Facebook or It Didn't Happen

Day 99/100
A picture that was first on your facebook.

Yep, that's me up in the tree. Here I am helping decorate for my wedding that is only a few hours away. We have the hanging lanterns hung on fishing line and we got married in front of a dying tree. Some people had a comment or two on that, but I was focused more on the symettry of the arrangement and the direction of light. We may have been married in September, but that didn't make it any less hot on that particular afternoon, so shade was a needed consideration. I don't think I could properly thank my families for pitching in and helping pull the wedding together. HUGE props to my wife for planning and practically paying for it all. She stepped out on a ledge by marrying me when I barely had steady work and had only a month before got into an apartment (which she signed for since I had no established credit). She's a great woman and deserves all the goodness I can possibly give, and that still isn't enough.

We're Going Out Tonight

Day 98/100
A picture of you and your friends out somewhere.

Halloween night, all the ghosts and ghoulies are running around causing mischief and harassing innocents for candy. I however have taken to a college ritual of sitting around with a bunch of folks that attempt to speak intellectually while their blood/alcohol content is rising. The house was tucked far away and not a quick drive for me, and since I was driving alone, my alcoholic intake was non-existent. It really is a pleasure to spend time with people who can enjoy their drink responsibly. A greater pleasure is when those people do not resort to ghoulish harassment themselves when you choose not to. In typical college fashion, pizza, beer and soda was the evening meal. Drinking games insued and within a couple of hours someone was wearing a beer case as their mask. People can be quite colorful. The Bible warns of drunkeness and shows great detest for fools that ignore wisdom. I guess in that sense, I should pity them, but greater than pity is love. I have compassion for these friends of mine, and hope that in time they too will learn that love covers a multitude of sins. Maybe then fun can be had with less involvement of innebriation, that may even save a few bucks on the beer.

P.S. - "I know that I'm not in the picture. However, I did take the picture, thus proving that I'm there with everyone."

Gone, but not forgotten.

Day 97/100
A picture of something you no longer have.

The Money Hat. Technically it was never mine, it belonged to my good friend David Ledbetter. This was a wonderful innovation in the world of online gaming. In our moving from apartment to apartment in college the headset for David's Xbox360 broke, never to be worn again. At the time David was working at the local Big Lots and happened upon this wonderfully awful hat. It was originally named the "Ghetto" hat, this was not due only to appearance. We had cut a hole in the hat to slide the remaining part of the headset into the hat and duct-taped the plastic to the inside of the hat to hold it in place. It wasn't untill we started playing Modern Warfare online while wearing this that it recieved a new moniker. We suddenly found our online matches to be more fruitful, our kill to death ratio skyrocketed, and somehow our comebacks to the multitude of 12 year olds became more witty and less crass. With this newfound success the hat was deemed "The Money Hat".

Oh how it is missed.

At the Movies

Day 96/100
A picture of your favorite movie.

Cool Hand Luke (1967)
I don't know what keeps drawing me back to this movie. Paul Newman's charm probably is the culprit. Then again there is the beautiful cinematography. How bout a story of a man full of potential but hung up by smaller things? Maybe it's the mystery of the man in the glasses. Then there is an indomitable spirit of a jailed man with a mind for freedom. Granted, Luke isn't a stellar role-model, but he definitely falls into the category of "a good guy". Who wouldn't want to hear a story about "a good guy"? In our anti-hero society, Luke stands out as a man who wants to keep living even when most have given up. For those that liked "The Shawshank Redemption" and "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" then this is a wonderful mix of the themes of prison story, redemption, failure and success with a nice look at the South.

Oh, and who wouldn't want a body like Paul Newman's in this movie...well, except for the eat 50 eggs scene. Enjoy ya'll.

-Insert James Taylor Here-

Day 95/100
A picture of you on a plane.

I think this counts, I mean, I'm not in the picture but I'm obviously on the plane. I could have been a huge smarty pants and took a picture of my self on 1. A surface containing all the straight lines that connect any two points on it; 2. A flat or level surface; 3. A level of development, existence, or achievement. Not quite sure how I could have accomplished a picture of number three there, hmmm, oh well.

Regardless of my attempt at repartee, this picture was taken at take off on our wonderful trip to the Dominican Republic last summer. Many pictures can be viewed in previous posts, and well, I may just have to do another post of pictures just to reminisce.