Sunday, December 14, 2008

December Blues

Thanksgiving was uneventful for me.Was supose to go to Mahoney State park for a Thanksgiving dinner but I got blown off by a "friend".JuSt ended up staying home and making a Turkey pot pie.I could of went to my moms but I wasn't in the mood to be hanging around people after I got blownoff.

The X has finally moved out and got her apartment. She seems happy to have her own place now. Her work schedule is always changing so I end up seeing her quite a bit picking up the kids to watch while shes workin. She spends time with Cadyn in the mornings and I usually have him at nights. Seems to work for the most part for now.

December and xmas is always a bad time of year for me personally. I try to keep up the face of a happy camper for the kids but my x had made decisions in her life that affected me pretty horribley this time of year. Sucks but is life I guess.

Life is getting pretty tough lately. I havn't had internet or cable for a few months now cause Im keeping up with the things that are important for the kids and I to survive. It sucks but you have to do what you gotta do. Its freezing out side and yesterday it was close to 60. I hate the cold weather.. I have code class for the next 3 nights for continuing education for my electrical liscense..I enjoy learning new things about my job but this class comes at a goofy time for sure. Im done for now. Later.

Sunday, November 9, 2008

And life is still crazy

Tomorrow I think the x is going to start moving her stuff to her new apartment.It feels like my life could be getting better but deep down for some reason I am gonna miss all the drama and other shit that happens to me on a weekly basis when I am dealing with my x on a daily basis. I was able to meet some old school mates from 20 yrs ago, amazing how much stuff can happen to people in 20 years. It was a great time.

Sunday, July 6, 2008

July 4th




There hasn't been to much going on really this month other than the everyday family stuff. The 4th of July what pretty good. There was some small events going on in the town I live in and it was a moderate busy day. I have the kids for the day while there mom was working till 3pm. I took Cadyn in the stroller to the local chuch as they were having a pancake feed. I was surprised that Cadyn ate as much as he did cause he is suck a picky eater. After that I took to the where they were haveing these little train rides for the kids. Cadyn really loves trains and he has a great time riding the train. There was a lady there that watches Cadyn for us so she took him on the train so I could take some photos. After a few photos I took him with me on the train again so we got to ride it 2 times and he was happy about that. There was a parade and they throw out candy every year so Cadyn had a fun time grabing all the candy that was thrown toward him. Like he really needed that candy, he is so high strung as it is he didn't need any more sugar for the day that is for sure. We shot off fireworks later and then went to the towns big blow off and I was able to take some fireworks photos for the first time and I was happy they seemed to come out rather well for being an amature photographer.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonycastillo/sets/72157605986339955/

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Storm Chasing

I have been looking at some storm photography and wanted to add this link to my blog so I don't loose it and can share it with the rest of you.
http://www.extremeinstability.com/

Saturday, June 14, 2008

Things in June

It was my birthday the 9th. Was just another day nothing exciting happened. There have been a lot of storms in the last few weeks and I have posted some of the lightning photos that I took on my flickr account if anyone is interested in looking at them. I got my stimulus check and I went out and stimulated myself with a new flash for my Camera. I have been needing one for a while and thought it was a good time for the addon. I haven't had to much time to mess with it but am looking forward to see how some photos look. The next Lincoln Camera Club Meeting is next Tuesday, that is one thing I enjoy going to every month. I am showing a missile site tomorrow and hope that the people looking at it will buy it. Time will tell.

Monday, May 26, 2008

My first attemps at photographing water drops


This is one of about 30 photos I took to see if I could capture a water droplet in the sink at my house. This one appears to be the best one out of them all. This was an experiment for me and I need to work on it some more. I did enjoy trying to do it, it was something new to try and very fun.

Memorial Day Blues

It is Memorial Day. I would like to thank all who have given there lives for our freedom and the freedom of others. It has been a tiring day as I have been feeling sick for the last few days. Is some kind of chest, sinus cold I believe so it is leaving me tired. I have been chasing around my 2 yr old son and that doesn't help matters much either. Not to much really going on besides that. I did some updating of my web site. I have also been working on my other blogs. I have finally had to start writing down all my accounts and passwords for all my sites.

