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Its bout time!
I cant wait till every things green again.

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/21032112/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/21032112/ Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:33:26 PDT
Been here before, but I got some good ones today.
Its in northern Ma, up by Tully lake.

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/20892918/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/20892918/ Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:13:40 PDT
.....

Wholly hell...
I just got a D90 and it makes my D70 feel like a friggin instant Polaroid camera...

More to come, I will post side by side comparisons soon.

It makes me want to frolic... Yeah, you heard me, frolic. Like in a friggin meadow with cute wild life and shit.

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/18480989/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/18480989/ Sat, 24 May 2008 14:50:56 PDT
Nice day, went out Kayakin with Michelle and Andy, dint bring the camera, its nice and all to bring it but its a worry you know? DSLR + Water = Bad. Oc course we had this big Heron or Crane, not sure which pose right out in the open and real close to us... Ahh well, we went up river and stuff from some big lakes.
Even tho I slathered on the SPF I have a feelin my dome is gona look like a cherry tamorra, I couldn't find my hat! =/

I seriously dont wana go to werk tamora but oh well it makes the green things for me.

Almost done with Italy, hope you guys have enjoyed it.



]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/17445793/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/17445793/ Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:27:19 PDT
I went out for a hike near sunset today and found some guys riding around on their bikes, we Bs'd and they did wheelies for me And I said I would post the pics so here they are.

The ones you guys like can be download just put em on a CD or thumb drive. Bring it to Wallgreens or something and they can print em out for ya. Or ya can buy the print from DA.

Thanks for bein cool and lettin me grab a few pics.

First time I ever shot ATV's


More of Italy to come after these brief messages. ]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/17126054/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/17126054/ Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:31:13 PST
I am finally starting to upload Italy I duno why I waited so long. Anyways here goes.

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/16139732/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/16139732/ Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:07:58 PST
Billy and I went out by Robert Moses beach and headed out along ocean parkway. Stopped at Cedar and Tobay beach.
Saw some weird stuff, one doesn't expect to find a giant pipeline along the beach that had apparently been there for some time, still wondering whats in it.
Still good pics came of it

I still gotta upload Italy... Yeah yeah I know.. slacktastic.
I did start the prints thing though so now I can just go out and take pictures and stuff right?
<_< ..... >_> ..... Right?

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/14591192/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/14591192/ Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:56:31 PDT
Well its been over a year. YAh I'm a slacker Lots has happened, I am in my own place now, pretty nice setup, pictures of it sooner or later. And I have a new ride that rocks too. But Now I gotta focus on getting all of my sisters wedding pics up and then the ones I will be taking in the coming 10 days... Goin to freekin ITALY! woot

And you are so Jealous because I have two months off paid.

So Yah going to have lots up soon, I may even get my ass in gear and start a prints account.

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/9431735/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/9431735/ Wed, 19 Jul 2006 22:09:01 PDT [link]
Theres a few of them in his gallery

So here I sit again
Yeah, I have been slacking.
Not sure where I am these days.

Havent touched EQ in weeks. ]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/8312329/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/8312329/ Thu, 30 Mar 2006 08:22:52 PST [link]
Theres a few of them in his gallery

It got nice out! wheee. hooray for open windows.
Apparently it got me in the mood to clean up so my room is lookin spiffy, one can only take so much mess then it has to go. Today should be interesting, fixing a new part of my car, one of the Oil cooler lines corroded and well thats not a good thing since the engine needs oil and rust likes to eat holes in stuff. Dealer wanted 80 bux, napa wants 40, I just hope its the right part they are givin me.

So how many of you have seen the Movie Serenity or the series Firefly?
Its by Joss Whedon, the guy that created Buffy and Angel, but this is a Sci Fi and its a good one.
I think one of the reasons it seems so good is because its on of those fictions that are beleivable. There arent any aliens, the technology of it is beleivable to a point hey its 500 years in the future who knows what kind of magic will become science fact.

But there is another reason its so good, its about people, just like you and me, trying to get along, trying to whittle out a living. I could seriously rant and rave about this show for quite some time its really good.
The kicker is they canceled it in mid season, why? I havent a clue I guess it didnt catch on well enough they prolly put it in a lousy time slot.
You can get what episodes that were completed on DVD for only 40 bux theres 4 disks and lots of good stuff, the only bad thing? It leaves you wanting MORE MORE MORE. This is a show that could have gone on for quite a while like Buffy and Angel did.

Anywhoo back to cleanin up.

