American in Spain

Today we had some amazing weather here in western North Carolina. Sunny and 25° C. After lunch, I took a walk around the old historic courthouse, the main historical landmark in downtown Morganton.
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I’m blogging from my hometown’s first wifi-enabled coffee shop. Woohoo!
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To better familiarize myself with my new camera, I just took a little photographic safari around my parents’ house, snapping wildlife and interesting objects.
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After arriving at 19:00, we had dinner and I was in bed by 20:45. With the darn timezone switch, I couldn’t sleep past about 4:30 the next morning. So I got up and played around with my brand new Canon EOS 40D camera. I took about 100 shots of my parents’ guest room, only one of which is worth sharing. The rest are of my folks’ four pets.
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You know, I’m really fed up with having to stay up late, and then wait the entire two hours that it takes people to post the Super Bowl commercials to the internet. It’s been several years now, and I just can’t take it anymore. So this year, I’m going across the pond to watch all the clever beer and smart phone ads in real time with the rest of my beer-guzzling, Dorito-cramming, guacamole-finger-licking countrymen…
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Welcome to another installment of “Erik can’t think of what to blog about so he’s photographing items on his desk, many of which he’s not sure how they got there, but they sort of ‘belong’ now”. In researching for this entry, I found this hilarious Wikipedia page about Buckler Beer.
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