4-9-2010

This is what a place run by computers looks like in a blackout. Play Joy Division through cell phone speakers for the full experience.

When the power does work, we mostly just make eggs. Lots and lots of eggs. Then we shoot movies starring the eggs.

4-8-2010

After work fishing is the best.

4-7-2010

Nicole is a Starbucks person (addict), as well as an iPhone user (cult member). As such, she has the app which allows for the instantaneous reloading of her "special for people who are there a lot" giftcard. For months now, the app can also produce a barcode which can be quickly scanned to expedite transactions. This barcode, however, only worked in select stores in places that are not here...until now. Target stores are now integrated into the system, so tonight we went to one to try it out. We were the first people to try it at this location, and even with the instructions the employees were provided, it took both Starbucks and Target people to figure out how to make it work. Technology rules.

We also got Nicole a diy bouncy ball set. As a huge fan of things she can slap around the house, which we could potentially step on and break our necks with, Sienna wanted to make one too.

Spring is coming and filling my yard with flower petals.

4-6-2010

Outside, please.

I fixed these. The blades were stuck in the open positon because they were covered in sticky oil. After a few days of fumbling, I managed to take the lens apart, clean the oil off, and with Nicoles help, put it all back together in working order. We'll see how it works when I get the film developed.

4-5-2010

Classy monday night dinner with George.

4-4-2010

We got all fancy for Easter.

4-3-2010

Apparently, the Easter Bunny doesn't observe Lent by refraining from meat.

We end up in the strangest places. We stay thuggin'.

4-2-2010

I woke up before the sun to go fly fishing for Steelhead trout today. Capitalizing on another annual migratory behaviour, steelhead instinctive come into the rivers and streams from the lake to lay their eggs this time every year (a lot like salmon). They're huge fish (about a foot and a half on average), and it's really cool seeing them in such shallow water. Those fish weren't nearly big enough for me though, so I caught this massive beast. Note the size of the flies in both pictures for scale.

The sun went to bed before I did too.

4-1-2010

Drinking outside on warm evenings is one of my top favorite things to do ever at all. Granted, as soon as the temperature hits 50°, people in Cleveland start wearing shorts and tank tops like it's summer time. But the first really nice night for drinking on a patio is kind of a big deal.

I take a lot of pictures of birds.

3-31-2010

Every year, Spotted Salamanders come out of hibernation and instinctively return to spawn in the same vernal pools they were born in. Since our house is down the street from these pools, we've been going to see them this time every year since moving in. During this season, other kinds of salamanders (that move too quickly to have their pictures taken) and lots of different frogs also come out of hibernation.

Also, our yard's reputation for having the best skunk bait in the neighborhood is quickly spreading among raccoons. Little do they know that Nicole and I are really fameous doctors on TV. (That picture really gets jpeg-ed by Picasa, look at this too.)

3-30-2010

Colorful Easter cupcakes could knowingly contain rat poison and I still couldn't say no to them.

3-29-2010

Space Jam > traffic jam.

3-28-2010

When's the last time you saw one of these?

3-27-2010

Crazy places in the middle of nowhere.