If you are looking to purchase the DVD of photos, you can get it on ebay.
I took 540+ photos at Game 4 of the 2004 World Series. I'll be selling a DVD of the photos later this week, but for now you can view them on this web site!
http://www.chrishammond.com/gallery/albums/55.aspx
I never thought I would see the Red Sox win a World Series, much less get to see it in person! More thoughts on the game and the Sox to come soon!
For the Gentleman that were sitting beside me and my Aunt, here are your photos
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If you are looking to purchase the DVD of photos, you can get it on...
If you are looking to purchase the DVD of photos, you can get it on ebay.
Sent this out to a whole list of folks today, in case I missed anyone.
Hello Friends and Family!
Many of you I haven’t talked to in a long time, so here’s a quick update on where I am and what I am doing. I’m in St. Louis working for Emerging Technologies Group, programming web sites, loving what I do every day. I’m moving on November 1st to a new place about ½ a mile from work, if you want the address reply to this email and I’ll send it to you.
Now for the reason I am writing this email!
I bring to you good news!
I must say, I NEVER thought I would get to see a Red Sox World Series Championship, much less get the chance to see it in person!!!! I’ve watched more baseball this year than I have since I was a little boy, and probably even more than back then too.
Monday night I called Auntie Carol in Lexington, Mass. and told her to a flight get to St. Louis because I was going to get us Game 4 tickets. I got tickets from a season ticket holder here in St. Louis, got Carol a flight setup for Wednesday, and then proceeded to watch game 3 on Tuesday night from the couch. Throughout the whole series Sox fans have been nervous, the nervous wait, waiting for the Red Sox to screw it up, lose, and end the historic season in a miserable way. Game 3 was no different.
Watching Game 3 all I wanted was for them to win, so that Auntie Carol and I would have a chance to see Game 4, and see the Red Sox win it all here in St. Louis. They pulled it off and the World was abuzz about the Sox, and the fact that everyone thought it was a guarantee they would win it all. Maybe I was more nervous than most because I went to six Cardinals games this year all in which they won. Including Game 1 of the NLDS and Game 6 of the NLCS, and I know what the Cardinals bats can do, they can hurt you, and they could have hurt the Red Sox.
Carol landed about 3:30pm yesterday, I picked her up at the airport and was high fived and thumbs up’d by all the Sox fans walking around the airport, a change from the harassment I’d received from Cards fans on Saturday while walking around the mall in my Damon Jersey (see my blog link below to read about that)! We drove out to the stadium and found a nice free parking space which Josh Colwell showed me back in August when we saw the Cards beat the Mets, (http://www.chrishammond.com/gallery/albums/38.aspx). We walked up to the stadium and around to gate 7, near Stan the Man. We spent the next 45 to 60 minutes taking in the atmosphere, waiting for the gates to open. I also got a cool World Series blanket for signing up for a credit card, which will promptly be destroyed and cancelled when it arrives (you’re welcome mom).
Once the gates open we headed in to watch the Cardinals finish off batting practice and see the Sox take their practice. We got close to a few of the balls hit to right field, but nothing close enough to grab a hold of. It’s interesting watching people scramble and fight for a ball. We ran into Santa Clause there, he had a gift to be handed out later ( )! After watching most of BP we decided to venture up to our seats, 3 rows from the top in section 334. Not bad seats, but I can’t say that I’ve ever really had a bad seat at Busch (stadium). Before the game I took a photo or two of Albert (), I used to work with him at The Sporting News, he is the head photographer there, I also still occasionally play roller hockey with him.
I won’t go inning by inning, or pitch by pitch, but I will point out the photo of Johnny Damon, in his at bat that Won the World Series! () Johnny’s first inning, first at bat, home run won the game which ended 3-0 after nine. It was surprising the number of Red Sox fans at the game, there were probably 2-3 thousand, I think all of them stayed after the game to watch the celebrations. At the end of the game, everyone in the...
Since that last entry is so long I wanted to relink to the entry before that for the two Boston fans who were sitting beside us at the game last night.
Also to link to a photo of me and Auntie Carol at the game....
