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A collection of photos every single day along with general life information and the always entertaining travel rants.

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  • My Baby Sister is 30

    Posted on Thursday August 28th, 2008 at 22:28 in

    Today is Shelby’s 30th birthday. I took the day off and we went to the Cape for an extended long weekend. I also have tomorrow off. Allison and Eva and I got up to the house about 12:30pm. We fe...

  • Pringles Art

    Posted on Wednesday August 27th, 2008 at 22:06 in

    That Ted Murphy, he went and brightened up my day today. He sent out a tweet around noon. I totally missed the part about plugging my blog for doing this too. I only saw that he wanted people to make ...

  • Go Miniman Go - 30 Years

    Posted on Monday August 25th, 2008 at 20:53 in , photo-a-day

    Photo-A-Day #1235 Today a box arrived for me, inside were 30 LEGO minifigures. Well, parts for 30 minifigures. I put them together and made 30 figures. I set them all up in a group and shot today̵...

  • Living History

    Posted on Sunday August 24th, 2008 at 20:58 in

    Photo-A-Day #1234 Today Allison and I went to her family reunion. It was a pretty big one because her grandfather (red shirt) Bob is the youngest of 13. There are 4 siblings remaining (pictured). The ...

  • Up River

    Posted on Saturday August 23rd, 2008 at 19:42 in

    Photo-A-Day #1233 Today I went on the Ten Mile River with Keith Gonsalves. Keith was the guy who organized the Roger Williams Paddle back in July. It looks like that will be an annual event, and I am ...

  • Havana on my Mind

    Posted on Friday August 22nd, 2008 at 20:01 in

    Photo-A-Day #1232 Last night I went to a place called Havana Mania for dinner with my Uncle Jim. He asked me if I liked Cuban food and I was sort of non committal about it, I like it but not really ra...

  • Made in the Shade

    Posted on Thursday August 21st, 2008 at 23:59 in , photo-a-day, wom world

    Photo-A-Day #1231 Today was the day after a whirlwind. I was up for over 24 hours straight. So you’d figure I’d wake up late, nope. I ended up awake at 5:00am (went to bed at 1:00am) I got...

  • Death of a Scene

    Posted on Thursday August 21st, 2008 at 02:49 in , photo-a-day, wom world nokia

    Photo-A-Day #1230 Today I was up at 3:30am and headed to the Providence Airport to catch a flight to Cleveland and then to LA to work on filming some “Famous Death Scenes” as part of the N...

  • The Coolest Business Cards Ever

    Posted on Tuesday August 19th, 2008 at 18:47 in

    Photo-A-Day #1229 These are my Moo cards for IZEAFest 2008, Blog World Expo and also to bring with me to LA tomorrow. I’m so glad that they arrived in time. And look at the quality. I have never...

  • Maxin’ and Relaxin’

    Posted on Monday August 18th, 2008 at 19:39 in , fuelmyblog, nokia productions, photo-a-day, picapp, wom world nokia

    Photo-A-Day #1228 At lunch today one of my co-workers says that there is some trucker sunbathing in the parking lot. Apparently this guy pulled his truck into the parking lot to catch some Z’s a...

  • Round and Round

    Posted on Sunday August 17th, 2008 at 19:09 in

    Photo-A-Day #1227 Today was the annual company picnic. Actually it was day two of the picnic. The company is so large that we have to split the picnic into two days. So employees can choose to come to...

  • Little Piggies

    Posted on Saturday August 16th, 2008 at 19:24 in

    Photo-A-Day #1226 Today started off with a goodbye to Mom and Dad. They are taking Shelby’s truck up to Canada with their friends Don and Alice. Good, gives them a chance to get away and relax. ...

  • Boston at Night

    Posted on Friday August 15th, 2008 at 23:59 in

    Photo-A-Day 1225 Tonight Allison and I went to see Ellis Paul in Boston. My sister Tara and my BIL Erik came with us as well. Erik, Tara and Allison picked me up at work and then we crawled to Boston ...

  • At Fortune House

    Posted on Thursday August 14th, 2008 at 20:01 in

    Photo-A-Day #1224 I’m home from Montana and got home in time to have dinner at our favorite Chinese Restaurant, The Fortune House, with Allison and Eva. You should have seen the smile on EvaR...

