Chilly Easter morning
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First snow of 2015
A few inches of light, fluffy snow.
Read on »Go Ahead and Play Project Photos
A slide-show of photos of many of the piano’s from the Women’s Fund of Central Indiana’s “Go Ahead and Play” Project. Now that the pianos are out and about through the downtown area, check out some photos of the various artist’s work. And visit the pianos while you’re out at GenCon or IndyFringe this weekend.
Read on »Park 16 Apartment Fire
This evening, fire broke out in the “Park 16” apartments being build at 16th and Broadway Avenue in Indianapolis, a few blocks from our house. We ran up the street to take photos, and were able to get remarkably close. The Park 16 Apartment complex (formerly called Caravelle Commons) was controversial, which I wrote about
Read on »Dinner with Stephanie
First time Stephanie and I have hung out in a week or so; between me rowing and her going to visit her Dad.
Read on »The Waltimate
Hamburger, onion, cheese, lettuce, bacon, peanut butter, jalepenos. From Red Lion Grog House in Fountain Square This is my very favoritest burger ever. You’d think peanut butter and jalepenos would be terrible, but it’s DELICIOUS.
Read on »Navy Pier At Night
Navy Pier at night, from the John Hancock Observatory
Read on »On the Mega Bus to Chicago
George and Ben Monster on the mega bus. Stephanie found a free trip deal from Mega Bus from Indianapolis to Chicago, and we’re going up to do some sightseeing.
Read on »Legwarmers – finished
Another pair of leg warmers finished up. This is a design I did myself out of scrap yarns we had.
Read on »Current Knitting Project: Doctor Who Scarf
I’m really in love with the way this scarf is looking. It took me a bit of trial and error to get the colors right; they don’t match the original perfectly (the purple should be more red, the green more brown-ish and the brown should be more orange), but they do balance well together the
Read on »Double Yolk Eggs
Our first eggs from our friends Dave and Garrett’s chickens.
Read on »Garden Cart
Garden cart – another cart project in the works. We assembled this cart so Stephanie can use it to deliver the neighborhood newsletter. Also because it’s really cool, like a red wagon on steroids.
Read on »Mostly finished bike cart
I haven’t decided yet quite how to create "sides" – whether to use wooden slats, to use lawn chair webbing, or to just get cargo nets and bungee cords to stretch over what I might want tote. I think I’ll wait until spring to make that decision, as the weather is changing and making it
Read on »We totally put this flag on the mailbox
We did a bunch of cleaning and repair work at the rental house over the weekend. We had thought we were done, but the property manager came back with a big fat list of stuff they wanted done before they would agree to list the house. So back over there we went to knock out
Read on »Some people don’t like books
As much as I do. Who puts books on a shelf like this, even for clearance? I would buy your books if you wanted to sell them to me.
Read on »Super Hero Cape
This is one of my current knitting projects – super hero capes for kids. I’m making at least three and possibly four of them; two red, (for Superman and Supergirl) one blue (Batgirl) and one white with gold trim (oh Mighty Isis), for some small folks I know. I started Saturday and made significant progress
Read on »Cirque du Soleil
Backyard tree trimming
They’re still cleaning up, but the work they did is already a major improvement. Power lines to the house are clear of branches.
Read on »Lake Monroe
All Caught Up
I spent the weekend editing and uploading my entire backlog of photos since November. I’v been perpetually several months behind since we went to England last year and I had the overwhelming backlog of photos to deal with. It took me practically the entire two days, but my Flickr photostream is now up to date.
Read on »Tiger underpants
We’re at the store this afternoon. Can you tell? Found these at Target
Read on »Purple sequined snakeskin top-siders
Hideous awesome. At Macy’s
Read on »Raven’s graduation ceremony
Michigan City High School graduation, class of 2011 A slideshow of photos from Raven’s Graduation:
Read on »Smilin’ Mike’s pharmacist/exterminator
Be sure you have the right bottle.
Read on »Striped garter-stitch length-wise scarf
Finished up this striped garter-stitch scarf knit length-wise. This is going to be one of my favorites to wear this winter; it’s made of Jo Sharp Tweed, which makes it really warm but also soft with lots of texture. It matches my favorite big brown wool coat, too. Because it’s knit the long way, it
Read on »Glee Live Tour 2011
Shocking – we attended a concert 2 years in a row. Stephanie took me to see Glee for my birthday this year
Read on »Glee Live Tour 2011
Glee Live Tour 2011
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Glee Live Tour 2011
Read on »Glee Live Tour 2011
Glee Live Tour 2011. Stephanie got me tickets for my birthday.
Read on »Dinner at Chatham Tap
Goofing around at the mall
Spike at work
Because we have a short day before the long weekend, Spike can to work with me.
Read on »Yes he is; a case of scotch.
I’m sure they’re harmless
Don’t be afraid of the space rays
Read on »Tesla Roadster
Cool!
Read on »Destination: Iowa
After getting back from Boston, we’re out the door again heading to Iowa for a family wedding. As always, we have a house sitter when we’re out, so stalkers and burglars beware. It will be nice to visit Iowa in spring weather; nice lighting for photos.
Read on »Good Morning!
Happy Easter breakfast. (Proving that I do sometimes cook stuff!)
