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| Title: | Pugsville! |
| Topics: | dogs, pugs, puppies |
| Date: | 2012-05-12 @ 14:27 |
| Security: | public |
| Location: | home |
| Mood: | good  |
The kids love to play...but sometimes i fear that if someone dropped by, they'd accuse us of organizing dogfights! Crazy kids!! 
Fred is gaga (possibly Lady Gaga!) for television. If a dog or other animal shows up, he goes crazy and wants to say HI! His favorite show was "RuPaul's Dog Race"!! LOL!
The kids figured out how to sit on the back of the couch to look out the window. So instead of them ruining the leather sofa, we moved it and put a low bookcase by the window with a couple of carpeted doormats so they have a safe place to pretend they are cats. Ah, but who cares? They love their daddy when he comes home from work.
| Title: | Makin' It There |
| Topics: | nyc, point whoring, vacation |
| Date: | 2012-05-10 @ 09:53 |
| Security: | public |
| Location: | Aloft, Brooklyn, NY |
| Music: | Frank Sinatra: "(Theme From) New York, New York" |
| Mood: | weird  |
Hi, did you miss me? i've been so far behind, i don't know how i'm ever going to catch up. But i'm back in business. As you probably know, the project i was working on in NJ ended abruptly. i'd planned on Matt to fly into NY on that Thursday instead of me flying home. Then we'd spend the weekend in the city and move to my usual hotel on the Jersey side of the Hudson on Sunday night. Then he could ferry/bus into the city while i was at work and then we'd meet at LaGuardia on Thursday and fly home. Well, the project ending fucked that up, but i took us there anyway. So we spent Thursday through Tuesday in the city - Brooklyn to be exact.
Lars/larsbear picked us up at the airport and gave us a whirlwind tour of the city and Kurt stopped by to see me that evening. 
...5 Pointz, The Orchid Show, Stonewall, Strawberry Fields, a proposal in Central Park, lots of time on the subway...
...photography and spanish with Master Thor/thornyc, Grand Central, Penn Station, the High Line, the Met, Brooklyn...
dinner w/ Moose/liftinmoose in Chelsea
| Title: | The best cities for cheapskates | Marketplace from American Public Media |
| Topics: | cheap, cost of living, living, st louis |
| Date: | 2012-05-04 @ 07:02 |
| Security: | public |
| Location: | St Louis, MO |
| Music: | Drums: "Money" |
| Mood: | okay  |
The best cities for cheapskates | Marketplace from American Public Media
"We're Number 1! We're Number 1!" Good thing, too...they don't pay me what others make.
| Title: | The Last Of New Jersey |
| Topics: | #photoadayapril, air travel, airport, bridge, gwb, hudson, security, tsa |
| Date: | 2012-04-17 @ 22:37 |
| Security: | public |
| Location: | along the Hudson |
| Mood: | okay |
#photoadayapril - 12 - one last meeting, one last trip down the #stairs and this project is history!
Last Thursday was my last on-site day on the project. There was some sad farewells, but most of us are used to it. i'm fairly immune after all the sad farewells over all those years in the Army. Life goes on. Some are sadder than others. Not so much here. i wasn't there long enough, i suppose.
my flight wasn't until nearly 7pm, but i bailed early anyway. i wanted to go back by that park along the Hudson and see if it went under the George Washington Bridge. It did. i still made it to LGA way early. i had packed some of my extra stuff into my bag while i wrapped everything up and forgot about my nice little corkscrew having a tiny blade in the handle to cut the foil around the bottles. They found it, so $6 gone. Oh well. i was out of there. 
| Title: | From München To Weehawken |
| Topics: | München, beer, beerhall, gwb, hudson, munich, nj, nyc, party, river, roll off |
| Date: | 2012-04-16 @ 18:27 |
| Security: | public |
| Location: | Pilsener Bierhaus, Weehawken, NJ |
| Mood: | pensive  |
#photoadayapril - 11 - while it's not officially where i ATE #breakfast, i picked up some fruit in the Concierge Lounge to take with. i'm gonna miss this view. And since i was running out of time, i decided to see what was down in the Palisades Roadside Park that was down the cliff from where i exited off the parkway.
On Wednesday evening, there was a little roll-off party at the Pilsener Bierhaus in Weehawken. They really had the decor done right and it looked like a german/czech beerhall. Big liter Maßkrug's of Münchener Hofbräu and the softest, tastiest pretzels ever! 
Benninhove's Hangmen: "creeptastic grinder jazz for the masses"; pretty much sums it up. The fusion-jazz version of Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song" was over the top. Most bands have a photographer - this group had a portrait artist. Weird.
