Archive for December, 2007
White
Dec 12th
Canoes
Dec 11th
Glowy
Dec 10th
Welcome to my backlog. I’ve continued working through my old photos in Aperture — rating them all and getting them tagged. This is one of the first photos I took with my XT after I got a tripod. I was pretty interested in experimenting with night photography, so I took a number of shots like this. This one turned out pretty well, although if you look carefully you can see how the camera moved a little when I hit the shutter button. I’m happy I have a shutter release switch now! Still, I really like how the clouds look in this photo, so I thought it was worth uploading. This is the building across the street from my building.
Busy December
Dec 10th
It seems like this time of year is packed fuller than any other time. I think the only night this week that I am not busy doing something is Thursday. Yikes.
This weekend was pretty fun. On Saturday, Diane and I made some apple crisp and headed over to her work’s potluck Christmas party. The food that people brought was amazing … I ate entirely too much, but it was super tasty. It’s a little weird going to the party though since I didn’t really know anyone. I guess I’m still not too comfortable in a setting where I don’t really know anyone. The people were nice, but I’m not a strong conversationalist, so there’s usually too much awkward silence for my comfort level. Ah well, the food was good!
On Sunday I spent the afternoon at home playing some poker for the first time in a little while. I ended up with a pretty profitable being up more than 4 stacks playing 100NL. I enjoy winning! The session started out real slow. I stacked off with KK against a set, but made that back fairly quickly when my AK beat AQ when we both flopped two pair. After that I went on a pretty big rush, flopping several sets as well as winning a KK versus AK allin preflop situation. There were a few significant setbacks but I kept the hot streak going throughout most of the session to make a tidy profit. Cake poker is turning into a pretty nice place to play. I think I’ve pretty much decided to clear the deposit bonus there before moving on. I’m about 1/3 the way through that now, and am already up quite a bit. I’ve heard other people describe cake poker being pretty soft, and I think I’m agreeing with them.
This week I have a dinner party to go to, as well as my condo’s annual general meeting, and an evening to play poker with the members of the UofA CPRG. Should be a fun week!
Heraldk
Neat Sky
Dec 7th
The Music
Dec 6th
Christmas Ornament
Dec 5th
Now that it is December, it was now permissible for me to put up the Christmas tree. So Diane and I did so on Sunday. It was kind of fun – I have a little 4 foot Christmas tree that is the perfect size I think for my condo. I sat down to watch the hockey game on Monday and during the intermission I took a few pictures of the tree with the lights on. It’s pretty tricky to take good photos of the tree though, so the best I could come up with was this close-up shot of one of my ornaments.
Game On
Dec 4th
The past three games have been very encouraging for the Oilers. We’re battling through some pretty intense injury trouble, but with last night’s win in LA, we’re now just one game shy of .500, and a pair of points out of a playoff spot.
The two wins against Anaheim are HUGE for a couple of reasons. The first is obviously that wins are important against any team. But beating down Anaheim means that we are more likely to finish above them in the standings – meaning the draft pick we have from them is worth more than the one we gave up for Dustin Penner. The Kevin Lowe vs Brian Burke war seems to be evening out a little more. If the oilers can turn this season around, I think the Dustin Penner offer sheet was a pretty good move for Kevin Lowe – particularly since Penner has been playing better and better over the last few games.
The Edmonton Oilers, in the past couple of years, have been a frustratingly fun team to watch. Even in 05/06 when we made the run to the cup, the Oilers just squeaked into the playoffs. They did so by beating the good teams, and losing to the bad teams … which made no sense. Last year’s season was a terrible disappointment, but the team had so much trouble scoring. Add in the injury troubles that plagued the oilers in the late season, and it really was a recipe for disaster.
I still think the experts are crazy to think they can just write off the oilers as contenders. Anything can happen in the new NHL, and the oilers have a lot of the right ingredients to turn things around. Granted, they have a lot of young and unexperienced players on their team, but there is a lot of skill there, and if the elements click into place, I wouldn’t be surprised to see this team playoff bound.
Heraldk
Sunrise
Dec 3rd
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