Alex McGinnis

Preston Senior Preview

2009-06-08T22:42:00.006-05:00

Two photos from loc #1.

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If I Had A Superpower.

2009-01-20T18:28:00.003-06:00

I've given much thought to this and it's official I would have Telekinesis. For those who don't know what Telekinesis is it's the ability to move or control things with one's mind. O yea I know what your thinking AWESOME right. Things I would do with this super awesome amazing power are as follows. Change the channel without moving my hand I know right what man wouldn't want to do that. Drive without using the steering wheel. Fix the antenna to get the channel I want. Type without hitting keys. Now that I think about it tripping people who make me mad. A stick would do most of these things I guess I'll settle with that.

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It's Been A Long Time

2009-01-18T08:00:00.002-06:00

So much has happened since last time I was posting on a regular basis. Mariah and I are living on the south side of Des Moines this is our third apartment since moving back from Colorado and it's the smallest but the most home like. I don't know how to explain it just that it feels like a home when you walk in the door. I still work at McDonalds but I'm getting ready to replace that as my full time job. Mariah and I are lucky to work together at another retail store. For the most part they give us the same hours which is great. We work there about 15-20 hours a week and a little less right now. As for photography it's going someplace I'm still not sure where but it's moving. I'm still trying to figure out why God gave me these sets of skills and don't think I will know why for a long time. My best theory is the way photography school changed the how I think. I know God will use that some place I just don't know when and how. I did do a couple of weddings last summer and learned a ton about how to handle customers and have changed the way I thought I would do business by far. Mariah has two semesters left in nursing college and I can't wait for it to be done. Having a schedule thats not just little blips but big chunks will make having one car a little easier. A second car is on our list of things we need to do once she can have a full time job but not at the top. We got a second dog this fall Philip is a 3 pound poodle and scared of me unless I'm the only one home. Talk to you guys later.

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Fallout!

2008-05-04T21:25:00.000-05:00

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Crystal

2008-04-02T09:06:00.001-05:00

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Alex

Lyse

2008-04-02T08:21:00.003-05:00

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Alex

Our New Dog

2008-01-27T17:56:00.000-06:00

2008-01-19T14:05:00.001-06:00

Have I shown you all mt tank its been going now for about 6 months its awsome we have 2 clowns 1 shrimp 1 wrasse lots of crabs and snails.

2007-11-02T17:12:00.001-05:00

Wait isnt that what you do on a PC?

Waiting...

2007-09-21T22:57:00.000-05:00

Im just sitting here waiting for Mariah to get off work Im not really sure what time she gets off but it should be some thing like around 11:15 than we will go home and go to sleep tea and by tea I mean yes! So far I have done two sinor photo shoots with three more to go.. I dont like that name um how about Mile Marker Photos or Chapter Shoots u know because its the end of one chapter the beginning of another or Legecy Photo Shoots or Memory or Remembrence Photos tell me what you think and any other ideas. I like the whole chapter idea because I could carry that over to every thing like baby photos and kids and sinors and engagment and weddings there all chapters in ones life.
I think best and most creative when theres some good worship music on I think its because of the creative god given part of the song writer is in the music I have come up with the best ideas during united or desperations songs if only i could remeber them all. Im about to fall asleep.

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2007-09-19T18:58:00.000-05:00

Its just such a wonderful eavining wish Mariah would get out of class early so I could enjoy it with her.

2007-09-03T22:30:00.001-05:00

Right now Mariah and I are at jester park at saylorville lake around a fire that im pretty sure we are not supposed to have. So I have a escape plan all mocked up here it is right now we are down o about 1000 feet from the car to the left we have trees below we have long grass

this just in we have a helicopter coming our way it may be the head park ranger o nope its too far off

to the right we have more trees so if someone maybe a park ranger mariah and i are going down to the long grass than off to the left side were there trees in the short grass than up to the car where the keys are on top of the truck and away we go with or without craig and kathy hmmm we will see what happens.

The Final Plant Up-date

2007-09-02T08:40:00.001-05:00

Well its been like a month now since I last told you about my plant. Well now Im sorry to have to tell you this but its dead long gone forever Im afraid but I still have a cool pot.

Its weird all the college students left McDonalds 2 weeks ago and all but a fellow photo student Jay and I are back for there portfolio class - I kinda miss it, the whole school thing that is. Did I ever tell you all about the link on the sidebar to my portfolio website hopefully it wont be there for long because I want to update the site and make it a fully functioning site for my photo business. Well time to go to church talk to you all later.

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2007-08-17T14:05:00.000-05:00

You have got to be kidding me!

Game update: we went home

2007-08-08T18:30:00.001-05:00

Game update: we went home the end errr.
I dont know if I ever told you that the plant is dead sorry and thank you all who cared so no one.

2007-08-07T20:03:00.001-05:00

its raining

2007-08-07T19:49:00.000-05:00

Mariah and i are at a baseball game tonight with my parents and others somewhat less worthy of mentioning except brendon who has spilled cheese salsa and pop i think on his pants. So far we are losing I will let u know when its over. Nothing much else is going on with mariah and i. Im not sure what every one else thinks about baseball but i think its kinda boring. well I will post a little more later due to the above.

2007-07-19T14:00:00.000-05:00

Yea if I was to have a interwiew with USA Today I would say the same thing about myself to.

2007-07-15T12:12:00.000-05:00

Chilling in CC with my peeps yo. Now if you look really close maybe even click on the photo but there is my Mom and what is that next to her a teddy bear! Why o why does my mother have teddy bear sitting next to her dont tell anybody because this is top secret! She is doing some under-cover research for CC here by getting into the kids mindset wish her luck.

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Freaking Amazing

2007-07-12T07:23:00.000-05:00

I just saw this site and I can't get over how totaly amazing this work is it's just so cool and new. I've never seen anything like it before. No matter how long it takes to get loaded everyone has got to see this guy Michel Tcherevkoffs work heres the link Shoe Fleur.

