Starting a new volunteer job, and I don't know if it's worth it.

My first complaint is that I was 10 minutes late to a training class. I'm not going to make excuses for myself, as I am always 5 to 10 minutes late for everything, and could care less about that 5 or 10 because because i am not that uptight about life. I can accept the fact that I'm late, and that might have repercussions. What I have a problem with is when I showed up late the lady training the people was not very nice to me, and was pretty blunt and basically a bitch to me, and told me I'd have to reschedule and couldn't attend her class that day without any I'm sorry or nothing. I could accept her condescending attitude at my job where I was getting paid to put up with it, but this is volunteer, and I'm doing this for free and working it around my work and home schedule. I can accept the fact that I might not be able to attend the rest of the class if I missed important information in the first 10 minutes, but I can't accept her attitude towards me when I'm doing this for free. She isn't the only one that works there that doesn't seem to get the fact that you have to be nice to the people you are training, because they are doing it for free...but hey, that also means that if I ever reach a point where I've totally had enough of attitudes around there, I have absolutely nothing to lose to speak my mind and tell someone exactly what I think about them.

Which brings me to my next point. I also don't know if I want to spend my extra time helping at this certain volunteer job. Albeit a few people I met down there(1 or 2), everyone works like a zombie down there, and/or is way serious with no personality. It just sounds like a horrible place to spend my free time. I have a full time job, and this place seems 5 times the more prison atmosphere than my work. I hardly see people talking, and hardly anyone working there has been friendly(except at the orientation...probably just to lure you in), except to the costumers. I like to laugh and joke while I work, but don't get me wrong I'm still a very sharp and good worker, and this definitely doesn't seem like the place to do that sort of thing.
I'll probably stick it out, and see if there is an area that is like what I want in the place, but my hopes are low right now.

I've lost 25 pounds in the last 3 weeks.

...but I've finally hit my plateau. My metabolism has has slowed down to "survive" on my new calorie intake. 25 pounds was a good start though.
To counteract this metabolism change, I'm going to follow the binge diet that Sly Stallone uses. You stay an your low calorie diet throughout the week, and then one day you binge til you are so full after meals. It makes your body kick up your metabolism to process the overload of food you just threw at it. Yesterday was my binge day, and oh god I'm glad it's over. Overeating makes you feel so much crappier than eating small light meals.
I'm also do some muscle building exercises. Not too many, just a few to build muscle. Building muscle kicks up your metabolism for up to 12 hours after the workout.

Just sharing somewhere on the net, of where I'm at in my weight loss.

Check out these smart helper monkeys...they're so cute!

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...I'm a secret agent. No, not really.

But I'm really not what you'd call a dedicated photographer. If you ask some of the pros on this site how long they spend in particular locations, I'm sure they'll tell you quite a while sometimes. I'm sure they also go to specific places at specific times to get their pictures for the right look and lighting.

Me? I just don't have the patience to stay in one spot for very long. I'd say I'm more of shoot and go explorer than a photo man. Taking pictures while I'm exploring the wilderness just makes it more fun to look for things that are interesting, because I can show them to people later.

Just a thought I had about myself and my hobby.

About Pikes Peak: [link]

It's sad. I had to cancel my big hike for this year.
I was going to hike down Pikes Peak, using my own path to the bottom instead of a trail, but we are are having way too heavy rainfall for me to even try that hike.
I'm most likely going to have to wait until next year to do it, because I'm on the last of my vacation for this year.

At least I'm still ON vacation!