This Sunday's poolcnic, although sparsely attended, was fun, smoking people and their jackass kids aside. The water wasn't ice cold, and we got to be the last ones out.
See you all next Sunday.
Preteen cheerleaders and their Chinook helicopter moms, vintage military hardware and people, the V8 motorcycle, OSU Alumni Band, and Shriners. Lots and lots of Shriners.
I forgot to upload a picture.
...and today I drove through Richmond and took a walk at the County Historical Society.
Helga filter courtesy of the Camera Bag application for the iPhone.
Joey says "the only difference is that I look cooler."
New tree on Piedmont -- 1/4/2009
So, as far back as when I was in Art School, learning the Zone System, checking out the Hasselblad (for studio use only!) and blowing hundreds of dollars on paper learning to print perfect color prints I've been a bit of a perfectionist with the technical end of my photography.
It was a rebuilding year, one of goals half accomplished and postponed goals achieved. We are all a year older, a wee bit wiser and about the same measure more jaded.
I resist the mad, end of year rush to revamp things, create unreachable goals and devise further ways of torturing myself, but having the past two weeks away from the structure of work and school, along with a New Year's marathon of documentaries on the morbidly obese on TLC has me thinking.
In 2009 I need to be far less passive with my creativity and intellect. Rather than simply consuming, I need to rediscover my ability and need to create. Just like physical exercise, it takes quite a bit to get the endorphins flowing, but the work becomes the reward, and routines become habits.
Here's Goal #3, the sweetest of all with Captain Frankie Hejduk taking beautiful service from MVP Guillermo Barros Schelotto.
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I got to sit in a hotel room in New Jersey last night. Watched TV, relayed poll results to my little sister, and wished like hell that I could call my Dad. I cried a little over the last one, but Dad is hanging out with his Dad, and Uncle Jerry, and Uncle Tom, Dam Jerry, Grandpa Kehoe, Tony Celebrezee and of course, Bill Moss.
My kids got to have a little fun, joining Great Aunt Maryellen on stage to start making an acceptance speech, only to be interrupted by the announcement that the networks were calling the race for Obama.
Either how, a night to remember.
(I'll attribute the image as soon as I can, but I saw it first at John's site)
Fin came flying up the basement stairs last night yelling "Mom! Dad! Mom! Dad! Mom! Mom Mom! Barack Obama won! Barack Obama won!" This was accompanied by so much jumping and gesticulating that we had to calm her down (after letting her and Ellie jump around and yell a little more).
Obama did indeed win the Nickelodeon Kids Pick the President contest and the results were announced last night in our basement.
Richard Koch: The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Success by Achieving More with Less
For work again...
Rick Page: Hope Is Not a Strategy: The 6 Keys to Winning the Complex Sale
Not an anti-Obama book. Another book for work.
Ken Blanchard: Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach To Customer Service
$20 for common sense. Told in awful parable style. Had to read for work.
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