Photographer. Tenderloin enthusiast. Road trip maker. Iowan. Cyclone.
Let me start out by saying “Happy Valentine’s Day” to the people who are celebrating it. Let me say “Happy Wednesday” for those of you who are not. “>Willy’s birthday was over 2 months ago. I am a timely person. So, I am glad to report that I have finally… Read More »An Accomplished Mission
There is so much I feel like I need to write about Not about me I am a man of no great consequence and my “adventures” are not the kind that are interesting for other people to read. Yet, I feel compelled to write I feel the need to write… Read More »Why I Need a New Dress Shirt
A wealthy old lady decides to go on a photo safari in Africa, taking her poodle along for company. One day the poodle starts chasing butterflies and before long, discovers that he’s lost. Wandering about, he notices a hungry-looking leopard heading rapidly in his direction. The poodle thinks, “Oh, oh!”… Read More »This Joke Made Me Smile
Just thought I would jot down a few quick thoughts. First of all, I would like to share the fruits of my labors from Craft Night!! Okay . . . so one could make the case that painting a frame and matting a picture hardly constitutes a “craft”. I’m not… Read More »Spirit Pumps
Had a few changes to the old FTP server. So this isn’t really that much of a blog. This really is more like a test to see if my web publishing is taking care of business so to speak. Man, I really need to make some changes to my template.… Read More »Sort of a Test
I got lots of information to get out there, so I’m going to dispense with the niceties and just jump in and get this “blog” on!!! Well the response to my anti-Dasher Management rant and artwork has been universally negative. Just some of my favorite e-mail responses: “What you don’t… Read More »Rectification
The Ballad of Parsaei I have a friend by the name of Nader Parsaei. He is perhaps the largest fan of the Oscars on the face of this planet. He is from Iran. He is in the United States because of the political persecution that he faced in Iran.… Read More »The Ballad of Parsaei
By the time this blog gets posted it may very well be January 16, 2007. However MF Day is definitely January 15. Ahhh . . . You don’t know what MF Day celebrates. In fact, you are probably looking at your calendar right now and noticing that today is Martin… Read More »MF Day
My niece Elainie wrote this poem and it won a prize: MASK She was just there. Not knowing what was going on. She walked into the room and everyone was smiling. Or so it looked like it. Everyone looked like they were having a good time. The smiles, laughter,… Read More »Niece
I wish to begin with a quote by Henry Ward Beecher: The overweening self respect of conceited men relieves others from the duty of respecting them at all. Perhaps you don’t understand why now, but you will understand soon enough. You see my first endorsement is of myself. Well not… Read More »A First Endorsement
Thank you for meeting me here. I will make this brief. Some of you may know that I work for a company that is one of the industry leaders in “practice management software”. You may also know that the “mission statement” of our company is to create “solutions for success”,… Read More »Security
Some times it pays to show up for work. Usually whatever your hourly wage happens to be, unless you are on salary then you are consistently being robbed. There are times when it REALLY pays to show up for work. I’m talking about when you have a high quality converstaion… Read More »Score!
So I thought quite some time about beginning a new segment on this blog. I was going to do some endorsements. You know, endorsing products, ideas, people. I was all set to endorse my first product: Heartland Creamery Milk. In fact, I even went so far as to have the… Read More »Failed Beginning
I hope to really start working on some substantial writing in the near future. This is just a quick note to let you know that there is a new short story in the fan club. Not a member? Request becoming a member. It is as easy as sending me an… Read More »A Short Story
So most of the 2007 Calendars have been printed, laminated and bound. There are just a few left that need to be distributed. If you still want a calendar and didn’t get your order in, better let me know. Because 2007 begins in 13 hours and every day that a… Read More »2007 Calendar
So I’ve been going through some old files lately and I stumbled upon a short story that I never finished. I don’t know if I hate it or love it, but I am tempted to complete it. Here it is: Ercamus the Warrior King Turns 30 Ercamus had traveled long… Read More »An Old Story
I’ve been thinking about a place to put some of my more private images. There is good news. I have officially broken ground on a new section of the website. It will be called “The Fan Club”, but I have zero delusions that there are any actual fans out there.… Read More »Breaking Some Earth
Well the new galleries looks are finally finalized. I’m pretty sure that this is the way they are going to look going forward. The music might change. I am currently waiting for final approval on some of the music. These galleries are alot more dynamic and are alot easier to… Read More »The New Galleries
A note to let you know that I haven’t forgotten about the Artist’s Notebook. In fact I have so many things to write about that I don’t know where to begin. There was the trip to Minnesota to see the Foo Fighters, there was Rebecca’s senior picture shoot, and Halloween… Read More »Other Projects
This will be just a brief little thing. I just wanted to take time to mention that yesterday at work I finally got a picture of one of the ground hogs that lives out behind my place of employment. I have wanted this picture ever since I first saw one… Read More »A Good Day at Work
By popular request, a page of snapshots from the UNI game has been added to the website. I made the pictures even bigger because I think some times it is difficult to know what is going on in the picture. Snapshots from the UNI Game