20080819 - fat old man craig
Posted on August 19, 2008 - Filed Under picture of the day
this is totally fat old man craig. my glasses even look super thick (though they aren’t really). i should be sitting at some retirement home in florida. seriously.
on another note, there is a billboard for the daily show next to the airport in minneapolis for the upcoming rnc that reads, “welcome rich white oligarchs.” nice.
2 things: one funny, one opinion
Posted on August 18, 2008 - Filed Under 2 things
1. Had dinner with my family last night. My mom’s boyfriend, Paul, made what he calls “sinful potatoes”. He told everyone that he used non-fat sour cream and low fat cheese and something else not so bad for you. At this point my grandma chimed in to say they were really more veneal potatoes then. Heh. Maybe you had to be there. Or raised catholic. Was a funny one loner that caught everyone off guard. Good one, grandma.
2. I always forget how hood Stereolab is. Listening to disc 1 of ABC Music now.
2.0.2
Posted on August 18, 2008 - Filed Under general
It was hot today. I’m restless. I just want to be on the road. I’m packed and ready foe the trip and I’m having a hard time waiting.
So I spent some time looking for a project on the computer. Didn’t really find anything. However, apple released 2.0.2 for the iPhone so I did get to install that. So far it’s about the same.
20080818 - go live! strawberry fanta
Posted on August 18, 2008 - Filed Under picture of the day
today is “go live” for the project that i’m on. it’s pretty exciting. i’ve been on the project for 11 months exactly. everything is on and running. so i thought an appropriately exciting picture should be the photo of the day. and there you have it folks, strawberry fanta! you can’t get that just anywhere. you can get it at chris and rob’s, a chicago eatery. . . which means they got good dogs and beef sandwiches. (sadly, i must admit that the “sport” peppers gave me a bit of a tummy ache though. . .. i am getting old).
anyway, should be a good week this week. just two short days at work and then i’m off to the bwca. i can’t wait for that feeling of a canoe sliding into cool, silent morning waters. . . it’s a calm peaceful place and i could use some calm and peace in my life.
i managed to get just about everything in my pack last night. there are a few things that one of the other guys will need to put in his pack but i figure since i got the tent, stove, a lot of the food, etc. that’s not too bad. the pack is fit to burst as it is and i don’t think i like the order of how it’s packed so i think i’ll take it all apart tonight and repack it. at least i know it should fit.
so, as of wednesday i’ll be gone, absent from these pages. i am bringing a little book so maybe if i come up with something profound or funny, i’ll type it up when i get back.
anyway, welcome to monday folks. here’s to hoping for a good one and a quiet “go live” for my project.
20080817 - rush ticket stub
Posted on August 17, 2008 - Filed Under picture of the day
i went a little crazy with the scanning this weekend. here’s the ticket stub from when i went to see rush with scott and co. earlier this year. it was a fun show.
anyway, i finally went through that large stack of paperwork on my desk and scanned it in to the laptop. now, i allowed myself to do this because i also encrypted my entire home directory. so now that the originals are all shredded and i’m keeping encrypted copies on my laptop and backed up, everything should be nice and secure.
i also came up with a way to organize them. i tag their meta data. so i can dump them all in one big folder and do an easy search to get to them all or i’ve created “smart folders” that are sort of like saved searches.
anyone still reading? nerd nerd nerd nerd nerd. . . . . .
other stuff. went to three birthday parties last night. was fun to see all the friends and meet new ones. i kind of felt like we were all over the city. i had a nap so it was able to stay up late. good times.
today was family day. brunch with becky’s folks up in anoka. fun to get up there. it is a nice little town. good to see her folks. just pleasant, you know?
then on to fleet farm, which isn’t family related but was interesting. becky hadn’t been and kept asking what they sold there. i kept saying, “sweetie, i told you, they sell everything here.” but i think we were both a little surprised to find camo lingerie. nothing says sexy like killin’ deer.
finished off the day at my mom’s. they had saved the opening ceremonies of the olympics for us. hot damn, that was an amazing show. truly. then we had steaks with them and the grandparents.
all in all, an awesome weekend.
20080816
Posted on August 16, 2008 - Filed Under picture of the day
what a beautiful night it was last night. becky and i took a walk along the river. i love living in st paul. it’s just a nice city in so many ways. people are friendly. it has just about everything you could want. the only drawback i guess is that many of my friends and family are living over in mpls or suburbs which means some driving. i’m working on my move to st paul campaign. looks my friend jon and priya may move over this way though a little south. and recently i heard a rumor that my friend caitlin may move into my neighborhood even! it’d be so nice to have friends right in the ‘hood.
20080814 - more fog
Posted on August 14, 2008 - Filed Under picture of the day
this isn’t another photo that i took yesterday. this is this morning. another day of waking up fogged in. gosh, this is the kind of weather that really makes me want to turn around and go home, spend the day with a good record/book and a cup of tea.
20080813 - 96% humidity
Posted on August 13, 2008 - Filed Under picture of the day
this is what 96% humidity looks like. neat, huh?
in other news, i bought gas at $3.52 this morning. crazy.
20080811 - ben at the pub + 2 things
Posted on August 11, 2008 - Filed Under 2 things, picture of the day
here’s a shot of ben at the pub. i’m pretty happy with how it turned out. with my holga and using film, it’s a bit a of a crap shoot for me. . . i just haven’t gotten the “feel” for it yet. . . so it’s a bit of guess work.
1. irish fair. went to st paul’s irish fair this weekend. i think my mother’s favorite part was the shirt that said, “st paul was in the bible, minneapolis was not.” heh. oh you st paul catholics. . . . got a wicked sun burn but it was fun to be outside (perfect, absolutely perfect, day) and listening to irish music. we watched the dancers for a bit. ate some good food (though what i had wasn’t irish). we got to watch a bit of hurling, which i’d heard was getting big in the twin cities but hadn’t had the chance to see it yet. in a way it is sort of like lacross but with hard bats instead of sticks and nets. it’s fun being irish (and now i know welsch too! plus i admit that after this weekends research, looking more english than i thought).
2. excited about camping. yesterday i started looking to see if things were going to fit in my new pack. i think i’m going to make it. i put up my tent and re-sealed the seams of the rain fly. i flushed the carbon out of my new water filter. now i’m starting to feel excited. we’ve been planning the trip since like february so it had begun to feel a bit unreal. now it feels real again. when i set up the tent under the blue blue sky, i remembered how it feels to be up there on the lakes, feeling the wind blowing in off the water. oooh, i can’t wait!
did a little family history
Posted on August 9, 2008 - Filed Under picture of the day
i did some more family research on the old interweb today. i did manage to get back to the 1500’s through one leg. there are lots of gaps and i’m sure i could work on it forever and not finish but i do feel like i accomplished a whole lot. if you click my name at the bottom of this post and it should bring up a list o’ my kin. i have great great great great great great great great great great grandparents listed. that’s a lot of greats (ten, in fact). eventually i’d like to start adding in more media files as well. photos and audio clips where i can. i need to finish editing those stories that burton told and make them into a cd. i’m actually pretty close.
ok, that’s enough for one night. if you’re a relative or some random person interested, here’s a list of my kin.
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