A New Blog

Ashton started up a blog of his own to talk about his programming projects. He's much better than I am about the whole updating thing seeing as he created the blog yesterday and has already written twice. I thought, however, that I'd create an entry with the link to his new blog for those of you who would be interested in reading it. http://halla-dev.blogspot.com

While I'm here, I might as well write an update about what we've been up to. While we're still looking for a job, we've taken up projects to keep us busy and entertained. Some of the projects are individual. For example, Ashton is usually on the computer doing some programming and reading up on stuff (news, more programming stuff...). I usually bounce back and forth from the computer (when I can steal it or I just use the laptop), to reading books (picked some up from the library), to anything else I can think of.

Other projects, we do together. Usually that ends up being a game. Sometimes, however, we'll watch the news together or take a trip somewhere. Last Saturday, we went down to Colorado Springs to do some sight seeing. We went to the Garden of the Gods. There were more people there than I expected, but it still was nowhere near as busy as I'm sure it gets in the summertime. It wasn't too cold out as well so that made it even nicer. I, of course, brought my camera and had a blast taking pictures. We'd start walking and then I'd all of a sudden stop because I had seen something that I wanted to take a picture of. Ashton was a good sport about it. I took about 140 pictures there so there was a lot of stopping involved. Ashton would sometimes suggest that I take a picture of something, so he got into it as well.

On our way home from Colorado Springs, the sun was beginning to set and it looked like it was going to be a cool sunset. So, we headed over to Waneka Lake so that I could take some pictures of that. Well, the sunset wasn't as spectacular as we thought it'd be, but still good enough to take pictures of. Not to mention, there were lots of flocks of geese on the lake so they made fun models. Too bad it was a bit too dark to see them really well. I guess I'll have to head over there during the day to try to get some better geese pictures. It was a lot of fun.

So I'd post some of the pictures I took except for two things. One, I discovered after I put the pictures on the computer that I apparently had some spots on my lens. Spots that I'm pretty sure that I've cleaned before and had tried to clean off just before taking the majority of these pictures. Apparently, it didn't work. So now I have about 200 pictures to clean up on the computer. It makes a good project no matter how redundant I'm sure it'll feel while I'm doing it. This brings up reason number two that I won't be posting the pictures yet: in order to clean up the pictures, I need the desktop to do it because it's faster than the laptop and because that's where the pictures are. Unfortunately, this is also the computer that Ashton uses to do his programming because it's faster and that's where his program is, and as I said earlier, he's on the computer a lot. I'm thinking we need to talk over some custody rights.

Well, seeing as I have the computer for a little while, I better get going on those pictures...