And people wonder why I play so much everquest... ]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/8029093/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/8029093/ Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:32:37 PST [link]
Theres a few of them in his gallery

Damn guess I needed to vent hahah. I am not gonna worry about that crap...There isint anything I can do at the moment I have to wait till tamora when I go back to see the Tax Man. I am gona make him call the person that took care of my recent amendment. I am fairly sure that the MDR has made an error. Heh this whole process has been ridiculous... I screwed up my original form, I had it amended and the first guy that worked on it then screwed up. And now the DOR has screwed up heeh... Its actually kind of amusing now that I think about it. So I am pretty sure they are still trying to tax me on money that I did not earn in their state but if perhaps I some how did not actually pay enough taxes then so be it.

Anywhoo. Oh I started a poll in my journal check it out

And people wonder why I play so much everquest... ]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/8027771/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/8027771/ Tue, 28 Feb 2006 12:59:57 PST
They still want over a thousand dollars.

So the reason this is happening is because in 2001 I filed as a full year resident in Ma stating that my income was was 24,643 which it was... for that state. I then transferred out to Oregon for the other half of the year. where I made another 24,573.

I was audited go figure, and they saw that my total income was 49,216, because I filed as a full year resident they think that I earned all that in MA but I didnt. I was an error on my part I know.

The assessment is tacking on the money I m ade in oregon and applying 5.6% tax to that coming out to be 1300 or so dollars, plus the intrest over the years of 234 dollars.

The Amendment is corrected and on the right part year resident form stating that my total 5.6% taxable income is oh guess what 24,643!

What part of I moved out to oregon and payed taxes on that money to oregon dont they understand. How can they tax me for money I didnt make in their state and wasnt even a resident!>?!@$!@#$#!@$


I know I dont owe them this but I seriously dont need the fucking stress right now.

And people wonder why I play so much everquest... ]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/8023171/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/8023171/ Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:28:11 PST So its another year, typical of me getting to it two months later. I havent picked up my camera too often lately, when I do I just havent been all that happy with any of the pictures taken. Not sure what the deal is hopefully its like writers block or something.

I have also been spending too much time playing Everquest 2 its ridiculous how addicting it can be, I am in a very active role playing guild and the plots and stories there are simply facinating. I find it hard to pull myself away from it at times I do wonder "hmm well mebby I should go out and do something here instead of in everquest" but it promptly gets shot down by my lack of motivation here. Weird how one can be motivated to go out and do things in a game but not here. I have a couple of things I should be doing but have been slacking off on, I blame my lack of motivation again.

Hopefully there will be some new stuff up soon well mebby one picture that I kinda like only because its Bizzare.

My monitor is near death, the birghtness and contrast are way up and its still pretty dark, I have had to correct using software adjustments so I dont know how anything I put up for you folks is going to look =/ I suppose I will have to post something to find out.

In Geeky news I built myself a new computer, its tears through pretty much whatever I throw at it. P4 3.2Ghz Overclocked to 3.9, 2 gigs of ram, and two XFX 7800gt video cards in an SLI setup Halflife 2 is smooth as butter on max settings Everquest 2 will bog down a little in the more complicated places like cities if I have everything cranked up. Its pretty neat to look at, I was never into making a gaudy pc like all the people that go to lan parties do but it just kind of ended up that way because everything I got had a particular thing I was looking for in regards to power, cooling, and noise level. I wont be dragging this thing around though... its a frikin behemoth.

In other news I hate the Mass State IRS... No seriously I hate it... Not the people there I dont think its really their fault its the IRS entity...
I get two things from them in the mail recently... A bill for over a thousand dollars regarding my 2001 audited taxes dated on the 19th tellimg me that they are just going to take it out of my pay or steal it from my bank account even when I have called and told them that my amendment has been sent in, and their reply was oh yes we did recieve it but it hasnt been entered into the system yet. And another saying that my request for abatement for said taxes was approved dated the 15th. WTF? Now I have to call again and ask which of these is correct? So I amended my taxes that year to correct an error, I found some one who apparently knows what they are doing, I mean if you got "The Tax Man" on yer buisness card it works for me. He even sent a letter explaining things with the amendment, to me it seems cut and dry well explained and pretty hard to contest.

I am guessing that there are so many damned departments in the IRS that dont talk to each other or perhaps use carrier pigeons to send word to one another in the building but also have an infestation with various birds of prey that randomly take out the pigeons...

The best is how MASS sends you a little note stating how much your tax return for the previous year was, the note also says that you have to claim that as income for this years taxes... Uhh what? So they are saying that the money you earned last year and was over taxed by them but they gave back to you is income this year and that it needs to be taxed again? Uh huh.. sure.. Assholes...
Looking back on some of my journal entries I realise that I have been dealing with this bullshit for over a year now.. no wonder it has me stressed.

Its come to my attention from several friends that my outlook has been turning from optimist to pessemist to fuck this crap.

I need a vacation

from everything.

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/7344692/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/7344692/ Sun, 18 Dec 2005 11:05:36 PST
Just got back from a training trip in california, new places!
San Jose friendship Japanese garden, and then the Golden gate bridge.

