Yes, I took a break to regroup after the Memorial weekend. It was a great weekend and a good recharge to the mental batteries. Additionally, Angie never called or tried to contact me.
All in all a great weekend.
Monthly Archives: May 2019
All getting back to normal
Had a great weekend along with some flying time on Friday. With so much wind blowing I had to bring her down quickly. Getting too many warnings of high wind velocity.
Played a bit with my new camera. The menu system is a little intimidating but I’ll be getting used to it in no time.
Saturday we had some crazy storms in the morning triggering a bunch of tornado warning alarms but they all turned out to be false alarms.
Speaking of the camera, I wish I had it earlier and was familiar with the menu system and how to take some video or burst shots. I could have come away with some good lightening shots. I also purchased a couple of fast wide angle lenses and the best item was a converter for the Cannon EF lenses to the Sony E lens mounts. Now I don’t have to sent my old Cannon lenses out to the pasture.
When I start collecting some video and still images I’ll post here pronto. Looking forward to playing. Next weekend should be good. It will be a long one, three days but long enough.
Another item worth mentioning, I did have not heard from Angie in over a week now. I did get a money request for 65.00 but ignored the heck out of that. Maybe she will now get the hint. I have really hated doing this to her but she would not stop, get things together and take care of herself. She is 54 years old now and you would think she would have enough self esteem to fend for herself. I miss they way she used to be and I do think a lot of the blame can fall on me for letting her take advantage like she has. But.. it’s over ‘crossing fingers’ finally.
Now lets see if they pay me back….. I’m not going to hold my breath.
Heck, Bryan sent me this note telling me how he has this spreadsheet all set up and will start paying me back $30.00 at a time. With his schedule he thought he could do it by the end of July (I think that is what he said). Well, a have received one payment of $30.00 about three weeks ago and nothing since.
At times I like to ask myself, what do they think of themselves when they make promises like that and then don’t follow up on their commitments.
I am proud of the fact that I have never borrowed any money from any person, friend or family and not paid them every dime back. Sometimes I actually paid much more than I borrowed.
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I don’t like to hate….
I really hate Angie. LeeAnne again started asking for money again, saying it would be the last time, she promises. Andy just started his job and his pay check was only for a couple days blah blah blah.. We will get our taxes in two weeks and we will pay you everything back blah blah. They wanted another 580.00, I gave them 400.00, told them that is it and any more emails or requests including Angie doing PayPal money requests would be considered harassment and I would press charges. I think she believed me because I have not heard a peep out of them since last Friday. I was so pissed off. 100:1 I don’t get crap out of them when they get their taxes. I don’t have a clue how they would pay me back anyway.
On to better things. Last Thursday I had my yearly review from Jasmine and holy cow, I thought last years review was good. This one was awesome and it included a 3.7% raise to boot. Most of the time when Jasmine doesn’t talk to me, which is all the time and most days I just look it like this, if needs me she will talk to me otherwise no news is good. During our review conversation she actually reiterated exactly that point which I was thankful for. She really is a good boss. Like she said, “She doesn’t micromanage people because she doesn’t like to be micromanaged” and I like that.
That was two pieces of good news last week. Review and raise, another was a bonus we are getting along with our paycheck next week. 9.3 days of pay which should equate to about 2,000.00. I already spent 999.00 of it on a new camera. This camera is fantastic and highly recommended by ‘The Everyday Dad’ on YouTube. It is a Sony A6400. I’ll post a picture of it next week. Of course I will have to take the picture with my old Cannon Rebel xT. Think about it, that old camera is 12mega pix, doesn’t do video and still has a price tag of 600.00. Pictures aren’t half bad though. The new camera is 24.2mega pix, shoots video and had an array of auto focus tricks not to mention time lapse video. I should get the camera on Friday, and I can’t wait.
I’m thinking of getting a newer DGT chessboard with bluetooth but have not made up my mind yet. May wait on that because I like the board I have and just save a little bit longer and get a Mavic 2 Pro with the Hasslblad camera. Not exactly sure what I’m going to do, may just keep saving until….. don’t know…
Last Friday I flew the Mavic Pro three times at around 20 minutes each flight. I adjusted the maximum flight distance to 8000 feet and was able to do a lot of exploring around the neighborhood. I’ll be using this footage to experiment in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects. I saw some drone footage from another on ‘Thursday night live’ where he created a bit of a war zone. I thought that might be fun. I’m going to use the video from my new camera to play with some of the effects we can do in blender as well.
Time to sign off till next week, See ya!
Bit the bullet for code training
One of my favorite instructors on Udemy advertised a new batch of training materials with other trainers creating the “Ultimate Tech Career Toolbox 2019” with thousands of dollars worth of training materials for 239.00. If I had not waited a day I could have saved another 40.00 but I flinched. Looks like a great deal and help toward my goal of the residual income for retirement.
Now I need to spend quite a bit of time downloading all the content. I’m going to put it all on a stand alone drive just for training etc.
Angie kept sending Money requests and on Tuesday I had 14 for a total of 8,800.00 and 40 rejected phone calls. They want me to make a house payment for them plus give money to Andy so he can go to his new job. Angie then tried to call twice with someone else’s phone and when I would not answer I got an email tell me to ‘Turn the f…king phone off’ I said fine and two days later I complied with her request.
Last night I gave LeeAnne 100.00 so Andy can go to work and start getting a paycheck. She then proceeded to ask if I was going to help with the house payment. Andy should just ask for an advance on his pay to get himself out of the situation they have got into. I’m done with them.
Friday afternoon, before the sun set I had a fantastic flight with the Mavic Pro. About 20 minutes long and I’ll do some editing in Camtasia and Premier Pro for experimentation and learning these two pieces of software. I know Camtasia but not Premier Pro. I’ll also throw the video clips into After Effects as well and see what I can come up with. It will be fun.
One thing I need to do is change the maximum flight distance for the Mavic Pro. I keep running into that and then because I had such a great time I forget to change it.