I stopped very early this morning at the local Walmart to grab some Coffee Supplies for work.  When I entered the Parking lot, there were eight Police Cars that had an older Chevy Truck surrounded.  The bad guy was in cuffs, and looked pretty down.  He said something to the cop, and I wasn't close enough to hear what he said, but could tell he perfectly fit the stereotype of a Walmart shopper . . . . He had hardly any teeth in his head.

So as I got out of my truck and walked to the door, there was a rather large crowd of Walmart Employees gathered up to take in the scene.  I asked, "Hey gang, what happened tonight?" One of the guys grinned at me and explained that this guy came in earlier that night, and stole some large bolt cutters.  Apparently, this guy had been out all night robbing the area, and when he got done, the IDIOT brought the cutters back into the Walmart claiming that he BOUGHT them and was wanting his money back!  Like the same employees at the same Walmart on the same shift wouldn't remember 7 hours later that this was the same guy who stole those cutters.  They called 911 as soon as he walked in!

I have looked all day for the story to appear on the local news!  If it does, I will submit it to every Weird News site I can find!  Hey, Idiots like this, are special! They deserve their time in the spotlight! This is one of the few times I have left Walmart with a smile on my face, and I admit that I have laughed to myself all day!  This one is a classic!  No joke, I would love to meet this guy!

You know, you can get caught up in the rhythm of a river. Your mind wonders and the next thing you know, you have solved problems in your life, or you have at least figured out paths forward that you weren't sure how to pursue prior.  Yesterday, I took Jane Ann, her brother John and his wife Debbie down the Holston River in Mendota, Virginia.  It was a great time!

A few weeks ago, we took a trip up to Lousiville, KY to visit my wife's brother. It was a great time and we very much enjoyed ourselves.  I took a few pictures and am jsut now getting around to posting them. 

The weather has been perfect the last few days!  Temps in the 80's, an almost constant breeze, Sunny and you can't ask for more out of beach weather!  We have elected to stay another day! We made the necessary phone calls, and MOVED the camper!  We couldn't stay on the same site.  It was a pain to pack everything up just to move it 300 feet, but it should make it easier tomorrow when we make the trip back home.  Below are the pics from day's six and seven.

Several have asked me how I am able to send Photos and Videos almost instantly while on vacation. Here is a picture of my set-up.

 On the left, is my Flip Mino Video recorder.  It does an OK job of capturing video.  I quickly edit the video using Windows Movie Maker. It is nothing fancy and came installed on my Eee PC. Once I have edited, I save the video, convert it to Flash with a freeware app called "Any Video Converter", and when when hooked to the net, transfer to Youtube.

The stills are made with an older Canon S-3. I LOVE this camera! It quite simply ROCKS!  I would love to have the newer version of this camera! Until that happens this one just keeps on keeping on!  LOVE IT! I dump the day's pics to a folder on my Eee PC, and use another freewareapp to downsize the photos to a net friendly 650X480.

I also use Qik to stream live video from my HTC Touch Pro to Qik's web site.  From there, it automatically sends video to my Youtube account and to my facebook page, and with limited capability to Twitter. 

I bought this Asus Eee PC back in the spring for traveling and staying connected. This little PC ROCKS!  It's got a 160 Gig hard drive, XP, 10" screen and a battery life of around 9 hours!  Now if I needed to do something serious, I would much prefer my Toshiba or even my Sony Desktop.  But as long as it's simple editing, the Eee is all I need. 

I also dongle my HTC Touch Pro to my Eee PC Netbook to access the Internet.  I can do it through Bluetooth, but I am only Transferring at about 100 KBPS.  This Vs. the wired connection at 2MBPS.  On this trip, my internet data stream has sucked!  AT&T, you are failing big time in this area. No data, email, internet connection, so no Twiitpics, etc, for over half the time. So I have been dealing with this limitation by heading down to the local coffee shop where the coffee rocks and the WiFi is free!  To stream from Qik takes no extra time and to convert Photos and videos might take one hour total!  And this usually happens while Jane Ann is still in bed . . .  

Anyway, since I have gotten 3 emails now, asking how I was connecting to the internet, (no this resort doesn't provide WiFi throughout the resort)  I thought it worth the explanation.