Go for Launch!

This is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time.
Link.
It is a series of time-lapse movies of the Space Shuttle being moved into position and launched.

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Jackpot !!

Look at today and the next two, nice and sunny. I guess the reason I put this pic up is that I have never seen 3 suns in a row on the little weather window on my Yahoo home page screen. It looks like some kind of weather slot machine, Sunny Jackpot.




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Here is some video I shot of last night's ride home then the Royals game, I can't stress how beautiful the evening was last night.



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Last night the Wife, kids (daughter's friend and nephew too) went to the Omaha Royals game. It was a PERFECT night. The Royals won 2 to 1 too.




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Last day of school and weekend

Starting Friday May 21, my kids are out of school for the summer.

Saturday night at our friends house: My daughter riding the little 70cc motorbike.


Same bike, with my son riding. He was killing it, once he got the hang of it he was on it for 15 minutes making great turns (after one turn that included a privacy fence bump) and a little hot-dogging.


Friday night... Famous Daves !! Oh yeah!


Friday after I picked up my son from school (my daughter went home with a friend and spent the night) we went down to the river front. My son rides his bike while I shoot video and take photos. This night I was practicing shooting video with my new Nikon D5000.



Here is my son's school with all the kids lined up for the 6th graders to make their walk to all the applause. It was kind of touching.


My son right before the 6th graders walk.



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Farmers Market, May 22, 2010

Here is the third video I made for the 2010 Farmers Market season. It was a much warmer morning along with a good amount of wind but that was not a deterrent at all, there were a good number of people attending.

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Why you shouldn't let pet drive.

This is just too precious... Karla snapped a picture of her dog Pinky, "driving". We know dogs can't drive cars but Karla was just having a little fun. 10 minutes later she got into an accident and we (at least I am) can assume it was her fault and since she mobile-posted it on Facebook, we can also assume everyone was OK.
Hmmm... can we also assume that she allowed the dog to become enough of a distraction as to cause the accident, I think so. What if someone had been killed? Would it have been worth it to bring Pinky for the drive, no.
Don't be Karla.


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2010 Boys State Soccer Champ game

Last night we all went to the Boys High School State Championship soccer game. The game was just down the street from our house at Creighton University's Morrison Field. It was an absolutely perfect evening (whole day as well). Lincoln East ended up winning the game over Omaha South 4 to 2. The game was tied 2 to 2 at regulation end and was decided in the two overtime periods.

This is right before half time.


This is right before the first overtime period. Lincoln East is the nearest team with South High at the further end.



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Catfishing

The other night we were at my son's baseball game when a friend of ours came over and talked with us, my wife went to school with his wife, they're BFF's.
He was on his way home to gear up and take his kids out the the Platte River and drop some catfish lines. He invited my son and I to go along, we did.
To make the story short, it was a wonderful evening and it all worked out great.

Below is a picture from the river bank a little bit after we got there.


Here is nearly the same shot just after dark, if you look close you can tell that the lower bright light in the center of the photo is the moon showing crecsent and a planet (we were guessing Venus) above and to the right. The photo does not portray the amazing-ness of seeing it in person. The rest of the moon (the dark part) was really dark red. At one point my son said "I've never seen so many stars", I've told my kids that we need to get away from the city light and get to the middle of nowhere sometime so they can see just how many stars there are to see.


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Graduation 2010

My wife graduated this weekend with her Masters Degree from Creighton University. She got her Bachelors there as well (she's so smart).
Below is the hooding ceremony the day before the BIG graduation at the QWest center.
The hooding ceremony was really nice and intimate.
(by the way... that is not her on the stage)

Congratulations Lisa !





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Mother's Day Eve - 2010

We went shopping the night before Mother's Day last week. Here is my son posing next to one of the many "Jane Doe" sculptures spread around town.
Yes, my son is in his baseball uniform and it is later in the evening. Funny thing... the way that this day worked out was it was so dang busy that my wife and I got to running around all crazy-like and at one point my son was set to get picked up from a church activity and go to his game. He decided to skip the game and stay at the activity but kept his uniform on all day and night. I wish I was still a kid in a baseball uniform. He had a fun day.
Oh, by the way, we bought 'Pork Rib Eyes' and I grilled them the next day. They were a little beyond AWESOME !!!!




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Baseball and Blue Skies

Last night (Tue, May 4) I was at my son's baseball game. It started out a picture perfect night but got a little cloudy but no storms or anything. One bragging point: my son was pitching when he made all three outs in the bottom of the last inning helping them win 6 to 3. He struck out the first two batters and threw out the third.



Here is what the sky looked like at the beginning of the game.


This is what the sky looked like this morning (Wed, May 5 (Cinco de Mayo Dayo)). If you look real close just left of the middle you can see the moon.


This was the view looking out of the window in the break room at work just before I went out for lunch. Beautiful !!



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Monday afternoon I took my son to Elmwood park to mess around. I had just got rained out mowing and went home after 3 of 6 yards. As soon as I got cleaned up and came downstairs the skies cleared up and all was sunny and perfect outside, go figure.
Anyway, we went and got a bite to eat then went to the park, we played a little frisbee then he rode around on his scooter while I sat and sketched and listened to the radio.




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First Farmers Market of 2010

I got the opportunity to shoot 10 videos for the Omaha Farmers Market this year. Below you should see the video of the the first shoot from the other day being May 01, 2010.
The day turned out to be PERFECT. Thre were so many people and vendors selling such a variety of items.

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