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/6542214/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/6542214/ Mon, 19 Sep 2005 01:34:02 PDT
HULK SMASH... thats pretty much the object of the game, well there are missions where you have to bring something back to your hideout or protect a building but usualy its... Go here and break this. Its a great game, lots of side missions and challenege missions and you can just roam around if you like too. If you smash too much stuff a strike team gets sent out and they are alot harder to take out than the regular city forces.

So I still got more ireland to post I have been slacking
Hopefully more to come this week

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/6409828/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/6409828/ Sat, 03 Sep 2005 23:40:58 PDT
If you havent done so recently.. I implore you to do so...

Just quiet your mind and just be, look up into the heavens and reach out.
You may think to yourself, but what am I? How in the world could I possibly be a part of this gigantic thing we call the universe? Just look at how many stars there are, there is no way that my life and presence has any part to do with this.

If you find yourself thinking this just remember...

We are all born from the dust of stars, as they burn and create heavier elements such things such as the earth and her biological cargo can be formed.

We are a part of this some how.

What it is and such I havent the foggiest, if youve figured it out let me know I am guessing I might figure it out by the end of my lifetime. If I dont, I guess I will have to keep on going then wont I?

I do have a feeling it has to do with reaching out though. When I look on the stars something in side me just says hey we need to check all his stuff out...
I guess I just have a strong sense of exploration.

So in other news I just recently got back from Ireland, pictures will be filtering in slowly, its taking me a while to like what I shot :shrugs: I didnt want to leave, its beautiful there, and the people were awsome. I am gona have to go back for a while one of these days so I can explore it properly.

Regardless I reccomend the country for vacationing and exploration, its great I had a blast, alot of good friends and family went out there at the same time and it was great

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/5778671/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/5778671/ Tue, 28 Jun 2005 06:31:05 PDT

So the pics will be with out previews for a short while please be patient with the collective rectum it has alot of art to sort through.

More of my little excursion to follow.

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/5768776/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/5768776/ Mon, 27 Jun 2005 21:31:17 PDT Starting at Gateway into another world I am going to tell a story along with the pictures. Whether it be a work of reality or fantasy I leave you to decide

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/5523822/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/5523822/ Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:28:54 PDT


I would at this moment like to direct all of you to an incredible photographer its hard to actually put his gallery into words so you just need to go look at it.



]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/5377527/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/5377527/ Mon, 16 May 2005 20:20:22 PDT
I did get my new camera and I must say the D70 is an awsome body, the 18-70mm lense that comes with the kit is great too.

I got out in my kayak the other day after work and it was perfect out, not too hot not too cold, sun shining in a clear sky it felt good to be out on the water again

Renovations on the front porch of the house are proceeding if somewhat slowly, I'm not around too much to help out with that unfortunatly =/ hopefully this weekend we will be able to get a little further along, I got some pics of the porch all torn up to put in scraps

The "Still Watchers" Backyard BBQ tour is going to be kicking off On long island and then part two will be up at my place, its the band my friend and sis have created, they have an awsome sound and I think they are really going to go places.

The Bar is pretty much done, got a tv hooked up now, and I just need to fine tune the stereo system over there to make it independednt from the kitchen and livingroom.

I am hoping to at plan out my landscaping ideas for the backyard theres a perfect spot for a waterfall stream pond setup on the hill that leads up to the firepit in the back.

In early July we are going up to Roscoe NY camping at Trout Pond that will be much fun as well its a great place to relax and just enjoy nature and good company.

Other than that, im probably going to be taking pictures like mad with this new camera

Cheers!

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/5278941/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/5278941/ Thu, 05 May 2005 20:03:58 PDT

Made out with some nice deals too

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/5242883/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/5242883/ Sun, 01 May 2005 23:18:59 PDT

Anywhoo, had some decent pics come from the trip, Cuttlefish, seahorses, sharks, an octopus, anemones, lion fish and STUFF! Still in progress of scannin in. ...(cant wait to go digital...)

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/4824566/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/4824566/ Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:34:37 PST Nikon SB-29 Speed light.
Its a ringlight that attaches to the end of the lense so you have a flash that works when taking macro shots!
Silicon dreams was one of the few I have played with so far, I got another to upload still.
I have never really used a TTL flash before so It will take some experimenting, though this thing is sweet it even lets you know if the pic might be over or underexposed! I wish I had a digital now so I could experiment on the fly and not have to wait for developing. I am going to hold off on any more lenses and save for a D70 the price is coming down and ive gotten alot of reccomendations for it.
Anywhoo.
STUFF

I cannot wait for spring, im tired of winter, I want the water to thaw I need to get back out in my kayak theres more rivers and stuff to splore near me still I hope to keep busy this summer and try to up the ante on taking artistic photos, most of what you get is just stuff I find interestin and I just shoot pictures of them.

ahh well im out

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/4738448/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/4738448/ Sat, 05 Mar 2005 21:51:05 PST

So I think I understand why I drink alot these days.

