AaronSpruit

This is just a light that sits on the median of a train overpass.  I think I walk by 4 or 5 of these daily on my way to and from work, and they’ve always had a nice appeal to them.  However, it wasn’t until I got the macro lens that I realized how to capture them.  With a normal 50mm lens I wasn’t able to get in close enough and so the exposure was always wrong.

Oh yeah, I’ve finally finished moving the site to the new host.  Hopefully there won’t be as much network strangeness as when I hosted it at home, but we’ll see.  I’m tempted to setup a few monitoring tools against it via my ISA server, but maybe that will happen next time.  But man, doing most things on the site is incredibly faster.

In other news, now that I have this running under Apache, I’m going to start playing with the .htaccess file.  What I’m hoping to accomplish is to get rid of all the extraneous crap on the URLs to this site.  Therefore, if you are reading this through RSS, the feed may go down.  Just come visit the site and grab the new URL of it.  It will probably end up being https://www.aaronspruit.com/rss/ though, instead of https://www.aaronspruit.com/index.php?/aaronspruit/rss/.  This should also help with search sites too, since they tend to have a hard time with the URL Query Strings.

This picture makes me think of the old hollywood strip for some reason, but it’s actually the road that runs along the bay in St Petersburg.  I’m really sapping these older pictures aren’t I?

Oh yeah, sorry about just getting this image up now.  I went down to Petterino’s last night and was only expecting to have a beer or two, but isn’t that the way it always works?  Oh well, at least it’s up now.

And then the third and final in the series.  I actually like this one the best.  I like the colors and the speckled nature of this alarm.  Also, the slight fade to darkness (actual shot, not done in post processing), and the way the alarm is similar colors to the wall, but how different the textures are.

This is the second in this series as I mentioned yesterday.  Not really much else to talk about.

These next three images were all taken the other week right around my place.  The first two are just different angles of the same fire alarm, and the third one is different.  I’m still mastering the macro lens, but simple jaunts like these really help.

Aww, isn’t he cute? The squirrels down in St Petersburg were about as “friendly” as the ones I’m used to at the University of Illinois. I’m sure if you were sitting someplace with some food, they’d be more than happy to help themselves. This little guy came to see me after I made it look like I was going to give him food.

In other news, I’m going to be moving my sites to a hosted provider here in the next week. For $23 and some change for a full year, I couldn’t go wrong. Plus I have over 3 months to figure out if I even like it or not, since they have a money back guarantee. Hopefully it will work better than hosting it on my home internet plan, since that seems to become overwhelmed at certain times of the day.

These are some of the cookies I made to bring home. I actually only made the dough in Chicago and then finished them off up here. It actually worked out better that way as I was already up to around midnight making the other cookies and snacks. I made these gingerbread cookies, chewy-molasses cookies, white chocolatee with fruit and nuts, and sugar-spice almonds. I have made the chewy-molasses cookies before and they are quite good. I haven’t broken into the white chocolate cluster things yet, but I can’t image they are bad. However the almonds, are awesome. I will definitely be making some of those just to bring into work. And they take all of 20 minutes to make. That’s my kind of recipe!

Oh, and it’s sort of hard to tell, but dinosaur cookies are my new Thanksgiving tradition!

So did everyone do some shopping yesterday? Get any good deals?

Yum, pumpkin pies.  What is Thanksgiving without pumpkin pie?  Anyways, these are the two that my Mom made and were cooling.  Needless to say, they, just like all the other food we had, were delicious.  I hope every ones Turkey Day was a good one!

Yeah, so I was supposed to have put something up here that was more festive than this, but I completely forgot about it yesterday.  This fits the bill to a certain extent, but I was hoping for more Thanksgiving-esque as opposed to Christmas.  Oh well.  I should get some post-processing done today while I sit around watching football after I stuff myself silly.  Then tomorrow will hopefully have some sort of Turkey day theme.  Hopefully.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, another palm tree.  I guess living in the midwest makes me want to look at them more than normal.  I can’t imagine why, maybe it has to do with not being able to feel my fingers after walking around with my camera for an hour outside today?