An attorney friend of mine

said recently, beware of things sold through infomercials.

The Sun

While wandering the web, I found an interesting photo essay about the sun. It consists of 21 or so pictures with descriptions about solar activity. Below is one of the pictures.




The whole photo essay can be found here. Some really hot pictures. There is even a photo animation of what happens to a comet during a period of extreme high solar wind.

Two in one day

Especially after not posting for a month, I am posting two in one day.

I had to go on a business trip to Northern NJ, so I brought K along. K had never been to NYC so I thought that this would be a great opportunity. K and I drove from our hotel, down to the NJ docks and took the ferry over from NJ to Midtown.


From there, K and I walked to the Empire State Building. We walked around it, but the line was 2+ hours wait, so we did not go up. But here is K at the Empire State Building:


Then we wandered back to 7th Ave and found the Macy's. This is for all the shoppers out there (A, C and others.):


We wandered around in Time Square for a bit, going into the Hershey Chocolate shoppe and the M and M building. I got K to pose for a picture with the M and M:


I also saw a poster on one of the walls in Time Square that reminded me of a young woman in my life. So I took a picture for her, A this is for you:


We then went on a 3 hour Circle Line tour. It was nice to see NY from a different point of view. As we went by the Statue of Liberty, it was moving and impressive. As if there are not enough pictures of the SoL, here is my take from the Circle Line tour boat:


Then, after taking the ferry back across the Hudson, the night scape of NYC is fantastic. At the right of the below picture is the Empire State building. It is a glorious place to visit and a great place to leave.



We also visited Ground Zero, but it is busy with construction of the new building. We got to GZ too late for us to view the Memorials, etc, but the area was still impressive. One of the things that struck K was how there were sooooooooooo many really big buildings.

We lunch and dinner at some corner restaurants in "Hell's Kitchen". There we had some good Greek and Italian food.

K and I had a great time in NYC, but were very tired when we left. It was a day well spent, just touching the fringes of the culture and sights of NYC.

It has been too long, part 2

It has been a month since my last post. Not much has really happened, other than me traveling a bunch. As I was in western PA a couple of weekends ago, I stopped in to see a bunch of the relatives. They were not overly chatty, but I was glad to see them anyway.
Mom's Stone:


LFD and Aunt Nell's


AJ and UK's stone:


Grandma and Pop's Stone:


And we (K ws with me) finally found ALS's stone. I was looking in the wrong section. First the marker up close:


And now a picture showing better where ALS is located:

My pants in the picture above were covered in dirt as I did some minor weeding as a couple of the sites. Sorry about that.