trekking through a foreign land

Perhaps my biggest excitement/worry/headache/triumph over the last few weeks was a short story I just finished for sanfranciscoiam.com.  It’s a site where aspiring video journalists can produce a video and uploaded to their site- its not YouTube though, there is an editorial staff and editorial oversight.  A pretty cool program really.

Anyway the story is about San Francisco Proposition H which stands to set ambitious goals for clean energy for the city and calls for a study to look at the municipalization of electrical delivery (i.e. government takeover of PG&E) in San Francisco.

So, yeah, take a look at the video… I’ll do my best to be more diligent about posting here.  

If you have trouble playing the video below, click here.

Its definitely time to come back to this blog.  Its been far, far too long.  My summer’s journey ended- a whirl wind starting on train from Skopje to Budapest and back, then a day later, a flight from Skopje back to Budapest, on to Paris and finally to New York.  I spent a week there seeing things to be seen and staying with my good buddy Chris.  Two other friends came to New York, Casey from SF and Eddie who goes to school in Philly.  I took a bus with him there and spent the night visiting with him and another friend of ours Rob.  I flew back home (Las Vegas Airport), and then drove over to San Francisco a week later. 

Anyway, since I’ve pretty much been working here since.  I’ve had a few jobs that I’ve been pretty happy with.  One for an online gaming company – Zynga.  

Zynga’s Live Poker app video

I’ll let the video do the explaining about what Treskavec is.  I’m not sure exactly how to embed a video in my post, so if anyone can point me in the right direction, please do so…  in the meantime, here’s the Treskavec hike video.

Umm… I like maps and I like information, so I’m going to share with you something a little nerdy… Its a google map I created to give a little perspective of the country.  Click.

Also, I wanted to apologize for not getting anything up sooner- not a video I mean: that time frame is governed by the forces of editing…  I mean, I should have posted text here sooner…  I realize now that after we got back from our weekend excursion that that was the time to post- not now, 5 days later after, after the freshest recollections have faded… oops  -  I’ll be better next time.

It’s the Fourth of July!  We’re off to celebrate it with a few of Valarie’s friends in a small town called Krushevo.  I’m excited, as well as a little homesick.  Its rare that I miss the Independence Day celebrations in Independence, CA.  

Forrest