A little under the weather

I celebrated 8 yrs sober June 2nd. I have a wonderfully family, Great friends, Great job, Money is good and bills are caught up. I just bought a new Cannon 8 mp camera. Things are great and still i feel shitty. 4 days of depression today is day 6 and i am just now starting to feel better. I have had days where i dint feel good but not a whole week. I got some writing and praying to do as well as my daily meditation. All of those areas have been lacking. I have called my sponsor more this week than in 8 yrs lol.

My pictures in a slide show

Catalina Trip Pics

Saturday was amazing. The weather in Catalina was perfect about 70 degrees very slight breeze and sunny.Here have a look at Avalon Bay courtesy of Bob T.



Here is a few of the crew who went



We had a great time ate lots of food,ice cream, candy and walked our butts off. Here are the rest of the pictures from the day.











Photos courtsey of Tom P. and Bob T.
I took this pic from my phone camera on the boat on way home. A great ending to a great day.

Busy Weekend

The Catalina trip is this Saturday and The Burbank Group picnic is this Sunday. Monday I turn 8 and going to take a cake on Friday @ the 8pm meeting since I have to work on Thursday :( Oh well can't have it all.

Kiva LetsYou Loan to the Working Poor

Kiva's mission is to connect people through lending for the sake of alleviating poverty.

Kiva is the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world.

The people you see on Kiva's site are real individuals in need of funding - not marketing material. When you browse entrepreneurs' profiles on the site, choose someone to lend to, and then make a loan, you are helping a real person make great strides towards economic independence and improve life for themselves, their family, and their community. Throughout the course of the loan (usually 6-12 months), you can receive email journal updates and track repayments. Then, when you get your loan money back, you can relend to someone else in need.

Kiva partners with existing expert microfinance institutions. In doing so, we gain access to outstanding entrepreneurs from impoverished communities world-wide. Our partners are experts in choosing qualified entrepreneurs. That said, they are usually short on funds. Through Kiva, our partners upload their entrepreneur profiles directly to the site so you can lend to them. When you do, not only do you get a unique experience connecting to a specific entreprenuer on the other side of the planet, but our microfinance partners can do more of what they do, more efficiently.

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When the bottom falls out

Yesterday was an extremely busy day everything that could;d go wrong did.I had to meet 3 officers for a party at a very exclusive country club in bentwood and only showed. 2 were lost and I managed to give one directions and he finally showed after 2 hrs. The other said f it and went home, so I had to go to Manchester and Normandy in LA. to pick another officer up to work this event. Bullets are flying and so are the cops and ambulances. I finally got that all smoothed out and was off to go close down what was supposed to be a small b-day party at one of our gated community's in Valencia and there were 200 under age kids drinking and blasting music in the pool area. They were charging admission and people were still arriving. I had to call Santa Clarita Sheriff's
to get this one handled and was assaulted by a smoking hott female. Lets just say she put her hands on me inappropriately With the vice president of the HOA board standing next to me. I didn't arrest her but sure did want to. I wont tell you where my mind went use your own imagination. She was buzzed and if i had arrested her the crowd would have got worse. I finally got every one out and then the sheriff's arrived lol. I was supposed to meet up with a friend for dinner at midnight and was going to make it till my work phone went ding a ling a ling :( Its 15 to 12 and I'm back in Burbank and an officer was locked out of an account in beach area of Santa Monica. I finally got back and done by 1:30 am hadn't eaten dinner so pops and I went to Coral and ate.
I earned my money this day.

I didnt write story I'm just passing it on. The new Motorolla Z9 phone

Gadget Reviews
Gear Gallery: New Motorola Slider, Mobile TV and the Ultimate Gadget Watch
By Gadget Lab Write to the Author
05.08.08 | 12:00 AM
Motorola Z9 Is a Thick Cellphone Dense With Talent

The Z9 effortlessly satisfies the standard phone user, and pleases the rest of us with a couple extra perks. You get your e-mail and IM; you can listen to music from the microSD card or buy some more. Calls are above-average quality (trust us, we've been shouting into an iPhone for the last year). In addition to 2-megapixel shots and recording video, it can also video share -- send live video to other 3-G AT&T users, which is great for broadcasting scenes from your DIY fight club or natural disasters.

