Day 29

A coworkers wife brought in a 12 layer chocolate icing cake. I could barely finish my piece. There's also some delicious pork slices in that blue container behind. Free food helps with the Monday blues.

Days 28, 27, and 26

I went to Buckhead church with Russ Martin today. The service atmosphere was the most amazing non-Catholic church experience I've ever had and I can't wait to come back. The sermon was also unique as it compared the modern church to the early church straight after Christ died and rose. I learned more about Paul than from anywhere else. Very historical.

Saturday night consisted of dinner at Chipotle and then bowling at Tech Rec with some Asian friends. My bowling skills were WAY OFF on both games. Still, I had fun and made some new friends. 

Friday night was my first concert experience of 2011: 30 Seconds to Mars at the Tabernacle in Atlanta. In this picture are 2 of my fraternity brothers Paul Shackelford and Russ Martin both of whom went with me. I think it's obvious we had a blast. 

Day 25

The Medical Center of Central Georgia opened up the new Patient Simulation Center with mannequins(not shown) that will give medical students practice before dealing with real patients. Here's my dad on our HDTV looking BA in a bow-tie doing medical things with a laptop and a vitals screen.

Day 24

Among the notable things that happened today my mom got me a long shoe horn from Dillard's. As you can see it can also double as a weapon. And yes that is my little brother photo bombing in the mirror behind me.

Day 23

One of my coworkers at Robins AFB has this button on his cubicle wall. Makes me even more proud to be a civilian worker for the USAF.

Day 21 and Day 22

For PhotoShop Sunday I took an image of a hot wing, made it sharper, and used a filter layer to give it an oil painting effect. Cant' really see much of that here when the picture is small. Hand and wing courtesy of my little brother

Today a family friend, one of my dad's residents at the Medical Center came over with 2 buckets of KFC. We treat him like family and for that we got dinner.

Day 20

I did my first Team WOD at North Macon CrossFit today. Here's everybody hanging around after all the 100 hanging cleans, 100 thrusters, 100 push-ups, 100 ring dips, and 100 over head squats. So good

Day 19

I had lunch with the coworkers at "Momma Goldbergs Deli" in Warner Robins. Fridays you can get these amazing nachos for a $1. Cheese Doritos, drizzled with melted pepper jack cheese and jalapenos. Can it get any better?

Day 18

First lax afternoon of 2011, as my little brother demonstrates in this dark and impromptu photo. If only Middle Georgia knew about this awesome sport like the rest of the state.

iPhone screenshots

I realized that 1) I didn't have any idea for a picture, and 2) I had no idea how to take screen shot photos of my iPhone. All that is explained here. No app needed just 2 buttons already there. Without giving away too much here is a picture of the first section of my iPhone. 

boredom = intuition

Sometimes being bored can lead to the most stunning realizations ever. With still no computer access at work and only a book to keep me sane I decided to find a way to draw a close to perfect circle on a dry erase board. 2 pieces of tape, some earplugs, and a few minutes later this is what I get.

Yah. There's the engineer inside of me showing

The MAP for WHAP

In this picture, my little brother is doing the notorious world map project for WHAP (World History Advance Placement). To stay sane he has music and a pint of Guinness - er caffeine free coke - in the pint glass I got from Ireland over the summer

Yoforia + harmonica = part of my weekend

Having Monday off for MLK, I decided to take trip up to Atlanta to see my Tech buds.

Saturday we went to the new Yoforia on Howell Mill Road which was celebrating its grand opening by giving out free frozen yogurt and toppings to everyone 5pm-10pm. I loaded mine with vanilla, taro, chocolate, blueberries, strawberries, and yes recess mini peanut butter cups. Yum

 In honor of Photoshop Sunday I made a piece called "D harp on Freshman Hill." Really easy just messing with the back ground of one layer

Visually functional and ergo friendly

Still with no computer access at work, I spent time reading a book called Visual Workplace Visual Thinking by Gwendolyn D. Galsworth. This and the loads of time I had inspired me to clean up and to organize my work station for quick and easy access to important stuff I needed. I didn't fall asleep and it made time go by faster.

Go Didi

Just my little sister Didi showing off some of her flexibility. This kind of looks painful.

Epic Youth Ministries

I went to my first youth group service in 2011. I saw a lot of new people I've never met which shows how old I'm getting. Everyone I know is off at college so now a whole new generation of kids are coming in to lead worship.

I'm not too proud about the quality of the photo. The lighting is awful and this is for sure not one of my best. I hope it doesn't happen again. 

In any case I had a lot of fun and I hope to come back each week to do keyboards for the music ministry.

Sonic's awesome deal

The Sonic next to Amstar Cinemas in Macon, Georgia has a great deal every Tuesday: 5 burgers for 5 dollars after 5pm. Well there were 5 burgers...

I saved 2 for lunch tomorrow.

Ice in Macon, Georgia

Whoohoo a new week for new photos. Project 365 is coming along well so far. 

Today we got ice in Macon, Georgia. Not snow because snow is soft and fun to play with and not like the ice and frozen layers of dirt we got here. All the videos, pictures, statuses, and tweets my friends back at Tech have really make me miss Atlanta even more. In any case we made the most of our "ice day." Less than an inch of snow and schools close, businesses open late/close early, and I don't start my co-op still Tuesday. 

A picture of the iced, slippery driveway behind our house. That's my little brother to the left in the middle of our "ice ball" fight. So much fun...

Photoshop Sunday: Album Cover

I'm doing a photoshoped image each Sunday. This one was easy to make and you can make your own by following these directions. 

1 - Go to wikipedia and hit random. The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2 - Go to quotationspage.com and hit random. The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”. Third picture no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4 - Use photoshop or similar (picnik.com is a free online photo editor) to put it all together.
5 - Post it with this text in the "caption" on facebook

Credit goes also to the people who took the picture and put it on Flickr

Cookies for her anniversary

Today my little sister and her boyfriend celebrated their year anniversary. She's a senior at the high school I went to and he's a freshman at James Madison University in Virginia. For him she made his favorite: white chocolate and macadamia nut cookies 

My little sister started baking last summer. It's definitely one of her best hobbies. 

A lonely dog

I caught my family's dog Alex sandwiched between his 2 cushions. We have to keep him in his room - the laundry room - all day because we're trying to sell our house. He's 6 year old purebred Maltese. How depressing you look boy.

Sleepovers and basketballs

These 2 pictures cover Wednesday and Thursday

Some friends and I chilled and slept over at a friend's house Wednesday night. She's leaving to study abroad in France and we to go to our respective colleges so a last hang out was needed. We had dinner at Ingleside Village Pizza, played pool, ate baked goods, played "never have I ever", played "questions", and collapsed finally into a floorgy at 4:30am.

Sadly the only picture I could get was my IVP dinner receipt taken against the flannel shirt, and khaki pants I wore that night.

For today Thursday I went to one of my dad's basketball games. Team Pinoy his team beat the home team of Vineville  Baptist Church, 44-41. He scored the first 3 points for his team. He's the blurry number 7 to the right.

3 guys, 2 bows, 1 ballast, and an afternoon well spent

Shot arrows at a foam target using my dad's hunting bow with Joe Fox, and Ben Land at Ben's house. We also shot projectiles with Ben's homemade ballast. 

This Georgia Tech, physics major is gonna go places. 

My new haircut

 Got a new haircut today to make myself look more professional and ready to work at Robins Air Force Base for term 2 of my co-op. The lady I go to is a really sweet, nice Filipino lady who knows what I want. Also I guess I was in a sepia mood when I took this