Archive for May, 2009
Quickie update
Posted by Alex in Alex's Thoughts on May 17, 2009
As I’m pretty sure you guys figured out by now, I didn’t end up getting any video of the storm the other night. I went out there to do it, but the rain was coming down in such a way that I didn’t really have anywhere to stand to capture the lightning without rainwater soaking my camera. I’m pretty sure the thing could take a little moisture, but I’m not too keen on standing in a downpour with the thing. Maybe next time the wind will work to my advantage.
I’d like to say something interesting here, but I’ve been up to absolutely nothing recently. Just a lot of work on things I can’t technically discuss and if I say anymore, I am pretty sure Liz will shiv me. Hi, Liz. Don’t fire me, k thx.
I’ll try to be more interesting in the future. For realz.
Stoooorms!
Posted by Alex in Alex's Thoughts on May 13, 2009
It’s storming pretty crazy hard here in Milwaukee. The sky turned black in about 5 minutes. It’s awesome, thunder and lightning everywhere. The news is predicting 1/4″-1/2″ hail.
May grab video if I can. Thunderstorms have always fascinated me.
Festival Season
Posted by Alex in Reviews and Recommendations on May 11, 2009
One of Milwaukee‘s little nicknames is The City of Festivals. Not a very catchy name, but I certainly didn’t come up with it. Blame someone else. It’s certainly warranted though, because Milwaukee absolutely explodes with celebration during the summer season. The city is buried under snow the rest of the year, so there’s energy to burn once the sun comes out.
I’m trying to make it a point to go see more of the festivals this year, because I never really got out and did that before. I’m looking at the festival schedule for this year and… it’s really obscene. Excluding little church/school festivals, the list of places I want to go is pretty long, especially for someone that lives a fair distance from downtown and doesn’t have a car. Henry Meier is easy to get to, but gallivanting all over the city is harsh. Still, this is my ideal list…
- RiverSplash (June 5-7)
- PrideFest (June 12-14)
- Polish Fest (June 19-21)
- SummerFest (June 25-July 5)
- Bastille Days (July 9-12)
- German Fest (July 23-26)
- Arab World Festival (August 7-9)
- Irish Fest (August 13-16)
- Indian Summer Festival (September 11-13)
To say I need to pare down my list would be a massive understatement. At least BlizzCon doesn’t happen at the same time as any of those, so that’s not a factor in deciding where I go. I do need to fit this Milwaukee Food Tour in there somewhere, though.
I’ll let you know how my decision process goes. If there are any Milwaukee folk in the audience, any suggestions? Are any of those a must-see? Any that aren’t worth the trip? Polish Fest is probably a for-sure on that list. My heritage and all of that. Pretty much everything else is up in the air.
Question of the Week: Do you think your life is interesting?
I have roughly 300 people that read my blog when I post a new update, which is a lot more than I ever expected! I’m going to see if I can goad some of you into commenting more often, so I’m going to try and start up this Question of the Week spiel. I’m gonna throw out a quickie today to see how it goes.
Do you think you live an interesting life? If someone sat down with you and asked you to tell them about yourself, who you are, how you live, and what you do, do you think they would be legitimately interested in what you have to say? Why?
My Answer: My first thought was to give a flat no, I don’t think anybody would find my life interesting. Then that ounce of humility in my body faded away and I made the smarter choice. Yes, absolutely, someone would find my life interesting if I had to tell them about myself. That’s sort of the point of living, to me. Having stories to tell. Everyone is interesting. You don’t need to be a superhero or have survived some horrible tragedy to have something interesting to talk about. You need to look for the stories in your daily life. They’re there.
I haven’t lived a terribly glamorous life, but I’ve done some pretty silly things! I’ve met odd people! I’ve done dumb stuff just for the sake of adventure! There’s stories there, there’s stories in all of that.
Comments!
Posted by Alex in Alex's Thoughts on May 8, 2009
When I first started this blog, I had a really horrible amount of spam flowing in, so I changed things up that required you to register on the site to comment. As miltownkid pointed out over on this post, registering just to comment on someone’s personal blog is a real pain in the ass. I’m going to try something else.
You still need to enter a name and e-mail address to comment and I’ve tried to turn up security/spam control in other ways, but registering is now optional. We’ll see how that goes.
Completely unrelated: I was testing out the video quality on my digital camera when I was walking to pick up some dinner the other night. The footage I took has absolutely nothing worth watching in it, but if you want to look at a cloud or a bridge, hey, go for it! I’ve embedded them behind the link below.
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