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2007-07-11T14:25:00.000-05:00

I wonder if the people up in Canada ever get one of our coins, or is it just us. I got two of them today.

Plant update: The plant leafs were perking up after only a few short hours in the window sill.

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2007-07-11T09:18:00.000-05:00

Yesterday was a good day over all nothing much happend but last night all night I had dreams about Superman it was so weird at least three times thru-out the night I woke up and had been dreaming about him all three were diffrent maybe its because I saw the movie in the store two days ago hmm. I sent my resume in for another job this morning and moved the car from free over night parking to obama parking that was fun there were no parking spaces open last night so I had to park in the metereparking, so I had to go move it early this morning so I didnt get a ticket.

Plant update: I put it right in the window today but overnight the leafs were wiltting errr Im thinking I should play some music while Im at work today dont they say that classical helps plants grow or something?

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Microsoft Vista Speech Recognition Tested - Perl Scripting

2007-07-10T22:39:00.001-05:00

I was in tears while watching this, it's just so FUNNY!!!

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2007-07-10T16:45:00.000-05:00

Now moma always said life is like a box of granola you always know what your going to get. Yumm can you say "pass me the fruit please". O Ronald McDonald stoped by yesterday I should have gotten a photo with him to show you all but I didnt think about it untill it was to late sorry.

Plant update: couldent get a hold of Mom yet they must have been on the internet because it just kept ringing errr.

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2007-07-10T10:08:00.000-05:00

Mt plant is getting worse i dont know what to do. I was hoping that someone might have a suggestion or something but no not a word I'm not even sure if anyone has looked at the post and if they did shame on them for not leaving a kind word or something we are losing a loved one and it was so young to. Thats it bloggers I'm calling my Mom she'll know what to do.

I'll keep u updated I'm sure you all are so woried, dont lose any sleep or anything it's just a plant you know.

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2007-07-09T10:07:00.001-05:00

My plant isnt doing so well I over waterd it yesterday I think because this morning it looked like this. So I put in the sun for today and I hope it lloks better tonight I was going to take a photo of like the ones in my portfolio.

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2007-07-08T12:28:00.001-05:00

Just sitting eating some lunch with Craig and Kathys house.

2007-07-08T12:13:00.000-05:00

Cassie at church with tasha in back ground.

2007-07-07T21:28:00.000-05:00

Mariah holing 2 iPhones at the Apple store, lucky duck.

2007-07-07T20:33:00.001-05:00

Me holding a iPhone last week at the Apple store.

Guitar Hero 2 Rush YYZ on Expert

2007-07-07T20:00:00.001-05:00

Whatever to the GH2 player but the poor guy at the end, sorry man.

America's Got Talent (New York) - Bruce

2007-07-07T19:52:00.001-05:00

This rabbit rocks. Todd showed me this one and Jake showed me the GH2 one.

GH2 - Psycho Freakout - Expert (8 years old)

2007-07-07T17:48:00.001-05:00

Check This OUT!!!

Sunday Fireworks

2007-07-03T08:44:00.000-05:00

A video of the fireworks on sunday night.

2007-06-29T10:08:00.000-05:00

Finaly I can't wait to get my hands on one of these and just play... no I'm not getting one.

Family

2007-06-12T10:07:00.001-05:00

These are some photos of the family that I took while they were out in colorado. Mom couldn't strike a good pose because someones kept destracting her, so blame conner and brendon for this.

Homeless

2007-06-08T09:45:00.000-05:00

Just was going through some old photos today and thought that I would post these.

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Still Here

2007-04-18T18:19:00.000-05:00

Just hadn't posted in a while so I thought I might as well while I was sitting here waiting for my computer to download a update. Um been real busy the past cauple of weeks trying to get my portfolio done working on a website which I have up now and will give a address when it's all finished. Other than trying to stay cought up with school theres really no time for anything else. I almost can't wait for a nine to five job just so I know when work is done. The only problem is that I won't just have a nine to five job I will also be trying to start a business of my own which means nights and weekends for that as well as something to pay the bills with. It's done and I have to go to class talk to you all later.

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Canyons

2007-02-27T17:05:00.000-06:00

Mariah and I went to Grand Junction this weekend and wondered around the Colorado National Monument Park. It was amazing sorry about the photo of us there was a car it was shiny.

Web Site

2007-02-01T09:44:00.000-06:00

This is the progresion of my web site home page that I have been creating in my portfolio class.

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

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15 Below Zer0

2007-01-15T12:03:00.000-06:00

Mariah and I have gotten back to Colorado and have moved into our first apartment. It's nice with more than enough room for the two of us. This morning Mariah and I got up so that she could go to work and I drove her there it was 15 below 0 it was so cold. Ummm don't really have much to say just was bored and don't have class until tomarrow so nothing to do right now at the moment while Mariah is at work errr so I'm going to do the dishes talk to you all later.

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Sleep

2006-12-27T10:09:00.000-06:00

Mariah & Alex

2006-12-05T01:28:00.000-06:00

Nough said.

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Water Abstractions

2006-12-02T20:00:00.000-06:00

Just something I did while I was in the studio this afternoon.

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Low Key

2006-11-16T15:35:00.000-06:00

These are two photo that I took of a first year photo student in the studio a cauple of weeks ago for my low key high key assignment.

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Shooting Glass

2006-11-15T10:36:00.000-06:00

My last assignment in Large Format was to shoot glass it was fun. Bit glass is a little more difficult to shot than just about anything else, stupid finger prints. In the end this is the shot I got.

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A View Of The World

2006-10-30T11:37:00.000-06:00

2006-10-25T11:05:00.000-05:00

dove evolution

This is so real.

What would happen if we were to take the f/64 groups statement, what they believed photography did best and applied it to today's portraits & advertising campaigns?

Romantic Book

2006-10-16T14:28:00.000-05:00

I shot lighting ratios yesterday in the studio and this is my fav shot.

