My birthday was awesome. Jess gathered all of my good friends together for a surprise birthday dinner on Friday night. Despite the fact that some people couldn’t make it due to other obligations and such, it was still a huge showing of most of my favorite people in DFW. Thank you to everyone who came. It really means a lot to me.
Thinking back on that group of people and how kick ass they are makes it really, REALLY hard for me to even consider moving. If we do move, Jess and I are going to have to get a REALLY large house and incite a select handful of our more mobile friends to move too by offering them free room and board until they can get situated. Maybe I should start a business and a commune. That would work. Who’s in? I’ll start making creative positions for you.
Saturday we were supposed to go to a Skill Toy meetup. When we got there, however, right smack in the middle of the scheduled operating time, there were only 4 or 5 people there and 2 of those people were NOT our friends that we were supposed to meet. We called them several times with no answer and eventually gave up.
We stopped by the camera store to do some browsing and then headed to my parents house for dinner, conversation, and card games. Sometime during the course of Saturday I rebooked, a rebooked photo shoot for Sunday morning. Apparently with the confusion of my lack of a portable calendar at the moment I also forgot that I did that and managed to let my mom talk me into having a few more beers and spending the night at their place.
The next morning my dad and I got up and photographed the sunrise from the banks of the Trinity near Fort Worth. I left my tripod mounting head in my other bag so I had to improvise. I haven’t seen the results yet, but my hopes are not high.
Then, at 9am, my phone rang. Ooops. The photoshoot. She was very understanding though, since it was a last minute booking. I drove the 1hr to my place. Photographed her for 2 or 3 hours, then then drove back to my parents house for my family birthday party. My brother came over with my nephew, and my two nieces from Vermont are in town for the summer so it was nice to see so much family.
We stopped off at Cafe Brazil in Carrollton to meet two of my favorite people for a brief birthday coffee on the way home. I’m going to miss them so much if we end up moving. Once we got home we cleaned out my bags, packed my suitcases, and prepared the laptop for another week of travel. Then we went off to bed.
I’m heading off for Syracuse again this week. I return on Friday. Those of you in DFW, be sure to keep my wife company when I’m away, just try not to corrupt her as much as last time, will ya? I’m tired of wearing all those silly costumes.