Read on »Happy St. George’s Day
TGIF?
Life has been crazy lately.
Read on »Turning the heel
On my sock knitting project.
Read on »Lengthwise garter stitch striped scarf
378 stitches per row. Another scarf I’m working on.
Read on »I like
Nice colors. I especially love them because they would get rid of a whole bunch of clutter in our cupboards. Alas, I don’t think I can talk Stephanie into it.
Read on »Lucy
Taken with my iPad camera
Read on »New knitting project – Gryffindor scarf
Just got started on this new scarf for me.
Read on »Rally for Marriage Equality, Indiana Statehouse
Blue
I see what you’re doing there.
BEST. FORTUNE. EVER.
Fortune Cookie: “Only if you dive for pearls shall you find one.” That is awesome.
Read on »A couple of gold stars
Literally. 🙂
Read on »Questions & Answers
Question from a friend: How risqué are we allowed to get with these questions? 😉 Oh, what the heck. As risqué as you want. Bring it, baby! I say that now, but watch me get bashful when you actually ask them. Anon Question from Formspring: If you could spend three days (two nights) anywhere in
Read on »Question: Have you bought any clothing in the last week?
Yes, I’m hunting around for things to write about, and picking random questions from the internet. My friend Matt has been doing a 30 day blogging project, and I was sort of interested in doing something similar except not the same. Possibly something that makes no sense. And that doesn’t obligate me to write everyday
Read on »Finished hat
Finally was able to finish this hat- had to wait until class met again so I could get help fixing a problem.
Read on »Car door iced shut
Signs of the Icepocalypse 2011. We managed to chip through it to start the cars. But we’re due to get more, so we’ll see. Working from home today.
Read on »Oh yeah? I’m touching yer face.
Seriously, I am.
Read on »Finished legwarmers
Done!
Read on »Leg warmer 1 of 2
Finished the first of another set of leg warmers, ensuring toasty warm ankles for me the rest of winter. Bring it on.
Read on »Fluff
I want a t-shirt with this label.
Read on »I can has chikin?
No U Cannot.
Read on »New leg warmers
My ankles are always cold in the winter, so I’m whipping up another pair of leg warmers to wear over my socks. I plan to make several pairs of these this winter so I can rotate.
Read on »Beer slumming
Not my usual brand of beer.
Read on »Walking Taco
At the softball park.
Read on »ABATE instructor’s bike
One of our ABATE instructors’ motorcycles.
Read on »Central Library Shelves
In the old part of the library.
Read on »Demolition Derby at the State Fair
Demolition Derby at the Indiana State Fair
Read on »Repaired Stair
The finished stair. Nice and sturdy. Eventually, we’ll have Carl come back and repaint all the stairs in a color more suited to our walls.
Read on »What’s under the stairs
Once Carl had opened up the stairs, I realized there was a hidden space under them that wasn’t really accessible from anywhere else. Cool! Sadly, there was no secret treasure there.
Read on »More stairs repair
This time we’re having a stair in the main staircase repaired; it tilted forward and caused guest to slip and fall on the stairs. We were used to it, but it was a problem when we had people over. To fix the stair, Carl had to pull out out pull it out and build up
Read on »Friday the 13th
Monkey Sweater
One of my knitting projects.
Read on »Cake!
Cake!
Read on »China in the new cabinet
New china cabinet
Elena Kagan Confirmed as a Supreme
Sweet. The girls are thrilled; she’ll be joining them shortly.
Read on »Barkley McBarkerson
Spike has turned up the volume on telling the neighbors to stay away from his yard lately. He’s making my “he’s so low maintenance” claims out to be false, the little goofball. I know he’s going to turn eight this month, but he’s too young to turn into a grouchy old man yelling at the
Read on »Downtown photowalk
Lion sculpture near the convention center, seen on downtown photowalk
Read on »365 unclutter – item 1
Item number 1 – an old jacket I never wear because the pockets are too shallow and my keys fall out. New home – Goodwill. Entering the “A Thing a Day Challenge” at Unclutterer.
Read on »Gaga on Stage
Yep, way up in the nosebleed section. Also, photos from my new iPhone4. They come out pretty nice.
Read on »Lady Gaga concert
Stephanie at the Lady Gaga concert
Read on »Who does this look like?
The actually photo is of Lewis Powell, one of the Lincoln assassination conspirators. The photo was taken in 1865. But I swear the man looks like an actor I’ve seen in a movie or TV show somewhere just recently. I want to say it was something historical – like a Jane Austen movie, or something
Read on »Perez Hilton – not skinny
Just for reference, this is a photo of Perez Hilton with my friend Jonathan (Jonathan is on the right) in Miami in 2007. Just to put this story about Perez Hilton’s skinny t-shirt in perspective. The fact that he has done some dieting in the past three years doesn’t entitle him to police other people’s
Read on »Bircham Windmill, Norfolk Lavender and Hunstanton
Today, we visited the Bircham Windmill – a real working windmill and farm in Norfolk. We climbed up five stories to the top of the windmill and I took tons of photos. Mom even climbed all the way to the top, and she’s very afraid of heights. We also watched sheep being milked, chickens running
Read on »Johnny Weir Skating Clinic at IWSA
Back at the end of April, Stephanie was able to participate in a skating clinic conducted by Olympic Skater Johnny Weir, sponsored by the Indiana/World Skating Academy. It was downtown at the Pan Am Plaza rink where Stephanie takes lessons and often skates. Johnny did different sessions for different skill levels, and then went through
Read on »Wheel of Fortune Tryouts
Last weekend, there were Wheel of Fortune tryouts locally, and Stephanie and our friend Melissa decided to go see if they could get on the show, and I tagged along to take photos. This is definitely Stephanie’s game show – she’s very good at it. Watching the show with her is fun, if a bit
Read on »Finished hat!
