Saturday

Today I went to Clearsight Opticians to pick up my new glasses. I had a hard time trying to decide which frame to get.

I ended up getting Oakley Titanium CHAIN™ 6.0 frames for my glasses & I had polarized VR28 prescription lenses put in my old Oakley frames.

Clearsight is very close to my favorite old-style neon McDonald's sign (featuring "Speedee"). Speedee retired as McDonald's mascot in 1961.

Chris' blog photo of Shelby with antlers inspired me to photograph Tally wearing bunny ears. Surprisingly, Tally didn't seem to mind.

Tally wasn't impressed with today's photos from the Mercedes-Benz Championship.

Donation

Today the guys from Miami Rescue Mission came by to pick up a bunch of stuff we were donating. We gave them a small fridge, a microwave cart, 10 huge drum liner Hefty bags of clothes, and about 6 boxes of miscellaneous stuff.

Over the course of the 2 weeks I was home, we threw out about 35 drum liner bags of stuff. The garbage men weren't too happy, but we sure were.

Screenhouse repair

Today I finally had the screenhouse repaired from the Hurricane Wilma damage we had in Oct 2005. The gutter had to be removed & 6 large panels replaced. Here's the "before" photo.

Weston Yoga Shoot

Today I assisted Mary on her shoot for Weston Yoga. She shot silhouettes of yoga poses for some big Alphalams.
Rosie helps Brian & Robyn get into position.


Robyn posed like this without my asking. It was pretty funny.

Everybody gathers around to see Mary's pix. They came out awesome.

Here's a winner!

Weston Yoga Test

Today we shot a test for a shoot Mary's doing at Phylice's new yoga studio.

Brian liked looking at the pictures.

After the shoot we went out for pizza.

Finally ...

I ordered some iPhoto books just before the coupon code expired. It's all about deadlines & coupons for me. Besides, I couldn't stand being upstaged by Mary, Bob, or Stan any longer! The green cover is a small book and the blue cover is a medium.

Tally gets comfortable

eye exam = new glasses + sunglasses

It's no fun getting older. Now I can't see close or far, so it's time for progressives. I couldn't believe how easily I read the tiniest line once the doctor dialed in my rx. Here's a photo of my left eye & right eye.

Morning walk

Tally & I went on a walk to the Palm Island park. The morning reflections in the lake are nice.


Mary pointed out this Palm Island house that recently installed a practice green in their backyard. You can click on the picture to make it bigger.

Korean BBQ

It's been an annual ritual for Mary & me to go to Kyung Ju in North Miami Beach for Christmas dinner. As usual, the Jumulruk, Kimchee, & sliced green onions were awesome! Yum!!!

The big clean-up begins!

I'm home in Weston for 2 weeks to get ready for my "real" move to Ponte Vedra Beach. It's amazing what you can uncover when you decide to donate or trash stuff.
Here are the diskettes from my first version of Photoshop ... 2.5!!!
I think it was from 1993.

Mary broke open a bunch of diskettes to destroy them.

Yikes! This neon sweatshirt was in my closet! I can't believe I actually wore this ... but then again, I used to wear Agassi's Nike denim shorts complete with the wild spandex liner. That's why the ballkids in Paris called me Mademoiselle Agassi.

Rob & Evanne's Birthday Lunch

We went to Aqua Grill for lunch today. I had the smothered chicken burrito. It was delicious, but huge.

Creative Services Holiday Party

I brought the Magnifica to the office for made-to-order Starbucks espresso drinks. It was the perfect accompaniment to the Turtle Cheesecake dessert.

Ho! Ho! Ho!

Today was the TOUR family holiday party at the Marriott.

My boss sure is a good sport!
There were some screamers ...

a squirmer ...

a beard puller ...

and a big smiler!!!

There weren't as many screamers as last year, so that was a little disappointing. They're my favorite! ;o)

Ben & Tim

Ben Van Hook came to town to shoot Tim for Golf World. The stuff looked really nice ... especially the 4x5 Type 55.

Jana's Haiku

Today is the deadline for the PGA TOUR Media Guide. The Champion's Tour & Nationwide Tour books went out yesterday. Laury tried to cheer Jana up by sending the stuff below in an interoffice envelope. It made her smile & made me wanna take a blog photo.

Employee Summit

Today was the first of 2 days of the inaugural PGA TOUR Employee Summit at the Sawgrass Marriott. There were about 800 employees from around the country in attendance.

I went back to my office for an hour & a half to get some work done between the Summit & party. The sky was really nice!

After the Summit Chris, Mike, John & John enjoy the annual Holiday Party.

The espresso mousse cups & chocolate cake looked fab with a little slow sync flash!

When I Grow Up ...

I wanna be a sports photographer! Here's an interesting fact from the back of the card: "A sports photographer may shoot 12 rolls of film during a game. Usually, only 10 to 20 percent of the photos are usable." I'm not sure where they got those stats. Those sure aren't good odds!

Manager Development

Today is my first of two full days of Manager Development to prepare me for my promotion. It should be easy compared to all of the homework & testing I've had to complete over the last couple of weeks. Some of it was brutal!!! This was the shadow cast on the wall outside the Golf Course Properties conference room.

Here's some of my stuff ...

Happy Anniversary to WTD!

Today marked the 100th strip for Aaron Johnson, the talented creator of What the Duck. He gave away some freebies & had a live chat. Long live the Duck! Here's the cast poster:

Yay! The Magnifica is here! :o)

Mary shipped me my new Magnifica espresso machine yesterday & it arrived today. I still have some of the 16 shots left that I bought on Sunday. I watched the DVD & fired it up. Works like a charm, but I won't really put it to work until the weekend.

Here they are side-by-side ... the broken Digital Italia & the new Magnifica.