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Black Ties Photo delivered our first wedding photos last night. Our client was very happy, and spoke of some friends who where checking our stuff out for weddings coming up. If anything at all, shooting some senior photos and weddings will help afford this hobby

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“Malibu’s Most Wanted” has pretty much solidified my bad opinion of “brainstorming.” Everytime something bad would happen, this guy’s political team would break out into a brainstorming session… When someone asks me to brainstorm I can’t help but wonder what it is they really want. Do they REALLY want to drum up creative ideas, for me to tell them what they already know, or just tell them what to do so they don’t have to think…

Just thinking about “brainstorming” gave me a headache.

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No I will not just do this one thing for you. No you cannot just have a minute of my time. Yes you are interrupting. No your request is not more important than what I was just working on. No your lack of planning is not my problem. Yes you are as incompetent with computers as you think you are. No I will not give you admin rights. Yes I am very busy. Yes you should have put in a work order weeks ago. No this is not your new computer, and no I don’t choose who gets them…NO I cannot talk to your boss for you about getting a new computer. Yes I can install some printers for you, no I will not give you a local printer. No I do not know how to use your cutting edge “your industry only” application, I just pulled it out of the box and installed it, until 10 minutes ago I never knew this even existed, no I cannot train you how to use it. NO I did not break your computer, yes this is the new system. Yes you have to change your password now, no I do not make the rules. YES the password must have a number in it, NO I DO NOT MAKE THE RULES. No I did not have a nice summer, I was here while you where on a beach. No I don’t like listening to you complain about having to be back to work.

Some days my tongue ends up pretty raw. I don’t just like Fridays, I NEED Fridays.

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Custodian to me: “I can always tell when it is a Friday, you always walk a little faster”

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Well, I’ve taken my photo geekery to a new level.  With much prodding from a friend of mine, I’m in a joint venture photography company.  We are shooting a wedding this weekend and shot two senior portrait rounds last week.

Its fun, we’ll see where it goes.  I doubt I’ll ever be paying bills with it, but I really love shooting and interacting with fun people.  So here goes nothing right?

If you’d like to check our site out, head on over to www.blacktiesphoto.com!

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Di and I bought a Malibu today. I had sworn off ever buying new cars, but cash for clunkers and 0% financing is hard to argue with. Nice ride, very comfy, has some pretty cool features (what computer geek doesn’t totally LOVE a power jack in their car).

Pretty cool, now I just have to pay for the thing. On paper I should save about a thousand dollars a year in gas

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Have you ever tweaked your chair to try and improve posture? Raise it up, tilt the seat forward, blah blah blah…  Yeah I do this all the time, and when I do I’m like YES my back feels sooo much better.  Then 10 minutes later I find myself inventing new ways to slouch in my chair which is set to make it impossible to slouch comfortably.

Life of an office rat.

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Les and Shanon got hitched this weekened.  Super good time, they are a beautiful couple and threw an excellent party.  I just tied into something that made me super queezy on Saturday night and all day Sunday….kinda ruins trying to have a good time with friends on the beach.  Instead I laid there like a dead fish and got burned, which in and of itself isn’t all bad.  But I ended up so wooped from whatever I had yesterday that I figured it only wise to take Monday off to try and rest up / recover.  No sense in rushing back to work and making the rest of my department sick.

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My main machine is at the 3.5 yr old mark and showing its age pretty badly recently   Sadly more and more of OSX’s little quirks are popping up.  One of the must frustraiting that was supposed to have been taken care of, is when the the machine is on screen saver, you wake it up and it should throw the password box to sign back in… Nope…  Black arrow, no box, no options.  Most of the time the machine can be left alone and will go back in to screen saver mode and you can trrrrryyyyy again.  Well right now I’m copying photos to an external drive to TRY and make room for some video work and this magical screen trick happened, so I have no clue where I am in my file copy   sadness.

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