Crepe Myrtles Final

Guess I've gotten a bit behind on my posting. Here are the last three days of Crepe Myrtle progress. I think we'll stop here as they look like they have fully bloomed for the most part. I hope you guys enjoyed the "10 Days Of Crepe Myrtles".

All pics click through to a larger picture. I'll put these three in reverse order to be consistent with the rest of the blog! lol

June 24



June 23




June 22

Crepe Myrtles 7

Here is today's picture. Looks like we're almost getting to the 'peak'. Quite a change in 7 days, huh? Click to get the larger picture.

Office Break In

My office had a break in over the weekend. A window was smashed, projectors were ripped out of the ceilings in three conference rooms, offices were opened, laptops and monitors were stolen. The police indicated that it was a "pretty good" take for the burglars.

I had nothing stolen but a "This And That Podcat" mug from my desk. Apparently they bring in quite the take on the black market... ;-) Also, thank goodness they did NOT steal of wonderful espresso maker!

The company is installing a bunch of new security and apparently the police have several clues / leads. Luckily no one was hurt.

Crepe Myrtles 7

Here is today's picture. Just waiting for the tree on the left to 'explode'. Click for the larger picture.

Crepe Myrtles 6

Here is yesterday's picture. Click to get the larger picture.

Crepe Myrtles 5

Here is today's picture. Progress is being made!

Crepe Myrtles 4

Here is today's picture. The left tree is starting to strut it's stuff. Though it's hard to see the tree on the right is starting to show buds of red. Click on it to get a bigger picture.

Crepe Myrtles 3

Here is today's picture (actually yesterday's pic). The tree on the left is starting to get there. Click on it to get a bigger picture.

Crepe Myrtles 2

Here is today's picture. Not a huge difference though you can see a bit more red on the left. Any day now! Click on it to get a bigger picture.

Crepe Myrtles 1

In Texas, Crepe Myrtles come out in mid June. This also coincides with the 'hot' weather typically. Well, so far they haven't come out and it seems just a bit late. I figured I would share a pic each day and we can watch these bloom together.

Here is today's picture. You can see at the very left of the two trees some red just starting. Click on it to get a bigger picture.

We're Cartoons!

Len of the GREAT Jawbone Radio podcast just did a quick cartoon drawing of the 'logo' pic of us from Pat and my "This And That (w/ Jeff and Pat)" podcast. How cool is that? This guy's got some real talent - for more drawings of his, check out the website! Thanks a bunch Len!!
Here is the original:

My Date In Court

Today, I go to the Highland Park, TX police court and pay them $195.00 for going 42 MPH in a 30 MPH limited area. I will go for the deferred adjudication to keep the ticket off my record. Nevertheless, it still seems like I get speeding tickets about once every three to four years.

I sort of look at it as a bit of added tax for supporting my local police departments. Fine. They earn their money.

Another Jeff Blog

Just wanted to let everyone know that my podcast partner Pat and I are blogging at the website for our very popular podcast "This And That (w/ Jeff and Pat)". In a lot of cases I'm cross-blogging my posts both here and there though I may change my strategy in the future.

The link is This And That (w/ Jeff and Pat)

The Beatles "Revolver"

Decided to listen to the Beatles "Revolver" today. If this isn't the best Beatles album, it is very close. It marks a really great period of time where they transformed from the early Beatles to a more sophisticated drug-experimenting Beatles. The songs are magnificent, just stunning. Paul, John, AND George clearly were quickly and visibly evolving as songwriters.

Sometimes it makes me sad to listen to the great Beatles classics. Sad that George and John aren't with us anymore. Sad that the truly great Beatles music came in a period of about 5 years where magic happened and hasn't quite been replicated. Sad that they are not young, vibrant and innocent anymore. Sad that I wasn't with them. Sad that I could never write a song like "For No One" and certainly not "Eleanor Rigby". "And Your Bird Can Sing"? Forget about it!

Hearing the opening bass line and the guitar "chink" on the backbearts of "Taxman" still take me back to my Dad's reel-to-reel copy of the album - one of the first full length albums I had ever heard in my life. I guess in a way, that makes me sad too - I no longer have the joy of discovering the Beatles for the first time.

Interesting Blog About Podcasts

I happened across this blog called RexBlog by Rex Hammock. He has written three very interesting articles about how the iTunes announcement will change podcasting forever. He looks at iTunes as being the most successful (or actually one of the only applications of) micro-payment retail outfits on the web.

He goes on to say suggest that it may be fool's folly to plan on really making a career out of of being a podcaster but he does suggest that this technology will make 'stars' out of a very few (he makes an NBA analogy here - you can't plan on becoming one of those select few, but if you do it will be extremely rewarding). He does, however, point out that the ability for selling directly through the iTunes store could offer some nice cross-marketing opportunities for other ventures (your music, your ebay store, etc..).

Anyways - worth a read and worth keeping current on...