If you’re any­thing like me, then you feel like there hasn’t been a whole lot of per­sonal com­mu­ni­ca­tion lately. You’re say­ing, “Miles, all you do is type up a trip that hap­pened 100 years ago. We want to know what’s going on with you.” Well, I’m glad you ital­i­cized “you”. It gives me the will to continue.

Well, sum­mer has thus far been crazy, and it’s not stop­ping (no, it’s not; no, it’s not). This week­end Holli and I and her fam­ily embark to New York City, New York. The tim­ing of this trip has actu­ally caused some prob­lems for me at work, as I have used up all my vaca­tion time on France, and there is Hype­r­ion train­ing in Texas that two employ­ees have to go to, but all things were ironed out, and I was allowed to go. So, Fri­day we drive to Sioux Falls to spend the night at Aunt Karin’s so we can fly out at some unGodly hour on Sat­ur­day morn­ing. I’ll bring some of you back sou­venirs. If you want to know more, Holli has a pretty nicely laid out post about our trip.

Molly’s birth­day is the 22^nd, so I’ll wish her “Happy Birth­day!” right now.

I dis­cov­ered this pho­to­graphic tech­nique called panog­ra­phy. You saw it above with the Rose. Basi­cally, you take a lot of pic­tures of some­thing big and then you put them all together in Pho­to­shop. It’s really sim­ple, but you get some pretty neat results. I’m obsessed with it right now, hence my two other panographs. You should view them close up to see all the detail.

Work has been slow right now. CRESH is going through some changes and so there’s not much for us to do, yet. It seems like that will change very soon, and I’ll talk about it more then.

I’ve been doing a lot of writ­ing lately. I wrote a short film that Holly, Holli, Bob and I are going to begin prin­ci­ple pho­tog­ra­phy on Thurs­day. It’s for a con­test on StudentFilms.com, which we sub­mit­ted to last year with the short “Dri­ven to Dis­trac­tion”. This one is called “Lost and Found”, and I put the script online. I’ve been start­ing all sorts of one-acts, but I finally got one fin­ished. It’s called “Our Angels and Demons”, and Holli was/is slated to direct it. We’re not sure. She was going to do it for the Fresh­men Show­case in Fall, but it now appears that she might not get a choice regard­ing what she directs. We’ll have to see.

Holly and Bob invited Holli and I to a cook­out sort of thing in their back­yard on Tues­day. We had ham­burg­ers, chips, grapes, corn-on-the-cob, and more chips. Then we played “golf” in their back­yard. Then we made a bon­fire, and I shouted the phrase “Grandpa! Your dick!” every­time Bob snapped a branch on his knee. Then we had brown­ies, and we exchanged sou­venirs. Good times.