Changes

Consider for a minute, that you find yourself living in isolation.  For seven months you get to interact with maybe sixty other people or so.  Then consider that three of those months are spent with 15 other people, and no one else.  Add to that the fact you can travel no more than two miles in any direction. 
To be sitting in my room and consider that the orange boat on the pier will be leaving in a day, and with it 95% of your "family" with it.  That is a hard thing to take.  Not only that but they are replaced with a bunch of new faces, some of which you know but most you do not.
That is my world right now, in ways the ship removes me from the isolation I've been feeling the past few months, but it also at times feels like it makes it worse.
When you have the number of people you live with all of a sudden just triple, you find yourself sometimes doing all you can to hide and escape, to go back to your small world.  It's not that these people aren't cool people and a joy to work and live with, I'm sure.  No it is the fact that they are not your people. Everything that has been your everyday life is changing, and some times it is a harder thing then you may think.
The only way some one not on station could picture it would be like this:
Sitting in you home you get a phone call, "hey come out here and help me park, the voice on the other line says". You open the door to see your crazy brother, driving a converted school bus, of the short kind. As you help him park and hope to hell he doesn't run you or your lawn gnome down you notice a bunch of faces pressed on the windows of the bus. You brother gets out and tells you your family will be leaving in a few days, and in it's place he's leaving a group of gypsies who will take there place while you stay behind for a short time. While the gypsies are nice, and do most of the things you family did, they don't do it the same way. At times this gets on your nerves greatly at times.
When your family packs and loads into the bus, you need to go and help you brother get out of the driveway, and as he drifts down the road, you jump into the middle of the road to get one last look before they drive out of sight.
Even if you know you will soon follow them your family is now gone, and you are left to adjust to the ways of the gypsies. Because there is not changing their ways to fit you, it is you who must adjust.

But the Best part of the changes is the fact that I get to leave soon, get to see MY family again. But I am also feeling this urge to just get in a car, on a motorcycle, what ever and just go someplace any place but home.
As much as I want to see the people I miss and love, I don't know if I can just stay in one place much longer, my legs they need to be stretched.

Penguin Plunge

I've signed up for the N. Bennington Penguin Plunge to raise money for the Vermont Special Olympics. Please visit my fundraising page and donate what ever you can, it's for a great cause.

I'll do my best to swim around for a bit, and enjoy the water. Plus there could be free prints going out to people, if I raise enough money. That's the only way I have of really saying thank you to those who help me.

Up until the plunge I may do a few different things to help raise some extra cash so keep your eyes open.

My Fund raising page!

Copyright

So I've done some thinking about copyright and all my pictures are now covered under CC. Learn more by clicking below.


This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Training

So even though my Training to come here happened almost six months ago, it's not until just recently that I've managed to get pictures posted in any great number. For now they are just on Flickr but should have their own gallery here soonish.

Also I've decided to put up a new section for gear I use called... Gear. Not supper creative but it gets the point across. I've had some questions as to gear I use for pictures. So I figured that would be a good place to talk about it. I'll talk about what it is that I'm using how I like it, if I'd buy it again, etc... This will cover more then just geek gadgetry but also outdoor gear that is both issued and stuff I brought down myself. My first installment should be up in a few days, it will start with the cameras I use.

Fixed

So I fixed the picture issue and have added some new pictures also.

More Pictures

Well I've up loaded a new gallery, that has pictures from last winter season here at Palmer. As usually the gallery might grow depending on what I decide to add to it. Also due to some technical oversights on my part some of the galleries might not be showing up how I'd like them or how they should but I should have that fixed tomorrow.

If there is anything that you'd like to see more of or would like me to write about let me know.

Also you can check out my photo stream here.