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I had a photo night over at neighbor Devin’s. Check out the photos over on Flickr.

Santa followed the Amazon links I sent him, leaving me with a new prime 1.8 lens and remote for my camera. In this Flickr set I jacked around with doing bulb shots with the rear curtain flash. This means I hit the remote once to fire a flash and open the shutter, then hit the remote a second time to fire a final flash and close the shutter. That’s how I made it into a few of the photos, such as the one above.

The Family Christmas Eve

Originally uploaded by mattmmatt

Merry Christmas everyone! Littleton hosted Christmas with a merry coat of about solid foot of fresh snow.

Finals came and went, and I’m alive.

Last month Lance surprised us all last month by flexing his culinary skills. I was invited to join in a feast he prepared for a bunch of us, with all the usual thanksgiving fixings. I arived sometime around 7 pm, only to leave at 3. Dinner was entertainig with the large group. Sara and I were eating the left over turkey and gravy fondue style! The sleepiness was fought with interval based dessert break induced sugar high. You can see part of the results in the photos above. That is Lance and Greg enjoying floats other than rootbeer, only after the pies were killed.

The post eating activities were cards and foosball. Chipped teeth, skinned knees were the result of a brutal game of the card game spoons. I’m glad everyone survived. That night was also the first snow in Golden for the season. Lance introduced us to this by a unexpected indoor snowball flying across the room.

I didn’t get the camera out until after dinner, but check out the set.

In case you missed the big news, Team Spit Happens showed up to the Golden Bowl lanes, second year and a row. I organized a IM bowling team for the CSM IM bowling competition. Strong Legs Shaun, Big Hair Brandon, and Nameless Nate joined me on the quest for the big 300. It didn’t happen.

We did get a few pictures for your viewing pleasure. Strike on!

My biggest laugh of the night was Brandon showing up and using our Cycling Team Sponsor’s dry lube, Squirt, on his thumb.