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Wedding Photos

2006-10-15T14:51:00.000-05:00

I Than Sat In The Seat

2006-10-02T12:24:00.000-05:00

So after I was done shooting Mariah wanted to give it a try so I handed her the camera and sat in the seat for my photo. I just thought I would let you all see them also.

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First Time In The Studio

2006-09-30T17:55:00.000-05:00

Today was my first time in the studio here at the school and I loved it Mariah and I had so much fun and it's just great to be able to control everything. Here are some of the shots from today.

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Fine I Will Already!

2006-09-26T11:05:00.000-05:00

Wow things have been busy since we got here and I don't have much time before class to post but I thought I would anyways just because I could ha. I will I will try to post more often but until than I will just leave you with some photos that I have taken latly and it's only about a tenth of the shots I want to post but I don't have time to get the others ready before class well talk to you all later.

11 Photos

2006-09-01T19:09:00.001-05:00

Derick, Mariah & I were down in town today and I came across this painting in a alley. It was to big for me to get it in one photo because I couldn't back up very far. So I've seen people do something like this and thought that I would give it a try so this is the out come. I like they diffrent way they look so I think you will see more of these in the future.

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Weekend Wait What Weekend

2006-08-21T14:48:00.000-05:00

It's Monday!!! This last week - weekend was a very busy one. Filled with great times and long days. Thursday Mariah & I went to the Edgecombs for dinner and so I could take a couple of shots of Elizabeth for them. We had so much fun and the shots of Elizabeth turned out great. Than on Sunday we went to church and it was Faith Factor week so cool and so much fun Brendan ate a cricket heck yea. I think Ryan will have video up from it on the church's website soon when they do you would take a look, I'll try and remember to post when he does. Than that afternoon we went to the park in Adel to meet Mark & Ashley so I could shoot there engagement photos. I haven't taken a look at them yet but will tell you how they look later. It was way different trying to shoot with people together instead of just a kid when all I needed is a great face and some good light for. I will get better at shooting people as I gain more experience. I'm sure that if I were to do it again that I would do it ten times better than before. It was great though we stood around and talked afterwards and had a fun time. I loved it and can't wait to do it again. Well I will post later this week I hope so talk to you than.

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The Light

2006-08-17T16:36:00.000-05:00

You stand in the dark, why are you there? What is going on that brought you to such a place in the middle of nowhere and why is it so dark here? What is that noise it's all around you, it sounds like something beating a thousand times a second or is it a thousand things beating one time a second that surrounds you. Wait what is that, there is a glimpse of light it's distant but it is there. What is the source of the light everything about it is overwhelming, you must have the light. The light is what you long for, nothing else matters to you but the light. As you try to get to the light your heart beating wild with the love for the light that now has you running faster and faster for nothing, the light is still small and far away to far for you to reach. The sound is overwhelming, you want the light so bad you can taste it on your lips, it's at the end of your finger tips. You try and try but the black moves with you as you try to go to the light. You beat at the dark like it's mulling you. You try to run from it but it stays with you, moves with you. Why can't you get away from it? You just want the light but nothing you do get's you any closer to the light, no matter how hard you try it's out of your reach. You are powerless, nothing you can do will get you to the light. Something no someone grabs you and the ground around is now visible. You can see a path now, it's there and this person is leading you down it towards the light. The light is getting closer it's getting bigger brighter more and more overwhelming. A loud crack and the dark is gone forever behind you. The light is the majestic thing you have ever seen, nothing can compare to the light not silver not gold not any idol. It seeps into you, it runs thru every vain in your body what power what love, you can feel it now. You think to your self, "this had to have been what the person that led me to the light must have felt". You fall to the ground tears dripping down your face soaking the dirt beneath you. You stand up with a new determination, there it is the black you turn to face it's direction led by something new. You start to walk back to it but are now running a deep fast strong desperate run. Into the dark you go thinking, "there are others looking for the light and I must show them the way".

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Me & My Stupid Self

2006-08-17T13:16:00.000-05:00

So the past couple of day's I have been thinking really really hard on something and think that I have made much progress into the deep of this subject are you ready because here it comes, the point that I have made great leaps & bounds into the deep thoughts of is the second bathroom stall in a men's bathroom. I have gone to the bathroom and have been required to use a bathroom stall almost everyday here are American Equity at or around 9 o'clock in the morning and again sometime in the afternoon. Although afternoon times are more random than the morning bathroom stall visit. In my visits there are a few thing that I have noticed that may prove that the second bathroom stall is more than just a box with a hole for the in particular bathroom stall user. First off I want to make clear that this is only true if you are not a upper management person per say of a corporate company for they have no reason to worry about he person next to them thinking anything "weird" about them, they can fire them on the spot if needed. But for the rest of us here is my thought on the second bathroom stall in the men's bathroom. Because you can't see the person in the stall next to you, you can't know if they are someone important or just some equal but still influential coworker. And for me at least you don't know if there will be certain "noises" that will be exerted during your bathroom stall visit. So what does you/the other person do when the second stall is going/was in use. You either hold it in or wipe and leave. Thus the second bathroom stall is just a switching point for users.

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A Great Photo Of Jamie Lidell

2006-08-04T09:22:00.000-05:00

This is a great photo that is on the Apple website, a article they wrote about him. I just thought it was really good the article wrote about how he is way different on stage than he is off.

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Inside SplitRock Lighthouse

2006-07-13T11:38:00.000-05:00

A photo that I took while I was at the top of the stairs inside Splitrock Lighthouse
Handheld at 1/30@f4.5, ISO 400, focal length @28mm
Shot RAW and post-proccessed with Photoshop.

Falls Photo

2006-07-07T09:35:00.000-05:00

I took this while Mariah & I were in Dulth.
Handheld at 1/6@f27 with IS, ISO 100.
Shot RAW and proccessed with Photoshop.

