Blog Block

I really thought I’d have a lot to blog about since this whole week was a
pretty crazy cross country adventure…but I can’t seem to focus on blogging
at the moment.  I don’t know if it’s just a writer’s block thing or what.
Whenever I sit down to write, I keep thinking I’m writing out some formal
document and that ends up causing me to keep thinking about it and then I just
stop.  My goal is to blog more now that I’m out in LA and I have lots of
friends around the country that will probably be interested in updates.  At
this point, I’m not sure what I’m going to do.  I thought about just using
Tumblr instead of my own custom WordPress install or I may simply start fresh
with this domain.  I’ll definitely find a way to send out updates on my LA
adventure, but it looks like it’ll be a little bit longer.

One quick update though – I did make it to LA just fine and both kitties made
it smoothly.  My furniture isn’t here yet, so my apartment is basically empty
at the moment, but at least I’m here.  I’ll post more in the near future, but
so far, so good.

T-0

Today is my last day of work on the East Coast. It’s a sad day since I’m
leaving a stable company full of good people and interesting opportunities. At
the same time, it’s an exciting day since I’m leaving so I can prepare myself
for the 2200 mile move to Los Angeles before I start my dream job of building
spaceships. I never thought I’d be trading my reasonably large house in
Tennessee and basically all of my stuff for a tiny one bedroom apartment in
LA, but I never thought I’d be able to work on spaceships either.

I got a great send off from my coworkers. A few of them decided to do a little
decorating to my cube…

…and my car…

…but the best part was the cupcake. 🙂

Alter Oculos – Project #1

A few guys I know decided to start a photo group on Flickr called Alter Oculos. It’s a group for sharing photowalk images and trying out some photo projects as a group. This week, we decided to all use the same set of shots, but then we’ll all process them and compare our take on the post processing. These are my two finished images. I think the first turned out ok, but I really like the second image quite a lot.

Alter Oculos Post Processing Project #1 - Scene 1 Alter Oculos Post Processing Project #1 - Scene 2

The photos were taken by Matthew Osborne – you can see more of his images here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthewosbornephotography/