Life Stuff

I hate when I get behind in my blogging. I always feel I have to do a 'what's been up with me?' entry before I can do any 'real' entries. So, here's that entry...

• My 'new' bike (the rusty, old one I recently bought for $2) was stolen. Grrr. I'm going to call Metro and see if they have any bike lockers available before I get another bike.
  
• Gary and I shot a wedding last Saturday. Gary had been the second shooter on a wedding a couple weeks ago, but this was my first. With 30 people in the wedding party, 200 guests, the bride being 90 minutes late, the wedding coordinator walking out 30 minutes into the reception and no organization whatsoever (not to mention me using some new equipment that crapped out halfway through the ceremony), it was truly a trial by fire. Definitely a learning experience. I haven't had a chance to go through the photos (mainly due to the fourth item in this list), but I'm hopeful that some of them will be good. Gary's got a few of his up here.
  
• Shooting a wedding really made me aware of the limits of my current equipment. So, I'm investing in a new camera (a Nikon D200) and some other gear. I'll use the new one as my main camera and the D70 (my current camera) as the second/backup camera.
  
• I've been agonizing over my photo business's website for a couple weeks now. At one point, I was happy with the design, but then I grew bored with it. I wanted something that was visually appealing, but still simple and somewhat minimalist. I've been through two or three variations on the design just in the past week, but none of them really struck me. They all seemed too simple and, well, blah. Tonight, I gave up on tweaking what I had, threw it out and went a different direction. I'm finally (and really) happy with it. Check it out. In related news, I'll probably be adding a blog to it in the next few days.

On Saturday, we went around to a bunch of yard sales. My main objective was to look at bikes to replace my recently-stolen one. I found one at the second or third sale we stopped at. It looked as if it had been neglected but working. The tires were flat and the handlebars are pretty rust. There's also some rust on the seat post and a couple other spots. I asked how much and the lady held up two fingers. I assumed she meant $20, but no, she really meant two dollars. This was one of those "just get it out of my house" type yard sales.

Yesterday morning, I found that my bike had been stolen from the rack. Guess I needed a better lock...

It's been most of June since my last post. Sorry, everyone. It's been a crazy/busy/stressful month.

As longtime readers of furiousBlog know, my current commute consists of slugging from Woodbridge to Rosslyn, taking the subway from Rosslyn to Falls Church, and then taking a bus from the subway stop to my office building. Recently, instead of waiting for the bus, I walked the last stretch (as opposed to last time, this time was by choice). A friend at work suggested I get a bike for that stretch.

As I mentioned in my last post, Cyndi and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary this past weekend with a trip to New York City.

Short version of the story: The trip was great; we love NYC; Too Much Joy is the best band ever; our hotel could've been a little quieter.

Long version:

We really love NYC. If we didn't have kids, we'd probably move there. We drove up on Thursday. Traffic was pretty good and we made good time. Thursday night we just walked around Time Square and got some great pizza. We debated going up The Empire State Building, but decided against it.