These pictures come from: backup/Old My Pictures/Family This is sort of a weird collection of pictures. So I think I won’t really describe or explain them, but just let them stand on their own. IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST IMAGE LOST… Read More »The Archives: Edition Twelve
More random New York City images from the second day of the trip. These pictures were mostly taken on Ellis Island and around the financial district. Regrettably, I didn’t see one Goldman Sachs piece of garbage to mug. More random New York City images will be coming your way next… Read More »More Random NYC – Ellis Island and Financial District
These pictures come from: backup/Old My Pictures/Egg Toss These pictures were taken in Dustin’s dad’s basement with a webcam. They were used to promote a crew picnic that I was running for the Boone Outpost of the Evil Clown Empire. Perhaps the marquee attraction at this crew picnic was going… Read More »The Archives: Edition Eleven
These pictures come from: backup/Old My Pictures/Cruise Vacation – 2004 – December IMAGE LOST I bought this hat in Haiti for 10 bucks. Originally the guy wanted 80. IMAGE LOST Jamaica if I remember correctly. IMAGE LOST I’ve always enjoyed black and white photography of rusty things. IMAGE LOST IMAGE… Read More »The Archives: Edition Eight
These pictures come from: backup/Old My Pictures/County Farm I want to give a small amount of background on these pictures. These pictures were taken at the Boone County Farm after it was abandoned and before it was demolished. If you know me at all, you know that one of my… Read More »The Archives: Edition Seven
These pictures are from backup/Old My Pictures/Beaver Massacre I’ve try to come up with a good reason for why these pictures exist, but I can’t really defend them. I will just try to explain what the general idea was supposed to be. These were supposed to be “Production Stills” for… Read More »The Archives: Edition Five
These pictures are from backup/Old My Pictures/Backgrounds My best guess about these pictures is that they were once used as backgrounds 3 or 4 computers ago. Probably my 2nd computer. Nothing remains of my first computer. Embarrassingly, it was an Apple. IMAGE LOST I briefly flirted with photographing fruit. Not… Read More »The Archives: Edition Four
These pictures are from: backup/Old My Pictures/ Animals In retrospect, I don’t know why I named this folder Animals. There aren’t that many animal pictures in it. I guess I must have considered it witty at the time. IMAGE LOST Kalona For my 30th Birthday Party, I talked Andy and… Read More »The Archives: Edition Three
These pictures are from: backup/Old My Pictures/2005 Calendar I’m pretty sure these are the files from the 2nd year of the calendar, although it is possible that it was the 3rd or 1st year of the calendar. My records on such things are spotty at best. In the early days… Read More »The Archives: Edition Two
It is hard to believe that this journal has reached entry 1,000. Since I enjoy rather meaningless statistics, I’m going to go over a few right now. According to how many times they have been viewed, these are the 10 Most Popular Pictures in the Artistic Gallery: 1. Gazing Ball… Read More »Journal Entry One-Thousand
Here is a copy of the journal I kept while I was on vacation last week. It covers parts of 10 days and over 1300 miles. While I doubt anybody reads this whole thing, it was an important exercise for me. There are no pictures, but I will post some… Read More »Vacation Journal
Movie – Secretariat Director: Randall Wallace (We Were Soldiers, The Man in the Iron Mask) Screenwriter: Mike Rich (The Nativity Story, Radio, The Rookie, Finding Forrester) Starring: Diane Lane (The Perfect Storm, Unfaithful, Jumper); John Malkovich (Dangerous Liaisons, Being John Malkovich, Con Air) and Dylan Walsh (Congo, The Lake House,… Read More »Movie Review: Secretariat
Thursday was my Mom’s last day showing up on the job. She isn’t “officially” retired yet, because she has to file some paperwork, but she doesn’t have to get up and go to work ever again. Yesterday, I took a tour around my Mom’s work history. Here is the photographic… Read More »Happy Mother’s Day, Slacker
When me and my chums were in high school, we would spend a few choice nights of the Spring, Summer and Fall in my Mom’s backyard playing Homerun Derby with a big red bat and a plastic baseball. Homerun Derby was a double elimination tournament that consisted of a series… Read More »Home Run Derby: The Next Generation
This has been a week where I have unexpectedly walked down family history lane. That continued this morning when I went over to assist in the installation of my Mom’s new fridge. She showed me a newspaper clipping from the February 6 edition of the Boone News Republican. The clipping… Read More »Family History Week
Last week’s theme was EXPLORE. Here are the submissions: Dawn Krause Christopher D. Bennett Becky Perkovich Michael Vest Dawn’s Weekly Poem Explore Ourselves An escape from complacency let’s explore our worldunseen corners, hidden pulses, and wild streams un-purled Discover riches in ourselves let our impulse flowAnd share the depths of… Read More »RWPE #10 – Explore
I haven’t been as active blogging lately. There are several reasons for this absence. I have been spending most of my free time organizing the basement. When I completed this project I moved on to the upstairs. I am on the verge of being quite downsized. Hopefully this project will… Read More »Regression
Hearts Beat High with Joy When I took this picture I went down quite the long journey of family history in family Bibles. One of the most important things I discovered was that I was born special. The Bible in the picture belonged to my Grandma Bennett. My birth announcement… Read More »Personal Photo Project of the Week No. 6
Pardon and Sanctify Me This cross stands on top of my church. It no longer looks like this because the it was painted during the tuckpointing process last year. The name comes from a classic hymn: 1. On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross, the emblem of… Read More »December
This is entry number 750 in this online journal. I’d like to take a little bit of time to archive some data. It is one of my peculiar imbecilities that I love meaningless statistics. Therefore, consider these statistics: Every journal entry falls into at least one of sixteen categories. This… Read More »Number 750
This is journal entry number 700. I started this online journal on August 9, 2006. These were the first words that I typed out: So here is the first journal entry. I felt like having as pretentious sounding name as possible for my journal. I have a few goals about… Read More »An Old Newspaper