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Andy had been talking for years about his ability to consume tacos.  Twenty tacos in one hour, in fact.

Finally the time came to put him to the test.  This was the result:

Testing from Steve Sheldon on Vimeo.

I just realized that I haven’t updated this site with any new posts for about three months.  Pretty much that’s me lately in a nutshell, if you mapped out my general vicinity using the GPS tracker in my phone, probably 95% of my time is spent within the same 10 yard radius.  I live a life of intrigue.

Not much is new.  Since the last post here, we’ve gotten most of the move stuff together … it’s amazing how long those things drag out and you can throw an exponent on it when you’ve lived out of boxes for basically the past five years.  Hopefully we’ve got it locked in here for at least more than a couple year stint this time.  Hopefully.  I don’t want to open any more boxes than I already have.

Still have a list of things to do on the house, obviously.  Despite the extra time off this year (due to the rolling layoffs) I’ve still got a bunch of pretty significant things I want to get done.  The past couple of layoff weeks were spent building a 16×20 foot deck off the back of the house which was more work than I expected but worth it in the end.  I think.  It’s a nice place to sit, anyway.

I’d like to get a room finished off in the basement as a future movie theater and an area to at least store all of my photo gear.  Seems like a good project for the colder months.  Originally I’d considered turning that into a “studio” of sorts for photography, but I’m having second thoughts because I really don’t like using strobes that much and obviously having it in the basement would necessitate me getting better with artificial lighting.

One interesting note, as I was reading through some of the usual suspect photo sites, I came on a name that looked familiar in the context of some of the best pro photographers out there these days.  Turns out a couple of folks that I knew way back in the dredges of my misspent youth have built themselves quite a rep in the photo industry.  Pretty impressive work, I must say.

Little did I know I was in the presence of future genius back then!  Good on ‘em.

So, let’s see.  I finished the deck.  Got my work area sort of organized by building a couple of workbenches.  Got my boat back and went fishing a couple of times.  Went to Chicago a time or two to see the Coob while they were still relevant, and hit a gun show in Indianapolis.  Went to work repeatedly.  Oh, and we finally got grass planted today, so maybe the neighbors won’t want to torch our house for the dirtyard/weedyard.

Guess that’s about it.  I haven’t really been taking many photos lately, not sure why.  Of the ones I’ve taken in the past few months, I like this one of Millie (and Andy) probably the best:

It’s nothing special (especially if you’ve visited the VGallery link above) but for some reason I sort of dig it.

More posts when conditions warrant.  Over and out.

So, you have a move date planned and call a month in advance to reserve a truck, right?  Give ‘em your credit card numbers and all that.

Let me tell you, it’s nice when they call you 16 hours before your move and say, “Uh, that truck you rented, yeah, we couldn’t get it … we don’t have anything for you.  Sorry.”

Yeah, sorry.  Oh and it’s also the end of the month and the last day of school so everyone else is moving out of their crappy rentals too.  Which means there are NO trucks to be found in a 60 mile radius, except for, perhaps one that “might” be available at 4pm.  A small one.

Let the pickup parade commence, I guess.  At least we got most of the boxes moved out of the basement.

Once more so maybe this gets picked up by Google: BUDGET TRUCK RENTAL SUCKS.  But I’m not bitter.

Pics of the new house soon.

Yeah, I’m lazy.

Like really, really terribly lazy when it comes to this internet updating stuff.  Does anyone care?  I don’t know, but I suppose it shouldn’t be an excuse.

So, updates:  House is coming along.  Outside is pretty much done and it’s on to the flooring and trim stage.  I think most of the tile got done last week and the rest of the flooring and cabinets are in and waiting on installation.  Haven’t heard any updates lately but we’re still planning around the end of May — can’t imagine it slipping much past that.

Here’s a pic:

Yeah, I’m so lazy I didn’t even bother to straighten it.

But I have an excuse.  This week has been quite a busy weekend as I held true to my departure from North Carolina and got a doggie for the kids.  The doggie’s name is Millie and she seems to be a sweetie so far.  Here’s a pic of Millie:

Millie is an 8-week-old Border Terrier.  I guess she’s got some hardcore AKC champion show pedigree, but I don’t even intend to file the paperwork.  Why?  Because I’m lazy.  In any event, she seems like a pretty darn good doggie in the 36 hours or so we’ve had her, but she does sleep a lot.  As soon as the sleeping ends, I expect the mayhem will begin.

Some other stuff that’s been going on since the last time I updated includes:

• Lauren joined an indoor soccer team here in Morton.
• It snowed a lot at the end of March.  I suffered a little North Carolina withdrawal but all told it wasn’t too brutal.
• Sam had his 9th birthday party at Five Points in Washington.  Pretty nifty place.

Ok, so that’s pretty much it, consider yourselves up to date.  I’ll leave you with a really cool pic of a WW2 1911 that my friend Andy brought over for me to photograph this weekend:

Hope everyone had a great Easter and now that I’ve gotten through my laziness it was nice to update again.