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Beijing in Pictures

jkrums — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:23:00 +0000

Enjoy this Fotonauts album:

Hong Kong and Beijing Photos

jkrums — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 11:19:06 +0000

More photos of me and the group in Hong Kong and Beijing.

Hong Kong: Day 1

jkrums — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:25:02 +0000

Hong Kong: Day 1

Quick video of the first day.

Few photos of me, The Githlers, and Joe B.

The Inauguration in Pictures

jkrums — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:41:16 +0000

Wanted to post some pictures from the past few days in DC.

The view from the incredible seats for the inauguration.

The day before, walking around to get a feel for the mall. ( That's what they call the area, where everyone was today. First time I heard this, I tried to find where this "mall" was.. Couldn't find it for some reason, haha.)

Sunday, the day that I got to DC. Already very busy.

Another shot of the Capitol.

The endless sea of people. Just an amazing sight. And even more amazing to be part of it!

These are pictures from my camera and phone. I should have few more from friends later this week.

Best,

Janis

Blue Dolphin

jkrums — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:35:10 +0000

I love a good breakfast place. This is going to be an underlaying theme of the blog, food and the best places in town for it.

I’m waiting for a seat at the Blue Dolphin on the St. Armands Circle in Sarasota. This has been a staple of my mornings for years. Whenenver I get back in town I have to make a stop to enjoy. I get the breakfast wrap and a side of salsa.

Have a great day,

JK Livin’

Running Around

jkrums — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:13:53 +0000

Haven’t posted anything in a while and I thought it’s about that time. I have been all over the east coast the past week. It makes time fly and things like blogging are left behind.

I have been thinking that I need to have a purpose for this blog. Right now it is random quick observations. I think I want to make a better effort in writing something that is relevant and researched. This will make my blogs less frequent but better for the reader. Let’s see how it works out. I have an idea for the next post…. I’ll try to have something worth reading by Wednesday.

Best,

JK Livin’

Moving….

jkrums — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:44:52 +0000

I hate moving. I hate packing. I hate carrying. I hate it all. Tim Ferriss would be dissapointed in my use of time. I have lost sleep and energy. I could have hired someone and this would have been pleasant. But my ego was too big, I thought that this was going to be easy. It wasn’t and now my body is in shut down mode.

I am passing out at 9:40PM… Have a great night and don’t ever do it yourself if you can help it. Or, if you do, don’t underestimate how much you have to move. Plan it out, you will thank yourself later. Plan it out…..

Goodnight and have a pleasant tomorrow.

Best Wishes,

JK Livin’

P.S. Go Lakers and Kobe! Let’s have a better ending to the season this year!

Our Quick Trip to Boston

jkrums — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:21:14 +0000

On Friday the 17th, Mike and I had planned to go to Boston and attend Expo East on Saturday. As an aside my good friend Ricky Butler heard this and wanted in, he's a comic/actor check out his website and his youtube site. I can't say no to him, so he was in.

We left at 1 PM and finally arrived in the Boston area around 7:28 PM just in time for Ricky to pick tickets up from StubHub. We had tickets for Celtics vs. Knicks. The hotel was supposed to be close as well so we should have gotten to the game around 8 PM. that did not happen, as the hotel had just moved from its old location and the GPS was not very helpful in finding it. The very helpful concierge talked us through the ridiculously badly planned streets of Boston. We arrive to TAJ Boston around 8:20 PM, which turned out to be very nice, thanks American Express for the great deal.

We finally made it to the game, for a preseason game it was very entertaining. The Knicks pulled the game out, but the end was very sloppy and I don't think the Celtics have anything to worry about.

After the game we went to Four's for a quick snack. I had the Larry Bird and Mike and Ricky had the Bobby Orr sandwich. The food was good enough and we were ready to check out the night life of Boston.

Josh from Clothing Warehouse, recommended and set us up in Bell in Hand and that's where stayed.(Thanks for the tickets) We had a great time and met some great people. Everyone was very laid back, and just liked to have a good time.

So that's the play-by-play of the day. There are few things that bothered me, and this is the best place to put them out to the world.

First, the city is very hard to navigate, if you don't have GPS or have a local, you will get lost. Even the locals say that driving in the city is an absolute mess. That's all I'm going to say, but I could go on for days.

Second, the Taxi situation is terrible. We had to run down empty Taxi's and beg to pick us up. Very weird and I am glad that NYC has gotten this fixed.

Third, the sport fans have gotten out of control. They need to know their role. They are not playing on the field, Stop being a jacka**.

Oh, and regarding the EXPO, Mike and I decided that in the future we need to go on the first day of the event. ( We were late and it was a mess, so we will chalk that up as a loss.) I think that it is a very important venue to be in attendance. But, by next year we should have a booth up for Elementz.