Category: General
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Second Challenge in Writing Course
My second prompt is the first bit of dialog in the story below. No other prompts to help me write.
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First Challenge in Writing Course
So we were given random papers today to write a quick story based on a prompt. Mine was “write about a noise or a silence that won’t go away.” Here’s what I came up with…
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Growing a Beard
So for a little over a month, I grew a beard. It had its ups and downs. The major upside being that I didn’t have to shave every day, but to make it look decent, there was still a fair bit of grooming involved. The main two reasons I decided…
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My L Lens: 24-105
So one of the things I did right before taking a leave of absence from this blog is buy my first L series lens. I had been thinking about it for quite some time, and finally took the plunge and purchased one. Nearly two grand later, I had it in…
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What’s Up?
Well, I decided to take a month off from blogging, or rather, my life was such that I needed to take a month off writing and while many things have happened over the last four weeks, which I hope to go over in the coming days, I’m also gearing up…
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My 2011 Birthday/Christmas Wishlist
As I have been given the opportunity to give little gifts to my family recently, I’ve also been asked what I’m looking to receive this fall as my birthday and Christmas approaches, so I whipped up my yearly list to make it easy for family and friends. Gadgets and Accessories…
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Knowledge Doesn’t Lead to Expression and Experience
I don’t know why, but I have a strange issue. I have a ton of knowledge but I can’t put any of it into action. I know how to get fit, but I’m not doing a good job at doing what I know needs to be done. I know how…
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Conflicts in Life Goals
While I pride myself on being a relatively focused person when it comes to what I want out of life, there are some things that conflict. Right now, the conflict weighing heavily on my mind, even though I can’t act on it, is the fact that I want to live…
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Almost Purchased a New Lens
So, during the weekend, I stopped off at Henry’s in Kingston and almost bought the Canon 24-105mm f4 L IS lens. It would have been nearly $1600 after tax and slapping a protective filter on the end of it, but because they were too slow to act on price matching…
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Harry Potter: Final Movie Review
So the last Harry Potter movie recently came out and I was invited to go to Kingston to see it with my cousin Kyle on opening weekend. Initially we planned on doing it opening night, but neither of us are such strong fans that we wanted to compete with the…
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Co-workers and Positive Embarrassment
So today, like every Wednesday, we had our all-staff round table meeting. We discussed what was going on in the company, what we’ve accomplished, issues we are having and so forth. It was a fairly quick meeting compared to most weeks, but it was packed with information and I think…
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Two Lenses Competing for My Love
So, for the last couple of months, I’ve been slowly working towards and gearing up for my first professional level lens. There are two that continue to try to draw me in, and I don’t see myself as being the kind of person to “collect” similar coverage lenses, especially ones…
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