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Hi all!  are you coming to the Galileo Hall of Merit induction dinner?  It's a couple of days from now.  I just did a search of the other ten inductees.  About three are posthumous inductions...meaning they are no longer around.  As for me I'm alive and fine...well...as fine as it's gonna get with some conditions.  At first I did not think much about being inducted into the Galileo Hall of Merit.  In fact I was nominated last year and I turned it down.  This year they nominated me again and kicked me in.

I shouldn't take this lightly...I mean to be recognized by my high school, a center of higher education for my achievements in life.  Hmmm....what are my achievements?  I'm not rich or anything.  I'm a struggling artist and turning sixty-five.  I still have to look for work.  So I can't say I'm a successful artist held up as an example for our youths to look up to as a role model.

I have stayed true to my art nevertheless.  In the past 47 years since graduating from Galileo I have accomplished a lot of things.  Did I become rich from it?  No.  So I guess the selection committee did not go by how fat my wallet is.

Nevertheless I will graciously accept this award.  Is there an actual hall?  And my name appears on a brass plaque mounted to the wall?  I don't think so.

My First Time Making Lamb Dumlings

I am trying to do an entry using my new iPhone7 for the first time.

I made dumplings using lamb meat with cumin for the first time.

Now to figure out how to load photos here...

Damn can't upload photos here... 

Sapo ~ Suavecito ~

Ten best foods for my situation

http://www.diabetes.org/food-and-fitness/food/what-can-i-eat/making-healthy-food-choices/diabetes-superfoods.html

Signing off for 2015

 

It's been a pretty rough year.  

No business.  Hardly any business.

With on demand inkjet tshirt printing there is less of a demand for screen printing.

Photography.  Hardly any business.  It's gotten to a point where I only do street photography for fun.

The city is under siege by the homeless 

Photos from the Golden Spike anniversary two years ago

 

This was at the Chinese Arch a few miles from the Golden Spike park.  It was previously called the Chinamen's Arch until 2009 when the local OCA had the Utah National Park change the name

 

A poem by Richard Chang composed while walking to the Chinese Arch.

 

 At the two locomotives replicas.

 

  

 that night at a hosted party...sorry forgot their name.

 

Salt Lake City resident Margaret Yee, (center) a descendent of a railroad worker

1770 photographer

I actually applied for a job...I have not held a job for 24 years!  I was surprised they actually selected me to test for this job.  When I got to the test site I found there were like 200 other applicants lined up for this test.

 I was up all night chasing out this bum that's been sleeping in our circuit breaker room.  Called the police and all.  

Jacked myself up with coffee.  Hoping to get a ride from my daughter to find her sound asleep... I just took the 19 Polk bus to the test site. 

About 200 applicants taking this test!  How many jobs are there for this position? 

About a third of the people lined up were "old" meaning mid-age and up.  There were some of the most finest local photographers.  Some familiar faces.  All without enough work to stay self employed and ready to trade it in for a straight conventional eight to five job.  Taking orders from a supervisor.  Putting up with workplace politics, gossip, snitching, etc.

It's the same with me.  I kind of fell out of the wedding photography biz.  Portrait business was never significant and I don't have a regular studio space.  I hardly get hired to photograph events or anything.  The t-shirt printing business have pretty much came to a standstill.  The graphics and illustration business was never significant.  Even selling artwork is tough.

Putting the kids through college and then having this lawsuit on me by my brother has drained my savings.  

While many of my friends are now retiring or already retired... Here I am looking for a job at 63.  How sad.   But nevertheless I need money to pay my bills and expenses.  And to deal with this lawsuit.  I will not have a place to live if I don't deal with it.

The test was tough.  A lot about how to handle over 100 year old nitrate based negatives.  About 20% of the test I WAG'd it... Wild Ass Guessed it.  I doubt if I will get this job.  

If I do get this job it won't be easy too.  If I get projects going I'll be burning the candle at both ends.