I got my first holiday ornament in the mail today!!! Thank you Nanette. I have to admit, at first I was confused since the loop is by the toe but then I held it up…it’s a tumbling stocking. How ingenious! I love it!

While she did reveal that she started these last year and have been waiting for this year’s swap to begin, I now feel officially behind. What to make…what to make….

So the practical craftser in me decided to join cake & pie’s Holiday Ornament Swap. This way I can get 10 different ornaments for the tree this year. Woohoo! What to make…what to make…?

The blog has finally been ressurected! Not that I’ve been that active on it but it all started with a SQL update on my servers which then busted my REALLY old version of Wordpress. Then I let it lie for a couple of weeks while I started my new job. When I finally went to upgrade wordpress I broke something and couldn’t deal so it sat there broken for another few weeks. And for some reason, today seemed like a great day to take another stab at it and it worked! Hooray!

Happy belated Veteran’s Day! For the last 4 years I’ve worked near or on 5th and 23rd where the NYC Veteran’s day parade begins and every year I kick myself for not remembering the camera. But this year was different…this year I remembered the camera and snuck out for about an hour to walk around and snap some photos. Enjoy! (the full set)

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So what made me come out of hibernation you ask? Well I still haven’t found a decent video site for my custom slideshows. So I upload them to my servers and post them on my blog. Today, Theresa asked if I was willing to take photos of the Magnetic North Tshirt for her website. “No problem”, I replied. Then she started asking co-workers to pose and this is the result of the fun distraction from work today in our lunchroom. The green wall worked out great! I just wish it was a bigger space without that door! Click on the photo for the video…enjoy =)

The pictures are @ Flickr

Verb
[-nating, -nated] (of some animals) to pass the winter in a resting state in which heartbeat, temperature, and breathing rate are very low [Latin hibernare to spend the winter]

I think I’ve come to accept that I’m not a blogger by nature. Well that’s not entirely true - there are a couple of unfinished posts that never saw the light of day. Also, I generally post by way of photos but I wasn’t taking much of those either. Now that will also change since I recently purchased the Nikon D300 and the 18-200 VR lens.

And as proof you can go look at the over 1100 pictures I have uploaded in the last 30 days. So…Happy New Year everyone and how the heck did it become June???

I got a chance to go on my first segway ride. It took about 5-10 minutes of zooming around a tennis court before Bill, the leader, took us off the turtle mode. Then we were off along the coastline of Half Moon Bay trying to hit the top speed of 12.6 mph. Stopping and turning is quite intuitive and natural. Going backwards and over bumps was still a bit unnerviing. Nevertheless, the ride was a total blast! For the full set, look here.

For the full set, look here.