Some pictures

Nice clear and cool days last week were really windy.

Hole 18 of the frisbee golf course at Boys' Camp

Muskoka...... Sweet

Well, I made it up here finally and it's great. We've gotten a lot done at tripping which is so good. That means it shouldn't be too crazy as we try to prepare for LIT trips next week. The LIT's send out 7 groups of 13 people so finding them easy, relatively close together 4-day trips can be challenging. I've got a few ideas that I want to run by Wes (LIT director) as far as that goes.
The weather has been great, a little cold at first but it has definitely warmed up. I gave my lighter sleeping bag to an Aussie to use so I'm stuck with my mondo warm mec one that is rated to 0 degrees. (Really handy in this kind of weather)

This morning I locked into a huge bass but lost it after my line snapped. That has happened a couple times now so I'm going to go buy some new stuff. There is nothing worse than losing a big fish.

pictures to follow shortly.

My room feels like a storage locker for all the stuff that I actually use in the summer at camp. When I leave tomorrow it will be pretty much empty.

Heading North.... finally....

I'm off to camp for the summer tomorrow. I'll be updating this site with pictures and what is going on up there as well as uploading my pictures to my flickr page.
( http://www.flickr.com/photos/robnelson/)

Canadian Space Agencey

what is this thing? it looks like a spaceship, a miniature one though.




I took these pictures while driving. Impressed? you should be.

Human Hamsters

Over the weekend we had a Boys' Camp meeting. It took place at some latvian camp north of burlington. They had all this old playground equipment that is now illegal everywhere else and has been removed. It brought back good childhood memories of the days where if you got hurt on the playground equipment people laughed and called you an idiot. Anyways, they had this human sized hamster wheel, of which the likes I had never seen before. It was quite impressive actually. You could definitely get hurt in this thing which made it that much more appealing. Enjoy the video.

Super Mario Blob

Sun, sun and more sun

This is the type of forecast I like to see:

Lomo

I've been fiddling in photoshop with giving some of my pictures a "lomo" look. It really makes them look 100x's better. Just changing the sharpness and some contrast can do wonders. Here are some examples.




All of these were taken on campus at the University of Guelph

Tripping 2007

June
July

August

A tentative tripping schedule for summer 2007

What the?

Ok, a couple observations about stuff for you here.

1) Why do planes have headlights? If you're flying at 700 km/h and you're relying on your headlights to see what's going on, you're pretty much screwed. What are you going to see anyway? clouds? birds? God forbid another plane.

2) Why do toasters have settings that go so high? Like common, the highest setting would a) burn your toast and b) probably set your house on fire. I think they're packing way too much power in the toaster these days.

Purple Pride

Like 3 weeks ago or something like that my intramural hockeyteam won our division championship. It was AWESOME. I was in the same division last year on a different team and we lost in the final game in shootouts so this was redemption. I'll get my picture on the wall at the AC! YES!!

Our name was the Purple Cobras ( I didn't come up with it).

Update

Alright, so since the last couple posts a bunch of stuff has happened. Most importantly I became an uncle. Melanie and Jono had a baby girl on March 15 named Sienna. Kelsey and I went and saw her the next day and I got to hold her, the first baby I've ever held. I know that might be shocking to some but it's true. It felt great!

I ended up being swayed to buy the camera by a really good sale at Bestbuy. I haven't been out to take any pictures with it yet as I just got a memory card for it today. On Tuesday I went out and snapped a few with my old camera. The air was really warm and the river water is still really cold so it was all foggy by the river and I got some good ones.




As far as the running goes, I was up to 6k on Monday and Kelsey and I managed to run 8k this morning. My legs are sore but I'm really impressed that I didn't die 5 minutes in. You should be too.

Oh ya and St. Patrick's Day was in there too. Here's a few highlights from the festivities.

Field hockey girls.

Dylster came from Queen's to represent the law and to reclaim the Guelph city. Matt has never been happier.

Cardio Smardio

I've been convinced by Ben but more so Kelsey to attempt a half marathon in the spring. I'm really going to have to get my ass in gear. My previous cardio experience consists of bounty hunters almost exclusively. Oh, in LIT I ran sometimes instead of morning dip though. Impressed? I bet.

I'm also contemplating buying a new camera. A canon powershot A710IS. I'm still debating whether to buy it before or after the summer. As of now the bank account says I should wait... so tempting.

Back to work

So I finally got a job. I started last Monday at a warehouse that sells appliances. Let me tell you, the working world is not all it's cracked up to be. It's pretty mindless work but hopefully I will survive.The people there are really nice which makes it nicer. The hours though are kind of hard to figure out. I'm working the afternoon shift from 12pm - 9:30pm Monday - Thursday then on Friday start at 7:30am and work until 11:30am which makes for an awesome weekend. Trying to fit stuff in during the week is rather difficult though. I guess I just have to get used to it.



In other news Kelsey and I went to Kingston and Ottawa this weekend which was a blast, great to see Ben, Charity, Dylan and Jeremiah again. We got to skate on the canal which was amazing! I highly recommend you go if you get the chance. The next day though my legs hurt from skating which is weird b/c I play hockey regularly. Anyways, I'm off, trying to fit the gym in before work. see what I mean?

Recognition

Last semester I did a project for one of my classes on Chiniguchi, a new park in Ontario that I visited in August a couple times. During my research for that paper I got in touch with a really good website and sent in a few of my pictures of the area from the summer. Today the guy sent me an email saying he used my picture as the Temagami Photo of the month for March. Check it out here http://www.ottertooth.com/Temagami/PhotoMonth/mar07.htm

Chiniguchi is most beautiful place I have ever been.

Back by popular demand

You might remember back to late October, my facebook profile Halloween costume. Well today my parents came to my house for the first time and my dad noticed the costume lying under the stairs by my room. He took quite an interest and actually said that he liked it. He was more impressed when I told him I won a prize for it. Score!

I'm going to try to make more posts. Gotta keep the fans happy.

Moeraki Boulders, New Zealand

Moeraki Boulders, New Zealand
Originally uploaded by jezingham.

Geeze, send me here.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Spare Time

As I continue to look for a job I find myself with excessive amounts of spare time. I'm not going to lie, it's everything I thought it could be and more. Although it's beginning to get old and I feel as though I'm just distracting people who actually have stuff to do. Alot of my time is then spent fiddling with pictures in photoshop.


This picture I took of a sticker on my car and turned it into this picture below which is my desktop background right now. I really like it.



I've had this goal to actually read a book with my time but no substantial reading has occurred. Maybe it's just one of those things I'll never really do...