Getting Sick

It's been a long time since I've gotten sick, I took a interest in my health five years ago and started drinking green tea and watching what I eat, I wish I could say I exercise more, but I don't- Wait, if you call chasing your kids around all day and picking up constantly after them exercise then YES! but I digress. Sunday I woke up feeling really bad and ignored it until Mr Toilet's call could no longer be ignored and it came with fury... It was coming out both ends at the same time, I cleansed my colon and then some! How about that bile too, Yum-O! After that drama I passed out for 2 hours only to wake up to my kids waving a KFC drumstick above my nose asking me if I was hungry, those secret 11 herbs and spices do wonders to awaken the nausea all over again, they should use that instead of ipecac! Hence round Two... Back to bed!

Three peaceful colonel-less hours later I reawaken feeling a bit better and decide I need water and some sorta food. I make it downstairs to the pleasant aroma of cold KFC and coleslaw, no repeat! I make myself a bowl of rice and like Cain from Kung Fu I meditate while eating it and and savor every soy sauce soaked grain, alias it stays down!

I don't know where I got this bug, a bad jellybean, tainted lemonade, where ever it came from I sent it home running in fear, I was fine Monday morning , swine flu... come and get me!

Squeezing the Trigger

I press down ever so lightly but quickly and click, the deed is done! I've been taking pictures since I was 15 years old, I didn't really know what I was doing till I was 17, but I liked the idea. back then it was film, wait... until eight years ago it was film and I always tried to be frugal with my film, Man, I wanted to put my winder on continuous when I was taking pictures of girls it sounded so sexy and impressive but alas it was always one picture at a time, gotta still pay for that Kmart processing!

My point is because I was cheap, frugal, careful or whatever you wanna call it I always felt you could get your shot in 1-2 pictures, and now that I'm all digital, I'm still that way, sometimes I'll take someones picture and they'll say " Is that it? " and I'll say "yeah", its because Ive spent 45 seconds setting up that "ONE" shot all it takes is 1 or 2 frames and I have it! I'm trying to get better at this, I now will shoot 5-6 to make sure and try different settings.

A friend once called me a purest and she was right I guess, If I could still use film everyday I would, maybe I'm more of a minimalist..after all it's just that one moment were looking for huh!

Why does 32 miles make a difference...

I've lived in El Paso, Texas for 17 years now and before that Las Cruces for almost eight. There's always been one thing I don't understand and can't live with about the differences between the two towns, it's the green chile thing! Why is it that right up the road in Las Cruces; hell, even closer the south Mesilla Valley, you can go to a restaurant and get green chile dishes and green chile served as a condiment ie: pizza/burger topping , but in 90 percent of the restaurant's in El Paso they act like it doesn't exist!

C'mon!!! El Paso claims to be the "Mexican Food Capital of the World" or whatever, and yet when you look for green chile in the restaurant's they say, "No we don't have it" or "It's too hot!" But they eat jalapenos with all their meals and put hot sauce on EVERYTHING !! Is it a Mexican thing or a New Mexican thing, I've yet to figure it out! Oh, and another thing they refer to green chile as "Chile California" yet 95 percent of it is grown in the Hatch/Mesilla/Deming area! This has got to be the most ass backwards town! I would think El Paso would embrace this and feature it as part of their local promotions for the city, but that's thinking progressively... God forbid!

Why the Trout???

Coming up for a name for this blog was kinda weird, I mean what do you call something you really know nothing about? I didn't wanna give it a simple name like "The DQ Blog" or sumpin' stupid like that, so I thought what do people do on the Internet that has something to do with me at the same time, well aside from a few rude and em brassing titles I thought " People fish" People love to go fishin on the Internet and see what they come up with and I do it too for relaxing, just like real fishing my favorite pastime and hobby, Hence "The Trout Chronicles"

How often will I write about Trout? I don't know , I don't care, but I will write about all my stupid adventures in my crazy yet interesting life.I promise you I will only write when I think its worth reading, I tend to put myself in situations just so I can see the outcome or just to see how people react, so it should get interesting! I wish I could tell you how often I will update this, again I don't know...blah,blah,blah!!! Check back when you 'member maybe I'll send out a posting update, we'll see...