Stop lying to yourself!

I am not always open emotionally, but I do have one simple rule.



Be honest with yourself and then you can be happy in life and have a healthy and strong relationship with others.

Honesty
The first experience in any relationship is honesty. Many people are honest with those in their life, yet they are not honest...



What I mean by this is that many people are not honest with themselves, and therefore are incapable of being honest with those around them. It may be some small items, like fears or problems that have long been "forgotten", but every bit of information that we are not open with our self about is something that will prevent any and every relationship from being healthy.



My philosophy is pretty simple. My life is an open book. If I tell you anything about myself, you are free to tell others. Frankly, there is nothing I can tell you that I have not told others, so talk away. Not that any of it is that interesting or anything, but I am open about it. Don't get me wrong, there are many things about my past that I am not proud of. I have made many mistakes and have surely hurt too many people through my life, but everything that I have been through in my life has made me the person I am today.



So, be honest with yourself and only then can you be honest in a relationship.

I Invest capital to help the environment become more powerful than politics

I want to be all powerful, relying on no-one!



Well, at least for the electricity to power my home and business...



Is President Obama really spending your child's income? What will they get for their unrequested and unstoppable debit?

The planet has been around for billions of years, while that may not seem like a large number in these overspending days of President Obama with trillions upon trillions of our kids income being dumped into untraceable and underproductive companies and schemes, a billion is a long time.



During the existence of the planet, there has been drastic climate change and life has evolved as God has planned from the beginning. Why is it that we humans think we can hurt, or heal the planet so dramatically? Is it our Egos as humans? God has a plan and regardless of what we do, the planet will continue to evolve for eons more.



That being said, I don't want to hurt the planet and I do want to reduce MY carbon footprint as much as I can while maintaining a level of comfort and enjoyment of the electronic lifestyle I live today.



I try not to follow trends too closely. Sure, I have the Compact Florescent bulbs in my home, heck I even have a lot of the newer and more efficient LED bulbs in lamps today but my desire is to go way beyond that.



Living in Cleveland, Ohio I am stuck with the reality that there is not much light from the sun for a good portion of the year. Making it a little more complex is the fact that my house is buried under tons of gigantic trees the entire summer. It is great because I pretty much never use my AC, but it makes it difficult to optimize the potential for solar on my home.



I would love to be "off the grid", a term commonly used today to describe a home or business that does not take power from the National electric grid but rather generates it's own electricity. This saves both money and the planet, so it is a good thing today.



Being off the grid can be accomplished several ways today, I can install a powerful diesel or natural gas generator to create the power I need, but those both require me to purchase expensive fuel and to operate a loud engine all the time. I also have the option of solar, which I stated above is not really practical for my home so that leaves me with wind.



I have been working on a design for a wind generator for my house. The city will not allow me (nor would I want) to install a large turbine in my yard, so I have to be creative. One company produces a wind turbine that looks more like cylindrical wind art than it does a utilitarian device.



Made primarily for the marine industry, these are small and lightweight and they offer fewer moving parts so maintenance is minimized. The great news is that they are highly effective at catching the air and converting the motion into energy. My plan calls for 2-3 of these mounted on my roof to power my system.



The plans are just that, plans today. I am working on laying out everything I will need, and how it can all be installed with minimal interference to the clutter that is my home today. I am hoping that with the proper investment and attention to detail, I can begin purchasing the materials before the end of this year and have everything installed before summer 10!



I want to reduce carbon emissions, but just as much I want to save money and reduce my monthly expense of living life. Installing creative resources like this will help me achieve my goal and will improve the viability of these products for others in the future...

When I grow up I want people to smile.

Fun guy with attitude and innovation!

Do you remember when looking at a picture of yourself captivated your attention and made you smile? I am amazed every time I watch someone pick up a print of their action on the slopes or on the water and they smile as if in disbelief of their abilities and the action that is evidenced forever in the photograph.

My goal as a photographer is to capture those moments every time I am on an assignment, and deliver the thrill of personal accomplishment in a large format print of the best athletes ever! To give everyone unlimited access to my sailing photos, I have developed http://www.OPTIsailing.com, a site that gives everyone free access to every Optimist picture I take of them on the water and around the best Opti regattas in North America and beyond.

I hope you can smile as you look at pictures of yourself at a recent event.

Stuck in an elevator with Myself

Myself
Many times when people are confined in a small space they begin to panic. I don't mean freak-out panic but they do begin to panic and the stress gradually begins to build. And this is just when they are in any confined space.

Add the pressure of being trapped in an elevator and the stress increases dramatically. Think about this for just a minute; an elevator is a metal box (itself weighing thousands of pounds) hanging hundreds of feet above a thick cement slab and it is hanging by a tiny steel cable.

Have you seen how frequently they inspect the cables on elevators? I mean every time you are at an airport, they have one of those flat electronic walkways closed for maintenance but you almost never see an elevator closed for routine maintenance. What is that all about? Is it really more difficult to keep something safe when it is flat on the ground, just moving across the same surface everyone else is walking on compared to an elevator that is lifting you at high speeds through the air?

So, put the unsafe cable with the thick cement "crash" pad and the small confined space all together and you have a formula for a highly stressful situation when the elevator gets trapped between floors for any period of time. People can hyperventilate, they can scream, they can wet themselves and ever pass out or have a stress induced stroke.

Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that I want to be alone so that you wouldn't see me going through the process of a stress attack, I am simply suggesting that it could happen to someone out there.

You believe me, right?