Wonderful pictures of Clark County.

One of the few great things I love from local newspaper is they have a WONDERFUL picture gallery.

(Due to copyright laws and some egregious examples of heavy handed enforcement in the US of news stories and photographs along with their digital conversions from the current multiple differing versions of the snoozemedia, I will not republish the work here. If you are interested, please take a look for yourself through the link and enjoy! :-)

I have always wondered WHY the Columbian photographers for years have not had been up for awards for their work??

Planes, trains and over enthused idiots?

Yep, I have a person infiniation with trains!

But this video scares me! Sees some thing thinks its a GREAT idea to run in front of a steam locomotive near Wishram, Washington in the Klickitat County ~ central area of the Columbia River Gorge on the Washington state side of the Columbia River. I say, if you love trains, get out your camera and stand back about 20 feet from edge of the rails. Most good video cameras and decent digital cameras will still be able to get you good shots from that far.  But you won't become human road pizza.

There is a reason why there are laws about being around trains this close or playing around. The engineers do not want to kill people or have it scar their memories banks and the railroads do not want the lawsuit from estates.

So please guys, use some COMMON sense!

Wonderful pictures of Clark County.

One of the few great things I love from local newspaper is they have a WONDERFUL picture gallery.

(Due to copyright laws and some egregious examples of heavy handed enforcement in the US of news stories and photographs along with their digital conversions from the current multiple differing versions of the snoozemedia, I will not republish the work here. If you are interested, please take a look for yourself through the link and enjoy! :-)

I have always wondered WHY the photographers for years have not had been up for awards for their work??

Do you tire of the political tomfoolery?

Some may not know that I have followed various controversies for near fifteen to twenty years. From the Vancouver (Washington) Police Department lawsuits involving Chris Kershaw, Sharma and a few others to the Columbia River Crossing Project. Yet, you don't see the average citizen except for the average person undertand what is going on and their still seems to remain an apathy and a "who cares? attitude" amongst local politicians and citizenry.

Do you hear the local people actually demanding in great numbers for change? A politician stand up for a citizen?

May be I'm just tired of what I see, is a lot of special interests here getting their way. I do have a love for the people here in Clark County and the business people I have met here. Why do I feel the government at some many different levels is just so out of touch with reality?

**Sigh** Maybe its time for me to move to a REAL Community that cares about its people instead of the game playing I see happening. I have been hear on and off for near 25+ years and it seems to be that nothing has changed. Even with the newest generation (my generation) of politicians...

Why should I have to continue to waste my time and the time of people I know that bust their asses off, yet every time some thing comes up, it gets ignored or told, no we can't do that?

Occupy Vancouver Washington?

If you so inclined, (though I am not) there is going to be a Vancouver, Washington of this protest this Saturday October 15th.

If you would like to know more, please go to this Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=281691328522682

Thank you to Cami Joiner for the link via Twitter.

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.