High School Football

I covered two football games tonight...I found it interesting that the grass isn't grass...and if you put your fingers in it you find the dirt isn't dirt...it's all plastic (or something similar) I always thought just the grass was fake.

THE PEOPLE I MEET #10

I met Chris at a football game tonight...He's hearing impaired...Some of the pictures he took will end up on a website for the deaf...In between the two games he taught me how to say football in American Sign Language...He also said my expressions make it easier for him to know what I'm saying...Even he thinks I'm a loud mouth! I'd like to thank Chris for teaching me a couple of signs...

FLAT AGAIN?

I got another flat. I was driving to work when I heard a tremendous (worse than usual) bang and had very little control over my car...I saw smoke funnelling out from behind me and didn't know what to expect...when I got to the side of the road (after seeing my rim fly away in car chase style) I saw that the new tire I had just replaced the last flat with had expired...I am so glad that tomorrow I will be getting my new car...a Hyundai Sonata...this car has been through the Dusty ringer.

Shaskeen: A Bar

It happens to be a no smoking bar...but still good. It oppened yesterday and had the Cheiftens play to a private audience...Heather and I went tonight to check it out and it was not over-crowded and seemed to be well designed to enjoy live music or to have a conversation...by being in one section of the other of the bar...U2 cover band playing this weekend.

THE PEOPLE I MEET # 9

I met Allysa and her daughter Elizabeth in Plymouth, MA while trying to find my way back to Boston...I had just finished running video tape down to our crew in Plymouth and gotten myself turned around...I asked her first how to get out of Plymouth and second how close I was to Plymouth Rock...She said she'd show me.

I followed in my car down Water street and up to the granite portico that protects it I wondered what it would look like when I saw it...I had heard the legendary story of how the pilgrims stepped on the rock as they stepped off the Mayflower into their new land...
Allysa told me it used to be a lot bigger than it is today...The townspeople of Plymouth had chipped off pieces of the rock and sold them to raise funds for the town...They must have been in dire straits because it is now barely the size of a bean bag chair...She then told me about how the rock has been moved all over town...First it was moved about 100 yards to the East to be closer to the Mayflower's replica...then it was moved to the center of town...Finally it found its way back to this; the original location of the rock...But it didn't make the journey around town unscathed...it split in two during one of the moves and is now partially held together by concrete...
I saw a statue across the oldest street in the United States, Leyden Street, that honored the women pilgrims (above). Allysa says she doesn't like that statue because it doesn't depict the type of woman who would have survived the harsh conditions that were faced when arriving here...She prefers the statue in Brewster Gardens (below). She likes it because she thinks it makes the woman seem more rugged...

DINNER AT FANEUIL HALL

I had dinner at Faneuil Hall in Quincy Market...Hot Spicy food...Soothed by live music

TREE LIGHTING AT HYDE PARK

I was present at the tree lighting ceremony in Hyde Park which is near Mattapan Square...It got me in the mood to celebrate Christmas...but also made me long for a German Christmas Market. I was able to experience one last year when I went to Germany around Christmastime... They have these markets in every town square that sell everything from handmade ornaments to warm clothes...It is also the place you can get Gluwein...a spiced hot cider like wine...Mmmmm...instead I get to experience it in the presence of Manny Del Carmen, the Red Sox relief pitcher, who flipped the switch to light the tree...Go Sox!

I HEAR TAPPING

I am driving to work on this Sunday and I am hearing the tapping on my axel getting worse and worse...I believe I will need to get a new car sooner than originally planned.

FINALLY SEE MY WIFE

I finally saw my wife after three long days without her...Time apart really does make the heart grow fonder

NEW TO DUSTY'S THINKING

BALLET IS THE WAY

I went to the newly refurbished Opera House on Washington Street in Boston (which happened to be built in 1928 in honor of the "Father of Vaudeville" B.F.Keith by his business partner Edward Albee, vaudevillian great: I met Edward Albee, his son, the author of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf when he gave a talk about playwriting in Herkimer a couple of years ago...Really nice guy.) and got to be witness to a great experience...
I enjoyed an up-close preview of tonight's opening performance of the Nutcracker...It is running until New Years and I hope to bring my wife to a show...
The theatre looks great and everything is shiny and gold-coloured...
The funny thing was watching the choreographer screaming at the dancers when they went off-step...I think that might have enhanced the experience for me...

