Friday was an interesting day. Of course there was the high of it being Free Gyro Day, but the rest of the work day went rather uneventful. It was near 5:30, the time I was going to run out of hours and check out for the week, when my phone… Read More »Euphonious
Last week was National Customer Service Week. I don’t know if this is a real week that exists in the real world, but it is a pretty big deal at the Computer Mine. This year we got 75 dollars in gift certificates, a travel mug and a 4 port USB… Read More »Spoiled
Becky is starting up her own business. I’m in the process of creating a website for this new business. You should check out that website: WEBSITE DELETED I have a collection of photos from the Party Bus restoration process. So if you have a large party, you should hit up… Read More »Restoration
I woke up this morning with a mighty powerful hankering for some Cyclone Crunch. Contributed Camera Phone Photo It is mighty tasty and I encourage you to go out and buy some today. It tastes mighty good after doing some crowbar work on a party bus. But I talk too… Read More »Doesn’t Turn Soggy in Milk
Before delving further into the Cyclone game, I need to post a website. WEBSITE DELETED You should check out this website if you live anywhere near Kansas (which according to Google Analytics none of you do, but I am strangely big in Gillette, Wyoming) and head to this sale. My… Read More »Work Half Done
Horace said: What’s well begun, is half done. Iowa State certainly began well. Coin Toss Cy Sideline Reporter Kansans Quigley O’Connell Arnaud and Robinson Arnaud Kickoff Coverage Arnaud Arnaud Jones Arnaud Arnaud Arnaud Robinson Arnaud Arnaud Hamilton Touchdown Celebration Flags Kickoff Coverage Reesing Patterson Reesing Crawford Another Cyclone First Down!… Read More »Quintus Horatius Flaccus
I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to move my website to a different server. That is going to be a goal of mine in the next couple of weeks. Until then, I’m going to have to post all of the Kansas game pictures in the journal. I’m going… Read More »Stupid John Greenleaf Whittier
Happy Birthday to this guy: I don’t know where he got his questionable taste in athletic teams…
Last Sunday I had some unexpected free time when I got fired from a friend’s photo project. That is right I got: A career change opportunity Discharged The Pink Slip Dehired Canned Downsized Let Go Outsourced Made Redundant Skill-mix Adjustment Released Walking Papers Shown the Door The Ax Terminated Sacked… Read More »Volt-face
Today is Sara’s birthday. Rather than post a bunch of pictures of Sara for Sara’s birthday, I’m going to take a slightly different tact. Yesterday I wrote about Sara auditioning to become a Photography 139 Photo Assistant. She got high marks for having a big purse. One of her few… Read More »Happy Birthday Sara!
More pictures from Saturday. Some of these pictures were taken by Sara as she was auditioning to become a Photography 139 Photo Assistant. Relaxing On dry land Done Done Oar duty Guns Oar Duty Me Celebration Celebrating with some juice. Jen and Derrick Sara Banner The Past Back in the… Read More »My Saturday (Volume 2)
My big plan for Saturday was to journey down to Des Moines to watch Jen compete in the Des Moines Regatta. I have never been to such an event, so it was going to be a new experience. I started my day by going to Ames to drop off a… Read More »My Saturday (Volume 1)
Alexis had her first gymnastics meet on Sunday. She totally ripped it up. Just look at all the precious metal she brought back with her from that other side of the state. I don’t know how she can even stand up! This is how she did: 6th on Floor 3rd… Read More »First Meet
My Aunt Linda is renting out her acreage. This has caused her to get rid of some of the things in the acreage. I benefited from this downsizing by getting a sweet new table. Aunt Linda So I got Steve and Jesse together and we drove over to the acreage… Read More »Dear, Beloved, Precious
I made an appearance at the annual Majors Family Reunion on Saturday. I took a few pictures. I guess I did make it to a reunion this year.
On Saturday the Cyclones were able to avenge one of their losses from last year. Once again it was a night game, so there are few images, but I’ll share a few. Although Iowa State did right a wrong, their performance was hardly impressive. Well, it was impressive at times… Read More »Retribution (Part 1)
Perhaps you were hoping to see pictures of the Cyclones schizophrenic performance last night, but I haven’t gotten that far yet. The pictures below conclude the pictures from Iowa State’s dismantling of South Dakota State. There aren’t many pictures because a night game isn’t a great environment for photo taking.… Read More »The Long Road Back (Part 3)
This year I took a different route selecting pictures for the Photo Contest. I put together 20 pictures and then had certain people select and name 1 picture from that list. I then entered those pictures. I liked the way this process worked out. I will do it again in… Read More »Selected Pictures
Last Thursday, the Cyclones began their long return from the abyss. Last year the Cyclones were embarrassed at The Jack in their opening game of the season. This year they took another step towards redemption by routing their opening opponent. The South Dakota State Jackrabbits were not a match for… Read More »The Long Road Back (Part 1)
The final four pictures that were not selected all come from Independence Day. Todd lighting fireworks. Shannon watching. Fireworks from below. Fireworks from below. Shannon observing the fireworks. That concludes the presentation of the 14 pictures that didn’t make it to the photo contest.
Two more pictures that were not selected. It took me some time to actually find one of these old merry-go-rounds. I searched high and low and only found one in Boone. Perhaps there is another one somewhere, but the only one I could find was at the Trinity playground. The… Read More »Spurned