23 Aug 08 Welcome home

My new apartment in St. Paul, Minn. I finally feel like I am home in my new city. Bring on the awesome!

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12 Aug 08 Wanted: One slacking blogger

Found him!

Yeah, yeah, like everyone else I’ve been busy, though that is no excuse. New job, lots of training, trying to find a place to live and exploring a new city take up a lot of time. That doesn’t leave a lot of time to scan the old RSS feed and make snarky comments at all of the whiny, angry and venomous curmudgeons talking about the news business.

Oh, and there’s also a little thing called the Republican National Convention happening right up the street. Kind of a big deal and I’m looking forward to being on the media (cyber) front lines.

That being said, I’m going to try and start writing here a lot more. With so many changes in the industry, both online and off, there’s a lot to talk about. Not to mention the Olympics, one of the best events to do unique multimedia coverage of.

Until then, go see what I’ve been taking pictures of.

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27 Jul 08 By the numbers, from Florida to Minneapolis

So I finally made it to my new city. I’ve spent the last few weeks visiting friends, family, taking a lot of pictures and traversing America’s highway system. I enjoyed it immensely and saw a lot of great things and met some good people. However, I am anxious to get to know my new city and get to work for Minnesota Public Radio.

Here’s a quick rundown of my trip by the numbers.

Total miles traveled: 2,303

Total gas bill: Approx. $292.00

Lowest gas price paid: $3.74/gal - St. Louis, MO

Highest gas price paid: $4.15/gal - somewhere in Georgia along I-95

States visited or passed through: 9
• Georgia
• South Carolina
• North Carolina
• Tennessee
• Kentucky
• Illinois
• Missouri
• Iowa
• Minnesota

Total food bill: Approx. $175.00 (I ate for free a lot with friends)

Newspapers read:
• Wilmington Star-News
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• The Tennessean
• St. Louis Post-Dispatch
• Kansas City Star
• Des Moines Register

Hotel stays: 3

Traffic tickets: 0

Items lost: 1
- I left the sun hood for my camera lens at my dad’s in Tennessee. I think I’ll just get a new one.

So that’s that. I’m moving into my temporary apartment tomorrow and then I’ll start getting acclimated to my new city, my new job and getting this blog on track. To infinity, and beyond!

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13 May 08 ‘Negative Ghostrider, pattern is full.’

I’m putting this blog in a holding pattern until next week or so while I handle some post-graduation duties, personal time and an all-around break.

Be back in a week, give or take.

p.s. Great online uses of Twitter and Facebook on multiple ongoing stories, most notably the Myanmar aftermath, the earthquake in China and the wildfires in Central Florida. Check them out.

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07 Apr 08 Blog posts all present and accounted for

OK, so it didn’t take me as long as I thought it would. Still, it was a bit of a pain.

After exporting/importing all of my old Livejournal entries, as well as entries from an interim Blogger blog, spanning a period from March 2003 to today, my post total comes to 3,495 (…96 if you count this one).

That’s almost 3,500 posts since March 2003. That’s an average of 1.917 posts per day, though in the beginning I was hardly posting at all. There were some Livejournal months where I was posting 100 times in a month. That’s ridiculous, where did I find the time for that crap?

Now, in case you are really that bored and decide to dig through these archives, they span a period of great change, growth and learning by yours truly. There are some blissfully good times in there, as well as some embarrassingly bad times. I’m not proud of all of it, but it is unapologetically me. Now that I am an adult on the cusp of embarking on a professional career that I have earned and love, I have no shame in putting all of this out there.

So, there you have, the last five years of me all in one place.

P.S. Not all links and pictures will work in some of those older posts, though I don’t really expect any of you to dig that far. (If you do, you are a brave soul.)

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