.
I hope that everything goes well for all of you and that you and yours remain healthy and safe and have at least some degree of contentment if not downright happiness.
Here is the exterior of the boat I hope that in a relatively short time---I will be at the controls--cruising up and down "old man river!"
Peace ya'all!!
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r216/mpgarr/AboardtheMonticelloRiverYacht082.jpg
If ya like me at all--please send your prayers, good thoughts and such on the dealing with that boat comes out for us--for me--it is a longtime dream to get back to having a good river cruising boat--I never would have expected to get one that nice----but it seems that so many things came together on me finding that boat--certain "coincidences" and such taking place in regards to that boat----it almost seems that it was "destiny" of sorts to get this boat----I can hardly believe it will go away--but if the deal cannot be made---I will get over it--but I will be bummed for sure!!! If it is meant to be--it will happen--if not--then it won't-that is my take on such things and even if you think its a bad thing that something doesn't turn out your way---it really often does seem to be that in looking back on something---it was best it didn't happen.
Thanks guys for being a good online "community"
I am sure that when it is cold and crappy outside again and even if we have the boat-it isn't time to use it then--I will be back on more as usual in the wintertime, providing I am not busy editing video or some such thing!
See ya' all then.
In the past 14 days or so---I have been "on the road" for most of them and that is continuing--I am off for Florida on Tuesday AM, bright and early for a direct flight to Orlando--providing the Air Tran pilots don't make good on their strike threat by my scheduled departure time.
I will be driving back and making various intermediate stops---in the Savannah/Hilton Head area--then HOPEFULLY in Louisville, Kentucky sometime next week after the Memorial Day holiday.
I say hopefully because tomorrow---as a family joint purchase---we are making our first offer on a very nice and very big river going houseboat. Its 70 feet long.
Providing we come to an mutually satisfactory agreement with the seller of the boat---once some technical issues like a marine survey, hauling the boat out of the water to inspect its hull and "running gear" are taken care of and they hopefully show no major problems that need to be addressed-----we will be taking delivery of the boat, then running it for a two day run up the Ohio from Louisville to Cincinnati.
Once we get it-I expect to make a first pleasure trip shortly thereafter---and I am also very much busy with some other things as well including becoming associated with a documentary film producer, possibly joining her staff to work on her next film project----a documentary film that argues for the legalization of pot. She already has lined up a number of celebrity figures such as Willie Nelson, Bill Maher and Cheech Marin from the Cheech and Chong, 60s/70s "stoner" comedy team to be figures in the movie--Marin spent some federal prison time a few years back due to his selling nothing more than pipes the government said were purchased by customers for the sole purpose of smoking pot.
I am also going to start doing my own film projects since I think as a lone media form---print media is pretty much a dying, if not dead duck already. It has gotten easier to produce quality work these days for not all that much money--and with my new connections with the filmakers I have now come to know in recent months--that does help me get a leg up when it comes to knowing who to try to pitch films to for funding, distribution and possible showing either in theaters or television. The real cost of filmaking now is more the ancillary things like having to pay for the rights and to get permission to use things like music produced by major stars and things of that nature.
I am going to start out doing some locally oriented projects--so they should not be all that expensive to produce and I can
"cut my teeth" on them, so to speak, learn by trial and error and all that----get a few such productions under my belt before I attempt something of any major scale.
So--with all that is going on in my life---I am very damn busy these days and don't have much time to hardly even sit down it seems.
I will pop in from time to time--and maybe post up a few things, not much though--for some---they are probably gonna be glad I am going to be scarce on here in the coming months.
If we don't somehow make contact on here--I want to wish everyone in the Northern Hemisphere, a great summer season. Be safe, have fun.
Same goes for those "down under"--I hope you enjoy your cold weather season as much as you can.
I hope that everything goes well for all of you and that you and yours remain healthy and safe and have at least some degree of contentment if not downright happiness.
Here is the exterior of the boat I hope that in a relatively short time---I will be at the controls--cruising up and down "old man river!"
Peace ya'all!!
http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r216/mpgarr/AboardtheMonticelloRiverYacht082.jpg
If ya like me at all--please send your prayers, good thoughts and such on the dealing with that boat comes out for us--for me--it is a longtime dream to get back to having a good river cruising boat--I never would have expected to get one that nice----but it seems that so many things came together on me finding that boat--certain "coincidences" and such taking place in regards to that boat----it almost seems that it was "destiny" of sorts to get this boat----I can hardly believe it will go away--but if the deal cannot be made---I will get over it--but I will be bummed for sure!!! If it is meant to be--it will happen--if not--then it won't-that is my take on such things and even if you think its a bad thing that something doesn't turn out your way---it really often does seem to be that in looking back on something---it was best it didn't happen.
Thanks guys for being a good online "community"
I am sure that when it is cold and crappy outside again and even if we have the boat-it isn't time to use it then--I will be back on more as usual in the wintertime, providing I am not busy editing video or some such thing!
See ya' all then.