By most accounts, today was a good day. Work was long but productive. I tied up some loose ends in regards to a new downtown apartment, where Frankie and I will begin moving in this week. On the way home, I had time to shoot some photos of the sun as it set and cast [...]
Entries from January 2010
January 25, 2010
F-stops and apertures
The 35mm f1.8 lens that I bought online last week came in the mail today, and I’m ready to bokeh all over the place.
January 22, 2010
Broken Bones
So yesterday evening, immediately after work and right before a full night of running and our weekly weigh-in for the YMCA weight loss challenge, I broke my elbow. I shifted my weight wrong while skating a mini-ramp at a local skate shop and fell headlong onto my outstretched hand. My elbow popped, and several (dozen) [...]
January 21, 2010
Replenishing the middle: Combatting ‘brain drain’ in the Heartland
A post today on The Daily Yonder, an excellent rural news blog that seems to be unrivaled in its scope, gives some meta-level analysis on one of rural America’s biggest concerns: the ‘brain drain’, or the emigration of young, educated citizens away from their hometowns and into bigger cities with more perceived opportunities. “Stay Put [...]
January 17, 2010
Born to Run
I started reading this book a few days ago, after months of telling myself “You should really read that book.” I guess it just took seeing it in a local bookstore when I had some dispensable cash in my pocket. While I’m quite the fan of armchair adventure reading, this books seems to inspire me [...]
January 8, 2010
Growing food through the winter
This was cross-posted at Grow Food, Grow Hope on Friday, January 8, 2010. Few places around the country have the luxury of year-round warm weather, suitable for growing food into the winter months. The rest of us must grin and bear it, and we’re left to rely on food trucked in from warmer climes at [...]
January 6, 2010
As Twitteresque as they come
Today’s post will be comprised of short, twitteresque bursts of recent updates that, individually, probably wouldn’t warrant a post of their own but collectively, still probably don’t. Anyhow, here goes: A few days ago I finished reading “Where Men Win Glory,” which I wrote about here. The ending was at once heart-wrenching and maddening. Last [...]
January 2, 2010
Welcome to Twenty-Ten.
It’s officially the New Year, and one of my few resolutions for the next 365 days (edit: my only resolution) is to dump the clumsy ‘two thousand and’ from the beginning and finally adopt the ‘twenty,’ as in, ’20-10′, or “2010: The Year We Make Contact.” Excuse that esoteric reference, but it’s a long time [...]
