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A Great Man - An Amazing Life

2010-02-15T00:48:00.001-08:00

Col. Gene T. Boyer, Ret. Has got to be one of the onyl REAL heros I have ever met in more then 15 years. According to his business cars he is the "Pilot To The Presidents", boy he ain't kidding! This guy began in Korea flying M.A.S.H. helicopters (just like in the TV Series) and got shot down in Vietnam, flew one of the first Presidential helicopter flights and continued to do so until his retirement from military service in the 70's.

I only spent a few hours with this now man in his 80's and had a hard time keeping up with him. His stories of the famous and the infamous People In The News kept me riveted. He had more stories of such people as Nixon, L.B.J., Ford, not to mention his Vietnam stories to keep you enthralled. But what really gets him going now is all the political upheaval going on in the White House and the congress these days. he has already gone up against the President and his plans to purchase a whole new fleet of Helicopters for himself. He is an outspoken advocate for the "every soldier" specifically when it is involving Veteran's Benefits. And he is one of those Veterans too. He is a victim of Agent Orange and the continuous battle with the cancers that that single product of war has left on his life.

Despite all of his battles this elder man of the military and of history seems to revel in the "fight". He has, even in his advanced years, begun to take on the Veteran's Administration which it would seem wants to take away his benefits completely. The "reassessment" as they are calling it has been handled through sub-contractors and small unknown clinics where the individuals running them are interested in seemingly one thing only and that is finding a way to deny our veterans their benefits. Gene has vowed to fight them to the bitter end.

But I am worried that in the broader scope of what the current administration is doing "to try to make all of our lives better", that they are really taking advantage of some of the very people that have already given far too much of themselves to and for this country while attempting to give it to various groups of people that would rather have a free lunch on those individuals backs. That is wrong no matter how you say it. This country, The Greatest Country in the World, needs leaders that can unequivocally SHOW their patriotism and now shun it. Children of all races in this country need to believe that the President of the United States above all stands as an example of the pride and history that this nation has, and not be shown an example that a President can refuse to hold his hand over his heart for the pledge of allegence (with or with out 'under God' in it). They need to see that we should respect our fighting men and women through a salute when they parade past us. That the singing of the national anthem, which has been an inspiration to people all over the world, MUST be sung whether you agree with any specific line in it or not. I am appalled that a person as seemingly unpatriotic and disrespectful as our current President, Barrack Obama can show my daughter that disrespecting this country's long and proud history is OK.

Update of the Dr Natura Cleansing

2010-01-12T10:43:00.001-08:00

I am already in day 4 and I haven't had anything really noticeably change in the way that is described yet. I must admit that I have never taken so many pills on a daily basis though. and it has turned my waste water the same color as if I were taking a large dose of iron. You know neon color. According to all the reports though it really begins to hit in the 2nd week so I will have to wait and . . . (yuk!) see what really comes out later.

It really has been a bit of a rocky start since I am stuck behind my computer for the last 4 days for as many as 20 hours at a time attempting to finish some work for a client. Which is getting a great deal for all the work I am doing. For now I am taking in over 10 pills (of herbs?) as well as some (not too terrible tasting) psyillium fiber drink mix. The actual hardest part for me is getting all the recommended water into my system. According to the instructions (and what every mom and doctor) tells us to do is take in at least 8 - 8oz. glasses of water between waking up in the morning and going to sleep in the evening. It doesn't sound that tough but it actually is for me. Now I have been a soda-pop-aholic (like a lot of people) since junior high school. I know that drinking that much sugar enfused "stuff" really takes its toll on your liver and kidneys not to mention the additional weight that the sugar enables your body to retain as well as a plethera of other ailments but it is truly an addiction of our time. . . at least for me. I have done really well of lower the amount of "pop" I drink everyday but getting as much as 2 ltrs. of water into my body everyday feels like I am drowning sometimes. And I like the taste of water for the most part. I would really not like to see what someone who didn't like water would go through.

For now though I am keeping up the system the very best I can. The only thing that seems to get missed, and I am sure that I will get it into a habit soon is the Keri-Tea that I am supposed to drink before bed. As soon as I am able to get to bed before 2 AM I am sure I will be able to get that worked into the ritual as well.

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Beginning of the cleansing process

2010-01-09T11:27:00.001-08:00

I am definately not into the whole spiritual cleansing idea but now that I nearing my . . . I hate to even type it . . . mid-forties I think that a whole body cleansing and detox is a really good idea. I bought into the Dr. Natura system of herbal cleansing and started the 3 month regiment on Thursday. According to the instructions there really isn't a reaction for the first 5 or so days so we will have to wait and see what manifests itself over the first month. It may even allow me to loose a few pounds along the way. Another good thing is that a friend of mine got me some really good water containers to keep with me so I won't ever be far from a good clean drink of water. This is especially nice since I am absolutely addicted to soda pop.

