On the way home from work this evening, we pulled over to let a fire truck speed past us. We eventually caught up to it just a few blocks from the entrance to our neighborhood. It was called out to help contain a fuel leak from this car-carrier that had lost its load. [...]

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The Birthday Girl with some flowers and some birthday coffee.
I started the day off right with breakfast in bed, which consisted of a bowl of Frosted Mini-Wheats on top of an upside-down laundry basket. Hey, we ain’t fancy. Well, I did fashion a tablecloth out of a dish towel (clean), so maybe we’re a [...]

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At least when it comes to lens caps. Now, this is just my opinion, but I shall overwhelm you with photographic evidence that this is the case, and then we shall all be in agreement.
First of all, a Canon lens cap:

By all appearances, this is a perfectly adequate lens cap. It fits on [...]

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There’s a new header up at the top of ol’ KB.com, but you probably wouldn’t notice if you’re one of the hordes of RSS subscribers. Go ahead and click the link in Google Reader, or Bloglines, or Rojo, or Mail.app or whatever it is that you use to read your feeds, and stop by [...]

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A big, overdue thanks to David DuChemin of “Pixelated Image” for sending me a free 4GB Lexar Professional UDMA Comact Flash card. That’s digital film, for those of you not down with the lingo.
Several weeks ago David hosted a sort of competition on his blog, and I “entered” and David liked my entry enough [...]

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Yes, a jaunt. Not a stroll or a walk. A jaunt. We’re expecting severe thunderstorms this evening, so we headed out to enjoy the brief period in between blazing heat and pouring rain.
And these are some of the sights I saw:

The foreboding sky.

Some safety cones on the bumper of a large utility [...]

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And it’s only April.

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Canon introduced its EF series of lenses in 1987, and today celebrated the production of it’s 40 millionth lens.
[H/T: The Digital Picture]

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For our anniversary in 2004, Sara surprised me with tickets to a Braves/Rangers baseball game in Arlington just before we flew to Rwanda. It was the first time I’d gotten to see the Braves play in person, and it was a great night.
Tonight, John Smoltz struck out Felipe Lopez of the Washington Nationals for [...]

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My church-league softball team got off to a scorching 2-0 start. When our regular coach took a night off to attend the Final Four a few weeks ago, the wheels started coming off, and we’ve dropped three in a row. But, we may be the only team in the league with a team [...]

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