Thank the Good Lord

My sweetheart wasn't hurt this morning, but after keeping alert and swerving into a ditch, she ripped a gash into her tire on her way to school. A Cobb County policeman came by to write up a report and help her put on her spare. Of course we know all things work together for good to them that love God and are the called according to His purpose; I believe another school power outage saved her from missing her class this morning. Hopefully she can leave work early and go by Wal-Mart to get the cheapest tire they have since she is selling this car in a few weeks.

And Dad seems to be coughing less, I hope he recovers from whatever he has soon. God Bless them.

What!? This isn't James Bond...

55,000+ Photographs Can't Be Wrong

I've resigned to myself that I will finally do what I've needed to do for a while now and that is to enter photography or photographic essay contests. I just missed entering the BBC UK Website contest. Here are some of the amazing winners. We'll start off with my favorite shown here.

Perhaps it is because it was taken in Hokkaido, Japan in early February. Martin Eisenhawer was a german tourist that settled at the edge of the water and waited as the swans landed over the warm hot springs bubbling up out of the thermal lake.

This shot won Italian Manuel Presti the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2005 award. It is of a swirling flock of starlings as a peregrine falcon moves in. He was using two cameras that day above a city park in Rome. One with a wide lens and one for more closer shots.

And finally Martyn Colbeck, from the UK, took this pic of elephants in front of the magnificent Mount Kilimanjaro more than 25 miles behind. It reminds me a lot of Mount Fuji.

First Day at Work

I arrived at the GNC store in Woodstock this morning, meeting Steve (aka Ahmad) and settled into 6 hrs of boredom. It wasn't much for me, however Steve seemed overly bored. We had 12 customers and a little over $300 in sales. It was an unusually slow day, when my counterpart in Kennesaw had done over $800 with an average sale per customer of around $79. I went next door to the Atlanta Bread Company to make me some lemonade from lemons, Splenda, and water.