New Pants

So after 14 years, the hockey pants have been replaced. Lasted 45 games or so. The inside leg ripped slightly about three games ago or so.

They're light, they seem nice, we'll see what happens Tuesday at the game.

They don't have suspender buttons though. A little disappointed about that since I miss the floating feel (til I broke a button because I stepped on it in 99).

Goodbye Bauer Supreme 3000s, Hello Bauer Vapor x60.

Women's Basketball

So the last couple restaurants I've been has had women's basketball on. I can think of 2224 things I'd rather watch than women's basketball.

Heck just in the women's sports category. softball... soccer... volleyball... cheerleader competitons that get those strange early morning weekday time slots in the summer on ESPN 354. I've never seen field hockey but i'd probably watch that, heck apparently the lingerie football league is still in business?

Has there ever been a first or 2nd round upset in women's basketball? Doesn't the final four always consist of 1 and 2 seeds? Why not just skip the extra week and just start out with a Sweet 16 and save some schools some bus fare. Does Title 9 count in transportation budgets as well? WHO IS WATCHING six rounds of women's basketball?

Apparently someone, because 3.8 million households watched the women's final game last year.
Last year's MLS Cup MAYBE got into 1 million households. Come on MLS. Isn't Donovan the poster boy of US Soccer?! Beckham the face of tighty whiteys??

Which just goes to show the sad state of US Soccer right now. Heck when a country the size of New Jersey eliminates you from qualifying for the Olympics, maybe its good for the country's morale that no one saw that.

Service... or Something.

So Alisa had a friend of a friend that was going to San Jose for a reception.

I got to play chauffeur.

It was... interesting.

She was 23. Married. kids. AND i'm positive that SHE COULD'T function on her own if she had to.

One year of school, got married. no more school.

Her husband found her a hotel to stay at. Said she could walk to the reception in 10 minutes.

The hotel was 18 miles by freeway from the location of the reception. So yeah, that drive was a little bit longer than 10 minutes. And about 12 minutes into the drive...

Kaakun: so what do you do?

girl: im just starting a business?

K: oh really, what kind?
G: a wedding photography business
K: what do you shoot?
G: a 30d? 40? with a 18-70 ml lens... ml... ml.... whatever.

I find it funny that photography is probably the only profession where people think they just have to buy a tool and they're a professional. No one buys a hammer and calls themselves a part-time carpenter.


All and all an interesting evening. Would have been interesting to go in and get some free food. Maybe there were some single friends of friends she could have introduced me to...

Guess Whose Back, Back Again...

ok probably not...

so yes, the blog has been ignored, i realize i've said i'd fix that in the past...

Well it's been a nice little streak of daily activity. Is anyone still reading? The tracker seems to say no... maybe those with RSS readers?!?! Notice some strange activity from a once familiar source?

I still stalk people via the Internet the old way before facebook took over all Internet stalking.

I love sandwiches. When XXXXXXX and I first began dating, he asked me what my favorite food was, and almost broke up with me when I answered "sandwiches". He didn't understand. And I didn't understand what there is to not understand. And in time we ate eachother's versions of sandwiches and we understood.

Thats a shame, it would have been lovely to pick up the pieces of that relationship based on sandwich issues.

Facebook stalking just isnt as interesting. Probably because people tend to share all kinds of stuff on a blog.

Last night at three a.m. we were awoken to news that our car had been involved in a beer hiest. Really, the mormons holding up a gas station for beer? The cop came and checked out our car. Fortunately, our "Y" sticker was not observed on the video tape and greg isn't latino. The case of mistaken identity, another reason to love houston....

Entertaining, yes. But we all know this isn't Greg's first run in with the law in Houston

Some jealously kicks in.

So my announcement is this: we (meaning me, mostly) set up a blog, Nathan’s Delectable Dinners, just for the sake of sharing pictures of the food that we eat, prepared by Chef Guapo. Be jealous.

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I want a delectable dinner. Im jealous.

Thats enough of my admitting to stalking...

As you can see in the last couple of posts, we remedied the lack of travel in 2011, by traveling some in 2012!!!!

Hoped on a plane and went down to Los Angeles and Orange county on a free ticket.

Hoped on a boat and off to Roatan, Belize, Costa Maya and Cozumel.
Hoping back on another plane to go to Georgia.

Hop Hop hop.

Leland's Wedding

Never cared for the cultural hall reception, but they did spruce it up pretty nicely.

So Kaakun's intro to photography continues without Josh. After night shooting, I forgot to turn the AF back on... and i didnt notice at the temple on the little lcd with such a WIDE lens...

other lesson, when you have the whole set up in the car, take it out of the car.... the bride took forever to change and I was just expecting a few wide angle shots and not expecting to zoom in on anything...

Shooting with Josh

So it helps out having a professional photographer at your disposal. You know, to point out reasons why its not working... like AF trying to do its thing in the dark = camera doesnt take a picture...

So

One of the minor reasons of buying a Nikon was because it uses pretty much ANY Nikon lens. The father had an old film Nikon and a 50mm and a 35-70mm.

Never was a fan of the 35-70mm. But as a macro shot, that doesn't look half bad...

I'm On a Boat (well in Feb)

Mexico

Roatan

Mexico

Cruise

Roatan

Cruise

6 Years Old

The bloggy blog is a six-year-old. Sure its been ignored like a red-headed stepchild the past 2 years or so...

at least before the banners used to be pics of where i lived. Now the background picture is just a picture of the ocean in the middle of the central coast.