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Hurricane Irene is hitting New York – which is about 1500 miles away-at the moment, a lot of wind and rain. We in Texas could use that rain right now because we are in the middle of a drought season. The city of Lake Jackson, Phase II “requires that water customers limit their use of water for irrigation and other discretionary uses to alternate days, with even numbered addresses watering on even numbered dates and odd numbered addresses watering on odd numbered dates.” Of course, this dose not stops my father from watering his garden from Oyster Creek!

At this time I am not sure what vegetable my planing to grow this fall, but can see some green peppers growing there. My peach wine is going fine. It’s up to 9 per cent alcohol and taste a little bitter, but I will add some more sugar and make it taste better. It still has away to go. :-)

I was amused the other day when I had to explain to a coworker that there are more than two types of Teas in the world. I quickly found myself talking about the different kinds of Black Tea, Green Tea, Oolong tea, and White Tea before I realized that he mean –Hot Tea and Iced Tea. [By the way- Iced Tea first appear in the USA during the 1860s.]

Cathy is making some Iced Tea, so I will be drinking it soon. Her computer caught a virus and she had Jim, a friend and local computer people clean it out, twice, before he killed it. So her computer is running okay. The Library is fine. The local government library a.k.a. Cathy’s bosses were running around tried to stop waste of public funds and of course make the library system look good. This reminds me of the days when Dow Chemical Co. was cutting back on spending. Several people came running down stairs to informed the mail room it cheaper to put the Dow Mail on to the DowAirplane and fly the company mail to Midland, Michigan than the way we was doing it. How much was using the Dow Airplane? $100.00 dollar US. Vs. the Local US Post Office: $25.00 dollar US. Oh, the mail service was already delivering the mail cheap than their brilliant idea. The difference did not stop other people suggestion how they brilliant idea could save the “Mail System” Company money.

In the end, management replaced everyone with contractors. These folk had no loyalty to Dow. And did not know who is who at Dow. Three years later, Dow management had to hired Dow employees to run the mail room.

Will they ever learned!

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It is still hot in Texas. My sister, Elizabeth, and her husband, John, and their kids just returned from New England a few days ago. And discovered what hot really like, no central air conditioner units. My brother home was build like most homes in Connecticut with no central air conditioner units. Fortunately he has several window units which made the house cooler at night. Or course, there is the backyard swimming pool to stay cool in. On Sunday July 31[?], My brother, Bruce, had cook out in his back yard. My older brother Frank, his wife, and daughter; Al Perrino, his wife and kids; my sister and her husband, and their kids, then Bruce, his wife and kids. Elizabeth, John and the kids also visited New York City, [Note: John, New York City is not part of New England. New England is the region of the six states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.], in the state of New York, part of Mid-Atlantic states. I have post the photos on Flickr. Com. http://www.flickr.com/photos/warpspeedcat/sets/72157627256312689/

Thank you Herri & Alamo Drafthouse

From -Judge Judy - This Is Who We Are Supporting With Taxes

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Good by my friend, my Canon AE-1.

Well I did it. Since 1978 I have shoot pictures with a Canon AE-1, a 35-mm film single-lens reflex (SLR) camera. [SLR means you can see though the lens.] And it has been a great camera.  But over years, my camera gear, camera books, and film negatives began multiply all over the place. Plus the cost of paying for film development was becoming prohibitively expensive.
In 1999 I received for Christmas my first digital camera. It was JVC GC-S1U with a 10X zoom. It died a few years later. But I always kept using the Canon AE-1 camera.
Finally about two years ago, after two or three more digital cameras, I received a Nikon D60, a Digital Single-Lens Reflex camera for Christmas. It is great camera with auto focus, which is a plus for me.  But my Canon AE-1 camera sat ready in the corner unused.
And I never picked it up again. Therefore I needed to get rid of the Canon, But who? I could have sold it on Ebay, and received some money, but then would the new owners love my camera?  I wanted to find someone in our family or a friend perhaps, who would enjoy shooting pictures, to enjoy using the Canon AE-1.  After checking with one of my brother, I shipped the Canon AE-1 off to him and he will forward it to a good home.  To someone in the family who like capture memories. Good by my friend, my Canon AE-1.

Starplex 10 35mm projector, Lake Jackson Texas

Had a busy week this week, I just finished shipping all of ours 35mm movie projectors to Columbia South America. That is all 14 of 35mm movie projectors to some where in Columbia South America. John, the salesman for the South America company and Bruce, the Starplex Cinemas rep came to Lake Jackson, Texas to dismantle the equipment.  Over the next 5 days with me getting me getting up 4:00 in the morning and working to 6:00 in the evening. Now for those people who know me, 4:00 o’clock is in the middle of the night. Or not 8:00 AM in the morning with the bird chirruping away outsides, or the radio blasting away!
 John, the sales rep claimed he that he had experience breaking down the projectors and shipping them off the South America, but he must had an off week here. First he planned to hire some illegal aliens, but our management said, NO! [Thank you, Mr Starplex Cinemas, Sir.] Which I believed why Bruce, the Starplex rep, was present in Lake Jackson during the week, Just to keep a eye on things and I was glad he was here.  Instead John hired some local pizza delivery boys to do the job. He started with 6 boys and ended up with 3 boys by the time they were done. I think the boys discovery that dismantling 1200 pounds of  movie projectors, not counting moving around 6 foot platters was not an easy job. BTW- 1200 pounds for each of the 14 projectors! Wish the sales rep had hired some guys from MANPOWER, INC. a world leader in employment services. But not my responsibly, thanks you, Bruce.

So the Starplex Cinemas is now free of all its 35mm equipment and just running on the Digital projectors.  And John is off to Columbia South America. Now back to watching “Captain America”

35mm film projector and platter. Lake Jackson Texas

Note on the Daniel Silva interview please pull the tab to about 13:00 minutes in the interview. The first 13 minutes is local stuff NOT part of the interview. Thanks Marc