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shanie's 86th birthday

a handful of family members gathered together recently to wish my grandmother a happy 86th birthday!

(photo taken by gabrielle's ex-boyfriend, whats-his-face)

steve

i'm not sure if he was trying to make a point with an emphatic gesture, or he was just being silly.. i'm sure we'll never know. either way, i like photographing steve, he's funny looking

judy & gabrielle

here's a mother-and-daughter shot for the photo album

judy

the only sister of four brothers, my aunt judy most likely had her hands full growing up, if i know my dad and uncles

surprised much?

robyn and i live in a small apartment with virtually no yard, and less-than-virtually no peace and quiet, so we don't really have the luxury of a well-visited birdfeeder like the one my parents have.. so when we visited them recently, both robyn and i took advantage of the situation and tormented the poor hungry nuthatches, finches and chickadees with our camera flashes. now, if only that cardinal would get a little closer..

pepi, steve, & heather

and without further ado, here's the 2008 official "pepi, steve, & heather alman holiday card" photo.. now if i could just get them to either wear jackets or stop complaining about the cold, i'd be golden! (last year's photo)

robo possum vs beavitron

what else can be said? two cybernetically-enhanced über-rödents enter the thunderdome, but only one leaves. and for the rercord, the speech bubbles were added after the initial drawing, but they are completely apropos

the true power of the g1

one day recently, when the office internet was flaking out, john decided to get his money's worth out of his new g1 phone and fired up ssh to do a maintence release on one of our products.. now, i wouldn't want to compile a linux kernel on that thing, but it's great for simple command-line tasks via ssh. oh, and rumor has it that you can make phone calls on it too

leaning tower of stupid

if there are two things to know about the guys in tech, it's this: 1. we never throw out cardboard boxes, and 2. we never lack any disregard for jimbo's safety

postscript: the stack of boxes fell on jimbo just a few minutes later, leaving him relatively uninjured, although one of the larger boxes bent a flap and had to be put down. also, this photo was taken over a week ago, and we still haven't thrown away any of the boxes yet. mission accomplished

hats!

while shopping at marshalls the other day, i managed to get robyn to pose for the camera (for a change)

jeremy sits in on drums

once benny gets an idea in his head, there's no stopping him.. which is how jeremy ended up playing drums with los sugar kings the other night.. of course, i think the main reason benny wanted jeremy to play was so that he could get up to the bar for more booze.. but hey, guess who that second shot is for (give the drummer some!)

shots!

you know, at the time i was a little bothered that i didn't get a single in-focus shot (low light, no flash) but now i think it actually makes for a better photo. well, at least given the subject matter

jeremy sits in on keys, pt. 2

jeremy hangs with dan (and the rest of los sugar kings) at the edgewater in salem, ma

jeremy sits in on keys, pt. 1

both jeremy and jeff buckridge sat in for a few tunes with los sugar kings last friday night at the edgewater. later in the evening, i actually sat in on bass and we laid down the funk. it was good stuff

the guys

last week, some of us got together last-minute-style to throw jeremy a little bachelor party. it was very short notice, because that's the way we roll.. but it turned out that a few friends actually had the night free, so it worked out.

we started out at passage to india in salem, ma, where we drank many beers and ate more fantastic indian food than should have been humanly possible. after that, we went next door to the edgewater and checked out los sugar kings, while drinking much, much more, despite our combined fullness.

all that matters is that jeremy had a good time, drank many beers and many shots, and danced with some random chick at the edge. sweet