Fun memories - Bad happenings

There are lot funny events at weddings. Here are few that may not be funny if it was your wedding but I had hold back at the time.

• the wedding singer who cannot sing. Seriously, you need to actually test them out BEFORE the wedding. I can count at least 40 who were soooooo bad that people were laughing. I love it when they reach for a note and just miss, but keep trying!!!!
• the bridesmaids dress is too small. OK I was overweight. I new not to wear a tank top - especially tucked in. I still think I couldnt carry it off. So why do bridesmaids continually make the dress too small - then freak out when the dress explodes under stress?
• the freak out! Bride and Groom are married 30 minutes and the Bride or Groom go ape on the other over - missing button, pulled hair, dirty limo, mother in law, cake, whatever.
  
• freezing bridesmaid - ok its -20 in December didnt anyone think they might need to bring jackets to the park? So I love it when the guys act all cool and give the girls jackets - then 2 minutes later regret it but can't say anything. I can read their minds - "Damn that was dumb, why the hell did I do that?"
• bridal party love - there is always one groomsmen that thinks he is a stud. But at the end of the night he is drunk and sitting by himself at the head table talking to himself. At my brothers wedding that was almost me, but I kept hitting on the gorgeous photographer (Marianna) until she gave me her number.

Be very afraid!!!! Seriously. The police are freaking out and using Taser guns without though. Here a guy got hit just for refusing to sign a ticket. This happened in Utah - but guess what? The same thing happened in Vancouver, and the guy died!!

Feel stronger!!! I miss going to the studio.

No dreams last night maybe thats way I at least feel a little better today. But I'm way off the way I felt every 3 weeks ago. I still get


In the mood for a list.

I believe sincerely in Dreams become goals. Here is my top list of Dreams for the next few months. I have another for the next year and another for 3 years etc. They are constantly being changed and updated, but since I began making Dream lists 8 years ago an amazing thing happened, they started to come true!!

1. new car
2. rent a catamaran for the day
   
3. plasma/lcd tv for the bedroom
4. finish all my 2007 weddings
5. score a big deal for floridahomemovies.com
6. get the office in Montreal up and running
   
7. get a bigger studio
8. buy a new film projector to replace the broken ones we are always fixing
9. finish the brand new dgvideo site
10. get a tan
11. new super duper powerful top of the line computer for home.
    
12. playstation 3 for sammy - ok its really for me but dont tell Marianna

Had another dream last night

I'm sleeping in bunches of 2 hours. The aches and pains keep waking me up. I think its the reason I'm dreaming so much more. Last nights dream is fading fast - but here is what I remember. I'm at a wedding (really) and its getting close to 11. The groom is finally on the dance floor after his new wife had been trying to pry him away from the bar for about an hour. He's all excited and at the stroke of 11 the DJ turns off the music, the bar pulls down a gate and the light go on. Party over. Wierd. Reminds me of the way limo drivers always tell the bride and groom they have to be at the reception by 4:30 or they will charge extra.


I study finance. Its a hobby. The reason is that in school they really didnt spend very much time teaching us about money. As far I'm concerned the more I know about how to handle mortgages, credit, taxes and my legacy the better off my children will be.

The god of investing is named Warren Buffet. The second richest man in the world.

Here are some very interesting aspects of his life:

1) Warren bought his first share at age 11 and he now regrets that he started too late!

2) He bought a small farm at age 14 with savings from delivering newspapers.

3) He still lives in the same small 3 bedroom house in mid-town Omaha, that he bought after he got married 50 years ago. He says that he has everything he needs in that house. His house does not have a wall or a fence.

4) He drives his own car everywhere and does not have a driver or security people around him.

5) He never travels by private jet, although he owns the world's largest private jet company.

6) His company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns 63 companies. He writes only one letter each year to the CEOs of these companies, giving them goals for the year. He never holds meetings or calls them on a regular basis.

7) Warren Buffet has given his CEO's only two rules.

Rule number 1: Do not lose any of your share holder's money.

Rule number 2: Do not forget rule number 1.

8) He does not socialize with the high society crowd. His past time after he gets home is to make himself some pop corn and watch television.

