6-27-2010

Recently I was gifted a bunch of fancy slide film that I've been really excited to try shooting and cross processing. This film is like a rare delicacy compaired to the cheap expired stuff I bought in bulk a while ago, so I was really excited to load some Elite Chrome 160T and take pictures of weird colorful stuff like this. I then went out of town to hangout with friends. I don't really know what to say about this.

I feel like I'm always on the highway between various cities.

6-26-2010

We went to the park, found wild berries, pretty but broken cameras at antique stores (twice), and got cup cakes from a Food Network featured place.

6-25-2010

This may look like a very important and serious business meeting, but really it's a kick ball game strategy session. My company was invited to the Indians' stadium to play kick ball on their field for a charity event. We got to do stupid stuff in the actual dugout the player sit in. We also went exploring in the stadium and found where where the players pee during games. Our team even progressed far enough to play the kid that started the charity organization's team. We didn't actually win the tournament, but this is my blog so I can pretend we did.

The after party felt very much like a fraternity, followed by even more drinks at another bar and a very dynamic walk back to the car.

6-24-2010

I took some co-workers to a lunch truck to meet up with my friend Chuck for...um...lunch. One of my friends painted the side of the truck a while ago, so I had heard about it before but hadn't tracked it down to try it until today. They have some interesting things on the menu like tofu tacos and vegetarian push-up pop sushi (above).

6-23-2010

Tonight we went to The Happy Dog. I'm calling it now, this is the next big deal, Food Network, everyone has to go there place in the area. The setup is mostly hot dogs, but they give you a huge list of fancy gourmet toppings (all made in house) and you can pick as many as you want. They often have live music on the stage, but we were totally supprised that the "band" playing tonight was the Cleveland Orchestra. The place was so crowded that we got a Ms. Pac Man machine as a table.

6-22-2010

The Backup Plan.

6-21-2010

Matthew was in town to sell cassette tapes at his friend's show at the Grog Shop tonight. I know it makes me a grumpy old man to complain about it, but the Grog Shop used to be the name of an establishment that helped to mold my formative adolescent years. It was the size of a small living room, had plywood floors, and the second hand smoke was like a perminant fog machine. They also had the best shows my parents didn't like me going to. For various reasons, they closed that location and moved up the street to a new, clean, fancy and boring space next door to a Chipotle. The new Grog Shop is a lot like a Chipotle that used to be a grimey street-food taco truck actually. Clearly we know which one was better.

My nightstand is looking pretty comically from another time period these days.

6-20-2010

For Father's Day, Eric brought home his present. Lily carefully considered her new home. We ate authentic Philadelphia Hoagies for lunch (which seemed like a fancy name for a sub sandwich to me). Then I spent the rest of Father's Day on the highway with my father.

Rita's water ice is supposed to be another big deal Philadelphia thing too.

Lily says to quit playin'

6-19-2010

As I've mentioned before, I'm terribly addicted to buying cameras off of Craigslist. After seeing an ad for a really good deal on a medium format camera I've been wanting, I convinced my mother it would be a good idea to pick up the camera to take pictures of the baby before going to the hospital for the day. There were also promises made of cheesesteaks. If you know my mother at all, this was probably the easiest part of the mission. I then stole Eric's car and set out on a morning long quest adventuring all over random places in Philadelphia. After a drive to far far away, the camera transaction went without a hitch, but of course fancy cameras need fancy film, and as stated there were promises of cheesesteaks. So we were back in the car headed to the other side of the world. After three closed restaurants, my mom got to eat at the Tattooed Mom on South Street. Then it was off to get fancy film at the bougie camera store so we could get back to the hospital to take more pictures of the baby.

Medium format pictures:
Mom
Dad
Dave
"At first I was like...but then I was like."

6-18-2010

I went to Philadelphia to see my sister and Eric's new baby Lily while she was still in the hospital. It was nice seeing the (now) three of them so quickly after the baby came out. I even held the baby.

Furry ear.

6-17-2010

This reminds me of how they make maple syrup, but I'm not a tree.

6-16-2010

Baby message followed by baby presents.

6-15-2010

My birthday was a little over five months ago. This moth arived today and represents the last of my presents, and thus the end of my birthday celebration. This has been the longest birthday ever.

6-14-2010

Nicole took advantage of our Monday night naptime policy.