A hat out of my favorite yarn.
Read on »Button tab hat
Button Tab I’m making. The yarn is gorgeous.
Read on »Columbines in our garden
Paper thin petals. Gorgeous.
Read on »Stephanie with straight hair
Her hairdresser suggested it for fun.
Read on »Spike guards the yard
Making sure nobody gets out of line!
Read on »Bottle cap mirror
At midland antique mall
Read on »Bottle cap bowl
At midland antique mall
Read on »Super Swirl Scarf Pattern
This is a pattern that was handed out free at Mass Ave. Knit Shop. I took a photo because the print copies were all gone. Three balls of cotton (300 yards or so). Needles: Size 7 or 8 Cast on 22 stitches. Row 1: Knit Row 2: K 8, turn and knit back. Row 3:
Read on »Eye Model
Waiting for the eye doctor
Read on »Doctor’s appointment
The echo-doppler machine in my cardiologist’s office – a routine checkup I get once a year or so.
Read on »Downtown Ann Arbor
Visiting to shop for a bit on the way home.
Read on »At Yack Arena
Watching the ice dancing competition and waiting for Stephanie’s competition. (in Wyandotte, Michigan.) She passed her Bronze moves in the field test this morning, so she’s really excited. She’s been working hard on the test requirements for the last several months, so this is quite a validation of her work. I’m really proud of her.
Read on »On the road again
Headed to Michigan to visit our friends Dan and Melissa and to go to Stephanie’s skating competition in Wyandotte, MI. Left the pooch home with our petsitter for this trip; too far for the little dude. Stephanie is also testing for her bronze moves in the field.
Read on »365 project – Day 12: Stephanie’s Scarf
I’m absolutely in love with this one – a scarf I’m making for Stephanie in two different varigated yarns, alternating rows, in a rib pattern that I got from Stephanie Pearl-McPhee’s site. I finally got settled down with all the indecision about what new project I was going to try, and all the thought I
Read on »365 project – Day 11: giant flag
In the lobby of my doctor’s office at the One America tower downtown. “Don’t look now, but there’s a giant flag behind you.” (I think I’d find that intimidating if I worked in the building every day.)
Read on »365 project – Day 10: Knitting at Home
I dithered back and forth about what new yarn to use and what new stitch pattern to try, until I drove myself nuts. Stephanie’s not feeling well, and I don’t feel great either, so I opted for comfort, and grabbed scrap yarn and the Roku remote. I’ve been watching Season 2 of MI:5 and knitting
Read on »365 project – Day 9: Egyptian Cafe
We seem to be on a Mediterranean theme this weekend. We visited the Egyptian Cafe for our friend Carla’s birthday celebration.
Read on »365 project – Day 8: Bosphorus Cafe
365 project – Day 6: W throws a party
It never ends well when he does.
Read on »365 project – Day 5: The Happy Hank Experiment
Today, we’re going to test out this monkey present I got from Stephanie’s niece for Christmas. He supposedly grows to 600% his current size Here’s all the terms of service and such. It takes 10 whole days for him to grow, so we’ll have to come back to see what he looks like. He sure
Read on »365 project – Day 4
The view from my window at work. BRRRRRR. I hate leaving the house in cold weather. When does spring roll around? Oh, wait, we have a lot to do before then. Like prepping for our trip to England. We’re taking my mom to see my sister and her kids. Should be fun. Dunno how I’d
Read on »365 project – Day 3
D’oh! I forgot to take a photo. But this is why it’s about setting a goal, not making a resolution — I’m not going to make it a habit if I stop now that I’ve blown the perfect record. (And so early in the game, too!) I spend a good chunk of the day getting
Read on »365 project – Day 2
I remembered at the end of the day that I was trying to learn this new habit of taking a photo every day – so I quickly snapped a picture of Stephanie while she sat at her computer. I’ll do my best to avoid a lot of “quick take a photo” moments.
Read on »365 project – Day 1
Anti-choice protesters (forced birth advocates) outside my neighbor’s house on New Year’s Day. My neighbor works for Planned Parenthood. Yeah, in our residential neighborhood. In front of my house. MF assholes. They spent an hour shouting obnoxious statements and disturbing the peace.
Read on »Farewell, 2009 (a year in pictures)
We had a pretty calm but eventful year in 2009. I spend a chunk of January getting our staircase room painted, and we also stripped the wallpaper and painted a bedroom at Stephanie’s rental house. I also went back on a walk through of my former home at 2165 N. Penn. I discovered that although
Read on »In the Old Northside
Seen on our neighborhood walk.
