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  • EYE SURGERY PROGRESS REPORT!!!!OK this is so weird but today we went to "The Devil Wears Prada" (arrrgh) and I could see everything crystal clear and sharp! Also - get this - night vision had NO halos, and seriously the…

  • I AM NO LONGER ON HAPPY DRUGS BUT SO STOKED HERE'S WHYI've been cooped up in bed for nearly four days and my vision is returning and it is looking SHARP and also what's great is my near vision is fine! No need for readi…

  • JESS HATES IT WHEN I RIP OFF HER IMAGES so i just took a few(CLICK HERE TO SEE THE REST OF THEM)Jessica Strickland is a great photographer. She also does a cool secret sauce on her images to give it a really cool signat…

  • SOLD OUT!These are all gone. However you can order them from our Australian supplier if you are in a hurry. We have ordered 1,000 new copies on a rush basis and as soon as they are back in stock, I'll put up an announc…

  • HOW DID I GET SO LUCKY TO MEET THIS GIRLLaying here in bed the last two days has been wonderful because I can reach over with my feet or my buttt and she's right there. She's been working on her laptop and checking the …

  • Wow, what a difference a day makes! Sorry for the big font but it helps me read! My vision is really starting to clear up and the discomfort is going way down! The doc said days 2/3 would be the worst, but I just pret…

  • I'm really glad it worked out this way. Denis Reggie highly recommended his doc in Atlanta and said hey come over - do your surgery here and you can stay at my house while you recuperate. That would've been fine and al…

  • hi everybody. I am not able to check email so I apologize for not being able to write you back. I've been chillin'. I habve been wearing goggles for the last few days. I am in such a good and grateful mood. I've bee…

  • HI I CAN OPEN MY EYES NOW :)So this has been pretty cool because I get to lay in bed and chow pain meds that made me feel really woozy! I love being goofy headed. Like I am allergic to alcohol because my liver lacks th…

  • GARY CAN'T OPEN HIS EYES...I guess this part is normal, he opens his eyes and tears just keep pouring out. He is awake now, but can't do anything but lay in bed and talk on the phone. It's almost 2pm here and he hasn't…

  • TOMORROW MY EYEBALL IS GOING TO BE CUT OPEN. HOW WEIRDI'm fine. But today I got a nice email from David Hessemer saying that he will be praying for me (it'll be around 11am Hawaii time - Dave - thanks!) and then Bob Dav…

  • WOW THE RESPONSES ARE SOOO INTERESTING! (click here to read)Among the really great letters I'm getting on "Who Are You's", I found out that the Lightsphere is being used at NASA for the coming space shuttle launch - what…

  • A LAZY DAY IN CHICAGO CLICK HERE FOR PHOTOSHi everybody, I am actually in the back seat of Jess and Mark Strickland's Tahoe traveling down the I-95 using my Verizon card. It's so trippy but you know it's a long, boring …

  • SO, WHO ARE YOU?I would like to invite you again to click on the e-mail box and write to me and tell me who you are, and what brought you to my blog. Am I a person from your past, and you're wondering what I am up to? …

  • WE ARE DOWN TO THE LAST 362 DIGITAL INTENSIVE SETSAnd once they are gone, we are not reprinting them - that's it! It has four DVD's, and a full-color workbook covering two whole days of digital photography instruction.…

  • GROSS! I CAME SO CLOSE TO EATING THIS FLY!Hi! We are staying at the Doubletree Hotel Chicago/Alsip. as guests for Tricia's wedding tomorrow and while everybody is at the rehearsal dinner I was feeling kind of exhauste…

  • ALL I WANTED WAS SOME CHINESE FOOD!Today we were in Indy and I was with Janey, Melissa, Mark and Jess. We agreed that we were going to go to the Chinese Food Buffet, but we couldn't find the entrance. This made me gene…

  • YES IT'S A DEFINITE: $189 STARTING WEDNESDAY MIDNIGHTI just called Keats and she said that we only have 300 left in the warehouse - and those should all go through this weekend at our $99 intro price.I priced it at unde…

  • I AM RAISING THE PRICE OF MY 2-DVD SET TO $189 NEXT WEEKWHY? READ THIS TESTIMONIAL OF HOW THEY WENT FROM ZEROTO $9,900 IN ALBUM SALES ON THEIR FIRST TWO PRESENTATIONS.THIS TESTIMONIAL WAS UNSOLICITED.Robin bought my "2-…

  • THE FUTURE LOOKS PROMISING FOR PREVENTING STROKESAND HEART ATTACKS - AND WE MAY HAVE AN ANSWER VERY SOON!What an awesome world comes to your door when you have a BLOG. I just got contacted by a Stanford Biochemist-turne…

  • I AM A CERTIFIED BONEHEAD - THE JOE JACKSON CONCERTWAS YESTERDAYToday I was totally rushing everybody in Kelowna in a hurry to drive to Seattle for the Joe Jackson concert - I hadn't seen him in 10 years at least and was…