Tears

2006-06-16T12:10:00.000-05:00

The past cauple of days crying has been a topic that has come to my mind a cauple of time. It all started by me wondering why kids seem to cry more often than adults do this may be an easy one for you to figure out but there is more to it than that, I'm not talking about a little cry because you stubed your toe but a emotional cry that came from someone hurting your feelings or just a move of compassion that come from the heart towerds someone else. Everyone has had one of these crys and you know when you do there is no anger in this cry but love and compassion. Example a day or two ago I went to the funral of a family member on my mom's side and I sat behind my family with my Grandma. My Mom would tell you this too, her uncle Hoop was crying and because he was crying my mom was crying, why was she crying, because she had campassion & love for her uncle and didn't like to see him in such a way and could feel his pain. Kids are the same way they feed of the energy that you project out to them they only react to the energy that you give off... thats another post though. All it takes is something little for a kid to cry, as we get older it tends to take more and more for us to have a good cry. Why do kids cry easer than us it because they have a soft heart something that adults tend to lose as we get older. The saying real men don't cry is false to the fullest, real men do cry because if you have a emotional cry over something such as just knowing that someone is heading to hell for the rest of there life than you have a soft heart and the only thing that can make a hard heart soft is God. If you have a open heart to Jesus than God can soften your heart and real men have a open heart to Christ and have given there life to him to the fullest. I could go one but I might just need to get back to work talk to you all later.

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Photo Tip (yes I know that I haven't done this in awhile): When your doing a photo story remember & know your market.

So Long

2006-06-15T08:53:00.000-05:00

Duh it's been so long since I last posted I'm so very very sorry. This morning on the way to work I saw that the people next door horses had excaped and were just standing by the lane eating so I came to work some guy said that he was going to put them away so I left thinking that it was taking care of not just leaving thinking I wasn't going to do anything about it. I really just posted to tell you about the thing I added to my sidebar you should be able to see it right now towerds the top well talk to you later ya all.

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HI!

2006-05-25T10:15:00.000-05:00

Hello all you people out there that I havn't posted for in a long time. I decided to post right now because the whole department is in a meeting and I'm done with the last thing I was doing and am waiting for them to get out for something else to do. So here I am I don't know if you saw but I have a new link on my link sidebar the one on the top I have been posting to that when ever something get's done or happens its for the wedding. So life is good back here I can't wait to get married and can't wait to go back to school and be married there rather than at my parrents house. But until than we will be living at my parents house in the basement where I sleep now I don't really live there just sleep there when I can sleep longer than six hours I love it. Well there back talk to you later.

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Three Down Two More To Go!

2006-05-01T16:51:00.000-05:00

Well last Friday I had my first final and did great I thought it was pretty easy and I knew my stuff. Today I had the final that I have been dreading but it was ok I think/hope it's some where around 75% the last two of the four pages I didn't get a question that I didn't know and the rest I think I did okay on that was this morning. I just got back from my third final and I think I aced it there was only one question that I didn't know the rest I didn't even have to think about and it's times like those that you need to be careful so I went back thru and read them all again and checked to see if what I had put down matched, Derek can word things tricky sometimes and he doesn't mean to but it happens. Other than that I have my last speech in the morning and an easy final for Digtal Darkroom II which will be much the same because it's with Derek and I know that class well it's all photoshop stuff and I'm in the top of the class for photoshop knowledge. And than I'm done Wedsnday I pack and move everything that I can out to the car and Thursday I am cleaning the heck out of my room and checking out at 8 or 9 one of the two and checking in as a friend of mines guest Derick. So that way I can leave here at 4:30 in the morning Friday morning.

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Today & Last Night

2006-05-01T10:23:00.000-05:00

This weekend went by way to fast but not fast enough at the same time. Saturday I just studyed and talk to Mariah and yesterday mourning well yesterday morning was stupid. So I'm going to church and just left CMC I was trying to get my iPod to work and wasn't paying much attition to the road well I was to the road but not to how fast I was going I hadn't even steped on the gas peddel since I left CMC never do just let the car go down and keep my foot on the break well I wasn't doing to great of a job on the break and went right by a cop. I looked at how fast I was going and looked at the road sign next to me down the road and thought to myself I'm ok I was only going about 9 over and I had to break right before I went around the corner where the cop was. Well a little bit down the road here comes the cop I said to myself crap. So he comes up and does his thing and asked and said you were going about 20 over I was like "What! it's thirty-five" well no i guess it's not he was sitting right at the end of the twenty-five zone and that is where he got me. Stupid police, I was nice about it and let him do is thing and get it over with he put down that I was only doing 19 which I think I was anyways. But this way it's the lowest fine and it doesn't go on my Iowa license but if I ever got a Colorado one it would, I don't know why. So now I'm out 60 bucks and was half an hour late for church all most when I was going to be early errrr. He laughed when he asked me when I was going home and I told him friday he said well here is a going away present. Darn 4 days left and I got a ticket and I never speed but I guess I always have there because I thought it was 35 not 25, theres nothing around at all. Well last night was good I talked to Mariah and studyed for one of the two finals that I have today. Only 3 days and 21 hours left YES! See you all sunday if not saturday.

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The Onion

2006-04-30T10:23:00.000-05:00

In my sidebar under links there is a new link that I think you would all enjoy. For the past year I have been reading the onion here at CMC but just yesterday did I start to look for a way to read it at home and that is when I found the web site. I think you all should read just a little bit of it and see what you think.

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P.S. There is something up with the storys see if you can tell what and the ad's too.

Triptych

2006-04-26T08:02:00.000-05:00

These were for my Triptych assinment in Photo-Image Capture II. A triptych is where you exspress a meaning in three images that you couldn't do with one. Almost like a tribond in a way but with photos. Mine is "What go's in must come out".

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LOL, So True

2006-04-25T10:36:00.000-05:00

Except for the last thing the mom says.

Mt. Sopris

2006-04-24T11:04:00.000-05:00

Here is a photo that I took of Mt. Sopris last week from out front of the Res Hall.

