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When it rains.

Posted by Steve on September 28, 2012 No comments

Yesterday was Sarah’s birthday. She hates when people point it out, especially me, which is probably why I do it so often. She still lords over me that I am older so I feel justified. The day started off well enough. I crawled out of bed as quietly as I could so she could sleep in, and I headed to work. Around lunchtime I met up with a friend and as I was getting out of the MINI, disaster struck.

You know that cool post I did earlier about how I use my iPad for so many things.… yeah well, it dropped. It slid off my lap and fell to the pavement. Honestly, I didn’t think anything of it at the time, since it had fallen before. It’s in a leather case that tends to protect it fairly well, and it only fell from about 1 foot high. Well, it landed in just the wrong way that this happened:

Ouch!

Yup, the corner shattered and spider-webbed across the whole screen. I too, was shattered. My mind rapidly went through all of the various solutions, from using it as it was (since it still worked fine), to buying a new V.3 iPad ($800!!!!!). Then it dawned on me that a friend had this same thing happen to his and he was able to get it repaired. It’s just the front glass that shattered so the repair really isn’t that bad. I found a place near home to work on it and it was done in 2 1/2 hours. Total repair: $120. (the place was http://apluscprepair.com/ and they did an great job!)

YAY!

Using that extra few hours I swung by the store and bought Sarah some flowers and Oatmeal Creme Pies. (her favorite). After the repair was done we headed out to grab dinner at a place in Front Royal, about an hour’s drive. What we didn’t expect was the Armageddon level rain storm that hit us! Driving back home was a nightmare as the storm was doing it’s impression of a DubStep Rave, with thrumming waves of the water and the strobe effects of the lightning. I could barely see the road. Crazy.

We did make it home safely. Oh, and of course, when we checked the mail, I got a lovely letter from the District of Columbia informing me that they were super nice and took a picture of my car and me the other day when I was driving home from the ren faire (and was dog sick). They felt I should have a copy of the photo and it was only going to cost me $125.

Oh, yeah, it was raining too.

You take the good, you take the bad…

New Years 2012

Posted by Steve on January 3, 2012 No comments

Woah, I think someone has been tampering with my time machine. I don’t remember how the heck we got here but it’s 2012 already! Sarah and I rang in the new year with our friends Caleb and Diz at the Kennedy Center. They do a special evening event for New Years and any engagement at the center gets you access. We did it up right too. I bought a Tux and Sarah got all dolled up. The whole night was a blur, but I guess that means we did t right. Enjoy the Pics and lets get 2012 started!

Select pictures below, the rest can be found at: https://www.wizzersworld.com/zen/Special%20Events/New%20Years%202012/

These Times they are a’changin

Posted by Steve on August 25, 2011 No comments

So in the last month or so a huge shake up happened here, and I am not just talking about the earthquake that it VA a few days ago, although that was just weird. For the last few months I have been growing increasingly dis-satisfied with my job. It was supposed to be my dream job and gateway to bigger better things. Turns out it was kind of a bait and switch, (Not the fault of those who got me the job, it just changed drastically after I got there.) and was not what I wanted. Add on that the horrible commute time and we have what My wife and I like to call, “Not paying enough to put up with the crap”. A friend of me saw some of my lamenting tweets and asked if I would be interested in hopping ship. Long story made short, I am now working back in Chantilly/Herndon area!

This also means that I am not in the DC proper area which means that I need to find some other things to take pictures of. Since I am working right next to Dulles, I may try and get over for some airport/plane pictures so keep an eye out for that.

And, of course, we are in the midst of getting ready for DragonCon, so there has been a ton or prep work going on to get costumes and such ready. This year I will only be doing Two costumes! (I know, crazy eh?).

The first is my pride and joy of the year, Giovani Auditori from Assassin’s creed II. Giovani is Ezio’s father. The reason I say it’s a Giovani costume and not an Ezio is that I purchased it from Museum Replicas and they based their design off the Lineage prequel that Ubisoft created before the game. There are quite a few differences between the in game costume and the movie one.

The Second is a very low key costume. Matty Roth, the amature photo-journalist. It’s from the comic DMZ and is a way for me to be in costume and still have the camera on me to take pictures of folks.

We leave for DC on Wed. of next week. Expect lots of pictures and lots of twitter activity!