Name:Ezra Country:United States State:Mississippi Metro:Corinth Birthday:2/12/1983 Gender:Male
Interests:Lin,Writing in most forms, photography, singing, cooking(darn good at it too.), comedy, Really Pathetic Productions,movies, video games, hiking, baseball, etc... Expertise:Writing, photography, web design, parody, forming ideas. Occupation:Writer, Web Comic Creator, wha Industry:Media
I might have said no one up until yesterday... but right now if I had the power I'd give my good friend Dan Schulz the gift of life again. Dan (Or Albatross as he was known on Classicbattletech.com) passed away a couple of days ago at the age of 30, far too young for a person to leave this planet these days...especially in a country such as ours. Like many of you that follow me here on Xanga, I never met him in person, though I wanted to on many occasions. Despite this, he has been a great friend online, even longer than I have been blogging here. He helped several people with their websites, even offering to host mine on many occasions... I still even use the menu bar he designed for my Web site. Right now it's still hard to believe he's gone and to be taken after having to lose his mother in the summer and struggling each month just to make ends meet. If anyone should have died, it wasn't him... and I will miss him tremendously. I've lost a couple of relatives, but never a friend who was only four years older than I am. If I could, I'd be in his home town now, offering any help I could. It may not be much, but this week I dedicate in your memory Dan. Rest in Peace.
You mean other than conception, growth in the womb and birth? I'm not really sure I could nail it down to three events or things... each day of my life has been a contributing factor to who I am and who I will be in the future. I suppose I could try and squeeze it into three categories to somewhat play along with this question.
One of them certainly has to be my exposure to music, for it has given me a chance to play instruments like the cello as well as piano and sing. My piano teacher Mrs. Settler is largely responsible for a good bit of that appreciation and I still like to be a part of a ditty when I get a chance.
Another area has to be humor... I would not be the sarcastic, bitter and wise acre that I am today with out this. I can trace some of my comedy back to my parents and often blame my mother for dexterity of pun. I pay homage to many comedians and their works, though Monty Python and Weird Al are royalty.
Third has to be my faith, beliefs or whatever you want to call it. I am not your average Christian... I'm certainly much more open to ideas than some might be comfortable with. Sure I still have a couple of ideals that are conservative, but I will never make someone not practicing what I do feel awkward about it.
That's about as detailed as I feel about getting today... I'm off to other heroic deeds this day.
No, I'm not going to hire you to decorate my home, but I though I'd share pictures of two of the wineries I visited while in Texas. This also will be the last of my vacation pictures on Xanga for this trip, but I will try to put up a link to Facebook soon. Until then, here's a glass or four for you.
This first picture is of the Caprock Winery doors, located in Lubbock Texas it is one of five in the county. The second picture is of the sculpture above the doors. I bought one of their wines, the Palo Duro Canyon Red (A mix of dry and sweet, smooth and spicy).
These next two are from LouViney Winery in Sulphur Springs Texas... a restaurant combined with the wines they sell. I did not buy any wines there, but came close to buying their Belle which is a fruity sweet red. Lin models what I tried in the first, and I would love to have this wine rack they had in the second picture.
I also visited McPherson Cellars, which is in downtown lubbock in the old coca cola bottling plant. Of the wines I tried, I liked and ended up buying their Hook Line and Sinker white wine, which is pleasantly sweet. On our way back to Mississippi the day before we went to LouViney, we stopped at Times Ten Cellars in Dallas/Ft. Worth and enjoyed a few chocolates with the wine tasting (Very Swanky restaurant was a part of it too, but we could not afford to dine there that night). I knew right away I had to take home a bottle of their Muscat Blanc which was the sweetest of all those I tried...a white with strong citrus flavors. Next time I go to lubbock I'd like to visit Llano Estacado, but will be happy with the Blush and Sweet Red of theirs I bought at the grocery store.
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