| Reinstalling Windows |
[15 Jul 2009|03:32pm] |
Yesterday, my sisters computer basically bit the dust (hence Jack Skellington). Or her Windows did anyway.
So I had to reinstall Windows on it (seen in the background).
Reinstalling it wasn't as easy as it sounds.
I was getting blue screens of death even at the install screen when booting from a CD. Arg!
(now that I think about it, I should of had Jack Skellington in front of a blue screen of death. More fitting. hehe)
I ffnally figured out that I needed to throw a different hard drive in it (it didn't like installing onto that drive).
After doing all that, I FINALLY got to reinstalling.
So now I'm sitting here today, still messing with it.
It's up and running great now, but I'm having to deal with installing all the updates now.
Watching the never-ending updates makes me zone out
(as I recreated in this photo by zooming the lens during exposure).
Darn Windows! hehe
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| Singing the News |
[12 Jul 2009|05:19pm] |
Wow. The news, turned into a song. Catchy! hehe.
All news should be set to music and sung! =D
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| Grilling at the Pool |
[12 Jul 2009|02:23pm] |
As I posted in my last entry, I hung out yesterday with
some friends, grilling and hanging at the pool.
I had forgotten my memory card for my main camera,
so I had to use my 1.3 megapixel cell phone camera for photos.
Here they are!
   
 
( Seeeeeeee )
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| Waterfall flowing into Pool |
[11 Jul 2009|09:16pm] |
I spent most of today hanging out at a friends,
having a "cooking on the grill/swimming in the pool" get together.
When I got there, I realized I had forgotten to put my memory card
back into my camera. Opps! So no photos from the big camera today.
Only had my 1.3 megapixel cell phone camera to take shots with.
Using it, I snapped this shot of their little waterfall that streams into the pool.
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| Making sushi! |
[07 Jul 2009|12:46pm] |
I LOVE sushi.
So, I tried to make some rolls (makizushi).
They were actually pretty good!
 
( Seeeeeeee )
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| 4th of July fireworks in St. Augustine, FL |
[05 Jul 2009|10:08pm] |
Last night my dad and I headed to watch the fireworks show here in St. Augustine, FL.
He knew of some back roads that went to the river.
Not many people know of the the roads/area..
so there were only about 5 other people there with us.
So we basically had it all to ourselves. Which was GREAT!
Much better then going downtown and having to fight traffic to get home
(one year it took 2 hours to get back to the house, when the house was only a mile away!).
So yeah, nice spot. It was a great view of the fireworks right on the water.
  