I'm tired of remembering.

No not what you think, my life here is pretty good, I can not complain, I got all the crap that americans are supposed to want and need, Awsome family, great friends, house, car, dog, cat, good job. Ok lackin on the female part of the equation but whatever. Im doin pretty good here. So what is it I dont want to remember?

Some of you know that I am a Lucid dreamer. Those that dont, and dont know what it is. It is being consious while you dream, I am aware and awake while I dream its not much different than here, some rules can be bent and broken there because its not as physical a world but still not much different.

Most lucid dreamers have god like powers and can do whatever they like, they are usualy the ones that learn how to do it. I dont, I just live the life that I am presented with, and adapt and learn as I can. I have had some recent sucess with a more pronounced form of control the words "I am dreaming" have power, at first they would just collapse the reality that I was in and well that isint too much fun either because usualy it was at some point where I wish I could have stayed, where I might have done some good to help some one. I am getting better though, able to keep myself in that reality with out fading back to here.

Its another world people.

.. not much different than here.

Well I am tired, I have been like this since I can remember, always awake even in my dreams.

When I drink I pass out and I dont remember, sure the sleep isint that great but at least I just wake up and not wake up with another memory of another place another life with loves and friends lost and gone because it was just a dream.

Im drinkin now, and you know what I dont particularly like the way it maks my head all fuzzy but at least I dont have to remember most of what will happen tonight, I will only get bits and peices more like a normal dream, not a solid time line that makes sense that has people that will debate with me on whether or not I am awake that will do everything that you would do to try and prove that you are in fact real and not a dream. The only thing that makes this place different is that I end up here more than the other places, I have seen some of them more than once but most of the time its a one shot deal.

It could be another thing, in the dream world one usualy experiences much stronger emotions. Emotions I dont feel here much, drinkin I laugh more, cry more, feel more. I dont want to have to rely on drinkin to feel. The side effects that accompany it suck, I just want to feel like I do in the dream. Occasionaly I get lucky and I feel without drinking and its awsome, I feel alive and its great but its rare. I dont know what it is that keeps me from feeling here, ive been likened to a robot, to a nothing but a husk here and thats not somethin I like.

When I stop drinkin for a while, I get deja vu alot, somethings prolly wrong with my head I duno I suppose im just crazy, whatever, I can pull off being normal fairly well these days when i am so desire.

The only vice I see with drinkin for me?

I talk to much.

I guess its time to stop fer a while. Mebby at a party but that it.
Like I said the dream world feels just as real as here, sometimes even more clear and real. So why should I try to block it out, to try and forget, it would be like trying to forget all of you people and I think I owe it to the ones I have loved and the friends I have made in places that you will probably never see to remember them. If I go crazy oh well I am not too far off now

Im tired of what people in general think about dreams here too. I will live the lives I live when I sleep I will remember and mebby one day I will write a book.

\Rant OFF\

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/4459361/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/4459361/ Mon, 31 Jan 2005 05:38:04 PST
Ok so... pretty much everyone likes banannas right? they are cheap they are tasty and are an integral part of bananna split ice cream sundas.... theres a problem though...

I looked at my bananna and said... well whats it for?

Now your looking at me and thinking uhh... duh retard its a fruit..

Yeah I know but nature has a purpose for everything take a closer look at that fruit. They are supposed to have seeds, someitmes you might find some tiny little specks in your bananna... those WERE seeds but now they are steril nothings.

So I looked it up, how do banana trees reproduce? I thought they must be a crawling plant. It would grow whole other trees from extensions of its root system. If the Fruits are not used as reproductive organs this must be the way.

I was wrong...

The commercial crop of cavendish bananas, the kind we buy in supermarkets across the world is from one plant.

Cuttings... or if you like clones

The Cavendish is what we eat today every banana we eat is genetically the same. This causes some serious problems, natures firstmost foundation is diversity. Where some will survive some die, when you have a diverse gene pool but when you stagnate into one form you become weak and just one single virus could wipe out an entire population and this is whats now happening to the bananas we have also taken for granted are being wiped out by a fungus. Though a large portion of the crop is threatened, we like our bananas and we will be helping them survive The threat to our bananas is real but there are several other varietys out there if the cavendish dosent make it, though they arent as tasty =/

This kinda makes you wonder.... The banana dosent actually need seeds now does it?

One could theorise that with what we assume is meddling with nature might just be nature itself. Alot of people seem to distance themselves from the world around them somehow we are different and above it some how, You me, the dirt the bananas, your computer... All of it is star dust, all of us came from the same stuff...

