A great day out at the range. Got my 10-22 sighted in at 25 yards. Next time I head out there I'm gonna work it out to 50 yards.
A beautiful day at the Nut. Got a lot of reading done. Finished up the Omnivore's Dilemma.
Don't remember much of what happened today. Must have spent the day playing with the Bug and got this cool photo.
Watched Boondock Saints with Mattt tonight. Didn't do much else of note. Stupid camera messed up again.
A beautiful, post snow evening. Camera didn't mess up this time. Woot.
It snowed again tonight. Again, this camera thingy fails me. Curses.
It snowed tonight at the Nut. Curse this stupid .cr2 problem.
A bit of doodling I did today while wrapping up the website.
Another day spent working on my website. It's about finished. Not 100% but close enough. www.billharnerphotography.com
So I'm not sure if it's my camera, memory card, or software, but it keeps having errors with converting to DNG/JPG and I'm getting peeved, not to mention it's taking way longer than it should, which is why I'm not totally up to date with my photos. They're all sitting somewhere on my HD right now waiting to be processed.
A good day. Went over to Willi's and learned how to throw a tomahawk then I took him and Matt out to W.VA to go shooting. Popped Willi's handgun cherry and Matt tore it up with my baby kalashnikov.
Half empty? Half full? Half ruined photo? Stupid DNG converter messing up my photos again? Damn you, Adobe. I curse you for not allowing CS3 to support the G10.
This one speaks for itself. Also, Adobe's DNG converter sucks. If you're doing much of anything else on your compy while it's running, this crap happens often.
Got back to VA last night. Kimberly was working tonight so Matt came over and we watched some random movies and ate some random food. This is one of his concoctions. a pringle sandwich with summer sausage, two kinds of cheese, venison jerky and some kind of cracker in the middle. pure craziness.
Last morning in MA. Nice little bit of snowfall on the ground. Lookin' at my Parent's house.
Catamount. The view down Catapult, one of the steepest trails in the Northeast, according to Catamount. All in all, an enjoyable day of skiing with my big sister.
Went down to Mystic with the parental units. Lily is a sucker for aquariums and the one at Mystic is super friendly to the sub 4 foot tall crowd. At Mystic Aquarium they had a small tank set up with a couple of mermaid's purses with small holes cut into them so you could see the live embryos. Was pretty cool. We had a blast there, then we went over to Mystic Pizza for lunch so that Lily and Kimberly could gorge on tasty Pizza.
Laura and I patrolled all day at Otis Ridge. After nap time Mom and Kimberly brought the girls over to go skiing. It was Lily's first time on skis (she's 25 months old). She loved clomping around in the boots and she had fun on the skis.
Not a whole lot went down today. Some general hanging around the homestead and such. Lily was cranky. Dad, Kimberly and I drove down to Hartford to check out the sale at Cabella's. Then we stopped by an awesome Diner on the way home that had some amazing burgers piled high with fried onions (not to mention the bangin' onion rings that are battered right there).
St. Valentine's day... Also, the Special Olympics MA passion plunge date in Worcester. So, we went because my Mom was jumping into a hole cut in the ice. Also, as I found out the night before, I had been volunteered to be the official photographer for the day and the only camera I had with me was my g10.
The Drive up to MA for a little vacation. This was somewhere around Newburg, NY on I-84. My card did something funky and this is how the photo turned out.
It's long overdue but it is time to get caught up on my bloginating. I have been taking my photos, I just have not been posting them because I was out of town for a week, then busy working on my pimpin myself out website www.billharnerphotography.com
Ah yes, one more day of hot weather. Last night night we had thunderstorms and wind gusts in the 50 mph range. Today we had pretty constant wind in the 20mph range with gusts into the 50 mph range every 3-5 minutes. Skiing was a bit "interesting" today. Here's what the "snow" on Dixie looked like this afternoon.
Another day in the 60's in mid Feb. I don't like it. But I did get Stinky Pinky put back together and all lubed up and ready for March or April.
I didn't work today. I spent waaaay too much time on this contraption today.
Another grand day on the mountain. Here's Willi doin' his thing.
Oh, fiery fiend, how I've missed you these last few cold months. Lucky for us it's warm out for the rest of the week. Maybe I'll luck out and catch a few fish for ya on Tuesday.
Another day, another dollar not earned. Much Fallout 3 was played, so I'd call it a decent day off the mountain.
Another good day on the Mtn. Radio traffic made me think of what might happen if a bunch of retarded monkeys got drunk and starting playing with radios. Oh well. Good enough night for me.
Another beautiful day on the mountain. Nothing says 'good morning, sunshine" quite like standing outside, freezing your scrot off in 6 degree temperatures at 8am. I think we may have made it up to 16 though, so that felt good. Here's a shot of Marhsall and Willi.
A big fat meh of a day. The snow wasn't bad and there was still some untouched corduroy at noon when I got there. But then around 4 the light got flat and the temp dropped so I huddled inside for a long while with minimal runs taken after dinner.
My first morning on the mountain in a long time. It was gorgeous. Lots of gnarr was shredded. There was much aching of the muscles by the time I got home. Good times, good times.
A grand first Monday of being a bum. I got up, took Lily to the sitter's and came back and took a two hour nap on the couch. Then I got up, made a PB&J&B (The B is for Bacon) sammich, played some Xbox and then went for a rather muddy bike ride. Did some grocery shopping and got home just in time to see the snow starting before I went inside.
