Could I be posting two times in one day? No way!

Well folks, I finally got around to editing/organizing/geotagging the rest of our Big Bend trip.  Flickr has a neat little feature that allows you to geotag(attach photos to a map) so you can see exactly where we took our pictures.  With a little help from Google Earth, most pictures are fairly close to their actual location.  A GPS enabled camera would come in handy for this task; unfortunately I don’t have one.  Also, some pictures have ‘notes’ providing more info.  Enjoy!
Big Bend Flickr Map : Gallery

Upload a picture and this will convert it into an Image Mosaic. I saw this on Digg a couple of weeks ago and tried it out with pretty neat results. Try it for yourself.

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Jennifer and I took a little vacation time down in Big Bend last week. The place is simply amazing. We spent three days at the park, which was far too little time to spend down there. On Friday I proposed to Jennifer down in Santa Elena Canyon, and what do you know? She said YES! So now we’re officially engaged! We haven’t set a date yet, but I’ll definitely post one when we do. We’ve also got some great pictures from the trip that I will put up later this week.

I had to go to New Jersey for a business trip last week and my company opted for the “low cost” airline ticket. The only problem was that I wasn’t flying to New Jersey, I was flying to La Guardia Airport which is in New York on the opposite side of Manhattan. I landed, grabbed my bags, picked up my rental car and crossed my fingers in hopes of reaching New Jersey. It was around midnight when I started and snow began to lightly fall. Needless to say I got lost and it ended up taking 3 hours just to get to the hotel. It sucked. On my trip back to the airport a few days later, I decided to take the quickest route from New Jersey to La Guardia through lower Manhattan. Miraculously, I made the trip in about 90 minutes with time to spare. It was an eye-opening experience, one in which I don’t intend to repeat any time in the near future. Overall the trip went well and I welcomed good ol’ Dallas traffic with open arms..

Blah.. I haven’t blogged in a while. That’s the problem with these silly blogging websites; sometimes you just forget you have a website and that you actually have to update it. Anyhow, really glad the holidays are here. Jen and I picked up a Christmas tree (a real live one, my first!) and are going to decorate it this week. I was a little thrown off by the fact you have to water your tree. I told Jen that I wouldn’t mind a dookie brown tree come Christmas time. She wasn’t amused and purchased a tree stand so we can have a nice pretty tree all December long. It’s beginning to feel alot like Christmas! Ok, that was lame, but you catch my drift. Ok, now for my “Top 5 things I want for Christmas” list.

1. My upstairs neighbor’s dog to stop peeing off the balcony and killing my plants.
2. An iCar for my iPod so i can “bling” when I listen to my music.. (What the hell is that? click here)
3. A recycling center at my apartment complex for the 300+ come and gone beer bottles in my pantry.
4. A time machine.
5. The VFW across the street to stop playing Tejano music at 2′oclock in the morning..

I think Santa can manage those things. I’ll opt for a Aston Martin Vanquish in case he has trouble with the time machine..

Lance

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup white sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 egg
1/3 cup milk
1 cup fresh blueberries
1/2 cup white sugar
1/3 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup butter, cubed
1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease muffin cups or line with muffin liners.
2. Combine 1 1/2 cups flour, 3/4 cup sugar, salt and baking powder. Place vegetable oil into a 1 cup measuring cup; add the egg and enough milk to fill the cup. Mix this with flour mixture. Fold in blueberries. Fill muffin cups right to the top, and sprinkle with crumb topping mixture.
3. To Make Crumb Topping: Mix together 1/2 cup sugar, 1/3 cup flour, 1/4 cup butter, and 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon. Mix with fork, and sprinkle over muffins before baking.
4. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes in the preheated oven, or until done.

(via www.allrecipes.com)