Gary Haupt's Next Life

Cake Boss in Kitimat

2012-02-14T12:35:00.000-08:00

Kitimat has a Cake Boss of it's own......Tina and her husband Brian have a coffee shop called Constant Cravings. THE place to go for lunch's and soups...and sweets. They let me play in the kitchen sometimes...twice...but it's doing dishes..hahahahahahaha...no kidding, either. They sometimes find themselves short-staffed and then whomever can, pitches in. Last time I got to prep a roast beef and we have been talking about maybe expanding into something else. Maybe.

A nice tune.....

We are now into the music and dancing stuff of New Orleans and we are learning from a movie....The Big Easy

Sharon is chatting to her sister Laurel in Oregon. She and husband Jon are joining us in NewAwlinz. Apparently we are going to a Baptist Church service Sunday morning.

A popular New Orleans musician......

Sugar Sweet | Grandpa Elliott | Playing For Change from Concord Music Group on Vimeo.

Therapeutic Touch workshop

2012-02-13T10:58:00.000-08:00

I personally have mixed views on all of this.....but there is no doubt that she was loved by many and will be missed.

I conducted a workshop on Saturday in Terrace. Sixteen people...four of them men, which is so unusual.....well done guys!!! And lunch was catered by Cafenera, Terrace. Soup, special sushi plates, sammy's.

I have been asked to do another, likely in May. The only issue...the view from the window.....I mean really, how do I maintain focus when we have this.......

It's looking west..right down the Skeena River....must have been sunny in Prince Rupert.

Adele swept the Grammy's and good for her.

This is....mmmm....I don't know how to describe it...but it makes for riveting viewing at the start, then it kind of evolves into a love story, which makes it all the sweeter.

The Voyagers from Penny Lane on Vimeo.

The planning for New Orleans is seriously underway now. We are checking out the different websites and getting the gear all in order. I ordered a wireless remote shutter control from B&H in NYC. http://www.bhphotovideo.com Man, I find what I am looking for here. Although..there have been issues, they have always been resolved and in this case..the website didn't allow a different address to be used for billing as the send to address. The on-line sales desk got thru that tho and this will be in New Orleans, waiting for me. The idea is...I use a mono pod...put the camera on that and either raise it over head or put it down at road level and can trigger the shutter on demand. I have a handful of battery remotes but they don't seem to have much range and I need to be right in front for the signal to trigger the shutter.

This has been a good site to find dates and locations of things. I see that there is a market happening and Katherine wants a mask. neworleanscvb.com yeah yeah..a mask market, but it has to be small one, not one of those geeezus big things.

We have been checking weather, of course and it has been showing 75f...that means shorts, baby....

Yukon Quest 2012...

2012-02-09T13:06:00.000-08:00

going to the dogs.......

I was invited to be here as a photographer........fuk

It's being run now, so if you like dog pix, snow pix, racing, sleds...go look! They are just out of the 1/2 way point of the 1,000 mile race...from Fairbanks Alaska to Whitehorse, Yukon.

http://www.facebook.com/YukonQuest

http://yukonquest.com/

This is/was a popular guy in Fairbanks. Passed away just and there were people posting about him....so...I found a YouTube bit featuring him.

I had two Therapeutic workshops scheduled so wasn't able to accept the invitation. I did one last week here in Kitimat and have another this coming Saturday in Terrace.

I was just reading that Glen Campbell has Alzheimers.....that makes me very sad.

A couple posts ago I ran a clip featuring girls in lingerie playing football..and lo and behold....and what's really funny to me about this, is that Abbotsford, BC, is a huge bible thumping community. I would bet that there will be a public outcry. However..I pray not.

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

METRO VANCOUVER - Abbotsford has been chosen as the home for the Lingerie Football League's second confirmed franchise in Canada. The new team will join the Toronto Triumph, which competed against U.S. teams last year in the LFL. It's not known at this point if the team will compete as Vancouver or as Abbotsford, but it will play home games in the Abbotsford Entertainment and Sports Centre. The yet-to-named team will play in the Western Division of the LFL Canada, which is set to begin a 12-week regular season in August. The Canadian arm of the league is expected to be rounded out by five other teams in Canada in addition to Toronto and the new team in Abbotsford. "While we have enjoyed unprecedented success in the U.S., we believe LFL Canada will actually have far more success," said Mitchell Mortaza, founder and chairman of the LFL, in a release. "The fanatical culture that exists around sports throughout the country was the primary catalyst behind the formation of LFL Canada." Jason Blumenfeld, the GM of the Abbotsford Entertainment and Sports Centre said he's thrilled to welcome the league to the building and the city. "It's an exciting sport with a proven track record in the states," he said. The Abbotsford Entertainment & Sports Centre is also home to the American Hockey League's Abbotsford Heat, and has a capacity of 7,000 for AHL hockey games. The LFL also plans to branch into Australia in 2013, followed by expansion to Europe in 2014. Fans of the new team in Abbotsford can submit suggestions for the team's name via email at lflinabbotsord@lflus.com eduggan@vancouversun.com Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/Abbotsford+gets+Lingerie+Football+League+team/6126997/story.html#ixzz1luOZ94oH

