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We got our new digital camera this month.  It’s a Canon Digital Rebel xti.We loved our old Nikon 4300, but its pictures always seemed washed out compared to those we took with our film camera, which was also a Canon Rebel.  Having the digital version gives us the best of both worlds.  A big problem […]

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I just read about an amazingly well done, award winning flash game called Samarost 2.  I played through the first level in a few minutes, and it was terrific fun — kind of like the old Sierra and Lucasarts adventure games.  From the website you can also play Samarost 1, which I haven’t checked out […]

It’s been over five years since we took Perl in off the street, and today we had to have her put down.  She had been very sick and probably was suffering from kidney failure.  Here’s one of the last pictures we took of her a couple weeks ago.Trying to explain this to Tommy was interesting:Me: […]

…would probably look much better!  This was sitting on my in-laws’ end table, and I decided to try and  contour-draw it while waiting for Tommy to fall asleep.  It turned out OK.

Lindsey and I went to the opera not long ago and saw The Barber of Seville, and it was by far the highpoint of this year’s opera season.  It was absolutely amazing!  Yes, it’s that good.  And not just according to L and I.  People were shouting Bravo! at the end of the overture before […]

tue 1.00thu 1.18sat 2.43These were all treadmill runs because of all the rain and wind last week, which also meant no biking.  I’m doing more stretching beforehand and ice-down time afterwards for my knees, which has kept them from getting too sore.  It’s going to be a while before I break 20 mi / week […]

I did this during a community art class last year.They gave us reference material — this wasn’t off the top of my head.  But the vase was taller in real life.

Smiley Face

Originally uploaded by djennewe.

Ellie found the Smilee Frisbee

I’ve been doodling in the margins of my notebooks and textbooks for years and have decided to try and actually develop some drawing skill.  I’ve gone to a couple community-offered courses and bought a few used art textbooks (nice thing about being in a college town — the used book store downtown is overflowing with […]