Vox Veniae Retreat 2007

Just got back from Vox’s first retreat and it was pretty good besides the horrible time estimates. =) Though, that wasn’t entirely the planner’s fault because the speakers went over their time limits, but I don’t think anyone minded, so it was all good. =)

I’m just going to post some pics here and more are on my flickr.

OMAN

Funny Joanne

Judy

Ew

Race

Ready...

Sing Sing

Dancing

Pound

Jason vs OMan

Arrggh!!

Noah GRRRR

Pointing Noah

Gid

Kiddoes

SHADOW!

Oh that SoCo

Fun Shot

Photoshop

Reedit Oink 2

In anticipation for tomorrow’s beta release of CS3, I played around with a few pics in Photoshop again on my PC. I’ve been too lazy to transfer pics from my mac to my PC to edit pics in Photoshop with… and also been too impatient to put up with Photoshop running via Rosetta. Anyways, Oink, being the good looking dog he is, was a good subject, so I played with two of his pics.

Man, I miss Photoshop.

Arooga

So I uploaded some pics from the Elements potluck/white elephant thing. Yeah, I seem to be getting sick more frequently this year than usual… dunno what’s up with that. Although, it’s not so bad what I’ve got… just a cough/throat thing mainly… maybe I caught something from Stephanie >=|… haha, j/k. =)

Group shot:

Yay!

More here.

Pictars

Went with Kathy the other day to take pics of a family she knew. Figured I could use the practice. They had like… eight kids and six adults and the kids were running around like mad. I kinda gave up on the posing thing cause it was too tiring, Kathy did a pretty good job though handling all the youngins. I took some decent candid shots though…

I’m really wanting Photoshop to come out for Intel Macs soon… ugh…

More wrestling

More under the bench

Pout

Mom & Son

More on flickr.

Some shirts I ordered from Threadless came in… Yays! Thanks for the link, Andrew. =)

Saturday

Yesterday, I was playing with my camera in my room trying to take pictures of myself (which is a little harder than it seems, sometimes, haha) and this was the only one I think turned out ok. I’m getting a little shaggy… haha.

Meeeeee

I heard music coming from across the hall and poked my head in. Wes has gifted me with a “tune” now that he is supposed to play whenever I enter the room. Sweet!

Wes

Chad and Nancy were also there listening to Wes…

Chancy

And then later, we had a little chat session in Van and I’s room. Here is Sam in all his glory (well, ok… not all):

Saaaam

And the night wouldn’t be complete without some hot Indian action:

Virajy

This picture looks like I was beheaded…

Beheaded! =(

Andrew Approved!

I think I’m on a roll here. Andrew’ll be so proud of me. I think pictures will do:

Pink DS!!

Pink DS!

Haha, when I bought it, I got Tetris DS too and the guy said “you sure you don’t want Super Princess Peach?” Then, I went to check out and the guy there said “this isn’t for you, I hope.”

“Yes, yes it is.” =)

Before picking up the pinkness, Mark and I went to Mangia’s and ate a whole medium deep dish by ourselves. I’m quite stuffed…

“Feel the burn and the fury of my pen
feel the fire, as I fan the flames again
brace yourself for the mediocre
Hail the king of the almost good enough
nothing bold, nothing’s flying off the cuff
things might change, but don’t hold your breath yet” - Roper

Pictars

I went through my photos in Aperture again (well, mostly just the shoots that had over/nearly 200 photos) to filter out the bad pictures to free up some disk space. I think I deleted a gig or two worth of pictures I would never use. Man, RAWs (especially from the 5D) can be pretty massive, haha.

Posted two pictures from the Florida trip that I didn’t process/upload the first round through:

iPod

Macho

I had this strange dream that made me wake up 15 or so minutes later than I intended on. Apparently, I was supposed to walk down this model runway thing and show off… something… it wasn’t clothes, but something I was holding, I don’t remember what but it seemed like piece of paper. Anyways, I was dreaming I had to use the shower, but I was in this strange house that had a bajillion doors and lots of people all over the place and I was trying to find a place I could shower in private. I found this one shower in the kitchen, but seeing as it was the kitchen, it was pretty exposed. There was one in the laundry room, but full of tons of random stuff, so I went outside to this one cabin looking thing but got stuck trying to figure out how to lock all the doors… it was kinda weird… I woke up around then.

I was really looking forward to running with a new nano and using the Nike+ thing today, but now I gotta wait for the engraving and for it to ship. Oh well, at least my iPod is Andrew Approved, and I can try out my new shoes.

“Wouldn’t think I’d fall for it
Wouldn’t think I’d lie
But I think I’d do anything
For that tiny bit of pie
I would sell you out
I’d give you all away
A life of treats might do me in
But I gotta get another taste
Turkish Delight” - David Crowder Band