Life Through the Lens

Snow Testing in Minnesota

Every Winter we head up to Northern Minnesota for work.  We test a ton of tires for a week straight.  Its long days…and sometimes long nights depending on the weather. But we always find ways to make things interesting.  Usually there’s a lot of unhealthy food eaten, but this time there was bad food eaten.  I think the prime rib special (shown below) took out half the team with a serious case of Montezuma’s revenge.  We watched way too many movies and did too much shopping at hardware stores.  The temps also dipped as cold at –27, which was a record (in the outdoors) for me.

 

Here’s a crazy vertical rainbow that seemed to have been cause by ice crystals in the air.  It only lasted a few minutes, but was pretty cool to see.

Camera Pencil Sharpener

My sister sent me a present totally out of the blue.  But it definitely is one of the coolest things I’ve gotten in a while.  I suppose this just continues the streak of photography related gifts I’ve gotten recently.  It does look a bit over complicated to operate, and luckily I have to have ONE wooden pencil that has yet to be sharpened.

Chinese New Year in San Diego

I’ve got a lot of posting to catch up on.  May work and personal distractions have kept me busy as of late.  For Chinese New Year I headed down to visit my peeps in San Diego.  Didn’t have much else to do and had to get ready to go on my various work trips to Minnesota and Texas.  We went out for Dim Sum and then found a Taiwanese bakery afterwards for some desert. Lia was being extra cute that day too.

D-Dub Back in the OC

Doug was back in town for work and we got a chance to hang out this past week.  We had dinner and some beers at 3 Thirty 3 on Tuesday.  On Thursday I introduced him to authentic Japanese ramen and we saw Zero Dark Thirty.  Good times.  He also brought a kickass coffee mug for me too.