File under "P" for "procrastination"

Does this count as procrastination?

If not, this certainly does.

My VVork blog

I spent the last few days of my recent break setting up a new blog. After all, what more sensible thing could a guy do who already struggles to post as often as he would like to his first blog?

Why another blog? If you want the long answer, take a look here. The short answer is that I have been wanting to post some work-related stuff online, but I didn't want to tangle my personal opinions with my work life.

Take a look if you would like, but unless you're into geeky stuff, don't plan on staying there long. ;-)

Taking a look is easy. Just click on one of the numerous links I've embedded in this post - like this one, and this one, and this one or any of the links above.

Why so many links? Because I know that if I give the URL (which, BTW, is http://www.vvork.info) many of you are going to type http://www.work.info). While typing the latter would be a totally understandable mistake, it would be a mistake nonetheless.

If you want to know why I would intentionally pick such an easy domain name to mistake, take a look here.

R & R

Returned to the lake for a little R&R this week. That's rest and relaxation, not rock 'n roll.

The break was very welcome after last week's 12+ hour/day ICW in Boston.

Didn't totally go off the grid. I prepared for some upcoming videos for work, attended a few conference calls, drummed up business for a vCO delivery in Florida, and registered a new domain for a vvork related blog. What's the domain name? That's under wraps for now. (Hint: This post refers to the domain name.)

It wasn't all work by any means.

I have enjoyed floating on the lake on the floating patio...

... And I enjoyed rowing around the lake this afternoon...

Additionally I got to see my dad, Lena, my sister Pam, my brother John, and my nephews Connor, Ethan, Ryan, and Brett.

But in hindsight, I think I spent the most time with Penny, Dad and Lena's dog. We just met, but we quickly bonded.

She follows me everywhere and continually wants to play.

Now if I could just get her to bond another part of her anatomy with my head.

Salt Ponds

My flight home from Boston took me over the salt ponds yesterday. I won't pretend to understand the cycles they go through. Sometimes they're dull looking, and other times they bloom in glorious colors.

I love it when the salt ponds put on a show like yesterday.

Another Brian Watrous

This is not me. And this is not my twitter account. I don't tweet (but Alicia and her Twitter compadres keep threatening to create a ghost-written Twitter account for me). In hindsight, I think I'd prefer the make-believe Twitter account over this real one. Sigh...

If you want to know who I am and who I'm not, I suggest you look at this blog post from 2010.

Copenhagen, Denmark

Catching up on my photos. Here's some of Copenhagen.

Full size photos here if you prefer.

Garden of the Gods

I spent last week attending a class on VMware vCloud Suite 5.1-- awesome class. Afterwards Alicia suggested that I visit the Garden of the Gods before the sun set. When I got there, I quickly understood why she urged me to go. It was simultaneously beautiful and fascinating and oh-so-photo-worthy.

But was I up to the task? There I was with my handy iPhone popping off shots, but I found myself wondering how to do a respectable job of capturing the beauty in photos. I often find that I need to make adjustments when photographing different places. Usually I can make minor adjustments, and I can make those adjustments quickly based on previous similar environments.

But Garden of the Gods was unlike any place I've photographed before. It was an exciting challenge for me because the clock was ticking, so I had to rush to find things I thought would make for good photos and make technical adjustments to how I took the photos.

This was a rushed project for me, but I had fun learning on the fly and I think the photos did a reasonable job of capturing what I saw.

Full size photos here if you prefer.