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some sidewalk time, post Shillelagh pizza and burger...

Play

Our park down the street is actually pretty awesome, my nephew can testify...

Flock of Pigeons

It was good to get out after all the rain and just walk around a bit...

Down came the rain

Plenty of water to go around....

LBC is Wet

We are getting pounded with rain here in Long Beach. I love the rain, but it is getting a little bit crazy round here, flooding on the bottom floor of our building, our parking garage, the street, and a tree just went over, oh yeah that tree was right next to a car that got moved onto the sidewalk from the flood water. Madness.

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Mazdaspeed3

There are plenty of photos to go around, but I have been neglecting the pimpage of my videos! Here is a still frame from our Mazdaspeed3 video, shame this moment only lasted for a split second, so it really looks more impressive as a still. Check out the entire video below as well!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FESQ5oWChXU

Energon Gumball

This is my boy, Donovan waiting in the Elevator, he got this tube of gumballs for Christmas, it's not often I read the nutritional information on gumballs, but I did on these, 170 calories per gumball! These take the new top spot for calorie dense junk food, the runner ups are those fruit pies at the gas station, they bring an impressive 470 calories to the table in a pretty small package, no match for gumballs but probably a better bang for the buck flavor wise.

The Asphalt Drive...

On the way home from SF, I stopped in Tehachapi for a fresh coke zero and snapped this shot of a train sitting on the tracks in the cold...

On the way home from SF, I stopped in Tehachapi for a fresh coke zero and snapped this shot of a train sitting on the tracks in the cold

A bit of time in San Francsico

I traveled up to San Francisco for a couple of days for a wedding, managed to shoot a few hipstamatic photos in between actually working...

The back alley of Hotel Whitcomb, straight out of Blade Runner:

A reverse peep hole, for waiters to look into the conference room...

Lobby of the Hotel Whitcomb

Glen the Trolley Driver

Detroit to Los Angeles

First shot is from our Hotel room in Detroit, Motorcity Casino, the bridge leads over to Canada, I hear they have a nice ballet over there ;o

Second is our approach to LAX, just a cool haze/fog hanging over the city....

Detroit Auto Show NAIAS

I feel very lucky that I sometimes get to travel on someone else's dime, or large heavy sack of dimes. I spent a very fast and short "3 days" including flights, in Detroit for the Auto show. The show itself was pretty subdued, but had a blast with the KBB and Beacon Street Crews. I think most importantly, I discovered Hipstamatic, its a camera app for the iPhone, it just makes your photos more interesting, in a retro grimy way. I am quietly going to start my picture a day challenge right now, challenge myself to put up at least one photo every single day on this blog. So let's start this challenge with a few images from the Auto Show. For more Hipstamatic and Detroit gravy check out my facebook album: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=140633&id=605584000&ref=mf

mikeD