Happy Holidays, Assholes

At the end of dinner at a local Italian-American restaurant, our server sheepishly said something to the effect of, "I think this will be ok with you guys... so, happy holidays." We certainly didn't have any issues with it, and the SOOTTAD went on to tell her that she thought that people should just wish people whatever it is they're having and that it should be taken in the spirit of the season. She responded with "Happy Chanukah." We reciprocated.

She came back a bit later and explained that she had been scolded by previous customers for wishing them a "Happy Holidays" because, she was told, she was supposed to say "Merry Christmas."

Yeah. So to all those people who are saying there's a "War on Christmas?"

Happy Holidays, assholes.

13/52 Fuzzy Buds

13/52 Fuzzy Buds
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

Taken April 3, 2011, at the Smith Botanical Garden in Northampton, MA.

12/52 Kitteh at Rest

12/52 Kitteh at Rest
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

Week 12, taken March 26, 2011.

Hard to believe this is the same guy who would hide, terrified, under a chair with his buddy when we first got him.

11/52 Pho Hoa pho

11/52 Pho Hoa pho
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

Week 11. Taken March 18, 2011.

10/52 Plethora of Paws and Pads

10/52 Plethora of Paws and Pads
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

Week 10. Taken March 12, 2011.

9/52 Big Top in Denver

9/52 Big Top in Denver
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

Week 9. Taken February 28, 2011 on our departure out of Denver International Airport after a fun weekend at the 4th annual Rocky Mountain Balboa Blowout.

8/52 Waiting to Dance

8/52 Waiting to Dance
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

Week 8. Taken February 23, 2011 at the free Wednesday night swing dance at MIT.

7/52 Stuck

7/52 Stuck
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

Week 7. Taken February 20, 2011.

Took a random side trip to grab a few pictures along the river on a sunny Sunday afternoon. It might have even been above freezing, if only slightly.

6/52 Dual Track

6/52 Dual Track
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

Week 6. Taken February 8, 2011.

This is one of the reasons I wouldn't want to have a dog... walkies. In the snow.

5/52 Boy Band

5/52 Boy Band
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

Week 5, taken February 4, 2011.

52 weeks and the first four

1/52 Deck dusting
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

Yes, it's been a while since I've posted here. Lots going on keeping me busy and it seemed hard to justify the time to sit down and compose something worth posting when there were so many things that needed to get done.

So anyway, the other day, I wandered over to my Flickr stream and ended up wandering through a bunch of my Project 365 pictures and it made me remember how cool an exercise it was. The downside, of course, is that it totally burned me out on taking pictures and 2010 was largely a wash. I also found I was trying to take "interesting" pictures, which was great in that it was a great way to work on my creativity and sense of visual composition, but also a problem because I'd often find when we saw friends that afterwards I'd have a bunch of pictures of food or things I'd see in our surroundings but no pictures of our actual friends. Oops.

I decided that it was worth doing *something* this year and I figured I'd take what I learned from the last experiment and take the pressure down a notch. So this year, I'm going to try and have at least one postable picture a week and cut myself some slack when it comes down to what I mean by weeks. (I'd say that I might get creative, but I'm pretty sure there's that OCD part of my personality that isn't going to let me pull any fast ones, except maybe the first week which actually worked out to 9 days.)

So here are the other pictures from the first four weeks:

2/52 Fenced
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

3/52 Arrivals
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.

4/52 Leaf in the Snow
Originally uploaded by tallasiandude.