Read on »Scooter Practice
Last year at this time…
To purchase: Therma cell mosquito repellent
Therma cell mosquito repellent. Boy, do we need one of these. I get eaten alive on the front porch.
Read on »Stephanie
Stephanie
Read on »Hot Mother Clucker
Heh.
Read on »Return to Roswell Eastern Caravan Slideshow
Slideshow of the Eastern Caravan headed out to Roswell: Photo Set: Return to Roswell 2009 – Eastern Caravan travels West
Read on »Too many photos, not enough Time
Lots of stuff to do; not enough time to edit photos and post them. But here are some fun ones from the trip so far.
Read on »Fast Friday 2009 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
I finally managed to get my Fast Friday photos edited and up on Flickr.
Read on »Knitting project
I’m learning to knit. This piece will be a scarf alternating brightly-colored stripes with stripes of black. 2022-03-12 Update: After starting and stopping this 12 times, I ended up knitting it in the round and then stuffing it as a bolster pillow that is uneven and lumpy. It’s now in the attic. I should get
Read on »Lamb Brains
Taken with my camera phone at a yard sale in Herron-Morton Place. I didn’t have time to compose the shot because Stephanie didn’t care for the can at all and really wanted me to put it down and get in the car. But I couldn’t let it go, so I bought the can so I
Read on »Objects of Obsession
Taken with my iPhone. (of course, because my camera is IN the photo.)
Read on »Fast Friday
Cell phone pic taken at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Read on »Photos I took in April 2009
Coca Cola Bottling Plant
This former Coca-Cola bottling plant complex was built in 1931, with updates in 1940 and 1949. The exterior is faced with glazed terracotta tile while the interior has travertine walls. The buildings are now used as a public school bus facility.
Read on »The Orchid Show at the Garfield Park Conservatory
Photos of the Indiana World War Memorial
And a few other locations around downtown.
Read on »Photos I took in March 2009
Spring Flowers
Some of our spring flowers are up. Aren’t we lucky we have this gnome to do all the hard work for us?
Read on »Indy.org using Flickr photos without copyright owners permission
One of my friends pointed out to me today that several of his and my photos that are posted on Flickr under an “All Rights Reserved” license are being pulled into the Indy.org website – the “Official site of the Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association.” You find some of them from this page – click
Read on »Economic Meltdown Articles of Interest
There are a couple news items about the economy that I found to be tremendously helpful. I’ve linked to them from one or another of my links posts, but it’s very much worth it to pull them out and highlight them, because knowledge is power, and more average people need a really good understanding of
Read on »Fat Tuesday
Happy Mardi Gras
Read on »Wyandotte competition
Stephanie accepting her second place win in women’s pre-bronze.
Read on »So… what would the opposite of koumpounophobia be?
Why do I ask? No reason, really. Ahem. I’m really looking forward to Coraline hitting theaters! (My weird obsession with buttons started when I was a little kid. The pillowcases my grandmother made had tiny button closures, and I would play when them while falling asleep. It’s a comfort thing.)
Read on »More painting
More painting in the staircase room.
Read on »Midland Antique Mall Visit
Photos from my trip to Midland Antique Mall last weekend.
Read on »Painting the Staircase Room
Painting the staircase room. This room really needed a good paint job, but we haven’t had a chance yet in the 2 and 1/2 years we’ve been in the house. We decided to rearrange some furniture so the room is empty temporarily. So I got up the gumption to start covering up the very boring
Read on »Midland purchase
Top-hat clock I bought at Midland
Read on »At the Midland Antique Mall
Bobble head Shriner at Midland
Read on »Painting
Painting in the staircase room
Read on »Lunch
No lines on the road
On I-94 east between Chesterton & Michigan City.
Read on »Sleepy puppy
Spike helps Grandpa Doug with the trains
Setting up the 1957 Passenger Train (with an additional 1970 something engine)
Read on »Merry Christmas!
Yay!
Read on »Huck with giant fish
Huck with giant fish
Read on »Me
Me
Read on »Choir
Christmas choir
Read on »Cracker Barrel Decor
Cracker Barrel Decor
Read on »Our new compost bin
No, it will not be staying in our living room.
Read on »Thanksgiving Photos
Short Bus would make great art car
We passed this bus on the way home from Thanksgiving in Iowa. The two guys in it had obviously decked it out as an RV. It was cool, and I thought about the many art car possibilities.
Read on »Rawwwwrrrr!
Dinosaur from Target says hi!
Read on »Punny
The One America sign puts up a new joke each month, a tradition for many years.
Read on »Voted early
I don’t always vote straight party, but I did this time. I knew who all the down party people were for the most part, and the few I didn’t know I looked up before I went. The lines were quite long, but the moved very quickly in the city-county building. Very much worth it to
Read on »Dead Man’s Hand
Aces and eights. Arizona Trip Day 5: Tonto Natural Bridge, Mollogon Rim, Payson, Arizona.
Read on »Canyon De Chelly
Arizona Trip: Day 3 photos of Canyon De Chelly
Read on »Montezuma’s Castle
Native American settlement ruins Arizona Trip Day 2: Meteor Crater, Twin Arrows Trading Post and Montezuma’s Castle cave dwellings.
Read on »Meteor Crater
Pretty big hole in the ground. Formed 50,000 years ago when a 150 foot-long meteor hit the ground. The crater is 3/4 miles across.
