The wedding

My friends Heather and Kyle got married, oh a month and a half ago now, and I was lucky enough to attend... really beautiful ceremony, in the alley where they had their first beers together. While some of my longtime friends know that I refuse, under any circumstances, to be a wedding photographer, I didn't take any money for this one, and I would have been there anyway, so in this case I made an exception and took some photos. Besides, they're really amazing people and I wanted to do something nice for them.

catching up

Work has been especially worky and my personal life has ben a crazy roller coaster, and that means the blog has been a bit neglected, but I'm trying to catch up. A wedding (not my own), a vacation, two business trips (the first one to vancouver and the other to san fransisco), all that really wears on you. There's not a ton of energy left to blog. Add that to the fact that when I'm working, I'm actually working now, and it demands my full attention (really, it's more like a compulsion to fix things that I have a hard time putting down, but I digress). So I just haven't had the extra capacity, in time or mental bandwidth to get updates out to the world. First of all the new job is great. Engine Yard is easily the best company I've ever worked for, the work completely obsesses and consumes me, and the team I'm on has some of the brightest people I've ever worked with. Also they're "hiring":http://www.engineyard.com/company/careers. The only downside so far is I've been so focused on work, especially the last month, that I haven't had a whole lot of personal time. The reason I'm writing this is to try and make some time for myself. So that'll be the last you hear from me about work for a while. I went out with my dad one night a couple of weeks ago, drinking good scotch, and the subject of just how lucky I am came up. A lot of very improbable things have happened to me, and that I survived them all with no long term damage (modulo occasional back problems, scars, and a trail of broken hearts) is also pretty remarkable. I lost count at 19, numbering the times I could have legitimately died if things had been just a little different. If I'd spiked a little more fever, or if I'd been hit a little harder by that car, or pavement, or whatever. Or if the right person hadn't been there at the right moment to save me. So yeah, phenomenally lucky. So yeah. That's the state of things. Since I have photos queued up and ready to go, expect to see them here sometime in the next week. For now, just a sunset I shot from riding river the other day:

two good bands

the title of this post could have easily been 'too good bands'. This was "Dr. Pants":http://www.doctorpants.com and "Student Film":http://www.myspace.com/studentfilm , which I saw last week at the blue note and the mustache bash, respectively. Fun acts. I wish I had more to say, but I'm getting ready to go to mexico (!!!!) and my head is full logistics and flight details and all the things I need to do... Yeah. Just a couple days to relax and not think about anything. I was thinking about not even taking a laptop. Now, if you're in either of those bands, pretend this whole paragraph was me saying nice things about you; I had at least that much to say all in my head earlier, but got distracted. Yeah.

in between things

So these are just photos from in between things... I'm not a 100% event oriented photographer, I have the camera with me all the time. So sometimes there are random nice things that would otherwise slip through the cracks. These are that.