Weekend To-Do List

• Try out Google AdSense
• Clean stove
• Gear list notes for trip
• Start Foodsack purchase process
• Go to library
• Fix broken PNG thumbnails
• Create training plan for Grand Canyon trip
• Draft trip report for April trip
• Vacuum, mop, sweep
• Clean out e-mail
• Do laundry
  

New Furniture

It seems that one of the things that happens when you get married is that you buy "grown-up" furniture. It costs a barking fortune.

Fancy new couch (or sofa? what's the difference anyway?).

Jess approves of the new mattress & box springs. Queen-size, not double. Getting old am I.

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Weekend To-Do List

• Create training plan for Grand Canyon trip
• Send out gear list, info sheet
  
• Draft trip report for April trip
• Write back to grand-canyon-list people about checklist
  
• Vacuum, mop, sweep
  
• Clean out laptop browser
• Clean out Google Reader
  
• Order from B&H
• Buy frame for wedding certificate
• Mow lawn
• Harvest sunflowers
• Prepare for & deal with new furniture
• Do PFF reading/writing
• Go to library
• Do dishes
  

2nd Roll of Film

The second roll of film came back yesterday, this time from A&I in California; the scans were better, but still not great -- most of the below required significant levels and contrast adjustments.

Shooting in B&W is difficult - the visualization exercise is much less intuitive since the hue goes away completely and all that's left is value.

This giant crane is busy building the new science classroom building.

Erin won 3rd prize in the 10,000 Reasons photo contest this here. Here she is receiving her award.

Streetlight and sunset in our alley. I would like to get this shot again just a few minutes earlier - the streetlight takes a few minutes to warm up, and when just comes on it has a really interesting glowing look where you can see all the details of the mechanism (e.g.).

Burly tattooed dude washing the windows on the riduculous alumni center at the U.

Wash Ave bridge at sunset.

Weeds growing out of a crack in our alley.

Trip Leader Checklist

One of the things I enjoy doing is leading backpacking trips and other adventures. Along those lines, I created a checklist of the steps needed to prepare for such a trip. Turns our there are a lot. Perhaps this list is useful for you, too. Feedback welcome.

Weekend To-Do List

• Work for Katie
• Send e-mail to Steve
• Trip itinerary (send out)
• Trip medical form
  
• Create training plan for Grand Canyon trip
• Draft trip report for April trip
• Write letter to Ned Bunnell
  
• Secret item 1 2
  
• Vacuum, mop, sweep
  
• Start trip leader checklist
• Clean out e-mail
• Clean out laptop browser
• Order from B&H
• Back up RTM
  

Weekend To-Do List

• Order books from library
  
• Respond to inquiries about lens
  
• Create training plan for Grand Canyon trip
• Pay bills
  
• Play World of Goo
• Pack up recycling
• Create crankier sign about Angela Fish?
• Clean out e-mail
• Draft trip report for April trip
• Go look for a bed frame
• Reboot
• Write letter to Ned Bunnell
  
• Secret item 1 2
  
• Vacuum, mop, sweep
  
• Start trip leader checklist
• Go to Katie's getting-old dinner
  
• Back up blog?
• Back up other cloud stuff?

State Fair

The lovely wife and I made the annual pilgrimage to the State Fair today.

Foods consumed:

• French fries
• One (1) corn dog, by me
• Potato skins
  
• Ice cream
  

Foods not consumed:

• Cheese curds (shocking, I know)
• Giant pickle on a stick
• Deep-fried candy bar
• Pretzel from a stand with a cop car in front
• .... over 300 other possibilities, including 78 on a stick.

There were a lot of people at the fair, including a dude on a cell phone near a no parking sign.

One of these massive blue ribbons is Erin's. Sadly none of the bottles were labeled, so we don't know which one was Erin's (or really whether hers was there at all, because there were 20 categories and only 10 blue ribbons), but just look at the size of that thing!

The literature table in the Eco Experience building had Cyclopath postcards. Sweet!

Do not drive your car into this building, especially before 9am or after 9pm.

If you're nominated for Princess Kay of the Milky Way (yes, there's a Wikipedia page), you get a creepy likeness of yourself carved in a giant block of butter - which you then have to get to take home.

The biggest hog is quite large (~1,300 lbs), and generally very sleepy.

And the piglets are very cute. They also dislike being held upside down while having a rectal temperature taken and having an ear chewed on by another piglet (not pictured).