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Baby Photography
2007/02/6 22:05:12
20070206-Michael-205610
Originally uploaded by charsplat.
This evening I went over to Jeff & Anji’s place to give Jeff a hand taking some pictures of the new baby. This picture is my favorite I think, but this one also turned out really cool.
The rest of the images turned out good too, hopefully me and Jeff will get together often to take more of these kind of pictures.
Death of the Newspaper?
2006/10/13 20:22:00What a dumb idea…
2006/07/25 21:10:32Cool Monitor Construction
2006/04/25 21:30:07Worlds Biggest PITA
2006/04/9 09:37:31Las Vegas Trip
2006/02/22 19:54:12
Paris-Las Vegas
Originally uploaded by msroest.
Part 2 of yesterdays post, the morning after my Thai class I got up super early for our morning flight to Las Vegas through Vancouver. The first part of the flight to Vancouver was good cause we had the WestJet personal TV. It’s pretty cool that they provide for free everyone with their own little TV to watch instead of sticking everyone with whatever crappy movie they decide to show. We had a short layover in Vancouver which gave us all time to grab something to eat before boarding the flight to Sin City.
When we arrived in Vegas it was a little windy but with the desert sun out strong it was actually quite warm. After getting everyone’s bags together we hopped some cabs to our hotel Imperial Palace (which by the way is pretty much a dive as far as stirp hotels go, but it does have a good location and it’s cheap). After dropping off the bags Trev and I went and had some lunch at one of the infamous vegas Buffet’s, then we walked arround the strip for a while and checked out Harrahs, The Venetian, and Treasure Island. Everyon (all 12 of us) spent the first evening gambling, I played Blackjack and Texas Hold’em ending up $20 at the end of the night. The next day after sleeping in a bit, we spent the day walking around ending up drinking on the patio at Paris (which has the replica of the Eiffel Tour pictured above) people watching. After sitting for a while me and T took the long trek to the Rio to buy tickets for Penn & Teller. For the rest of the afternoon we walked around the mall at Ceasers (which is approximately the size of Market Mall if you take out the Bay, Toys R Us, and Zellers). In the evening the whole group went to a steak house at the Venetian for dinner. The Penn and Teller show after dinner was really cool, if you’re even in Vegas I suggest going to see it. Saturday was another day of walking around, I gambled some more and lost 80 bucks for a net total of being down 60. By Sunday we were all pretty much sick of the whole Vegas experience, but I did have a chance to toss 20 bucks in a slot machine and win back my 60 bucks I went down the night before.
I didn’t really take all that many pictures since I was more concerned with having a good time. Plus being a bit drunk most of the time I didn’t really want to be carying my expensive camera around where I may forget it. But the rest of my posted Vegas pictures are in this set.
Info Dump
2006/02/21 22:04:25Well it’s been quite some time (wow 17 days) since I last posted and quite a bit has happened. The new job is still going amazingly well, I’m having a great time with the work and the people are all really cool. That’s not saying I don’t miss the people I used to work with cause I do but I’m completely convinced that it was the right decision for me to make.
On Wednesday (the 15th) Deanne and I took the trek to SAIT Polytechnic for a night of Thai cooking instruction. As usual I arrived incredibly early so I had about 45 minutes to chat with the instructor and his helper while they were setting up. The teacher was really good, the night was full of laughs and really good food, the image I’ve attached is a sampling of the dishes that we made. Right in the center is Thai Chicken Sate with Spicy Peanut Sauce, which Deanne’s group made. In the bottom right hand corner is the Pad Thai (from scratch including the sauce) that the group I was in made, and in the back is a Thai Beef Salad. I don’t have a picture of the other 2 things that were made but they were Chicken Soup with Coconut Milk & Bananas in Coconut Cream. I don’t have all the recipes posted yet, once I do they’ll be available here.
I’m totally hooked on the classes at SAIT and I want to take a few more of them:
Anyone who’s interested in taking any of them with me just give me a shout, I think the next one that I’ll be doing is the Italian course. Cause I found out the same instructor who did the Thai class is doing that one, and he was really good.
Ok I’ll make a post about my vegas trip tomorrow cause this one has taken me quite long enough.
Video of Much Coolness
2006/02/3 09:16:26New Job Week One
2006/01/21 08:46:34Roughnecks Season Opener
2006/01/15 13:13:11
Derrick the Amazing Mascot
Originally uploaded by msroest.
Friday night was the Roughnecks Home and Season Opener for the 2006 NLL season. The game wasn’t real great, we were playing the new Edmonton expansion team. We should have blown them away, but it ended up being a pretty close game. The final score was 11-9 for us so the result was a good start for the season. I brought my camera, long lense and monopod with me to the game (suprisingly enough I didn’t get hassled at all with my huge camera bag). I took about 90 pictures across the whole game and posted 58 of the ones that turned out the best. They’re all a little noisy at full size since they were all shot at 1600 ISO to get the chance at making them be decently sharp at 200-300mm with the available light in the saddledome.
Saturday in the morning I made a 50% whole wheat and honey bread, Imanaged to burn my finger in the process. The bread turned out really good though, I need to make bread more often. In the afternoon I went to see King Kong with Deanna & Keira. The movie is insanely long 3 hours and 10 minutes, which I wasn’t really prepared for. I really need to get myself in a mental place to handle a movie that long and yesterday I just wasn’t really ready for it. It was not too bad, the dinosaurs in the movie were a bit over the top, it’s not really Peter Jacksons fault I suppose since they were in the original, but personally I would have reduced the dino’s down to a small enough part to honor the original without making it silly. In the evening I went for dinner with the Mike, Ange, Colin, & Kristy at Brewsters then played a first person shooter board game called Frag. It was neat and hopefully I’ll have a chance to try it again soon.
Today is just a relaxing at home day, and preparing for my last day at the current job. Then to prepare for my first day at the new job that has me exicted and nervous all at the same time.
