47/365
A flower for family day
Spent the day with my family, then the afternoon took everyone over to my parents place. My mom has had this plant since Christmas. It wasn’t suppose to last more than a few weeks.
46/365
Rambo Creek
Got sick and tired of shooting inside, so I took a little walk while the kids were having their nap. Found this awesome looking ice pattern near a dip in the creek.
45/365
Happy Valentines Day
The line-up at the flower counter at Fortinos today was crazy. Me and every other man in Burlington were lined-up to get flowers.
42/365
Mesa Engineering
My second Mesa Boogie amp. I had an F-50 and it was great. But I’ve always wanted a rectifier. So I upgraded. You can’t go wrong with a Mesa!
41/365
My first Photobook.
Just received my first Photobook from Photobook Canada www.photobookcanada.com. I am very impressed so far. The quality is very good and the pictures turned out awesome. Even the ones that I didn’t fix up too much (or at all) in Photoshop.
They have an awesome deal going on right now, where I received a second photobook for free. The printing was done within 7 days and they shipped via Canada Post. The packaging that they arrived in was good as well, the books were not damaged at all. I highly recommend checking them out for your next printing needs. The software is also very easy to use and you can make some pretty amazing designs on your own. I’m not a graphic designer, but the tools they give allow you to really do anything you want!
40/365
Trans Siberian Orchestra Guitar Picks
From their recent show in Hamilton. Received their guitar picks at the meet and greet.
If you haven’t checked them out, make sure you do next time they hit you city.
27/365
Ultimate Titanium Matrix
It’s too cold to golf, so I thought I’d show my clubs in a nice blue light.
26/365
Brewed in Dublin…
Guinness:
It all starts with just one man, but it’s not down to a single “eureka” moment. The history of Guinness is a stirring tale of inspiration, dedication, ingenuity and effort. It’s over two centuries of sublime brewing craft, a remarkable knack for spreading the word and more than a few leaps of faith. It’s the story of how a unique Irish stout became, with a little magic, one of the World’s best-loved beers.
23/365
No tattoos gotta stay cool…
Gotta love Andy Curran.
My wife suggested taking a picture of one of her many tattoos. The flower beat out the rest.
22/365
My old jean jacket…
Dusted this one off and had to take a shot of it. Lots of great memories….
21/365
New Washing Machine. YES!!!
Our old washing machine was dying a slow death. It was a Maytag and it served us well for a long time. But even the best servant need to be retired.
So we went on the hunt and found a new GE front loader with 3.8 cubic(but it’s round!!!) feet of space.
Our friendly sales guy at Home Depot hooked us up on a great deal. It was delivered today and we’re washing our first load in it.
Now, before you start using it, always check the connections. My dad was here to receive the new washer as my wife and I were at work. Well, he called me and said “they didn’t mark which one is hot or cold”. So he just plugged them in. Well, he had a 50/50 shot of getting it right and……he didn’t. So when we got home, we check it out and guess what….THEY DID mark it. There’s a big H and C. I guess he was thinking of C for Chaud and H for HFroid (silent h?). Alas, we fixed the hoses and started our first load. It’s the quietest thing I’ve never heard!
20/365
Chubby Legs
My little Hayden-man has such chubby legs. I had to get a picture of all his rolls.
16/365
Dilbert for Photographers
Tore the page to reveal my new Dilbert joke of the day. Too funny for a photographer like me with a 9-5 desk job….
Thank you Scott Adams!!
15/365
Monster backgammon
I went a little crazy with the 365 challenge today.
I love backgammon, but couldn’t capture the essence of the game, so I over photoshoped this image…
14/365
Connect Four
www.hasbro.com/shop/details.cfm?guid=92E0B2CA-6D40-1014-8…
It’s a vertical game of tic-tac-toe, but with a twist – you have to get four in a row! Take turns dropping checkers into place, and try to get four in a row in any direction – while preventing your opponent from doing it first!
The game was published under the famous Connect Four trademark by Milton Bradley in 1974; however, the much older original version is known as “The Captain’s Mistress”.
13/365
Mahjong
Mahjong (also called mah-jongg by the American association, Traditional Chinese: 麻將; Simplified Chinese: 麻将; Pinyin: májiàng) is a game for four players that originated in China. Mahjong involves skill, strategy, and calculation, as well as a certain degree of chance. Depending on the variation which is played, luck can be anything from a minor to a dominant factor in success. In Asia, mahjong is also popularly played as a gambling game. In the game, each player is dealt either thirteen or sixteen tiles in a hand (depending on the variation being played). On their turn, players draw a tile and discard one, with the goal of making four or five melds (also depending on the variation) and one pair, or “head”. Winning comes “on the draw”, by drawing a new or discarded tile that completes the hand. Thus a winning hand actually contains fourteen (or seventeen) tiles.
12/365
Citadels
www.faidutti.com/index.php?Module=mesjeux&id=328
The setting
The game is settled in a fantasy mediaeval world, not heroic fantasy but rather oniric fantasy. You must build the greatest, the most glorious, the most beautiful city of the land, with cards figuring the various districts of the city: university, castle, townhall, dracoport, cathedral… To do this, you will play the roles of the most powerful characters in town: the king, the bishop, the merchant, the architect, the condottiere, the magician and the most dreaded thief and assassin
The game system
It’s not so easy to build a rich and outstanding Citadel: it needs wealth, ambition and intrigue.
Each turn, players will chose one of the eight characters, each with its specific power: build faster, destroy a district, murder, steal, get more gold, protect the citadel, draw more cards… The way characters are chosen makes for tactical choices, but also for some bluff and double guessing.
Will the other players guess what is your role this turn? Will you be murdered or stolen? Unless, of course, you are the assassin or the thief…
The winner is the player who builds the richest and most beautiful City.
Citadels is a game for 2 to 7 players, but it’s better, I think, with 5.