Health, Websites, Sales, and Customer Service

2009-12-29T10:49:00.000-08:00

Late last night I was browsing the internet and chatting it up with FaceBook (FB) friends when I remembered that I really wanted to do something when it came to detoxifying my body. I spend too many hours behind a computer screen and far too much money eating fast food. I know that my insides probably look 10x worse then my outsides. Thats saying something as my outsides aren't the prettiest in the world either.

As I browsed around I remembered all the research that I had done a few months back and that I had saved the weapon of choice that I had researched with regards to Colon Cleansing and Detoxification. "Dr. Natura" was the product of choice and I was actually in a position to try and get it now. I had read all of the testimonials and many of the blogs that people had posted with regards to their own outcomes. So I ventured into the shopping cart system. I began my order with the 3 month supply of each and then saw that the price was a bit too high for my budget. Frustration again! Oh wait, I have a promotional codes that they had sent to me. I found them again and to my surprise and joy they were still good and working. I entered the first one which gave me a free 1 month Detox kit and another that was a $20 off promo code so I was now saving nearly $80. I was very happy since that now, barely, fit into my budget. All was right with the world and I was happy.

I awoke the next morning to the usual order confirmation e-mails and of course a few others. When I read the invoice that was generated for me I was . . . lets say upset. The total that was charged to my account didn't accept any of the discounts. In fact it was as if the website had lied to me. (Pause for effect.)

I was on the BlackBerry (BB) faster then you could believe and dialing the "happy" customer service department to vent on them. I first talked to Jennifer who was doing her job and deflecting as much of my anger as possible. She did the usual song and dance about me having to receive the shipment and then send it back to get my money back; I wasn't having any of it! I demanded, to a point of meanness (sorry Jennifer), that i speak to a manager. She made it as clear as I was able to understand that the managers were unavailable at that moment and that someone would have to call me back. I did ultimately aquiess and get off of their phones for a bit. Still not satisfied and now poorer for it.

About an hour later I called back and asked to speak to either of the managers that I had been refered to by Jennifer. I was quickly transfered and spoke to Marta (she's the manager whose picture appears on the site), and she sounded a bit worse for the wear but was cordial. She told me after I reminded her of the issue that she had already refunded me $35 for the issue. What&^%? i told her that that was not correct and that I was expecting exactly $78.40 to be refunded. I explained that the amount that I was given by the website was the amount that I expected to pay and no more. We bantered a bit back and forth but when I told her that there was nothing on the site stating an exception to what I did and that the site had both allowed the transaction as well as sent up no flags during the checkout process the company had no recourse but to honor the website's total and product delivery to me. She finally agreed to refund the complete amount and thanked me for exposing the flaw in the site so that they could patch it.

I was upset, yes. But after the interactions with the staff representing DrNatura I must say that I am thus far very happy with the fact that they decided to honor the site's total and that they will be, as far as I can tell making this transaction move forward. While all this was going on I received the email that the product were shipped out already, which is more then 1 day earlier then they state on the website.

My respect to the people that do customer service all over the world as it is one of the toughest jobs around. When you are standing in a return line for an hour this post holiday season think about the person behind the counter and how long they have had to stand there and listen to all of our gripes and complaints.
Steve Overstreet | Create Your Badge

Been Looking for a Good Story.

2009-11-22T00:32:00.001-08:00

I have been really feeling like it was time to put together a really good story or tele-play. I have always been a fan of children's stories (anyone who knows me that I am just a big kid) and I think I have found one that would be fun to do. There is a series of 4 children's novels called the "Molly Moon" series. by Georgia Byng. This story is a fun loving and adventurous romp with a 10 year old young lady by the name of Molly Moon that just happens across a book of hypnotism. She soon finds that she is very good at it too. With her friend Rocky, Molly sets out on adventures that keep the books tempo really moving. I really enjoy reading them to Morgan, my daughter, and she really looks forward to them before bed each night. So I will have to keep you all posted as to the progress and see if it turns out to be a viable product for me to produce on my own or possibly sell outright. Check out the author's page at http://www.meetmollymoon.com and pick up the latest in the series titled Molly Moon, Micky Minus, and the Mind Machine. I thought it was really fun to read.
Steve Overstreet | Create Your Badge

The start of a brand new week!

2009-11-16T01:02:00.001-08:00

It will be my first DP (Director of Photography) job on set tomorrow. I have another camera person my partner handling all the PA work and coaching the actors too. It will a few very hard, fun, and worthwhile days. Then its off to the editing room to see what I have to fix. check it out when I can post pics at http://www.facebook.com/soverstreet/ maybe some of the out takes will get up to YouTube on my channel.

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2009-11-12T23:17:00.000-08:00

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Eat, Drink, & Make Merry!

2009-11-09T10:46:00.000-08:00

Here we are in the holiday season again. For me, on the west coast it is sometimes hard to believe that it is the winter time. That's exactly why I like it here though. Having lived in other places around the country I really have come to appreciate the left coast much more then I ever did when I was younger.

The holidays always evoke beautiful images of family and good times with people that we've become close to. I must admit that I too have bought into this idealistic imagery and often find myself waxing nostalgic to times that my memory has clouded with happy and joyful thoughts. Its the very human way to only remember the good times through imagery but if we dig deep we will find that the feelings that we actually experienced are still there. Whatever disappointment, loneliness, or depression we were feeling around these special times survive no matter how we bury them with those foggy images of good times.

