Took some pictures of Oriana before she went off to her 8th grade dance, then jetted down to UT for Van’s (and Yeeland’s, turns out!) graduation. Unfortunately, didn’t get to take pictures of Van with this family cause they didn’t get there in time (before the ceremony), but I got some so-so shots Van and Yeeland walking across stage from afar (this is when a telephoto lens would come in handy… I should have borrowed Van’s 70-200).

Congrats to all those who are graduating! =)

Spent too too much. =) I will concede that this purchase in near wholly unnecessary, but oh is this Canon 5D nice… although I think my camera skills in no way warrant this type of gear (maybe eventually? =).

So I’m done spending for a long time to come (except for maybe a tripod and Aperture/Lightroom)… time to take shot in FF! I think I’ll only get a tripod if Jon wants his back… I mean, wait… I don’t have his tripod… Kathy has it… yeaah….. that’s it. =)

I think my brains have been fried. As I was walking to my car, the song Don’t Dream It’s Over pop into my head (particularly the “hey now, hey now” part)… which is kinda strange because I’m not particularly fond of the song… and then as I turned on my car, that exact part was playing on the radio. As I stared at my dash a bit shocked, I reached the only logical conclusion possible: there are aliens, one was my teacher, he fried my brains, and now I can pick up radio in my head. Yup. That is all.

You can find pics on my flickr.

We launched the Vox Veniae blog today which should be documenting the steps of our new church plant. Looking forward to it. =) Bookmark it and keep up with it. =)

In other news, congratulations to ViraJ and his Toshiba offer… he’ll be leaving us for Houston, but at least it’s not Iowa or something like that. =)

Tomorrow, it’s dunk time! Congrats to Megan, Nancy, and Van! =)

No more Toronto. =(

Well, at least that gives me more time to figure out how to move out of this place… haha…

Wow, take a look at this and tell me 1985 wasn’t awesome.

Well, I don’t really know what to talk about, but I think this is pretty awesome.

I’ll be accepting a final placement offer from a group at Freescale soon (hopefully =), and then they’ll be sending me to a training event in Toronto next month. I’m looking forward to it. Anyone been before, got any tips for “must see” things? I’m not sure how much free time I’ll have though, so we’ll see.

Oh yeah, so my old Moto cell phone’s vibrate died on me, so I switched back to my T610 (better phone anyways =). However, the address book transfer seems to only have worked partially, as I’m missing some entries I used to have. I don’t feel like looking to see who I’m missing, so if you run into me, make sure I have your number. =)

So yesterday, was Julie and Nancy’s “party” thing at our place, which you can view pics from here. Today, I woke up “early” considering I went to sleep at 7AM, haha… and had a pretty relaxing day.

Went to the Arboretum to meet up with Olivia and shot some pictures. Then had dinner with Chancy and Nancy’s uncle at Fresh Choice.

We’ll be moving out of the apartment by the end of the next month, so that’ll be interesting. I don’t think anyone has any set plans on where they’re moving to, so that’ll be even more interesting, haha. I will probably be moving to Olivia’s apartment for at least a while until I figure out a more permanent place to reside (thanks Stephanie & Olivia!). I’m actually kinda looking forward to that. =)

The more I shoot with this 85 f/1.2L, the more I feel like I’m cheating myself by restricting it to the 1.6x crop factor body… 5D?………

I’ve recently switched over to shooting in RAW vs JPEG which I think even Mark would endorse despite his general disapproval of my photography habits. =) Coupled with this switch, I’ve started to test out Adobe Lightroom which is pretty spiffy despite a few issues (mostly because it’s still beta). There’re some performance and quality issues here and there, but it’s pretty nice to use for me most of the time. There’s a problem with exporting the color profile correctly on Intel Macs, but Aaron posted a nice workaround, so that’s all good. I think beta2 expires in June or July, so we can probably expect beta3 within the next month or two. Looking forward to it.

As for Sam’s bday, we went to Siena on 360, which was more expensive than I think most of us liked… but that’s ok, Sam, we’ll just bring you to McDonald’s next year. =) I didn’t have my flash that night, so not many of my pics turned out all that great, but you can see some of Van’s. I think Aaron took some too, but they’re not online as of yet.