Post No. 115
3/10/09 > 12:30 a.m.
Now that I have my blogs a bit more organized I am ready to get back to writing posts again here at the Wiggly Universe. I will be getting back to posting daily activities here and art related activities at The Art Studio of Steve Smith blog.
Not much going on to really write about lately. Debbie is swamped with design work and I have been working in the studio on my art mostly. For the last few days I have had a lot of trouble with back pain and unable to do much. This pain is very hard to deal with at times and makes it hard to focus on anything. Needless to say, this has hampered my daily workout routine with the Soloflex machine…which I really hate to miss out on. The weather is getting better now and I think I will be able to get out for some bike rides on the trail in the up coming days.
I am still spending most of my online time at Facebook…which is another reason I have not posted here in a long time. When I get up out of bed each day I turn on the computer and before I check my yahoo mail I head straight for Facebook to check out what is going on. Once I look about there I check my mail and walk away from the computer to head down to the studio to begin work.
Last Saturday Debbie, Josh, Lindsay and I went to the Salvation Army store in Healdsburg in search of goodies. Debbie and Josh were the only ones to come home with any purchases. It took me the whole time to wonder around and see everything that was there. We all had a great time together and I hope we can do something like this together again. The photo shows the lower buildings at the Salvation Army. There were three other buildings at this location. Two behind me, which are the clothes barn and snack bar and one to my left which is a rehab center. So, you could come to this place and find some bargains, eat a hot dog and kick the habit all at once..ha,ha,ha.
I stumbled upon an interesting item today online… a street level tour through Sebastopol using google maps. (LINK TO MAP HERE) You can click your way around the town with this map. I called my Mom and had her follow the link to the map. Then as we talked on the phone while I helped her make her way around town. The link to the map above…starts out just below where Debbie and I live. To your right you can see a cluster of blue town houses…this is where we live. Mom and I must have messed around with this map for over an hour. It was nice to be able to show her some of the places I had talked about here in town.
If the link works correctly you should see on your screen the image to your left. I know I am going to have to play around with this and see what all one can look at with this map feature. It is amazing to me the stuff one can get online. A wealth of information at the click of a button. I guess being from the generation before the internet I will always find the internet an amazing thing.
I just checked out to see if the small town of Pine Grove West Virginia had this feature and it does! You can only take the main road that goes through Pine Grove and toward New Martinsville…this is where I grew up…WOW! it is really weird to see this town after five years away.
The photo to your right should be what you see when you click the link above to visit the town of Pine Grove. Click the arrows straight ahead to make your way down past this town. Main Street Pine Grove is not shown here and you are not able to make your way over into town from this road because google does not go over into town on this map.
The key to getting around on this map is to use the little yellow man. Click and hold to move him about on the map in the lower right hand corner. I am going to stop here and go goof around with the map then get ready and go to bed.
9:47 a.m.
This morning I had to see if I could find any information about Google Street View. I wanted to see what type of camera set up they are using to get these images. At Wiki you can see photos taken of the cars and the apparatus they mount on top of the cars to get these images. (LINK)
Debbie has gone out this morning to a meeting and I am sitting here experiencing extreme back pain for the third day in a row. I don’t think I can even sit here long enough to write much because of the pain. I really need for this to get better… I hate to have down time…there is a lot of artwork I would like to get done today and this back problem is going to put the halts on it.
Below is a collection of photos taken as I walked around our house.
A walk around our house / 3/9/09
(3:35 p.m)
I have posted a poll question to determine the poster print that I will send to the printer. You can cast your vote by clicking this LINK.
