Jabulani Jonny

Here’s a short video of something cool we saw on Sunday.  We were visiting the Wupatki ruins just north of Flagstaff where we’re staying.  The pueblo ruins were pretty cool, but the Blowhole was definitely worth the price of admission.  I mean, air just coming out of the ground, like an air conditioning vent.  That was just cool.  So I took a short video with my trusty Canon Powershot 700.  Great camera by the way.  Here’s Sunette demonstrating the powerful effects of…The Blowhole.

We spent all day yesterday at the Grand Canyon and saw an amazing sunset.  I was a little bummed that there were some clouds hanging around all day, which kind of washed out some of my "middle-o’-the day" pics.  However, when the sun was setting those clouds made for a few gorgeous pics.  If you haven’t been to the Grand Canyon, or if it’s been a while, hopefully these pics will inspire you a bit.  So who’s been to the Canyon and what did you think? 

Well, I’ve been out of touch.  Sorry ’bout that.  I’m on vacation right now in Arizona.  Sunette’s parents are here from South Africa and we’ve had a wonderful visit so far.  I’ve really been needing a vacation.  I didn’t take much of one at all last year, and haven’t had anything more than an extended weekend this year.  Needless to say, I was due.

Sunette’s been planning for us to visit the Grand Canyon while her parents are here and that’s where we are now.  We arrived on Thursday in Las Vegas and stayed the night on the strip.  Here are a couple Vegas pics and a pic at the Hoover Dam as well.  I’ll post a short video of the fountain at the Bellagio.  Very cool if you haven’t seen it. 

I’ll try to keep the posts rolling while we’re on the road.  You can see how dedicated I’ve been.  It’s been hard to find the motivation.  See here are my thoughts recently on blogging:

If I was like Los, where I spent a good portion of my day in front of the computer doing neat artsy things for my church, and blogging was kind of an outreach, then I would be waaaaaay into it.  Like he is.  However, I spend my entire day crunching numbers and chewing threw Excel and Word docs.  Fun I know.  When I get home, I do not want to sit down and write anymore.  Sorry.  Weekends can be crazy busy, so sometime’s it’s just difficult to find the motivation and the time.  That sounds like an excuse, but hey, that’s where I am.  I will continue to try and keep it updated though. 

So here are a couple pics from Vegas and Arizona.

I came across this site yesterday, it allows you to download free Classical music pieces to expand your classical repertoire.  Sunette loves classical, I’m alright by it so I figured I’d give it a go.  It comes as an .ogg file so you prolly need to convert it for iTunes or Winamp or your media player of choice.  Los posted a cool web app called Media-Convert which allows you to convert just about any audio file type to any other kind, which would be helpful here right?  So you can download the classical piece that you like, say… Vivaldi’s Spring.  Then go to Media-Convert and convert that file to an mp3 and drag it into itunes.  Quick, and most notably…free, way to expand your classical music library.