Basketball on the Brain

I will get to an update on my New Year's Resolution - Weekly Challenges soon, but while I have your attention, I want to be sure to give my brother's brand spanking new blog a shout out:

Basketball on the Brain

I believe he is using this as a platform to discuss anything and everything related to basketball - college, pro, court at People's Park, etc...  If you are interested in sports or my brother, I would suggest checking it out.

Now...on to my New Year's Resolution - Weekly Challenges.

While I haven't been able to blog about it weekly, I have been adhering to my challenges.  Here's the break down:

Week 1: Brush teeth left handed. Fairly easily to accomplish.  I did spend longer brushing my teeth because I was worried that I wasn't doing as thorough as a job.  None of my teeth have fallen out, so no harm done.

Week 2: Don't hit snooze.  This essentially became alarm clock roulette.  I didn't hit snooze, but I didn't necessarily wake up either.  Several times I drifted back to sleep and LUCKILY woke up a short time later.  Since then, I have continued to hit snooze almost every morning.

Week 3: Read in bed before going to sleep.  Accomplished.  I read some research papers and People Magazine.  More than once, I fell asleep while reading, but I was already in bed so I just rolled with it.

Week 4: Morning jog. The mornings that I could, I did.  Monday morning would have required waking up at  5 to get a jog, and that wasn't gonna happen.  Friday, Saturday, and Sunday I had to wake up early to commute to a convention in Burlingame, and waking up earlier wasn't really "in the cards".  I probably didn't pick the best week to take on this challenge since I had some many days that required me to wake-up extra earlier already.

Week 5: Do a Sudoku.  I'm still in the midst of this challenge, but successful so far.  One Sudoku from the newspaper during the week, and today I dug up my book of Sudoku puzzles and did a bunch of them.

So far, so good.

Remember to check out my brother's blog.

Catch ya later!

B & W Photos

I haven't forgotten about my blog. In fact, I think of it often. But when I have time to actually write something, my mind goes completely blank. Well, to solve this problem, I opened my closet and looked for inspiration. I found it in an old bin of black and white photos. One of my favorite classes at Cal was the 8 week summer class on Black and White Photography. I learned to develop my own film, enlarge negatives, "burning", "dodging", and processing prints. It was amazing! Creating my own darkroom and processing lab is on the top of my list of things to do when I'm a millionaire. ;)

Over the course of the class, I directed my lens towards many subjects, but I did my final project on animals at the SF Zoo. Some of the photos from this project can be seen on Facebook.

But perhaps the most meaningful photos were of the critters around the house - Bonnie, Rexy, and Molly. Lincoln was not in our lives...he wasn't even born yet!

Enjoy these negatives...I know I did when I dug them up. Click on the photo to make it bigger.

**Bonnie is the doggie in the pool. Rexy is the doggie lounging around (RIP Rexy). And there is 1 picture of Molly the cat (RIP Molly).**