Day 124

now I'm getting in this bad habit of procrastinating the awesomosity. Oh well, at least you're getting some awesomeness, right?

Uh oh, the natives are starting to get restless. Allow me to explain further. I am currently judging at a trivia night. Trivia nights are awesome. I actually helped to plan and execute this one, but in general, trivia nights are a ton of fun.

Some of our categories tonight have included geography, sports, anatomy, and beauty product or adult film?. As you can tell, we've been having quite a good time.

Sorry for being a short post, but I gotta go judge.

TASK o' THE DAY: go to a trivia night. No trivia nights in your local area soon? Play some trivial pursuit. Invite me, I love TP!

Here is me judging some trivia. See ya tomorrow!

Day 123

I hope you all enjoyed yesterdays post as much as I enjoyed writing it. I may do that more in the future, we'll see.

This morning I had an awesome experience, Breakfast at Little Grandma's.


We had waffles, eggs and sausage. It was lovely and delicious. I also got to catch up a little with her, which I haven't done in a while. For those of you that actually know me, you know I am almost always extremely busy. But sometimes you've gotta set aside a little family time, right?

So I am guessing that a few of you noticed that my breakfast this morning was at Little Grandma's. That seems to suggest that I also have a Big Grandma. Which I do. Some people seem to almost get offended when they hear me call them that, and right to their face! Notice that I didn't say Obese Grandma or Fat Grandma or Skinny Grandma or Tiny Grandma. I said Big Grandma and Little Grandma. Let me explain a little further (because otherwise this would be a really short post).

Right around when I was born, my brother was about 5. He looked at my Grandmas and noticed that one was over 5'10" and the other was just barely 5'. He astutely call them Big Grandma and Little Grandma. The name has stuck. They even sign birthday cards as Big and Little Grandma. It's great, I wouldn't have it any other way. Besides, I know people that called their grandparents Mee-Maw and stuff. That is more offensive to me. I guess it all just sounds that way when you are almost 30 calling a lady Big Grandma. But when you're 3, it's all just cute. In fact, my nieces and nephew call my parents Gra (pronounced Gruh) and Pa (like a dogs foot). That makes my grandmas Big Great Gra and Little Great Gra. I thought I heard Ahren (oldest nephew, almost 4) call Big Grandma "Great Big Gra", which would be much closer to being offensive, but I laughed.

Anyway, Breakfast with Little Grandma was great this morning. In fact, it was awesome.

Task o' The Day: I'll give you two options. Have a meal with a family member you don't get to see regularly. OR. Tell me (in a comment) what you call (or called) your grandparents. This should be easy enough that some of you actually do it. We'll see.

Here is the picture. I forgot to take one with Little Grandma this morning, but I did take it as I was driving away.


Thanks everybody! See you tomorrow!

Day 122

7:35 pm

All right. Yall thought I forgot about ya. Of course not. I'm just gonna try something new today. I'm gonna "live blog". What I mean is that I will periodically throughout the night.

So tonight I'm going to the Blues game with my buddy Gabe. Awesome. We decided to take the Metrolink to the game. In fact, Metrolink is the awesomosity for the day. I love light rail systems, even ifours here in St. Louis blows.

First awesome thing to happen so far besides going to the game with Gabe is that I ran into my friend Rhyno, who I haven't seen in years. Quite awesome. He's got long hair now, who knew? Were here now, talk to you soon.

8:10pm

just got to our seats. Very very awesome. Behind the net we shoot twice. Upper deck. 5th row. 1st krap call against us I saw.

8:25

end of 1st period no score. Outshot 5-4. Some kida came dressed as the Arch and won the kids costume contest. Awesome.

8:42

lucky skate shuffle. Starts in 2. I think its 2. it was 1. We just had the best shift of the game, but no goal.

8:44

first fight. Starts slow. Cam Janssen won it though. Crowds excited. GO BLUES!!!!!!

8:58

nuts and bolts nuts and bolts, were getting screwed on penalties. But were killing them off.

9:06

end of 2nd period. Were getting outshot 16-9, but were still scoreless. Way to go Mason (Blues goalie)!!! The adult costume contest was won by an older lady dressed as a piece of furniture. A nightstand. Just one. She had money on it. Get it? She was a one night stand!

9:35

this is some great non-stop end to end action. Blues are putting it to them, but still no score. Aadams family look-alikes. Nothing great. 25-15 shots.

9:39

"ref you suck" chant came out. And they do. 1-0 Canes on a power play. Boo refs.

9:47

blues are still getting screwed on penalties. They just put up a sign on the jumbotron that said "free beer". Anything to get the crowd going I suppose. Big last 6 minutes. GO BLUES!!!!!!

10pm

blues lose 1-0. refs sucked, but in the end the blues didn't get it done. Oh well, great night anyway.

so, I'm 2-1 this season at games (1 preseaseon). 2-0 with dark blues jersey on, 0-1 with dark practice jersey.

thanks for reading my blow by blow account of an awesome night. Here comes the metrolink, see ya tomorrow.

Oh yeah, the TASK o' THE DAY: go to a blues (or other local hockey team) game.

Day 121

Good afternoon everyone! I'm working on a nickname for my fellow readers, I'll post about that soon enough.

This morning, as I am driving into work to help my dad did a drainage ditch (see the picture), I was listening to Bob and Tom, a morning radio show on KSHE. I find them rather funny, even if they are a little off color sometimes. I heard one of the funniest bits in a while today.

