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Thirty-seven didn’t turn out to be the year I expected it to be, in some ways that was good and in some ways that was very much not good. Leading off with the bad because it really felt like a dark cloud over the year, work drove me to some dark places. For me, I […]

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Photographing a Lunar Eclipse on 35mm Film

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If you were to ask my wife why I do all of the hard things I do, she’ll tell you that it is because I can. And she isn’t wrong. I genuinely love to find out about something new, or old that I should be able to do and then spend days and weeks researching […]

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Six sixes. Four nines. Three twelves. Two eighteens. One thirty-six. The past year started out with my baby girl turning one. It’s hard to think she’s approaching two so quickly now. We threw her a big bash to ring in the whole year. Two months later she started walking and has been getting fast and […]

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Madison, Wisconsin Capitol – Fall 2006

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I don’t have the usual gallery to share today. However, I do have 20 exposures from a roll of 24 all stitched into a single image. I used my Kodak Retina Reflex S camera with a 135mm telephoto lens, all of which was mounted on a tripod. This was the first roll I shot once […]

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High School – Roll 13

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This is the last of my rolls from my film photography class in high school. Following this class, I had a semester of digital photography which I didn’t enjoy. That class had too much emphasis on Photoshop edits and those aren’t really my thing. These photos, however, are not the last of the photos I […]

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Gym membership


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Here’s what I want, a gym membership I can pay for on a month to month basis, and it doesn’t cost extra for doing so. Ellie and I just got out of our membership to a gym because we stopped going because it was on the other side of town. The co react we signed […]

December 5, 2016

Meetings


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I cannot sit through long meetings. Over an hour, you’re pushing it. Two hours? I’m entirely useless for the rest of the day. So when a co-worker proposed a four hour all staff meeting, I spoke my mind. Every December we have a slew of planning and budgetary meetings for the following year. We plan […]

December 2, 2016

Full Bus


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The bus was unusually packed this morning. I didn’t get a seat. Didn’t want to try to type while standing and keeping my balance. Will update later.

December 2, 2016

Mansplainer


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I share a desk with a mansplainer. And a manspreader. He is a condescending male in his twenties and has an antiquated view on the world as well as a condescending way of dealing with people. I have worked with him for almost a year and a half and my opinion of him has only […]

December 1, 2016

Money


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In the past few years, 95% of all stress in my life has been caused by money, or a lack there of. That’s just an estimate, but I’d assume it’s right on the money. Ever since I struck out on my own, getting money hasn’t been hard, and I’ve never been out of a job. […]

December 1, 2016

A Bad Employee?


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Am I a bad employee? Today, I heard through a co-worker, who was reprimanded that the two of us talk too much. Is that a bad thing? But seriously, is it a bad thing that I have time to talk to a co-worker while at work who also has time to talk? Am I expected […]

November 30, 2016

The Crown Molding


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We have a mold problem. We discovered it a few weeks ago, right after the election. Ellie was spraying some spots high up on the walls in the bedroom when she saw some more near the base boards. She moved the furniture and let out a groan of, “oh no!” when she saw how much was […]

November 30, 2016

Rarely on Time


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This bus is never on time. Not once. Okay, I have only taken it sporadically in the past year but it seems a coincidence that each of those times, it happened to be late. There was that one time it was late and then decided it didn’t need to stop at a scheduled bus stop. […]

November 29, 2016

A Triumphant Return…?


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I feel like a lot of the time, I write about the things that I want to happen. Things I am planning to do or say will come to pass just because I put my mind to it. Looking back at posts, I rarely ever seem to follow through with things as planned. I have […]

November 29, 2016