9) Bill Gates, the world's richest man met him for the first time only 5 years ago. Bill Gates did not think he had anything in common with Warren Buffet. So he had scheduled his meeting only for half hour. But when Gates met him, the meeting lasted for ten hours and Bill Gates became a devotee of Warren Buffet.

10) Warren Buffet does not carry a cell phone, nor has a computer on his desk.

11) His advice to young people: Stay away from credit cards and invest in yourself.


The article below discusses his opinion on the US trade deficit.

http://www.fhsu.edu/econ/rterry/Trade%20Deficit.pdf

oh my!! March 3rd 2007

The coolest thing is that in this photo my weight was 248.6 and now its 213. So 2007 had been a good year.

Can I reach 200???

I've had so much time being sick that I've started to plan another push toward loosing the final pounds. I promised myself that if I get below 200 I would get laser treatment.

Anyone have any advice??

Still sick. I hate being a whiner

I've falling into a pattern of sleep, work on the computer for an hour, sleep, play with the boys, work, then sleep some more. I just have no energy. Today I went to meet a customer (who didnt show) and by the time I got back I was shaking like a baby. Anyhow - if you are waiting for your order to be completed the guys are all working hard still so there will be any delay.

I have the coolest dreams!!! This last one I was dreaming I'm in a TV program. The good guys are locked in a office building/safe room with a million dollars and the bad guy has this HUGE rifle. It's so real, the actors are bantering with each other. And as each get hit there a tag line and everything. I even have a soundtrack!!

In the end the bad guy get hit by the last good guy and the good guy shoots a special gun in the air and a new sound track come on like the one in Hero. And the dream plays in reverse only at the end/begining the bad guy is dead.

I also dream about pink ponies.






In the meantime, here are few more amazing photos.

Weak. Marianna is watching me

I've been banned from the computer. I feel as weak as a kitty. Meow. I have ton of work to do but the doctor and Marianna have prescribed bed rest. Going to the doctor in Canada for the first time in years was unbelievable. I got there at 9:30, a full 30 minutes before they open. Can you believe there was 4 people ahead of me in line. The place was clean, the secretary s we not very friendly at all, sort like they there to move the cattle.



Then I waited. And waited, almost 2 hours. I told the doctor whats wrong but he starts asking about what I do. So I tell him about Excellence Photography and TorontoHomeMovies.com. Well he gets real interested and for 10 minutes asks me tons of questions about converting old movies and slides, completely forgetting I am sick and seeing him. So I give him a card and he finally tells me I have a viral infection brought on by exhaustion.

So last night I was trying to figure out what is different this year compared to other years. I came up with a) I am dieting all the time - this wont stop I will not gain anymore and in fact am trying to get below 200 for the first time in 15 years. b) I am working out daily - again this is I believe going to help me live an additional 20 years in comfort.

So I need to hire more help. Look for new people in the studio this month. Well as soon as I'm let out of my cage.

Test - Slideshow

I'm trying some new things on the blog. So forgive the construction. In the meantime I'll be adding the following slideshow for your viewing pleasure.

Crazy busy - crazy sick

I NEVER get sick. Well rarely. But for the past 2 weeks on top of handling over 50 appointments, 14 photo orders and 25 videos, I'm sick.

It started a few weeks ago with feeling drained. Of course, the guys at the gym told me to take some time off. Rest up or I'll get worse. But in my infinite knowledge I ignored the professionals and kept up working 20 hours a day and going to the gym everyday.

So last Tuesday I went to work out and it was like there was no gas. It was the weirdest thing, I tried as hard as I could and I just had no energy. Of course the next day I was in pain. Same thing happened on Thursday but the pain lasted until Sunday.

So this past week I made it to the gym on Monday and Tuesday but then got hit with a flu bug that has me dragging myself upstairs. Last night my whole body hurt. Had some funky dreams though.

OK Ive whined enough!!!! Off to the doctor.



Only 18 days until we leave for Florida. I will be NOT be reachable for the first 5 days as even I get a break. Although, I will be posting blog photos and making huge site changes.

If you have not placed your order yet unfortunately you are out of luck for the Holidays. That does not mean we won't be processing orders so if you are one of the 10 couples who got married this year but have not ordered PLEASE call Marianna asap. We will not be able to get your order completed for xmas, but a nuber of orders will be ready just before the 31st of December and the balance in the first 2 weeks of January.

