Now you can play Army without the hassle of getting deployed! Grab your own complete uniform with assorted accessories at my new eBay auction.
A friend of mine recently left active duty in the Air Force and so I’m helping him get rid of excess surplus by listing the items on eBay. Get em’ while their hot!
Click the image below to view all auctions currently running.
Last Saturday night we celebrated Tyler’s birthday with a big party at the house. I’m finally getting around to posting the pictures. Most of the images are from him battling the Darth Vader pinata that I got for him. It was a fun little break from the normal party routine. I filled the pinata with Hersey minitures, lolipops, dentyne gum and condoms (I had to add a little humor). I also buried his official present inside as well.
To post the pictures this time, I decided to use the Flickr photo service so hopefully this works ok. The photography gallery that is part of this blog uses a software called Gallery and isn’t really practical for just quick picture posts and is somewhat cumbersome to use. For posting just a few pictures here and there I can usually just embed them in an entry but anything more then a couple pictures becomes a hassle to upload and link to. So I’m hoping the Flickr gallery will provide a solution to posting pictures here within the blog. It also has a really cool slideshow built in to it so that’s kinda nice also. Plus the photos are stored on the Flickr servers instead of mine so I don’t have to deal with the server storage space or the bandwidth 
Click below to view the party photos and Darth Vader’s battle to the death! Of course there is the gratuitous shirtless picture of Tyler that everyone is always looking for on here lol.
May 16th came and went without much notice. Little did I know that it marked the final monthly payment of my college student loans. 13 years after graduating, I finally passed the grand threshold of adulthood and am now free of my college debt. I went to Norwich University, a small private military college nestled in the green mountains of Vermont. When I entered as a freshman in 1988, the tuition was a steep $18,000 a year. By the time I graduated in 1992 it had gone up to about $23,000. Of course I didn’t pay this entire amount. I had scholarships, federal and university grants and parent loans to supplement this. It was however, a hefty burden that has now passed.
The phone calls started coming in last night. Jason Sibley, a friend of ours from Seattle, committed suicide. I didn’t really know Jason very well but we shared the same close group of friends for the past 5 or 6 years. I’m not sure if a blog is really the appropriate place for writing about this type of news but I figured I’d make a quick post. I’m not even sure what there is to say really except that something like this makes you stop and think about those around you and where we all are at in life. I’m not sure exactly how old Jason was but I think he was in his late twenties or maybe recently in his thirties now.
Back in Seattle, I had my camera in my hand at every party and social event and so I thought I’d browse through the years of pictures I have stored on my computer and see if I could round up some of Jason. I realized I didn’t have that many of him. The few that I did find, I have posted here.
Jason had a lot of people who considered him a friend. Maybe he would be surprised to learn how many thousands of miles the phone calls covered last night as the news went out. There is always the maybes and the what-ifs. We all can’t help but stop and ask ourselves, how does it ever get that bad?
My thoughts and prayers go out to his family to all of those who were his friend.
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It’s been a few weeks since I’ve written. For some reason I just haven’t been in the mood. The transition into the new house has been very nice and I love it so far. It’s very relaxing. Maybe that’s part of the reason I haven’t written. I’ve been extremely busy with work, which is a good thing I guess. I haven’t felt the urge to wander off into other distractions like blogging to kill time while I avoid work. The open space and bright light of the new house has made working from home great. Keeping this site up-to-date has been on my mind lately though, so I’m hoping that I can write a bit more when I find the time.
Last weekend was San Diego gay pride. It was a ton of fun. Nothing like LA, mind you (wink), but fun none-the-less. Just kidding. That was a comment for Betty. Honestly though, it was my first San Diego pride and the weekend was great. I didn’t really take many pictures though, mostly because sometimes it just gets burdensome to carry around the camera, even the small compact pocket Canon that I have. I’ll post a few shots later that I thought were cool.
Well on to the subject of this particular post. Our roommate Tyler has a brother that breeds chameleons. So, after a few weeks of waiting, our newest little roommate arrived today via UPS. I snapped a few shots to share with everything. I’m not a big fan of reptiles but I must admit he is quite fascinating to watch. I’m sure I’ll have some more pictures of him as time goes on. We haven’t named him yet so we just call him Chamey. I think he looks like one of those wierd generals from Star Wars, so I’m researching what that guy’s name was. If anybody knows who I’m talking about, let me know. We’ll take a vote and decide on a name soon. Afterall, our house mascot has to have a name.
My roommate Dylan also setup the LIVE “Chameleon Cam”… dare I say Cham-Cam. A webcam for Chamey, which you can check out online at http://www.dagzilla.com/webcam.html. Yes, that’s right… LIVE! from Chamey’s cage. He’s not always in view, so be patient. The pictures are somewhat deceiving… he’s only about 4 inches long.
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