  • WE WON'T BE BACK TO CANADA FOR ANOTHER TWO MONTHSAnd I can't believe this trip is over. It has been really fun. We had a big group trip, finally closed on the ranch, and yesterday started construction. Now we are lea…

  • TOMORROW WE ARE DRIVING FOR SIX HOURSThis is the drive that we are going to take. My car is registered in CA but is here in Canada but I live in Seattle. So I have to get new plates. Plus we are leaving for the midwes…

  • THE BLOG IS A GREAT BUSINESS TOOL(I am entering year #4 of this Xanga Blog!)For weddings, light diffusers, anything. I started a BLOG before the word "BLOG" was out - I was one of the first people who signed up with "Xa…

  • GOOGLE EARTH IS SO AMAZING IT'S ALL I DO THESE DAYSStarting as far back as the earth, you can zoom in so close on any area that you can ACTUALLY SEE WHAT PEOPLE ARE DOING - anywhere in the world!The photo on the left is …

  • WHY I LOVE MY DADI am so lucky to have such a great dad. So much of how I turned out is a result of the things he has taught me. And we agree on so many things so when we talk about stuff we never argue because we have …

  • HAPPY BIRTHDAY KEATS!!! While you are busy not forgetting Father's day, do NOT forget to wish Keats Elliott a happy birthday!Keats was a student of mine in both Wealth Building and Digital Intensive, and I got to know he…

  • WE ARE MEGA!Pictured to the right is my friend Janey. She is a very happy, silly person and that's what I like most about her. She is a fun quirky - like when we play tennis she can't wait to open the tennis balls beca…

  • I AM HAVING SO MUCH FUN WITH GOOGLE EARTH

  • WE NEED HELP RENAMING THE RANCH **click here for photosIt's a long story but we can not keep the name "Twin Creek Ranch". The original Twin Creek Ranch is in Vernon and so we need another name. We would like to play …

  • YAY!!!!! IT ISN'T FAST BUT IT IS LEGAL!

  • GOOGLE EARTH ROCKS!!!!!Frank Blau just sent me an image from google earth, so I got really curious and downloaded it. I cannot believe how powerful it is. You can get your GPS coordinates for anywhere - which is HUGE f…

  • LASIK IN ONE WEEK!I have the worst vision without contacts. You wouldn't believe how bad. Melissa tried on my glasses and got the worst headache.OK here's how bad. For me to see anything it has to be 3 inches away. W…

  • SPEAKING OF LASIK AND HOW BRILLIANT IT ISWhen I first went to UCLA I was a physics major, and I was so excited all the time because I kept thinking up all of these stupid ideas! Here's an example of one of my hare-bra…

  • EVERYONE ASKS HOW I CAME UP WITH THE IDEA FOR THE SHAPE FOR THE LIGHTSPHERE

  • QUESTION: WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF WORRYING?When I was in my 20's, I used to worry sooo much all the time. Mostly it had to do when I was a wedding photographer and I would look at a blank calendar. I also used to do thi…

  • I KNEW THIS DAY WOULD COME YOU NEVER KNOW FOR SUREUNTIL IT IS OFFICIALWe went to court and saw the judge bang the gavel giving me the ownership of the ranch. It has been a long, hard road that took so much patience and …

  • AWWWW!I was looking at Janey's website and she had this great picture of her and Mel together. We miss you Janey! I think David Beckstead took the photo because look at the angle! He's twice as tall as they are!Blogs …

  • B O Y DO I SUCK AT BOWLINGThis is a little video file that Keats emailed me from my very first ever time bowling.Dude I thought it would be so easy - just roll a ball down "over there" and knock down those pins.I have a …

  • MEET OUR NEIGHBOR DOGS!This video shows these two dogs that always come and visit us when we are working at the ranch. The one droopy dog is really hilarious! Anyway, whenever we are there we get greeted by these two l…

  • I CAUGHT MY FIRST COLD IN SEVEN MONTHSI was wondering when I was going to catch one again - this is a new record for me. I went through the whole National Tour, ski season, etc. without catching one. Mel brought hers to…

  • MOWING THE LAWN IS NOT SIMPLEJosh is up here mowing the lawn. It is not simple. I am the proud owner of a tow-behind lawn mower with a 48" deck. I don't know what that means. But with a lot of acreage to mow, we need…

  • AMY AND JANEY ARE MOVING TO KELOWNA!!!So tonight we were just talking about things, and Amy and Janey are moving to Kelowna!!!!!! YES!!!!! Amy hasn't really talked to Janey about this yet, but that's just one of those …

  • THE KELOWNA BOWLING LEAGUE (***click here for photos)Pictured from left to right (our bowling names) Creampuff, DazzleAim, Blondebombshell, Lightsphere, Bunny, (keats didn't bowl), Guttergirl, Firebomb.Bowling is way har…

