Show me your pics!

The First Harvest. One. One chili pepper. It was a start. This was "harvested" (if you can "harvest" only one vegetable), last week out of the garden. At least it looks like it came straight out of a Chilli's commercial...then again, I think every red chili pepper probably looks that way.
Move in night. Megan thought it was too soon...I say no way!!! We're movin' in tonight! I mean, I had just had the cable/internet moved that day AND the bathroom was ready to go...so lets do it! It was a bit messy, but what the hell do you expect from a house currently under construction. BTW, anyone want some pre-mixed grout?
The bathroom lovingly color coordinated by Megan. There are still a few touch-ups that need to be taken care of...but I'm more concerned about getting all the big crap out of the way, (like getting the HOUSE done). Megan has been showing me various mirrors for over the vanity. Why do mirrors have to be so damn expensive? Just give me a piece of tin-foil taped to the back of a piece of glass...anyone? anyone?...
As I was taking this picture Meg was intentionally looking the other way...so I just stood there and waited for her to turn around and give me the inevitable look of, "Why aren't you snapping the pi...dangit!"
Levi started sniffing this area like crazy the next day. I kept shoo-ing him off of it as normal protocol for this type of behavior is for him to Sniff Sniff Sniff, realize how stinky the spot is, then roll roll roll!! Too bad dog brains don't look even slightly into the future as the next step there is bath bath BATH! Anyway, after shoo-ing him away several times I decided to sweep my foot over the pile of grass and fur/fuzz to reveal this...
AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! WABBITTS!!! Actually one did scare the crap out of me as it hopped out immediately after I uncovered the den, (it's a rabbit DEN, right?). There were at least two in there having heart-attacks as I looked at them. Cute little buggers. We were hoping mama wouldn't abandon them since we infected the den with human...stuff...
SECOND HARVEST! Aren't those the dumbest looking banana peppers you've ever seen?? Not sure why they grew like that, but as you can see they started to turn reddish...which means they were fully grown. I also picked most of the lettuce as it wasn't getting any greener. Oh, anyone have a good recipe for chili??
Sunday night, Mark expands his NBC4 resume by being volunteered for the assignment desk. I was pretty entertained when I walked up here and saw the sea of post-it notes. If that were me up there...well...lets just say the tv screen in top left corner of the picture describes how my night would have gone...
Here's one of many fair live-shots our station has been doing. I got to do this one as I was put in a live truck earlier in the week. This was the end of a very long and weird day. The first 5 hours of my shift consisted of sitting in the ghetto with David Wayne on a shooting. A 5 year old boy and 7 year old were left home alone with their drug-dealing relative who decided to leave them home alone with a loaded assault rifle in the house. Lets put these items on the scales shall we? Watch the kids, deal some drug.....kids......drugs....
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Drugs. Definitely. What's the worst that could happen??...
Well, the 5 year old could shoot the 7 year old with the gun. Check. You could then see what happens and take the fatally wounded child outside in a lame attempt to keep the cops from coming inside your house and discover your stockpile of cash, drugs, and guns. Check. You could then NOT call the police and wait for a mail carrier to discover you covered in the childs blood sitting in your front yard most likely sealing the fate of said child. Check. You could lie to the police and say you "found the kid in an alley" hoping they would completely disregard the house you are sitting in front of. Check. You could then get taken to the station for questioning and ultimately get charged with three different felonies including Child Endangerment, Tampering with Evidence, and some felony weapons charge. Check. Check. Check.
So after a live hit every hour on the hour, a mini-package and VO/SOT, and NO air conditioning later, David, the reporter sitting in the ghetto shade in the ghetto neighborhood in a long-sleeve shirt, pants, and tie gets a mild case of heat-exhaustion and has to goto the ER. Fun times. I survived with little more than a headache, and went on to shoot a sports package on the new football coach at Hartley(sp?), and Amy Basista's live shot for the 11pm.

My first pictureless post

So I figured I would give those readers and update on the blog as it has been pretty barren for several days now. We're slowly moving into the new house as the upstairs is done and I haven't been able to update the blog. I HAVE, however, been taking pictures each day, so I will have some very picture heavy posts in the coming days. I know you're all on the edge of your seats...so take a break and grab a donut.

Bugs and Birthdays and Big Storm Damage

A praying mantis I found on the side of Megan's Grandparents house while we were there celebrating her birthday last Sunday. Ever time I got in front of it to take a picture it would stop walking and look right at me as if to ask, WTF?

