Virginia Breeze

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It’s Monday Morning and half of The Mamas and The Papas are in heaven waiting for the others to show up so they can begin their reunion tour. I’m looking forward to this but right now it’s just business as usual and try to catch up with the blogging stuff.

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My photoblog and the YAPB plugin stopped working. I certainly was not going to be the one to fix it so I reinstalled it which just made matters worse. And so we are back to the old reliable Sadish theme. All the links have been lost and 404 messages are everywhere. Beware of the YAPB plugin if you value your connection to the search engines.

But we can still make some lemonade here. All the photos in PhotoLinklove dot com are now hooked up to Flickr. So those two things are working together. And I am really going to make an effort to expand the poetry there. I find that having great poems by great poets in this blog makes it very likely that I will read them every so often.

If you read a poem once in awhile it starts to grow on you. The meanings inside it start to move down into your mind. It’s like water eventually reaching the roots of a plant and helping it to thrive.

I hope to blossom someday.

But don’t worry. There will be plenty of photos when it happens.

So we will see how that goes. And this morning i wrote a post for NewsLinkLove dot com which I hope you will read. It’s not really funny although it is now in theory part of a humor blog. It is more reflective and hopefully worthwhile.

Here it is and have a great day.

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How do you feel about the future? Do you think of it as a fiction? It never arrives so it doesn’t exist? Or is it a valid reality that requires much effort to prepare for and enjoy?

Do you ever feel like your efforts in that regard (if in fact you make them) lead in other directions than those you intended so that your efforts are futile? Or are you convinced that you control your own destiny?

What is going to happen with our Western Civilization as time goes by? Didn’t we all have to take a Western Civ prerequisite in college?

And how do you cover hundreds of years of history in a few months and actually get something out of it? It’s like going down the highway at eighty miles per hour. How are you supposed to appreciate the great barn that some farmer built on a hill. Sure it’s a bright shade of red. But it’s also a blur.

But I am just rattling on this morning. We work for a better future and hope for the best.

Somebody was telling me the other day about this concept for an air transport system that is on the drawing board.

They want to test this thing pretty soon. They have a prototype that is about one eighth the size of the actual model.

So that means we may see something about 1000 feet long moving freight through the sky someday. It could also be used for tourism and include restaurants and movie theaters for that matter.

http://www.dynalifter.com/

It can travel at several hundred miles per hour my friend was telling me.

But it seems to me that if we go somewhere in one of these things it will be a more relaxed way of traveling. From the air things won’t seem to be going by as fast. And I doubt it will fly very high although I haven’t seen anything about that yet.

Maybe this will be a trend. I would love to have a little Dynalifter in the back yard waiting for it’s pilot to take it for a spin. We could fly down to the river and move upstream to a nice spot. And then put her gently down in a meadow full of flowers.

But maybe then the farmer with the red barn would get upset at these trespassers from the sky and let his prize bull out for some exercise.

Hopefully my little Dynalifter will have emergency lift-off capacity.

But I still think it’s a good idea. We wait for further information about the testing with interest.

Well here we are and it’s the weekend again. The weeks are going by quickly now that the warm weather is here. Why is that? Maybe the heat warms up all the molecules in the air and that makes time go by more quickly.

Doubtful Einstein. And we can’t say time has been going by quickly because we have been having so much fun. Well, maybe you have been having a great time.

But it was not a fun week for your aged blogging buddy. It rained a lot for starters.  And then I found Lorelle’s reply to a comment I made about a month ago when I was experiencing blogger’s remorse and spent time wondering if anyone cared.

Lorelle suggested I not blog for awhile. Find something else to do. Don’t they have group recreation projects in the Happy Hotel where you and the other psycho’s live?

She didn’t say that but I can read between the lines. And she really is a nice person but somebody shoot me before I ever respond to one of her post’s again.

And then there was the surfing forum where I started posting some of my surfing guy photos. I have been trying to do the forum thing because you are supposed to do it.

So I posted some photos and this is what happened. My first mistake was misspelling Rudee’s inlet.

HIM: you would think if you have a house there you would actually know the name of the inlet…

ME: I do know the name of it. I just didn’t spell it right. Did you ever misspell a word?

Probably not in your state of near perfection. Could you please let the sun shine for a few days.

We are tired of the rain.

HIM: I think I have misspelled a word or two in the past.

Sure. I will make it foggy again tomorrow morning but tomorrow afternoon I will allow you to have have some sun. I will keep it rather sunny for Friday and Saturday too. Happy?

Things were going pretty good at this point. I had arranged for some nice weather and my new friend seemed fairly content since I appeared to understand his grandness in the scheme of things. But things started to go south shortly thereafter as I posted some of the surfing photos you see around here.

HIM: I guess I am not the only one worried about our newest poster who can not spell the name of the place he lives and has a true fondness for VB, young boys and fat chicks. Great pictures of some ****ty waves though.

HIM’S FRIEND: got any killer photos of you david—barrels–airs–floaters–video?????????

ME: Sure. Just send me a SASE and I will send you an autographed copy. And thanks for asking. I knew you would come around.

ONE OF THEM: your photos are awful

ME: Appreciate your honesty there Gas

And things went on for awhile in this vein until one of the guys suggested that the FBI might be interested in some of my photos. Apparently he feels people should be dressed up at the beach like they were back in 1910 or thereabouts.

But enough of that. And then there was the guy over at LinkReferral who came out of the blue and gave my photoblog four 2’s when it had been getting 5’s and had an average of about 4.9 (no more). He also left a comment. It read:

Nothing great in this. Put up something new and useful.

Thanks guy! What did I ever do to you? Do you know some guys who post at a surfing forum?

Oh well. The nice things people say from time to time MORE THAN make up for these folks who walk around spreading negativity. And I guess this is the price you pay for trying to stir up some traffic.

But, thankfully, it is the weekend. And it’s not raining outside! It looks like it wants to but clearly someone is keeping their crooked finger in the dam.

Thanks guy! You are a Prince! But you really should start to wear a hat when you are out in this wonderful sun.

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And Jordin if you run into anybody who is spreading negativity around just let it slide off your beautiful self. They are out there but you need not be afraid.

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