I spent a couple of days in Canada. I gave some presentations on social media and diabetes management. Here are some photos from the trip:
Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.
And if you’re interested, here are a couple of screenshots from my presentations:
My SD card had a bunch of photos on it that I wanted to clear out. So I’m just posting a few photos here before they got lost in the Recycled Bin of eternity. I’ve also been experimenting in Photoshop a bit and I’ve tried to duplicate the Instagram look.
I went to Salt Lake City last month to give a speech to young people with diabetes. My hosts were totally amazing and took me to see all the sights in town…including the temple.
Jesus in space. The visitors’ center was kind of like Disneyland…with Jesus instead of Mickey Mouse.
The Capitol Building.
Still.
The awesome people who invited me out to speak in Utah.
From my last day at The Club.
More last day.
This is my Diabetes drawer. I was going to use this picture for the “snapshot” prompt during Diabetes blog week, but I ended up posting the Insulin Man Comic Strip instead.
So in April I’m going to Salt Lake City to speak to a group of diabetics. Totally exciting. The organizers found me and basically want me to do a live version of my YouTube video on the Diabetes Police. What’s cool about this is that it opens the door to some more speaking gigs.
So as things are coming together, I’ve had to write a bio and send in a face shot. Blerg! I always make stupid faces in my photos see:
So luckily I my friend Michelle met up with me this weekend to take some new photos for me to use. Here are a few of what she’s done:
Totally pro, right?
If you’re in the PHX area and need photos taken, hit me up and I’ll get you in contact with Michelle. She’s awesome.
I’m immature. Seriously.
When a kid spilled his Gatorade at The Club yesterday I quickly snapped this photo:
Then a couple of hours later I showed some teens how to make twin photos of themselves. I call this one, “Sometimes You Need To Give Yourself a Stern Talking-to.”
PICTURES!!
I wanted to write a blog post about photos. I’ve been snapping a lot of them in the recent past, and I haven’t been blogging them here because there are too many other places around the web to post.
I’ve posted a few photographs to my Facebook from last weekend, and I’ve also created an album there called “I ATE THIS” and it’s just photos of crap I’ve eaten.
The second Photo related thing that I wanted to post about was my DailyBooth.com account.
Do you Daily Booth? If so, follow me and I’ll follow you back. To see today’s Daily Booth photo, look on the left hand side of this page.
Some of my Daily Booths are just stupid head shots in the car. Others are me with other people. And some are me sitting on the toilet (just kidding…well, ONE is me sitting on the pot).
The gist of Daily Booth is this: each day you photograph yourself and people can comment or respond. It’s a lot like Twitter but you use photographs instead of words.
And lastly, I wanted to say that I’m always photographing stupid shit and posting it on Twitter…like this Greeting Card Fail. You have no reason NOT to be following me on Twitter.
I just plugged my cell into the computer and I’m clearing out some of the crap that doesn’t need to be in there (mostly photos). But before I deleted them forever I thought that I should blog them so I could have a (somewhat) permanent record of them..just in case. So here are some completely random photographs taking from my cell phone:
I was doing a cartooning lesson with children, and we were editing her face to look like different things. This was my favorite.
A creepy doll that someone left at my desk on show & tell day.
Our torch & scoreboard for Color Olympics this past summer
If you work in my building and take a Hawaiian vacation in the middle of summer, this is what happens to your office.
Greeting Card Fail
My boo-boo.
I just created a Facebook photo album called “Friends & Strangers” and here’s the idea: I’m going to start snapping photos of friends with strangers in the background and I’ll tag both the friend and the stranger. The album now has three photos:
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I blogged here that every time I drive through one of the photo enforcement zones that I make a funny face. Well, on June 10th at 11:28pm I was on the 10 freeway headed home and this happened:
You may be wondering why I have a photo of 11:28pm on June 10th. Well, the truth is I was going about 78 miles per hour…even though the posted limit is 65 miles per hour. Damn it.
I was going through the photographs I had on my cell phone and was deleting a bunch of them. And I thought that maybe I should post some of them here for safe-keeping…you know, for when I want to look at them later. So here, in no particular order are a few cell pictures with mini-explanations:
Perhaps this is a bit nuerotic…but I like to keep my closet in ROYGBIV order with white as my starting color and black as my end. Don’t judge me.
Four girls put together a thirty-second dance routine at work and wanted to do it for the Club. And we’re a place that helps foster creativity…so we made the time. (The truth is we were short-staffed that day, and when they came up to beg me to perform for everyone it was a really good way to stretch out our afternoon announcements.)
I’m really bad at making bulletin boards. This is the Club announcement board I put together a couple of weeks ago. Bleh.
I was trying to explain to Drew how organized my desk (right) is compared to my office mate’s (left). So I snapped a photo and texted it…but when I look at this picture I see that I’ve got a lot of kid art and toys cluttering my space. But notice how clean my actual desktop is.
Diet advice from the building managers? I Twitpic’d this…but I thought it was funny.
This one freaked me out…I noticed on Tuesday afternoon that I had a mysterious 1:30 appointment blocked out with no explanation or title. There were no corresponding appointments in my Outlook calendar or my Google calendar. So I was truly perplexed. Wednesday came and went, and nobody showed up at 1:30.
This little guy provoked a fight between 2 members at work, and was on my desk as evidence right next to the behavior citation I got to deal with that morning.
I Facebook’d that Mike Rowe and Dirty Jobs should come hang out at my work for a while. This picture was taken after a small incident on Wednesday.
Sanctuary.
A six-year-old painted this cute picture last Friday. He told me that the bottom thing under the letters is a guitar. Super cute. I tweeted “I didn’t paint this, but I agree.”
And @Adaman09 replied “But now it’s in your possession. 
”
Perhaps it is.
On the 12th day of each month bloggers all over the world take 12 photos throughout the day and post them on their blogs. It’s Chad Darnell’s idea, and you can see his website and a list of links here.
To see my photos from past months, click here.
Here are my photos from April 12, 2010.
The mornings start early for me. Even though I don't have to be to work until 11, I get up early to take care of the dooogs.
Beezus LOVES Olive's dog bed more than her own.
We've finally unpacked all of my nuns. This one is sitting on my desk and I snapped a shot while working on some stuff for iEATbooks.
When I went to get a coffee refill, this is what I found.
We have a county head-start program in our building, and I believe this was posted by a pre-school teacher.
Tweeting about my 12 of 12.
My officemate is being super healthy...and I'm not. Guess which beverage belongs to who.
At home we filled two gumball machines with wine corks and beer caps.
And we framed 9 of Dan's Dad's records. We're going to hang them in a grid.
This is Dan telling me all about his day in jury duty. He got picked to be on a jury...and it's going to be a long one. And he'll be able to write a John Grisham-like novel about his experiences.
Meatloaf before bed.