Soo back to the bananas... They dont need seeds anymore, they gave them up, istead of putting the energy twards reproduction the banana made itself tasty and desireable to us. It now has its best possible chance through us crafty humans.

/Rant off/

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/4450605/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/4450605/ Sun, 30 Jan 2005 05:28:57 PST
Life is strange.

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/4371659/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/4371659/ Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:32:23 PST
]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/4272151/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/4272151/ Sat, 08 Jan 2005 18:48:50 PST What if the sun towers, the sarcrifices... what if they were not sacrifices? What if they were rebirths? what if those seremonies were for those that had become ready to trancend the material plane, so little is known about what actually happened. I duno heh... mebby I just play to many video games. In any case if you have a game cube and have yet to play metroid.. DO so.. The game play took me a little getting used to with the lock on mechanics but I have come to realise that I can target things incredibly fast instead of having to manualy target using dual analog, I think Samus would give the Master Cheif a run for his money Then again Her suits much more advanced than the Mjoliner armour but on the other hand John tends to be quite lucky.

/rant off/

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/4239885/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/4239885/ Tue, 04 Jan 2005 17:34:26 PST
I was heading back home from the hardware store on NewYears Eve, still trying to get the new pellet stove set up before everyone arrived for the eves party. And I saw this little bird in the road, my first instinct was to stop and get it out of the road, but the doubts entered my mind, what could I do? it was probably done for already how could it manage to not be hit for much longer sitting in the middle of the road. Soemthing inside snapped and I turned the car around found where it was again and pulled into some ones driveway, walked into the middle of the busy road and scooped the bird up, I am pretty shure it was a female from the colors, she was tiny. And did not seem to care about me picking her up and bringign her into the car, I put the little bird in my lap and folded my swetshirt over her a little. She started trying to clean the still wet roadsalt and dirt from her her feathers, I thought that perhaps she was just stunned. On the way home I noticed she had a twitch, she mush have gotten hit too hard. Still she did not seem to mind my presense even looking at me every once in a while. Her main concern seemed to want to sleep. I got her home, put her in a box with some paper towels and kept her in a quiet part of the house. I couldent help but go up leaving the party every once in a while and hold the little creatrure in my hand. I've known sparrows all my life but never so close, I never thought them to be pretty birds, just browns greys and black but i was quite wrong, the patterns on the individual feathers was beautiful. She would pass out in my hand in only a few moments after being disturbed. She made it into the new year and I got out an old birdcage I had and put in water and some millet spray, she was too weak to move much though, and could only move about the bottom of the cage, her one leg was shot, and her balance was nonexistant she would lean in the cup of my hand. I fed her water with some avian vitamins I have for my Amazon green, driping it on her beak, she would drink. I hoped the rest and quiet, of a safe warm place might be enough so that she could recover some what perhaps I could release her some day or just keep her in my care if she could not regain flight. But she died the next day. I wanted to take a picture of her while she was alive she was such a pretty little bird but I guess I thought that I would do it the next day as she seemed to be doing alright. The thing that struck me most about this was how she was no longer afraid, she would perch, though leaning to the side on a finger and would let me scratch her head. I know this is probably because she was probably in a state of delerium and didnt recognise fear anymore but it struck a chord with me, to suddenly have this little normaly skiddish bird sleeping soundly in my hand. I wish I could have done more some how. But all I could do at this point was bury the tiny bird in my back yard. People today dont seem to think much of small creatures, oh its just a little bird theres millions of them, who cares? Size means nothing in regards to life, even the smallest are important and play a role. Get a bird feeder, if you dont ave one and watch the sparrows, you will see personalities in the little meatballs. I guess I should stop, Im just kinda ranting now. I just felt like sharing this experience.

Just remember, the smallest things in life can make the biggest impacts.

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/4005396/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/4005396/ Mon, 06 Dec 2004 17:56:25 PST
If the majority of you have to do so then I am going to have to go in and do some serious revamping to my gallery.. I dont like the idea of only seeing part of the pic at once =/

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/3995054/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/3995054/ Sun, 05 Dec 2004 12:52:03 PST I think alot of them came out pretty good but there might be something wrong with my camera every time I get slides they seem to have scratches on them!! it sucks! Not all of them have it but I will have to make some repairs to a few to get rid of the scratches.

