Catching Up

As stated below, I was going to take/post daily pics on my The Story of A Boy photoblog. The loss of a laptop, and then Flickr being restricted at work, put a pause to this. But now this should be back up and running … I can’t promise daily photos, but I would say an update several times a week would be in order. Until then, I have posted some pics up on my Flickr photostream of what I’ve been up to these last few months. This includes work, desert road trips to the Superstitions, doggies, and a couple pics of the Rainbow Fest in downtown. This photostream also includes some work I’ve done for my digital photo class this last semester, including a burning Book of Mormon. Check it out here.

Photography Final

 I did my photoshoot Friday night for the final; it went well, took a bit longer than I expected, but it went well. I may have inadvertently screwed myself over on the photo final though … I thought it was due Thursday, when it’s actually due Tuesday. I was going to use Tuesday night in the photo lab to photoshop my images. Guess I should’ve verified that due date well before I decided to skip the optional Saturday morning photo lab. So … I MAY get time to print the pics, but mounting them and photoshoping them is just out of the picture now. Hmmm … I have enough A projects in the class that it won’t drop my grade that much, but it is a bit of a downer for me. Oh well.

On Saturday morning I ran errands and got my place cleaned up a bit; Saturday night Justin came over and I made us a snazzy dinner with garlic Mozerella mashed potatoes, proscuitto-wrapped shrimp sauteed in olive oil, and fresh ground peppercorn-crusted pan-seared Ahi tuna. We were FINALLY able to rent a copy of Planet Terror, which we watched after dinner – it wasn’t that great but was still far superior to Grindhouse’s accompanying Quinetin Tarentino-directed Deathproof. Sunday morning we went to our customary morning breakfast at the Valley Restaurant Diner Eatery (real name) and then watched Black Snake Moan with Samuel L. Jackson and Cristina Ricci. Decent movie, but a bit too long. It was kind of like Forrest Gump, in the sense that it could’ve ended in about five different places but kept going anyway.

Then … the very best part of the weekend … Justin took me out to Best Buy to purchase my Christmas gift: a Gateway laptop! Score! I am now able to blog from home (wow, what a concept!) and should be finally able to update my photo blog now. Anyway … it’s off to getting some more studying done for Tuesday’s history final. Have fun everyone.