A long post skimming the surface of my gratitude for everything about my life. [More]

In which your obd't host relates the story of his Batman impersonation, and other recent happenings. No, there's no spinkick. [More]

I started playing around today with Picasa and it’s really just what I’m looking for in most regards.  I’ve got SO many pictures to go through, and the more I can do with them all in one tool the better.  In this case I can store, organize, tag, and caption all of my photos, plus embed them in my blog and post them to Facebook and a bunch of other stuff, and it saves bandwidth load on my server. What you’ll see is something like this: It has very basic controls that, when not obvious, will be easily explained by a couple of clicks:  the little person floats a link to the al... [More]

So I’m sitting here writing part 6 of my photo journal of my trip from NC to CA back in May, and I’m kinda tired of looking through pictures right at the moment so I thought I’d describe this process, and maybe give an idea of why it takes me so long to get them done. This series of photos, which I’m calling “Goin’ to California,” started life as 705 photographs starting with my mom and dad and ending with photos that I *think* were taken on the way to the photography job I never got paid for (by Collegiate Studios in Woodland and other surrounding towns, CA – sixty measly bucks that could ha... [More]

I’m mostly recovered from the weekend.  Very busy, met some cool people though.  Adding to the list of beautiful women I’ve met is always a good thing…adding to the list of drunk obnoxious fratboys, not so much. Best tip of the Halloween holiday:  A thong, direct from the wearer.  Well, strangest tip anyway.  Maybe I can sell it in Japan… It was a pretty crappy party season for a lot of people, judging  by the ones who were in my cab.  Seemed like everyone Saturday had some kind of drama or trauma or bad night happening.  I did get a few good photos th... [More]