67 Days & 14 Hours

2006-04-17T22:49:00.000-05:00

This is really interresting I was typing in to my widget dictionary fiancé and found out that fiancé is a man that is engaged to be married and fiancée is a woman that is engaged to be married. Only one letter and it makes all the diffrence. I don't know if you thought that was cool or if you already knew about it but it was cool to me none the less.

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67 Days & 22 Hours

2006-04-17T14:09:00.000-05:00

I'm can't wait for that number to go below 60 than It will be less than two months till Mariah & I are married. Last night was a bummer in a way because I had been waiting for the last lord of the rings to be on TBS and was it NO!!! Friday night the first one was on and Saturday the second one was and last night the third one should have been on but it wasn't I don't know why they just showed the first two again and left me hanging! Darn TBS I shall never watch it again from now on I will only watch monk on USA only one of the best shows ever! Stupid TBS. Nothing much happening here just waiting for school to be over less than three weeks left now like two weeks 4 and a half days o yea. Life is good I finely got back to the point where I could think about something other than Mariah for longer than 5min now I can lasts a whole 7min (unless I'm eating she would call me on this one). Speaking of food wait till you see my last project for Photo-Image Capture II. It's what you would call a Triptych. It's where you use three images to make a concept. I will give you a hint the first image will be a cafeteria worker getting out of his/her car. I will tell you the next one in a couple of days I don't think you will be able to guess what it is until the last one but you can try. Well talk to you all later I have to go to class.

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Macro Baby!

2006-04-13T17:56:00.000-05:00

I am loving this lens it's so cool my battery died so I have to wait for that to charge to take more photos. Here is one that I took today down in Glenwood.

Today

2006-04-13T11:46:00.000-05:00

So this morning Mariah called me at like 6:15 and I didn't mind. It was great it was like a Mariah fix a little shot in the arm to get me by for the day. This might just be the key yes I think I will call her tomorrow morning yes that is what I will do. Well enough about my pain, today I had speech this morning and only got a C+ on my last speech, now everybody I talked to after I gave the speech told me that it was great. And now I don't know why I only got a C+ so I think I will go talk to Tal and see why he gave me such a low grade this idea only came to me after talking to my speech buddy's after he gave the grades back they said that that is what I should go do go and talk to him they think it was at least a A-. Well the rest of the day is pretty busy I need to go and get a roll of film from Emile mine wont be here till next week and than I will shoot it and develop it today and try a few prints. But I have a meeting with Derek at 12 for pre reg and than I have to go and pick up the macro lens sometime right after and at 12:30 I have SGA and than I have to pre reg and than I can print in the darkroom. So today should go by pretty fast for now. I will post some shots with the macro lens sometime this week(end but not sure). So until than talk to you all later.

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I don't like it here anymore

2006-04-12T13:27:00.000-05:00

It's not as much fun here anymore. I only go thruout my day waiting for 6 o'clock to come around so I can talk to Mariah. I try and keep myself busy but it doesn't help even when I am doing something I still think of her. And it dosent look like it will be going away any time soon eather. I'm so happy that I only have 23 days left here. Tonight is church so that means all the more time that I won't be able to talk to her, thats it she can't go to church nope she has to talk to me yea that is what I will do I will try and stop her from going to church, JK. Yea like that would ever happen and who would I be than? If time would just go faster I think that would help alittle. Well thanks for listing to me ramble on about this. I will talk to you all later.

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Stupid J Key

2006-04-11T11:27:00.000-05:00

My J key dosn't work quite right any more in just goes off when ever it want's now. I think I will have to have it fixed when I come home, so if there are random j in my post just know why. From now on I'm not going to delete them so you know how much it goes offjjj. Well so far it's been kinda like I havne't lefjjt and I didn't missjj anything while I was gone, I'm alrady back on track.j jjjjjjjjj jjjj And one less thing to worry about we now have a jphotograherjj and it's only going to cost me one plain ticket from Denver to Des Moinesj. O yeaj! jjjjjj I'm so excited about the wedding all is coming together. Well I don't have much elsej tojjj say soj I wijll talk to you alljj later.

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Back Here Ins The Borings State Of Colorados

2006-04-10T20:28:00.000-05:00

It's just not the same here now that I left my heart at home back in Iowas. It makes Colorado feel so empty. Getting on the train was so so very much harder this time than last. I'm so happy that I won't have to ever do that again. O just in case any of you fans of mine out there didn't know, I'm getting married this summer to the love of my life Mariah. One day this June (June 24th for now) should be from what I have heard the greatest day of my life, or just the begining of the best part of my life, the rest of my life. Well talk to you later.

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Mariah

2006-04-06T10:08:00.000-05:00

This is a photo that I took of Mariah this weekend at her dads, isn't it so cool?

Pertty Bird, Come Here.

2006-03-23T11:04:00.000-06:00

Another photo that I took on the photoouting that I took the last one on.

Just A Photo

2006-03-21T22:54:00.000-06:00

This is a photo that I took down in Glenwood today.

This is addicting.

2006-03-20T19:41:00.000-06:00

Here go to this and wait for the end to come or will it? http://img252.echo.cx/img252/8159/006wo.swf

This Weekend Was Fast.

2006-03-20T10:10:00.000-06:00

This weekend went by so fast it was awesome because that makes home all the closer but I didn't get very much homework done. Today I have and HDR assignment due this afternoon and I haven't even shot it. It's a good thing that I can do it fast and just need to shoot a scene that excides the dynamic range of my sensor shoot one shot for the highlights and shoot one for the shadows that in photo shop I can due a merge and it becomes a 48-bit image, just so you know that higher than most screens can display at once. So than I bring it down to 16-bits and print not much work. Than tomorrow morning I have a speech I have to give I have started it just need to finish it after class tonight and later on that day I have a photo restoration project due at the end of class, this on I have started and it won't take me long to finish. Wednesday I have a assignment due in the morning and I still need to shoot for that but it will be easy because I already shoot with this style and if needed I have stuff to bring back from the past to cover my butt. Thursday nothing YES time to rest and take care of my car. Friday some prints due for darkroom and I have the film done. Saturday I get on the train at 12:30 to come home see you all Sunday or Wednesday. This past week I have started running I get up at 6:45 and go run at 7. It’s great and I am running two miles nonstop in about half an hour. Mariah and I are going to have a race when I get home stubborn us well more me than her ok all me. Other than that nothing much going on here just snow and such stuff. I better get going on that assignment if I’m going to have it done by 1:30, talk to you all later.

