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About a week ago, I won two free admission passes to see Josh Kelley live. At the time, I knew of his hit single, but didn’t really know a lot about him. So I started looking stuff up and researching it a little bit and listening to his music. As the week progressed, I became even more excited. My friend Megan was able to join me at the concert.

This is the first time that he has played his new album tracks live, so we were able to get a sneak peek at all his new stuff. Let me just say, it sounds awesome! His new CD, Almost Honest, is coming out mid-August and I’m excited for it.

So you may ask what the whole concert thing was. Well, it was something called a B Lounge put on by B 95.1 and was hosted in Port Hueneme, CA. OceanView Pavilion helped host the show and it was simply amazing. There were about 25 or so of us there that had won these passes to go see him. So we showed up and hung out for a bit, around 6:30pm tonight. Around 7:00ish, we started to go in and grabbed a bite to eat.

After a bit, they started the show. He played a few songs and then started talking a bit. A few questions were asked.

Do you have any pre-show things that you like to do?

Josh Kelley: No..not really. I guess the only thing I like to do is to pump up my adrenaline and get my blood flowin’ or something…like doing push ups or something like that. Also stuff that I obviously can’t release..cuz that’s just band stuff, ya know…

He played a couple more new songs and an old song. He hopped on the piano too for a little bit.

He stopped…and went back for another song on the guitar. He went for a couple more questions after.

Are you scared of dentists?

Josh Kelley: Nawww not at all. But yeah, you said you’re a dentist office worker? Yeah, I started having this bad tooth ache .. it was like last night….you’re off duty right? You think you could help me this or something? Haha…well one of the things that does scare me is when I’m dreaming and I’m falling. Falling..just falling, yeah, that scares me

He stopped and then we went go sign some stuff and take pictures with him.

The time was truly amazing. Just a few of us and were able to just hang out with him and have fun. It was good to hear some of his new stuff and get to meet him and hang. It was awesome! Thanks B 95.1!

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While at the concert, he spoke specifically about one of his songs and explained it. He explained his song Only You, the hit single that he’s pushing out right now. The song starts to describe his experience while touring in Australia. He was at a bar and he was hanging out with some girls and they were wearing, really next to nothing. He continued on to talk about in the song that “you started it, don’t you dare act surprised. You know what is on my mind”. He says this because the girls know what is on his mind when they’re wearing it. He talks about the ‘game’. The women know the game, “they’re wearing it”, as he says in his song. It’s partially a shame to know that women (some, don’t ever get the impression I am saying this about all women) can sometimes play innocent and then expect us guys not to react to what they wear.

Recently, this was brought to my attention. One of my friends from High School was in a near-death car accident yesterday. She was driving up in Fresno and swerved and hit a semi-truck. The truck driver died, but she survived with only minor scratches.

“I walked out of that with just a scrape on my arm. My little car ran into a semi, and the driver is dead. And I walked away. I have absolutely no idea how that happened.”

It really scared me to hear of this because of what I went through about 2 years ago. If you don’t know, 2 years ago I was in a near-death car accident myself.

“I put on my brakes and just closed my eyes.”

It truly is amazing what God did and saved her life. God saved my life and He’s doing it again. It makes me remember how many people I had supporting me and showing that they cared about me. Christina has a lot of friends and family. She is important to me and a lot of people I know. She currently is working up at a camp called Hume Lake. A Christian camp that I went to when I was in Middle School. She’s truly a blessing to have in my life and I’m very glad she is still alive. God really did protect her.

“Today, I had my window down instead of turning on the air conditioner. I climbed out the window because I couldn’t get my door open,” she said, shaking her head at how that coincidence helped her get away before her car caught fire. “And we are in range of cell phone service right here. When do you ever get cell phone service on this road?”

A lot of you may say that this all happened by chance, but it didn’t happen by chance. God worked throughout the whole accident. God was there in the start, God was there in the end.

We need to all keep the truck driver’s family and friends in our prayers as well for they need it just as well as Christina. We need to be supportive of all the parties involved with this accident. God really protected Christina and it is truly showing.

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This CD hit stores not too long ago.

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The cd rocks! They did such a good job and I really like the cd. I pre-ordered it and it came yesterday. I got the autographed insert with it, it’s AWESOME! I can’t say enough about this CD and band. They are doing great things and it rocks!

I think the inspiration for this CD reall took off and they knew what they were doing. The last track I think is one of the most important though. The last track is 5 minutes of pure silence. Why, you may ask? Because after the 10th song on the CD they knew they had to have some quiet time after. Read more about it here.

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BEST: Community of users. If you have a question, either check the documentation wiki (to which anyone can contribute) or ask at the support message board. We had an obscure question answered within an hour.

WORST: Poor image management options.

Frankly, if that’s the worst thing anyone can find about Wordpress, we have one fine piece of software on our hands here =)

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This is the fourth and final installment in the Gallery 2 beta cycle. In the past two months we’ve made huge improvements to the product. After this, we’re going to be making only minor changes as we head into release candidates and then the final version! As with the rest of the beta cycle, we support upgrading from Gallery 2 Alpha 4 or newer.