Now that the series is over, and hopefully after this weekend I'll be moved, I should be able to get back to computer topics! Here's something to read and download/try...
If you are looking to purchase the DVD of photos, you can get it on ebay.
I'll be touching up all the photos I took at the World Series and compiling a DVD for sale in the next few days. I'll post more information here when it is available!
If you are looking to purchase the DVD of photos, you can get it on...
More to come later, here are some...
Well, this is the first post about a great weekend!
Friday night Roger and I went to Mississippi Nights to see Papa Roach, Trust Co. and Chronic Future. When we got there we noticed the guys from proach were standing out on the side parking lot talking to fans. So we parked and walked around there to say hello. I said hello to Jerry, the guitar player, and told him we'd met before, at Pop's in Sauget Illinois in 2001, and that I went to school with his brother. He faintly remembered meeting me, or at least acted like he did.
After saying hello to Jerry I walked over to Jacoby, the lead singer, and said hello, told him I went to high school with his wife. To which he replied, “She's here, on the bus.” So I went over and waited by the bus until they were done with their signing, which I came to find out later was an invite only signing. I guess Roger and I just looked like we belonged there? :)
After the signing Jacoby got Kelly off the bus, she came out and said hello, asked what the hell I was doing in Missouri (I know, it's not the most exciting of states, but it's been home for 9 years now). Roger and I went in and watched the first two bands, I am not much of being right up in the crowd, so at Mississippi Nights it is nice because we could grab a chair in the back and still be able to see.
Later in the evening I noticed Kelly was inside watching Papa Roach play, I went up to her and another girl (kelly is in black, jennifer in the striped shirt) at the bar to say hello. We talked for probably an hour to an hour and a half. We got caught up on all sorts of things. Kelly just had her second son, 6 weeks ago, named Jagger. Her and Jennifer had flown out and met up with the guys in Wichata the night before, they were on tour with them until Monday and then were heading back to California and the kids.
Jennifer also went to Vanden High School and was in our class (95). Jennifer married Tobin, the bass player for Papa Roach. Jennifer also has two kids now. All the kids (4) were staying at Kelly's mom's house while they were out on tour with the band. Kelly told me about everything that's been going on, how life still is very regular for her, even though she's married to a rock star!
It was a great evening, getting caught up with Kelly and Jennifer, getting to hang out with the band members afterwards. I didn't know this, but Dave, the drummer, is married to a Tyler, as in one of Steven Tyler's daughters, Mia to be exact. Seeing things from the otherside, you realize how real people are, even though they look so far away, they are just regular people to, it's nice to see that.
Best of luck to the band, and to Kelly, Jennifer and the kids. I hope to see them all again soon, who knows, maybe they will show up at our 10 year reunion next year at Vanden!
Here are some photos taken that...
Kevin Sites is the reporter who happened to film the Marine who shot an Iraqi soldier point blank last week. Check out his blog, it's an interesting read.
http://www.kevinsites.net/2004_11_21_archive.html#110107420331292115
As for my opinion on the matter, I'm not convinved the Marine should have done what he did, but I don't think I could ever charge him with anything if it were my choice, it just happened to be a dirty part of...
Today is the first day of snow. It's falling pretty good outside right now. Of course I left my camera home today! Perhaps I'll grab it over lunch.
Pictures from...
I spent about an hour wrenching on the chicken today. I've posted Day 8 photos, I had a few days where I didn't get any photos, mostly the days I was wiring up the inside of the dash, so my day 8 is actually just a guess.
Today I started working on getting the power steering pump removed from the car. I didn't have too much luck though. Removed the PS resevoir, removed the alternator and moved the belt out of the way, but it looks like I have to remove the pulley from the pump, even though the manual I have says otherwise!
More on the turbo bird over on my racing...
So someone got me digging through old photos tonight... While digging I started hitting some of my old but still live pages.
I really miss the...
I was looking through my site statistics for solo2.org today and came across an incoming link to the site that has brought 30 people to the site in the past couple of days. So I go to check it out.
http://350zuk.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4904
Harsh! Oh well, I liked the stripe while I had it on the...
