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We Miss Vilai

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We Miss Vilai
Photo-A-Day #1340

One of my co-workers left this past Friday and today when I arrived there was this sad dog sitting at her chair. I know who put it there and they spoke for all of us who miss her. She didn’t get fired or anything, she had to leave because she was moving. Anyway, we will be missing her with us.

the big box of awesome contest is going really well. There are so many people who have entered. Although I am finding that the other bloggers that I know are snooping around in my big box of awesome. They’ve gone through it and decided to reveal many of the items found within. That means I’m not going to have many other things to reveal on my own. I guess that means I have to add a couple more things in the box. If you are interested in finding out what items have already been revealed but please go visit these bloggers.

The MAN from IZEA
Ted Murphy of Ted.me and IZEA –Win a Box Full of Random Stuff

My I’m Not A Famous Blogger Crew!
Tim of The Real Tim Jones – A Peek Inside the Big Box of Awesome
Karen of The Pond –Win BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome!

IZEA Insiders – If you don’t join my insider crew, check one of these folks out.
Corrin of Oh Hey, What’s Up – BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome!
Julie of Julie’s Journal – The BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome
Steven of Steven-Sanders.com – Win BenSpark’s Big Box Of Awesome Giveaway

Bloggers I read and who read me
Christine of Christine the Curmudgeon –The BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome
Chica of Photo Projectz – Another reveal in Bensparks Big Box of Awesome!
Anna of Beth and Cory’s Mom – Another Peek

Today I came home to two boxes filled with awesome. The first was a 1 TB FreeAent XTreme external hard drive from Seagate. I won that from a contest on The Dirty Shirt. I will use that hard drive as a second backup for all of my photos. Because we are using digital cameras, digital video cameras and many other forms of capturing digital images the bulk of my relationship with Allison has been captured digitally. We would both be devastated if we lost those items. So my plan is to backup my images each month and place a second hard drive into a fireproof box. I think this will be the best way to ensure that we do not lose precious photos and memories.

The other box was filled with some items for Christmas. So I really can’t do a blog post about them right now. That information is going to drive Allison nuts. Sorry hon. much of this post has been written with Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I connected the wireless headset that I purchased the other day as my Christmas gift from Mimi and Grandpa Dano. The most part it’s worked really really well but I do need to train Dragon more.

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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.