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Over the last few weeks there has been a movie being filmed at Mount Hermon as part of the summer program. After a small bit part earlier in the film, I got to participate again, this time playing a paparazzi photographer at a red carpet event. Of course I took the shots for realzies and it was actually a really fun time. I also got to borrow a Canon 580 flash for the evening. I don’t currently have an external flash and since it is a part of Canon’s big summer sale, I’ve been thinking about picking one up. While the majority of my low light shooting is at Vintage and in situations (like during the service) where using a flash isn’t a real option, it still would be a very useful tool to have. The onboard flash on the 30D is woefully inadequate and as I’m looking toward a 5D (which doesn’t have a flash) as my future camera it’s something I’ll need eventually anyway. Head on over to flickr to check out the shots.
I’m glad to be hooked up to the tubes again! Even though I’m at Coffee Cat right now (how can it be cliche when it feels so right?!) I’ve finally got internet up and running at my new house. It only took about four hours of work from the point of Comcast lighting up the cable to me actually being able to get around their weird DNS login thingy. I finally just took my laptop downstairs and Dan (our downstairs neighbor) helped me figure out how to get it working, which pretty much just consisted of rebooting the router about 12 times and fiddling with settings that shouldn’t have any effect on getting access and poof, it finally got through. Dan is one of the graphics guys at Mount Hermon, and even though he is a Mac guy he is fun to hang out with so I forgive him for that.
Our Wednesday night “Manfest” went really well and we talked about having more in the future. It would be fun to see that develop into a continual thing where we meet every few weeks or so to hang out. There are actually quite a few guys (we had 10 show up to the BBQ) that are interested so I think we can pull it off. It is nice having a big enough place to have that many people over too. We had a couple people out back on the deck, a couple playing Halo, and a few more around the dining room table so no one was crammed in anywhere. I was really glad Jeremy, one of our newer program guys, made it by for a while to hang out. He seems like a really cool guy and since his wife is out of town, he needed someone to feed him dinner. 
We actually just squeaked by on meat because I went to Safeway at lunch and bought more. Otherwise we would have run out. I’ve gotta stop buying all the meat though because even when I just buy hamburger I end up spending $30 on it because I refuse to buy the cheap stuff (96% lean or more is the only way to go). At least the stuff I bought for the BBQ wasn’t quite as expensive as the buffalo I really like to get (which can run $5+ per lbs).
Then last night I invited a few more people over to watch The Office and that ended up being a ton of fun. It is fun to work in an office and then watch that show. We were trying to figure out who is who in our office this summer and I got labeled as Dwight for some reason. I tried to argue for at least being named Kevin or even Creed but it was no use. Of course, I could have argued that as the only guy in the office I was at least anatomically closest to being Jim. I took a Office quiz on Facebook today and that decided that I’m actually Ryan. I could certainly do worse than that.
