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Sunday, 27 July 2008 |
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I've again been inspired to started painting. It have been a couple of years since I've picked up a brush to paint more them my house. (Now that I think of it that needs to be done again too...)
I have been watching the PBS show Landscapes Through Time with David Dunlop. David makes painting look easy. In the first show I watched David traveled to Claude Monet's home in Giverny, France, to paint his water lily garden. I have always liked Monet's art.
All of my painting today have in been in water colors. And most of my paintings have been of flowers with some landscapes. Now I'm working with acylics and with David help I'm working in impressionistic art.
My first painting, you see here, I call Stormy Garden. It is my very fist attempt painting with acrylics. I painted it on 12'x16' 20lb water paper. It is also an atempt to stretch the size of my art. In the past most of my work has been on the very small scale, often as small as 4'x5'. The largest painting I have done was 36'x48 water color. It now hangs in my sister inlaws house. I don't have a picture of it.
Why do I paint? Mostly as an artistic outlet. I have never sold my paintings. Most are in the back of my closet. I paint to create. It is amazing how hard it is to complete the creation of something. High school students complete their home work but never turn it in. I know collage students that didn't get a degree because they never completed the last two or three classes. Painting is a way to working on this skill.
You can see more of my art in my gallery . |
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Sunday, 22 June 2008 |
 Hi everyone. Have your been wondering why no updates on my bog? When my system died for a week I noticed friends started calling to learn what was up with me.
The reason my blog has not been updated in such a long time is NOT because things are going bad. Its because things have been so GREAT! I've been so busy with my wonderful new job working for Crossroads Wireless as their Computer Center Manager.
Dell was a good place to work. I learned a lot about Dell systems and move about how to manage system really gone wrong. I might still be working for Dell if they had a job for me to move up into without moving out of Oklahoma City. With Linda family all here, Traci in high school and my parents aging I don't want to move.
All the people I'm working with now are great, the work is exciting and I have lots of very new, very fast Dell system to work with. The company is very Open Source aware and most of the system are Linux / Web / LAMP based. Even the vendors have been surprised at how well designed and forward thinking the projects have been.
The picture is me standing at the gate of Elvis Presley's house. I now manage two data centers, one in Oklahoma City and One in Memphis Tennessee. Both have new Dell blade servers and are connected to an EMC SANs. The blades are diskless (boot from San) and run VMware with Virtual Center. The two SANs replicate data through RecoverPoint servers (Linux Based) so any data written in OKC is almost instantly written to Memphis and vis versa. Even better, RecoverPoint keeps a journal of writes so you can pick a point in time to roll your disk images back to. Because I'm running Linux LVM files systems, VMware and a SAN I can expand or shrink disk space almost at will. VMware lets me take snap shots of a server before upgrades. Our database servers are MySQL professional with MySQL replication also between OKC and Memphis. I'm using MySQL Enterprise Monitor to monitor MySQL and GroundWork to monitor my servers. Our website is based on LifeRay, our email is Zimbra and our busines CMS is based on OpenTaps. All of them Open Source projects.
More on the home front, for years I have been running my own firewall using just IPTables or IPChains. In January I switched over to UnTangle and I've been loving it. Firewall have become appliances these days. Product Like UnTangle have so many good fetchers it not worth do all the work your self.
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Tuesday, 11 March 2008 |
 Friend in Space
I have a Friend in Space. His name is Michael J. Foreman and his is aboard space shuttle STS-123.
I meet Mike at my high school reunion a couple of years ago. Mike married Lorrie Dancer. Lorrie was in the first class of women to attend the United States Naval Academy. That is where Mike and Lorrie met.
I was up late last night watching the launch on the NASA TV. While we where waiting for the lift off Linda, my wife, email our classmates, including Lorrie, to tell everyone about the even. I received this email back from Lorrie in return.
We're still on the roof of launch control. The night launch was spectacular.
Thanks for your prayers and support. Lorrie The night launch was stunning. I would have loved to been there and seen it with my own eyes. Traci (my daugher) didn't think I would stay up to watch. She should know better. I've been a space nut all my life. I stayed up late to watch man walk on the moon in my living room at the age of tweleve and not much has change about my interest in space. Watching things like this makes feel like that little kid again.
I've been tracking the flight and tommorrow I hope to see it pass over head.
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