Read on »Dad’s House
We’re headed out to see Meteor Crater and some other Indian Ruins today.
Read on »Morning in the Mountains
View from the patio at my Dad’s. The mountains in the background are the Mongollon Rim.
Read on »2009 VW Rabbit
Guess who came to work today?
One of my co-workers got cardboard cut-outs of Obama and McCain for his birthday.
Read on »Scion xD test drive
We test-drove a scion xD among other things, while looking for a replacement for the Smart Car that just wasn’t working for us.
Read on »Stephanie at game
Colts Game
I got tickets to the Colts vs. Jaguars game from work.
Read on »Birds & Sky
George says Hi!
Hello, George.
Read on »Impromptu Ikea Trip
Stephanie and I were invited to show our art car at a show in Columbus, Ohio this past weekend, and our original plans were to take advantage of that offer. But Spike seemed to be having so much trouble that we decided to stay home Friday night. It was the right decision, because he needed
Read on »Photos: Corner of 11th Street and College Ave.
See the photo set on Flickr
Read on »Matt’s Labor Day Gathering 2008
Symphony on the prairie
A Beatles Tribute concert at the Noblesville venue. A lovely event, but oh my was it crowded.
Read on »Recent Photo Sets
As promised, several sets of photos recently taken. Indianapolis Indians vs. Durham Bulls Monument Circle Photo Walk I went with local photographers I met recently on a photo walk around the circle. Scott Kelby Worldwide Photo Walk The Indianapolis location was Massachusetts Avenue; there were about 40+ photographers. I managed to accidentally underexpose my photos
Read on »Random News from Home
Friday was Stephanie’s birthday, so I took a lot of pictures. While were were hanging out outside Barcelona Tapas talking, I took a bunch of pictures at the Corner of Alabama and Ohio Street. We spent all day Sunday putting more bottle caps on the car. Last night we went to see the Indianapolis Indians
Read on »Stephanie’s birthday iPhone.
After much running back and forth between the Apple Store & the AT&T Store, we got her new iPhone activated.
Read on »Damn, where’d all my free time go?
I’m sitting here making out our “To Do” list for this weekend, which includes: Putting together new treadmill discarding non-functioning television putting loads of stuff on ebay or craigslist. taking all the recycling to the recycling center laundry, laundry & more laundry Garrett’s birthday Church on Sunday Visit the rental house & install locks and
Read on »Garrett’s Birthday, 2008
Photos from our friend Garrett’s birthday, 2008.
Read on »Indeed, there are.
More gorillas exist than previously thought.
Read on »The Sashimi Tabernacle Choir Art Car
The Sashimi Tabernacle Choir Art Car: The fish are programmed to dance in time to music. See more photos from our visit to the Kentucky Art Car Weekend 2008.
Read on »Kentucky Art Car Show 2008
See more photos of our visit to the 2008 Kentucky Art Car Show.
Read on »Kentucky Art Car Show 2008
Kentucky Art Car Show 2008 See more photos from our weekend at the Kentucky Art Car Show 2008.
Read on »Bottle Cap Art Car Project
Our Bottle Cap Art Car Project in progress. See the whole set on Flickr. This is a project that Stephanie designed and is working on, with my help.
Read on »Señor Gomez says hi
Señor Gomez was hitching on College Ave, so I gave him a ride. Dunno how long he’ll hang out, but he seems fun. I plan to use him in my halloween decorating.
Read on »Giant Corms, Dublin, OH
Giant Corn in Dublin, Ohio. The field of corn is a tribute to a pioneering hybrid corn researcher.
Read on »Cool clock
At Smith and Wollensky’s in Columbus, Ohio. It wasn’t running, though, which drove me crazy.
Read on »Olympus Evolt e420 Camera
Tibbs Drive-In
Saturday night fun. We took Phoebe to see WALL-E at the drive-in theater tonight. Other than the drive-in at Roswell, I haven’t been to a real drive-in theater since I was a little kid. Lots of fun.
Read on »Asshole parked in my parking space
Smart Car Caravan
Smart Car Caravan
Another Buzz
Smart Car Gathering
Indy Pride 2008
Ralph’s Great Divide
$57.00 to fill my tank
Back home again in Indiana
We spent the last couple of days in Toronto doing some low-key stuff. I was pretty tired after doing so much walking around every day all day. We did do some shopping in the Church-Wellsley area (the gayborhood) and we took the subway to Canadian Tire and such. Stephanie loves the subway, but I really
Read on »Shoe Museum and Honest Eds
Saturday, Stephanie and I hopped on the Subway and went West on Bloor to see the Shoe Museum. Yes, a whole museum just dedicated to the history of footwear. It was fun, but I wish there were some exhibits on modern styles of shoes, instead of how each culture’s footwear evolved. There were totally no
Read on »Niagara Falls, China Town & Kensington Market
Thursday we drove to Niagara Falls to site-see, which was fun. I really had a much different picture in my head of what the falls were like, most from the show “Wonderfalls” which I want to see again now that I’ve been there. It was overcast on the drive there, but cleared up when we
Read on »Photos from Wednesday in Toronto
See the whole photo set from Day 3 of our Honeymoon in Toronto. Photo Collection: Wedding and Honeymoon Photos Steve and Harold, our witnesses (and we were theirs, too!) Us with our wedding certificate. Surprise Moose Appearance!
