Whoops? Also, Help Me Pick a New Domain Name!
A tree outside the window, taken with a 100mm lens "flipped" (basically holding the "wrong" end of the lens to the camera body). The effect here was neat, but using wide-angle lenses provided for a cheap macro effect such as can be seen here.
Whoops, no posts since Dec. 31? I'm so lazy. Or something.
New Years was good, we just went to a friend's house and had a pretty subdued but fun evening with friends at their new house.
Jenn and I went to see the Olympic Torch Relay arrive downtown at Churchill Square on the 13th:
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It was pretty neat to see. The security detail was rather excessive, though. Not many protesters downtown that I could see, just a few people in the crowd handing out leaflets.
We had our housewarming (and Jenn's birthday) party on the 16th, and it was quite fun. I was hoping more people would show up, but we still had a decent turnout of about twenty or so. There was music, lots of chatting, some snacks, some cake, some new acquaintances were made between circles of friends, and I cracked the good tequila that a friend brought back from Mexico - most of which was drank by my boss, who managed to amuse quite a few of my friends.
He later managed to find some places locally where you can buy the same tequila, but it is apparently expensive. That didn't stop him from buying me another bottle, though.
We're starting to think about having a games night sometime soon, and I'd like to try for another fairly big party for my birthday in May. We have this awesome big house, we need to have folks over more to share in it with us.
Speaking of awesome, the weekend before last, Jenn and I went to the Antique Mall since they were having a sale. We ended up buying a knight-shaped fireplace tool stand (goes well with the kitchness we have already), a Coca-Cola mirror sign for the bar, and a 50s-60s clock for the kitchen. While we were there, though, I saw that they had a Frogger stand-up arcade machine for $1200! Man, it was tempting, but even with the 10% off, it's just too much to spend on something like that. I'm probably still better off building something on my own.
In other news, my the0rem.net domain expires at the end of the month. I think I'm going to let it go; it just doesn't do anything for me anymore, and it certainly doesn't mean to me what it did once upon a time.
Having said that, I am interested in getting a new domain, mainly for use for my photography stuff. I'm thinking about either photodave.ca or daveography.ca. Opinions? Other suggestions?