Lunar eclipse

August 28, 2007 · Posted in Photography · 4 Comments 

I wanted to post this early this morning but my less than wonderful web host decided to crap out on me again. Yes I am looking for a new host and no I will never recommend these guys to anyone.

Anyway, I got up early just to take some photos of the eclipse and share them with my wonderful readers.


eclipse halfway
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I cannot believe I got up at 4:45 in the morning just to watch the moon disappear. But then again it was so totally worth it.

eclipse twothirds
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I was amazed at how long it was taking, of course I was tired and wanted to go back to bed.

eclipse threequarters
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We woke up the girls to see this too. I said I would rather drive spikes into my eyes, then my wife went and woke them up anyway. What does that tell you?

eclipse almost there
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This is what we came here for, it’s almost there!

Full on eclipse
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Oh yeah, full eclipse. It was worth it and I was happy that I went to the effort to see it. Even my 11 year old was impressed. Although I looked like Chevy Chase in Vacation when I bobbed my head, packed my stuff up and got outta there!

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From one who doesn’t like attention.

August 26, 2007 · Posted in Life · 3 Comments 

I really really hate it when you decide to have a sneezing fit right in the middle of the sermon at church. There is just no way to stop everyone from noticing! The worst part is that there is no way to look cool while sneezing or after sneezing. Something about you sitting there with your hands over your face just isn’t cool. Oh and when you pull your hands away, you know you want to look at them and make sure there isn’t anything gross on them but everyone is still looking at you. How do you look cool on that one? You can’t just lower your hands down to your lap cause whatever might be on them will now be on your pants.

I am going to start keeping a box of Kleenex handy at all times, I am not going through that again!

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A man of substance!

August 23, 2007 · Posted in Life · 9 Comments 

I wanted to just make a post of me screaming but I decided it probably wouldn’t be appropriate or appreciated!

I am really getting burnt out at work and I have no idea how to tell them that I am on the verge of going somewhere else to work. It is just a day in and day out drag to be there, more so than it should be. I know that no job is perfect but there has to be a better one than this one. I know it is getting bad because I can be in the greatest mood and as soon as I realize it is time to go to work I am depressed and ready to go back to bed. That is definitely not the way you should feel before going to work!

I am trying to get some pictures of the fountain. The problem lies in the fact that we can’t decide where to put the darn thing! I mean we have a general idea but we just can’t seem to solidify our thoughts on it. Becky is interested in aesthetics and I am interested in getting it somewhere where it won’t be a pain to wire up! That reminds me I need to go get another extension cord for it, she can’t use my bright orange 100 footer, it’s mine and I won’t give it up!

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Pointless blathering

August 20, 2007 · Posted in Random Thoughts · 5 Comments 

I have nothing, NOTHING.

Wifes birthday went very well. She really enjoyed the water fountain I got her. I will take a pic of it once we get it out of the darn garage and into the garden.

I was bored earlier, big surprise, and made a list of ways you can interchange bored and board:

1) Bored meeting (see how much more meaningful it is that way!)
2) Bored game (no really, I do tend to get bored with them)
3) Chairman of the bored (I can understand why after watching the bored meeting)
4) Alright there isn’t really a number 4 at the moment but if you think of some put them in the comments, I won’t steal your ideas, promise!

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Repercussions

August 18, 2007 · Posted in Blog · 3 Comments 

This is what happens when things go wrong for me. Rather than work my butt off to fix everything, which I could have done. I opted to lighten up a bit and change the template. I replaced the posts that were necessary, like the book review, but I let the rest slide for now. They weren’t really all that important in the grand scheme of things anyway!

I changed the template yet again. This is actually the second one I tried. The first one was pretty cool but it wouldn’t show up right in Internet Explorer and over half my readers still use that horrid browser so I must make sure that they can read things too! I will try and figure out what is wrong with the other one and maybe use it in the future. For now I kind of like the simplicity of this look, it is light and loads a little faster. I also trimmed out some of the plug ins that weren’t really doing anything or were just flights of fancy.

Now I am going to go to bed, I have some shopping to do tomorrow. I had been trying to get my wifes B-day present for awhile now but it seemed like everything was against me saving any money for it. I had overtime this check so I just took it all out and did it that way!

Have an awesome weekend. If you find any problems with the site the way it is please let me know. There may be bugs and the contrast may be a bit off and make it harder to read for some. Don’t be shy, you won’t hurt my feelings if you tell me it is burning your retinas out. I might not fix it, but at least I will know! ;)

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