Well hello there.

I FINALLY went and got the pictures from the cruise developed . . . about all I have to say about that is: disposable cameras suck. Can I say suck on the internet? I guess so. Anyway, I do have a few pictures that are somewhat decent. I at least have one of the ship that I will post for now. This is from Jamaica. I will have to sort few the other pictures and see if there is anyway I can salvage them. Most of them are too dark to see much, either that or they are too light and look faded out. In other news, I was supposed to head to Washington, DC this week, but that trip got canceled and was replaced with a trip to Baton Rouge. Not nearly the same. Plus I have to drive down there (while transporting two or three people from Tech). Oh well, at least they will pay me for the mileage (I hope).

School is about to start up for the summer. I will be teaching one of my favorite classes during the ten-week session. I am also going to help out with a summer camp: LA GearUP. I still think I have a trip to Eurpoe planned, but you never know. Some of the people who were planning on going dropped out so the whole thing may fall apart any minute, but then again it may go on as planned. I am definately getting a camera for that. I do have a decent digital camera, but it only works for a little while at a time and then it shuts down for an hour or so (not reliable enough for me). I am looking at getting a Kodak, one of the small black ones.

Well, I am about to start rambling, I better nip-it-in-the-bud now or this could go on for a while.

So it has been a really long time . . .

I kept waiting to get pictures from my cruise before I posted, but there was always something going on. So I decided to write a short note to say that I was still alive. Pictures and stories will be forth coming (is "forth coming" one word or two?) Anyway, I have to plan for my next trip which is supposed to be to Washington DC. This one is a school trip so we will have to wait and see if they find enough money to send me there or not. But if it happens it will be very soon (the end of this month).

I may even throw in some information on my latest projects. I have been remodeling my office at home and it is turning out pretty good so I may share some of that. Oh I do have a picture of my new desk that I built. I will post that on here if I can find it. My office was a bedroom before so I took the closet and put a desk and a shelf in it, all made from scratch. It felt good to be able to build something. I used to fix old cars back in the day, but I haven't had a garage or anything to work on them since moving to Ruston so little projects like this sort of fill that void. Anyhow, at least now I have a picture in my post.