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Like My Hair?

2006-03-18T10:51:00.000-06:00

Yesterday was a fun day spent time in the darkroom and some scanning stuff in. Derick and I got these really cool wigs for yesterday here is a photo that I took with my phone sorry he was leaving and I didn't have time to take one with my real camera. I shot the Phi Theta Kapa(sp?) inductions last night it was great and I got some real experince shooting something where I didn't get to pick and choose what I shot. The light was awfull and I was shooting at like 1/30th handheld! This was at like ISO 800 and it's a really good thing that my camera as IS. But the one thing that I did do was I shoot RAW+JPEG which saved my butt. The JPEGs were just crap and I was able to get something out of the RAW. I will post something later this weekend I'm still working on them and I think I will post the JPEG and the RAW so you can see how much it saved me. Anything like what I shoot indoors will be RAW from now on. Well next Saturday I will be getting on a train in a few hours. I will talk to you all later.

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Life

2006-03-16T11:35:00.000-06:00

Ahhh now it's not long at all only like 9 days and 23 hours yea bet that what now ha ha. Yea not sure what that last part was all about, I'm sorry. Life is good here in the big CO, get it it's kinda like the OC but the other way around. Again sorry, I'm not sure what has gotten into me here in the last 5 seconds. I can't wait to come home and spend like two whole weeks with you all some more than others but it will be fun to hang and see you all. I'm so excited my last speech got a B+ heck yea with the A I got on a photo assinment yesterday this has been a good week for me well not for that mid-term that every one of us thinks we failed yea next week will be fun and I just can't wait for the final. I don't know about the rest of you but I can't wait for spring or is it already spring like there in Iowa you know green grass and all last time I was home it was so ugly. We still have about 1-2 feet of snow here I think it will be warmer after spring break. It happend Mariah bet me out in myspace friends o well I'm very seletive on who I let be my friend, at least I have like 32 whoo hoo for me. I'm bored today I think I will go and scan my slides today get that out of the way. O dear what is this there is a dot on my screen darn I better clean that off so I will talk to you all later.

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Little Love Notes Everywhere

2006-03-14T12:18:00.000-06:00

I've been listing to this song that was on the last passion CD and I really like it but it wasn't the best that it could be. So I was looking at the iTunes store this morning and found it on a CD that had just come out and it's so much better I love it, the song name is "Knees to the earth". Yesterday was a snow day no one could get up to teach any classes we had about 2 feet of snow on the ground by yesterday morning and it didn't quit until last night. It was AWSOME! What are you all up to, I guess I will see you all soon and stuff though something like 12 days. Mariah is so excited and so am I just that the train isn't all that fun. I don't know why but I was just looking at my thumb and I thought it's so cool that no one has the same finger print as me how cool is that!!! Yea hmmm I wonder what God's finger prints look like. I like to hide little love notes so to say in places where everyone can see them but no one really looks well I'm sure you will now but it's fun Mariah dosen't even catch them all the time. Mmmmmm Fooooood, I think I will go and eat now I want food I didn't eat much this morning so I'm really hungery. I will talk to you all later. O and I can't wait till next week, they will be doing room checks and I hope Kindra says something to my roomy about his side of the room. Other than that I have every thing clean so it will look nice.

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My Towel

2006-03-12T22:12:00.000-06:00

One of the biggest problems I had with my roomy last semester was that my roomy used my towels I don't know why but he did. So yesterday I was laying on my bed when my roomy got up and went to take a shower. All of the sudden I realized that I hadn't seen his towel in like two weeks. I thougt this will be fine there is one of mine on the towel rack and I hang mine on the door he's to lazy to reach that far. So I thought I was safe but I still wanted to check. So after he got out of the shower I went in and looked at the towel on the rack and it was dry next I looked at my towel. And what did I find it was wet duh why me? So I put the towel on the towel rack away and moved the one he used of mine on the rack and pulled out a new one. So today I go in there and look only to find that my towel was wet 10 hours after I took a shower. Why why does he have to use my new one now I have to wash all my towels. I will talk to you all later.

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My Room

2006-03-11T18:39:00.000-06:00

Here are some photos of my room. Here is what they are from top to bottom. #1 My side. #2 My roommate's side. #3 My bed.
#4 My roommate's bed. #5 My roommate's side of the floor and some of mine, o and he has the bigger side of the room. #6 My roommate's pillow.

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Myspace

2006-03-10T10:31:00.000-06:00

Ok just from the title you are going "Myspace is for little girls" or not but something along those lines. This week I convinced Mariah to get a Myspace so that I could make her my number one friend. So she did and she already has half as many friends as me and they all asked her. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing the good thing is that my girlfriend has a lot of friends but the bad thing is she has more friends than me and I live in two states! O well it's kinda weird not to be able to look out my window and see as far as I want to because today it's snowing here and has been since last night or longer. I can only see over the edge of our hill and than nothing but white. I really should be working on today's photo assinment but I don't want to and you can't make me. I think my roommate sleeps in the nude and this just might be why he wont get out of bed in front of me. Life is good we might find out who got the RA spots today I'm so excited I hope I get offered one. Part of me is so excited about it and another part well isn't. I guess I really should get ready for the day I will talk to you all later.

