It’s been ten days and already a lot has happened in 2009. I’m now a graduate graduate student at Lewis University. I finally got all the photos from my October 2008 trip to Colorado onto Flickr (ok, actually that was late last year but still…). My employer has changed and now I work for “National City now a part of PNC”. And I finally upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.7.
I plan on writing a longer post on my trip – maybe a bit of a narrative – and of course embed slideshows of the photos I took. I have a lot of raw video to go through as well but I’m waiting for iMovie ’09 to get it all put together. I really want to use some of those cool new map transitions – Indiana Jones style!
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\\ tags: Apple, Colorado, iMovie, Indiana Jones, Lewis University, National City, Photos, PNC, Video, Wordpress
Tomorrow I leave for Iowa to spend my New Year’s Eve with family. I’m especially excited to be going at this time due to the upcoming Iowa caucuses on Thursday, Jan. 3rd. In fact, my parent’s town has been the subject of several recent news stories. I just missed both Mike Huckabee and Fred Thompson, who were in Pella this morning. Perhaps there will be more high-profile visits coming up over the weekend—I wouldn’t mind seeing any of the candidates although it would be cool to see some of the higher-profile ones, including Hillary Clinton, John McCain, or Barack Obama.
Due to my time away, I may not be updating until the new year. But look for pictures/videos at that time.
Happy New Year!
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I’m heading out of town tomorrow afternoon for a nice restful Thanksgiving in Pella, IA. Therefore I probably won’t have much time to post a proper blog entry until Saturday (and I think I have a good idea for one brewing) so I’ll attempt to communicate my activities via Twitter since they are aggregated here anyway.
In other news I just read that Facebook will be removing the “is” from its status updates. All those clever work-arounds Brett Terpstra figured out for MoodBlast? Might not matter any more. Pity, because they were very very useful. Personally I’m looking forward to MoodBlast 3—seems that a lot of changes are afoot.
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My vacation photos are now available! Here is a link to the album on Picasa:
Vacation 2007: Mall of America & Norman, OK
Of course, there’s a Picasa flash embed after the jump if you’re so inclined. Click away!
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Trying my first blog post from the iPhone. Not sure how well this will work…it would be nice if WordPress had a dedicated iPhone management console. Maybe it does, I’ll have to investigate that. Anyway, I’m still in Norman for another 12 hours and then on to Kansas City. (My my, typing with two thumbs takes some practice.) I think I’ll cut this one off here and post a bit more when I get home.
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The trip to the Mall of America was, for the most part, uneventful in that nothing bad happened. In fact, it was rather fun. We stayed at the Ramada Mall of America in Bloomington, MN, which is right across the street from the mall and IKEA. We were also fortunate enough to be chosen as one of the five “Guests of the Night,” which entitled us to a variety of prizes including two reduced all-day passes to The Park at MOA (which used to be called Camp Snoopy and is slowly transforming into Nickelodeon Universe). While there aren’t that many rides, it was very uncrowded on Monday so my sis and I were able to ride most of the rides several times. It was a nice chance for she and I to occupy ourselves while mom did the shopping. That’s not to say that we didn’t shop – I picked up a few things at IKEA, Bow Wow Meow (pet stuff), and made a stop at the Apple Store.
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