KERMIT Rocks

Hands Down, the best Balloon ever in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

IT SNOWED

This is the first I have seen snow in almost three years...It's exciting to wake up and look out the window and only see white...I ran out and had to get a picture of my car covered in snow...It has never seen snow and probably won't last this winter (just a guess...it's running rough)...There is nothing like seeing the evergreens around covered in snow because it causes a very pleasant pattern the way it falls on the branches...I caught a few snowflakes on my tongue...and went back inside to prepare for my hour plus long drive to work in this stuff.

HOLIDAY TREE?

It's supposed to snow tomorrow. Brrrr...Tonight it was pretty cold and I had to go out and do a story on how Boston's website had named their Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony the Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony...and people like Jerry Falwell were making a stink about how all this stuff is disenfranchising people of faith...I personally hate the word disenfranchising...because to me it sounds like just another way to say people aren't happy that things don't go their way...but he does have a point Christmas is a day that Christians celebrate for a specific reason...The birth of Jesus Christ...and while he may not have been born in the winter it still is a day that I can meditate on the wonderful gift...Now if you don't claim to be a Christian and still want to celebrate Christmas fine...but remember that the reason for the season is part of Christianity and let them be.

BLOG POLL

What do you think of my ever changing banners...is there a favorite? Please give me a comment and tell me what you think of all my different banners you have seen.

WORKING 11/23/2005

Today was a tough one to work...My story was about this dog the police found on the railroad tracks outside of Boston...It probably had been hit by a train and was really wounded when the police found it...I went to the animal hospital to get some video of the dog and the hardest thing was seeing this dog...(a beautiful black lab) walk weakly into the room...with a gash running all around his belly to his back...and the most heart breaking part was when he looked at me and tried to lick his chops and because of the four breaks in his jaw all I heard was cracking and he had a ton of blood pouring out of his nose and mouth...The tough thing is that they need to find the owner to pay for an extensive operation to put his face right...($6000) and will probably have to put him down if they can not find the owner...Kind of frustrating because I bet the owner knows their dog has been hurt but won't claim it because they don't want to spend the money...If I had a dog I would have it microchipped...

Don't Touch

I was at work and was about to get online when I discovered that my Keyboard had a warning label on it...I can't believe they will put an idiot label on anything...
Sorry this is out of focusThis warning basically said that it is true that all keyboards can cause injury to the user...and to check the back of the key board for more details...I decided to not even touch the keyboard for fear of risking bodily harm.

Senator Kerry

Sorry the picture wasn't steadyI saw Senator Kerry today...his office is within walking distance of my station...I walked there with my gear...and he had some things to say about the Vice President as well as the war in Iraq...He was referring to something Cheney had spoken about earlier today...Cheney mentioned that some congressmen are trying to lead the American people to believe that the American soldiers were led to war by a "deliberate falsehood"Kerry says that the White House (Bush and Cheney) has been misleading the American people...and that the congress was not given all the information before they voted in favor of going into Iraq...when asked if he thought Bush lied...he would not bring himself to say yes...instead saying "Never used that word...don't like the word..." and when a reporter asked what the difference was "It's a question of intent...They've misled America and they're still misleading Americans... (slight pause) You can fight about the words." I told Hooter about that statement and he said that is a pure example of why Kerry "didn't win the election...You have to be willing to hang yourself sometimes..." (by which I learned in our further conversation meant he has to stand for something and make decisions)

LIFE IMITATES ART

Cheddar gives Harry some earnest advice before Harry faces the Dark LordWe went to see the new Harry Potter film...The Goblet of Fire...I had gotten mixed reviews so didn't know what to expect...especially since they were trying to adapt one of the longer books in the series in the same amount of time...I think they did a good job culling everything that didn't further the storyline of the (spoiler) and really only focusing on the main storyline...It makes this film a bit more of a companion piece to the book rather than a stand-alone like the other films...my wife kept asking me questions that I kept forgetting she didn't know because she hasn't been able to read the books yet...For me as a reader it flowed wonderfully and was really only missing (spoiler)...
Now after we saw the Goblet of Fire we decided we should go to a Japanese steakhouse right down the road from our house and see their Goblet of Fire...The chef did some tricks we hadn't seen before and was real good at balancing things...While we had a good time watching him we missed some things from our experiences in the South Carolina Japanese Steakhouses...No white sauce here...less rice than we're used to...and no smily face in fire that the chef claims is a portrait of their boss.