  • Give me an “M”

    Posted on Wednesday August 13th, 2008 at 22:33 in , travel

    Photo-A-Day #1223 After the demonstration today I walked up The “M” trail at the University of Montana. I discovered a few things that were made painfully obvious on the way up and down th...

  • Free Wheeling

    Posted on Tuesday August 12th, 2008 at 21:46 in

    Photo-A-Day #1222 I’m hanging out in Missoula, Montana. It is a pretty cool town. Very small and you can cover it quickly. I observed some demonstrations this morning and then hit the Harley-Dav...

  • Steak Sauce, Hot Sauce, What Sauce…

    Posted on Monday August 11th, 2008 at 10:53 in , utterz

    Photo-A-Day #1221 I travel all over the country and eat in many places. What I’ve noticed is that every place has its own tastes. Some places are big on Hot Sauce, others like mayo on fries. I w...

  • For the 15th time

    Posted on Sunday August 10th, 2008 at 21:11 in , photo-a-day

    Photo-A-Day #1220 My sister Tara has run the Falmouth Road Race 15 times in her life. She started way back when she was a teen and has run as many as she could since then, missing a year here or there...

  • Has she learned to “share” yet?

    Posted on Saturday August 9th, 2008 at 21:17 in

    Photo-A-Day #1219 Eva is a big fan of Cheerios these days, she loves picking up the little pieces and eating them. We are on the Cape for the weekend and so are other members of the family like my sis...

  • Black Eye

    Posted on Thursday August 7th, 2008 at 19:20 in

    Photo-A-Day #1217 d Susans. When I got home today the weather was crappy, the drive was long and I wasn’t too interested in staying outside much longer because of the rain. I took my camera out ...

  • Bathtub Pumpkins

    Posted on Wednesday August 6th, 2008 at 18:56 in

    Photo-A-Day #1206 My sister Tara has planted some pumpkins in Uncle Richard’s old cast iron bathtub. Sure, it isn’t the traditional Our Lady of the Porcelain Shrine but it is still pretty ...

  • Paddington Meets Eva

    Posted on Saturday August 2nd, 2008 at 20:39 in

    Photo-A-Day #1212 Before I forget, I am running a contest for a Baby Sherpa Diaper BackPack, just like the one I use, on Read to Me, Dad. It is so nice to be home. Yesterday was one long day of lines,...

  • Westminster Abbey

    Posted on Friday August 1st, 2008 at 06:34 in

    .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Westminster Abbey, o...

  • Darkest Peru

    Posted on Thursday July 31st, 2008 at 17:22 in

    Photo-A-Day #1210 Today I started off on a mission to go and pick up a few things around the city. That was after I completed my demonstration for a client You know the real reason I am over her...

  • The Wheels on the Bus

    Posted on Wednesday July 30th, 2008 at 18:01 in

    Photo-A-Day #1209 Today I got up and headed out with my friend Bill. We were going to take the Big Bus Company Tour. We bought our tickets at the front desk of the hotel, then we went over to the Kilb...

  • Bathroom Etiquette

    Posted on Tuesday July 29th, 2008 at 18:48 in

    Photo-A-Day #1208 Tonight after our demonstrations we went to a nice little pub for dinner. In the upstairs ladies bathroom there was a giant painting on the wall. The ladies that I was with went upst...

  • Changing of the Guard…

    Posted on Monday July 28th, 2008 at 12:59 in

    Photo-A-Day #1207 I flew to London last night. For me it should be 11:24am and I haven’t slept yet. When I landed I landed with 3 other people from work. We wedged ourselves into a Cab for...

  • Turtle Topple

    Posted on Sunday July 27th, 2008 at 14:19 in

    Photo-A-Day #1206 Today I worked on the Wired Kayaker ‘podcast’ with my footage from last Saturday. I made a 15 minute video uploaded it to YouTube and then went to the Zoo. When I came ho...

  • At Borders with Ellis Paul

    Posted on Saturday July 26th, 2008 at 18:37 in

    Photo-A-Day #1205 I’ve decided to take out the PAD # part of my titles. I’ve slowly been making my titles more and more friendly to search engines. I have been posting a Photo-A-Day for a ...

  • Indecent Proposal… PAD #1204

    Posted on Friday July 25th, 2008 at 20:53 in

    You just know some joker went and proposed with a packet of Border Sauce, you just know it. Man it was a long day with lots of travel. Will be updating things tomorrow and will be replying to e-mails ...