Shutter Bug
Part of “Eddie the Idiot (and other feline follies)”
13 preening photos
taken
on Sept. 29, 2008
Last night I found a kitten running around the parking deck by my office. He was so tiny and cute and pathetic I called my wife to ask whether we ...
Part of “The Power Plant”
7 sketchy photos
taken
on Sept. 18, 2008
We finally started some work on the old/new office. We're pouring a slab about 10 ft X 90 ft along the east edge of the building. Since there are cisterns ...
Part of “Church in Progress”
11 pixelated photos
taken
on Sept. 18, 2008
Here's the first set of shots from the ceiling after several days of work by the Ceiling Ninjas, aka Wood Master Mike and his trusty sidekick Brock. Their work gets ...
Part of “Local Flavor”
25 handsome photos
taken
on Sept. 14, 2008
The Gulf Coast sent the remnants of Hurricane Ike our way. We didn't suffer much beyond flooded basements, but it made for a surreal bike ride around town.
Part of “Church in Progress”
3 drunk photos
taken
on Sept. 2, 2008
After about 3 years, we're finally replacing all the broken gutters and downspouts. Part of the bid included putting gutters up on the belltower, but when they arrived to do ...
Part of “Church in Progress”
4 scary photos
taken
on Aug. 16, 2008
This is the last shots I have before I buckled and hired some help. The next shots will show a lot more progress, I hope.
Part of “Church in Progress”
2 devious photos
taken
on Sept. 11, 2008
A big, dead bug that ended up in the sanctuary, and then ended up here. Now he guards the place.
Part of “Spring Break 2006”
28 forgettable photos
taken
on March 16, 2006
Having stretched ourselves out to the western edge of our orbit and reached Sparks, Nevada, the pendulum started to swing back Eastward. We traveled through some of the most desolate ...
Part of “Spring Break 2006”
23 concerned photos
taken
on March 15, 2006
My Aunt Becky & Uncle Steve live just outside of Reno in Sparks, NV. This was my first time visiting them. It made for a great halfway point in our ...
Part of “Spring Break 2006”
9 smelly photos
taken
on March 15, 2006
I never spend long in Vegas, and I probably don't give it enough credit - I gotta figure it would make for some good night photos, but I'm always dead-tired ...
Chatty Cathy
posted 6 days, 18 hours ago on Tuesday, September the 30th 2008
So last night I was leaving work around 8:30 and meandering out of the parking deck when I saw a tiny beast dart under a parked van. The creature looked like it would make for a tasty snack on the drive home, so I stopped. It turned out to be a kitten. I'd guess it ...
posted 2 weeks, 5 days ago on Wednesday, September the 17th 2008
Just uploaded a few photos from our tiny flood the other day. The village survived relatively unscathed, and I rode my bike around taking pictures as I don't think I'll see this much rain again for a while. There were a lot of people out walking around with their kids, holding them up to see ...
posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago on Sunday, September the 14th 2008
Right now the gulf coast, specifically the Texas coastline, is getting pummeled by hurricane Ike. I believe it was a Category 2 storm at landfall, which isn't historical, but the diameter of the thing is immense. Suffice to say, it's another reminder that dodging the occasional tornado and shoveling snow are manageable hardships up here ...
posted 3 weeks, 5 days ago on Thursday, September the 11th 2008
In a completely un-subtle stretch to tie some photos I took last night to the work being done on the church ceiling, I managed to come up with a nicely hackneyed title. I do it all for you. This guy has been hanging out in the first floor of the sanctuary for a few months ...
posted 4 weeks ago on Tuesday, September the 9th 2008
It only took me three years, but the glacial pace of remodeling the church finally got me to cry "uncle." I've finished putting up maybe about 30-40% of the ceiling planks, and one night reached the Ralph Nadir of despair. I climbed off the scaffolding after spending three hours working at a single row of ...
posted 1 month, 1 week ago on Monday, August the 25th 2008
This post is rated "G" for "Guys Will Cringe." You've been warned. I've told this story a few times now, and I find that I dress it up with a bit of drama and tension. I'm not sure I need to do that here, for the clear-eyed few that visit this site for hard-hitting, deep ...
posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago on Thursday, August the 21st 2008
There used to be a time, several years ago when I had risen above the plebeian desire for television and only watched DVDs. It allowed me to snobbishly dismiss all the lowly folks who still needed their fix of mindless channel surfing. "Did you see last night's episode of Matlock?" they'd ask, and with barely ...
posted 2 months ago on Friday, August the 8th 2008
I just uploaded a new set of photos, the second to last batch from our 2006 Spring Break driving bonanza. It's a batch that covers our day driving across Nevada on Route 50, which many maps refer to as the Loneliest Road in America. The route apparently follows a path used by the Pony Express ...
posted 2 months ago on Tuesday, August the 5th 2008
I'm well on my way to becoming a pirate. Due to an eye infection that took hold a few weeks ago, I can't get a new prescription for contacts or glasses, and instead have to wear my 483 year old Ben-Franklin era yellowed-lens spectacles. I'm so used to waking up and putting in my contacts ...
posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago on Wednesday, July the 23rd 2008
It's been a while since I've spent an evening like this. I've wrestled with some mysterious stomach ailment for a number of years, but in the last two it's been somewhat under control. I'm sure I'm due to visit some sort of expert and be prodded via the front door or the back, but as ...
posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago on Saturday, July the 19th 2008
Give Sally credit. She manages to nod and make noises of affirmation most of the time when I talk about the 8,500 different ideas I have for the church rebuild. Whether it's landscaping, slides, or just me saying "I really need to get to work on this," she's usually ready to agree. The problem is ...
posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago on Wednesday, July the 16th 2008
I don't have a terribly taxing job. I have a job that requires typing and moving a mouse in very specifc ways, occasionally clicking and scrolling when things get really exciting. My work ethic is heavily inspired by laziness - the better I do my job, the less of my job I have to do. ...
posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago on Monday, July the 14th 2008
I won't lie to you. I was pretty sure I'd never get this beastly site running again. I pretty much left it for dead back in... May of 2007. The plan was a quick rebuild of the guts that ran the site using all the latest gimcrackery because it just seemed like time for an ...
posted 1 year, 5 months ago on Thursday, May the 3rd 2007
Since we're not on this rock very long (and I'll even mark off another trip around the sun in a few days), it's crucial to make interesting memories while you're here. This naturally leads to buying into the lies sold by various Do-It-Yourself TV shows, and seeking to make memories through the construction of a ...
posted 1 year, 5 months ago on Monday, April the 30th 2007
Might I mention the title of this post (as pulled from "A Boy Named Sue") is infinitely preferable to the reverse - i.e. Guts in your grits. They just don't stir in very easily. Today was day two of turning our sanctuary into the world's largest hourglass. There are piles of sand all around the ...
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