Read on »Photos from Tuesday in Toronto
The photo set from Day 2 of our Honeymoon in Toronto. Photo Collection: Wedding and Honeymoon Photos
Read on »Just Married
Stephanie and I got married on Saturday. I would have blogged about it at the time, but for some reason, I had big bundle of gladiolas in my arms and no access to a keyboard. (How’d that happen?) I picked gladiolas for my bouquet because they’re what my Grandma Mineart carried in her wedding, and
Read on »My lovely soon-to-be wife
Stephanie, getting her hair done for our wedding. Our hair was done by the lovely women at All About You Salon on 116th and Guildford. They’re great; I highly recommend them.
Read on »Tired puppy after acting as host for our rehearsal dinner
Actually, our friend Jonathan acted as our host for our rehearsal dinner, which was really lovely because we didn’t have to worry anything at all.
Read on »Part of Douglas’ DVD collection
Raaawwwwwrrrr!
Button sales for Obama
Stephanie sold Buttons for the Obama campaign at a local rally.
Read on »Smart & Mini compared
A few photos comparing the size of our Smart Car to a mini
Read on »Kevin’s Open House
Our Friend Kevin’s Open House to show off his remodeling.
Read on »Bowling
Bowling with our regular Wednesday Night Dinner group of friends.
Read on »Photos from SXSWi 2008
Jane McGonigal’s Keynote at sxswi 2008
Jane McGonigal’s Keynote at sxswi 2008
Read on »I don’t need this, but it’s cute
Cute Monkey Cookie Jar
Read on »Smart Car: Ours will be yellow and black
Like a bumble bee. Smart Fortwo.
Read on »New workspace
work
Read on »Spike’s Traditional Christmas Morning
Christmas Day 2007
Stephanie and Spike opening presents
Read on »Christmas lawn decor
There are a couple of photos I’d like to take this year that I’ve missed in past holiday seasons. The first is of a nativity scene at a church somewhere on the north side of Indianapolis. I’ve driven past several years in a row, and noted that the way the scene is set, the three
Read on »Blast from the Past
Normally when I upload a bunch of older photos to my flickr account, I turn off the splice between my flickr account and my RSS feeds, so those who read my blog via a feed reader don’t get a massive influx of my photos in my feed. However, last night, I forgot to do that.
Read on »Photos from Jonathan’s Birthday
Creepy Halloween
David and Garrett’s Halloween Party
Spike’s Birthday Fence
Roman art at IMA
Recent Photo Sets
Tumba Monkey in Des Moines
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Read on »Photos from Dan’s Birthday Cruise
See the whole set of photos Here are a couple of highlights: Miami from the Air Setting Sail In Jon and Carolyn’s stateroom Dan, Me, Stephanie at La Te Da’s in Key West The gang at the Southernmost Point of the US Doug winning at Trivia Dan the birthday boy and his birthday cake Mayan
Read on »Conference Call (POTD – day 8)
Library Reorganization (Photo of the Day, day 7)
All my books are on the shelves, discards are weeded out, everything is dusted. New slipcover on the loveseat, furniture rearranged a bit. We still have some furniture editing and adjustment to do, but the library is much better.
Read on »Photo of the Day (Day 3)
Whipped cream nose
Birthday girl
Read on »Backwards Happy Birthday
Weekend Update: Wedding and Louisville Trip
Groom & Bride
Chapel
Brescia Univ.
Read on »American Electric Power Co Plant
Our Wedding Locations
You may or may not know this already, but Stephanie and I are getting married on May 31, 2008. Last week we visited our planned locations to take photos and reserve them. We’re getting married in Great Oak Commons Park in our neighborhood, Old Northside, about a block away from our house. It’s a pretty
Read on »Big Thing
Vry Bored.
Cadillac Ranch
Route 66: Williams, Arizona Fourth of July Parade
Route 66: Grand Canyon Railroad
Route 66, Day 11: Morning in Williams, Arizona, near the Grand Canyon
Yesterday was a long drive from Albuquerque to Williams, Arizona, and the timezone changes haven’t helped too much, because we keep staying up an hour later. But we had a lot of fun and a bit of trouble yesterday. We headed out in the morning with a couple of pitstops along the way. We really
Read on »Route 66: Beautiful
Wow
Read on »Route 66: Western New Mexico
Route 66: Dinner at the Cozy Dog
@ the cozy dog
Read on »Blogging via phone – w subject
Blogging via phone – w subject, originally uploaded by ElectraSteph. Testing again to get a subject.
Read on »Recent Photos
Me vs. Squirrels: The Battle Royale
Indianapolis Pride 2007 Photos
Friday Afternoon Randomness
Caturday
“I’m the prettiest cat in the house.”
Big Things Photos – Back up and Running
My “Big Things” photo galleries are back up and running, finally, after some coding goofiness. In going through all the new photos, I realized I have hundreds of new ones to put online; I’m further behind on this project than I thought. But I have much easier ways to get them online, so that’s good.
Read on »We missed Caturday? Oh no!
