As you may or may not know, ever since I got my Pentax D2000 SLR camera I have been taking a ton of photos, and I am trying to gain the skills to take truly stunning photos.  In that light I present a video I saw today that is amazing.   Keep in mind this is all real, it is done via time lapse and with a special lens.   Would love to do this for the Oregon coast.

Here is a link to how this is done; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_miniature_faking

and here of course is the video, enjoy!

*sigh*  I spoke to the personal trainer at the gym today and explained how for the past 7 years I have always worked out and never lost my tummy, and asked what I can do to fix this if anything?

I explained I have changed my diet, added more cardio and watch what I eat.  She proceeded to tell me that I obviously have a healthy lifestyle, as she sees me in the gym every day, and suggested that I cut wheat out of my diet, at least for 3 days and then monitor how much of it I intake from then on, also that I should have a nice balance of 40/40/20   each meal I eat should have 40% Protein and %40 Carb and %20 of “other stuff”  and this balance should help me a lot.

When did wheat become bad for you??  And what the hell is with information on what you should and shouldn’t eat changing every 5 years, how is the normal person suppose to deal with this?  I mean, I exercise a lot, I eat in moderation, and eat as healthy as possible, and have had to change what “healthy” has met 3 times now.

Idk, I get so frustrated with this, but each time I say I am done caring about it, I go back to caring about it….

I am venting now, I know.  O’well, lets see how well this 40/40/20 works shall we?  I bet my wife is going to be pissed that I am not removing the whole wheat I just put in the house out.

Ahh the joys of working in an office where we all have cubicles.   I am going to post this here today, and if Lynda happens to see it, she will be warned, otherwise..SUPRISE!

This is what happens when you tell your co-workers you would like some cans.

So my friend politely tried to tell me the other day that I have an alpha male personality, he wasn’t being mean about it or even saying it was a bad thing, but that is how I act.   For the most part I imagine he is true and this is also why some people think I am an asshole, I tend to say what I think, question what I am told,  and never let anyone make me do something I don’t want too.  Now as I get older I try harder and harder to take into account what other people want, how they see me and try to see things from their perspective and better myself as a person who mingles with other people.  I am also doing my best to show my appreciation to my friends, time will tell if I succeed.

The funny part of this story isn’t that I act like this, it’s that up until I was about 23 I was more the sidekick personality.  I had friends who I hung around who constantly degraded me, not to be mean but because that’s what they did.  I was the kid who did wacky stupid things and wouldn’t question what people told me, I just did it.  Once my “friend” told me I shouldn’t run to lose weight, it would just make me fat my stretching out the fat as I ran…obviously that’s pretty stupid, but at the time I considered this fact.  I did lots of really stupid things because my friends told me to do it and they all gave me their approval for being stupid.   What ever my friends told me I thought was true, because they wouldn’t lie right?

Looking back, I am not sure what their motive was, they were probably just being young and stupid,  I do not think they had malicious intent and hold no hard feelings to them.  I no longer even know those friends, even though most of them had been my friends at a very early age.  And it’s not like I shunned them from my life, we all just seemed to go seperate ways.

So I find it amusing and a little sad that I have almost no personality traits of myself  when I was younger, and I hope that I treat my friends a lot better then I was treated even if I do come off as an asshole or “alpha male” because I measure my success on if I am  a good friend, husband and father.