The only manipulations I make to my pics is usualy dust removal and slight level adjustment to compensate for the dimness of my slide scanners backlight. Sometimes a saturation boost of about 5 but nearly all of these wont need it because I got extra color film that has awsome color saturation and I was working in good light conditions! YAY

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]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/3945182/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/3945182/ Mon, 29 Nov 2004 14:36:25 PST . I wanted to see what I looked like with short hair again hehe. I donated it to locks for love which is cool and I got my haircut for free which was a surprise. The lady was like "I dont even have to measure this" hehe it was probably just about a foot long. Anywhoo, I am getting used to it myself, im gona have shampoo FOREVER now hehe my necks cold though... I should have some pics coming up soon, I finaly put in some rolls, including some haloween stuff which should be interesting One of the rolls I duno whats on it so its gona be like a little present (update) I remembered! It was when I went to go visit my friend Some november ducklings and a short subject on a Cristmas Cactus... wtf is this the discovery channel now? Dont mind me im a lil loopy from being up all yesterday getting 2 hours of sleep and then werkin 12 hours

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/3781184/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/3781184/ Sun, 07 Nov 2004 23:52:16 PST
It was interesting once they got the chamber open, whooooEEEE that turbo tore the shit out of the chamber walls there was crap everywhere. Though we were lucky, very lucky, the tool was in process meaning that a number of very nasty gasses were flowing around in that chamber, one of them being pyrophoric. That means it spontaneously combusts when it touches air.. Like I said we got lucky though and the gasses shut off before they could leak out.

So I am thinking about starting a prints account, I am somewhat dubious though I would really like to hear what you guys think. Hell I dont even know what I would set for prices... its weird to me to think that some one would buy the pictures I have taken I mean they are mostly of things laying around that I find. Sure some of the germany ones are neat with the castles but I duno. So if you think I am on to something let me know, and mebby one or two of your favorites. Conversely if you dont think I should bother say something too, I know Ive a long way to go with my photography and dont want to wate my time if there isint going to be any interest.

2 More days!!!! oh rather 1 more day since its 2am *Glee!!* Halo 2 comes out and I have been itching to play for some time, Reading the books by Eric Nylund only made the anticipation worse. If you have not read them and you find the Halo story interesting at all I suggest you go read the 3 books.

In other Video game news I got Ratchet and Clank, Up your arsenal. Its an awsome game, the series has to be one of the most entertaining I have ever played. Good story humerous plot interesting twists great graphics and pretty good gameplay. Also the variety of tasks and feats and all kinds of secret skill points and hidden areas makes it my all time Favorite platform game. In the newest game your weapons have 5 levels that they go through as you use them, more use = faster level gain. One of the more interesting wepons I have right now is the rift inducer. It creates small black holes that sucks up baddies, shoot another rift near an already active one and it combines to create a larger one sucking up larger enemies, the graphics of this are pretty neat too, a small pinprick of light surrounded by an atmospherec disturbance sucking inwards also kicking up dust and stuff off the ground, accompanied by a weird hollow sucking noise. Hmm If we could actually create such controlled rifts industry would be revolutionised. No more polluting exhaust gasses no more turbo pumps that can explode... hmm mebby I should get started on that...

The Suck cannon is another great toy, Vacuume up little baddies and then shoot them back out at other ones! anywhoo I guess I really did mean rant when I said rant...

Oh.. I just got the logitech wireless controller for the PS2 ... without a doubt wireless controllers have to be one of the greatest videogame inventions EVER.... it even has vibration function! and supposedly the 2 AA batteries will last 50 or so hours with vibration on and 300 with it off! 50 hours is fine by me though


ok ok ok
rant off/

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/3521684/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/3521684/ Tue, 05 Oct 2004 18:49:41 PDT ... So in all I shot 12 rolls of film 1 extra color slide and one black and white roll in the bunch as well. Developing it all is gona be the most expensive part of my trip
WHEEEEEEEEE

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/3473389/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/3473389/ Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:49:50 PDT So Octoberfest was nuts so manz people just drinkin beery and havin a good time I got smashed the mugs are huge I gangked 2 but one didnt make it =/ I am in Reuter right now mz hotel has internet ZAZ I saw some castles the past few dazs, and thez are impressive... like out of storzbooks... mostlz becuase one was reallz Inspired bz an opera bz Kurt Vogner, it iven has a cave in one of the rooms its nuttz the king ludwig the 2nd or somtehing was kinda eccentric I think he was cool and would have prollz been fun to hang out with. Its just amaying that one man put all his monez into making a fantasz into a realitz too bad he wasnt good with finances he went bankrupt but still its the thought that counts well I suppose I shoudl got to bed its gettin late and I gotta get up earlz again got a whole lot more crap to see..... Oh.. and I reallllllllllz need to get a digital camera.... the most expensive part of this trip is gona be developing all mz film!!!

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/3329939/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/3329939/ Fri, 10 Sep 2004 05:10:11 PDT
I just saw this too its good.


Make peace with imperfection
Gentle, relaxed people can be super achievers
The snowball effect of your thinking
Develop your compassion
When you die, your “To Do Things” won’t be empty
Don’t interrupt others or finish their sentences
Do something nice for someone
And don’t tell anyone about it.