2012-02-08T10:34:00.000-08:00

Although at the moment I am 'in place' in Kitimat, I have been on the rv road forever. In the back of car, a vw Westy and in the past years, an actual RV. The latest, my 4x4 C, was my home for a year and a half and it was a frequent a topic of conversation...women solo RV'ing... and I was and am very pro a person doing this. The fears that families or friends put on a person, male or female, that wants to be off, is so debilitating and alienating.

Here is news clip that some might find interesting.

Recall the mention of looking for snowshoes......well, ordered some the other day from these guys.

www.campsaver.com

In my research I was encouraged to look at a number of brands..MSR was one, as was GV. TUBBS was also highly rated and the bottom line became size availability pricing. I am a big guy and need a beeeg snowshoe...36``. These are not so readily found and certainly not on sale. I found these on-line a super price and my size at 30% off....so, like..yeahhhh. Oh right..and free shipping out of the US. I ordered the same model for the Red Headed She devil, although in a more ladylike sizing. Added in a pole each and a bag for carrying. All in...$380.00

I am huge fan a Sade.....

CAR RADIO, AN INTERESTING TRUE QUINCY STORY CAR TUNES

Radios are so much a part of the driving experience, it seems like cars have always had them. But they didn’t. Here’s the story. SUNDOWN One evening in 1929 two young men named William Lear and Elmer Wavering drove their girlfriends to a lookout point high above the Mississippi River town of Quincy , Illinois , to watch the sunset. It was a romantic night to be sure, but one of the women observed that it would be even nicer if they could listen to music in the car. Lear and Wavering liked the idea. Both men had tinkered with radios – Lear had served as a radio operator in the U. S. Navy during World War I – and it wasn’t long before they were taking apart a home radio and trying to get it to work in a car. But it wasn’t as easy as it sounds: automobiles have ignition switches, generators, spark plugs, and other electrical equipment that generate noisy static interference, making it nearly impossible to listen to the radio when the engine was running. SIGNING ONOne by one, Lear and Wavering identified and eliminated each source of electrical interference. When they finally got their radio to work, they took it to a radio convention in Chicago . There they met Paul Galvin, owner of Galvin Manufacturing Corporation. He made a product called a “battery eliminator” a device that allowed battery-powered radios to run on household AC current. But as more homes were wired for electricity, more radio manufacturers made AC-powered radios. Galvin needed a new product to manufacture. When he met Lear and Wavering at the radio convention, he found it. He believed that mass-produced, affordable car radios had the potential to become a huge business. Lear and Wavering set up shop in Galvin’s factory, and when they perfected their first radio, they installed it in his Studebaker. Then Galvin went to a local banker to apply for a loan. Thinking it might sweeten the deal, he had his men install a radio in the banker’s Packard. Good idea, but it didn’t work – half an hour after the installation, the banker’s Packard caught on fire. (They didn’t get the loan.) Galvin didn’t give up. He drove his Studebaker nearly 800 miles to Atlantic City to show off the radio at the 1930 Radio Manufacturers Association convention. Too broke to afford a booth, he parked the car outside the convention hall and cranked up the radio so that passing conventioneers could hear it. That idea worked – he got enough orders to put the radio into production. WHAT’S IN A NAMEThat first production model was called the 5T71. Galvin decided he needed to come up with something a little catchier. In those days many companies in the phonograph and radio businesses used the suffix “ola” for their names – Radiola, Columbiola, and Victrola were three of the biggest.Galvin decided to do the same thing, and since his radio was intended for use in a motor vehicle, he decided to call it the Motorola. But even with the name change, the radio still had problems:When Motorola went on sale in 1930, it cost about $110 uninstalled, at a time when you could buy a brand-new car for $650, and the country was sliding into the Great Depression. (By that measure, a radio for a new car would cost about $3,000 today.) In 1930 it took two men several days to put in a car radio – the dashboard had to be taken apart so that the receiver and a single speaker could be installed, and the ceiling had to be cut open to install the antenna. These early radios ran on their own batteries, not on the car battery, so holes had to be cut into the floorboard to accommodate them. The installation manual had eight complete diagrams and 28 pages of instructions. HIT THE ROADSelling complicated car radios that cost 20 percent of the price of a brand-new car wouldn’t have been easy in the best of times, let alone during the Great Depression – Galvin lost money in 1930 and struggled for a couple of years after that. But things picked up in 1933 when Ford began offering Motorola's pre-installed at the factory. In 1934 they got another boost when Galvin struck a deal with B. F. Goodrich tire company to sell and install them in its chain of tire stores. By then the price of the radio, installation included, had dropped to $55. The Motorola car radio was off and running. (The name of the company would be officially changed from Galvin Manufacturing to “Motorola” in 1947.) In the meantime, Galvin continued to develop new uses for car radios. In 1936, the same year that it introduced push-button tuning, it also introduced the Motorola Police Cruiser, a standard car radio that was factory preset to a single frequency to pick up police broadcasts. In 1940 he developed with the first handheld two-way radio – the Handie-Talkie – for the U. S. Army. A lot of the communications technologies that we take for granted today were born in Motorola labs in the years that followed World War II. In1947 they came out with the first television to sell under $200. In 1956 the company introduced the world’s first pager; in 1969 it supplied the radio and television equipment that was used to televise Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the Moon. In 1973 it invented the world’s first handheld cellular phone. Today Motorola is one of the second-largest cell phone manufacturer in the world. And it all started with the car radio. WHATEVER HAPPENED TO….The two men who installed the first radio in Paul Galvin’s car, Elmer Wavering and William Lear, ended up taking very different paths in life.Wavering stayed with Motorola. In the 1950s he helped change the automobile experience again when he developed the first automotive alternator, replacing inefficient and unreliable generators. The invention lead to such luxuries as power windows, power seats, and, eventually, air-conditioning. Lear also continued inventing. He holds more than 150 patents. Remember eight-track tape players? Lear invented that. But what he’s really famous for are his contributions to the field of aviation. He invented radio direction finders for planes, aided in the invention of the autopilot, designed the first fully automatic aircraft landing system, and in 1963 introduced his most famous invention of all, the Lear Jet, the world’s first mass-produced, affordable business jet. (Not bad for a guy who dropped out of school after the eighth grade.)

