Daisy Sitting Pretty

Daisy Sitting Pretty
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This is Daisy. She has alot of energy. Tara got her to sit for a minute. This photo reminds me on one of those “Dog” photos that are all over cards and whatnot.

Taylor Sitting Pretty

Taylor Sitting Pretty
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This is Taylor. She also has alot of energy. She took a break during her tennis ball fetch game to sit and pose for a photo.

Photo-A-Day #17 04/25/05

Photo-A-Day #17 04/25/05
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This is the church where we are going to be married in 200 days! At night the alcove where Jesus is standing is lit up. Last night the full mooon was out and a little behind the where the steeple used to be and it looked so amazing. We can see the church from our living room window. So I better not be late on the wedding day.

200 Days

Yep today marks 200 days till our wedding. We’ve gotten alot of the preparation completed but still have alot to do.

Weekend in New Hampshire

This weekend Allison and I went to New Hampshire. It rained and we spent alot of time at the house. Allison and Marcia spent alot of time at the mall and Dan and I hung around the house. Today Allison and I put a few things on our Macy’s registry, flatware and wine glasses and the sort. We’d both like to that Dan and Marcia for their very generous gift too! That is going to help us out alot as we prepare for the wedding. Tomorrow is 200 days till the wedding!

Photo-A-Day #16 04/24/05

Photo-A-Day #16 04/24/05
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Sunday is shopping day. Our now fully stocked freezer is ready for the week ahead. Actually we’re more than ready. Since we got the vacusealer, or suckatizer as Allison calles it we’re able to get plenty of meats and freeze them in airtight sealed packages. So on sunday we usually do all the shopping, not really the best day to do it but the one we have chosen.

Photo-A-Day #15 04/23/05

Photo-A-Day #15 04/23/05
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Today it rained, almost all day. We are in New Hampshire visiting Marcia and Dan. Allison and Marcia went to the Mall to poke around. Dan and I hung out and watched Super Volcano. Okay we are ready to duck and cover now. And they were gone for a couple of hours and that is a good thing because it took about that long to upload today’s photo through the Infrared connection between the iPaq and laptop. So I guess I’ll be taking a card reader with me next time I am away from the house so photo uploads won’t make me long for teeth being pulled. Sorry today’s photo is kinda lame, I didn’t feel like getting off the porch.

Photo-A-Day #14 04/22/05

Photo-A-Day #14 04/22/05
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Grimlock is one of my favorite characters from the Transformers. His most recent incarnation is that of a Ford Mustang GT. He was a dinobot, (a Tyranasuarus Rex even.) when Transformers came out 20 years ago. I can’t believe I still like a toy line that has been going strong for 20 years. Anyway, this line of Transformers are called Alternators. They were made as a line for collectors and the line is awesome, the detail and the complexity of the transformation is fantastic. I saw Grimlock on my desk and put him up on my computer to give a different perspective for the shot. Notice too Optimus Prime off in the background. He may become a future Photo-A-Day subject. Also check out the computer screen it is a picture of Grimlock and Slingshot of the Arielbots playing football, slingshot is about to get smashed. That image is from the Stupid Lamborgini Tricks website.

A real post…

I know I haven’t put up a ‘real’ post in a while. I’ve been busy putting up brief recaps and the Photo-A-Day and have neglected putting up ‘real’ posts about the fun and interesting things I’ve found on the internet.

Well I listen to WERS 88.9FM in the mornings because they play folk music and I really like how it is commercial free. I kept meaning to give them a donation last week during live music week. Anyway, there is a song out now by Antje Duvekot called Judas and it is such a good song. It is from her new album called Boys, Flowers, Miles, this is her newest album, she has many more. WERS 88.9FM plays Judas almost every morning and it doesn’t feel right not hearing it in the morning. Antje has a beautiful soulful voice and her songs are so great to listen to. I just saw that she is playing with one of our favorite singers, Ellis Paul, in North Andover MA. I’d love to go see the show.

Let’s see today I was introduced to the Bovine Blog. It is a blog written from a cows perspective and is funny. It also links to bovineunite.com. An underground cow movement. The website looks all Animal farm and stuff. There are some funny videos of people in cow suits.

How are you liking the Photo-A-Day project? I found out that instead of a mere 60 photos a month, Buzznet gives me 120 photos a month. So I started taking photos of my Harley Davidson Pin collection too. And adding little stories about how I got each one. If anyone is interested i getting their own Buzznet PhotoBlog for photos please e-mail me at abennett96 @ gmail . com. I want to invite you to be one of my Buzznet PhotoBlog friends.

Also I just discovered that I have an annoying habit. And I know it is annoying because I actually realized that I do it. Have you ever realized that one of your quirks is really annoying, true story happened to me. I recently noticed that I laugh at my own jokes. I will say something that I think is funny and at the end I put a little, “uh, huh, huh” or something like that after it. Well, I am now aware of this and am working on controlling this involuntary behavior. I just can’t believe I’ve been doing it for so long, and no one has ever pointed it out to me, I found it on my own. Weird.

I’ve become very addicted to Runescape. Runescape is an online role playing game where you choose a character then immerse yourself in a fantasy world where you fight monsters and mine for ores and learn crafting and try to improve a number of different skills. There is a great resource for information about how to play Runescape at http://www.tip.it.

Climbing up onto my pet peeve soapbox.

My friend Mo sent me a link to this article in the Union Leader from New Hampshire. There was a pellet gun shooting on the Campus of Saint Anselm. Apparently some Skateboarders were shot with a Pellet Gun. And a suspect is under investigation. Obviously I did not share the same outrage that Mo did. Here’s my take on it. I used to be a Resident Hall Director at Saint Anselm College. I would have to deal with students and non-students all the time. And one of the things that really ticked me off was the local kids coming onto campus and skateboarding all over the place. The world is not your Skate Park! I’m not saying shoot them with pellet guns, but I can see how someone who had a pellet gun might want to shoot these little pests. (Not that I am condoning someone having a pellet gun on campus. When I was a student one of my former roommates shot some girl in the leg with a pellet gun and it was a mean thing to do.) However, the weather is getting better and they (our local unwashed mass of skateboarding preteens) are starting to hang out in front of our church again. This is where they jump their skateboards into the street. A danger here is that you cannot see very well coming up the street at 4-5:00 because of the sun glare. And it would be my fault if I hit one of these airborne morons who flew in front of my car. And it isn’t the skateboarding so much it is that they suck at it. For one thing they are practicing their tricks out in front of the church or in front of our house. Each time they land they invariably fall on the ground, almost always in the street. And I can see some poor old lady driving up the street and hitting one of these kids and being so upset about hurting them, and it wasn’t her fault. They have put cracks and chips on our granite wall and ruined a few of the church steps with their constant slamming down of their boards. So maybe a pellet gun shot in the ass is what they need because their parents didn’t put a boot in it and teach their children about private property.

Soapbox dismount!

Windshield Fixed

Well the windshield is all fixed. JN Phillips Auto Glass fixed the windshield in the parking lot of work. They were very helpful and showed up early and I didn’t even lose my inspection sticker and have to go get another. So that was a bonus, because I was expecting that I would have to do that after work. So today I am looking at the list of the people who have recently been hired at work and low and behold I actually know someone. So I sent her a message and she had just started on Monday. We had lunch today and I introduced her to a few people in the group. The thing that is the most coincidental is that she is now working for the group I just left and has my old supervisor as her supervisor. Small world.