BOOK FINISHED

I just finished the book, Arabian Nights, and was surprized that there were so many better stories in it than Ali Baba and Alladin...I especially liked the story of Sinbad and his seven voyages...but one that particularly struck me as a great story was the story of Abou Hassan...He was a man who decided to entertain a stranger every night and to dismiss them every morning to never see them again...The Sultan in disguise becomes his guest one night and after hearing Abou tell him what he would do with the Sultan's power (without knowing he was speaking to the Sultan) the Sultan plays a trick on him, drugging him, and having his whole court pretend Abou is the Sultan for one day...It is quite a story...I am surprized no one has made a movie adaptation of it.
There have been adaptations of other parts of the book in movies and in art...here are two examples...the first is a Roc's egg that Sinbad and his comrades came upon and the other is Walt Disney's version of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

LAUNDRY DAY

It has been a while since we did laundry and if I hadn't done it today I would have to wear all clothes that I had already worn in the past week...
I fortunately found a sweater I had thought was lost...Thank God for 24 hour laundromat right behind our house...to bad we have to drive around the block to get to it since there is a seven foot high fence between us...I'm thinking about getting a ladder

WHAT THE?...

I saw this lady going into court...probably for a fashion violation.

PAUL PIERCE OF CELTICS

Paul Pierce plays basketball with the Boston Celtics...He also is the spokesperson for a new type of basketball...the first to ever use something other than air inside it...It is supposed to prolong the life of the ball so it never goes flat...for some reason the first place you could buy this wonderful new inovation was in the small town of Danvers, Massachewsits.

I also spoke to one of the developers of the ball and he is famed for being the guy to come up with the self pumping ball a few years back called the Infusion ball...He came up with it when he saw those pop-up thermometers in chickens and said "Why not basketballs?"...He says they should never go flat and when I grilled him about if I decided to keep the same ball for 15 years...he laughed and said the ball will probably wear out before it goes flat...

During my move I discovered two things...One: I hadn't played basketball in a long time...Two: my current basketball had become tremendously flat...So I decided to be one of the first to try the new Never Flat Spalding basketball...I can tell you it feels like a normal new basketball in every way...But there is no hole to fill it up...(I guess they're sure about it)...GAME ON!!!

WHASSUP? TRAINS!

I did a little trainspotting today with not much luck...No trains...(other than the one I rode in on and the one I rode out on)

WHAT IS THIS?

I saw this hanging from a tree at my liveshot tonight. Here is the tree I found it in.

DOING RESEARCH

So today started off a little slow and I had some time to do some "research" on the internet...What I found out was that fisher cats are neither cats
nor fish
(nor are they related to the kingfisher bird) They are more closely related to the polecats (also not cats) and weasels...They are viscious little creatures that prey on household cats outdoors and their screams sound like a high pitched child in trouble...

The local baseball team in NH are the Fisher Cats

I saw Shane

Shane in the HIZ-OUSE!

I stopped by and saw Shane at his radio station in Boston and we played a few pranks on callers for old times sake...Mr. Rogers answered for the phone for us while we wrestled rhinos in their backyard petting zoo...

FLAT TIRE

I had a long day at work today...and I just wanted to go home...I missed the train by minutes and had to wait 45 minutes for the next one...then I finally got to my car and was happy to be on my way when I heard a THUMP KATHUMP THUMP KATHUMP coming from one of my tires...Crapola!! I had a flat tire and had to change it into a donut tire that is only supposed to be driven short distances at low speed and I have a 45 minute commute to take...Life can't get any better...Thank God my wife cooked a great (healthy) meal for me...

Bumper Sticker Sighting

So I have seen the first person to put the Chainsaw bumper sticker on their car and boy does it look sharp...Order yours today and be cool too.

Redemption Center

Kevin and I were in town for only a short while but we had to make the pilgrimage to the new and improved Redemption Center...the place where He and I formed our friendship with each other as well as Adam (the recent groom)...A redemption center, for those of you in place where you don't pay a deposit for soda cans and bottles, is where people return their cans and bottles for the five cent return...we would count each bottle and give them their money they were due...it was a fun job in High School and college and at times I have thought back to those simpler days and wished I was back there slinging cans with Kevin and Adam...

