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Auburn / photo / Thursday / video — Comments Off
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Jan 14

Photo week – Thursday

Justin Bieber! Richard Sherman! Super Bowl!

Celebrate him for a while; he deserves it.

Allie says hello:

So maybe you saw the Kick Bama Kick video. Perhaps you saw the one that emerged last week, of the Auburn University Marching Band. That floated back to the surface of the social media streams today and so I watched it again. Love that video. It is great fun watching some of those people lose their minds, but then watching them recover and do their job. (Not that you could hear the band in the stadium just then. We didn’t.)

I decided to synch the videos. Watch the drum major in the center. She was great, calling for the fight song just before Chris Davis scored. That’s attention to her craft.

Happy accident, they’re all looking at the giant HD screen in the end zone, but it looks like they are watching the insert box I’ve dropped in the shot. But watch how they all wig out and then get their job down. Just awesome. As is Rod Bramblett, my friend and former boss, who has the immortal radio call.

photo / Wednesday — Comments Off
22
Jan 14

Photo week – Wednesday

This was a window from the flight back home from the holidays.

If you’ll allow me the indulgence of creating a silly metaphor on a poor cell phone photo, this is the way the day has felt: a bit dreary and streaky and indistinct.

But I got some things done. And shivered a lot. The high was 37. The low is 18. Think I stayed inside all day. I’m fine with that.

photo / Tuesday — Comments Off
21
Jan 14

Photo week – Tuesday

Went to give blood today. Ran up three flights of stairs, read the required blood literature and so on. Answered all of the donation questions. Some are now done orally, some were done on a computer.

The woman who walked me through the process and drew my blood was thoroughly disinterested at the end of her day. The organizer said they had a slow morning, but things had really picked up later in the day.

I learned that, among the things they are doing when you give blood is to time the donation. I was told this is for health reasons. If it takes you more than 20 minutes, that is problematic. If you are done in under four minutes, that is a different kind of problem. I was finished in four minutes and 17 seconds.

The problem being they give you that little sponge ball and tell you to squeeze often. So I just absentmindedly squeezed constantly.

Accepted the juice and cookies. Decline the t-shirt, though it was a pretty good one.

I did get some stickers:

The young lady that signed us in said they were old. They look it. A lot of people are jealous of them, but all they have to do is go give a bit of blood. It only takes 4:17.

cycling / Monday / photo / running — Comments Off
20
Jan 14

A photo week – Monday

Took this shot while out riding yesterday.

It was my first ride of the new year. There’s been cold and things to do and waiting until we had everything just right and so on.

So we found the flattest 20 mile route we could think of nearby and then added an extra leg on that plan, all of which seemed uphill, which was brilliant in retrospect. We ended up doing just under 23 miles, which was great fun. Then The Yankee got a flat just before we were done. I was behind her, watching it go down before she noticed it, so when she stopped I was already throwing a leg over the top tube and reaching for my pump.

The crisis was no crisis. In a moment we were going over the last hill before home, where I took that picture, the scenery marked the end of a nice ride.

Today was meant to be a rest day. So late in the evening I was feeling antsy and went for a three-mile jog. I’m turning into one of those people, apparently.

family / photo / weekend — Comments Off
19
Jan 14

Catching up

The weekly post that allows for older photographs that haven’t landed anywhere yet. Easy Sunday? You bet.

This is my grandmother. She was pretending to fuss at her granddaughter, so I could send her this picture. She doesn’t know how it all works, but she thought it was neat that I could show her pictures of her granddaughter’s children on my phone. She’s a sweetheart:

My grandmother has always been a big advocate of salve. Got a cut? Let’s put some salve on it. Burn your hand on the stove? Here, let me get the salve. Have a splinter? I have a salve for that. Concussion from a high impact fall? Don’t you want me to get the salve? Got a blister? Salve. Traumatic amputation? Here’s the salve.

So when I saw this at a store over Christmas, and it had her name on it and everything …

I also saw this around Christmastime, I think. Next year I’m picking some up for gifts:

Next week may be a bit slow around here, but there will be something every day. So thanks for coming, thanks in advance for even more patience with what you find here. But please do stop by when you can.