( Seeeeeee! )
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| Happy July 4th! |
[04 Jul 2009|05:23pm] |
It's July 4th! Here in the US that means fireworks. And cooking on the grill!
Unless of course it's REALLY hot outside.
In which case you can stay cool by just getting some pizza delivered,
and eating it while sitting in your nice air conditioned room on your bed (like I did)..
while the grill outside the window sits in the hot sun. =)
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| Hate group.. |
[01 Jul 2009|02:50pm] |
You've probably seen these people on the news and such.
Saying and carrying signs like:
"God Hates Fags",
"Thank God for 9/11",
"Thank God for Dead Soldiers" (doing it at their funerals even!), etc.
They're "Westboro Baptist Church".
Their beliefs are extreme (and I'd say, CRAZY!).
And they push them on whoever they can. And if you don't listen,
they push it on you about how you're going to hell for it.
Basically, to them, the whole world is going to hell.
Except for them and their church of 15 people.
And they've made a new song/video. Oh joy!
They took the music to Michael Jackson's "We are the World",
which is a song about love and peace,
and turned it into a song full of hate.
Wow.
The kid at the end is scary.
They had the little kid sing the lyrics to the song alone.
Then afterward, the kid gives this evil smile. Ack!
Wow, people like this make the world a bad place.
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| A Photo a Day |
[01 Jul 2009|12:30pm] |
http://mfphoto-a-day.blogspot.com
I've been thinking about doing this for awhile.
I want to start doing 'photo a day' type posts.
Lots of people do things like this,
from "a photo a day" on blogs
to "a video a day" on youtube, etc.
Basically, I'd just post a photo every day that I've taken that day.
"But Matt, you already take lots of photos and post them here!"
Yes, I already take and post LOTS of photos. But for those, I usually throw lots of photos together into one big entry of photos. And it's usually only when something exciting goes on (birthdays, trips, etc), or when I'm bored.
This would be different.
It would be simple. Just ONE photo a day.
No matter how boring the day is.
Or if the photos I take that day suck or not, etc.
I'd post a photo a day.
Photography wise, pushing yourself to take photos every day helps you grow.
Archive wise, it's always nice to look back and see what I did on so and so day, so having a photo for EVERY day to look back on would be fun.
And people/friends/etc might have fun with it too, seeing a moment of my day, everyday.
I've wanted to do this for awhile, but I've been iffy about starting because my days are pretty boring. I didn't want to start this project, and end up just posting boring photos every day. So I've been waiting. Thinking maybe I'd start it when my life wasn't as boring? But what if this project goes on for a year? or 2 years? I can't expect every day to be exciting. So I might as well just jump in now and start with it.
And really, my boring days are good for this project. It'll force me to take the camera out more often. Force me to take photos more, whether it's with my SLR or camera phone. And even if the day is boring, that will make me have to think more about what I want to take a photo of. Turn something boring into something photographic for the day. Which will help my photography grow.
I will be posting my "photo-a-day" entries at:
http://mfphoto-a-day.blogspot.com
Feel free to bookmark and keep up with my updates! Or enter your email address on the right side of there to get updates straight to your inbox!
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| New favorite sushi place! |
[26 Jun 2009|11:30pm] |
Austin surprised me with sushi today.
Which we set up and ate on the floor. Yum! =D
It was reallyyyy gooooodddd!!!
For years, "Sake House" in 5 points has been my favorite sushi place. I love their Jimmy Smith rolls.
But now, I think I have a new "just as good" place. Sushi House.
There's one on Baymeadows Road.
One on Old St. Augustine Road.
And a new one just opened on Edgewood Ave just a few doors down from Factory club night.
We picked up some sushi from them today.
They don't have Jimmy Smith rolls. But looking at their menu, they had something that sounded like it, but with a few extras thrown in. So we got that. It was called a "Baymeadows". We also got a "Dynamite", and a "Rock N Roll", and some crab sticks. AND, they had crab rangoons! (which usually I only see at Chinese places). So we grabbed some of those too.
The crab rangoons were great! Better then any of the ones from Chinese places I've had. And the Baymeadows roll is just as good as my favorite Jimmy Smith, if not better. And the other sushi rolls were great too!
And price wise, the rolls were around $5-6.. which is nice. Usually at other places the sushi is a bit more. At Sake House, for all we got, it'd usually be at least $30. But for all we got at Sushi House, PLUS the crab rangoons, it was just over $20.
But do you get as much as you do at Sake House though?
Heck yes!
You get the usual "8 pieces" in a roll at both places, but at Sake House, the sushi pieces are usually maybe a bit larger then a quarter. These pieces though were alot bigger! Like the size of a finger! hehe. Compared to the quarter sized rolls we usually get, they were harder to hold onto with chop sticks. Just look at those huge pieces on the right side of my plate! They bigger then the fortune cookie (yeah, they give fortune cookies too! It's like a sushi place mixed with a Chinese place. hehe).
So yeah.. if you like Sushi and haven't tried Sushi House yet.. try! I like it alot! =D
I've also heard that Sumo Sushi on Park St. (near King St. heading toward 5 points) is really good too.. but I've never been. Yet!
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| Fire, flooded apartments, power outage, oh my! |
[19 Jun 2009|09:11pm] |
The fire alarm here went off a good while in the whole building.
BEEP BEEP BEEP over and over. Annoying! hah.
We went outside to see what was up.
Turns out, an apartment in this building,
some kids were home alone cooking something on stove.
It caught fire. Sprinklers went off. And so did fire alarm. In the whole building.
Fire trucks came and finally shut the fire alarm off. So we went back inside.
Then the power went out! We went back outside because it was getting hot with no AC.
Found out they turned the power off to the whole building
so the sprinklers going off didn't cause anyone getting electrocuted.
It wasn't just that one apartment. The apartment next to it, their sprinklers went off also.
And both those apartments were on the 2nd floor, so they flooded,
and caused the apartments below them to get water damage also!
The people have to be moved to a vacant apartment,
since the ones they are in are basically trashed.
Crazy!
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| Congrats! |
[17 Jun 2009|02:44pm] |
Congrats to Tonya and Alex on their new son!
We have a DJ Mini Pagan among us now! =D
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| "you bringing back your urine?!" |
[12 Jun 2009|06:08pm] |
Had to pee in a cup today.
I hadn't been to a doctor since I was little.
So they're doing all the usual tests to get my medical stats up to date.
It's the first time I've ever had to pee in a cup.
I didn't know that I'd be needing to do that though.
I had went before I left home. Opps!
So when I got there, as much as I tried, I was empty.
They let me take the cup with me and bring it back before 5pm.
We ran some errands while we were out.
While in Target, I had to go. So I filled up the cup
(in the bathroom, not in the middle of an isle or anything!).
Then took it back up there.
Carrying around a cup of my pee was weird.
So I was hoping to just sneak in, give them it, and sneak out.
But my luck..
The waiting room had a few people in it.
And the nurse person walks out, yelling out loud:
"Oh, you bringing back your urine?!"
.. while everyone looks in my direction. gah! hah.
Also had to give blood.
3 big tubes of it.
Made me light headed afterward.
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| Austin and my 2 year anniversary hotel weekend! |
[09 Jun 2009|04:21pm] |
Photos from over the weekend.
Austin and my 2 year anniversary at a hotel on the beach.
Also, be sure to check out after the photos.
For video we took during the weekend! =D
 
 
( Seeeeeeee )
We took lots of videos too.
I compiled them all into one long video. Fun! =D
Seeeeee!
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| Yay! |
[05 Jun 2009|11:34am] |
Leaving for beach hotel in a couple hours.
Will be back Sunday with lots of photos, and probably some crazy videos too! =D
Happy 2 years Austin!
I love youuuuu!
(yes, that heart is a collage of photos. ( See closer! )
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| Austin and my 2 year. Yay!! |
[02 Jun 2009|08:16pm] |
This weekend = Austin and I have been together 2 years! YAY!
We'll be staying at the "Castillo Real" hotel right on the beach in St. Augustine Beach!
Which is the same place we stayed at for my birthday last year.
It's becoming one of our new favorite hotels in the area. =D
 
( Read more and see photos! )
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