Someday, if I own a small business, I already know how I will handle taking payments. I know it’s super nerdy, but I’m okay with that, and I need to get it out of my head and written somewhere.

Square is wonderful system that allows small business owners to receive payments easily using mobile devices. And I recently learned that iPhone/iPad apps can be built to interact with other apps. I would build a lovely in-house app that would serve the business’s needs, and then interact with the Square app to handle payments.

I know it’s nerdy, but I like it.

Lately, I’ve been going trying to go to the gym in the morning three times a week to reduce my chances of future back problems. And so I don’t look like this kid when I’m in my mid-twenties. But I hope to feel like he feels in that picture. I think he needs a cape, or at least a towel tied around his neck like a cape.

Getting up early is really hard sometimes. Especially when I go to watch DVRed LOST with friends later at night and then do something else, like write, like tonight.

Time for sleep.

Last week, I had the pleasure of doing a photoshoot for room 201. For some reason, in this house of 40 college guys, a room will sometimes want a special photoshoot. Well, they had been asking me to do it all last semester, and we never had a time when everyone could. So, when we figured out that this past Saturday worked, I had to oblige.

So, here they are.

Owen

Danny

Trent

Charlie

I need to write more, I’ve realized. I need to make things. So much of what I’ve been doing lately involves processing things. Math, code, numbers, problems with one solution. I’m not too bad at it, and I’m really good at some of it. Sometimes I don’t want it, though. Sometimes it feels that what I’m learning to do has no soul. And as a computer science student, when I’m working hard and focusing on it, it’s not too hard to feel like I don’t have one either.

So, I have to thank God for words, people, photographs, food, drink, movies, plots, happiness, faith, pain, struggle, successes, and failures. Without these things, I’m left without a soul.

I think that’s all for now.

Ellen asked me to put these up today, so they’re not fully edited. But here is a breif preview of some of the shots from the Miller Wedding. (click on the thumbnails to see a bigger version)