Bier, brats, and good times. i hate goodbyes.
| Title: | APR Photo Challenge: Day 18 - Younger you |
| Topics: | #photoadayapril, army, childhood, young, younger |
| Date: | 2012-04-13 @ 21:42 |
| Security: | public |
| Mood: | nostalgic  |
#photoadayapril - 9 - #younger_you - i've always loved to read. Here trying to read my dad's paper about a month or so shy of my first birthday
#photoadayapril - 9 - #younger_you - leftovers: age 8 - reading to my baby brother / with my two older brothers and our dog, Rex - 1963
#photoadayapril - 9 - #younger_you - leftovers: 7th grade school photo - age 12 / age 19 - first day of Basic Training SEP 79
#photoadayapril - 9 - #younger_you - leftovers: undercover drug mission with Manfred - 1985 / 1988 - Gone Hollywood
#photoadayapril - 9 - #younger_you - leftovers: the '90s - #venezia/#paris/#münchen (#venice/#paris/#munich)
| Title: | Easter (Car) Parade |
| Topics: | car show, classic cars, easter, pugs, puppies |
| Date: | 2012-04-13 @ 12:32 |
| Security: | public |
| Location: | Forest Park, St Louis, MO |
| Mood: | happy |
The highlight of Easter Sunday was taking the kids to the 51st Annual Concours d'Elegance in Forest Park. Who doesn't like a classic car show? we picked up bunny ears and pink hats for only a buck apiece at Target and then sliced a hole in the hat to pull the ears thru. Everybody got a giggle out of it and loved seeing the kids, too. Fun for the whole family.
You can see the whole set here.
| Title: | Puppy Patrol |
| Topics: | love, pugs, puppies, television, tv |
| Date: | 2012-04-13 @ 11:55 |
| Security: | public |
| Location: | home |
| Mood: | happy |
The kids are a never-ending source of fun. Fred is normally the instigator, but Ethyl is more than happy to play along...until they get into trouble. That might interfere with her getting lovin's. She ain't stoopid. 
| Title: | New York And Puppies In The Park |
| Topics: | #photoadayapril, brunch, nyc, pugs, puppies, shadow |
| Date: | 2012-04-10 @ 20:16 |
| Security: | public |
| Location: | Tower Grove Park, St Louis, MO |
| Music: | Gary Numan: "Down In The Park" |
| Mood: | good |
With the premature end of the project, it ruined our plan for Matt to come spend a week with me in NY. But i figured out how to pointWhore it, so We've decided to go to NYC anyway. Matt continues planning his itinerary. 
We took the kids for a walk in the park. Fred keeps wanting to pull away. i need thicker leashes...these skinny things are slice right through my hands. Puppy Power indeed!
#photoadayapril - 7 - somedays, not even my #shadow agrees with me
| Title: | Old Friends And Music |
| Topics: | #photoadayapril, american bear, bear, cancer, dave, flowers, gardening, lunch, magazines, sweatshirts |
| Date: | 2012-04-07 @ 19:37 |
| Security: | public |
| Mood: | okay |
#photoadayapril - 6 - cancer survivor and all-around shy guy, Dave, stopped by for lunch and to try on German clothes. He's the one I made bedside root beer floats for while he was in the hospital. (This entry is kinda crazy too!)
we didn't plant a damn thing this year and this is what's happening in our flower bed / in the evening we went to Happy Hour where Dustin/djcubster is learning to bartend. We had fun drinking and singing along with the jukebox. It was a little chilly, so i wore my vintage "American Bear" sweatshirt. They have one of those new "internet jukeboxes" where you can choose from a bazillion songs. They can cost 50cents each and for an extra quarter you can jump the line and get it to play your song next which is kind of a dick move. i don't like butting in front of others and when these two fucking hippies jumped line on me (after i'd waited a long time for my songs to come around) i about went through the roof. Fuck them.
| Title: | Second To Last Thursday |
| Topics: | air travel, airplane, airport, bridge, nyc, skyclub, steve, technocub |
| Date: | 2012-04-06 @ 16:48 |
| Security: | public |
| Location: | LGA |
| Mood: | okay |
With only a week left on the project and Steve, my beloved Technocub, working remote next week, this will be the last i get to see him. For now. In this business, we have a tendency to run into each other on multiple projects. See you soon, Buckaroo!
Spring is Bridge Fixin' Time in NY. i love bridges.
#photoadayapril - 5 - compared to the main SkyClub just around the corner, this one is #tiny (and Santoro, the woofy bartender at the other one isn't here!)
i almost gave up my seat on the plane for a $600 voucher and another night in NYC, but i went home. Took forever to take off. Fortunately, i found the bottle of Brooklyn Lager that slipped into my backpack at that tiny SkyClub. Made the wait that much easier.
| Title: | The Villager: "LOCALS ONLY" |
| Topics: | appetizers, bar, cocktails, greenwich village, hipsters, nyc, the village |
| Date: | 2012-04-05 @ 11:18 |
| Security: | public |
| Location: | The Windsor, 4th St & 10th St, NY, NY |
| Music: | LCD Soundsystem: "This Is Happening" |
| Mood: | hip and happening  |
There was a roll-off party in the West Village last night at a little bar called the Windsor. The Village is always hip and happening and i could really see myself living there. It would be cool to step out in the morning, catch a bus or something to work at a cool business in midtown Manhattan, make my way home and hang out with friends at one of the cool little bars and resaurants in the area. Speaking of eating, they had these sliders at the Windsor - the BACC lives on appetizers - and i figured, "cool, food." But OMG, they were crazy good! i don't know what kinda beef they used, but it was out of this world. The magic of the Village. Maybe it's best that i'm leaving...i may succumb.
| Title: | All Good Things... |
| Topics: | friends, ig, instagram, nj, nyc, office, projects, work |
| Date: | 2012-04-05 @ 06:39 |
| Security: | public |
| Location: | Edgewater Cliffs, NJ |
| Music: | Chicago: "Another Park, Another Sunday" |
| Mood: | okay |
Well, it was coming and now it's official. my last day on this project is next Thursday, 13 APR. Wasn't that we did anything wrong - we don't do that, do we? - or that they didn't want to the project. But regional in-fighting and hokey accounting put the brakes on it. Maybe next year. i'll be busy.