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Lincoln Camera Club


Just got back from the May Salon for the Lincoln Camera Club. It was hosted at the Knolls restaurant this year and I had a really good time. It is always fun to meet other people that have the same interests in photography as I do. I have been to 2 of there meetings before tonight and this year they invited non-members to go to the May Salon so I was glad to go. I am planing on joining them this month and am looking forward to meeting more people. I invite anyone in Lincoln that has an interest in Photography to come to a meeting. I was really interested in the presenter for the night. His name was Ken Dewey, he works in the Applied Climate Sciences School of Natural Resources for the University of Nebraska. He had a lot of photos about climate issues and Storm chasing. I am always excited to go the the next meetings. I would also encourage people to listen to Photography Podcasts on the Internet. I have learned a lot from those. Just something to think about.

I am starting to see some of my old acquaintances showing up on Face Book and Myspace. Is interesting to see them and how there lives are from 21+ years ago..wow.. time flies when your having fun I guess. I cant say that some of them were "Close" friends but I did go to school with them and talked to them sometimes.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

AndrewsGraduation035


AndrewsGraduation035, originally uploaded by tonydstud.

My oldest son graduated last Sunday. It was a very good day except for the problems I had with my camera in the auditorium, but the outside pictures turned out really good.

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Why does my life seem so busy??

Damn another month has just about gone by from my last post. I often have things to say and talk about but am just to lazy at times to login and post stuff. Tomorrow my oldest son is graduating from high school. It seems like yesterday that he was just born. Time flies by so fast. I am just glad that he did graduate from high school. I never did and got my GED. But for me that seemed to have worked out for the best in my situation, and honestly hasn't crippled any chances of jobs. I am proud of him.

It has been a busy month for me. I seem to have a lot of stuff going on. I run a web site of old missile site stuff and have been contacted by some people that want to purchase one and I am going to be showing one of the sites here in Nebraska that is for sale to them in June. I am looking forward to that. I enjoy visiting those old sites. I enjoy helping people that buy them and then fix them up. I have also been busy with my photography lately trying to learn all I can about my camera and just busy taking lots of photos. I enjoy photography so much, It takes my mind of a lot of bad things that seem to happen in my life. I recommend to anyone to get a camera even a point and shoot one and just go for it and take pictures of anything that interest you.

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Photo Woes.....

I guess its been a week since my last post. Nothing to exciting happened this week. I had planed to go to a photography class that was offered for free when I bought my new camera but the hotel over booked the room so they had to cancel the class. I was bummed since I had to drive into town about 20 miles or so to find that out at the last minute. I have been playing around with some of the webs social services lately I guess you can call them that. I am getting a headache from trying to remember all my logins and passwords to these sites. I am trying to decide where to post my online photos permanently. Flickr and Photobucket are the 2 sites right now that I have been working with and they both are good for the most part. It takes a lot of time to learn what the different services do and figuring out the right one for me is time consuming. Trying to think of a new layout for my web site www.nesilos.com it looks like a beginner web designer did it and well....it was done that way.

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Easy Saturday


Well I was going to go to work today but my daycare providers daughter was sick so I couldn't go in to work. Sucks cause I really needed to work. So instead I am at home taking care of my 2 1/2 year old son and messing around with my toys. I am writing this blog on my new asus eeepc.
It is a great little machine and I think it is worth the money. I will post a picture of it and you will see the coolness of it. I have been checking out some sites on the net and thinking about things I could do to my web site to make it look better. I am also trying to learn some more about photography. My current learning project is trying to figure out Adobe Lightroom and looking at the new Adobe Express. There is so much about about photography to learn and I wish I could work on that all the time but life is so full of things to do and to get done. Thinking about what to do tonight. Would like to go to a hockey game. Guess I will see what happens.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Life is just crazy!

