asses ... let me smack them.

This Fark thread might be my all time favorite ever. (For an explanation of sorts, go to this site)

birds (series)

birds (series), originally uploaded by pr9000.

fat and happy

, originally uploaded by beths96.

, originally uploaded by pr9000.

He moves in mysterious ways.

If ever I have doubted the presence of God in my life, He'll come along and remind me that, no matter what's going on around me, He's still in my corner.

Thanks, Big Guy.

evan

DSC_0079, originally uploaded by pr9000.

, originally uploaded by beths96.

conan at lucasfilm

it's really funny about six minutes in ...

'like pushing a cornish game hen through these gray drapes.'

'a mental institution, michael. something you might want to think about.'

Dude sounds like Ronald Reagan. Seriously.

i wonder if they're related

Timothy E. Key, 21, of 4625 Jefferson St., Bellaire, reportedly used his cellular phone to contact Megan Brak, 20, of 2138 Marshall Street, Benwood, via text message ...

Hmmm. Megan Brak.



Love is blind. Deaf, dumb and blind.

at sesame street live

, originally uploaded by beths96.

skyline

skyline, originally uploaded by pr9000.

So I'm in the Windy City today ... and it's windy. In fact, it's foggy -- it's as if there's a frontal system right over Michigan Avenue. And as I sit it out, in the world's loudest Starbucks (T-Mobile has made me Starbuck's bitch) it's interesting to look out on what used to be "reality" for me.

I visited a company I used to work for, long ago -- then as the IT director, now as someone hoping to win their business. It was nice to take a small trip down memory lane. The company just moved floors, but stayed in the same nice building. It was always incredibly cool to know that our front door had a bird's eye view of the Wrigley Building clock. That was just ... too awesome for words.

I have other appointments in town today, but that one was by far the most exciting. I was very nervous in the cab, transported back 10 years or so, remembering who I was then, and what I've (hopefully) grown to become now. ("Grown" as in "matured," not necessarily as in "gotten wider at the middle")

So enjoy this shot of Chicago, stitched together from a bunch of pictures taken during the final weekend of my time here ... I'd already moved by that point, but came back because my old roommate/best man/best friend was packing up his family for Ohio. Another good friend had left a few months earlier, and for me, it was kind of the "end of an era" (to overuse an already overused cliche).

And that shot was really, really tough to put together, by the way. If only I'd had Photoshop CS 3, or known an incredibly suave salesguy who could have sold it to me. :)

in flight

in flight, originally uploaded by pr9000.

so it's spring in minnesota, which means a few things:

-- pollen
-- rain
-- grass growing an inch a day
-- pollen
-- bees.

i took these in the buckeye tree (!) in our backyard ... our house's original owner wantd something different, so he planted a buckeye tree. i think that's just incredible ... when i saw those buckeyes on the ground that first fall, i knew we had the right place to live.

someone's happy!

, originally uploaded by beths96.

my thoughts on the matter of gas prices ...

i could have lettered at this