{"id":9,"date":"2006-08-12T23:37:56","date_gmt":"2006-08-13T04:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinomara.com\/2006\/08\/12\/dirt-doesnt-need-luck\/"},"modified":"2006-08-12T23:37:56","modified_gmt":"2006-08-13T04:37:56","slug":"dirt-doesnt-need-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kevinomara.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Dirt doesn&#8217;t need luck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far I still haven&#8217;t heard back from that photo gig.  However, when I went by there recently the lady at the front told me the bossmanager hadn&#8217;t called <I>anyone<\/I> yet because she&#8217;d been so busy.<\/p>\n<p>And speaking of busy, I haven&#8217;t been busy at all on my new photography site.  No, really, I haven&#8217;t.  <A HREF=\"http:\/\/syntheticrabbit.com\/\">Trey<\/A> helped me make some changes to the layout and styles and then I stopped moving on it.  I finally tonight finished sorting through the 2000-plus files in my font library and decided that exactly none of them were what I was looking for.  Oh well, the header links will stay as text for now.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, so yeah, should anyone anywhere near me (or you, should you be near me) need anything photographed, send them to <A HREF=\"http:\/\/klophoto.com\/\">klophoto.com<\/A> to see my &#8216;work&#8217;.  I use the phrase &#8216;work&#8217; to denote self-deprication of some sort though I haven&#8217;t yet sorted out which sort it is I mean.  Anyway, I put that thing on a separate site because, well, not that I don&#8217;t want strangers to read my blog &#8230; if that were the case I sure wouldn&#8217;t have it on the internet, and then what kind of blog would it be?  A diary, that&#8217;s what kind of blog it would be.  I just want that when someone says, &#8220;Oh, I know this guy that takes pictures&#8221; they can follow it with &#8220;and you can see them at his site&#8221; and I don&#8217;t have to worry about them getting caught up in admiring my masterful use of the English language.  Or thinking I&#8217;m retarded.  Words are for the words site and photos are for the photos site.  Y&#8217;dig?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, the other part of the reason for a photo site is that I put a lot of pictures on <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kevinomara\/\">my Flickr site<\/A> and not all of them are of the awesome quality I&#8217;d like to show to a new viewer.  Plus, it&#8217;s hard to tell people how to get there, how to force them to leave out the E in flicker, etc.  So!  Those of you who are my Flickr friends, you&#8217;ll see everything that ends up on the klophoto site before it even gets there.  You&#8217;re the lucky ones.<\/p>\n<p>I hain&#8217;t been up to NUTHIN lately, &#8216;cept the following:<br \/>\n+Eating Thai food and barbeque, but not at the same time<br \/>\n+Hanging out at Poet&#8217;s now that Gridge&#8217;s is gone (insert single tear shed here)<br \/>\n+Watching <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0356910\/\">Mr. and Mrs. Smith<\/A> with Ross and Ariel.  I&#8217;ll admit, it made me laugh in parts.<br \/>\n+Drinking Ross&#8217;s beer.  I am so fortunate to have friends that make quality products like coffee and beer.  That&#8217;s really the good life right there.  If only I could grow decent grapes here maybe in five years I could be that friend making wine.<br \/>\n+Playing Guitar Hero for the first time ever, and totally kicking ass.  I was born to <I>rock<\/I>.  Ariel was astounded at my incredible scores.  So astounded, in fact, that she made an inedible pie.<br \/>\n+Seeing people (Leon and Crit) that I&#8217;ve not seen in years and years.  They and Jim and I hung out for hours today doing a whole pile of absolutely nothing.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there are more things I&#8217;ve done, but I felt that list was boring enough.<\/p>\n<p>The Putnam County Fair is winding down as I type, and I never went.  I couldn&#8217;t bring myself to spend the money to go take pictures of crazy people.  Somehow my heart wasn&#8217;t in it.  Maybe next year.  I&#8217;ve already been drafted to take pictures of &#8230; um &#8230; what do they call that thing they do here in Cookeville in September at the square?  The Fall Cook-Off and Child Disaster Screaming Day?  I can&#8217;t remember.  Regardless, they want me (and probably several other people, I am not <I>that<\/I> special) to take pictures to commemorate the whole hot muggy mess.  Apparently I will get paid a grand rate of nothing per hour!  I&#8217;m very excited!<\/p>\n<p>Okay, no, I actually am excited.  It&#8217;s true.  Anyone wanting me to take pictures for any reason makes me happy.  I have several <I>ideas<\/I> about <I>things<\/I> and <I>people<\/I> for upcoming photographicalizationated excursions.<\/p>\n<p>I really need a job.  I hope the photo place calls me and soon.  If not, I&#8217;m gonna have to start doing more than looking at Craigslist and reading the classifieds.  I&#8217;m one of those people that says that if I won the lottery I&#8217;d spend a few years running around and then go back to work.  I need structure during my day and right now I got jack.  I just keep putting it off for various reasons, just like I keep putting off my trip to Asheville.<\/p>\n<p>MUST HAVE JOB.<br \/>\nMUST TAKE PICTURES.<br \/>\nMUST HAVE JOB.<br \/>\nMUST TAKE PICTURES.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far I still haven&#8217;t heard back from that photo gig. However, when I went by there recently the lady at the front told me the bossmanager hadn&#8217;t called anyone yet because she&#8217;d been so busy. And speaking of busy, I haven&#8217;t been busy at all on my new photography site. No, really, I haven&#8217;t. 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