Biker Granny

hey look everyone, my grandma is the coolest. she lives in the other side of Bloomington than we do, so every Sunday for church my aunt and uncle pick her up. well uncle rick has a Harley, and sometimes he will ride it to church and let one of the kids pick up Memaw. and every time he does that, they will joke about picking Memaw up on the Harley. it usually pretty funny. but a couple weeks ago while we were at the church's yearly picnic at the park it finally happened. my 80 some odd year old grandma got on the back f a Harley and rode around. best part is, she had a blast. lol enjoy



more are here. (hotlinked this time for jeff montgomery, lol)

so i finnaly got to go see rachel this summer, at her house. and it just so happens that the day i went out there, her little niece marrissa was there too. she is 8 years old and loves to ham it up. we went out to eat at rachel's aunt debbie's resaraunt in kurtz, indiana. we ate, and then we walked around town taking pictures and stopping to talk to francis. then we went to the playground a took pictures here. all these were taken with my d70 and my new 50mm prime.

sorry the formatting is crazy. but im too lazy to fix it. see more here
http://www.nikoncafe.com/vforums/showthread.php?t=177456
or here
http://family.webshots.com/album/563116965aNbmlS

so i got my birthday present from elaine on tuesday, even though my birthday isnt until thursday. o crap, its wednesday night and i didnt renew my license. it's now in need of renewal. but anyway, elaine got me a lens i wanted. its the nikon 50mm 1.8 prime. i love it already. its's real sharp, gives me great depth of field, and it was cheap (for a lens that is). so here is a picture of my brother i took today. i like it. anyone want some portaits?


o ya, and here's one i took in the mirror of elaine's car after i got it. it went on the camera before we left the store and i dont think its come off since.

pulled apart by the powers that be

life is unpredictable. very very unpredictable. especially mine here lately. nothing really seems to go as planned. all my plans for the summer never happened...and now instead of a job related to anything i want to so in my career, i am selling gasoline and cigarettes at a gas station. it's a job, but not what i planned, or even expected. nothing just seems to go like i thought it would. there are alot if things in my life that arent going to go as planned. not that it is all bad. there are a lot of good things coming up in my future, but its going to be hard to change some things. i am going to be missing out on a lot of things i really loved and i was really looking forward to. there are benefits to both sides, now its just a matter of deciding which way im suppose to go. i know god is leading me, its just hard to decide which one he wants me to do as opposed to what i want to do. earlier i felt like writing a whole lot. but now i dont, im just kinda in a weird place right now. there are going to be some changes in my life soon, and im just trying to figure out how to deal with them


anyway, i took a whole bunch of pictures today, im at brians and i left my usb cable at home. so they will be posted later. and there are many typing and spelling mistakes in this, but i dont care right now.

slacking on the posting

Well it's been a while since I’ve posted anything. And in listed form here are my lame excuses
1. Time
2. I have to use the crappy pc for the internet right now. I don’t like it
3. Because I have to use this computer, I cannot use my laptop...which I like to type on and hate using this crappy keyboard. Its killing me right now.
4. I usually post things when I stay up all night, and I haven’t done that since I was in Searcy

anyway, here’s stuff I’m going to post about. I had another post mostly written and even typed, but never finished it. One day maybe.

Well I finally got a job. I was hoping to get one related to what I do...like TV or photog or something. I was pretty excited when the greene county daily world told me they would have me take some pictures, but I’m kinda irritated at them right now. I've got 6 pictures published and still haven’t gotten paid. They probably won’t get too many more pictures from me, even after I get paid. But I do have a job now. I'm working with Elaine’s dad at the circle k/shell in Ellettsville. So basically I sell gas and cigarettes to the odd characters you find over in Ellettsville. It’s interesting. A couple people came in today absolutely baked. But hey, it pays.

