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Month: January 2009

1-16-09

Day 889 of 365 Again. Well, I’m back home. It was a long long day of travelling. We left the hotel at 9am Vegas time and landed in Pittsburgh around 10:30 Pittsburgh time. Another hour to get bags and get home and just totally collapse on the couch. I’m exhausted, but not sleepy. I don’t…

1-15-09

Day 888 of 365 Again. It’s always nice to have a souvenir. And in Vegas, the cheesier the better. But I actually think this is kinda cool. It’s a crystal "hologram" (actually a series of computer etchings inside the glass) that Steph and I got done at the New York New York casino. Tonight it’s…

1-14-09

Day 887 of 365 Again. Steph finally got her luggage late last night, so we decided today would be our big experience Vegas day. But first we sat through a timeshare presntation so that we could get breakfast, complimentary tickets to another show, and a free dinner at this nice buffet they have here. We…

1-13-09

Day 886 of 365 Again. Like I said, I have so been waiting to do one of these. Spent much of the morning stuck in the hotel room, since Steph’s luggage was STILL not here. Eventually, I decided that’s no way to do Vegas, and we had Blue Man Group tickets and stuff tonight. I…

1-12-09

Day 885 of 365 Again. Ah yes, Vacation begins. I really need to get in the habit of taking extra vacation days on vacation because the travel just kills us. This is Steph and I in our room at the Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. The hotel is really nice, what we’ve seen of it,…

1-11-09

Day 884 of 365 Again. If you’ve been paying attention, you know that I’m a die hard Steelers fan. I work my life around it. I rejoice when they win and I mourn when they lose. Today was a good day. The team completely decimated the Chargers and moved one step closer to a sixth…

1-10-09

Day 883 of 365 Again. So Steph and I are going on vacation to Vegas next week. I’ve been thinking about what I’m most looking forward to. Of course one of those things is winning millions of dollars. One of those things is going to see the Blue Man Group. But you know what I’m…

1-8-09

Day 881 of 365 Again. Where oh were has the inspiration gone. I really need to work on it. There used to be so much time in the day to be creative, but now I never feel like I have time for anything. That said, Steph and I went out to poker night tonight for…

1-7-09

Day 880 of 365 Again. Steph tried to give an intense stare like me yesterday, so I thought the least I could do would be to try to smile like her today. Sadly, whoever looks at my pics every day will know that I was tragically born lacking the muscles in my face to actually…

1-6-09

Day 879 of 365 Again. I’ve often joked that when I don’t have a good idea for a 365 picture, my default plan is to go in my studio and do like a really intense stare into the camera in fron of the black backdrop. The other thing I like to do is have Steph…

1-4-09

Day 877 of 365 Again. I kept saying I was going to do something creative while I was on vacation this week. Let’s just pretend this is it. I actually have been a little creative. I worked on editing my novel a little bit for the first time in like 2 years. Maybe I’ll actually…

1-3-09

Day 876 of 365 Again. I figured today I would do something creative with my self-portrait, but that didn’t really happen. Instead I decided to explore another technique of texturing an image, kind of like I did yesterday. Exciting, huh. Maybe not, but like I said, it’s a vacation. You know, looking at my eyes,…

1-2-09

Day 875 of 365 Again. Took the day off again. The last two weeks, I’ve worked Monday, Tuesday and half of Wednesday and then had the rest of the week and the weekend off. It’s been very relaxing but damn, working five straight days next week is going to kill me. I think I mentioned…