Let others have the glory
Learn to live in the present moment
Let others be “right” most of the time
Become more patient
Create “Patience Practice Periods”
Be the first one to act loving or reaching out
Ask yourself the question
“Will this matter a year from now?”

Surrender to the fact that life isn’t fair
Respect yourself
Allow yourself to be bored
Lower your tolerance to stress
Once a week, write a heartfelt letter
Imagine yourself at your own funeral
Repeat to yourself,
“Life isn’t an emergency”

Smile at strangers
Look into their eyes, and say “Hello”
Set aside quiet time, every day
Imagine the people in your life as
Tiny infants and as 100 years old adults
Seek first to understand
Become a better listener
Choose your battles wisely
Become aware of your moods
Life is a test, only a test

Praise and blame are all the same
Practice random acts of kindness
Look beyond behaviors
See the innocence
Choose being kind over being right
Telling others how much you love them
Practice humility
Go ahead and take the trash out

Spend a moment thinking someone to love
Understand separate realities
Every day tell at least one person
How much you like, admiring, or appreciating them
Resist the urge to criticize
Search for the grain of truth in other opinions
Breathe before you speak
Be grateful when you’re feeling good
Be graceful when you’re feeling bad

Become a less aggressive driver
Relax
Adopt an apprentice
Turn your melodrama into a mellow-drama
Do one thing at a time
Count to ten
Being flexible with changes in your plans
Think of what you have
Instead of what you want
Ignore your negative thoughts
Willing to learn from people
Be happy where you are

You become what you practice most
Quiet the mind
Take up yoga
Do a favor
Don’t ask for, or expect, one in return
Think of your problems as potential teachers
Get comfortable not knowing
Cut yourself some slack
Stop blaming others
Become an early riser
When trying to be helpful,
Focus on little things

Nurture a plant
Listen to your feelings
They are trying to tell you something
If someone throws you the ball
You don’t have to catch it
Fill your life with love
The power of your own thoughts
Give up on the idea that “More is better”
Keep asking yourself
“What’s really important?”

Trust your intuitive heart
Be open to “What is”
Mind your own business
Look for the extraordinary in the ordinary
Schedule time for your creativity
Live this day if it were your last.
It might be.

FIN

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/3312461/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/3312461/ Tue, 07 Sep 2004 21:46:39 PDT
I watched the small group grow into a bustling community I may not have been visible much in the latter stages but I watched, I saw all the hard work that the Site admin put into it and I saw how constantly there were people that bithced and moaned about the improvements, complained that the community had grown too large. ...?!?!! Everyone was brought together on the forum by one thing. Lucid dreaming. The ability to take control of ones dreams, to be consious while everyone else in the world sleeps... it sounds like an impossible thing but it is not fiction.

I thought I was alone at first like many of the others and then we found each other on that forum, and new people found us and we were able to share our ideas our thoughts, have questions answered, see the myriad of different opinions, it was an incredible place but... its gone now... because of Selfish arrogant immature fucktards that had no idea of how incredible the place they were visiting really was... Im pissed of... I was ready to start going back to make myself visible again to be a part of the still growing community again... But I cant do that now because its gone. I dont understand how people can be so cruel, the site administrator tried so very hard to make everyone happy I thought he was doing an incredible job, the improvments in the forum itself were awsome and he was always just and fair but people still complained GRRR this really pisses me off I cant beleive how all this persons hard work was .. I duno im just upset and pissed off... I supose I am being selfish too, I dont want DreamViews to just be a memory...

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]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/3023456/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/3023456/ Mon, 02 Aug 2004 01:28:51 PDT
So I got a bird She kinda fell into my lap as things usualy do, A friend of my moms didnt want her anymore, her family was tired of her, and wasnt spending time with her. The type of bird she is usualy sells for around 600-700$ average She is a Blue front Amazon Green parrot, one of the more intelligent birds around from what I am reading, it says that the greens and african Greys are about equal in language and learning skills, however the greys are the studious quiet college student while the greens are the partygoers. She says hello and some other things at the moment, but Im sure she will learn more now that she is going to be paid attention to. She is very nervous at the moment, new people and new home, actually her third home in her 16 years, the Greens can live up to 80 years. The car ride up to CT I was her best friend, she let me scratch her head and touch her and she gave no signs of being irritated or anything, though when I got the cage set back up in the house she went back into her sulking mood, she gives a warning nibble, nothing to hurt, just a "leave me alone" kinda thing, she is quite capable of taking a finger off so its good to know that she has an even temper. Her name is Lollie but that might change, I am going to let her name herself see what happens hehe.

So in shitty news...

