Regular Life

From the darker end of the bridge (1-second exposure, freehand).
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After my work was done on Thursday, I tried to make it to Clarkson Covered Bridge before sunset. Tucked in a valley, its surroundings go dark before the sun completes its dip below the horizon. Built in 1904 and restored [...]

You ever see a sign or a bumper sticker you wish you could show someone else? Well, with this thing called the Internet, and handy little devices called digital cameras, we can share with the entire world. Sure, the entire world might not be tuning in every day, and that’s fine. Nobody expects that kind [...]

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Update after comments: I was sitting in a car waiting for a co-worker to run inside our hotel and ask directions to a local restaurant. So, to answer your questions, yes, this is a reflection in a hotel window, and yes, I snapped it (with my trusty [...]

Just a few of the 100 new items to be added to the “2007 copyright version of the best-selling Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition”*:
Bollywood
crunk
DVR
flex-cuff
ginormous
gray literature
hardscape
IED
microgreen
perfect storm
RPG
smackdown
snowboardcross
speed dating
sudoku
telenovela
viewshed
Before looking up any of these, I wondered, “What the hell is ‘gray literature?’ Do Canadians call it ‘grey literature?’”

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Four-year-old Benjamin hangs on atop a mass of various cousins on Thanksgiving.
See if you can follow this. The one completely face-down with gray pants is Benjamin’s first cousin, only son of the Charles who comments here. He’s five weeks younger than Benjamin. The kid on the bottom, second son of my [...]

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At first, I didn’t like the idea of a “Dirty Santa” or “White Elephant” gift exchange for Christmas. The thought counts, I reasoned, and a lack of a specific target renders a gift heartless. The event is commercialized enough already without this new wrinkle.
I admit, with the recent reconciliation of my mom’s side with my [...]

A random audience member at a Beatles tribute band concert.
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Lately, I’ve been wondering whether I could endure a real tattoo. Unlike this guy, the only tattoo I got was accidental.
I was a new kid in a school district that stuffed its 850 seventh graders into [...]

Living near a big city, where events previously prohibitively distant are right next door, has allowed my inner geek to bloom. Depending on the circumstances, that could be a good or a bad thing. Out here on the Internet, however, I’m letting it flap in the breeze.
I want to share what I did Tuesday night, [...]

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