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A Few Thoughts and Other Entanglements

18 Sunday Mar 2018

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Family, Photography

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Baseball, City, Drone, Footage, Football, Parks, School, Soccer, Track, Video, Wondershare

As I sit here tonight, they are predicting severe weather for tomorrow evening.  The biggest threat is north Alabama but they include large hail, strong winds, and a few strong tornados.  I can handle the severe thunderstorms but tornados is another thing.  I’m still not over the tornado outbreak of 2011 that wiped out nearly half of our town and killed eleven people in our community.

What I’m also doing is putting together a few videos that I’ve created.  Most of which have been taken to try and boost the city’s morale. We have several city FaceBook pages and each one of them consist of negativity about our community.  We lost a lot of homes and families right after the tornado.  With these homes destroyed, many of which were never rebuilt and the families moved out.  With that said, we lost a lot of tax money.  Our city doesn’t have the money for a lot of the upkeep and people are complaining about the trash, businesses closing, and crime.  What I’m trying to do is post these videos on these pages showing what we have to be proud of; A nice athletic complex, a nice school, a storm shelter, etc.

During the tornado of 2011, we thought we had lost the brand new school.  Some kids and I were on a bus with the band heading to Orlando for a school trip when the tornado hit.  There were all sorts of rumors that told of the school burning, people lying on the ground dead and many other stories.  Most of which were true but the school did not catch on fire.

The tornado hit about a half a mile from the school and the athletic complex.  Like I said, a lot of rumors floated around and we were happy that we didn’t lose either of these landmarks.  My house was also spared thankfully.  The athletic complex is one of the jewels of our community.  Between the complex and our park (I don’t have a video of it as of yet), the kids of our community wouldn’t have a place to go and play.  My kids were fortunate to be able to spend a great deal of time at the park and they couldn’t wait to go and play in the creek.

I think we take for granted these places that our city has supplied for us. We always focus on the negativity instead of the positive.  I’m really hoping these storms that are predicted for tomorrow will pass us by. I’m really hoping!!  I’ll let you guys know how we faired tomorrow night.

Update 3/4/2018

04 Sunday Mar 2018

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Cancer, Leukemia, Photography

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CML, Drone, Fluid Retintion, Medical, Medications, Phantom 3 Advanced, Retirement, Video

I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted an update and I do apologize for that. With my health such a roller coaster and my job is as crazy as it is well, I just haven’t taken the time to write.

First of all, let me say that I’m feeling better today than I have in years.  Seriously, with all the crap my body has been going through, it’s about time.  But, I have a feeling that it’s about to change for the worse again.

We found out that the meds for my CML was causing all the fluid to build up around my heart and lungs; more so the lungs.  In short, the oncologist took me off my meds and my pulmonologist took 1.5 liters of fluid off my left lung.  He left fluid in my right lung due to him not wanting the infection to set in on either or both the lungs.  A heavy dose of Lasix and now my right lung is clear of fluid.  In two weeks I see my oncologist and a new med will be prescribed and one of the main side effects is fluid retention.  Oh well, it was good while it lasted.

At this writing, I will be retiring on August 15th of this year.  After 32 years I’ve finally had enough, well, I’ve had enough long ago but I can officially retire when I turn 55 so I’m turning in my notice.  I’ve got a lot of hobbies so I know I will stay busy.

I’m working on a Youtube video about the tornado that went through our city back in 2011 and I’m doing some test shots with my drone.  Let me know what you think of it.  In the video that I’m working on, I will hopefully show some areas of our city that still shows some damage that the tornado left.  I will also show areas of major improvements that wouldn’t have happened if the tornado hadn’t visited our city.

There’s a lot more going on but I’ll post about it later.  I hope you enjoy the video.

 

Tim

365 Day Photo Challenge 243/365 “Near Miss”

29 Saturday Aug 2015

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Photography

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365 Day Photo Challenge, Alabama, Cycling, Cycling Awareness, Near Miss, Video

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Near Miss

Since I’ve started taking my GoPro camera with me whenever I go riding I’ve recorded several unsafe events.  For instance today while on my ride I had a car pass me in an unsafe area and nearly colliding with another car.   I just don’t understand people wanting to save maybe 10 to 15 seconds of their precious time by passing on a hill or in a curve.  I’m hoping that they wouldn’t pass a car in those locations.  Of course, if an accident did occur, they would put the blame on the cyclist for being on the roads.

“Life Goes On!”

365 Day Photo Challenge 227/365 “Where is Everybody?”

13 Thursday Aug 2015

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Photography

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365 Day Photo Challenge, Alabama, Bike Riding, Cycling, Video, Youtube

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Within the last few days I’ve heard tell of about five other people in my area that ride bicycles on a regular basis.  I’ve only seen one cyclist and he lives on my street but I’ve only seen him once but he’s seen by my wife multiple times riding during the day.  A couple of years ago I met a lady just as she was pulling in her driveway.  I spoke with her a few minutes and found out that she rides during the day during the week and rarely during the weekends.  This evening on my way home I spoke to a guy who just started riding and he stated that he wants to ride with me.  One problem with that is he’s only able to ride about seven miles and he doesn’t do hills.  Unless he rides at the track he’s in for a big surprise around here.  I’d be nice to have a riding partner but they’d have to ride my pace and able to ride the distances I ride.  Maybe one of these days I’ll catch up with someone who I can ride with on a regular basis.

BTW, here is a video that I did of a 29 mile bike ride condensed to a 5 minute video.  I hope you enjoy.

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“Life Goes On!”

365 Day Photo Challenge 144/365 “GoPro While Cycling”

26 Tuesday May 2015

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Photography

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365 Day Photo Challenge, Alabama, Bike, Cycling, GoPro, Video

I’ve recently started recording my riding with a GoPro that have on my handlebar.  I have it mainly to record my ride to show just how stupid some motorist can be.  I’ve also found another use by recording all those dogs that are supposed to be either on a leash or in a fence that I have to deal with.  Since I’ve been recording I’ve only caught one dog biting my front tire while I was trying to get up a hill.  The owner of that dog has been notified and has since been put back in her fence.

I’ve also found another used for my video’s by an unlikely source.  I posted a picture about a house that had caught on fire right after I past it.  The next door neighbor of the house caught me as I rode past it last night and asked if I taped each ride.  I acknowledge that I did and she wanted to know if I happened to see a car at the house as I passed the night of the fire.  Once I get home I delete the files if nothing eventful happens.  It just so happens that nothing eventful happened while I was on my ride that night so I deleted everything so I didn’t have anything to review.  I guess I’ll start keeping the video for a couple of weeks now before deleting them.

“Life Goes On!”

Sleepless Night

19 Sunday Apr 2015

Posted by Tim Hughes Living with CML in Photography

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Alabama, Bike Ride, Cycling, GoPro, Judson COllege, Marion, Sleepless, Video, Youtube

I hate it when I go to bed, go to sleep then wake up and can’t get back to sleep.  Oh well, being that I’m up and waiting on the sleep aid to kick in I thought I’d share one of the videos that I made while on my bike ride yesterday.  This is the start of my 47 mile trip starting at Judson College in Marion Alabama.  The hills are not as bad at the beginning of the ride but gets much steeper as the ride goes along.

Hope you enjoy.

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