July 2005 Archives

I woke up today in London
As the plane was touching down
And all I could think about was Monday
Maybe I'd be back around
If this keeps me way much longer
I don't know what I would do
You got to understand it's a hard life
That I'm going through

And when the night falls around me
And I don't think I'll make it through
I'll use your light to guide the way
All I think about is you

L.A. is getting kind of crazy
And New York is getting kind of cold
I keep my head from getting lazy
I just can't wait to get back home

And all these days I spend away
I'll make up for this I swear
I need your love to hold me up
When it's all to much to bear

And when the night falls around me
And I don't think I'll make it through
I'll use your light to guide the way
All I think about is you

And all these days I spend away
I'll make up for this I swear
I need your love to hold me up
When it's all to much to bear
And when the night falls around me
And I don't think I'll make it through
I'll use your light to guide the way

All I think about is you

-- 3 Doors Down (Seventeen Days)

I got my hair cut short a few weeks ago, so, finally, I got around to getting the new pic of me up here. Its amazing to me how much different I look in this one compared to the one that's been on the Me page the last few months. I look so pale in that one. :-/ Maybe i'll get the motivation up to try to change more about me now.

Sometimes, I think I get so caught up in the bs of life, that I forget the simple things in life, like looking up at the night sky, and just being amazed by it. A couple of weeks ago, I got a chance to play with a telescope in person for the first time in my life, which was fun. It was an Orion Spaceprobe 130mm, which a friend of mine just got that day. Though it was a full moon night, and too close to city lights to get a good look at much, though I hope to get a chance to use it again when its good and dark and just relax and explore what's up there.
Strangely enough, with a little luck, I managed to get a few good photos of the full Moon.

I'm surprised they turned out as good as they did, since it was my first time really using either the camera or the telescope, and they were done just holding the camera's lense to the telescope's viewer. The camera I used was a Nikon Coolpix 7900, which is also my friend's and fairly new. My digicam is a couple years old, so playing with a 7.1MP cam with optical zoom and many scene modes, that's like, tiny, compared to what I'm used to was interesting. The original images are 3072x2304, though for posting I've resized them down to 1600x1200.

The first image I like the best, as it sits off-center and I think it looks really cool as a desktop wallpaper. The second one has the full impact that the Moon gives off though, frozen in time. I can't quite put into words the feeling I get when looking at it. I've always just stared at the moon, even when I was a kid, riding in the back of the car on a long trip, just looking out the window at it. Its calm and peaceful presence looking down at me, till I fell asleep.