Fortunately, i got to meet Jon - @bearjew on Instagram - a recent friend who's photography and joie de vivre i really admire. A charming and fascinating man. 
Saving these for later. i love Robert Fripp.
Listen to Robert Fripp
| Title: | APR Photo Challenge: Days 1/2/3 - Reflection/Colour/Mail |
| Topics: | #photoadayapril, airport, army, blue, color, lga, mail, reflections, retired, tarmac, veteran |
| Date: | 2012-04-04 @ 09:26 |
| Security: | public |
| Location: | LGA |
| Mood: | okay |
#aprilphotoaday - 1 - #reflection - you can't always trust the man in the mirror
#aprilphotoaday - 2 - i would have to say that blue is my favourite #colour
It was sunny and windy when i landed at LGA on Monday. For some reason, they couldn't match the plane up with the bridge so we had to come down and hang out on the tarmac for our bags.
Monday marked 11 years since i retired from the Army. Hell, this picture alone is 6 years old! Time flies...
#photoadayapril - 3 - i often dread looking at my e-#mail in the morning. in this line of work, there's no telling what came in overnight
| Title: | Resurrection and Cocktails |
| Topics: | car repair, cocktails, hamburger mary's, jeep, lavender, wooferjeep |
| Date: | 2012-04-02 @ 23:14 |
| Security: | public |
| Location: | Hamburger Mary's, St Louis, MO |
| Music: | Gotye: "Someone That i Used To Know" |
| Mood: | good |
On Sunday, we finally got the wooferJeep started and on the road to a mechanic we'd been referred to. i'm hoping he can give him the care that he needs.
We used one of our LivingSocial coupons to get $30/15 at Hamburger Mary's. The cocktails were huge and the food was good. They're getting there. When we got home, i raked all the dead leaves out of the lavender bushes. Next weekend, i'm going to plant fresh lavender seeds that hopefully will grow and root around the rocks there. 
| Title: | Tired Turtles |
| Topics: | backyard, carondolet, park, pugs, puppies, turtle, walking the dog, walks |
| Date: | 2012-04-02 @ 22:54 |
| Security: | public |
| Location: | Carondolet Park, St Louis, MO |
| Mood: | tired  |
Fred and Ethyl found a new friend in the backyard on Sunday morning. It was so funny to see them dance around and sniff and whine and bark. The turtle was having none of it.
In the afternoon, we went to the park for a walk around the lake. But in the 90 degree heat, it was almost too much for the kids. They lived.
| Title: | Just Another Saturday |
| Topics: | backyard, bunny, easter, film, garage, gardening, junk, movies, parody, planting, poster, ronnies, saturday, shoes, shopping, singlet, sneakers, trees |
| Date: | 2012-04-01 @ 12:40 |
| Security: | public |
| Location: | around town |
| Music: | Foster The People: "Pumped Up Kicks" |
| Mood: | okay |
Saturday morning we stopped by Matt's rental house to look at all the junk that had been accumulating in the garage. That space is needed for better things. It's time for it to go.
#marchphotoaday - 31 - someplace i like to go to #relax is the movies. it forces me to put down the phone and step away from the computer. Yesterday we went to see "MirrorMirror" and quite enjoyed it. Here's a parody of one of the posters.The guy who plays "Wolf" is very woofy indeed!! 
Target...one dollar...nuff said.
"...all the other kids with the pumped up kicks...": i've been talking myself into these for months and thought they were cheaper than they turned out to be. Oh well. Of course, i had to come up with an appropriate outfit to wear them out that night to show them off. How did i do? :-)
| Title: | Legacy |
| Topics: | cement, legacy, pugs, puppies, sidewalk |
| Date: | 2012-03-31 @ 19:47 |
| Security: | public |
| Location: | the side of the house |
| Music: | Poco: "Legacy" |
| Mood: | happy |
As you know, the gas company has been doing a lot of digging and resetting pipes up and down the street. Well, one of the things that they had to do was rerun the gas pipes going into the house. Not only did they pull the gas meter outside, they had to dig up a piece of the sidewalk. They did a great job of replacing it, but we couldn't resist enshrining the kids paw-prints for posterity. Their cement guy even made a nice border around the prints. The kids will live in history.
| Title: | "Soldier Dogs" |
| Topics: | army, k9, military |
| Date: | 2012-03-31 @ 19:29 |
| Security: | public |
| Location: | TV |
| Mood: | contemplative  |
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