Broadripple Art Fair
Balloon Over Old Northside
Photos from Eric’s Birthday
Photos from Eric’s Birthday
Read on »Check out the view
The view from the house my Dad’s building in Arizona.
Read on »Old Northside Neighborhood Photos
2007 Spring Flowers
Bedroom Painting Complete
Photos of Spike
Goodbye, Pennsylvania Street!
Photos of Our Balcony
Photos from SXSW
New Year’s Eve Pictures
2006 Year In Review
You can see a lot of what we did in 2006 just by looking at my Flickr photos sets, but here are the highlights. 1. Stephanie and I bought a house and moved into it together. Considering that we were just talking about moving in together at the beginning of last year, and we hadn’t
Read on »Photo Uploads – Thanksgiving and December 2006
This Weekend
Halloween Decorating
Fishers Renaissance Faire, 2006
Recent Photo Sets
Jan and Dan’s Wedding Dan W.’s Birthday Around the House Miscellaneous Photos I’ve Taken Recently
Read on »Flickr Photo Pools for Indianapolis
Old Northside – Indianapolis http://www.flickr.com/groups/oldnorthside/ Indianapolis, Indiana http://www.flickr.com/groups/indianapolis/ Indianapolis http://www.flickr.com/groups/37996589023@N01/ indianapolis adventure http://www.flickr.com/groups/indianapolisadventure/ Flickr Lovers of Indianapolis http://www.flickr.com/groups/indy-flickr/
Read on »WTHR wants your state fair pictures
They’re calling for submissions of your pictures of the fair. Wonder if I should reprise my “Mullet Festival” photo essay from last year?
Read on »Flickr fussiness
Flickr has been really fussy lately about uploading photos, which is ticking me off quite a bit. I’ve been trying to upload batches of photos, but it won’t take large uploads. So I’ve been reduced to sending them one at a time, and even then it doesn’t always capture the whole image. Grrrr.
Read on »Spike Helps Out
Spike helps me build the console table for our entryway. He’s so helpful. He also helped with my taxes, and the paperwork for my house sale. What a great dog. See the pictures on Flickr.
Read on »Imagine a World
B Tal captured this photo at the New England Holocaust Memorial. Imagine a World “Ilse, a childhood friend of mine, once found a raspberry in the camp and carried it in her pocket all day to present to me that night on a leaf. Imagine a world in which your entire possession is one raspberry
Read on »Moving Photos
Various pictures of moving activities. Photos of May 2006 on Flickr Pod Arrival Huckleberry hiding under packing materials Annabelle hiding under packing materials pictures of the painting
Read on »Lolita Express
Painting the New House
Flickr Photoset of our painting projects in the new house. I have to finish up the set with the completed “after” shots, but you can get a good idea of how much we got done this past weekend.
Read on »Funny bumpersticker
Saw this in the parking lot at Lowes.
Read on »My Favorite Flickr Photo Pools
In the Fringe > Alternative category, Flickr has some really funny and interesting photo pools — which anyone and everyone can contribute photos to. Here are some of my favorites, which I subscribe to through the pools’ rss feeds. Adventures with Monkeys Photo Pool I contribute a lot of pictures to this pool — people
Read on »2006 ICAAN Scavenger Hunt
Stacy with a little lamb
My sister with an Easter lamb. She assured us that she didn’t bring it home to add to her menagerie. 18 Apr ’06, 6.05am EST PST | ElectraSteph
Read on »Doug’s Birthday Photos
House on 52nd and Winthrop
Photos of the Black Civil Rights Movement
The Birmingham News discovers in its archives dozens of old, previously unpublished photographs from the black civil rights movement. Very cool. Check out the pictures of the freedom riders, and also see the protests at Birmingham high schools when black students enrolled. This is the kind of stuff that people need to see to understand
Read on »Cool unusual architecture
Unique Daily has a photo gallery of cool unusual architecture, such as this upside down house. 2022-03-15 Update: My original link of unique architecture is long gone, but there are at least 10 upside down houses in the world. Stephanie and I saw the one in Niagara Falls on our honeymoon.
Read on »Painting the Kitchen
Cool Stuff I Own
No sampling, please
I stumbled across someone’s fun flickr photo set: No Sampling, Please
Read on »Giant Shoes
Cool, a new big thing for me to photograph: Giant basketball shoes being placed around Indianapolis. Update – I caught a photo of one of these; will have them up soon.
Read on »Pacers Beat Sonics
2006 New Year’s Party
Christmas at Mom’s
Christmas at Dad’s
Work White Elephant Christmas Party
Working on Fireplace Tiles
For the past couple days, I’ve been working on stripping the paint and crap off the fireplace tiles and fireplace surround in my living room. See my flickr photo set for pictures of the project. My dad, as a Christmas present for me, crafted the fireplace mantel you see in the pictures. He found two
Read on »My Photo Galleries
So, I have this dilemma about the photo galleries I have on my site, and what to do with them going forward. I’ve had them ever since I got a digital camera in 1999, and since then they’ve been a major feature of my site, although it’s one I never managed particularly well. My Big
Read on »T-shirt Challenge Revisited
A while back I decided, since I have way too many t-shirts (over 100), I would wear all of them without repeating, and photograph each one. I didn’t get too far into the project before photographing all of them became too much to keep up with. I’ve still be cycling through them, and I have
Read on »Art Car Day
Kentucky Art Cart Weekend 2005
Read on »Weekend Update: King Kong at IMA
Stephanie and I saw King Kong with Dan and Doug, Josh, and David and Garrett on the Terrace at the IMA. It was great fun; the sound was much better than in the past, and I love seeing movies with Dan and Doug; I haven’t done that much recently, and I miss it. I spent
Read on »June Photos — Stephanie gets a hair cut!