I figured that the radio was invented for automobiles, so guys wouldn't have to listen to their wives . .

I went on-line after recieving the story and found these.....speaker and control 'head'.

This is another Sade...I have used this one before, Pearls.....but man..it is so powerful....

I had run this clip before, but was surfing about..saw it..and figured you might like it too. It's wild to think people do this stuff.

kudos to Marks Work Wearhouse

2012-02-06T10:09:00.000-08:00

A national casual clothing chain has pulled Caterpillar boots from its London, Ont., stores after the heavy-equipment giant shut down a local locomotive plant.Mark’s Work Wearhouse says it is showing support for hundreds of workers who lost their jobs at the Electro-Motive.The retailer announced the move on its Facebook page Saturday, a day after U.S-based Caterpillar revealed its plans to close the plant following a labour dispute.The company had asked its 450 employees to take a 50 per cent pay cut to help keep Electro-Motive going.The CAW union members rejected the proposal, prompting the company to lock them out Jan. 1.Caterpillar subsidiary Progress Rail Services said the cost structure at the London plant was unsustainable, even though Caterpillar last week reported a 58 per cent increase in its quarterly earnings with a record profit of nearly $5 billion.

I was doing a Therapeutic Touch workshop on Saturday

This was featured in a news clip and it's a pretty cool piece.

THE FLOOD from Juicy Studios on Vimeo.

