Anti-WHAT powder??
Thanks for the great comments on the last post, y'all. Shutterbug, it's always especially nice to hear from you. :-)
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Well the switch to Boost Mobile, and their awesome $50/month unlimited plan (which I have been talking up nonstop to people whether they want me to or not), has an unplanned and pleasant side effect: I got on Motorola's site and found a way to use my phone as a modem. A free dial-up provider later, and I'm back on the internet! Now, this access is only about half the speed of normal dialup, mind you, but it's the internet nonetheless, and from the comfort of my own home. Yay!
For about the last three or so weeks I have been working part time for Liz, and that seems to be going well. I'd really missed hanging out with her. We'd initially discussed going full-time beginning in June, but that got put on the back burner. For now, I'm still doing the whole work-with-Liz-on-my-days-off-from-Wally-World routine. I must admit I kinda like the pace of the schedule, and the pay is nice. I'm now basking in the warm glow of a buzz from Guiness instead of Milwaukee's Beast.
I've really gotten into bicycling lately, and have on several occasions ridden my bike the 19 miles out to Dark Haired Girl's place just outside of Bradford, Ohio. I was hoping to enter the Strawberry Festival's bike tour this next weekend, but they shifted my schedule around at Wally World and I now work Sundays. I can still do the route later, they paint markers on the roads. I just wanted to experience the camaraderie among the riders, as well as the frequent stops with water and carb-y fuel snacks like doughnuts and bagels and bananas and whatnot. There's still the one Mom and Chuck go to every year in August... the Amish Land and Lakes tour up north. It always sounds like such a blast, so I'm dead-set on going with them this year. Should yield some great photo ops as well.
Anyhoo, I broke down the other day and bought a pair of tight stretchy spandex-y bike shorts. They're really nice because they don't bunch up, they've got a nice soft chamois on the inside for your undercarriage, and gel padding on the outside. It was awkward as hell though, taking my first tentative steps out of the house feeling like I was wearing nothing but a shirt and shoes. It felt kinda exhibitionistic, actually, and a little sexy...
;-)
Oh, and BTW there is this great product they sell at Tractor Supply Company: Anti Monkey Butt Powder. I kid you not. That is a legitimate product made up of talc and calamine powders, and it works like freakin magic. The last ride out to Dark Haired Girl's house... I was monkey-butt-saddle-sore free!
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Anyhoo, I haven't really done much personal work with the camera lately, save for a profitable headshot session with a local MR/DD agency. I've really been letting it gather dust lately because I simply have been in an inspirational void since coming back to Troy. I did have this great idea for a project, though... it's no secret that I drink (and, inexplicably rather enjoy) Steel Reserve beer. Once, Dark Haired Girl asked for a sip of that stuff I'm always drinking, and her face contorted in disgust in ways I didn't know faces could move. I died laughing. So Shaggy asked about it the other day, and I said he's not allowed to try it until I have him in a studio setup so I can photograph his initial reaction to it. I think it would make a great book, to get people who have never had it before to try it and let me shoot their disgusted grimaces. I'll call it "Steel Reserve... a love affair."
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Have you guys seen those new commercials for Dos Equis centering around a figure known only as "The most interesting man in the world"? I should find them annoying, as I do most commercials meant to make men feel insecure, but I think there's a perfect amount of tongue-in-cheek B.S., and they're just cheesy enough that I really think they're clever and funny as hell.
"He lives vicariously... through himself."
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It's 8pm, saturday night, and I have to get up at three to do doughnuts tomorrow morning. Spent my day off golfing with Mom and Chuck (almost parred one hole, but missed the putt and bogeyed it), and then putting in 10 miles on the bike. I am tired.
Good night, sweet dreams, and stay thirsty my friends.
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Well the switch to Boost Mobile, and their awesome $50/month unlimited plan (which I have been talking up nonstop to people whether they want me to or not), has an unplanned and pleasant side effect: I got on Motorola's site and found a way to use my phone as a modem. A free dial-up provider later, and I'm back on the internet! Now, this access is only about half the speed of normal dialup, mind you, but it's the internet nonetheless, and from the comfort of my own home. Yay!
For about the last three or so weeks I have been working part time for Liz, and that seems to be going well. I'd really missed hanging out with her. We'd initially discussed going full-time beginning in June, but that got put on the back burner. For now, I'm still doing the whole work-with-Liz-on-my-days-off-from-Wally-World routine. I must admit I kinda like the pace of the schedule, and the pay is nice. I'm now basking in the warm glow of a buzz from Guiness instead of Milwaukee's Beast.
I've really gotten into bicycling lately, and have on several occasions ridden my bike the 19 miles out to Dark Haired Girl's place just outside of Bradford, Ohio. I was hoping to enter the Strawberry Festival's bike tour this next weekend, but they shifted my schedule around at Wally World and I now work Sundays. I can still do the route later, they paint markers on the roads. I just wanted to experience the camaraderie among the riders, as well as the frequent stops with water and carb-y fuel snacks like doughnuts and bagels and bananas and whatnot. There's still the one Mom and Chuck go to every year in August... the Amish Land and Lakes tour up north. It always sounds like such a blast, so I'm dead-set on going with them this year. Should yield some great photo ops as well.
Anyhoo, I broke down the other day and bought a pair of tight stretchy spandex-y bike shorts. They're really nice because they don't bunch up, they've got a nice soft chamois on the inside for your undercarriage, and gel padding on the outside. It was awkward as hell though, taking my first tentative steps out of the house feeling like I was wearing nothing but a shirt and shoes. It felt kinda exhibitionistic, actually, and a little sexy...
;-)
Oh, and BTW there is this great product they sell at Tractor Supply Company: Anti Monkey Butt Powder. I kid you not. That is a legitimate product made up of talc and calamine powders, and it works like freakin magic. The last ride out to Dark Haired Girl's house... I was monkey-butt-saddle-sore free!
---
Anyhoo, I haven't really done much personal work with the camera lately, save for a profitable headshot session with a local MR/DD agency. I've really been letting it gather dust lately because I simply have been in an inspirational void since coming back to Troy. I did have this great idea for a project, though... it's no secret that I drink (and, inexplicably rather enjoy) Steel Reserve beer. Once, Dark Haired Girl asked for a sip of that stuff I'm always drinking, and her face contorted in disgust in ways I didn't know faces could move. I died laughing. So Shaggy asked about it the other day, and I said he's not allowed to try it until I have him in a studio setup so I can photograph his initial reaction to it. I think it would make a great book, to get people who have never had it before to try it and let me shoot their disgusted grimaces. I'll call it "Steel Reserve... a love affair."
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Have you guys seen those new commercials for Dos Equis centering around a figure known only as "The most interesting man in the world"? I should find them annoying, as I do most commercials meant to make men feel insecure, but I think there's a perfect amount of tongue-in-cheek B.S., and they're just cheesy enough that I really think they're clever and funny as hell.
"He lives vicariously... through himself."
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It's 8pm, saturday night, and I have to get up at three to do doughnuts tomorrow morning. Spent my day off golfing with Mom and Chuck (almost parred one hole, but missed the putt and bogeyed it), and then putting in 10 miles on the bike. I am tired.
Good night, sweet dreams, and stay thirsty my friends.
posted by Grover at 5/30/2009 06:33:00 PM
1 Comments:
you know..with all that bike riding..you could always ride up here and say hi to us too :P glad t hear you have been busy tho :D
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