Bridging the Gap 2 ~ The reason I won't be going...

I wanted to make a comment about this since I won't be able to attend. I am a ticket holder and wish I could go. But do to my medical history and not now possessing a license to drive. There is weekday bus service in that area  of the event center provided by Ctran but for financial and ridership reasons, they do not offer the service on the weekends.

I would have to ride the bus for ninety minutes to Target on 164th Avenue from the westside of Vancouver, then walk 2 to 3 miles to hosting venue through wind and rain that is going to happen in the morning. Then two to three miles with the rain, back to the C-tran pick up point, then ride the bus for another 90 minute ride home.

(The Camas ~ Gorge winds can be ferocious this time of the year that are not suffered by most of the other parts of the city. Ever wonder why the Portland Airport is on the east side? Strong, Strong Winds...)

If you add up all of the time I would be making to commit to this event, it would probably be around 7 to 8 hours total to go to this event. I also cannot justify the serious possibility of having to walk out in the inclement weather and getting sick from it.

Anyone else want to get up 5:30am (other than the organizers?) to make the morning session?

I don't mind going to an event I can get to that is not out in the middle of Camas or near the cliffs of former gravel mines. It is just way too out there for anyone who wants to come.

I do believe there to be a lot of good content there. I do hope David DOES record it and post the 3 hour event on Couv.com.  The last show really only had the highlights. I wish there was more content the videos that were posted.

If someone from Davids office reads this, please find a bigger venue closer into town? There has to be a huge amount of schools all over this county that could host it that is not out in Camas...

When does the new life Dawn upon me?

I have had my own struggles with various time wasters of life. It was easier to live my life without others, fufill with online distractions, excuses or other addictive fodder that the Internet has become.

Do you spend 8 to 15 hours a day, seven days a week sitting in a chair wondering what the prophet from the electric coaxial lines will bring you from the morning, afternoon and evening?


Some of my closest associates and family wonder what it is like to have this much freedom to chose their lives. Yet it is a daily occurrence that one just sits behind a computer screen, cell phone, tablet computer or some other "electric, high speed calculator" that has come from many generations. And now the applications on those devices are not returning a real life style for those who have chosen the life style that I live.

There are many others throughout the world that have chosen to pursue such a lifestyle with their "mobile leashes" of varying types, yet they don't chose to turn them off and allow them to constantly interrupt at the great inconvenience of time.

If you miss a phone call, text message, email, photograph, social media update or some other connected media, you become depressed for having missed one simple failure.

So my life has been a serious of technological and personal change over the past 25 to 30 years. Add into it an additional problem of working late night jobs, failed relationships, backstabbing friends, failed opportunities that I will always regret that I never forced myself to go after.

I'm bounded right now by an increasing amount of depressive thoughts. High stress and pressure because life is really hard right now for me, psychologically, physically, spiritually and financially. I wonder when I am going to hit rock bottom?

Have you ever had some thing like this happen to you? I don't have the depressive feelings for passing on to another life. But the stress of failure in my life is haunting my every night.

I hope I can find some thing good this weekend to keep me busy. I tire of this continued depressive existence.

Do you know or have a Mentor in life?

Hey All. I just wanted to make this day, October 7th, "Thank the Mentor Day."

If you have someone in your life (alive or upstairs, does not matter) who is watching over you, please look at them and give them a heartfelt thank you for the time, financial commitment, emotional support or any other wonderful thing that they helped you out with.

Do you hate mindlessly long searches on the web? I LOVE this search engine!

Blekko: Slash the web. New Search Engine BETTER than GOOGLE.

For Lou Brancaccio, do you still think Vancouver has an identity crisis?

Some time ago, the editor-in-steed at the Columbian decided that Vancouver needed to go through a name change or find some new identity through his own moniker process. It has gone around we have called it "Vantucky," "The Couve," "Where'sLouNow?" and many other fascinations from the intrepid leader of his own mind.

Well Dale Chumbley has for a year or so ago has been going around town trying to identify the great schmooze, machismo or wonderful places that he used to walk or drive by every day. Here is one of his wonderful attempts to figure out the identity of Clark County.

http://www.viddler.com/explore/DaleChumbley/videos/6/

Lou, are you being outdone??

Just to remember what IS possible in America.

I saw this video originally on Lew Waters Blog, Clark County Conversative about the 9/11 attacks and how average people rescued over 500,000 estimated people over 24 hours on every imaginable piece of floatilla that could make it into the New York Harbor to pull people off the Manhattan Island where the world trade center 1 & 2 fell along with other buildings.

If you ever wonder WHAT is possible and what an average person can do, please watch this video. I watch it every time for nearly a month when I get down into the dumps and need a real emotional life pick me up.

You know, I bet there are real life examples right here in our little jewel of county. Average citizens who are taking the time, the spirit, the love and with simple acts every day or as much as their lives allow, improves the lives of our wonderful community.

I would like to thank every single New York or New Jersey boat owner, boat hand or person who helped with this video OR help with the relief effort. And to Tom Hanks for doing some simple voice over work to add even more meaning!

BOATLIFT, An Untold Tale of 9/11 Resilience

I am also adding/editing in another wonderful video with Tom Hanks narrating. Its another wonderful piece just like the one above.

REBUILD - From The Ashes, The World Trade Center Rises Again

A very good morning to all in Clark County. :)

Good, early morning Clark County residents!  If you have not followed my blog before, I do a little smattering of this or that in my travels around the region, the nation or around the world through various forms of transportation or through the great world of the internet. I then post my musings here for my interest and hopefully, the interest of others.

I really do not do social media per se because my life is so busy. It would just add another life struggle into a chaotic life than what I am dealing with right now. (see previous posts on my blog to find out the history of my life.)

One thing that I came across on the web search through google was a website from Bruce Elgort, a local computer and business advocate from our little heaven! On his blog, he has a really interesting video series from Chris Martin Studios called Innovators of Vancouver. Thank you Chris for doing these.

Here is Dale Chumbley, who is a local Clark County realtor who does a lot of video and photography or having fun! Through his 365 Things to do in Vancouver . Or please search out Dale on facebook or twitter! :)

Innovators of Vancouver - Dale Chumbley Gives Back

Innovative contraption to capture wasp nest

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a wasp nest in an old fire drum?  Well here is a way one man did it. He put together a screened clear plastic/plexiglass container with an opening to a blower... It has a hose into the more risky parts so the wasps can be sucked in and he won't get seriously stung.

Even after he thinks the mass of the nest is gone, he opens it up and they are still a lot in there....

(**This video is for information, education and intrigue ONLY. Please do not attempt this idea unless you are seriously interested in getting hit by 1,000 or MORE stings from a WASP swarm and possibly risk death if some thing seriously goes wrong. This is NOT a jackass video or some other serious subject that is coordinated and choreographed by trained professionals. Please understand that there is a risk of life here to attempt this. Do not try this unless you are wanting to possibly die.**)

But here is the guys video: