I’ve always used a Tom-Tom. My current one was purchases in 2012. They have served me well. Recently I received an email saying I needed to update it. When I did so, I was informed that my unit was obsolete and would soon have some problems communicating with the satellites and this would also be my last update. They offered me a big discount on a new one. A week or so later we were traveling through Northern Nevada on I-80 when I received a call saying I needed to visit a guy down in Minden, which is south of Carson City. When I entered the address, I was told to turn south at Battle Mountain, travel 89 miles to highway 50 and then west to Minden. Well, this wasn’t going to happen since I needed to stop in Lovelock and talk to some people. Once I got past Battle Mountain, Tom-Tom wanted me to turn around and take the southern route at every exit for the next thirty five miles. It’s never behaved that way for that many miles. Then several days ago, I received an email saying I needed to download a software fix. Hopefully, the fix allows Tommy to recalculate the route like before.

Here's the entrance to Arches right now. The whole area has become a rat race with to many people. My brother was there last weekend for a wedding and said it took them a half hour to get into town from the river bridge due to the traffic. The locals are fed up with it.

https://www.nps.gov/customcf/webcam/dsp_webcam_image.cfm?webCam=56868082BFC4C0304BC42AC98309AE31419DBF398CABCEAD96A201D7B8158A419DFACC9991A48F0DCD95110C85D09D8B80&thumbnail=56868082BFC4C0304BC42AC98309AE31419DBF399ABCCFA6D8A3179BAB09C659DAF4CA958A968E13D89A1A00829796D48E57B854520F83878145A7A3AD66BC9A810E94A8CEF78C96BB&refreshRate=60&title=7F80979AA98DCF5A52C72F86831AB83F7586A86292A1C2&width=1024&height=768&parkID=arch&altText=6A9A91D28D8C8C7759C07D82830DAF7E4891AC3689A1CDAAD7BC0688BC138A41DBF5D9DA8D948C1EDE975730B5DEC6C2D61AB65D1708C483D34EA08EB06EB292&description=6A9A9D81EC898A7D5FD230C7840AFD734991A8629EAA8CAF83EF0692BC47A85BD1F3DB89D99E950BDE92190683DE848F864EB05C595CCD889706A68FF964B29589139293DCAD8991BD8EDAEF8D9182D95D9B97AC809BA697D3ADA7B976CB9AE0134FA62FB79EB29A92EF105495B993B987AFBA824697AB93B3AB6FBE11A84980D3C2DF1F444E85A4A12DA0C7

When you signed up, you agreed to let Adobe access your computer at least once a month when you open their product.

THE COST!

https://www.irli.org/single-post/2017/09/27/New-FAIR-Study-Illegal-Immigration-Costs-116-billion-Annually?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpPOx8KO54QIVTP_jBx3u0A-IEAAYASAAEgKkuvD_BwE

Wilhelm Research was reporting on this problem back in 2012

http://wilhelm-research.com/hp/WIR_HP-3rdParty_2012_09_24.pdf

Here's how screwed up the US Mail is. I'm currently living in Battle Mountain, Nevada; it's in the northern part of the state along I-80. If I want to mail a letter to someone in this town, that letter will be sent to Salt Lake City, three hundred and twelve miles away and then returned to Battle Mountain.

Here’s another one. Recently I did some drone photography for some people in Spring Creek, Nevada; it’s about seventy five miles from me. I mailed the photos out on a Thursday and the receipt said they would arrive on Saturday. They made a stop in Elko, Nevada and then on to Salt Lake City and then back to Elko and then out to Spring Creek which is about ten miles away. The photos arrived on Tuesday.

Here’s one more. I bought a used book on Amazon; it was mailed from Payson, Utah and send to Denver, Colorado (482 road miles in the other direction) and then on to me (832 road miles). The book was in transit for seven days.

But then there’s this one. I won an auction on Ebay and the item was shipped priority mail from Maine and it arrived in three days

Lots of ink here. Even if it's expired it's still good if it's sealed.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1311.R4.TR6.TRC2.A0.H0.Xepson+r2000.TRS0&_nkw=epson+r2000+ink&_sacat=0

I use a Samsung Galaxy Tab A6 with my DJI Phantom three. It has a brightness setting to cope with the sunlight, but the screen is still highly reflective and problematic in bright sunshine. I decided to custom build a six inch deep hood for it, but that didn’t resolve the problem so I built a deeper one that still didn’t help. My newest creation is more of a tapered snoot. It’s sixteen inches long, enclosed on all sides, with an opening on the bottom near the screen that allows for camera adjustments. My end is covered with a thin piece of black foam that has a single one inch round hole. This hood works great with the reflection gone when my eye is pressed against the foam. Now I need to build a more durable hood out of high density quarter inch foam.

You can't rely on the internet when it comes to hawk identification. The bottom photo is a falcon, note the under eye markings and the long slender wings. The Cooper's has short broad wings.

I think it's a Cooper's hawk or it's little brother the Sharp-shinned Hawk. The Cooper's has a rounded tail, whereas the Sharp-shinned is smaller and has a squared off tail.

Get a copy of the Photographers Market from Amazon. It has lots of information in it. consider buying used, a lot of times they look like new.
Search for stock photography here on the site. https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/search-topic-list?q=stock+photography&sectnum=0&username=

https://www.amazon.com/Photographers-Market-2018-Noel-Rivera/dp/1440352534/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1539483982&sr=1-1&keywords=photographers+market+2018

Several months ago, there were four Loon Balloons over the western states according Flight Radar 24. Today I looked around the globe and couldn’t spot one. With a little research, I come across the second link that shows two different high altitude balloons over the western states and more over Europe.


https://www.flightradar24.com/27.94,-105.18/7

https://tracker.habhub.org/#!mt=roadmap&mz=6&qm=1_day&mc=60.50551,16.29902&q=!RS_*

You were likely seeing a Google Project Loon balloon. I've seen them many times on Flight radar 24

https://www.theverge.com/2015/3/2/8129543/google-x-internet-balloon-project-loon-interview

Have a look at Precision Colors Ink, they get good reviews. You can try their inks for thirty five dollars. They also have icc profiles for a lot of papers. Something not offered by most third party ink sellers.

https://www.precisioncolors.com/index.html