I don’t mean to embarrass her. She already has shown me in eight years that she’s going to grow into a confident, beautiful, sophisticated young woman. But right now she makes me laugh every time she does that, and yes, shake my head a little… She is definitely my kid. LOL

This just provides me a classic lesson of don’t rely on OPT — other people’s technology. MySpace has something like 185 million people in their network as of this writing. The only reason they care about any of them(us) is for the ad revenue; otherwise, do you really think it affects MySpace’s bottom line if they lose someone here or there? What is their level of concern?

I don’t know what happened to my profile. Many of my friends are on MySpace, so this morning I started another account — www.myspace.com/johnmichaelflynn

Come check it out, leave a message, add me as a friend and leave a pic comment or two…

What else can you do but laugh… lol

John

Sorry, I disappeared for a moment to Waimea Canyon on the island of Kauai, where I remembered one of the most insane cloud photos I had ever created. Not bragging — it just gave me such a rush to do it. I have to find that photo and upload it for you. It is one of my favorite photos that I’ve created.

So here I am in Colorado. I’ll be here till Monday. Try the veal. :-p

John

This day is filled with fun, barbecues, water balloon fights, kids laughing, families coming together, and of course, fireworks!

What I think about on Independence day is FREEDOM. Freedom of speech, freedom to assemble, freedom to have a critical mind and a voice of expression. A vote. Freedom to be heard. In the spirit of our forefathers and the overall American tradition, question authority. Speak out for what’s right. Use their example of courage, don’t be apathetic or take for granted the founding principles of this great nation. Let’s make sure America remains free from tyranny of all forms, including the tyranny of ignorance or burying our heads in the sand. Be independent. Think. Educate yourself so you have an informed opinion. Take your news from multiple sources. Dream of a better time and do the work to make it so.

Thanks, everyone, for your patience. I appreciate the e-mails and phone calls troubleshooting the problems, and from this point forward the site should work a lot better. It’s fantastic to have images on my site again. Kinda hard to sell photographic services without pictures — “Just IMAGINE how great this portrait is…” :-p

Uh… no LOL

My dad passed in 2000, WAY before his time. That’s a story for another time. To this day, I remember countless times when we’d go random places and people would run up to him and say hello, introduce their children and tell them, “This is Mr. Flynn. This is the guy I’ve told you about.” That probably sounds like some kinda weird to most people, and it was sometimes. My dad was larger than life at that time in my life. He worked a room like a politician, made people laugh like an entertainer, built stuff, talked about God and philosophy over pizza & beer, and played b-ball with me when he got home from work. He was some kind of amazing.

Years later, he no longer was a giant to me. I saw him for the man he truly was, and it was then that he became my hero. l

Here’s to you, Dad. I miss you. I hope I honour you with the way I raise my kids. You’re the best.

John

Thank you, WPPI and Blossom!

John

If it fails to resolve today, then I guess we’ll all have to go to Plan B… storming the gate or whatever. lol

This reminds me of this past weekend when my younger daughter and I spent 20 minutes (yes, really, 20 minutes!) in the drive-thru at Carl’s Jr. by Newhall Ranch Road. That turned out to be our BETTER fast food experience of the day. An hour later, my older daughter and I were standing in Jack in the Box on Lyons wondering about our order. We had been through the drive-thru, paid, and received an invitation to pull around and park, where someone was supposed to bring our food to us. 15 minutes later, we went back inside. Our order had apparently disappeared into Jackspace. They re-made it, added a fruit cup and sent us on our way. I’m thinking as we get back in the car that I could do a website on the fast food experiences I’ve had in my life… www.nothing-happy-in-this-meal.com? My brain fluttered away on a tangent about hyphens or no hyphens and that’s where it ended…

That was a surreal day in a lot of ways, some time I’ll have to tell you about the rest of it…

I suppose if you don’t know me well, you would naturally assume that I like fast food drive-thru’s. Actually, it was pretty weird to be doing fast food at all, and doing TWO fast food places in one day…?!? Did my experience make me re-consider that perhaps I should eat fast food all the time? Uh… no.
If you have kids, you know about scheduling issues and some days are a two fast food day. Please don’t flame me about my kids’ eating habits — they generally eat well when they’re not driving thru for lunch. Just trying to teach them a little American tradition about our great nation — eat FAST and get on to the next thing… Let’s go, let’s go, let’s go!!! :-p

I dunno. I doubt if any of the chefs at a five star restaurant care about “FAST” unless it has to do with delivering the food while it’s still hot, and providing their guests with superior service. Conversation, laughing, savoring… it’s a lot better than chew, suck and swallow. LOL

Sometimes you just need a little patience.

John

John