Busy Busy

It has been as expected a busy couple of days. Yesterday was my B-day, so we went to the Potrillo for some food and watched some Euro Cup matches. I spent the rest of the evening working on my 2-D design piece then trying to figure out what was wrong with Stir's web site. (school paper) Today was equally busy, I spent most of the afternoon actually fixing the site, then headed over the the gym for the first night of Basketball Conference Tournament. The guys team won their first round, and the ladies will play tomorrow. The evening pleasantly concluded with watching the guys play some indoor soccer, which is always lots of fun. Now I get to finally go to sleep!

All Done

Well as far as I'm concerned this weekend is over! We spent all of Saturday out and about in KS. The mens soccer team played in an indoor tournament in Hesston KS, which was a bigger town than I thought it might be. They had an interesting indoor facility with half walls but still a big square. It was ok for soccer, but terrible for spectating. You had to elbow your way up to the front of the walls or find some short people to stand behind. I still prefer grass indoor to these weird tile floors.
(That is Henry on left in photo from the tourney)

After the tournament we drove down to Wichita in search of an appropriate Birthday dinner. We settled for Red Lobster which was fun because Godfrey had never seen lobsters in a tank before. I stuffed myself with Chedder biscuits, Shrimp, and Wood Grilled Salmon. It was a Fantastic dinner!

Chilly Morning & Flickr

We will be going to Hesston for an indoor soccer tournament today. I decided to create a Flickr site to throw all my baseball photos in since there are so many of them. I will eventually add other stuff but since there is a bandwidth limit I will probably stick to baseball for now.
It would be nice to get some indoor photos today, but who knows, this place is new to me.

Flickr Site (click here!)
I added a link over there on the right so you don't have to try to find this post as it gets older.

My Advert.

Our latest project in Graphic Design was to create an advertisement that might be found in a magazine or some sort of other publication. We had the option of using a real product or making up our own. With the Digital TV transition I thought it would be fun to create something related to the old tele's and antennas now wasting away out there. I was hoping we could use a lot of image for this one, but we had to have more text. The facts are real it was kind interesting research to perform.
My color selection is kind of weird; my intentions really were to make it ugly. I figured the abnormal colors would make it stick out and cause people to read at least some part of it.

Study Break

My brain is weary from studying for my Sociology test so I thought I would take a break and throw a couple more photos up here.

Both of these are cropped a little abnormally. I wanted to show Cooper Hall in the background of the photo on the left; it is a really neat old building.

One Fine Day

Once again we are graced with a single day of good weather here in Lyons/Sterling KS. I took full advantage by going out to the Warriors baseball game, and snapping a photo or two hundred. As usual for Sterling the wind was whipping around like crazy and I feel like all of my skin is covered with a nice layer of dirt. The Warriors easily defeated Central Christian University.
After the game I came back to Lyons and spent some more time outside walking with a little jogging too.

The rest of the week will be pretty busy; basketball, more baseball, and the Hesston indoor tournament this weekend. I hope the weather stays on the reasonable side for the remainder of it.

Funny Kids

The past couple of games I have had some amusing interactions with Coach Morris' daughter who is at the extreme silly age. I was kneeling down shooting photos by the entrance to the gym so she came and sat down next to me with a bag of popcorn. Obviously she dropped some pieces here and there but out of the corner of my eye I saw her snatch a piece off the gym floor and eat it. I immediately interrogated how she could possibly eat popcorn off the filthy gym floor.

"If I eat it fast enough it's Ok!"
Speaking of silly.. here is the home crowd doing the "Cheerleader Pose" aka Spirit Fingers
(Good luck for the free throw shooter)

When it rains

Depending upon age may determine your answer to that question, but in this case it is Play Inside.
This weekend was the annual Barton indoor tournament out circa Great Bend KS. I did not go and watch the girls play but from what I heard I was probably better off watching the baseball game. Sterling had two men's teams that entered and although some of the games were awesome to watch they failed to make it to the finals. I'm not sure why I took the camera since I knew my photos would not turn out, but we might as well try. There were definitely some photos that I really wished would have worked out because they would have been awesome!

A nice day for Ball

It was plenty nice out today so I actually put on the sunscreen and headed out to catch a double header for the men's baseball team. They delivered a brutal 19-1 win over Hutch Community College in the first game. I got bored and was hungry waiting for the second game to start so I headed back home to enjoy the rest of the day with some pizza and a nice long walk.

Coffee Night

I spent last night doing a photo shoot for the newspaper covering the CAB (campus activities) Coffee Night. It was actually pretty fun to hang out at.

It was a little difficult to take photos because they turned off most of the lights except over the performers and left little tea candles and Christmas lights on the floor for people to get around by.
The music was great; several people played guitar, piano, and an amazing spoons and poetry performance. It kept me up a little late but that's ok because they had a wide variety of Coffee, Hot Chocolate, and Apple Cider to keep everyone happy. (and some really awesome snacks!)

More Winter Darn!

Wow there are so many things to blog about today!
Obviously today is Groundhog Day, the holiday that could be either good or bad depending on the weather. This year it turned out to be double bad..
1. It is really cold this morning.. bah
2. The Groundhog saw his Shadow..No early Spring.. Bah!
In other news the Super Bowl was awesome to watch even though I was rooting for the Cardinals and they lost it was still quality entertainment right down to the end! Pepsi had both the Best and Worst commercials in my own opinion.(raise eyebrow now) I was highly disappointed with the MacGyver spoof attempt with R Dean Anderson trapped on an exploding ship. My favorite being the Diet Pepsi commercial with guys randomly getting beat up by their friends; good old slapstick for the win.

More stuff to Blog about but it is time for me to go back to class!
The image is my desktop background, something I threw together real quick this weekend.
Nakupenda is "I love you" in Swahili.