4.30.10

Monster dandelions! Basham really needs to get a handle on this. To make more, obviously.

4.29.10

So they’ve got the blocks up. I’m glad they finally decided to start working on something.

4.28.10

Footers poured, blah blah, Droid Eris.

4.27.10

This is supposed to be a garage right now.  Closing postponed.  This irritating picture brought to you by my HTC Droid Eris.

4.26.10

My drive home from work today was beautiful! This slightly better picture brought to you by my HTC Droid Eris.

4.25.10

John getting all snuggly with Kelsey at yet another improv show, this time with Chicago’s own Big Dog Eat Child, who came on later.

4.24.10

Stormy drive back from Megan and Josh's wedding shower in Chicago. Complete with rainbow! This terrible picture brought to you by my HTC Droid Eris.

4.23.10

Eagerly awaiting The Crazy Monkeys at Greyhouse Coffee & Supply Co.

4.22.10

Probably my favorite thing that hangs on a wall.  Steve the polar bear from Daisy Owl!

4.21.10

I went to Von’s today to pick up a comic book, and (of course) I had to look at the records.  So I ended up buying the new The Apples In Stereo album (Charlotte is a big fan).  It came with a free 12” of covers by other bands!

4.20.10

Stopped off for a bit in Romney today on my way home from work to check this building out.  Looks like an old school, but some sign letters on the front say “Romney Recreation Center”, so I guess it’s been retrofitted.  Cool building, though.

4.19.10

Even though this picture is from yesterday’s downtown video shoot, and it actually wasn’t taken by me (Alex took it), since I didn’t take any pictures today I decided to use it. And of course I had to blast the contrast. We’re such cool dudes!

4.18.10

Rob and his girlfriend, Alex came over to help me with a song I had to write/perform (for the vlog blog, long story), and while we were walking around downtown we saw this bird. So we had to mess with it. Don’t worry! We didn’t actually touch the bird with the guitar, and we only stopped long enough for me to take this picture. She didn’t seem too happy with it, though.

4.17.10

Took this with my phone – some jade plants in front of our bedroom window.

**Update: These plants have since mostly died. One completely, and the other is sort of floppily hanging on to life.

4.16.10

I made dinner tonight – Rosemary Chicken. Really good! Mike came over to eat with us. Usually I like to use cous-cous when I make this, but I didn’t have any, so I used a tubetti pasta, which didn’t work as well (the little tubes kept bouncing around everywhere), but overall I was pretty happy with how everything turned out.

4.15.10

Part of the kitchen in our new house!  I thought about including a picture of our thirty-year-old furnace, because I liked the shadows, but I went with this.  I feel like a bum because the pictures from the past day or two have been lackluster.  I will come back, guns (camera?) blazing!

Here’s the furnace, though, just for kicks:

4.14.10

Terrible picture of some really cool ties that I saw at Target. I always feel like I’ll be asked to leave a store if I’m taking pictures of them, so I tried to be extremely covert. So this picture is bad because:

• I used my phone (covert!)
• My thumb is in it (tried to be fast. and covert!)
• ummmm there is no staging? (co..vert?)

4.13.10

Those flowers really did a number on that water.

4.12.10

The exterior and motherboard/CPU fans of my computer.  I’m really happy about how consistent the design of the case carries through to the interior – I chose the CPU fan because of it’s circular shape, and because the blue LEDs matched those of the case.

The case actually only has two fans – and they’re both 250mm, which is great for noise.  If you look not-all-that-closely, you can see where I had to cut/mash/file/pound away part of the CPU fan so that it would fit over my heat-sinked RAM.  Small price to pay, and not all that noticeable.

4.11.10

Can you guess what this is?

4.10.10

100th picture!  4th flower picture in a row.  We bought some flowers when we grocery-shopped today, and they look pretty nice.  Some of them are staining the water purple.

4.9.10

Another flower picture!  Saw this on the way to meet some old math education friends at Chumley’s today.  Good thing it was so sunny – I took this with my phone and you can hardly notice.

4.8.10

Mary saw this flower growing up through our apartment’s front steps, so I snapped a picture of it. Woop Dee Doo.

4.7.10

Von’s.

4.6.10

Mary’s parents came today to see the house, and we stopped at this Frozen Custard place for some tasty frozen treats. This is actually right down the street from our new house – super convenient.

4.5.10

Tonight I went on a fun late-night bike ride with John, Eli, Matt, Lauren, and Kelsey. It was sadly cut short by some broken glass on the trail (John lost a tire), but it was great while it lasted. On the way home, I was riding across the bridge when I saw this train full of trash cubes. It took a while to get the picture – my camera does not do too well at night – but I like how it turned out. It’s good for what it is.

4.4.10

Before we left, I went out in the yard and played with my mom’s camera.  She bought a Canon Rebel last year, and every time I look at the pictures it takes I am overcome with jealousy.  Bitter, bitter jealousy.  Jealousy is a dish best served with bitters.

4.3.10

We went to my parents’ house and colored eggs for Easter. It was pretty fun. Some of them got a little sneaky.

4.2.10

As weird and Myspace-y this picture is, it’s the only decent picture from a day of foursquare and hangouts.  Today we played foursquare, and hung out.  Going to my parents’ house this weekend, so there should be some good ones tomorrow and Sunday.

4.1.10

I gave this word search to my students today, to complete for extra credit.  But none of the words were actually in the puzzle, and instead the message “April Fools LOL” could be found.  I thought it was funny, but I had mutiny on my hands.

Thanks to Chris Dunmire for creating, posting, and letting me find and print out this word search for free from the internets.