I might have a retinal detachment in my left eye, I still have to go to the doctor but I have the symptoms. It was by sheer luck\chance\timing that I found out about it. I have had floaters in my eye for about 8 months now, and I thought it was a scratch on my cornea at first, because it looked like a little squiggle like a cobwebb. I went to the nurse at work and she told me that it was just a floater and there was nothing to worry about, and that there is nothing to be done, I looked it up and didnt find much more...

My mom and I were in a vitamin store, and she was flipping though a book, and came across floaters, she asked what they were and I said I had them, she continued to read and the book said that an increase in the amount or size of floaters could be a sign of retinal detetchment, she read the rest of the symptoms, which include Cobbweblike floaters, and small brief flashes of light in the field of view, both of which I have... I looked up retinal detachment online and confirmed this.
Everything I read says that this is a serious thing and it has me scared as it goes on to say that catching it early is key.. its been 8 months that I have had this. I read that depending on where the detatchment is it can pretty much wipe out the detail center of the eye meaning I would just see a blur that would not be correctable. This only happens if the detatchment happens near the center where the macula is, thats the detail oriented part of the eye, the other 90% is all prephrial vision... I dont have the visual sysmptoms yet which would be like a dark curtain starting to cover my vision so I may just have tears or scar tissue on my retina but if left untreated I could loose my vision, so yeah im kinda wigged out right now, I am going to bitch to the nurse here at work and get myself to an eye doctor as soon as I can...

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/2859725/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/2859725/ Sun, 11 Jul 2004 21:52:58 PDT with good people. Though I had a bit of a scare, my camera stopped working! and it said Err... and I thought it was apt... Err sounds alot like something that just kinda stopped... I thought ther was something mechanicaly wrong with it, I noticed my battery indicator was at half, and I had just gotten these batteries... mind you they are 12 bux for 2... so I didnt think it could be them... but then I thought... I relise the motors and whatnot are used to hold the shutter open, I had been doing quite a bit of Long exposure shots, the lightning storm, and a 6 hour shot of the stars. Which I willb e getting back some time this week. Well anyways cameras good to go and now I know long exposure kills batteris

Still trying to catch up with all the comments and stuff of everyone heeh

]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/2597422/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/2597422/ Sun, 06 Jun 2004 14:31:46 PDT
I still got a bunch more stuff to scan in but I am in work mode now =/ come wednesday I will get the rest submitted

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]]> ~Serinanth http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/2510072/ http://Serinanth.deviantart.com/journal/2510072/ Tue, 25 May 2004 23:37:48 PDT err.. yesterday.. stupid night shift work... well anyways

A Micro nikkor 60mm 2.8f AF and a Nikkor 70-300mm tele in silver to match my camera body, it looks sweet!

I can’t wait to try them both out this weekend

The 70-300mm was an easy decision its cheap (90 bux) and gives a wide range of zoom which I haven’t experienced yet from what I read people complained at first that it was made of plastic, but so what its not a half ton extension on your camera like the old metal ones, sure you have to be more careful with it but that’s not too difficult a thing to do. Its good for me as I am still learning and don’t have too much money to spend on my equipment. For the price and comparison to other brands it has the best optics so it was a no brainer.

The Micro 60mm (it’s really a macro lens duno why Nikon calls them micros) was a tougher decision, I saw it and my heart went out for it and its abilities, I have always been fascinated with the small, along with close textures but I could never focus on them, this baby allows me to do just that. I asked the opinion of a co worker who happens to also be a big time photographer and he said it was a great lens but I could get a tamron 90mm macro for much less money. Also that the Auto focus on the 60 mm was pointless...The 90mm does not have auto focus and is also a 1:2 where as the 60mm is 1:1. I could get a teleconverter tube for the 90mm to put it at 1:1 but you loose about a full F stop doing so. The tamron was around 140 or so used on Ebay, most commenting nicks scratches on the housing and some dust in the glass, also this lens would not interface with my cameras digital settings and was completely manual.

I came very close to buying the 90mm tamron, but in the end decided I would spend the money (320 bux) and buy the better lens, it was what I wanted and was much higher quality.

In playing with the lens for all of 20 minutes in my kitchen I found the AF to be very quick at range of several feet and out, it hunts every once in a while but not too shabby, and up close the AF is ok, but its much better to use the handy AF MF switch go to manual focus for close work. Some others complaints was that the manual focus at several feet to infinity is very fine, meaning you don’t have to move it much to focus, I guess some people have a problem with it but not for me Well anyways there will be some small and knowing me bizarre stuff in the gallery coming soon.

I plan on converting my backpack into a camera bag, it has already a padded compartment for a laptop but I am going to go to home depot, get some PVC of the right diameter go to a craft store, get some cotton filler and felt and make a unit that will fit inside the padded compartment to keep my new lenses extra safe

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