Air Mexico

My son and I went on a little zip line adventure in the hills of Sayulita. Here he is flying across the third zip line. You can tell by his very cool "good" at the end of the clip that he figures he is an old hand at this jungle flying.

The office memo that ate the world

Have you ever noticed how the convience of email and the ability to communicate with family and friends from all around the world quickly and cheaply has been turned into nothing more than a glorified office memo. Personally I work in a position with just enough authority that people feel it necessary to cc me on pretty much every friggin email they can conjure up. Everything from, the city informing god knows who about the city facitilites that have been booked for the upcoming week to parents asking for homework for their children to messages to the custodians complaining the waste paper basket still has a piece of scrap paper in it from the previous day. What is worse than getting all of the mundane messages that actually pertain to you...? It is getting cc'd in on mundane messages that don't pertain to you and in most cases relate to people or events that you don't have a clue about. Now one could argue that my recieveing these messages should be taken as a clue that I should actually get invlolved and try and figure out how they do involve me. I rather take them as a challenge in creating mail rules that will allow my junk mail filter to block them. On top of getting all of these messages is the fact that we get sucked into using your email account for nothing more than work related crap. While we constantly lament the lack of time we have to keep in contact with people important to us and how our busy lives leave us with little motivation to send out those christmas cards from last December we always seem to have time to send out the latest email to our colleagues clarifiying the previous email that was sent as an explaination of the instructions to the original email. When our total misuse of this great technology truely hits you is when you go on vacation like I have this week. During a typical work day I will receive approxiamtely 175 messages a day. While I have been on holiday that number has dropped to 4 a day with three of those having to do with ways to improve my manhood but that is a different post. Why do you ask am I writing about this, well I think we should take back control of our email accounts and refuse to read or send work related messages after 7 pm. If you have something to say at that time you should go talk to your family and leave the work stuff for the morning. I also think we need to quit the ccing. If the message is not important enough to the person to warrant them to be included in the addressees then they don't need it sent to them. They are probably not reading it anyway so save yourself the trouble. Most importantly, use your email for what it should be, a powerful way to stay in contact with those people who are important to you. That is all I have to say about that. now to get back to those emails about my manhood.

camera man

camera man
Originally uploaded by kinglewy.

I recently gave my older son a cheap little digital camera and he has taken to photography. He has already graduated to a little better model with a zoom. It is great to see him laying on the ground or climbing on the rocks to try and get the shot he wants. It is even better to look at the photos after and get a little glimpse into how he sees the world. This shot is of him taking pictures of the Iguanas in Sayulita. To see his pictures of our spring break in Sayulita click http://www.flickr.com/photos/kinglewy/sets/72157600044177141/