Two days ago we got back 3 rolls of film (and pics on CD) and posted five new albums to the website. I went a little overboard in some places, but hey - I can't bring myself to delete pictures of that cute boy.
I hope you all understand.
Kevin: December 2002 Archives
Merry Christmas to all of you! This is Hale's first Christmas, and I must say: He's excited that it has arrived. So excited, in fact, that he had trouble sleeping last night and got up (way too) early this morning. No doubt, this is a harbinger of things to come.
And, Hale got a gift from Mother Nature this morning -- it snowed 4" here in Shelbyville last night. We had been dreaming of a white Christmas so we shouldn't be surprised. I hope that the purported 8" of snow a short drive away from us in Indianapolis will not keep us from lunch at my brother Brad's home today.
Well, the gifting hour approaches so I will bid one last Merry Christmas to all.
In my travels around the web, I happened upon this photo of a stained-glass window. The image is that of the nativity, I think. Regardless, it is beautiful.
Perhaps some of you have seen this in person -- it is housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, London England. Truly an amazing piece of art, depicting an amazing day in our history.
(This photo was taken by Phil Askey, from Digital Photography Review)
I don't consider myself much of a pie in the sky dreamer. That being said, Jill and I are embarking on a project that will perhaps evolve into something: Level 12.
Level 12 will be a student information system -- that is, a computer program and database that allows school districts to manage, collect and warehouse student data as well as create reports about said data. It will be a bit of an undertaking, especially since all of the development work will be done outside of my regular job. I'll have Jill working full-time on it, though.
The basic premise might not seem so lucritive: we are going to develop this software and then give it away. For free. The interesting part will be who chooses to support us, and how many schools are interested. One possible path would be for us to provide support to schools (paid), and another path is hosting the system/data for them (paid). But again, we plan to make the software available as licensed, open-source software (not paid). It should be interesting!
This morning at around 9:00 am, 68 little envelopes of joy started a journey from a small home on North Line Street in Columbia City to locations far and wide. While petite, these envelopes pack a powerful punch of holiday cheer! Look for one in your town -- possibly addressed to you!
They're coming soon to places like Indianapolis, Noblesville, Shelbyville and Frankfort; Illinois, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Florida too. One lucky sole will even open an envelope arriving in Japan! (Take a left at Alaska, a right at Hawaii, and you're there.) We're worldwide.
Have a Merry Christmas, and the Happiest of Holidays.
Taking notes from Joe, I ventured into the land of montage/panoramic photography... I'll let you decide how it went.
In my defense, Grandma has so many great-grand-kids, regular lenses just don't stretch wide enough to get everyone in.
We didn't get a chance to see it here in North America, but yesterday there was a total solar eclipse; the moon blotted out the sun for ~20 seconds. This picture is from a town in Australia called Lyndhurst, and was taken by a Reuters photographer. You can see other pictures posted at The Sydney Morning Herald.
I sometimes just look up at the moon, the sun, and the stars and marvel at creation.
