the perspective of a military family . . . the narcissism of a blog
From the monthly archives:
It is funny how the mind works.
I wanted to learn how to use Photoshop to copy textures from one image and use them on others.
I was looking at the amazing librarian cam, which generally features the fixed gaze of a friend from high school.
And I was hungry and thinking of rotisserie chicken.
This is very Texas [...]
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It made national headlines the other day when President Obama’s children did not have to go to school because there was some ice on the ground. He did not agree with the reporter’s suggestion that DC area residents are wimps but pointed out that in Chicago schools never close because of the cold. I think every [...]
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The Washington DC area got about four inches of snow today, so it was a little harder to get out of bed this morning to face 25 miles of traffic to day care. I decided to wait for rush hour to pass, called my boss, and ultimately figured that today was a good day to call [...]
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It is mind-blowing how many people I know were shut out from the Inauguration and the parade. My friend Adam, who traveled from California, was stuck in the Purple Tunnel and was responsible for getting the AP reporter interested in the story. Even folks affiliated with the U.S. Navy Memorial and their friends were completely [...]
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In my photography class we are playing around with camera basics such as manual shutter speed and aperture settings. Last week the assignment was simple enough: take pictures of things in motion from slow to fast shutter speeds. It was surprisingly difficult to find any movement in our house on holiday morning.
I finally got Citrus [...]
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