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Speech Time

2006-03-09T10:39:00.000-06:00

Today was the day that I gave my latest speech. I thought that I would try and just go off the outline boy am I glad I brought both up with me. The outline lasted about the intro and the first point and than I said to myself forget that and went off the entire speech. Things got much better from than on and I actually made more eye contact who would of thought. O well I’ll do better next time and I will never try to use an outline again. Wow my roommate just closed the window that I had to open when I got back from class because of the stench that was in the air and I have 4 yea 4 air-fresheners in here. I was just about to go off on him but decided to write about it in order to calm my self down. I think next time he leaves the room I will take some photos of his side and than mine so you can see what I’m talking about. And I think when I see Kindra today I’m going to talk to her about how to deal with him because things are getting worse. I’ve been so busy this week I’m sorry I haven’t posted that much. Now all I have left is to finish this RA essay and stuff for darkroom today. Other than that I might do a little printing for Digital Darkroom were doing toning like making your photos look like warm tone paper or cool tone paper it’s kinda cool I had to do 5 different tones of one photo I did one of Mackenzie so Sara you can have one of them when I get home. I did blue, red, green, purple and one thats supposed to look like a sepia tone or worm tone paper. I might post them but it’s hard to see it on screen because I had to keep in mind how the printer will make it look. Well I will talk to you later.

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Wow I'm Good!

2006-03-06T12:34:00.000-06:00

Have you ever got done doing something and thought “Wow I’m good”? Well I just had one of those moments a little bit ago. I was working on a composite for class when got done and started to work on a photo of Mackenzie. It was a photo that my mom at took of her a long time ago. In the photo she is holding a kitten but Brendon’s arm is in the photo I think helping her hold the kitten. So anyway I have always wanted to get rid of it. Well today I did after about an hour of working on it I was done. When I looked at it I thought “Wow I’m good!”. I will post it when I get done with it. Talk to you all later.

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I"M SERIOUS IT"S JUST A JOKE!!!

2006-03-05T17:23:00.000-06:00

Wow what a day. First off this morning I got ready to go to church and was going to go and shoot after so I decided I was going to drive. Well my battery was dead I’m not sure why but it was. Next I got in Derek’s car and we decided to listen to my iPod and it died on me. So I had my camera with me and went to take a couple shoots of Derek & Leslie and my cameras battery died. So don’t let me near your batteries or they just might die. Other than that nothing much going on here. O the paster of the church showed that Fed-Ex commercial where the cave man gets stepped on by a dinosaur. I think he just thought it was funny and found a way to work it into the sermon for fun. In other news Layne as agreed to marry Mariah and I (a inner-office joke) o and I guess Sara is going to have another baby (again another inner-office joke, please don’t think I am serious about this one she is not having another baby don’t get me killed). Well I’m going to work on some photos so I will talk to you later.

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I Don't Know What To Put Here Today

2006-03-02T10:39:00.000-06:00

It’s my B-Day today, it’s about time all I want is for it to me march and now it’s here YES!!! Now I only have three weeks till I come home on break another YES!!! So this morning Mariah called me at 6:45 a whole 15 min. before the alarm was supposed to go off. She called so she could beat anyone to telling me happy birthday. It’s been a long time since my last post I’ve been so busy with school this RA thing to day is my interview and making plans;) O I have to buy my train tickets today. I’m done with classes today nothing much else to do. I will tell you how the interview goes later. I was playing x-box with Derek last night and I killed over 200 bad guys. James Bond rocks well not in the game than I just kill him a lot just because he ran into my bombs a lot while he was trying to steal my flag doesn’t mean I’m a bad guy. Well maybe because I was aiming at him makes me a bad guy but he was doing the same. Chase and Sean called me last night to see if I wanted to go on a round with them I said sure and meet them down stairs. Well they deiced to do a out-side round, it’s like 11 o’clock at night and freezing cold. By the time we got back inside I thought my fingers were going to fall off or anything for that matter. I only had a t-shirt on. Well I don’t have anything else to say so I will talk to you later.

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A Water Bottel Thinking It's A Stick Why?

2006-02-28T11:02:00.000-06:00

Today is just another day in a year nothing special about it. This morning I had speech I love getting up early to go to that eight o’clock class it’s becoming one of my favorites. Well we talked about how to listen to a speech and retain the info. So we did one of those telephone things where you start at one end and try to make it to the other with the same info fat chance. Well about half way thru it got to me and this is what I heard “Start like your going to Carbondale turn when you see a trailer and turn left um or right. Next go for about three lefts than turn left (doesn’t that put you right back where you were?) Than it’s a big yellow house on the left” I won’t even tell you what they really were. O well next we did a thing where only one person can talk at a time the one with the talking stick or in our case a water bottle. Topic abortion rights first thought was this should be interesting. Well it was more than I thought it was around three fourths of the class are pro-life who would of thought. And we all had about the same thing to say. Of course there were those guys that didn’t want to say anything and played it off like they didn’t think anyone should say anything about the fact. Yea right when have I been one to just sit there and say nothing when it comes to something like this, NEVER. I almost asked for the stick again cause I had more to say as time went on. But I guess it was enough to say if your stupid enough to have sex and not think about the end result I feel bad for your kid but thats what the end result is your now a future mother enjoy. Not the kindest thing to say but there were some guys saying the stupidest things about how it’s your choice well it’s was your choice to have sex when you weren’t ready for what sex was made for hello get real. I’m writing so much because we are supposed to write what the outcome of what everybody said was for the class. Over all it was a fun thing to do I think Layne should have the youth group talk in this way about things its kinda fun and you retain a lot more info and start to form a opinion for your self thru it. Cause has I was setting there listing to other people talk it started to bring things back to my memory that I hadn’t thought of in a long time. I now think that I could win the agreement if someone brought it up out of the blue. Well I will talk to you all later.

