The day I turned 28

Thanks everyone for making the start of my 28th year a special one!



[cake box, thanks catalyst!]

[the cake, thanks catalyst!]

A morning run; suprises from my wife: a homemade birthday card, coffee and pastries from my favorite bakery; taking the day off; playing frisbee with tonka in the park; calls from mom and dad; emails from KT; birthday wishes from catalyst; a cake from catalyst (and some conference call trickery); going out to lunch with charlie, casy and gabe; riding my bike and taking pictures; murderball and beers @ san marco theater; dinner at the chart house.

My boss is nice

Yesterday Catalyst employees were trying to gather money together for donations to the Red Cross. Everyone was very happy to give so I suggested that the company match the employee contributions. Jason, my boss, said he would be happy to match whatever we contributed. I posted this to inspire others to ask their employers to match any contributions made to the relief effort.

On another note yesterday about 5:00pm was a dark day for the American people. While watching the network news I felt absolutely disgusted and sick to my stomach about our government leaders and how they just left the people of New Orleans, mostly poor and black, to fend for themselves. I just kept saying over and over "how can something like this happen?" "why aren't we doing anything?" "wtf is going on?!"

As this week fades into next it will be interesting to see how the governments spins their response to this crisis.

Just Damn

No water, no food, no gas, no power and no phones. It's possible there will not be any power for at least 2-3 weeks.

Go bike, It's my Birf-day!

Damn, don't let the bling blind ya, my new bike is so icey! Early birthday present are the junk. Happy Birthday to Amanda too! Wow, what a good week for birthdays.

I took her out for a test run today and I am so in love. Since this is a fixed-gear bike there is no way to stop pedaling and it is quite a new experience. Once I got the hang of it, I felt like the bike and I were one machine. Rolling toward our destination in unmatched synchronicity.

current_ addiction

There is a new, highly addictive, TV network called current_ The network is the brainchild of Al Gore and features viewer produced content, most of it it documentary film style. They also have features like "current_ flashback", "google current_" and movie reviews.

As you can expect there are lots of stories about the Israeli withdraw from Gaza, but there are also stories on tattoo removal, medicinal marijuana, Tokyo street art and the resurgence of band posters. Most of the shows are anywhere from 5 to 10 minutes and then it is on to the next show. You can check out the homepage of the website for the next hour or so worth of programming.

As a new network the content is kinda of slim now so there are lots of current_ vj's talking blah blah blah, but I can see this evolving into something great. Check their website to see if you get it in your area.

current_ website

Pre-Birthday

I went out with my dad tonight for my pre-birthday celebration. With these modern families today it is too hard to see everyone on your birthday so you have to make compromises. We had a sweet time starting with dinner @ Longhorn. After ribs and salmon we went to Barnes and Noble. Barnes and Noble was the best, dad and I looked for baby names and researched cribs and changing tables. We have done the most extensive research to date on the crib/changing table duo. For my birthday my dad got me the perfect gift: a bike rack for my car (pictured above). It's great b/c it will hold my main present which will arrive on Tuesday or Wednesday.

Tonka is slurping on his kong and I am sitting on the floor blogging and watching the VMAs. I am dead tired from running and riding my bike around today. I must have burned 1000 calories. I rode around the city taking pictures for my Jacksonville Street Art series that will be featured on UrbanJacksonville in two weeks.

Cribs, Names & Nursery's

This morning we started the day with some Cracker Barrel. Mmmm. You know how some mornings you wake up and think "Yeah! It would be fun to go out to breakfast" Then after breakfast you feel all full and wish you had just had a bowl of cereal at home. Today was one of those mornings.

After Cracker Barrel we went to Babies R Us and checked out cribs and all other types of baby related items. It was fun to think we will be using all of that stuff in just a few months. It is my job to research cribs and changing tables while Mackenzie is gone so I am looking forward to diving in to that. Oh yeah, Mackenzie is going to Dallas Sunday morning and not coming home until Thursday. A long ass time.

Now that we know its a boy we have started to pick out names. We actually have a few we like, which I never thought would happen.

Baby Ticker

Yes. It is time we begin again. Things have been super hectic and I have been totally consumed by urbanjacksonville. Updating, writing, researching etc. On Wednesaday we went out with our friends Charlie and Casy and I was inspired, by Casy, to start posting to Team Silver Street again. So here is the first post. In a few days, depending on the posting frequency, I will move the baby ticker to the top of the page.