If money could have bought a cure…

I’m feeling a bit guilty today, you see, back in 2004 I had
16 thousand or so songs on my 160 gig external hard drive in Iraq and at that
time maybe 10 thousand pictures.  Once of
my Marine buddies wanted asked to copy some of my music and I said sure.  He plugged it into his Mac laptop and it
changed the format of the entire hard drive and I lost everything.  Well, all of the music anyhow, I

Remembering

A few snap shots of what September 11th means from friends in blogland what I really found out in this search?  That many of my old blogging links are dead or haven't blogged in years.  I deleted a bunch of links and need to move some around it looks like.  This is what happens when real life intrudes in your cyber life.  I've decided to leave the blogs up of those who posted in Iraq but quit

A Decade...

Tonight, I’m sitting in front of a flat screen TV watching
Frontline on PBS, my dogs snoozing on both sides of me and my beautiful wife
working out on the elliptical on the other side of the room.  I have 14 squadron Corpsman, of whom I herd
like cats and spend an extraordinary amount of time trying to keep my programs
at work running on a day to day basis. 
Life is full and busy, both

Labor Day Dustman Camping Trip

Reminder to self, when driving Neal (my Toyota Tacoma with
265,000 miles, named Neal because it’s 220,000 miles to the moon and we’re
currently driving back), not to run the A/C when going from a couple hundred
feet elevation to 7000 feet of elevation.  





Our trip started out with an almost disaster (or disaster if
you’re not me, even though I’m a corpsman, I have a degree in automotive

Lenovo z570 Core i7

Back in 2008, I needed some more processing power to put together my squadron's deployment video and purchased a Toshiba gaming laptop which worked great for what I needed but lately, I've noticed that it struggled with processing HD movies and handling what my new camera put out. The thought of a new laptop was lurking in the back of my mind.Well a couple of weeks ago, one of my dogs (I believe

A Wedding Cake Weekend

Back in 2009, I posted some pictures of going to a steampunk event called Skeleton Key and my friend Nate took a liking to a girl who was in the picture.He said something like… oh, new Facebook search, you can pull up your old messages, on September 9th 2009, he said exactly this-“I've decided 2 things1. San Diego needs to have events like skeleton key. That looks badass, and I'm sick of my goth/

Spring Break with the Son

Collin is out for the week and here's some pictures from the adventures we had last weekend in Davenport Beach. He's 17 and almost as tall as me, man I'm getting old, one of my new check-in's last weekend at the squadron was just a year older then him.Here's some pictures and a video I took, enjoy.

For Hire

World renowned blogger, medic, photographer & mechanic. If this sounds like something you need to record your next trip into the badlands after the zombie apocalypse, trip or wedding. I’m your guy, can do photos, video, fix anything, machine, body or spirit and write about it, also a fair shot and a decent cook. Flexible is my middle name, will work for money, geek gear, food, beer or gas, in

A photo shoot with Fall of a Tyrant

A while back (months and months), one of my buddies told me to come and check out his band, being an average person of this internet age. I went to the bands website and was appalled by what I found. The pictures sucked (really, they did) and that they sucked so bad that I offered my photography services for free of charge to fix the problem, perhaps even shoot a video for them (my ulterior

Duval Street in Key West

Taking some low light images while walking around last night, while California is cold and rainy, most of the people down here are in shorts and flipflops.  I'm looking forward to seeing the Bride when I pull back into town but am going to miss the warm weather and good fishing of the Keys.

Some pictures in Key West with the 7d

Key West take 3

Much better trip then Iraq take 3, I'm down here wth VFA-122 conducting some air to air training and perhaps getting some fishing done.  I've spent much of the weekend tuned into CNN with a close watch on Japan, my sister and her family are in Atsugi, they're fine but shaken up, no pun intended. 
This happening to Japan, I have a feeling the online video sites are going to be flooded with some

Yosemite with the Canon 7d

Things that I found out, 430 pictures taken in large RAW and JPEG and a minute HD video with fill a 16 gig card.Perhaps I need to being a laptop with me so I can see how the full sized image looks and to get the light settings right. I'm still working on my light, some of my pictures are coming out a bit over exposed, only one way to make that right, practice. Here are some shots I took yesterday

Soon to be a Second Class Sprint Citizen

I’ve been a happy Sprint customer for years, even though every time I go to my home town of Prescott AZ, until a couple months ago, they didn’t even have 3g service. Being such a good customer I was eligible for the Sprint Premier program with let me upgrade my primary device every 12 months and it was just recently that they got any devices that challenged the other networks.12 months roll

Hero laid to rest

Saturday the 26th, we laid my brides grandfather, Marine MSgt Ken Maddux to rest with full honors at the Oak Hill Cemetery in San Jose, the family wanted me to take some pictures.

I am the proud parent of a Canon 7d

As most of my readers know, I'm a picture taking fool and it's something I deeply enjoy doing. In a couple of years, I'm going to have to figure out what I want to do when I grow up. I enjoy seeing life through a lens and when I can, putting it down in written form. Last week I took a step towards the rest of my life by sinking a great wad of cash into this camera, a Canon 7d.my new babyWhile I'm

Bravery from the Home Front: Top 50 Blogs for Army Wives (or Spouses)

Doc in the Box was just listed as Number 27 on the list of helpful blogs for military wives or spouses, some good info here.

Master Sergeant Kenneth Earl Maddux, Retired

My first obituary with my wife as the editor..He was born July 9th, 1922 in Watsonville, CA, died February 16th, 2011 at 88 years old.Kenneth joined the Marines on September 10th 1942, and following bootcamp, was assigned to 5851 Seacoast Artillery Battery on Eastern Island where he served in the fire Control section for 18 months. Upon returning to the states, he married his fiancée and high

Yosemite

We made a trek to Yosemite for Valentines day with the dogs and for those who haven't experienced it, I made a small video because I thought it was interesting.

Marines will be Marines

I miss being a full time Corpsman of Marines, last night I discovered Terminal Lance, which gave me a reminder of where I came from. It's a web comic, one of my former Marines, Jay, posted this clip on my Facebook wall and introduced me, thanks brother! After spending hours just reading the comic's I started down into the story's beneath them and saying to myself, I've been there. Maximilian

You know your Famous when...

...Someone impersonates you on Facebook. The other day, I got a friends request from a someone who shared no friends with me there. So I did the normal thing, sent her an email asking did I know her? Took a look at her profile and saw that she had a post that said, "Jean and Sean Dustman are now friend", huh? I didn't accept her friends request! So I clicked on Sean Dustman and found my