Now I think the picture below perfectly represents a 21st birthday. You can visualize a whole day/night in this picture. She was still awake in this picture, but who could tell anyway...and not for long.


These pictures are from Junction City in Perry County. They were hit pretty hard. These pictures are of our Satellite truck we sent there for live shots in various shows. These pictures don't even scratch the surface of the damage there.

Some more weekend related pics

Bathroom progress report: The toilet is no longer in the tub, the tub surround is being placed, and the vanity has made it's way into the bathroom...it's not quite upright...details...
In case you happened to see the picture of the baby pumpkin plants taken within the first couple days of this blog, here's an update. The pumpkin plant I chose to rule them all, (a.k.a. the one I actually planted), has become a monster beast, laughing in the faces of all those other unworthy pumpkin plants, (a couple are in the pots). If Mark decideds he'd like them, here they wait...crying for him to release them from their pot prisons.


The rest of these pictures are from my Nephew's B-day party on saturday. He's a big, bad 4 year old now. My sister found this baby baby kitten in the middle of the road the other day as well, and is trying to pawn her off on me...or someone...anyone. Any takers?

Oh, and there was some fun water battles at the part between my Dad and Xavier. Guess who got a face full of water?

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AHHHHHHHH!!!! It's.....ORANGE!!!!!

A couple days...a few more pictures

This was the room as of last weekend. The carpet job was kinda sub-par. Fortunately that was remedied on monday.
Here is the wall I tore out on the other side of the main bathroom. I had to paint all around the area with KILLZ to try and eliminate some undesirable odors. It's seemed to do the job so far.

Since I've missed a couple days here and there, here are some pics for wednesday. A on/off button the a monitor and one of our editing keyboards, (they're very colorful). How often do you see a button like that in an extreme closeup? Not much I'm betting.
And finally, here was the room as of wednesday night...I think. After work I wanted to see how everything looked, and it looked much better. The edges looked alot cleaner and the room overall is no longer "sub-par." I'd say using the elementary school grading scale of "O" for Outstanding, "S" for satisfactory, and "U" for Unacceptable, the room is now a solid "S+". In addition, my roommates wife, Marcy, gave me her seal of approval on my color choice in the bedroom. She said that blue looked "very nice." Oh yea, there's those art skills at work! Of course, I have yet to post a picture of the area formally known as the "Red Room." It WAS painted a dark red, and the trim and part of the ceiling was done in a "Chocolatey Quick" type of brown. I chose a color I thought would be motivating...you'll have to let me know what you think when I take a picture of it. To put it simply, when you're outside of the room looking in it's direction from down the hallway, you THINK there are alot of lights on in the room. That's how freakin bright the wall color is. hmm...

Excuse me Officer, I had to snap a picture for my blog...

Excuse my weaving fellow freeway drivers...I had to snap a picture for my blog. I technically took this picture monday night on my way home from work. I went in early since lately we've been scheduling more reporters than photogs. lately. Of course, since I have a couple vacation days coming up, none of it was OT, just strait pay. woo...hoo...

David Wayne and I got to spend over 4 hours at city hall today. It was torture. We were there because there was this new bicycle helmet law proposed, and "someone" thought that a council made up of all democrats was going to heatedly debate over the topic. Apparently, someone hasn't been to a council meeting here....EVER. I'm sure that there was some disagreements at some point, but heated?? This is a council that seems to turn every meeting into the city's most publicized circle jerk. I don't know how many "Thank yous" and compliments were flying throughout the room over those 4 hours, but I practically had to break out my Cardigan sweater and Choo-Choo train and welcome people to the neighborhood. "I'd just like to thank councilman blah bla-blah for telling us about this." "I'd like to thank other councilman blah bla-blah for thanking me on that" "I'd just like to thank both councilmembers blah and blah for giving me the opportunity to witness them thanking each other for blah bla-blah freakin blah." Now imagine over 4 hours of that bullcrap. Then, once everyone during the voting got down to the last flippin' votes one councilman made us sit through the most painfully pointless statements of the night, (which consisted of him telling us how toddlers should NOT be riding their tricycles in the street....NO Freakin' CRAP!!!!), we had the have yet another councilwoman go on for 10 minutes about why SHE was going to vote yes...after everyone else already voted yes. WE. Don't. CARE!!! Just freakin' vote already!!!

Ugg. I need a nap.