Category: Random

omgwtfwaterskiing

So in the past week, I’ve gone waterskiing last Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (yesterday)! This is crazy! But it has costed me my hands:

Yesterday I could barely hold onto the rope. But the good news (sorta) is I now get a week off from waterskiing, and I can let my hands heal a bit. Also I have the opportunity to get a considerably newer ski for quite a reasonable price. There is a question I have yet to ask the owner of it though before I write a check for it.

Besides waterskiing, I’ve been trying to teach myself some guitar riffs and chords the past few days. I just need to keep on messing with it. I’ve picked up almost one riff a day, and been working on all of them to get the timing better and sounding cleaner.

It’s weird to find out people actually read this site. I often (ok maybe not so often), rant about things, or talk about things that happen in my life, but it feels kinda funny to find out who reads the site, especially the blog.

In other unrelated news (I guess I’m going for the the post most unrelated to itself today), I’ve listed my laptop for sale, and have had 2 people interested so far, but only one has made a somewhat serious offer (quite below my asking price). If I don’t get an offer of something reasonably close to what I’m asking, I may just keep it at least for the summer.

All that and my summer vacation/trip starts soon. Will be very nice to see everyone again! Well, that’s it for now.

Fire! Fire!

Last Thursday, after class, I finally received my new camera (Minolta DiMAGE G400). 4 Megapixel, 3x optical zoom, tiny sonofabitch. Was playing with it a little in my truck as I was on my way to the Math department’s picnic, played with it more before the after-picnic-party (and no I don’t have any shots from this).

Friday, my roommate invited me to go to a BBQ with a bunch of his friends in Corvallis. I went and had a great time. There seemed to be a shortage of BEEF burgers, but the ribs followed shortly after. Food was damn good, company was great. Passed the soccer ball around outside for a while. Then after the sun set, while most of us were watching BASEketball, Milo (edit: thx Trev0r) began twirling his firestick. This was quite amazing, and I do have some shots of this… (click to enlarge)
           
I had no idea how this exposure shot mode got turned on, but it kicks ass once you’re aware of it! I now know how to turn it on and off, but am still figuring out how to control it more. It’ll probably take me all summer before I’ve totally got the camera 100% figured out, but it only took me the one night to get the basics.

I’m looking into the possibility of starting a photoblog of some sort. I’m not sure if I want to host it, or if I want to use an established site service. It may take a few weeks for me to get something going, but you heard it here first I guess.

Yay, new toy!!