Life After One Year
People always say that a couple’s first year of marriage is one the most difficult times a couple will experience. People say how hard it is to adjust to living with each other, always having another person around, and learning to work thru the hard times. They say you have to learn how to talk to each other, and how to manage finances, and integrate friends, and in general learn to operate as a permanent couple. I guess the wife and I have managed to get off easy. We recently celebrated our first anniversary recently, and looking back, its hard to believe that it has been one year since we celebrated the joining of our lives.
I find myself thinking back over the previous year, and find it hard to believe that the wife and I have really been together that long. I know it sure doesn’t feel that long, and I am pretty sure that someone had to have displaced a few months somewhere along the way. I think our first year went quite well; after all we both still talk to each other and still like doing thing together (which is more then I can say for a lot of people.) Heck, the wife even says she doesn’t mind living with a stinky ole boy!
Anyway, enough mushy reminiscing…
I did get a chance to see some Northern Lights the other day, or at least they looked like what I would expect the aurora borealis to look like. They were very, very faint, and it wasn’t until I got my eyes acclimated to the dark that I actually saw anything. I was disappointed, as about the time I started to notice a greenish shimmer in the sky, a few high clouds started to drift in from the west, and cut my night short. Somehow this always seems to happen when we have the chance to glimpse northern lights here in Nebraska. One other interesting phenomenon I noticed was that the AM radio station would occasionally have very large bursts of static, d completely obliterating the signals coming from the station. I figured it had to be from some sort of interference due to the large amounts of radiation barraging our atmosphere, since I was sitting out on a dirt road in the middle of a cornfield. I will try again, as I am determined that I will get a few photos of the mysterious green lights in the sky!
I also have to give some credit to my mother for finding a very cool little program called Picasa. Yes Mom, you finally found something on the net that I hadn’t already heard or checked out! Anyway, Picasa is a cool little program that will allow me to better organize my photos (I have thousands of them) and actually maybe bring some of my better photos out into the light where I can see them and share them with people. As I find cool shots, I will start sticking more of them up here on the blog, and seeing what you all think of them. Check it out, one of those fun little programs from Google…
Picasa From Google
