Random
rest
Aug 14th
it’s been a long time since i just rested. the last two weeks or so have been a blur in the amount of stuff i’ve had going on. i feel like i’m always saying that. i’m trying so hard to grasp moments day by day before they fly past me. i’ve taken a chance to just rest tonight and have some ‘matt’ time. magan is hosting a bachelorette weekend for emily, who will be getting married to another matt in october (congrats!). so, i’m chillin’ at mom and dad’s house this weekend. my family has actually been on vacation this past week and they’ll be coming back home tomorrow. bandit and i have just been resting at their house tonight. it was nice to just relax on the couch and totally disengage my brain and watch a good action movie, taken. it’s now 12:32am and i’m still up after being up till 2am last night (long story for another post). i know i could fall asleep in an instant, but for some reason my body and mind are cool with just resting right now, which doesn’t necessarily mean sleep. does that make sense to anyone else? does this happen to anyone else?
i know this has just been some mindless rambling, but i like to write every now and again. wish i had the chance to do it a little more often. maybe then i could write something with some more substance.
rest well,
matt
duct tape and a manila folder
Apr 7th
so for the past few months the passenger side door in my jeep has had this insistent rattle. every time i got to going down the highway, something in the door would rattle and it was driving me crazy. today i decided i would take care of the problem once and for all. i removed the door panel and started looking around for something that could rattle. i found what i thought was the culprit. a small piece of metal that was bracketed into the door. i shook it and it made that all to familiar rattling noise. i showed it to my dad and being the engineer that he is, he suggested using a manila folder and some duct tape. sure enough we constructed a nice little rig to get this metal piece stationary so that it wouldn’t rattle. i hope the problem has been fixed. i guess i will find out soon enough when i get to cruising down the road again.
other than that, there’s not too much going on. i’m hanging out at home this weekend with my family. magan is headed down tomorrow, easter sunday, after hanging out with her family. we’re headed to ecu on monday to go visit the school with magan’s younger sister anna. magan’s gonna hang around until tuesday and then it will be back to the grind come wednesday….
ode to the rgb man
Sep 21st
i found this calvin and hobbs cartoon on my “cartoon of the day” widget a few days ago. as i was reading it, i couldn’t help but think about all those color theory classes with the rgb man (a.k.a. mr. whiteman). he would always have to explain things 4 and 5 times for us to understand and i’m sure there are some of us that still sometimes don’t understand what he was talking about. although when i am presented with the opportunity to share about color theory, it makes me sound really smart. i will never forget that question that had no answer, fuji color-art proofs, spectrophotometers, and that horse-shoe throwing, west virginian named mr. whiteman.
here’s to you rgb man.
oh Ken…
Feb 3rd
yes, we all know and love this wise, funny, and down-to-earth fellow. he is none other than Ken Smith. if any of ya’ll are on ken’s e-mail list, you probably received the e-mail that he sent out a few days ago. i just opened it and at first didn’t know what to think, but before i knew it i was intrigued by what he sent us. i also thought about ken watching this e-mail and just kept laughing. in case you haven’t seen it, click here to check it out.
this week has been pretty good. the beginning of the week was really slow with work, but it picked up as the week went on. this weekend i’ll be headed up to boone to hang out with my magan. i can’t wait. just a weekend of hanging out, relaxin, and probably doing some skiing (they’re calling for snow!) until next time, check out the link and i hope you enjoy it as much as i did. later, matt
the chicken is back
Dec 1st
hay hay everybody, the chicken is back! this is a collage that i was able to assemble the other day. don’t worry, i wish i could say that i was enough of a genius to sit down and place all of those pictures, but i am techie enough to find a program to do it for me.
the collage doesn’t contain every single picture of the pwt from the summer 2005, but it includes well of 3/4 of the pictures and none of the pictures are repeated twice. i printed out a 8″ by 8″ copy of it yesterday and it looked pretty good. feel free to download it to your computer and maybe i can see what i can do about getting some printouts. let me know what you think…
matt