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Something New

2006-02-27T16:34:00.000-06:00

Now that I am over my Olympic thing yea I know I have a quick rebound rate. Well now I can really talk about something well not really todays class was canceled because Derek is sick. So there’s not much to do but just more homework so I thought I would take a break. I think I will go and shoot later it’s such a nice day why not but I will have to wait until later when the sun goes down a little to much sun makes for not such nice photos. Well nothing much to talk about so I will talk about nothing hmmm nothing what really is nothing can you think about nothing or is there always something going on in your head? This is one of the things that might be going thru your head when you think you are thinking about nothing sorry about the long pause there was someone at the door looking for well I don’t know who but it wasn’t me or my roommate. Where was I o well I don’t remember. I’m so bored I really want to do something different with my-self but I don’t know what to do. I’m not sure if I’m bored with my photography my-self sprituly or just want to go and do something different from what I have been doing. I think it might be all 3 with photography I have been shooting the same thing all the time I should find something different to shoot it might help if I just went and shoot something. And that might help with just changing things up a little. I think I will go to town and shoot some I need to go anyway I might as well do it. I will do that in a little bit. You know what I really miss about being home and I was thinking about this last time I was at church which was yesterday morning. Is being a part doing something other than just sitting there in church. I don’t think you grow the same if you just sit there you need to do something this is what I have come to want lately is just to do something more. Well what is up with you all I wish more people would post more often than they do. I can’t wait to come home and see everybody I don’t know how I’m going to be gone for another year when I can hardly stand it now. And missing Mariah really isn’t all that fun daydreaming is well it’s just not the same as being there in person and getting to spend time with her. I really don’t have anything else to say so I will just talk to you all later.

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This Really Is Just Rambling

2006-02-27T10:22:00.000-06:00

This weekend I really didn’t do a thing I just sat around and watched the Olympics there so awesome I love them. There’s just so much sprit nothing can even compete with the Olympics. I think Mariah and I will have to go to them one year after she’s done with college and all the loans are paid off so we might end up going when we are around 70 yep that sounds good to me. But I really do hope we can go before that I would just love it. I really like to watch the speed skating it’s so much fun! Maybe I can get a job to shoot them one time that would work and that would be even more fun. O well what’s up with you all I don’t have much going on here this week just the same old. I can’t wait till spring break it will be so much fun coming home for almost two weeks o yea. Well spring break is really only ten days long but I will be staying home an extra almost an extra week to go on a trip with Layne Sara and Mariah to Detroit it will be so much fun I am going to take my camera so I will still be able to work on my photo assignments while were on the trip and it will be even more fun than just coming home for ten days. I don’t know if that all made a whole lot of anything but I know what I ment by it so thats all that matters right? Well I will talk to you all later.

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Does This Work

2006-02-26T21:36:00.000-06:00

If this works than this is so cool. I now have a widget that lets me post right from it o yea!!! So what is up with you all nothing much going on here. It's been warm here about 30. Well talk to you all later.

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Ick

2006-02-22T15:59:00.000-06:00

Well I'm still not feeling well I've been going to class and doing everything that I need to but I still don't fell that well. Last night I got sleep yes I got sleep. I wonder if I took my roommates computer away if he would go thru withdraws. Everytime he comes in here he looks like he is going to kill anything that gets inbetween him and his computer. I even think I saw his eye twitching when he came in. Just kidding he's all the entertanment I have just sitting here on my bed If I move my head feels like there are monkeys banging on the inside wanting to be let loose. I think I might try and hide his mouse tonight just kidding again to much work. See now I know I'm feeling better I can make a joke LOL. I may not be able to talk and be heard but I can still make a joke, it's just so funny to put it that way. O darn now my eyes are shut and I don't know if I can open them again well at least I can still type I don't need to see in order to type wouldn't that be funny if my hands were on the wrong keys? Wow that was a fun little nap I just had well I will talk to you all later,

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Sleep

2006-02-20T09:20:00.000-06:00

Last night was one of the worst nights of my life. Yesterday I was sick didn't do a thing sick. All day I just sat in my room and didn't get anything done and I have to give a speech tomarrow morning and still don't know what I'm going to do it on. All I want to do right now is sleep but I need to get a assinment done for class today and help give tours for visit day. As far as last night I went to bed at about 9 I didn't fall a sleep until 12 and wokeup every half an hour to an hour. And my legs hurt so bad it keept me from going back to sleep and still do now. Well I will talk to you when I feel better.

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Here We Are In All Our Glory

2006-02-17T12:28:00.000-06:00

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Q: Pink Or Blue A: Blue

2006-02-17T10:46:00.000-06:00

Well there you have it this was fun I might just have to do it again. Just wondering how Ryan got blue, so if you would just tell me how. In the originals there was no real big difference but once I brought it onto the web the pink lost most of it's color other wise the saturation would of matched on them both, darn web can't get colors right at all. Well nothing much going on here today just have one class and might play a little xbox. Last night was fun we went to Pizza Hut. But the downfall was that yesterday was disability day here at campus and Abby said that because we were going somewhere she still thought that we should participate. We said sure and she handed Leslie a soup dipper, Derek a whisk and me a ice cream scooper. The rules are you have to eat with only that. I have photos I will post them later. After a while Derek and I traded and I had the whisk by the way the whisk is hard to pizza with. It was so much fun there was this old couple of to the side of us that just looked at us with the weirdest faces. After that I went up and paid for the food and nobody saw me go up. So what did I do I came back to the table and tried to convince them to dine and ditch but to no such luck. So we walked up to pay and I just walked out the door as Derek said we shared the food you know. I just laughed and started the car. For some-reason it took them like two minets to figure out that I had already pad. But it was so much fun to the look on there faces when they came out. Well I will talk to you layer.

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It Can't Be

2006-02-16T23:16:00.000-06:00

It can't be its not possible no don't say it's so. To all you Mac users its here the first virus to target Mac OS X. Who would of thought not me that's who. Well that's all there is to say it only go to about 50 computers and spread thru iChat. Didn't do any real damage to the computers just deleted some files. But it's happened now there will be more our great time of a life virus free is over darn.

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