Looks like tonight may be a good night to go watch a meteor shower!
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/12/13/sky.watch/index.html
Saturday evening around midnight I was taking Pylon out and happened to yawn, as I yawned I looked straight up and saw a beautiful meteor streak across the night sky! I love trying to get out and watch meteor showers, kind of sucks not having anyone to go out and watch them with...
In less than a week I will be back in sunny California! I fly out of STL on the evening of the 22nd, headed to Long Beach until January 2nd. It'll be nice to get out of MO for a while, be able to have some fresh smoggy air, and breathe again!
If I am out there and my sinus problems completely go away I will have to think long and hard about leaving the midwest and going back west for good!
Lots of stuff left to do before next Wednesday. Tonight I'm off to the Ho Ho Show (www.1057thepoint.com). Tomorrow Bill is having a Poker party at his place. Saturday is Nelson's wedding party.
I really need to do some shopping before I go! Shopping in California on the 23rd and 24th is a huge...
My 2004 World Series Photos DVD is for sale again on Ebay!
2004 World Series Photos...
I've gotten a lot of text messages from folks today wishing me a Merry Christmas, to all of you who have sent me one, and those who haven't, Merry Christmas!!!
Check out some photos I took at the beach last night, unedited, only resized for...
Two Days of Sunset Photos
December 28th with my best friend Faye, in Huntington Beach and San Clemente
December 29th in Huntington Beach
I'm headed to Vacaville tomorrow morning, spend a few days up there see some old high school friends for New...
Friday for lunch Erin and I drove up to Davis to meet up with Jim. It's been almost two years since I last saw either of them, was a good time catching up a bit.
Here are some photos we took after...
Tomorrow night is the annual St. Louis region of the SCCA's awards banquet. It's almost always guaranteed to be a good time!
I'll be picking up my B-Stock Class championship tomorrow, then drinking heavily and heading out to who knows where afterwards. The party usually goes well into the morning hours.
See some of the photos of my 2003 Nissan 350Z...
You have to love Southwest Airlines! I now don't have to get to the airport near as early as originally planned. I'm taking only carry on items, and was able to check in over the internet, so I have my Group A boarding pass. SW boards by groups, A being first, B and C being latter, and since seating on Southwest is first come first serve, you need to have an A pass to get a decent seat. That generally means getting to the airport two hours early, but not if you check in online!
Rock on with your bad self...
The family is all stuck in Lexington Massachusets right now due to weather! Fun fun fun.
Check out some of the photos of all of the snow we got, I'm not sure how much we actually got, probably 2 feet, some of the drifts are up to 4-5 ft though, kind of neat.
http://www.chrishammond.com/gallery/albums/67.aspx
I was supposed to fly out this evening. Now I'm scheduled to leave around Noon...
Well, somehow I have gotten back into doing web sites for friends! I'm currently working on 3, already setup one for Brian, setup one for Greg but need to tweak it to give it a good look and then train him on how to use it. I've also gotta set one up for Faye, but hers will have to wait till she buys a domain name, and so I can come up with a look/feel for her site as well. I'm using the new CommunityServer release from Telligent Systems for these sites, it allows for blogs/galleries/forums all in one app, and once I get the skinning down the sites will be pretty...
Yesterday afternoon I was trying to search for something on my PC, I couldn't find it. I checked my settings in the MSN Desktop Search and realized it was only indexing Outlook and my My Documents folder. Well, I rarely keep anything in the My Documents folder, so I setup the search to reindex my machine.
15 hours later it finally finished indexing. It indexed close to 500k items on my machine.
During that process I figured out there were some virii on my machine as well. So I had Norton do a full system scan last night and it came up with 9 files on my old harddrive which is hooked up as an E drive.
Now I guess I should run a disk defrag and try to clean up the drives a little. I think I'm going to write an application to help me archive my many thousands of images. I have probably 100 gigs of photos taken with my cameras, so I need to figure out a way to archive them on DVDs and have a thumbnailing application on the PC so I can tell what images are on what DVDs. That could be a fu |