Whirled Glass

I was reading through the comments on here yesterday and I came across a rather negative comment. At first I was a little shocked that something I would write about on this blog would be construed as anything but positive. But then again when you are reviewing companies and products you have to expect some negative with all of the positive. I was reading a review about Leptovox and the writer was heaping through the same issues.

Even though you don’t like a product or service that is written about on a blog or forum somewhere I say always be honest and comment according to your personal experience. But be honest. Don’t just bash a company because you had one late delivery or a product showed up later than you expected. Think before you type and make your comment count. Remember, no one likes a whiner.

I was trying to figure out what the problem was with people that have issues with illegal substances. I figure that if there is something that you need to keep you afloat in life then maybe you should consider the options that may come about for you. If you are in fear of losing your livelihood over something that really isn’t a part of every day life then there are always drug treatment centers that are available to everyone.

I was looking at my younger life and the things that I did way back then that put me where I am today. If it weren’t for the help from others I think I would not be taking the 19th to the 29th off for some first time shooting of the WhirledGlass.com podcasts. In Washington. W00t!

No one knows this but you can lose weight and feel better about yourself with and with out the use of things like Phentermine or Hoodia or any of that other stuff. Not that they are bad or not useful but eating has a lot to do with weight loss as does getting help from pills. We all have been on this being Green and Losing Weight kick for a while now. We all figured that if we were going to be on podcasts when we start visiting these glass shops then we should probably look a little better. Ya know the camera does add 10 pounds. I often ask myself how many cameras are on me when I am shooting. It’s not pretty.

So myself and the rest of the people here at WhirledGlass.com and EarthArticles.com have been kicking butt and dropping pounds like crazy just by exercising and eating better Whole Foods, and actually taking the time and energy to prepare meals for the day. I see that we are also trying to think of other ways to manufacture meals for our diet so that we can have a day off from the kitchen. Maybe that is not such a good idea. See how we are all programed to do things easier instead of healthier? Sheesh .. get in the swing of green and healthy will follow.

There must be everyones dream home in Wilmington because I keep hearing about Wilmington real estate and the low prices of luxury there. There should be a direct flight, train line, and bus line directly there with all of the gaining popularity of that area. Maybe that is the next hot spot but our next hot spot we found out is in California. We will be visiting Washington State for a few days then its on to Clear Lake California where we will be meeting with some of the local glass blowers there to see how they do it in Nor Cal. We are all excited and just cant wait to get out to some of the other places we had planned trips to. It’s nice being in the city that truly never sleeps but it is time for a road trip.

The air filtration system on our hydroponics room went down the other day and what a mess. You never realize how important changing the air cleaners and filters on that room is until you have a bunch of tomatoes and cucumbers that you can’t eat. We originally set up this green house type hydroponics room outside in the back yard so that we could have our own little garden all year round. It turns out that keeping it self sufficient and out of the harsh sun in Vegas made for some very interesting vegetables al year long. Even with the wind though, and actually more so because of the wind, we had to put a air cleaning system in there and filter the carbons off of the plants. With all of the different varieties of food we have in there it was no easy task. And then the weekend of the broken air system came along.

So we are repairing the air filtration and trying to save the food that we can. This is our food for the year that we preserve and keep for all of our eating needs. It’s hard to let any of it go since we depend on it for almost every meal. And it is supporting 4 people now instead of only the two of us. Kids need to eat to! No more formula for the little ones they are eating real food now. It’s amazing that they can taste the difference in the store bought stuff and our grown stuff. They will refuse a handful of string beans from the store and ask for fresh ones from the garden. Go figure.

We have tons of financial items that we got to claim this year. We couldn’t have done any more to save money this time around since everything seems to be right on the money. Get it? One little item that helped us this year is our financial reporting system that used to keep track of all of our money in and out. It was pretty simple to get a rough idea of the claims we would be making this time around and how much that was going to save us on the tax front.

Not being big fans of giving our money to people we don’t even know, we all wanted to save as much and keep as much in our pockets as we possibly could. Good thing for having a system in place that better kept track of the finances this year. The programs where well worth the purchase and we actually came out ahead enough to take one of our trips already. Eagle Valley near Pioche. Check out more about that on our EA Blog.

There are always seemingly dual meanings to just about everything. Take Baldwin for instance. When I was younger working at Cedar Point I was often called a Baldwin. This meaning that I was cute or something in that rouged way. That I guess is a compliment if you are familiar with the Baldwins you would think that they are good looking rouged guys and to be called a Baldwin would be a compliment.

Well Baldwin is also decor for homes. Who would have thought that I was being called something that could help to open a door or make a cabinet look great. I guess the dual meaning is closer than you think being that both are a compliment of looks to something else that is necessary.

We have been putting some thought in to taking some of the money we make and generating a small investment portfolio that we can hand over to our kids. Something we have been looking into and we have been dealing with a futures broker. Some of the information we are getting seems a little out of reach for us but having someone to talk to about the things we don’t understand is pretty nice.

Our parents both say that we should be thinking about our kids futures. Well I have one question to that. If we should be thinking about our kids futures and that is what parents do … then who was thinking about my future and who did what to set me up with some kind of security? I don’t remember getting any help like what I am being told to get for our kids. Still I want to make sure that they don’t end up in the same situations that I did so I am looking out for their futures. I hope that theirs is better than ours at this point. hehe!!

I have issued a challenge to everyone in the group to find out how well they are doing their research and how much other surfing the web they do while we are supposed to be working. I asked everyone to see if they could count the number of private and public drug rehab facilities between Our starting point and ending points for one weekend trip we are taking next month.

We will start in San Diego and end in Reno Nevada by way of San Francisco. There are tons Im sure but I want to see if they are going to make this their top priority for the day or is we can actually get some work done and get the schedule together of places we are going to stop and people we are going to interview and meet. I want the whole schedule done by this Friday and to be totally honest I don’t see if happening. They are motivated to get things done but if you want something done right ….. you know!!

The ultra portable laptop computers that are super powerful and rugged can fit just about anywhere. We were even thinking about putting one in the RV for our trips. Little did I know that another plan would arise. I was also thinking about putting a MAC Mini in the RV with a sound system and huge monitor. But then in thinking more about the situation we would do even better with a laptop that we can hook GPS into and anywhere wireless. Not to mention all the WiFi hot spots that are all over the country.

I’m pretty excited that we are going to be able to shoot the show from the road. That has to be one of the coolest things that we have going for us so far. Im thinking about asking AT&T if they will let us try out the anywhere wireless for 90 days just to see how we like it. Hehe .. ya never know unless you ask.