Check out these Vegas Lawyer Joke images:
Pro Kayak Expedition
Image by AlphaTangoBravo / Adam Baker
Anyone care to make a lawyer joke?
Knucklehead Self-Portrait
Image by Caveman Chuck Coker
Not me, the engine is called a "knucklehead". But I’m in this photo three times.
Near the Colorado Belle, Laughlin, Nevada
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So it’s been a while since I’ve been on Flickr. I haven’t posted anything in the last 10 months. I haven’t been checking my Flickr mail, so there are people that have written to me and I have not responded. A few people have contacted my daughter, MommyWags, to see if I was okay. It’s nice to know I was missed and I apologize to everyone I didn’t respond to.
When I was last posting photos with any regularity, I was on a 7-week motorcycle trip around the United States.
While I was in Florida I started feeling a little bit under the weather. I assumed it was because of the 100°F temperatures with 100% humidity and tried not to pay too much attention to it. We have single-digit humidity where I live. I didn’t feel well all through the South and was looking forward to the low-humidity deserts. I reached the deserts and the temperatures went up into the 110°s and 120°s, but the humidity was low and that made it bearable. I still didn’t feel good and assumed it was the heat.
After reaching home, the first week I thought I was recuperating from being on the road so long. I had pretty much lost interest in everything during the rest and recuperation. However, a week, then two weeks, then three weeks went by and I never fully recovered from the trip.
I was getting numbness in my hands and feet. The symptoms that caused the most problems for me were dizziness, numbness, fatigue, slowed thinking, decreased concentration, decreased memory, blah, blah, blah. The mental symptoms were the hardest for me to deal with. People made jokes about memory problems and getting older, which got really irritating, but I reminded myself that it is ignorance and not malice, and tried to manage a laugh. Some forgetfulness comes from age, but not things like forgetting my kids’ names or forgetting common words in the middle of a sentence. I was having word problems leading to sentences like, "I’m going to go have another fish of coffee." Fish? Where the hell did that come from? I knew the word "cup" and what it meant, but how did "fish" get inserted into the sentence? Bizarre, how the mind works.
I started going through the approximately 8,000 photos I took during the trip when my computer died. That put a damper on my Internet access for a month or two. I managed to save everything from the old hard drive, but my photo software was no longer working. I had a program that used my GPS tracks to geotag my photos. I had another that renamed my photos to yyyymmdd_nnn (year month day sequential) format. My favorite quick edit software came with my camera and I have no idea where the CD is. Etc., etc., etc.
Eventually, I got another computer and got things mostly back to normal. But I missed my power tools.
After procrastinating a long time, I finally went to the doctor to see why I wasn’t recovering from the cross-country trip. I got poked and prodded and bled and x-rayed and hooked to test equipment and everything showed there was nothing wrong with me. Eventually a neurologist determined that I have multiple sclerosis. Oh, shit! When I started reading up on it, I found it’s not as scary as I thought it was. The neurologist also thought there were other things going on and the combination of things made diagnosis difficult.
I am still going to the doctor regularly and trying to figure out what is wrong with me. There comes a point where you don’t really care what is wrong, you just want to know what it is so you can deal with it and go on with life. Even bad news would be better than no news.
Just when you start to think that things can’t get any worse, someone proves you wrong. On New Year’s Eve, I was served with a summons saying I was being sued in federal court in Nevada for posting an excerpt and link to story in the Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper. The people suing me wanted 0,000 and my domain name! Righthaven LLC is a group of lawyers that got the bright idea they could scour the Internet looking for things they could claim were copyright infringements, buy the copyrights from the newspaper, then sue the blogger for 0,000 as allowed by copyright law. Since it is prohibitively expensive to defend yourself in court, most people—primarily individuals and mom-and-pop businesses—had no choice but to settle for about ,000. Quick and easy money for a Copyright Troll. They’ve filed almost 300 lawsuits so far.
It’s an amazing story. You can read more about it at RighthavenLawsuits.com.
Fortunately, federal judges in Colorado (where Righthaven also partnered up with the Denver Post) and Nevada have seen through Righthaven’s tactics and realized that it is all a scam to use the courts as their personal ATMs. The judges have either put the lawsuits on hold (Colorado) or outright dismissed them (Nevada). Instead of protecting copyrights, Righthaven has succeeded in watering down copyright law, so newspapers now have less protection than before. The Nevada judges are considering sanctioning Righthaven and all the lawyers that participated in the scam. The Nevada state bar is also investigating the lawyers. Karma can be a real bitch!
So there you have it. In the past 10 months I haven’t been doing much of anything. I don’t even get out of the house much any more and that limits my photography opportunities. But I’m hoping that can all start changing and things can get back to semi-normality.
I have a lot of catching up to do on Flickr.
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