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A Bit Off my Game

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A Bit Off my Game
Photo-A-Day #1343

Some days don’t you feel like you’re just off your game? You can tell that this photo was something I took when off my game. I was eating dinner at D’Angelo and wanted to take a photo of the fact that I was there, there was a Christmas tree and also the mirror. Not the most compelling photo. It is raining and I think this feeling of being off happens a lot when it’s raining. It’s been raining pretty good here and I just feel off. Allison and Eva’s flight has been delayed so they’re not coming in until an hour later. Today I worked from home and when you work from home you can see everything that’s happening outside. When I’m at the office I have no concept of what is going on outside with the weather. But when I’m home I have to run things outside and I sit right by a window so I can see how dreary it is out there.

Today however was pretty productive. After work I took care of the rest of things that needed to be put away. I also noticed that there are many people who have revealed things in BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome! I have no idea how anyone’s getting in to see this box. I did however find a few more things that I’m going to put into the box. Keep checking on the web and following me on Twitter to see what else is in BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome! These folks found things.

Kat of Tough Girl Kat – dug around in BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome and found a Retractable Modem Cord.

Magical Trevor of Nerdvana says Look what I’ve found!!! Apparently he snuck a peek inside BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome and found some Hard Rock Cafe Key Covers.

Lenny of my Secret Project is playing Dress up with the funky Tie that he found in The “Big Box of Awesome” from Benspark

Pete of My GPS CameraPhone is urging his readers to snuggle up by the DVD fire because that is a prize they can get if they Win a Big Box of Awesome from BenSpark!

Mo of We’re in A Fight went on an amazing adventure to find something. She was looking for Sunshine…lollipops…and a Big Box of Awesome! What she found were the ninja claws of our cats.

Lynne of It’s My Imagination was able to find a Big Box of Awesome Contest and A Clue!

Today I also received a very important package. I can’t say much about it. That is, until December 16th. So you have to come on back here on December 16th to find out what was in the package I received today. Because what’s inside may benefit you or someone you know.

I noticed today on Twitter that there are a lot of people be nominated for what’s called the shortyawards. They are some sot of awards that have to do with Twitter. I got a nomination from Scott from AverageDudes. He nominated me in the personal category. He said that is because I post every single day on Twitter. And that’s true because I do post on Twitter I mostly post through Utterli. I’ve been using Utterli since Blog World Expo 2007 (and they were called Utterz). Every single day to post my photo a day. With Utterli I’m able to post to Twitter, my blog Google is Not God, and Flickr. I used to post to Pownce as well but Pownce is no longer around. I wonder how many other Web 2.0 companies are going to stop being around. At least with Pownce they gave me the XML files with all of the content that I posted there. While the content was redundant it’s still good to know that it was not totally lost.

As far as the ShortyAwards, I probably won’t win but I would love some nominations in the Personal Category if you like what I am doing here on this blog and on Twitter. Heres how you do it

To nominate someone for a Shorty Award, use the form on their site, or send a tweet similar to this:
“@shortyawards I nominate @benspark in category #personal because… (but write something of your own).”

And while you are at it, please nominate Ted Murphy of IZEA in the category of # #advertising. Something like this
“@shortyawards I nominate @tedmurphy in category #advertising because… (but write something of your own).”

I am always amazed at the connections that I make online. I’ve written about and even thrown a contest about Fry Sauce. Today I got a comment from Jim R. He used to make the fry sauce for an Arctic Circle. And he found my post about Fry Sauce and told me the correct way to make it.

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Everyone Loves A.. Rainy Parade?

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Everyone Loves A.. Rainy Parade?
Photo-A-Day #1332

Today was the annual North Attleboro Santa Parade and it was happening rain or shine. Unfortunately the heavens chose rain today. There is nothing more sad than watching people throw candy from cars and floats so halfheartedly and seeing that same candy land in the puddles in the gutters. And not one person there to snatch it up. That is what we witnessed while watching the annual Santa Parade. We bundled up Eva.

You want to do what?

We headed downtown to watch the parade. We also got a late start because I pretty much passed out on the bed while reading Brisinger. Allison woke me around 3:20pm. The parade started at 3:00pm. We did get to see at least 3 of the local Dance Schools. (There are like 50 of them in town). We also got to see the most important part of the parade. No, not Santa but rather the EGL car. EGL stands for Edward G. Lambert. Ed was my best friend’s father. He was also the head of the North Attleboro Santa Parade and each year he would be the very last car in the parade. And in the words of the Lambert boys “The Parade isn’t over till the Buick rolls by.” Ed’s son Neil drove the car this year. He was all smiles when he saw us.

The End Of the Parade

I took my camera and figured I would get a shot or two during the parade. I did I got quite a few and there were some worth posting. I posted them to Flickr in the North Attleboro Santa Parade tag set. Taking Photos in the rain sucks especially if you don’t have something to cover your camera. I need that I have got to get a rain cover for my camera. I also should have taken off the polarizing filter that I had forgotten was on the camera until after I was done shooting. Oh well, at least I got the shot above. I did a little editing in Photoshop to isolate the parts in color that I really liked.