[edit needed: update photos] I adore her new hair cut. I think it looks amazing. She’s still getting used to it. She donated her long hair to Locks of Love. [correct link/photos/2005/06.30_june/index.html] Check out my other photos to see my neighbor’s yard sign — the one about Patrice Abduallah, our City-county council representative, who’s not
Read on »Weekend Visit at Dad’s
Photo: Dad’s Corvette
Read on »Nice Try, Though
Sometimes a building’s architectural style is so identified with its original business that it’s hard to shake the association, even when the business is long gone. Here’s a photo gallery of bad building conversions around Indianapolis. Let me know about the ones you’ve spotted around town… This Indian Restaurant on east 38th Street doesn’t disguise
Read on »Indianapolis Aerial Photography
Using Indianapolis’ official City website, Indygov.org, you can view maps of Indianapolis much like mapquest, and aerial photographs dating back to 1935 that allow you to view the whole city and also to zoom in close to see, for example, the roof of your house. The initial view of Indianapolis shows a map with a
Read on »Look right there! Pictures of my girlfriend!
Photo: My Girlfriend Stephanie
Read on »Not Fooling Anybody – Photo site
A photo gallery of bad architectural store front conversions. This is great. I think there are a few of these in Indianapolis, so now I have a new photo collection hobby to take up, right after Big Things, bizarre stuff, places I’ve lived, graffiti & murals (not yet posted) and the all new Dangerous Intersections.
Read on »Wil Wheaton and I have some of the same photos…
Photo: U Drop Inn Cafe, Shamrock, Texas,
Read on »New Photos
In the house section of my site, I added up to date pictures of my living room including the electric work, mudding and taping, painting the ceiling and painting the walls. Other photos I added to the house section: some photos of the flowerbeds in the front yard from various times this summer, pictures of
Read on »Wash Me
“Wash Me” Photos
Read on »September 20th, 2002
Everybody seems to be remarking on the 1-year anniversary of the tornado that struck Indianapolis. I tend to remember the date because it was day I learned that my cat Idgie was dying. I had to have her put to sleep the next day. I sat down today with Dru and Huck and Annabelle and
Read on »House Painting
The guys started work on my house today – repairing siding and scraping paint, which will go on for the first week or so, while they do the prep work before painting. I’m so excited about it, that I almost went home for lunch to see what they have done so far. But I decided
Read on »Mildred’s House of Signage
Tracy Jo Seneca has been roaming the streets of Chicago with a camera in search of interesting, unusual and strange signs. My favorite so far: The Mexican Pagoda Sign. Kind of reminds me of a restaurant here in Indianapolis called the “Oriental Smorgasbord.” Also, Rosario’s Italian Sausage, where the pigs just happily jump into the
Read on »Doggie News
Spike went to the vet today. He got his first shot, and he got flea medicine. He also got some gluecose, because he has low blood sugar, which is common for tiny doggies. That’s why they shiver even when it’s not cold. He just has to have glucose three times a day at meals. Fortunately,
Read on »My Precious New Baby
Tonight after work I get to bring my brand new puppy Spike home. I think I have everything ready. We’ve got: kennel, baby gates, collar, leash, tie-up line for outside, puppy chow, canned puppy food, puppy biscuits, training treats, nylabones, chew bones, a kong toy, a stuffed hippo, a brush, a fine-tooth comb, puppy shampoo,
Read on »My cat Idgie is very sick
My cat Idgie is very sick. It appears from x-rays that she had kidney stones. She’s staying at the vet’s tonight, and tomorrow we have to have another x-ray to make sure that’s what the problem is. If so, I may have to have her put to sleep.
Read on »House Photos
I just finished updating all of my photo galleries: both the regular gallery , and the house photos. I finished the thumbnail pages so you can see all the photos in a section at once, then click for the large photo. I was a bit behind (6 months) on doing that! UPDATE: I later took
Read on »Viva Las Vegas!
Wow. So that was Las Vegas. Wow. And I didn’t lose much money. Cool. This was a great trip! I didn’t think I’d care for Vegas because it’s so artificial, but I LOVED it. Hello! We went for a friend’s wedding and stayed at Circus Circus. I went with Dan and Douglas, and we spent
Read on »house hunting
So, I saw the house and took photos and made an offer on it. I’m not going to put any of the photos on the site yet, because every time I do that, I find out I’m not getting the house. This time I’m waiting until I know more, which may be awhile. In the
Read on »My Photos
I’ve been updating and posting my entire photo galleries over the last few days. With the exception of three new galleries (work, places I’ve lived, around Indy) everything is out there and everything is new. Check them out. UPDATE: I’ve since relocated my photos to Flickr, with selected photos of them posted here occasionally.
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