This is a stable and reliable technology release. It has almost all of the features of Gallery 1, and many many new features that Gallery 1 lacks. We encourage you to download the latest code and play with it! Before you ask for help, please, please read the README — we’ve made an effort to answer all of your questions there. Especially read the known issues section. If you’re upgrading, be sure to scan the instructions first (it’s really easy). Then head on over to the G2 Forums and let us know what you think!

The more feedback you give us now, the better the final version of G2 will be. Thanks for your continued support!

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Posted today on Google is the Apollo landing sites, but if you look carefully….you’ll notice something else. Visit the link below and then zoom all the way in, surprise surprise…you find out what the moon is really made of since none of us have actually gotten there (so some would say).

Google Moon - Lunar Landing Sites

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As most of you know, I run the gravatar plugin on my site that lets you display your gravatar on your comments. Well, as a lot of you also know, their domain expired. Their current DNS was not resolving, so I found out the hack to fix this and get the gravatars working again.

For those who care about fixing this, here it is.
Go into your gravatar plugin and do this:

Replace www.gravatar.com with 64.124.231.223

Your gravatars will once again be working after that =)

I still wonder, why would someone even let the domain get close to expiring. I always renew mine at least 3-4 months ahead of time when I want to keep them. Something silly, but here’s a quick hack for it.

I saw this and couldn’t resist the laughter. I was almost dieing of laughter actually. The city next to my home town, about 5 minutes away, they found 800 pot plants…well, you can read the article here.

VenturaCountyStar.com writes…

Nearly 800 marijuana plants estimated to be worth at least $1.6 million were chopped down and seized Friday morning in Newbury Park after a two-month investigation by the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department and other agencies.

A 22-year-old man from the Los Angeles area was arrested, and authorities were still looking for another suspect Friday night. Servondo Ponce Villa was booked into Ventura County Jail on suspicion of being armed while illegally cultivating marijuana. His bail was set at $90,000.

The bust began early Friday morning with about 45 agents from the Sheriff’s Department, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and a multi-agency narcotics task force.

The crop was in public open space managed by the Conejo Open Space Conservation Agency. The site, nestled between Baxter Healthcare and a residential community, contains a natural irrigation ditch and was considered prime land for the harvest, authorities said.

“They’re set up pretty well to grow pot,” said Eric Nishimoto, sheriff’s spokesman.

Although the size of the grove was not as large as others in previous busts, authorities were concerned by the close proximity of the plants to a major corporation and a residential neighborhood.

The plants are believed to have been planted in March or April and would have been ready for harvest in August or September.

Narcotics agents first noticed the site during an air patrol about two months ago.

“It takes a lot of planning to do this,” said Sgt. Bret Uhlich with the sheriff’s narcotics division.

A similar grove was raided two years ago in the same location. At that time, about 760 plants were seized and no arrests were made.

Other stands of marijuana plants have been found from time to time in Los Padres National Forest and other state or national parks.

Harvesters of marijuana typically camp at the sites while the plants grow, and often arm themselves to protect their crops. Authorities said Villa had a machine gun.

“They’re taking guarding the grows more seriously these days,” Nishimoto said.

One danger of such operations on public land is that as growers protect their crops more aggressively, they could attack hikers or other people who are using public lands for recreational pursuits.

Although a hiking trail runs near the site of the marijuana crop seized Friday, the area of the harvest is not open to public use and it is not likely people would have hiked through it, said Glen Kinney, a park ranger with the Conejo Open Space Conservation Agency.

Friday’s operation marked the first big pot bust this summer in Ventura County. After being cut down, the plants were taken to another location to be destroyed. Large marijuana crops are now buried rather than burned, Nishimoto said.

“Pot doesn’t grow back so we don’t have to worry about anything sprouting,” he said.

The seized marijuana is considered especially high grade because it is a seedless variety, harvested from the budding female plants. Growers maximize their crops by removing the male plants, which have seeds. Without the males, the female plants tend to grow more aggressively and produce more THC, the chemical that makes marijuana a stimulant.

The plants seized Friday were between 5 feet and 6 feet in height and not yet fully mature. Each plant can produce about a pound of street marijuana, which can sell for $2,000 to $3,000.

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When I first heard of this incident, actually from my mom, it disgusted me and made me want to blog about it. What happened was this T-ball coach allegedly paid another player on the team $25 to injur one of the players so he couldn’t play. The boy that he didn’t want to play was handicaped and he wouldn’t be as good on the team.

First off, this is SICK. Who on earth would be so shallow or sick to think of something like that. Secondly, what kind of coaches do we have in this nation treating players like that. Thirdly, IT’S T-BALL FOLKS! How old are they? They’re like 5 or 6 at that age. Does winning really matter at all? I remember playing T-ball and it was so much fun. Exactly what it’s supposed to be, FUN, no one cares about winning back then.

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