The People I Meet #8

So it seems interesting people have interesting names...After the reception for Adam and Cheri my wife Heather was looking for me in the bar and an older gentleman told her she could sit with him and his family...I think he was trying to set her up with his nephew (or himself)...His Name is Lou DiMaggio...and he was their with his Sister Madeline who had just turned 81...we saw a picture of her when she was 21 and she still has the looks...Their nephew was there as well and he and his father have a familiar name...Joe DiMaggio of baseball fame...He told me he wasn't as good as the famous Joe but that he could hold his own...They invited Heather, Myself, Kevin, Adam and Cheri to sit and chat with them...Lou rattled joke after joke so fast that we couldn't stop laughing...and Heather ended up losing her voice she was laughing so much...He asked if she thought I would kick the bucket soon...I think he was making moves on my girl...thankfully I am in pretty good health...

The People I Meet #7

While at the wedding I realized that I recognized the Disc Jockey...He was someone I went to college with for the first two years...Bryan Lakes on the air...his real name is Ryan Misencik...and he is now spinning all his music via a hard drive on a laptop computer attached to a mixer...and he has a backup laptop just in case...makes the heavy lifting of being a DJ a little less strenuous

SCENES FROM MY FRIEND'S WEDDING

Adam and Cheri got married at 3pm on Saturday the 12th of November...The Ceremony was beautiful...
And you could tell that love was in the air when they had their first dance as husband and wife... Here's the cake...it tasted great...
Heather and I had a wonderful time and wish them only great times in their marriage...

Kevin Howarth was in the wedding...you can see the tux has gone to his head...Here he is thinking..."Today Adam and Cheri's wedding, Tomorrow the world." Good Luck Kevin...remember me when the power comes. It was great to see people I hadn't seen in a long time as well...Chris Dever (far left) officiated the wedding...(going right) Eric Lefevre played for a song for their wedding...Mark and Kelly Mattson were also in attendance...I grew up with everyone except Mark...and he married Kelly, Chris' sister. The DJ played "Cotton Eyed Joe" and Kevin and I couldn't stop our feet from dancing...

MY SISTER GOT ENGAGED

My sister Nikki got engaged to Mike Crowe...they met in the Coast Guard and are hoping to get married sometime in the summer next year...I am so glad for Nikki and Mike and he seems like he'd be a great brother-in-law...Congrats Nikki...I love you. (that's me in the picture with Nikki...Mike's a better looking guy)

WOW...NOT STUCK IN TRAFFIC

Life is a constant highway...AND I AM ALWAYS DRIVING.

YELLOW CAR

Anyone ever notice that when a yellow car is on the road you can't keep your eyes off it? That must be a great safety feature...but you probably end up wondering why everyone is staring at you and taking pictures...(like me)

DRIVING TO NY

I am going to my buddy Adam's wedding tomorrow with my wife Heather...so we are driving the 4 and 1/2 hours to my home town to see my folks and celebrate Adam and Cheri's union.

KISS 108

A buddy of mine who is known on the air as "Jackson Blue" works at the radio station in Boston and in a moment of randomness I discovered that it is located in the same parking lot as I catch the subway every morning...kind of weird...gonna have to hook up with him...How long will it take before two college buddies finally meet face to face? Taking bids now.

The People I Meet #6

These guys are part of the Mass. 54th Volunteer Regiment (reenactors) They had a performance in Boston and it was for Veterans Day...They were happy they were covered in wool...which was good since it was a little nippy today

I FINALLY GOT PAID

It has been a month and a half since I've had a paycheck so this baby is going to all my bill collectors...Wahoo!
NOW GET OFF MY BACK

Babies at the Aquarium

Part of my job I love is the fact that I get to see things behind the scenes most other people don't...Here is a baby yellow spotted Amazon River turtle that just was born at the Boston Aquarium...I got to get up close with it and compare its size to a quarter...(pretty close)

VETERANS DAY

Today is Veterans Day and I caught a parade a block from my house...
It was something to see the people gather to watch the parade but what really affected me was when the parade was in the middle they all stopped and it was really silent for about 2 minutes...and then they played Taps...then they continued the parade...It was different than any veterans parade I had ever seen...I don't know if it is because of all the soldiers we have lost recently but that's who I thought of...There were veterans in the parade who carried banners asking for peace as well...Then the National Guard came and showed off their vehicles.