  • TODAY WE CHANGED A LIGHTBULBI have a ceiling fan that has four lightbulbs in a housing at the castle and it is two stories high. So we got this suction cup of a thing that will pull the bulb with a telescopic handle. I…

  • I HAVE THE NICEST FRIENDSI woke up this morning at the Castle and I hear a little activity in the kitchen and it seems like somebody is awake. I smell coffee.Amy and Janey, David Jay, Keats Elliott, David and Kassandra …

  • B AND H IS OUT OF STOCK ON P1'S AND P4'SWe have them in stock! Wow they went through their first order fast.P1 and P4's are our biggest sellers so they go fast.I'm sorry we were out of supply since before Memorial Day! …

  • YAY LIGHTSPHERES ARE BACK IN STOCK! (***click here)For a while there, I was going - whoa! How come the orders have been so slow? Then today I saw we had a lot of orders come in since midnight... we were out of stock o…

  • I LOVE THIS PHOTOI told Janey and Melissa to sit in the front of the boat because we were trying to get the jets cleared of some junk. Well we hit like this little wave and they got their butts wet. Amy took it, though…

  • THESE ARE BONUS DAYS FOR AMY AND JANEYYesterday we nearly lost my dear friends Amy and Janey. That's me in the speedboat on top, and AJay on the humiliating looking hot dog tow toy.At first they kept falling off, and th…

  • RATES HAVE GONE UP 600% SINCE 2004!!!This is funny but Denis Reggie calls me chicken little because I'm always so gloomy on the forecast on the economy. But it is so obvious to me what's coming so let me explain it in s…

  • PHOTOS FROM TODAY - CLICK HERE FOR PHOTOSJosh likes to go 4 wheeling on our forest trails, so I got a little 200cc motocross bike made in China. It's just alright. But anyway this way Josh and I can go together up into…

  • TWO PART VIDEO FROM CANADAJaney, Amy and DJ are over visiting and we are having a blast. Anyway this is a two part video. The roof of my SUV goes all the way back so it is like a convertible and sunny so Amy fell aslee…

  • IF YOU USED TO USE AOL AND STOPPED, YOU ARE PROBABLY NOT ABLE TO FIND ALL OF YOUR OLD EMAIL - THIS WILL REALLY HELP (MAC USERS)I like to keep records of everything. If you follow this blog, I gave a really great recomme…

  • IF YOU THINK PHOTOSHOP IS TIME-CONSUMING...

  • BEAUTIFUL SEATTLE SUNSETHi everybody. I am in Seattle just to check the mail and I have an early flight to Kelowna tomorrow. So I am zonked. But I just wanted to share this beautiful sunset with you, taken from my liv…

  • testing this from my cellphone

    i am on a plane heading to seattle .it would be cool to send a picture but i dont know how.

  • HOW THEY FIND THE SOURCE OF SQUEAKING SOUNDS IN A CARSo I'm just totally amazed. When I went to the Porsche dealer, he said they can find squeaks easily because they have a microphone system that can find the source of …

  • EVERYTHING IS BROKEN I got my Motorola Q phone. It doesn't connect to the internet. I had all of my numbers transferred from my Pocket PC to the Q phone and then when the internet didn't work, they asked me to do a "ha…

  • UPDATE ON LIGHTSPHERE SELLOUT SITUATION -OK here is the status as of this morning. We have been sold out since Friday, and B&H is out of stock. Our factory is trying to get them in, but we have only 160 arriving to…

  • THE STATE OF THE ART IN CUSTOMER SERVICE!I am going to be painfully honest with you here. And I'm going to make excuses to make myself feel better.I'm an inventor. I think of solutions, I get excited about people enjoy…

  • COURT DATE IS JUNE 15TH!!!!On June 15th I get to experience the Canadian court system for the first time ever!I asked my real estate attorney if they wear those white George Washington wigs to court, and he said that the…

  • SACCHARIN ISN'T GIVING PEOPLE CANCERBack in the 60's, saccharin was banned as a crazily dangerous carcinogen. This was based on tests that showed laboratory mice bubbled up with bladder cancer like crazy when they were …

  • ARRIVING TOMORROW VIA NEXT DAY AIRI have switched from Cingular to Verizon for many reasons. The most important two factors were Verizon has the little Broadband Access card that allows me to get DSL speeds on my Powerb…

  • EMAIL FROM DAVID HESSEMER. IF YOU ARE A WEDDINGPHOTOGRAPHER, IT IS GOOD READING ABOUT THE RESULTSOF FOLLOWING MY "GETTING RICH" DVD TO THE EXACT DETAIL:Aloha Gary,What a week! I fixed it. As I told you last week wedd…

  • TODAY WAS AN INTERESTING DAY (LOTSA WORDS, NO PIX)It was a reunion day of sorts. I am not often in Los Angeles and so when I am I try really hard to cram in to see friends that I haven't seen in a long time. Today I hi…

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