The Ambivalent One

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Long exposure shot and Sheldon taking a photo of me during the fifteen seconds it took. The flash lit everyone up enough to make it look like everyone sat still. I thought this looked pretty cool. Like some sort of apparition was sitting at the fire with us.

This time without the flash. No apparition.

Satan stopped by and told us about a hilarious series of misunderstandings that led to the slaughter of millions in the dark ages and as a side effect made people think that Ben Stiller is funny.

Heheheh... Fire.

Well, time for bed. I kept everyone up until two in the morning. Sorry about that. I just like camping and we were only there for one night. I wanted to get the most out of it. Please don't hate me!

This was actually a brunch we had Saturday at Raymond's house. We ate well last weekend and I got to meet a lot of great and interesting family on Christine's side. I had a great time.

Christine's uncle Raymond's birthday cake. For reasons I can't quite explain, I really like this photo.

I will be posting some more photos soon. I have a bunch of people photos that I think turned out well.

Restaurants are the same here but more delicious because it costs more.

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These are just a sampling of our trip so far. I have a lot of photos of Christine's family but I will refrain from posting those until I get permission. We got here late in the day and ended up going right to her uncle's for a glass of bubbly and then back to the auberge for a great roast beef dinner.

Here is the route I ran tonight. It's part of my training for the Nike+ Human Race ten kilometer run. The map looks a little confusing... it starts at the green marker and I ran the big loop on the outside and then came back around and ran the smaller loop. My training goal for tonight was nine kilometers but I decided to make it an even ten. Enjoy the map. If you click the view full button you can enter your body stats and calculate calories burned based on time. The markers button will turn on the KM markers... but it will look random because of the way I looped around... Double left-click zooms in. Double right-click zooms out and dragging lets you move the map around.

You can see my Nike+ stats in the Nike badge on the right menu bar of my blog if you are not looking at the original post. The iPod sports kit says it was 10.04KM whereas map my run indicates 10.4KM. My iPod may not be properly calibrated.

The ever elusive cigarette freegan. Spotted in the wild outskirts of my workplace. As I watched he succesfully foraged six or seven partially used cigarettes.

His clean khaki accoutrements indicate that he is of an ever rarer breed. The Khakied sneak breed to be precise. They are known for being able to afford smoking but in order to deny that they are actually smokers they never buy any. They "bum" them off friends and co-workers or scavenge for them when friends and co-workers are not around.

When asked why they don't smoke the answer will invariably be: "I'm only a social smoker".

We had a weird ant infestion along the edge of our garage door yesterday morning... I had no bug spray so I doused them with weed killer. Seemed to do the trick though... When I got home with the actual insecticide they were all gone. I sprayed anyways. Aparently this stuff " WORKS FOR UP TO TWO WEEKS!!!".

They were probably having an orgy when I smote them... I may be their vengeful god raining destruction on them for their sinful ways.

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This is a composite of multiple fireworks bursts. Took them with my phone camera so I apologize for the suck. I also apologize for the tardiness.