Some more pictures

Posted on 8/5/2006 by Kyle

Well, I guess it’s about time I made another post. I’m afraid it just takes a little while to build up a whole lot worth talking about that isn’t simply part of the daily grind. A couple weeks ago, I took a trip with Betsy to her parents’ house; it was a pretty good time and we spent a bit of time waterfall hunting. Her mom also had a little garden out back that I was able to take a few interesting shots in.

We headed up to Tahquamenon Falls Saturday (July 22nd) in the morning and I was instantly regretting not having any ND (Neutral Density) filters to cut down on the light. We ended up going back at sunset/dusk so I could shoot some more pictures.

A trip to Sault Ste Marie filled up the middle portion of Saturday (sorry, no interesting Locks pictures) but we did stop by Point Iroquois Lighthouse on the way. We saw a freighter while we were on the beach, Betsy put up with me taking yet more pictures of her, and of course, we climbed the lighthouse.

Sunday, we headed out to Miner’s Castle on the way back, and then stopped at Alger Falls, Wagner Falls and Munising Falls, all within a few miles of Munising, MI.

Last weekend, as we were coming into town from Berzerker, I caught a couple shots I wanted to take out of the corner of my eye as we were passing over the lift bridge. I headed back down about 15 minutes later to snap them, but the sun had moved too much and they were gone. Luckily, (for me at least) I was too stubborn to leave without taking at least a few pictures, so I found a few more things to take pictures of.

The next day, Gowtham took me out to check out the new lens he picked up for a friend, a 200-400mm f/4G ED-IF AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor lens. The thing was huge, and I don’t think I could ever afford one on my own (as it is a little over $5000).

This past week, I picked up a new lens, a Nikkor prime lens, 50mm 1.8f. I’ve shot a few pictures with it, none of which are not on flickr yet. Its 1.8 fstop definitely came in handy when I went down into a local mine two days ago (Thursday, August 3rd) and snapped a few pictures. I’ll get those up on flickr early next week and then post them here.

4th of July Pictures

Posted on 7/6/2006 by Kyle

I headed up to Copper Harbor (Michigan) to watch the fireworks on the 4th of July and was lucky enough to witness nature’s light show coincide with a manmade one (the Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis was in the sky). It made for the best light show that I’ve ever seen. As per usual, you can find the pictures on flickr.

Quick update on life

Posted on 7/2/2006 by Kyle

Got an A in my Track A class.

I’ve been working >40 hours a week in addition to my class.

My Track B class is fun… but we had homework every day last week.

spent 5 hours yesterday cleaning the apartment.

did laundry

got my homework for Monday done.

Brockway Mountain

Posted on 6/11/2006 by Kyle

Today, Kevin, Peter and I went to the to of Brockway Mountain (none of us had been there before). The view from the top is absolutely amazing. You can see out over the water and the land for miles.

Later that evening, Brian, Barbara, Susan, Kevin, Kaylyn, Peter, Betsy and I all went out to Gay for a bonfire.

DSL From Home Now

Posted on 6/9/2006 by Kyle

So, when I arrived home today to discover that my DSL still wasn’t working, I called at&t. 40 minutes later, I had a technician appointment and left for work, leaving my cell phone number.

Fortunately for me, I work for a company that does DSL (just not to my apartment), so I grabbed our Sunset and headed out to the dmark box outside my apartment building. Guess what: it worked.

Hoping to spare myself the expense of having at&t tell me what was wrong, I then went up to my apartment and started testing jacks, finally finding one it would sync on. After promptly calling and cancelling my appointment, Peter and I went searching for answers, and found them in the “DSL” box. Whoever was kind enough to wire the apartment had filtered all of the jacks but one. DSL obviously doesn’t work on a filtered jack.

So, after a run to Taco Bell, we fixed the wiring, labeled things and put together my internet.

Thank goodness that’s done.