The Count Down begins

Its seems like forever since me and family have traveled out of town. I used to travel with Marianna every 45 days, but with Sammy and Isaac in school and September to December being the crazy months its impossible.

To brighten things up I added a widget to the front of my iGoogle home page. For those of you living in the 19th century, if you have a google account you can create a customized google page with all kinds of cool things. I have the following on my igoogle homepage:

• Photoshop Lightroom Killer tips - its an rss feed to a guru - part of the napp.
• Gmail - It shows the last 12 emails and is alway up to date
• GoogleDocs - It shows the last 12 docs that have been un use. For example: if someone in florida updates the productivity chart I can see immediately the file was used and when. Same goes for any spreadsheets, presentations etc.
• http://www.sacred-destinations.com/ - Plays new images everytime I reload of sacred places all over the world.
• http://movies.aol.com/ - shows this weeks new movies
• weather for toronto and boca raton
• Google calander - I wish I could keeo this updated but I havent been able to convince Marianna to do it for me. :)
• Finally Countdown - A widget that counts down days to certain events - live me leaving for Florida in 23 days.
  

I love the Fall!!!

First Saturday off since I can remember

So I'm off today for the first time since like March. Going to take the boys to all their classes. Serious, they didnt have all this stuff when I was a boy. Isaac does gymnastics - he's 3!!

Anyhow, here is a few more photographs.

Oh. special note. There are 2 types of photos that I put on the blog. My favorites and Customer favorites. If its a little too artsy for you - its because I like it.



Wow this is cool - imagine there is a use for gamers after all!!! I told Marianna.

A project that harnesses the spare processing power of Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) to help understand the cause of diseases has entered the record books.

Guinness World Records has recognised folding@home (FAH) as the world's most powerful distributed computing network.

FAH has signed up nearly 700,000 PS3s to examine how the shape of proteins affect diseases such as Alzheimer's.

The network has more than one petaflop of computing power - the equivalent of 1,000 trillion calculations per second.

"To have folding@home recognized by Guinness World Records as the most powerful distributed computing network ever is a reflection of the extraordinary worldwide participation by gamers and consumers around the world and for that we are very grateful," said Professor Vijay Pande of Stanford University and a leader of the FAH project.

A promise of more photos

We currently have over 2000 active members to this blog. I shut off the comments section a long time ago because taking the time to read through peoples remarks was well, taking too much time. As much and I would like this to be a free for all, I want this blog to be a place on tranquility and Art. And so, since I've had about a dozen emails from potential and recent couples to add more photos to the blog here are few more.

But first!!!!

There is a few ways to enjoy this blog.

1. Subscribe to email updates
2. Add us to your RSS reader
3. send me emails and ask me to post more info
4. Don't take it too seriously. Those of you who know me, understand that I write what I think. I am extremely fortunate to have a loving family and AMAZING co-workers who back me up. But in the end this is my blog and I'll write what a want, and if you dont like it get your own. (Childish huh!)
   

Technology is cool

I'm currently at my office in Thornhill and at the same time I am logged into the studio on my Mac. I was looking for some photos to add to the blog and found them in one of 7 computers we have there. With this program from Logmein.com I can remote control any of our computers in Toronto, Thornhill, or Boca Raton. Soooo cool.

Soon I will be able to edit videos stored on the web in full HD.

We have 2 new team members - Jason and Matt.

Matt is out creative genius in Boca Raton, who will be editing his magic into every video we produce there. With years of experience, I can't wait to upload some footage to share. We are currently woking on a new video site in Boca so I"ll show you guys when its done.


Jason and I go waaaay back. In fact I remember when he used to work for me nearly 5 years ago!!! Back then as well as being photographers I had a business selling electronics on Ebay. Jason was in charge of shooting and sorting the thousands of items we sold every month. Now he is back with us in this case he will be backing up Anton running our projectors for TorontoHomeMovies.com

Remember - Excellence customers in Toronto and in Boca get 50% off all transfer services at TorontoHomeMovies.com and FloridaHomeMovies.com