It seems like so much has happened since I last posted. It is difficult sometimes to talk about ones personal life but I think it helps to talk about it even if it is to a computer screen. Monday the 31st was a life changing day for me. I finally had my day in court for custody of my 2 kids. Originally I was going to file for full custody and I think I had a 99% chance of wining and getting custody, but there mom has shown a lot of improvements in the last year so I decided to go joint custody with her and I think that it will work out the best for the children. It has been a difficult last 2 years. The first year I was the primary caretaker of my 10 yr old daughter and 3 mo old son at the time. There mom was in there life, but not as much as I would of liked her to be. I understand that see needed the time to get better for herself and the kids. There has been so many issues with trust between us that I still think about things that have happened in the past and think that things will turn back to what they were before all this shit started. It is hard not to dwell on that stuff but I am getting better at it. Joint custody feels really weird to me now because before I always had the last decision pertaining to the kids and now, I find myself wanting to have the last decision but am learning that It is much better talking to there mom about stuff and working together for the better good. ( I would never believe that I would be saying this 2 yrs ago). I am a pretty easy going person most the time and don't let to much get to me and she is the total opposite, everything bothers her and It can get really annoying at times.
I am just glad the court stuff is over at least for now and can look forward to the future whatever that may be. I just want to be happy and content with the person that I am with and I hope that someday that will happen. In the mean time I have plenty of things to do to keep me busy, my 2 1/2 yr old son is into everything that he can get his hands on. It is fun to watch him learn stuff and to make mistakes and the looks on his face sometimes makes me so proud and happy to be his dad.

My oldest son that lives with me will be graduating here in about a month. I am really proud of him and I really ride his ass a lot sometimes but I just want him to be the best he can be. He has had his challenges as well and is being responsible, I believe that he will do well in life.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Fun Day!!

Today was a busy day at work and I was glad that it was over. I have been looking forward to going to the local Photography club that is here in Lincoln. I had checked the web to see if there was even one that I could go to. I bought this new camera and am wanting to learn how to use it and I thought that maybe I could meet some new people with the same passion that I am starting to get for photography. The meeting was at 7 tonight and I got there about 5 min early. I was surprised to see that there were a lot of older people there. Not to many young people and by young I guess I mean people under 30. I would say that there were about 30-40 people there so it was fun to talk to a few of them and see what the club is all about. I plan on going back and becoming a member in May when they start there new session of memberships. The club has been around for 75 years I thought that was really cool.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

More about me


I have finally set up a real blog even though I have a very small and short one on my MySpace page I kinda wanted to have something just for me and what i am thinking, feeling and or doing at the moment. I have really started getting into some photography lately and trying to learn as much about it as I can. I have had the old 2meg digital point and shoot camera and have taken allot of photos with it over the years but I guess I wanted to go to the next level and do some more precise photography cause I love taking photos of just about everything and especially my kids. So I guess I have a major interest in Photography at the moment, along with all my other interests that I will be talking about over the progression of this blog.

One of my other main interests is of course Technology. I have to admit that I have an addiction for technology. I can admit it and the first step is always to admit your faults then you can deal with them. I dont let technology rule my life I just like to spend alot of time playing with it and learning about it as much as I can and I seem to find more interests the more I read. Back in the days heck when I was prob 18 or so the fad was having a pager so that your friends could get a hold of you and or your girlfriend to freaken know where you were at all the time. Then came the cell phones that were at the time not really affordable for the everyday Joe and wasn't at the time a necessity. My how times have changed since that time 20 years ago or so. I have always been one to be into the computer part of technology and was what I wanted to do for my life in the beginning but decided on something a little more specialized in life. I became an electrician and have enjoyed the career very much and it is challenging for me and i like things that are a challenge.

I am a gadget kinda guy and loves to play with things that are kewl and spike my interests. My main gadget at the moment I guess would be my new Digital SLR Camera I just got with hopes of becoming a better photographer.

My first Blog post

This is my first blog post and it is mostly a test so I can learn what i am doing hehe.