Thanksgiving
There are many things I should be thankful for and many more things I could be thankful for, but mostly this year I’m thankful for a wonderful wife who cares for, supports, and challenges me. We’ve been married four and a half years but I feel like I’m still just beginning to get to know Carrie and understand how wonderful she is!
Happy thanksgiving everyone! Sorry if that was too cheesy for you. ;)
Mixtapes
Mixtapes (a.k.a. mixed tapes). As Laura said:
Remember mixed tapes, how rad were they? I guess now I should say, “put this on your next mixed CD”, but that just doesn’t sound as good.
A couple mixes have been passed between friends and I’m thinking it’s time to step it up and share my eclectic tastes as well. Want me to make you a mix? Drop a comment (possibly with some bands you like) and I’ll send a CD your way. You’re free to reciprocate, but it’s not required.
Summer
corn, it seems
springs full grown from the ground
to towering heights
and soy leaves
in their months-long dance
sway with the wind and rain
The grub feasts and
the sparrow as well
in shade and brush and dirt
for the summer sun beats relentlessly
sustaining all things
Soliloquy
I would like to think I could be a poet on purpose.
Delivering smooth lines to you convincingly.
Stunning you not with what I said, but how I said it.
But it doesn’t really suit us, talking like that
Surprise!
Carrie is finishing up her school work this week and it was Jenna’s first day on the job, so we threw a surprise party! Well, a surprise for Carrie, anyway; Jenna was in the know. It was a smashing success, filled with cake, ice cream, games, and YouTube videos.
Covers
It feels like a great night for serious, toned-down covers of ridiculous songs (think Alanis Morisset covering My Humps). I posted these to livejournal way back in the day, but here they are again.
Radio Fatigue
My coworker in the cube next to me listens to the radio all day long. Sometimes I just can’t take it any more and I retreat to my headphones. I don’t know how you people who work with the radio and don’t have that option put up with it.
At the moment I’ve been drowning it out with Mumford and Sons, Blue Giant, and Freelance Whales. Guess I’m on a folk-rock kick.
Sometimes what I really want though is silence. On those days when 4 o’clock rolls around and my coworker leaves it’s pure bliss.
Backgrounds, Deluxe Edition
I had someone point out that my backgrounds might look better without all the solid black so I cropped a couple of them and spiced ’em up. Enjoy.
Some Background Images
One of my hobbies is messing around with computer generated music and images. I sent some of my artwork to a friend of mine who’s in school for graphic design and she encouraged me to make some background images with it. Here’s the result. You might recognize the first image from an earlier post. (Click any thumbnail for the full 2560×1600 image.)