KEYSPAN GAS TANK

This gas tank is a prominant landmark on the southern side of Boston...My wife told me the blue streak looks just like the profile of of an asian and it turns out with some internet research that it might have been intentionally made to look like Ho Chi Minh by an anti-war activist painter in the 70's...The Tank's owner claims it is coincidental...it turns out this is the world's largest copyrighted work of art...the artist's name, Corita Kent in 1971

45 degrees in Cape Cod

In my travels I made it to the shore this afternoon...there was the familiar Cape style home right on the beach (behind me) and the water was a little nippy...I am wondering how I will take the transition to the colder water...even in the summer it doesn't get even near as warm as the water in the south...In fact before I moved to the south we would swim in water in the summer that was as cold as Charleston folks use for their polar bear swim on New Years Day

THE SMELL OF FALL

I was working today when I came upon a smell I remember fully from a few years ago...FALL...It's something you can't imagine in the South...(must be the humidity or something)It is hard to explain what autumn smells like to people who haven't experienced it among tons of hardwood trees all changing into brilliant oranges, reds, and yellows...In fact a lot of people probably miss it because they pay so much attention to the colors...But me...I love the smell...it reminds me of life growing up in central NY...the woodstove...gathering wood...wool socks...cold fingers...If I had to describe it...it is like a combination of inhaling deeply on top of a tree...and the smell of fertile ground between your fingers, mixed with a slightly burnt smell...That is the closest I can come to the smell of FALL...

DIET: Day #10

Ate well:
-2 yogurts (heart healthy)
-Smart One (Oriental Chicken)
-celery
-5 bottles of water
Excercised:
-stretched
-2 sets of 10 crunches
-2 sets of 10 pushups (getting easier)
-100 jumping jacks
-50 jumping jacks
Heather's not feeling well:
-so I treated us both to Pizza!
Total Diet Pepsis: 4

VERY SLEEPY

I feel like the theme to Joe vs. The Volcano should be playing right now and I don't have any energy...I caught an even earlier train this morning so I can meander to work instead of run...that is a good thing

Amman, Jordan

I was struck when I heard that Amman Jordan was attacked today...I was Text Messaging Hooter back and forth and hoping that my new friend from there was ok...I thought about it all the way home from work and went online first emailing her and then checking her posts for the day...I was relieved to find that she is only affected in spirit...(I wrote more on Dusty's Thinking 2.0 since I try to keep this blog pretty light)

DIET: Day #9

After I got to the train station I had some time to wait for it and I decided to do my excercises there.
I excercised well:
-3 sets of 10 pushups (2 while waiting at the train)
-100 pushups (waiting for the train)
-2 sets of 10 crunches
-120 pushups (at home at night)
I ate all right:
- I had 1/2 a medium sub (mostly turkey/some ham and lettuce/cheese/tomato/mayo)
-2 Roast Beef Wraps (no mayo with lettuce and tomato)
-2 carrots
-A Smart One microwavable dinner (Creamy Chicken Rigatoni-Good)
-6 bottles of water
-3 diet pepsis
Temptation of the Day:
Pizza delivery
Substitution:
1/2 a sandwich and the Smart One

STOPPED IN TRAFFIC

I left 2 hours 15 minutes early for work and the reason is I spend an hour stopped like now...

IT'S CHAINSAW'S BIRTHDAY!!!

Chainsaw has been integral in Carl Sagan's (another birthday boy) research into alien cultures...On their last joint birthday party Saw and Saggy couldn't agree on the degree of relativity it takes to make a question literal...and ended up breaking some seriously expensive SETI equipment that was lying around...Chainsaw chose to spend this birthday with fellow celebrant Chris Jericho at a game...afterwards they had a backyard wrestling match (not shown here)

DIET: Day #8

I LOST 7 POUNDS!

DIET: Day #7

Behaving again...Heather made me lunch
I had a salad with light dressing
baked pork chop
bartlet pear
7 bottles of water
4 diet pepsis
1 Pepsi
No Excercise today

AUTUMN BEAUTY

This statue reminded me of Mucha's depiction of Summer. And with the few leaves left on the tree behind her I thought of Heather and I and how we're facing our first winter after a long summer.

