Your somewhat daily dose of Shoo.
Got to see Arlo Guthrie with my Dad and in-laws tonight. Mrs. Shoo had to call in the lefty because she picked up some kind of cold. It was a great experience. Guthrie was more of story teller compared to John Prine, whom I also saw with my in-laws, but he put on a great show.
I would go into detail about the old hippies and the stories he told, but I’ve got to watch the DVRed finally of The Office.
If it’s not bad enough that I follow The Office religiously, I am now addicted to Lost. It started this week when Mrs. Shoo borrowed the season 1 set from a coworker. I had actually seen the pilot when it first aired and thought wow this would be a great show to get into. I’ve even read blogs where people have had Lost dinner parties. But somehow I managed to stay away, far away, deserted from the others.
I think it was a fear of jumping in the middle and being lost. I guess that could be my answer why I never watched 24 or the Sopranos. They all follow the same plot line twists as soap operas. One plot line seems to be making a break while another is in conflict. Guess you can’t have everyone happy or you don’t have a show.
We’re on disc 3, no make that 4 of season one. What’s nice about watching the DVDs is that there are no commercials and an hour show is shortened down to 45 minutes. I wish I would have gotten addicted before the writer’s strike so I could be caught up to the current season, but oh’ well.
At least I know they’re still lost.
I could really use two Saturdays in a weekend; that’s still including a Sunday.
Saturday I spent the day manicuring the lawn, planting a garden, and turning over the compost pile. That left no time to catch up on laundry or any of the numerous other projects that need to be done around the house. And it never hits me till Sunday night that there’s still a bunch to do.
I made myself feel better tonight by throwing in a load of laundry and cleaning up the laundry area. So much better that I am blogging about it. It’s an accomplishment for a Sunday.
Now I am too the point where I’ve got a knot in my stomach about Monday. Mondays never fair well with me, even when I was in school I’d still had the same feelings about Mondays. I know everything will be okay, but I like to hold onto whatever is left of the weekend.
Even a Saturday-Sunday-Saturday weekend would work for me.
Put your votes in the comment section.
Yup.
No, not that kind of hum-zoo. I realized the other day that I blogged zilch about Humzoo. Let me back up for a second, I forget that not everyone spends 3/4 of the day connected to the net. What is Humzoo? Well, Humzoo.com is a place to blog and upload photos for the world to see; and supposedly everything tastes like cake. It’s free and really easy to use.
Ok, now you’re asking, Aren’t there hundreds of other places on the net to do that? Yes, but this one is really easy and there’s a great community atmosphere. Best of all, one half of the creators is local digital Renaissance man Dave Heinzel. The other creator is Denny Deaton, a cool guy from the East Coast, that has two awesome wiener dogs. We like wiener dogs on Gotshoo.
So Shoo, where’s your Humzoo blog? Right here. Well, what about Gotshoo?, you going to move your blog over there too? I’ve thought about it, but I’ve got about four years of posts invested in Gotshoo and I use the site for development purposes, and I currently use my Humzoo blog to post geeky web findings and photos that don’t make the dailyphoto. So no, Gotshoo is here to stay.
What did Dave and Denny slip you a Lincoln to talk about Humzoo? No, but $5 bucks sounds pretty sweet right about now. I think Humzoo is a cool site and easy way to post content and photos to the web. It’s especially great for those in the last six months learned the term ‘blog.’
It’s free, go check it out!
I haven’t been able to get the camera out this week, so here’s another photo from my Dad. He’s been bit by the shutter bug, so he keeps sending over photos through email. Dad, email is sooo 10 years ago. Upload these on Flickr!
I am a little lens envy. He’s been shooting with a Canon 60mm prime lens that he just purchased. It has produced some highly detailed photos.
I broke a photo of Buddy into different crops to see the magnitude of detail. Incredible.
Finally got back out on the bike tonight. I took off without my odometer, so I did the next best thing and retraced my path with Google Maps. Yup, still the best Lazy Sunday video.
Fishing with Grandpa., originally uploaded by gotshoo.
Last week I took a half day to go fishing with my Grandpa. I’ve been fishing with him since I was a little kid (6-8 yrs old). We’ve shared quite a few memories and caught quite a few fish.
Some random facts: I started driving the boat solo when I was 10-12. I used to troll around the boat docks while he got the truck and trailer. We’ve fished together over a half dozen lakes. I’ve thrown a complete rod and reel into Lake Otter on accident. We’ve also seen a guy break an axle on a trailer trying to pull a boat out of the lake.
I can’t tell the number of ‘fish stories’ and jokes that have been shared.
He’s had 3 different boats since we started fishing.
The main rules of the boat: Live bait is for kids, no catfish, drums (an actual nasty slimy fish - they’re in Lake Springfield), or carp in the boat; must be a long range release.
Don’t tell Grandma how much he’s spent on lures.
And finally, a bad day of fishing is always better than a good day in the office.
Nostril Cleaning., originally uploaded by gotshoo.
Obviously can’t take credit for this photo. My Dad (Big Daddy) took this one. I hear nostril cleanings are the latest craze in Japan.
Side note: Buddy has his head propped on my knee and is snoring away. It’s actually kind of amusing.
Mrs. Shoo and I went to the Cards vs. Cubs game yesterday. It was a disappointing Cardinal loss, but we still had a great time. Minus the annoying drunk Cub female fan that tried to upgrade seats, was called out about it, and then proceeded to complain about being called out for the next 30 minutes.
I borrowed my Dad’s 70-300mm lens, got some great shots from the 300 level of Busch Stadium. I’ll upload the rest later on tonight.
In flight., originally uploaded by gotshoo.
Herring in flight.
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