Ok, Santa was up late last night.  He got here not long after my eldest was banished upstairs for bath, books and bed.  He did not leave until after midnight.

My wife was so concerned that she pitched in with the wrapping and then promptly gave him the advice that perhaps it’d be best if he wrapped all the gifts he was giving to good little boys and girls prior to Christmas Eve.

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The assignment this week over at Digital Photography School is My Best Shot of 2009.  I opened up Picasa to take a look at my collection and found over 10,000 images staring back at me.

I ended up choosing this one after a somewhat thorough search.  It’s always spoken to me.

It’s been a while since I’ve done a Digital Photography School weekly assignment.  It occurred to me last night that I’ve probably taken several thousand pictures since I last submitted an entry, and they’ve mostly been of my children.

It’s probably good for me to keep trying to explore new styles and new situations for photography.  When I clicked over for the assignment running from 12/9 to 12/23, I remembered that I had recently taken this picture on a whimsy:

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We are currently watching the Soup.

The Soup just did something that caused me to yell and curse in front of my wife and newborn child.

I happen to watch the Showtime series Dexter.  Because I don’t happen to get Showtime via cable, I’ve been watching the show via DVD.  Obviously that means I am generally behind the rest of the viewing public.

But that’s ok.  I’ve avoided most spoilers.  I’ve done so for two years now.

And tonight…the Soup basically showed me the ending for Season 4.

Darn it.  Darn it all to heck.

My (eldest) daughter learned an important lesson tonight:

Always hold on…to the balloon string.  Always.

The lesson did not go over well.

Also, I’m about 30 minutes into this series of videos reviewing the Phantom Menace (yes, it’s a little behind).  It’s hilarious…if extremely NSFW.

Wife:  You need to post more pictures.

Me:  I did.

Wife:  No you didn’t.  You haven’t put anything up since we left the hospital.

Me:  I just posted over 100 new images the other day.

Wife: Where?  I can’t see them

[I fumble around a bit with the computer] Me:  Here!  Look!  You just click the Gallery option.

Wife:  When I click “Gallery”, it doesn’t take  me there.  I don’t see that screen and I don’t see those pictures.

Me:  …but…but…they’re there.

Wife:  Husband, I assure you…you are delusional.

So…the last set of pictures I did not bother to organize into Sets on Flickr.  I just put them into my photostream.  The link at the top of my blog had gone just to my “Sets” page.

I have corrected the issue.  I now have links to both my sets and my photostream.

Enjoy.

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More images have been uploaded.  I haven’t organized them into sets.

In fact, I may spend some time reorganizing the sets I already have.

So you may want to just look at the photostream directly.

Ok, I was originally going to title this “Not gone, just resting”, but people might get the wrong idea.

I’m going to try to get back to regular posts this week. Right now I’m going to bed.

In the past six hours we’ve probably piled in as many inches of snow. And there’s signs that we could get another six before morning.

It’ll probably taper off at another two or three, but the weathermen seem nervous.

Of course tomorrow is the day I’m supposed to head back to work. Fortunately, my commute is just about a minute.

Of course if school is cancelled, the m our daycare will be closed as well. My wife is not yet up to solo parenting for two kids, so I may end up burning another PTO day.

Oh…wow. It’s thundering out there. That’s never a good thing.