There's no dilemma that can't be solved if we just sit around and stare at our belly buttons long enough.
Reality is here now.
A delightfully unpleasant notion at its best.
I'm a little shaky.
Looking ever onward.
To the future I belong.
I'm on my way.
A delightfully unpleasant notion at its best.
I'm a little shaky.
Looking ever onward.
To the future I belong.
I'm on my way.
When are you gonna come down
When are you going to land
I should have stayed on the farm
I should have listened to my old man
You know you can't hold me forever
I didn't sign up with you
I'm not a present for your friends to open
This boy's too young to be singing the blues
So goodbye yellow brick road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can't plant me in your penthouse
I'm going back to my plough
Back to the howling old owl in the woods
Hunting the horny back toad
Oh I've finally decided my future lies
Beyond the yellow brick road
What do you think you'll do then
I bet that'll shoot down your plane
It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics
To set you on your feet again
Maybe you'll get a replacement
There's plenty like me to be found
Mongrels who ain't got a penny
Sniffing for tidbits like you on the ground
--Elton John
When are you going to land
I should have stayed on the farm
I should have listened to my old man
You know you can't hold me forever
I didn't sign up with you
I'm not a present for your friends to open
This boy's too young to be singing the blues
So goodbye yellow brick road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can't plant me in your penthouse
I'm going back to my plough
Back to the howling old owl in the woods
Hunting the horny back toad
Oh I've finally decided my future lies
Beyond the yellow brick road
What do you think you'll do then
I bet that'll shoot down your plane
It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics
To set you on your feet again
Maybe you'll get a replacement
There's plenty like me to be found
Mongrels who ain't got a penny
Sniffing for tidbits like you on the ground
--Elton John
Everything seems kind of wonky (in a good way) today.
Snowed off and on from about 5am. Rain started around 2.30, 3.00pm. Freezing rain followed shortly thereafter. Boo. Oh well, whatevs.
Monday night madness. Woot. Luckily, all the beaters seem to stay away from Dixie when it's in good shape. So I skied it all night.
I didn't do a lot today. Played the force unleashed for a couple hours while Lily napped. Then I played it again from the time she went to bed until midnight-ish. The control scheme is ok, but the camera is teh suck, as is the targeting system. There ya have it, the unofficial, two sentence video game review from Bill. As for todays picture, one of these I am not, but it was almost midnight and I needed to take a photo.
So I drove up to Murray's Fly Shop in Edinburg to check out some fly rod building info. Picked up a sweet little book so that hopefully by spring time I can have my own 4 weight rod built for about $100. On the way back I drove through the covered bridge at Meem's Bottom if you're headed south on Rte. 11 I think it's the first road on the right after you cross the bridge and head out of Mt. Jackson. There's a big row of Oak trees lining the road so it's pretty hard to miss. I couldn't get out of the car because I had Lily with me so I took the photo while I was rolling through the bridge at about 5-10mph.
What a weird Friday. Took some cool photos, edited some cool photos from the last two days, so not an absolutely weird day until I got back to the office and found out that I don't get an interview until Thursday morning. Friday is my last day, so I appreciate the expediency (*add much snark to this whole sentence) with the whole process as well as the person from HR who managed to lose my internally submitted application. How does that happen? Not only did I hand deliver hard copies, I even turned in electronic copies of my resume and internal application by email. Is the deleted items folder to hard to find? Whatever. I need a job and it would be nice to stay within the company. It even sounds pretty easy. I've never done phone sales but I've done sales and it's always been a cakewalk for me. Who knows though with the way things are going for other folks on the photo team who are looking to join sales. Anyhoo, enough random ranting from me. Have a cool still life.
So I'm bored and poking around on the internets and playing with firefox and I stumbled across this spiffy add on for firefox called ScribeFire that lets you edit your blog(s) directly from any firefox webpage. The editor is built right to firefox, so if you're like m and tend to do some copying and pasting regularly, you don't have to tab back and forth. I am amused.
So we've got these two pumpkins on our porch that we went and picked a week or two before All Saints Day and they've been sitting there ever since. Lily painted them if you're wondering about the crazy purple spots. Also, I think some of Canon's software/hardware developers/designers still ride the short bus. What's up with not keeping the .cr2 file extension the same from one camera to the next, thus negating my CS3 and making me use their crappy digital photo pro software unless I have find a bunch more cash sitting around to throw at them and either upgrade to CS4 or get my hands on LR2? Stupid Canon. If only they didn't make such nice cameras. Also, stupid Adobe for not supporting CS3 any more after less than 3 years on the shelf and because CS4 is soo much (and by soo much, I mean marginally) better.
Another day with a wonky computer, but we also had Wingfield walk around in his bare feet in the snow for a photo shoot for work. This was the after effects. Notice the bright white spots where he's already lost circulation.
Sorry this took so long. My compy has been acting kind of wonky and I've had issues with my memory card reader.
Some days the world just feels all upside down.
Okay, so today's picture got taken after midnight, but I had to wait for my cakes to finish baking. Homemade Red Velvet cake for Lily's Birthday.
Mother in law was here so I didn't get around to posting anything the last few days. I've got the photos. They're on flickr. I'll be posting 4 days worth of photos here soon.
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