Did some boxing day shopping, bought 4 X 128gb memory cards for the upcoming camcorder purchase, the RRS plate and mount to put on the ring to mount the new camcorder on, a new 24X36 print of one of my Star Wars Canyon shots on Aluminum, and a $350 Lego Bugatti which I am in deep trouble for. lol.
**Edit for TOPP** picture from the aformentioned print.
Hey Jim, congrats on the 50!! I hope one of the trips will be a trip back down the aisle to renew vows Make time for those trips. Block off time on your calendar and tell your clients you are ABSOLUTELY not available during those times. Be firm about it.
Sunday (tomorrow) would have been my 40th. I'll be working Amazon Sunday instead, keeping my mind off things. The weekend before his brain mets revealed themselves, he told me to look up the cost of a trip to Ireland for the two of us. We never got that trip, but it's still on my bucket list.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Hi Mark,
Yes, I haven’t heard anyone say that their trip to Israel didn’t touch them deeply. Sheila and I were going to do it together at some point, but a close friend of ours called a few months ago to see if she’d like to go with her. The timing was perfect, Sheila being Sheila was hesitant to spend the money so I told her that if she didn’t go I would spend that amount on something for the hangar , so she should go. I am having twinges about not being with her, but this was a good decision. Who knows how long we might have waited to spend $12K on the trip for both of us and this gives me ten days to get spooled up for 2019 and get some other things that have been hanging over my head taken care of.
We’re going to do a series of trips this year for our 50th anniversary and haven’t decided if they’ll all be domestic or if we’ll venture further. I think one of them will be a trip down the west coast on Hwy 1, depending upon mud slides, wild fires, etc. ...Show more →
Thank you for your thoughts Laura, very touching indeed. Congratulations on your 40th, just because your Sweetheart is, "in another room" doesn't mean you shouldn't celebrate the love and commitment that brought you to that milestone, with extra for what you both went through during his illness. Just unthinkable.
We are going to make time for "us" this year and from this point on. I really have no desire to hang up the spurs as a pro shooter, but I'm working on attitude modification. I've done whatever my clients needed for 40+ years, their emergency was mine and whatever miracle was necessary, that miracle was performed and that ethic has served me well. Life has its seasons and it's important to recognize them before fall turns to winter, I'm giving that a lot of thought and prayer.
I have to admit though, what I do and who I've been blessed to do it for lo these many years is a part of who I am and the thought of putting that in the rear view mirror while I'm still physically able to run the race, well, it's a bit unsettling to me. Balance, achieving balance, that's the challenge of it. Weebeesee.
On that topic, what I thought was going to be a 30 minute meeting with a potential client yesterday morphed into three hours and an ongoing relationship that will have me producing still and video work for a new network of healthy senior living complexes stretching from California to Texas and beyond in the near future. More challenges, more to learn, more skills to hone to a fine edge.
ELinder wrote:
Please post the Bugatti once it’s built. I splurged on a large LEGO X-Wing but I haven’t built it yet.
Erich
And I picked up the Lego Saturn V recently. Haven't even started to think about putting it together.
Steve, that is one sharp F-16. I bet it looks great on metal.
And Jim, I'm really glad to hear you're going to attempt that attitude modification. I was tempted to scold you for not going on the trip with Sheila but thought better of it. You are both fortunate to have the means to have some wonderful trips together, you need to do it. Fall sometimes turns to winter when we least expect it, if you know what I mean.
Thanks for caring Bud. I would have gone but there were just too many loose ends, first it would have bumped the outflow from $6K to 12, second I needed to get this skin cancer thing put to bed, third, I felt like it might be good for Sheila to have some time with a friend and leave as much of life here behind as possible for ten days....not that it isn't fine, but it's "life". Last and certainly least, it's giving me the opportunity to get my 2019 ducks in a row without taking time from her. I wish I had gone every time I turn and realize she isn't there, but I'm ok and this is good for her.
Jim, I know your tendencies to drop everything to tend to your clients' demands. Make those plans with Shelia before you fill your calendar for the year, please. Consider that as a request from a client who cares (me)
Yes, he's here in a different astral plane, but it's not the same as having him here. The last 6.5 years have been a real struggle. I'm hoping that my upcoming surgery is just that, with no surprises involved, so I'm sitting on a triple edged sword at the moment till I wake up from that surgery to hear what they say. The words in the radiologist's reports were scary.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Thank you for your thoughts Laura, very touching indeed. Congratulations on your 40th, just because your Sweetheart is, "in another room" doesn't mean you shouldn't celebrate the love and commitment that brought you to that milestone, with extra for what you both went through during his illness. Just unthinkable.
We are going to make time for "us" this year and from this point on. I really have no desire to hang up the spurs as a pro shooter, but I'm working on attitude modification. I've done whatever my clients needed for 40+ years, their emergency was mine and whatever miracle was necessary, that miracle was performed and that ethic has served me well. Life has its seasons and it's important to recognize them before fall turns to winter, I'm giving that a lot of thought and prayer.
I have to admit though, what I do and who I've been blessed to do it for lo these many years is a part of who I am and the thought of putting that in the rear view mirror while I'm still physically able to run the race, well, it's a bit unsettling to me. Balance, achieving balance, that's the challenge of it. Weebeesee.
On that topic, what I thought was going to be a 30 minute meeting with a potential client yesterday morphed into three hours and an ongoing relationship that will have me producing still and video work for a new network of healthy senior living complexes stretching from California to Texas and beyond in the near future. More challenges, more to learn, more skills to hone to a fine edge....Show more →
Thanks Nick, I'll be bringing a laptop to the hospital, and will post after I'm out of surgery. Hopefully I'll be able to type a complete sentence or two I will absolutely refuse going to a "rehab" or any other facility though. YUCK.
nickjohnson wrote:
Laura, please take strength from the folks here. We are keeping you in our thoughts and sending our best wishes.
JWilsonphoto wrote:
Great images Dave! That sunburst on the trailing edge is the icing on the cake. Exceptional technique to time that while you are plummeting to earth
Timing? More like blinded by the sun and snapping away at 3 frames a second hoping something is there in front of me.
I will absolutely refuse going to a "rehab" or any other facility though. YUCK.
