Sunday, June 24, 2007

Amarillo by morning, west from OKC.

Matthew and I roadtripped to Amarillo this weekend. We left OKC Friday morning, and came home this morning.

In honor of Matthew's brother's, Jonathan's, birthday, we hiked at Palo Duro Canyon.

Jonathan went higher than the rest of us.

I took this picture four other times before I got this one. I wanted the clouds & sky to be bright, but defined.

Luke, age seven, wasn't shy about going into any of the caves.

My goal for this photograph was to get the light to illuminate the spider's legs. Now that I look at it, I'm distracted by brightness from the bottom.

Here's the other friend I we made. He was shy around us at first, but was also pretty curious about looking at us, after he warmed up.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Apparently the internet is not the place to share personal conversations. Maria asked me to take down the dialog from two weeks ago.

I convinced her that my wide audience were not the gossiping type, so she let me leave it up under the condition that I use discretion in the future.

Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Figaro's Bath

Earlier today, I was taking a nap, and the sounds that woke me up I thought were from a dying cat.

Turns out that Figaro was receiving a bath in the kitchen sink.

The Wet Beast

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

My butt feels like there was a wedge in it for a few hours.

I rode the trails around Lake Hefner tonight--all 9.1 miles. The whole outting took about two hours. Addition to the trails, I also rescued a small nylon kite from a tree, used my cellphone to record the dialog, assembled and dismantled my bike.

My goal was to sprint the penultimate half-mile, and slowly cruise the last half-mile. Turns out that I'm in terrible shape, and can't bike sprint more than a quarter-mile.
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EXT. LAKE HEFNER BIKE TRAIL. NIGHT

Daniel rides his bike through the darkness. As he approaches a bridge, he notices white debris on the left side of the bridge. When he reaches the bridge, the debris flys towards his tires.

DANIEL:
Ahhh!

He sees the debris is a cat. The cat races inches from his tire along a parallel path.

DANIEL:
Ahhh!

The tires squeal as Daniel brakes. The cat speeds ahead and disappears into some brush.

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My internship at Walker Creative started yesterday. The first assignment my supervisor gave me was to invent and sketch logos for a sports management company. I spent a few morning hours on that.

I spent the afternoon watching Total Training tutorials.

Tomorrow's day two!

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Matthew and I changed Amos' water earlier this week. He's really happy in it. Matthew gave me aquarium salt, and Amos really seems to love it. He's swimming much more. He keeps his fins fully extended.

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Christi Mitchell introduced me to this band yesterday. She suggested the song Firecracker. I like Every Day alot too.
DANIEL:
Maria, how long have we known each other?

MARIA:
Why are you asking?

DANIEL:
Do you ever think that our friendship is more than a friendship?

MARIA:
Do you think it's more?

DANIEL:
Would that be a bad thing?

MARIA:
Should it be?

DANIEL:
Is that what you think?

MARIA:
What are we talking about?

Monday, June 4, 2007

INT. KITCHEN. EVENING.

Daniel rinses off a plate and loads it into the the dishwasher. He sprays the basin. The elbow noodles dance into the garbage disposal.

Daniel locates a switch on the wall to the right of the sink. He puts his fingers on the switch and says:

DANIEL:
Devour!

He engages the switch and the lamp above the sink turns on.

Sunday, June 3, 2007

Collide Festival: Cancelled!

I had plans to go to Collide Festival at the end of this week. It would have started on Thursday and finished on Saturday. Sister Sharon, her two kids, Deena and I all had plans to camp for the whole event and now we get zip.

Eight inches of rain left the event field saturated. Technically, the festival isn't cancelled, just rescheduled. Collide Management has an idea that rescheduling the event for June 12, 13, & 14, 2008 is postponing.

All tickets for this year's fest are valid for Collide 08. 41,711 ticket holders shouldn't be upset about that. The Collide site doesn't say anything about refunds.

Ticket holders, event organizers, bands--everyone loses.