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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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November – Day 19


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My task for today’s 30 Day Challenge is to schedule a physical exam. I’d do this today but I will be doing it in the near future. Peace Corps requires us to have a physical before we leave for the country, halfway through our service and then before we finish our service. The upcoming month will […]

November 19, 2011

November – Day 18


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I added a new item to my bucket list today. I added that I my desire to be knighted. I had forgotten to add this to the original list but I had wanted to added before making the list. It’s there now and it’s a goal. If you know any royalty I can swear myself in service of, let […]

November 18, 2011

November – Day 17


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I made an all important discovery today, or maybe I just rediscovered. Anyway, I learned that caffeine helps me focus like no other. I thought it was just Redbulls, and given that they’re expensive on a Peace Corps budget, I had written them off as an option. It’s just the caffeine. I downed a nice […]

November 17, 2011

November – Day 16


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Today’s task for my 30 Day Challenge is to make a budget. Or, if you already have one, review it. I’m going to review my budget. I make roughly $225/per month. I try limit myself to $25/week for food. If need be, I’ll dip in an extra $12.50 at a time. This way, in an emergency, I […]

November 16, 2011

November – Day 15


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Halfway through the month and today was a big day. Today, I finally finished the four-book tome of The Song of Ice and Fire series by George R.R. Martin. I started these books back in late July or early August and I’ve read them almost exclusively since. Granted, there’s been travel and work mixed in there […]

November 15, 2011

HIMYM – Tick Tick Tick


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My heart broke when I watched this episode. Maybe I’m took invested. Maybe this isn’t how it ends. Maybe things will work out in the end but now, I’m about as broken on the inside as Barney is.

November 15, 2011

November – Day 14


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I looked at my watch and it surprised me to see that it’s halfway through the month already. Apparently, I’ve done a lot so far, but I still have a lot left to do. I wrote 4,000 words towards my novel last night. Not the 6,000 I was hoping for but other things distracted me. […]

November 14, 2011

November – Day 13


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As a part of my 30 Day Challenge, I was supposed to declutter my life. Unfortunately, I really can’t have a go at this one because my life is disconnected at the moment. I live in Ukraine and the bulk of my things are back in America in my parents attic. When I finally get […]

November 13, 2011