Life goes by so fast...need to take a few seconds to write down and remember experiences that make me the person I am.
Someone knocked on the door but I didn't see anyone when I opened the door, but I looked up and saw this giant spider in the door way. This sucker was huge! It looked like he was clutching a fly and took off. I barely managed to get this shot before he disappeared.
Are you afraid of spiders? If not, then what are you afraid of?
I opened up my gmail and there was my reminder to pay my car registration. I'd given myself a couple of days warning and went on line to pay it. But, I didn't have the smog check, ugh. So, I call the service department down at Nissan and ask if they can test me at 11:15 a.m. Sure, come on in.
I get there and the I'm quoted $10 higher than the advertisement, so I had to point that out. Seems their computer was wrong, and they apologized by giving me a free car wash and a huge apple fritter. I wander around and of course the vultures ask me if I want to take a test-drive, but I decline. I grab a brochure and took a picture of the wall of IDs for the sales people in the lobby.
My car passed it's smog test but the weird thing were the numbers:
The car was allowed to get 47 HC PPM and the measurement was 1.
On CO Emission allowed to get 0.60 and the measurement was 0.00.
on NO (PPM) 494 max allowed and the measurement was 4.
For a seven year old car it did really well, or maybe the machine wasn't connected right. Shhhh!
I Had Wings and Things for lunch and ate my apple fritter, since I was already late anyway :) 
He told me that he would throw in a mountain bike and a customized 10'x10' tent for MY NEW PATHFINDER. That I could drive it off the lot NOW. LOL. Talk about the hard sell, huh?
How do I get out of this easily? I just say, "I don't think the wife would let me spend her money without having her here." He gets the hint.
This is my shaving mirror! The packaging said that it was rustless, and fogless. Neither of which turned out to be true. The little razor holders are bent from it falling on the tile on occasion.
I think about this almost each time that I shave in the morning, and I have to spray water on it so that I can see something.
After practice today, I'm going to Bed, Bath & Beyond and getting a new one along with other stuff I need, and I'm asking the salesperson that if it fogs/rusts up, if I can return it.
Update: I was told that I could take this back and get a new one. :)
What do you think about when showering?
These are my carne asada chips! I think they came out quite tasty for a first time. It's just the cleaning up part that I don't like.
We just got back from the tournament, and Heather zonked the whole time after dinner. She didn't remember that she fell asleep, and 125 miles later, we're home!
Remember how I mentioned that they had to win three straight to win it all? They won two (8-5, 7-0) and tied the final in the championship game 0-0 after 7 innings. The fields didn't have lights so the girls ended up co-champs.
One option was to pack everyone up and go to another field where they had lights and do the International Tie-Breaker. The managers agreed before the game that they wouldn't continue. The ceremony was very quick and everyone left in record time!
The girls won both their games this morning (4-0, and 9-2). Heather did well, catching a fly in left field, and stealing some bases. Her coach had her "go slappy." She smacked it between the 3-4 hole, and easily beat out the throw. She gets excited when she gets to bat lefty...
We googled up a Pizza Hut nearby and ended up on State College Blvd. They told us that we would have a 20 minute wait, so Heather went shooting. Lots of people just stared at us but I told Heather that she'd never see them again anyway so just shoot and have fun. She did just that by ditching the 50mm...She's already decided that her favorite lense is the 28-135mm, because she can zoom and it's not too big or heavy. We'll post HER primo shots here. Or at least the thumbnails.
On the way back we were 2 for 4 on how many people we could get to wave at us if we honked and waved as if we knew them! We definitely FOUND something to keep us entertained. And geez, she left me a couple of slices of pizza.
Back in the room Heather loaded up Photoshop CS3 and I couldn't get her off my laptop! But, now it's time for sleep! Oh no, I have to do her hair in the morning -- eeek! Wish her luck tomorrow.
Until tomorrow night!
Had sushi for lunch with a friend. Found out that both my new contracts are in the final stages in appropriations so I'm excited/anxious. Got some starbucks, took that photo that I've been wanting to take.
Looking at the photo, I should have stood on the other side of the nurse. You can't even tell I'm wearing a green shirt. Seems the color got lost with the black sailor. The girl that I got to take the picture said "You're so dirty!" then asked if I would take one of her doing the same thing pose. Funny.
Went to Nelson's photo and bought a new camera strap. The owner gave me a catalog and a good discount on some "memory mates." She remembered me, and it's been forever since I had been there.
Extended lunch breaks are great aren't they? 
It's a nice clear day...I'm going to Coronado to take some pictures of the bay and city lights. Wanna join me?
Oh, I used a 70-200mm at 200mm, ISO 100, F4.5, 1/1000 for the moon shot. For this streaking shot, I used F2.8 for 30 seconds. I didn't want to use the shutter release so that's why I didn't use a higher F Stop, or expose longer.
I'm sitting at the epicenter of the four fields at PQ. We don't start playing for another 30 minutes or so, and I just sitting here. I could get hit by a ball, but I'm zoning out taking pictures of the bugs in the grass; some are even crawling on me and I just stare at them. I tell myself that the yelling and cheering would alert me to something about to peg me. Several people pass by and tell me that it's weird to be shooting photos of the grass. But, I look at the little bugs and pretend that they are in a giant forest that might take days to traverse. Then, I just turn the camera and shoot this one shot with a 50mm lens. This is what the little bugs see through their telescope - The invader in their path out in the middle of the giant forest...their forest.
