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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

Blog, Photography

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

Blog, Photography

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

Blog, Photography

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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Tech Tips – Cyrillic Typing Practice


Tech Tips

A cluster mate of mine during training remarked that he would have had an easier time learning the language if he could type it. I had to agree with him. There’s something about the repetition of typing that drives home how to spell a word for me. I while back we learned how to have […]

August 26, 2011

Tech Tips – Google Doc Sharing


Tech Tips

I know it might seem like I’m the kind of person who would sit in front of a glowing computer screen all summer to get my tan, but I’m not. I went to various summer camps, outside. For some of these summer camps I was asked to write-up a few of my lesson plans to […]

August 19, 2011

Tech Tips – Anki


Tech Tips

I hate to break it to all of you, but summer is nearing its end. Camps are winding down and language refresher is over. Most of us have less than a month before we return to our posts full-time. I think it’s as good of time as any that we start brushing up on our […]

August 4, 2011

Tech Tips – Disk Space


Tech Tips

Has your computer been running sluggish lately? Take a look at your hard drive space and you might find the reason the old laptop doesn’t run like she used to. If your drive is near filling its capacity, there’s a good chance it’s slowing your computer down. When a computer program runs it creates temporary files to […]

July 22, 2011

Camps grants and babuskas


Peace Corps

Summer business has kicked in full swing lately. I had one camp the week of the fourth. This week I wrote my grant. Next week I have another camp and the week after that another. I’ll try and do a write up when I get free time again but I wanted to mention those things […]

July 16, 2011

Tech Tips – Update and Backup


Tech Tips

Has there been a nagging message on your desktop asking you to install updates? It’s probably because this week was Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday. The second Tuesday of every month, Microsoft releases patches for its operating systems. It’s a good time to download and install the new updates to protect your computer. If you’re running Mac […]

July 15, 2011

Tech Tips – Hibernation


Tech Tips

Imagine this scenario, you are diligently working on the Partnership grant that your site has asked you to write for them (though occasionally stopping to check to see if a new Tech Tips has arrived) when you look to the corner of your screen and realize you need to run to the train station to […]

July 8, 2011