MU Steel Band returns to Concert on the Commons

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The Miami University Steel Band returned to Greenhills Concert on the Commons for another great concert. And the weather, for once, wasn't near as hot, and besides the A/C in the Waycross production truck worked! (knock wood...)

A hot one to close out July

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A hot night for a concert (esp. considering that the A/C in the Waycross production truck wasn't working). But it was OK in the shade, which is where most people stayed while listening to Tex Schramm and the Radio King Cowboys at Greenhills Concert on the Commons.

Eight Days a Week/Tom Enderle Car Show at the Concert on the Commons

Another summer Wednesday, another Concert on the Commons; this time, a Beatles tribute band called Eight Days a Week, coupled with the annual Tom Enderle Car Show.

One nice thing about doing graphics for a Beatles cover band -- I need to bring the song title up at the very beginning of the song, but I often have to wait a couple of bars to confirm that the song they're playing matches the graphic I bring up (many bands skip around on their set list without telling me). With the Beatles, I can "name that tune" in one chord! And these guys stuck to their set list, which always helps. :-)

An Evening of birthdays with the Bozinis

A most enjoyable evening spent with friends celebrating birthdays occurring in the spring and summer. Originally scheduled for Joe's Diner downtown, it was moved to the IHOP on Ridge when it was discovered that the AC at Joe's had broken down. Pictures here.

A couple of concerts to post...

Last week, I took some pics at Greenhills Concert on the Commons featuring the UC Community Concert Band. A gorgeous night for my first CotC this year (It's their third -- I wasn't able to make the previous two in June).




And then yesterday, on the Fourth of July, I helped Waycross cover the Colerain Twp. 4th of July Spectacular at the Colerain Township Administration Complex. Another gorgeous night and a great concert by a band called Naked Karate Girls. Followed by a spectacular fireworks display put on by volunteers from Colerain Township. A great time!

Fuzzy Nation Tour

John Scalzi's new book, Fuzzy Nation, was released today. It was also his 42nd birthday, which he celebrated with a signing in Dayton, (Beavercreek, actually, at Books & Co. on the Greene). Scalzi read from Untitled 2012 novel, the working title and basic description of which we were all sworn to secrecy. We are allowed to say, however, that it is awesome.



Pics are here.

Updated the State Wrestling Galleries

I took several days off from upgrading gallery styles in order to deal with some minor flooding that occurred in my house over Easter weekend. I'll likely post some picture of the damage (wall to wall carpeting and its padding soaked) in a few days. Today, I managed to upgrade the three Waycross galleries of pictures from State Wrestling 2007, 2008 and 2010. See my Galleries Updated page for the links.

Forsooth, do you grok my jive, me hearties?

All galleries of Cincinnati Shakespeare Company performances are now upgraded to the new style.

The title of this post, BTW, is an xkcd reference, for those that don't know.

Updated a couple more and added a gallery from the holidays

I've updated my page to include a couple more galleries whose style I've upgraded (A Northwest football game, and Jazz in the Park 2010). I've also uploaded some pictures from a Kwanzaa party I went to back in December, that I never got around to uploading, probably because they were taken with a smartphone camera indoors with low light and didn't come out as well as I would have liked.

Starting to look the way I want it

This blog is starting to take shape. I've made a page (on the right sidebar, under "Pages") listing the galleries that I've updated to the new style, and generally customized the blog to resemble my actual website.

I have to say that I'm happy with the Google Blogger service, and I'm impressed by the level of customization that it allows. A great deal better than the easy setup 1&1 blog offered by my web host. It uses WordPress, but has very limited functionality. There was a way around that, namely manually installing WordPress on my webspace, but it involved setting up a MySQL database, some editing of config files and then manually installing. In other words, more trouble than I was willing to go to. I decided to try Google, which I already use for a number of other things, instead. So far, so good. :-)

Galleries updated so far

I have redesigned a number of galleries on my site, that should make the individual pictures easier (on a desk/laptop PC or Mac) to see with their captions without scrolling. Also, when resizing your browser's width, the pic will resize as necessary. This resizing should also make it easier to view the picture pages on smaller devices, such as smartphones, tablets (incuding Nook Color) and notebooks.

[Edit 4/19/2011]:
I've put the list of photo galleries I've updated thus far on its own permanent page. A link to it (aside from the one I just made in this paragraph) is on the right sidebar under "My Websites."