But the star of the show is the GPS. This is no cell-tower GPS Lite that only tells you what block you're on; this is the real deal, with turn-by-turn directions, live traffic info, access to the AT&T database for points of interest -- you know, stuff that's actually useful. If you don't want to punch in an address, just call the 877 number and speak it. On the downside, you will visibly age while it initializes, and it sometimes miscalculates your direction. Fortunately, goofs are few and far between and the Z9 picks up on them.
WIRED: Excellent call quality. Strong GPS capabilities. Lets you transmit (or receive) live video to other 3-G AT&T phones. Haptic feedback tickles.
TIRED: GPS can be slower than waiting for the Optimus Maximus. Pretty heavy. Proprietary headset/power connector = crap.

$249 (with two-year contract), Motorola

7 out of 10

(Photo courtesy Jim Merithew, Wired.com)

Read our full Motorola Z9 review.

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Satellite Fly Bys times and areas to look

MAY 5TH

Zip: 91502 Location: Burbank, Californi Latitude: 34.2 Longitude: -118.3

Satellite Rise time Direction to look Transit time Max elevation Magnitude
Genesis 2 04:14:30 am W 04:17:59 47° 3.8 (dim)

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ISS 03:53:53 am NNE 03:56:10 27° -1.0 (very bright)
Genesis 2 04:12:26 am WNW 04:15:41 33° 4.5 (dim)

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Hubble Space Telescope 05:16:06 am WSW 05:19:17 28° 3.9 (dim)

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Hubble Space Telescope 05:14:28 am WSW 05:17:49 32° 3.6 (dim)

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Hubble Space Telescope 05:12:50 am WSW 05:16:17 36° 3.3 (dim)

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Hubble Space Telescope 05:11:11 am WSW 05:15:11 38° 3.2 (dim)

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Hubble Space Telescope 05:09:35 am WSW 05:13:35 38° 3.2 (dim)

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Hubble Space Telescope 05:07:59 am WSW 05:11:27 37° 3.3 (dim)

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Hubble Space Telescope 05:06:27 am WSW 05:09:51 34° 3.5 (dim)

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Hubble Space Telescope 05:05:01 am WSW 05:08:16 29° 3.8 (dim)

IRON MAN MOVIE REVIEW NO SPOILER

I went to see Iron Man with my son at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood on Friday. The show was sold out and was deff worth the money. Iron Man Aka Tony Stark aka Robert Downey Jr. Is the perfect actor for the part. The Dude Jeff Bridges plays Obadiah Stane / Iron Monger is bald lmao but does a great job. Terrence Howard plays Jim Rhodes a military man and friend of Tony Stark and Gwyneth Paltrow plays Virginia 'Pepper' Potts Tony's right hand man. OK Person she is deff not a man baby. The CGI is incredible . I never read comic books as a kid so I'm glad I get to experience them on the big screen. A must see this summer. At the end of the day I give IRON MAN 2 big toes WAY UP and a pinkie toe in to boot.

2:30 am and cant sleep

I got to be at work at 7am and I'm wide awake but at 6am I'll be tired as hell wishing I could go to sleep. I love my new job so I will make it through the day and starting next week I go to all swing shift, So no more early weekend shifts for me. Hooray! J my middle boy turned 20 Thursday and my oldest SP, will be 23 on may 12Th and my youngest David will be 12 on may 13Th. My Boys are my world and have grown up into fine young men. I am a lucky man. My dad got his new computer. It is a dell with 2 gigs mem and 667 MHz 250 gig hard drive and a duel core motherboard. I lost my face plate to my car stereo. :( I paid 208 dollars for a damn speeding ticket and traffic school today. I seem to be hemorrhaging money lately. To continuing receiving this blog please send 1 no 2 dollars to me. Hell make it $10.00 Well it doesn't hurt to try. lol Thank GOD he gave me a job to be able to afford life's ups and downs. Catalina is getting closer and I'm excited. Well time to try to sleep. Peace and Love to all.