Happy 4th!

So tomorrow, I begin my long journey westward to my new home in San Mateo, CA and my new job in Menlo Park. Today is sad for me, because everything is winding down, and I am leaving my home in Maryland once again. My awesome friends here threw a big goodbye party for me, with Rock Band and Smash Bros. and some darn good food and drink. Today my parents had a big BBQ - we ate steak and played with the dogs. The party last night kept me up very late, and looming storm clouds convinced us to stay in rather than journey downtown to see fireworks. But we had an excellent Australian Shiraz to go with the televised display, and with all the feelings and my energy level, it was a nice way to spend the 4th.

Tomorrow will be sad in the morning, but I expect it will be exciting and adventurous by afternoon. My super-cool sister is helping me with the 3 to 4 day drive out to northern California, and I think once we get on the road I will be ecstatic and impatient about the new life I'm to build out there.

Perhaps more retrospective later - for now, I must get music for the road ahead. Peace and best wishes, friends.

Anime Central 2008 Photos!

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

Alright, y'all, the big one! Unfortunately, because I don't have a computer of my own at the moment, this collection does not have my usual filtering for good results - there are some photos in here that are total crap, and there are many 'duplicates' which I would normally reduce ( I generally aim for 1 photo / subject ). However, quite a few of them are really good, so you might wanna check it out.

Original Photoset

On Skiing

Skiing this week was good. There was only one time I really got out of control - fortunately, I managed to stop myself by using my face.

Pics to come.

MFM Things

Pictures!

Last weekend I went to Mephit Furmeet again. Four years in Indiana, four trips to Memphis for a convention celebrating my most unusual hobby. I wouldn't say time flew by, exactly, but it's crazy to think I've been pulling these oddball convention stunts for that long. Anyway, the trip was a total blast - I got to meet some cool new people, play some super-fun LAN games, and take lots of interesting pictures with my shiny new Canon Rebel XT.

I think my photography has improved vastly since last year, considering I had 250 viable photos from this year's con, as opposed to 17 from last year's. Of course quantity isn't quality, but the fact is I probably had roughly equal numbers of photos taken at the con, and this time most of them came out well enough that I feel I can post them online, as opposed to last time where most of them were too blurry, discolored, or generally craptastic for me to feel comfortable showing them to others. The year before I hadn't gotten my Nikon Coolpix yet, and only my Freshmen year did I make the mistake of using disposable cameras (limited shooting, horrible color, expensive development). So I think this year I'm really doing better, and that's exciting.

And to all the cool people I met, a grand hello, and I hope to maintain contact. Feel free to email me any time.

Canada Trip Photos

Alrighty! Back from a trip to Canada this weekend. My first journey to our northern neighbor was for the cause of an anime convention, and boy was it a lot of fun. Pictures are online from the convention, as well as from our stopover in Niagara Falls. It was a totally awesome trip, even if it involved nearly 26 hours of driving for me over the course of the weekend. Kyle was a blast to travel with.

So, summer is up and rockin'! Who's doing what?

Today the State, tomorrow, the WORLD!

Today I am leaving Purdue's beautiful campus. Tomorrow I'm leaving the country. I will be going to Los Cabos, Mexico. I may or may not have internet access there - if I do, I will be posting lots of stuff to my flickr. If you've subscribed to my new feed, they'll pop up there.

Everybody approaching Spring Break - have a good one!