Ben is in Honduras right now, I’m jealous. He's there with all these cool people, and doing all this cool stuff, and helping out all these cool people. And oh the photographic opportunities. I've been to Tegucigalpa 3 times, and I sooo want to go back. B4 I left school I was talking to a friend from Central America, and she was telling me about another mission in Tegucigalpa that she was helping with, and all it did was make me want to go more. I hate when people tell me I need to stay and make money. I already have more than they do, why can’t I just go help them? I don’t know, but here I sit. Getting frustrated at this keyboard. I’m buying a wireless router next week so I can use my mac. But anyway, check out the blogs from people in duras with been. http://shutterbugf5.blogspot.com/ and http://torchmission.blogspot.com/

anyway, life has been interesting lately. Its good to be home, but it's weird. I don’t know where life is heading right now. Well I do, but I just don’t know how to get there. I don’t know if I’m gonna be at Harding in the fall. I’m looking at other stuff. I’ve sorta made a decision, but I’m still not positive. I dunno. I really love the people I’ve met in Searcy, and I’ve had and still have tons of opportunities there, but there are other things that deter from that. I’ll probably go into more detail later. Once I can stop using this stupid keyboard.

o ya, and I got a new lens...yay! It’s nothing real fancy, at least for anyone who knows much about photography. It’s a Nikon lens, 70-300 f4-5.6 it’s nice and long, which I needed. And it was only 95 bucks from some dude in Pennsylvania. I dunno how to spell Pennsylvania.

And before I give up writing anything of substance because I’m tired, who all reads this? I got that little map thing and see that there’s some that do, I just dunno who? Just in the past few days when I post nothing I see people have looked at it from Searcy, here in southern Indiana, Los Angeles, and like Fort Lauderdale or something. Who are you people? I don’t know too many people from la. Or any that I can think of. o well.

But I’m going to bed, adios. Pray for me, and ill pray for you

im putting this here because it didnt work on facebook. and i want to show people how ridiculus and unprofesional it is. and why they should have given me a paid internship. blast the need for money!

Hello, I'm a Mac

So I’m pretty sure I can’t write a good blog unless It’s the middle of the night, or I stayed up all night. So here we go because I stayed up all night!
So I was up studying for finals last night, and I came back to my room and sat down at the computer for a minute before I took a shower and I found this video. It’s an old apple ad, and since you know how i love my mac, I had to watch it. And i must say it’s sweet. So before you read any more..scroll to wherever on the page it is and read it.
So now hopefully you saw the video. But if you haven’t I’m gonna list what it says.



“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. “
And through the whole thing they are showing old video of people ranging from einsten to mlk to frank loyd wright to john lennon to amelia aerhat to kermit the frog and jim henson to a bunch of people i couldn’t recognize real easy. It’s cool.

Ok now bringing everyone together so we all know what happens. The point of it is to say that it’s the people that are different that really make a difference. It’s the people that aren’t of the same mold that most often do those significant things. Sorta like the opposite of Hitler. Then I also think they are trying to say that Apple is thinking different from everyone else, and that means they are moving in a better direction than everyone else. But that has no meaning to this blog, so who cares.

But this whole think different thing I really like. Because in many cases it’s true. It has been the people who are not like everyone else that make a difference. Yet, the mac ad missed a whole genre of people who made a difference and weren’t like everyone else: the people from the one and only BIBLE!! Just off the top of my head Jesus, Moses, all the disciples, countless people. Paul comes to my mind now. But that’s mostly because i just took my Acts of the Apostles final. Paul was not thinking like everyone else. In the last few chapters of Acts, Paul is arrested, put in jail, stands trial 3 different times, gets transfered between jails 3 times, and is nearly killed at least 3 times. All this because he believes in that Jesus Christ is the Son of God who died and rose again for the forgiveness of our sins, and he wanted to share that with the world. The people he faced didn’t always believe this and they often caused him trouble. But he was thinking differently, not the same as all the people who were opposing him, putting him in jail, and plotting against his life. He made a difference.

Kinda makes you think. With all the people in the world today...people who don’t believe in the same God as you, who don’t have morals, who don’t agree with you...how are you going to react? Are you going to conform, or are you going to make a difference? I know what I want to do.

Think Different.