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Well so far so good! At the time of writing this it has been 63 hours since My last cigarette! In case you missed my last post, I’m using an electronic cigarette (personal vaporizer) as a way for me to quit smoking tobacco products.

The E-Cigarette still provides me with nicotine, but it’s much cleaner than traditional cigarettes. I’m still unsure whether I’ll be quitting nicotine since I still like how it makes me feel. For now I will continue to use my E-Cigarette and enjoy….

So after much reading and research, I’ve decided to quit smoking tobacco. This is a huge step for me since I’ve been smoking now for almost 20 years! Yikes! I’ve tried the gum and it didn’t work for me. I thought about the patch but decided that what I wanted was to either quit cold turkey or something else. Well last week I discovered an alternative to smoking tobacco.

It’s the E-cigarette! A mini electronic device that vaporizes a nicotine liquid and is inhaled similar to how you might for a cigarette. The neat thing about it is that since there is no tobacco, there is no open heat source and hence no smoke. The device creates a vapor comprised mainly of Propylene Glycol, nicotine and flavoring. As I’ve reading more about it, I’ve been thinking if it’s the right thing for me. And after much thought, I ordered mine today. I’m hoping to get it in the mail by the end of the week and see whether or not it might help me to get away from the harmful effects of smoking tobacco.

I purchased my e-cig from MyVaporstore.com And I read a ton of stuff about the e-cig at e-cigarette-forum.com before purchasing one. Also Wikipedia has an excellent page about them if your interested in more information

I will update as soon I get my e-cig in the mail….

Ok ok!  I seriously need to blog more often here!

Bowling Balls

So now to the real reason why I’m writing… Bowling!  Last night I hung out with a good group of people.  I knew a couple of the people there but decided that I would hang out anyways despite my now knowing the majority of people there.

It turned out to be a very cool evening. The evening started with dinner at Old Spaghetti Factory and ended up with bowling!  Many who were there were photographers.  All night you could see the flashes going and hear the clicks of many shutters.  It was almost surreal just how many cameras were around.  Even I got in on the action and came away with a few good frames, and some great pics too!

Moral of the story:  Blending two great sports, photography and bowling can be a great thing!

Bowling with photographers on Flickr

I haven’t updated this site as much as I’d like…  maybe that will be my new, new years resolution…. update my personal blog a little more often.  And take lots of pictures!  Ok now that we got that out of the way…

What have I been up to? Way too much.  My day job and theatre have really been taking up a lot of my time lately.  as well as photography.  I’ve been spending my weekends hiking, exploring, and of course taking as many photographs as possible.  I’m really just exploring photography and learning hot really take great photos.  As far writing goes Ive been doing a lot of writing for my other blog… jasontagphoto.com.  and at the begining of this month I conducted a series of interviews with models over at DeviantArt.com.  That was very cool and a lot of fun to see how each model answered.  Last night I got the privilege of doing sound for my friends band.. The Hotclub of Hulaville.  They are a lot of fun and such good musicians as well.  If you get the chance definetly check them out!

Things coming up… I have a photo shoot this weekend with a good friend and a great model.  And I’m planning a hike to a really cool place. But I don’t want to tip my hat just yet.  Tuesdays with Morrie at Manoa Valley Theatre will start ramping up in the next three weeks but other than not.. not much… yet!

So I haven’t posted here in a while.  So what’s been going on?  A lot…way too much but then again I’m not bored so that’s a good thing.

I recently just started uploading photos to my flickr account.  You can check that out at flickr.com/photos/jasontag/.  Also I’ve been quite busy with my deviantart.com page and my account on RedBubble.  I’ve also been playing bass little.  Not nearly as much as I’d like.  And of course gearing up for the holidays.  That’s been all that was occupying my time over the past few weeks.  Hopefully things get les crazy after the holidays…

I met a guy today from Finland who operates a group which goes out and listens to radio stations from all over the world through a condition called “skips”.  the phenomenon allows radio signals to travel great distances beacause the signals bounce off of the ionosphere and then back down to earth.  A very cool guy and a certainly interesting hobby as well…. you can check out his site at dxing.com.

Today I bought the Fishman Neo-D Humbucking sound hole pickup for my acoustic guitar.  I bought it for a gig I have this evening.  I haven’t tested it under gig conditions.  But since I’m a sound engineer I was able to plug it in to the sound system at Manoa Valley Theatre and I was amazed by the sound of this pickup.  each string sounded balanced and natural.  THe build quality seems very good and it was quite easy to install.  After I put it through it’s paces in gigs I’ll write another report about this guitar pickup

Last night was opening night for Frost/Nixon at Manoa Valley Theatre. It went off with a big bang! The audience was great, the cast was great, all in all a cool show. If you get the chance to see it, go!

Frost/Nixon, the Tony Award-winning play by Peter Morgan, is the fast-paced and thrilling retelling of the monumental post-Watergate television interviews in which David Frost, a famous British talk-show host with a playboy reputation, brought a defiant Richard Nixon down to earth and elicited the apology the rest of the world was waiting to hear. More info

I found this great site called Twitter Grader.  The Twitter grader measures the relative power of a Twitter. I’m not sure what the criteria is but to my surprise I checked out the site to see what my grade is and it was 77. So I’m thinking “well that’s pretty cool”. THen I click on a link that says it’ll take me to the “Twitter Elite in Honolulu”.  So I clicked on the link and to my surprise,  because I have to twitter accounts…I’m number one and two!  Holy Schnikies!

So I took a screen shot of it to prove it cause I figure no one will believe me…. click on the image for a bigger version…

The Twitter Elite in Honolulu, Hawaii

After shooting with Ella Rose on Kauai, I decided to start on a new illustraiton based on a photo I shot of her.  It’s been such a long time since I did a pencil drawing that I actually had to go and dig out my pencils.  I’m already starting to have doubts about the image I selected as the basis for the drawing.  but I’ll finish it anyway and see how it come out…