one more test

Just one more test. I had uploaded the latest wordpress app to my blackberry storm (1 or 9530 or first model) and now I’ve uploaded it to my blackberry bold (9000). First of all, it is much easier for me to type on the bold. I like my storm and the large. touch screen, not to mention the camera, but I can type much quicker on the physical keyboard.
I will post this and probably stay with this new theme for awhile.
Wouldn’t be great if we all found something important, significant and helpful to post to a blog each day. We are inundated everyday with agendas and a lot of negativity. Wouldn’t it be great to tackle real challenging issues as a team with differing perspectives. Maybe just maybe we could find some solutions to issues instead of agendas.
Ok enough of that. I need to figure out if there is a spell check on this wordpress/blackberry application. Haha

This new them I am using gives me a twit…

This new theme I’m using gives me a twitter-like box at the top to enter posts/blogs to this page. I can only do it when logged in, so I am guessing others visiting can only “reply” to posts. it is a nice short cut to post. There is another theme that really has a facebook/twitter look that may allow for an interaction between those posting to a page. I may set one up just to see if it works.
I am not sure why we all do this sort of thing. Maybe just to kill time, pass along thoughts to those who might be listening or to just share stories with families and loved ones. Maybe it’s just a little of everything. It is fairly easy to communicate this way.

a wordpress test from my blackberry

Just a quick little post from my blackberry storm. Just updated the wordpress/blackberry app from a link at CrackBerry.com this morning. That started this last hour of blogging. Spending time looking at different themes, etc.
I read through a blog page of a life long friend yesterday and found myself so happy that it was there. I think it’s about time I should do a little of this. If only just to share a story or two.
Well I will publish this one from the blackberry and see if it works.

a breakaway in detroit

Here is my test on this new theme with a video clip added to a blog. This is a clip of Dalton with a breakaway goal at a tournament in Detroit this September (2009). He is playing for Team Rocky Mountain U16 AAA team out of Denver, CO. One of the players father’s has videotaped many of the games and has edited some fantasic footage. We will all enjoy for years to come.

a new theme

This theme may actually help me use my blog a little more. I will test it with my blackberry as well. Iwill see if it allows me to link or display photos and videos. I’ll insert one of my favorites of the boys in this post, then I’ll try and do the same with a video clip in the next. I like posting a photo with a blog if anything to add some color to the whole thing. This photo was from the 2008-9 season of hockey. Dalton was playing for the Mountain States Renegades Midget Minor AA team and Blake was playing on the Renegades Mite team. For a lot of reasons I like this photo. One is that is see a lot of their day to day personality in the shot. Speaking of the shot, Tom Miller took the photo. He does a lot of things and one is photography. For more information on Tom’s photography go to www.crossbarphoto.com.

This year Dalton is playing hockey for Team Rocky Mountain (TRM) U16 AAA out of Denver. Blake is in his last year of mites. He was supposed to start today, but he has out grown his skates and I need to find a new pair for him.

That should be enough for testing this theme and posting a photo with a blog. Next up a video clip and then a post from my blackberry using the wordpress/blackberry application.

Spending some time on this page for the …

Spending some time on this page for the first time in awhile. Trying new themes, etc. Can’t find a way to keep consistantly using this page. Maybe if I find the right theme.

… and so there became a copperslide

Sometimes you decide to do things simply because you can. Sometimes you decide to do things simply because others can’t. Sometimes you decide to do things simply because others won’t and you will… and so there became a copperslide.

For a number of years, I have enjoyed the sound of a slide guitar. The slick and polished sound, the rock and roll electric slide guitar sound and the raw acoustic, down and dirty blues sound. The combination of different types of guitars and different types of slides has always provided many voices for the slide guitar.  I am not sure that I have a preference and certainly do not believe one type is better than the other. I think it is better to have more ground to explore than less. I encourage all slide players, from the beginner to the pro to have a number of different types of slides available. Listen to the differences between them. Find ways to use each whenever possible. Think of it as a way to expand the playing field.

Expand the playing field is what I decided to do. Over the years I have used different types of slides. I bought some and I made some. I enjoyed most. In that time, I have always been drawn to acoustic blues playing. The slide playing of the pre-war (WWII) blues players has always been with me in one way or another. There was a raw beauty in the sounds from those old recordings, something very natural and real. Also over the years, I started using a slide I made from copper. I enjoyed the feel, the weight and the raw sound it created. Somewhere along the way I thought that others should have one more option in the arsenal.

In the world of copper I found that not all things are equal or the same. I played around with a number of styles, sizes, weights, thicknesses, you name it… I tried it. This isn’t a trip to the hardware store as I had originally thought. It was finding what had the best tone for me. What produced the sound I was looking for. Over the years I found that tone and that sound.

Now I make and sell them at www.copperslide.com. I have become a craftsman of sorts. Partly for a number of reasons and partly for reasons unknown. Probably more specifically because sometimes you decide to do things simply because others won’t and you will… and so there became a copperslide.

high school reunion… 30 years of good friends

Having returned from my 30 year high school reunion, I am probably doing a little of what everyone does. Looking back over the years, and thinking about the friends I have had longer than any others in my life. We all had a great time. We stayed up later than we have in 25 years, we played harder than we have in years and probably laughed and smiled more than we have in recent memory.

The first night was a get together at one of the better known bars in the area. Thirty years ago, it had a wild reputation. Now it is tame, remodled and a good place for our class to reunite. After leaving there we went to one of our classmates homes. She was a gracious host and as I left her house at three in the morning, I wondered how long everyone else intended to stay.

We went to the lake on Saturday with one of my closest friends in life. We have known each other since kindergarten, became college roomates and were each others best men. He brought his boat out for the day. My 15 year old spent much of that time being pulled on skis or on a tube. Very fun and enough video to post on youtube for our families to remember.

That night we had a class dinner at the country club. More fun reconnecting with classmates. Then off to our classmates home again and this time until four in the morning.

Sunday morning consisted of a nice big breakfast, a drive around town and a drive up on the mountain. I also had to pick up some items my dad had stored there from an elementary school he attended. It was torn down in the last year and they were giving away all sorts of memorabilia. I also drove by the house I grew up in. It has been so many years ago it is hard to imagine that some of my favorite years in life come from that house, the backyard and the neighbors I grew up with.

Now back home, I have plenty of time to think about the friends that came to the reunion. Just like the reunions before, I think they are too far apart. It seems though a bigger push is to do the next one in five years. Hope so!

wordpress from my blackberry storm.

After switching my blackberry storm from compatibility mode it appears that the wordpress app is working. The only way to find out is to publish the blog. It’s late but I’m curious. Typing is much quicker on my blackberry bold.

testing an update for wordpress/blackberry

Everytime I look, there is an update to the wordpress/blackberry application. I am not complaining, that is a good thing. So far the app has worked very well on my blackberry bold. It locks up my blackberry storm. I am sure at some point one of the updates will work for the storm.

This is just a test of the updated version of the app on my blog. Nothing really new here.