All this would be just sound like I am soar toward the holidays without a point.

"Well get to it already!"

Fine I will. All this sour sounding monologue is simply to point out that we don't have to hold on to these feelings. The repression of these feelings will forever be your undoing when it comes to times of good cheer. As it is part of our human condition to retain these hurt feelings it also builds itself into a natural (wall) defense mechanism to ward off the possibility of feeling bad again. It will hold you back from experiencing what could be the best time of your life.

"Don't let your past dictate your future!" This is something that we have been told or heard for a long time, especially if you've ever bought into a self-help tape or book. Sadly (or maybe happily) it is completely true. It is a glorious and wonderful journey that we are all on. It is full of happiness, sadness, anger, hopefulness, love, desperation, plenty and want too. But when we experience this amazing range of emotion it is one of our (or should be) goals of life to figure out and process all of them in such a way to not hinder us in the future but let them simply enrich the journey. Life is full of so much more then sadness and want but when you live in America these days (and especially in Southern California) it is sometimes impossible to keep a healthy prospective on the differences between wants, needs as well as damaging or healthy relationships.

2009-10-11T00:23:00.001-07:00

This is my first, but hopefully not lst, mobile blog addition. As mny people I live by my BB so now I cn keep working from anywhere.

The returning rover . . .

2009-04-02T14:26:00.000-07:00

I've returned from shooting a really interesting and poinient one-woman play that highlights the plight of the returning war veteran. It was designed and written about a Vietnam Veteran Nurse. Penny Rock is a widely sought after speaker whos life was headed for a bright singing career when, as happened to so many of the time, it was interrrupeted by the Vietnam Conflict in 1967. She had, to say the least, a life changing experience. Through her eyes and her words gleened from letters that she was sending home to her sister. She tells a horrific story of scenes in a medical unit that saw its share of conflict victims. Young though she was at the time she shows a wizdom beyond her years in the often grotesque imagery evoked in every line.

Normi Noel (Corporate Scenes on Normi Noel) does as dramatic a renition as I have ever seen on stage. She truely takes your emotions from sadness, ironic laughter, to tears. Her powerful statement in her performance "and there's No Background Music" is shouted by Penny in the telling of her story to a person who kept badgering her for her story while seeing the whole conflict through romatic, cinemagraphic visions of the confict.

It truely affects those who have seen conflicts as well as those of us who have, thankfully, not experienced them up close. With all of these issues taking a huge step back into the lime-light with the last few years of conflicts overseas it is never better then now to recognize the growing problems that our servicemen and women are coming home with once again. We need to raise our sensitivity and awareness to the long term and severe effects that these conflicts have on everyone involved from the obvious people on the front line to the support people that have to deal with the immediate damage that these conflicts wreck on society.

Things are looking up

2009-03-13T15:51:00.000-07:00

Its been a while since my last message. I've been told that this is specifically why no one comes to read what I write. I personally think that it is more likely that they don't read what I write because it is more then a little "BORING". Well it is my cross to bear so I will bear it with gusto! Today I am writting this a renewed individual. Some may or may not knon I am an aspiring camera operator and director. I have always loved the process of creation in the form of video and movies and have even spent an inordinate amount of resources to attempt to get closer to actually becoming directly involved with a larger project. ( I just want to say I made money doing what I love to do . . . but that is always what I try to do . . . now I want to be able to say I did it though.) Recently I was picking up my daughter at her school and randomly started talking to a dad doing the same thing. I was amazed that he was a professional designer and producer. J.D. Buckwell (http://jdbuckwell.com/) Of coarse I couldn't let that go so I decided to take he and his daughter out to dinner and we seemed to hit it off. It has now been 2 weeks since that dinner and he has actually booked me on a documentary project that he has going on! I was totally stocked to say the least. I can finally begin my exit from the extremely boring and oppressive world of legal deposition video and take a new path into the creative and more fuldilling world of production. Well not quite yet but it is definately promising to hear that there could be a way to get to my objective. What is even more amazing is that this person who really hasn't much to go on, when it comes to me, has taken his time to help me get to where I want to be. It really is something when a little trust and curteousy can net a person a whole new outlook on the rest of thier life. PAY IT FORWARD!

A Wonderful Way To Get Started

2008-12-07T21:11:00.000-08:00

Here I am beginning this Blog while I put my dughter to sleep. . . what was i thinkin'. but that isn't why anyone of you may be reading this. I am building this blog to share whatever tip, tricks and insights that I can gleen from my many years of marketing, and various other skills. Along the way I may even through in an especially relevant (or just cute) anecdote as well. If any one has a topic that is especially relevent or timely then i am all ears. Please e-mail me at soverstreetvideo@gmail.com. you can check out some of my web handywork at; http://saoproductions.com, http://o-c-e-a.org, http://veritasbroadcasting.com and a few other places that will show up as time goes on.