Practice | Day #4

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So the greatest amusement of my day was UAH head coach Danton Cole coming up to me and Will while we were watching UAH’s first practice and saying, “Hey, do you guys think you can help me get information out over Facebook?”

This amused the two of us greatly, as Will started the UAH Hockey Facebook group, and I, well, do this kind of stuff all the time.

I mean, really … twist my fuckin’ arm, Coach.

[For the record, I'm buying season tickets this year, including a four-pack in good seats on the penalty-box side of the ice. Obviously, I am only one man and can only sit in one seat at a time, so if you would like to use my tickets for free, you just give me a call or drop me an email, eh? First come, first served.]

Thirty! | Day #1

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I’m thirty today. I’m excited, can’t you tell?

I’m also joining Mike and Rae in a 365-day photo pool called “Hacks and Cameras”, which I fit on both accounts. Whether be with my DSLR, my iPhone, or Photo Booth, I hope to shoot something every day of my 31st year on Earth. You can follow the pool or 30+N/365 set.

Thanks to all who have called, emailed, and the like to send their regards. It’s been a good day after a number of really bad ones in a row.

Eli Scored!

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So Eli’s first soccer games was yesterday, so I decided to go and take photos. Because, well, two things: 1) I love the kid and 2) it’s soccer! I played for four years, but not at his age. When I started playing in third grade, you actually had to, you know, work at scoring a goal, because the kids had figured out defense.

So when he was self-upset about not getting to score in the first seven seconds, I told him, “Dude, do you know how long it was before I scored in a game? Four years!” I could see the wheels grinding, “Four years? That’s how old I am!” Exactly, kid. Did I tell him that I played 90% of the time as a goalie or a fullback? No, because at that age, they don’t get the concept of positions. Or, well, defense. [Okay, so there was the one kid on Eli's team that got defense. I wanted to run over to him and pat him on the back, then encourage him and teach him how to knock guys off-stride without getting carded. AHEM.]

There was the most comical moment of the morning when Eli suddenly stood on the goal line and waved his arms around, making himself look big and trying to distract the kid with the ball. This technique reminded me of, well, most every penalty kick I’ve ever defended, including the one I stopped because I was too scared to move and the kid, taught by his coach that I would be moving at the kick, went right for my feet. Heh.

At home

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At the airport, it was officially 100F today.

My car argues that it was hotter than that.

It was 83F in my office at 3:00 p.m.

Could be worse, but man … I hate summer in Alabama.

I hate living in Alabama in summer

Originally uploaded by Geof F. Morris

The high at the airport yesterday was only 92F or so, but Rita (my WRX) told me it was 96F … at the end of my drive home. When I started the car in the parking lot at work, the ambient temperature reading was 103, which makes sense given that the car was in full sun for several hours, and that the ambient sensor is somewhere under the hood.

But still, it’s just the first week of June, and already, it’s way too damn hot. When I was in the Midwest last week, I told lots of people that I’d live back up there if I could do what I do; living in the heat and humidity is my penance for getting the kick-ass job of putting hardware into space. [Could be worse ... I could live near Houston or Cape Canaveral.]

Unlike last summer when I posted readings like this, it’s not a dry heat. Our dewpoints right now are consistently near 70F, and with a Bermuda high over Georgia and western South Carolina, we’re not gonna see rain for the next week or so, other than spotty storms that rise from the heat of the day. Will Carroll told me today that I could have all of Indianapolis’s storms that I wanted—11 inches of rain over the last 24 hours? YES PLEASE!

Wanna know what made me the happiest today?

question!

You’ve been doing such a fab photog job at shows, I was wondering what settings you were using? I’m giving it a shot at D+S’s show tonight.

call if you can.

– Michaela, whose photos I love (and use for desktop backgrounds)

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My photos from the 4 Apr 2008 Caedmon’s Call show in Dyersburg, TN are online. I’ll work on the recording some tomorrow. This will be my first attempt at a matrix of a soundboard patch and an audience recording.

march16bennett14

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I aggregate all Flickr photos tagged with “Huntsville”, just because it’s fun to see how people see our fair city. [This does mean that I see photos from Texas and Ontario, but far less often than the city that put men on the moon.] There are times when I sometimes wonder why I do this.

Photos like these remind me that doing this is definitely worth doing. This is an absolute gem.