DIET: Days #5 & #6

So this was the first weekend since I went on my diet...I did not do well...
Excercise:
-1.5 mile walk with Heather (Saturday)
-2 crunches (Saturday...just to show Heather what I think a crunch is)
-10 pushups (Saturday)
-100 jumping jacks (Sunday)
-2 sets of running around in a circle (Sunday...can you tell I need discipline)
Food:
-Chicken sandwich (mustard/spinach)
-three mini-candybars from halloween (they will go bad)
-2 smart ones in one sitting
-three pickle slices
-big bag of pretzels
-snack cracker package
-8 bottles of water
-2 large beers on Saturday
-2 hotdogs to wash down beer
Pepsi:
I have switched to Diet Pepsi and had four over the weekend and 1 regular Pepsi

WORKING: 10/06/2005

I got up at a quarter to six to cover a FAKE train accident and then I had to drive south an hour and half to West of Rhode Island and tried to get a victim's family members to talk about him a day after he died...

I didn't get done with work until quarter after five for the hour long ride home...Obviously I drove like a maniac to get home...

Stressing the Bills

I have been without a paycheck for more than a month and I am waiting (not so patiently for this coming Friday for the first paycheck from the new job...in the meantime I found a Rube Goldberg design I might think about implementing...
Rube Goldberg mistakes a lot of broken glass for bath salts and when they pull him out of the tub he mumbles an idea for dodging bill collectors
As Tailor (A) fits customer (B) and calls out measurements, college boy (C) mistakes them for football signals and makes a flying tackle at clothing dummy (D). Dummy bumps head against paddle (E) causing it to pull hook (F) and throw bottle (G) on end of folding hat rack (H) which spreads and pushes head of cabbage (I) into net (J). Weight of cabbage pulls cord (K) causing shears (L) to cut string (M). Bag of sand (N) drops on scale (O) and pushes broom (P) against pail of whitewash (Q) which upsets all over you causing you to look like a marble statue and making it impossible for you to be recognized by bill collectors. Don't worry about posing as any particular historical statue because bill collectors don't know much about art.

CHAINSAW IS ON THE BLOGPATH

Chainsaw has his own blog one day and already he's pissed off all preteen girls and middle aged men...Good Luck Chainsaw...Here comes the angry mob...

Oh and you can get your pirated Chainsaw Merchandise here...(More to come)

CONTEST #1 IS OVER

Did you guess why the Nomes of November is relevent to these three?

HOOTER HAS HIS OWN BLOG

Hooter was thrown into a rage when I defeated his hold over my blog a couple days ago...
And has decided to combat evil with evil on his own blog...
It is aptly named The Hooter Chronicles and I think you should take a look...
It is mostly reviews of movies and music that he deems listeneable and watchable...plus his pictures will probably be better...maybe

DIET: Day #4

I excercised a bit better:
-111 jumping jacks in the morning
-1 set of 10 pushups
-1 set of 11 pushups
-2 sets of 10 crunches
I ate well again today:
-carrot and celery slices
-chicken sandwich (with spinach and mustard)
-2 hard-boiled eggs (no yolk/no salt)
-green and wax beans (fresh steamed)
-7 bottles of water
I did enjoy some pepsi:
-1 pepsi before work
-1/2 a pepsi at work
-1 DIET pepsi (to try it)
In Total: 2 Pepsis/ 1 Diet

The People I Meet #6

I was at a liveshot location today waiting for the 11pm show and I met these three ladies (only two pictured here)
Their names are Juanita...Juanita...and JUANITA!
It is three generations of Juanitas...The grandmother Juanita, who waited in the car, named her daughter Juanita...and Juanita II named her daughter Juanita...They were going to church and told me I should check it out...It is a Portugese language church...I asked them if they understood any of it and they said "No...We love it though...Getting into the Lord!"
Juanita, Juanita, Juanita...It was good to meet ya

DIET: Day #3

I ate well today because Heather prepared me food:
-bowl of Special K (with skim milk)
-some haddock
-wax and green beans
-1/2 dozen shrimp (sans sauce)
I got a late start this morning so had to wait until I got home from work to excercise:
-11 pushups
-2 sets of 10 crunches
-0 jumping jacks (to loud for sleeping Heather)
-6 bottles of water
I did treat myself a little though:
-1 beer (to get change for parking I swear)
-1 Mounds candy bar (almonds are good for the heart)
I did still enjoy my Pepsi though:
-1 pepsi at work
-1 on drive home
In Total: 2 Pepsis

FREE TIME

Check out my new fascination...
It is called Camera Tossing and I learned about it from a great site for some real abstract images taken with a camera...check out Camera Toss...
In the meantime check out these examples of Camera tossing I did with my Samsung camera phone in an edit bay...

