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This will be a quick ramble on a few topics.

Stay at home mom’s who become “lifestyle” photographers. I know about a half dozen of them. All of them very gifted photographers. But I wonder, is the business success more a function of new technology and dedication of time or of talent? Perhaps a combo of the two? I am not sure studio photographers will be able to weather the storm of this new swarm of “lifestyle photographers” who have a new DSLR in hand a free trial of Photoshop on their pc. Just saying. I am not disparaging the practice, I plan to use one of these photographers soon, I am just wondering.

Last week I had this horrible chest pain. Hurt so bad I cried. By the time wifey got me to the ER the pain went away. We pulled into the ER and I called my mom. She’s a nurse. I explained the last 40 minutes of hell to her. She said the pain and symptoms presented as a Gall stone passing or a Gall bladder attack. She suggested I go home and go to bed and see my doctor the next day. So I did. My doctor did not understand why I would choose to not enter an ER without pain at 10:45 pm and choose to take my chances at home. Have you been to an ER lately?

I could care less about Lost, 24 or Law and Order calling it quits. For the summer I will be watching Friday Night Lights and wondering when Sons of Anarchy will be returning. I am also looking forward to the new season of Mad Men. I am over the whole reality t.v. craze. Survivor included.

My Memorial Day weekend was too busy. But I completed a 5k. My first 5k in about two years. It wasn’t all that fun. But my body is thanking me.

Part of that busyness over the Memorial Day weekend was due to an ultrasound on my abdomen on Sunday afternoon. Surprise, its a boy. Well not actually.

Calling the Gulf of Mexico oil catastrophe a “spill” is like calling Katrina a small storm. Nothing was spilled in the gulf. A huge company was allowed to run amuck without checks and balances and we have a disaster. No shrimp in 2011 should be the least of our concerns. We wouldn’t allow our land drilling operations to function the way that rig was allowed to operate. This shouldn’t be Obama’s Katrina, in the same way Katrina shouldn’t be attributed to Bush.

Got a call today from some nurse tech. My ultrasound shows Gall bladder stones. Surgery is recommended. She gave me a number of a surgeon then wished me a good day. Hmm.

Still trying to decide if I will run a half marathon in the fall. Wifey will be running her 6th or 7th Marathon in September in Akron. I’ll decide later.

My next post “Son of a Truck Driver” part three will be up soon.