They took some of the material from the presidential debates and "creatively" spliced it together. While the language and everything is kosher, the content is suggestive of possibly some inappropriate stuff. Anyway, it was hilarious. I debated posting it here as the awesomosity, but figured I'd rather not upset anyone. So, here is what I did do to find today's awesomosity.

I searched for that clip, and when I found it, I looked at the guy who posted it's page and I found this gem (also from Bob and Tom). Her name is Ingrid Michaelson. The song you are about to hear is mostly a song of hers called "The Way I Am", which was featured on an Old Navy commercial. And see, what she did here was, to add a few verses to the beginning of the song. I think you will ALL know the words, it's quite entertaining. Check it:



Now, wasn't that hilarious? In case you really want to see the other thing, here is the link.

Task o' The Day: Tell me your favorite cover or remix or special version of a song. I seriously want to know, I love covers.

Here is that picture, taken while taking a break from digging a ditch.


Thanks for checking me out today, I'll see ya in the morning.

Day 120

So, remember last night when I said that Katie and Adrianne were awesome for sending me some ideas? And then how I said I might use them today or next week or next May? Well, it looks like its gonna happen today.

This is a Dilbert cartoon that Katie sent me the other day, describing how awesome Dilbert's invention of a "Carbicle" is. I totally agree.

In fact, not only is Dilbert the awesomosity today, but the Dilbert website is included in that. There's a ton of stuff to do. Think you can write a better punch line? Try. Wanna see some animated strips? Ok. Wanna just read a bunch of Dilberts? Do it. Some serious time wasting is ahead.

I've got a new poll out today, make sure you vote.

Task o' The Day: Write your own line to a Dilbert cartoon and post a link as a comment. Here's mine:

Ok, so here is where the strip should be, but I have tried and tried and I couldn't blow the house down. Or get the strip to work. Trust me, it's funny though. I'll post it later if I can get it to work.

Here's my picture today. GO BLUES!

Day 119

I kind of apologize for taking so long to get out the awesomosity today. Here's why only kind of. First off, only 7 of you read this on weekends (or 2 people 3.5 times), while 12 have checked it so far today. Therefore, most of you that checked it today were simply catching up and reading about my weekend. Well then, tomorrow, you could get a double-dose. Awesome.

Oh, and thank you so much to Katie and Adrianne for sending me some suggestions for awesomeness. I wholly approve of both of them and will use them, but I'm gonna throw them in the awesome hopper for now. Maybe they'll be here tomorrow, maybe next week, who knows.

So, what was I doing today that prohibited my release of the awesomosity until almost 9pm? I was a grip for a photographer. For those that don't know, I'll use what a great director told me as a job description for a grip. They grip cases and move them over there. This is the type of work I have done before, just never for a photographer before, always for video.

So, what is awesome today is lighting for photography. Probably the biggest difference I saw was that (at least the photgrapher I was working with, David W. Preston) when you light, the lights aren't necessarily on. Because they are flashes. So, theyh do turn on, just not when you're moving them around and stuff. Anyway, the basic goals remain the same in lighting for stills or video, but the method and equipment are totally different.

So, here is a site you can learn about how to light for video (and on a low budget too!).

Here is one about photography.

Make sure you check out Dave's site, he has a pretty impressive client list and portfolio. Like he shoots for the Rams. And we were talking about when I went to watch the Rams win and Dave was on the sideline taking picture. Awesome. Anyway, check, it, totally worth your while.

Task o' The Day: Take a picture. But not just any picture. Really compose the shot. Check your lights. Pay attention to details. What's int he foreground, background, corners of the picture. Post it up here (or at least a link to it, I wanna see it).

Here is the ol' picture of the day. It is horribly composed. It looks like I have a satellite growing out of my ear. That is one of the lights I was helping with today. Anyway, sees yas tomorrow!

Day 118

What is awesome today? Well, you all voted that it could be people, so today it's Brent and Melissa Mackey. Why? Let me start from the beginning.

As I have said over the last several posts, I was just outside Nashville all weekend. Before I left Friday morning, I got a call from my friend Brent Mackey (Brent Mackey {those of you that have heard his voicemail got that}). Brent and I do a little catching up, then he asks what I'm doing for the weekend. I tell him then ask why. He tells me that he was hoping to borrow me and my truck (and to hang out, which we'll hopefully do soon). Of course, I can't, but when he asks to just borrow the truck, I have no reason to say no.

So I tell him where it'll be parked and then have to give some warnings, cautions and directions. First off, I've been having trouble starting it lately, I think I need a new battery, but it may be the starter. Either way, I've been having to try to first jiggle the negative battery cable, then if that doesn't work, I have to pop the clutch. Brent is ok with that, apparently he loves popping clutches.

So I'm in Tennessee, and Brent and I talk several times to make sure everything goes ok, which it does. Brent does say he will probably leave some kind of a gift, I tell him that I hope its poop in a bag (true story, we had some good laughs).

So, I just got back in town to find not only some gas money, but also a note that says Brent and Melissa hope I enjoy my new battery!! Not only that, but they also replaced the bolts that hold on the cables, so they are not loose anymore! Super-Awesome!

So today Brent and Melissa are awesome, and for so many other reasons than them buying me a new truck battery. If you know them, you know what I'm talking about.

I took the picture of me while adding some oil to my now running great truck.

Thanks Brent and Missy!!

Talk to yall tomorrow!