THE PEOPLE I MEET #5

Well... if your at any kind of sports game you're going to meet some interesting folks...And I did.
First On the list is an old friend Chris who used to work at my first station...He now is working for the CBS in town and has a new baby...It was good to see him and it was especially funny since we spent a large portion of our time in Plattsburgh at the basketball court facing off...
I spent some time behind the scenes at the game and watched the halftime show practice...Duncan and the rest of these guys are The Keith King BMX Stunt Show and they just got off the contest circuit...even though they get together for these shows they live all over the place...Colorado to North Carolina...They almost didn't go on because the Garden wasn't going to let them use a rug on the floor...but they went on after a little debate with the floor people...And the crowd enjoyed them...
I also hung out while the cheerleaders were practicing their holds...Dave and Naomi are usually paired together because it is a lot easier to get used to one anothers moves...He tells me he can switch hands up to fourteen times with this trick...she says all she does is stand there...it is one of the easiest tricks for her compared to the flips...I wouldn't want to attempt it...especially for the $50 a game they get...whew...Dave says that most of the guys have other jobs and that its mostly a hobby...the girls are mostly in college...Pretty good hobby
On my trip back from the game I ran into Chuck...He's from Haverhill and when he saw my camera phone told me that he was in the military when they were testing out different ways to send images long distances...and that his work was probably what led to my camera phone and subsequently my blog so I should thank him...Then he went into a rant about how stupid Boston was when it came to infrastructure...He says that the year before Ike passed the Federal Highway Act giving tons of Federal money to states for highways Massachutsets started their highway construction and therefore got no money...and the traffic problem continues...

WORKING FOR A LIVING

So I got to tech the 1st game at the BankNorth Garden today in Boston...

The Celtics versus the Knicks...

I was basically working for WNBC because they were the ones the liveshot was for...I got to watch them stretch before the game and I think I will try stretching before my workout from now on because it probably enhances my skills...
The game went into overtime and I was worried I might miss my train and not get to my car... Once I wrapped up everything I ran down multiple flights of stairs to see if I would catch the last train...
and missed it so I caught a train going out to somewhere closer to where my car was parked...
then I caught a bus and rode that back into the city since I had gone to far...
and finally made it to my car... I guess I had Luck on my side just like the Celtics

Celtics vs Knicks: 1st Game

I'm at the Garden waiting for the Celtics to play. Look for my future post to elaborate

DIET: Day #2

I did some exercises before going to work today:
-10 pushups
-10 crunches
-100 jumping jacks

I ate all right all day:
-Chicken pieces with some poultry seasoning on a salad
-free food from Celtics game media room Chicken backed with tomatoes
-brocolli and squash
-and some free mahi mahi
-four bottles of water
I did enjoy some pepsi though:
-one at Garden watching game
-one while trying to get to my car
-one driving home
In Total: 3 Pepsis

DIET: Day #1

Did all right early in the day...
-half chicken burrito from night before
-two bottles of water
Once I got to work it was harder...
-a portion of chicken breast slightly seasoned
-a bottle of water
Then when I went with Tony downhill...
-two slices of pizza
-two pepsis
-bottle of water
On my drive home at 2am...
-two more pepsis
In Total: 4 Pepsis

ANOTHER DAY AT THE JOB

I took the Orange line into work today and hung out next to this guy who was screaming on the phone about how his teacher called him a monkey...
I got to the station safely and learned I was now training on livetruck...We had a liveshot right next to one of the recieve sites in the city...so we didn't even lift the mast...
Then we went to this rundown pizza place for a couple slices...(I have to stop training because these guys keep bringing me to hidden gems in the city) I had a sausage and onion slice and a cheese slice...Real Good!
Then we were pulled off the livetruck to run a Satelite truck so I got a little extra training I hadn't expected...That shot was about some General Manager quiting the sports team up here.