Snap Happy

It’s been a rather unproductive week, mainly because I’ve been a bit under the weather. I cleaned up the house and have been maintaining that for the bulk of the week. I got some grocery shopping done, picked up a few odds and ends for the house and basically have been floating around with odd and end jobs and that’s about it.

Lately I’ve found myself getting “click happy”, having the Mac and my digital camera is really sparking all kinds of creativity. So much so that I’m considering setting up a photoblog on my new domain but I’m not really not too sure about that. I’ve decided to pull out some PHP books and refresh my memory so I can recreate the gallery script I used to use on my site (acidGALLERY) it was created for early versions of PHP4 but now that all of my servers are running on PHP5 and a higher MySQL version, naturally a few things are going to have to change It’ll be a fairly basic script, admin panel with the standard category, description and auto-thumbnail options. I’m also going to work it into a script that Jackie sent me a few days ago. I was having trouble trying to setup a very basic gallery (where I did all of the work myself) where the popup was javascript based and had a next/previous option with descriptions. Thankfully she pointed me in the direction of one she uses and I have to say I’m pretty content with it thus far. It’s an HTML based script, you do all of the work yourself – and that was enough to spark my interest in creating a new one.

Anyway…Sean and I have been doing a lot of driving around lately to clear our heads. I’m still patiently waiting on a response from the companies I’ve submitted my resume to. It would absolutely rule if I could land the job that’s closest to my house but I’m willing to do some kind of traveling if it means a decent amount of money in return. I just got really lucky when I found positions that don’t require a Bachelors and I know that with the money coming in there’s the option of banking it all for either moving into our own place, buying a house or maybe even both of us going back to school. Right now we’re both working pretty hard because we’ll need to get some money together for taxes and considering the $8,000 loan and the paid blogging earnings from last year, something tells me I’m going to owe quite a bit of money.

I’m also unsure of where exactly it’s going to go. While I have been living in Delaware for the past year, I didn’t have my photo ID changed over until late December. Something tells me I’m going to have to pay New York taxes as opposed to the Delaware ones and I’m not too sure if I’m happy about that. I do have a few write-offs this year though, that should help me out. Between buying computers and other business related items – I’m sure I’ll break even at some point. It would be great if I could personally claim the Mac but Sean made the actual purchase of it and he’s got his own things to pay. We’re ready to get our taxes done, unfortunately we’re waiting on companies to send out the forms. I know you’re supposed to receive them by February, hopefully these companies can keep true to their word.

And since I’ve been so snap happy lately, I figure I’ll just link them up.

As I previously noted, Sean and I have been driving around and around 3am when we were in the mood for a quick bite where we could sit back and relax we wound up at a Denny’s down in Ocean City, MD. And as you can tell….we were the only ones in the place.

This is Princess, I’ve spoken about her in the past. She’s proven to be the absolute perfect subject because she doesn’t move and when you’re in manual mode looking to snap a nice quality image, looking for her would be the best thing for you.

This is Candy, Karen’s dog. She’s a little timid around people and tends to hide out in the bedroom. She’s also 16 years-old so hiding out to avoid too much chaos isn’t always a bad deal. A flash scares her because she thinks it’s lightening, unfortunately the room was a bit too dark to really get a good quality image of her but it turned out good enough so that Karen has a few recent images of her to keep on her computer.

And of course we all know Bella, she’s hiding out in her typical spot behind the couch because she can wedge herself onto the window sill and still get to see everything going on outside. The typical nosy little dog. And as you can tell…she desperately needs to go to the groomer.

If you’re interested in more Princess pics, because again she’s a damn good subject – you can head over to /photography for the rest of the image set. Again, I’m working on an actual gallery but as far as the template is concerned, this is the route I’m going to take.