Rossland-based filmmaker and hockey fanatic Scott Carlson knew there was something special about the 1972 Ford 3000 tractor used to flood the town’s local arena.As an avid hockey player, he knew the quality of the ice at the town’s only indoor rink was as good as it gets.But he knew there was a move afoot in the town a few months ago to mothball the tractor that has been used to clean the ice for the past 40 years.With some free time in December, Carlson and crew shot a short video documentary about the beloved tractor as it appeared in its final days, before it was replaced with a modern and expensive Zamboni.The result was a two-minute tribute video appropriately named The Flood. Since he posted the documentary on the web a few weeks ago, Carlson says there have been more than 41,000 viewers.The tractor was a fixture of the local arena, and Carlson in his research found it was made in Basildon, Essex, in the U.K. Using the serial numbers, Carlson dug up a lot of background about the tractor, which was sent over to Eastern Canada from Britain and eventually purchased by the town from a distributor in Creston, B.C. Since it was bought, the only thing the tractor has been used for is cleaning the ice.When first purchased, one person would drive while someone poured water into a dump bucket that flooded the ice. In time there was an automatic resurfacer installed.The tractor went through a modification after the town worker who flooded the ice had an accident and lost an arm. “They modified the tractor so he could use it with his other arm,” says Carlson.As he shot the video, townsfolk reminisced about the tractor and how it has been such a key part of the rink — and community.Used seven times a day during the week and up to 12 scrapes on the weekend, the old tractor has had plenty of use. But it rarely breaks down, something Carlson says is because of the care and continual maintenance it has seen over the years.After Carlson’s video went viral, the town’s administrators were swamped with people asking that the tractor be kept in service. The tractor got a reprieve and the campaign to buy a new Zamboni was scuttled.“Everybody is very passionate about that tractor,” notes Carlson. “It is a quirky machine, you hear it fire up and it takes a bit longer to do the job than a Zamboni,” he says. “People wanted the tractor to stay and Rossland then put out a statement reaffirming the tractor wasn’t going anywhere.”Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/news/Video+tribute+beloved+Ford+tractor/6103258/story.html#ixzz1lXEOm7re

Sharon and I got out for a dive Sunday...the sun finally showed up.....

This guy, a Haisla, has just returned 'home' after having been away thirteen years.

A couple of years ago I was visiting sister JudyLynn in Edmonton and bought a stove top smoker. today is gonna be it's break-out trial.

http://www.cameronscookware.com

I have a couple of rib sets out thawing...will make up and apply a rub....put in the chips about an hour from dinner time.....and we'll see what it looks like when done.

NOLA

2012-02-01T18:08:00.000-08:00

Adele...man, she has a voice and if you have the chance to watch the concert at Royal Albert Hall, it might be worth your while. This vid isn't the DVD vid...it's someones hand held.

New Orleans, LA, or NeAwlins...that maybe works better. They kinda slur it some.

Music is a huge thing..I don't know if NOLA influences it or if not the other way around. No mind I suppose for neophytes like ourselves. We'll just be there to soak up the city and all we can cram in, in a week.

A sad sad tale.....

Brain-Dead Teen, Only Capable Of Rolling Eyes And Texting, To Be Euthanized

We...I...have been dragged into the world of taa daaaaaa.......

We bought a Samsung TV,then a new DVD player with the BlueRay/Netflix software and are now tuned up and plugged into the world of movies on demand. So far....I am ambivalent. Lots of titles but I dunno...tonight tho,Sharon is watching a gut wrenching, tear causing chic flic that seems to please her no end. Me? I am doing this and making supper.

2012-01-31T11:06:00.000-08:00

That waterproof camera I bought for the birthday party worked like a hot damn! God tome video's, some underwater pix of kids and the kids played with it and had a blast.

There is a new FaceBook menu available.

Flash Mob in NY celebrating West Side Story.

We are off to New Orleans for Mardi Gras..which also happens to be Sharon's birthdate. Feb21st. I figured this pic of boats loaded with cotton was a cute segue.

Going to be staying at a B&B with some other relly's of the birthday girl. Her sister and her husband, from Oregon are joining up and will be sharing accommodations. There are lots of things to learn first.

Like the Bounce.

And figuring out the transit.

I like old photos and this is of the Golden Gate Bridge.

2012-01-26T17:06:00.000-08:00

What is it about lingerie shops that brings out the best in many of us?

La Sensa one of the better known shops.....note all the places listed on the label? doesn't mention Prince George tho. How insensitive. In fact...they should consider doing that for every location....have the bags with the stores city, in with Moscow, Istanbul, etc......

Actually..while we are on the topic..one of my favorite bitches is..well, yes, she is, but that is not what I going to say....I was saying that men are not made to feel very comfortable and I think that that is a missed opportunity for the shops. If I were asked..I'd say that there ought to be a mans 'event' once a month or so. An afternoon or evening for men only, when a store would have male sales staff and maybe a decent coffee service going on. How can that not translate into sales?

Bloody hell, that was a drive and a half, getting back on Monday.

One of our neighbors was kind enough to have plowed a path in to the door.

This is from a drive around one of the local streets....Dunn.