Darron Daily - 2008
2009.03.14 (Sat) - Had a pretty good day. Last night we took Jen and Briana over to Kayla's house to spend the night and we brought Peyton back with us to spend the night here. She zonked out on the drive home, she slept most of the night, moving to our room around 2AM. We slept in, took her to see my Mom & Pop at their Saturday morning service.
Got home and hung out until Kayla returned to pick up Peyton. Kayla left Jen and Bri with us, we hung out for a while until it was time to take Briana home. There was a very emotional converation on the way home, Bri began crying before we got her home. We had a conversation with Briana's mom and boyfriend about some recent issues we are still trying to work through. I guess I am still being made out to be the bad guy in all this. I am willing to take the heat, I am certain I am doing the right thing in this situation.
Briana, if you are still reading my daily posts, Robin and I DO LOVE YOU and want Gods best for you. I am very sincere when I say this. Your value, significance, and worth should come from who you are in Christ, not from Brandon or any other male figure. You are important, you are valuable, you are loved!
We had planned on going out and looking for a daily photo but after dropping Bri off we had to return to have a talk with Brandon about some things that were troubling us. After things were sorted out at home we took off again, grabbed some coffee and went looking for a shot but the sun had gone down for the day.
We ended up at a carnival in Rocklin, met a fellow photographer. We had a nice chat with Ian and I got a chance to tell him about the SmugMug Daily Photo community before he had to run. I hope we get to see him join the group, I would love to see his work and it would be nice to have a DP friend near by us we could shoot with now and then. We grabbed some night shots of the carnival before returning home.
I decided to post a flower photo from yesterday to round out my weekly flower theme. Not sure what theme I'll go with next week, I was thinking a series of self portraits but... Ugh, not sure I can pull that off.
Hope you all had a nice day, until tomorrow,
Darron
![2009.03.15 (Sun) - [SP, Day 1]<br />
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Had a nice day, we got up early and took off to the west side of Roseville around 5AM. Got some interesting shots before the sun came up, then returned home to get ready for church. We went to the 11:30 service so that Brandon could join us in the Main worship service, it was nice being together the three of us. The message was good. We returned home and cooked lunch and ate together and then the three of us all split up the house and yard work and spent the next few hours getting things in order around our place. It felt good to get it all done, the teamwork really worked well. <br />
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After getting the chores done, Robin got online for a while while Brandon played some X-Box. I ran off to the spare bedroom and made my first daily attempt at this week's self portrait series. I went with the natural light coming in the window, not really the best photo so I did what I could in the digital darkroom. Went with a selective color and cropped to hide some features I don't like.<br />
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Well, hope you all had a good day. Until tomorrow...<br />
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Darron](https://photos.smugmug.com/Daily-Photo-Posts/Darron-Daily-2008/i-QC8LCKh/5/e8068892/Ti/DSC_5095_SC_CROP-Ti.jpg)
![2009.03.16 (Mon) [SP, Day 2]<br />
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Typical Monday, after work Robin and I ran around with the camera. I tried several self portrait ideas and right now I am completely discouraged with the idea of doing self portraits the rest of the week. <br />
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I'm headed to my room with Robin, hope your day went well.<br />
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Until tomorrow,<br />
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Darron](https://photos.smugmug.com/Daily-Photo-Posts/Darron-Daily-2008/i-Wh8DMXB/0/3e14edfa/Ti/DSC_5258PP-Ti.jpg)
![2009.03.17 (Tue) - Drive Time [SP, Day 3]<br />
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Had a pretty good day, slept in but didn't work out so I was able to get in to work on time. I've really got to get back to my workouts! Ate lunch at my desk and then took off for Costo over the lunch hour to get a few more copies of The Shack. Got the car washed and then returned to finish my day at work. Got home and grabbed the camera to go take a daily shot. I packed the tripod and grabbed the remote for my self portrait but ended up just using the timer and setting up a shot of myself driving home.<br />
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Got back in time to watch Peyton while Chris and Kayla ran to dinner. We work Robin up once, she grabbed some hugs and went back to sleep. Brandon and I had fun watching her until Mom and Dad showed back up. We all hung out until Robin got up and then waved goodbye.<br />
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Robin is getting ready for work while I post my photo, she will be taking off for work shortly.<br />
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Hope you all had a good day, until tomorrow...<br />
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Darron](https://photos.smugmug.com/Daily-Photo-Posts/Darron-Daily-2008/i-WzZxHVz/0/5a79c117/Ti/DSC_5291-Ti.jpg)
![2009.03.18 (Wed) - <a target="_blank" href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=57&chapter=4&verse=12&version=31&context=verse">Being content</a> [SP, Day 4]
I have so much to be thankful for! My God, my family, my health, my job, my friends. I had a great day at work, but got some horrible news when I got home.
A young man went missing while snowboarding, his body was just found. A friend of mine, Arthur Pillado, got word today that the young man was his son. I worked with Art for about five years and I got to see his son grow into a man. My heart and prayers go out to him now, he will need the Lord's strength to get through this difficult time. I was crushed to hear about what happened, I cannot even begin to imagine how Art is dealing with the news.
Robin and I went out for sushi for dinner, then grabbed my daily photo (SP, Day 4) and returned home to spend the evening together.
God bless you all,
Darron](https://photos.smugmug.com/Daily-Photo-Posts/Darron-Daily-2008/i-X6pN9HX/1/314832a7/Ti/DSC_5318-Ti.jpg)
![2009.03.19 (Thu) - Poppy n Peytee [SP, Day 5]<br />
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Another good day, finally wrapped up all the sofware design specifications this week! Next Monday we should begin officially building the application. Whew! I met Bobby for lunch at Chipotle, it was nice to get the chance to talk. We missed last week so had some catching up to do. <br />
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Returned to work and finished my day out before taking off to see Kayla and Peyton, the drive was very nice. It has been pretty warm the last couple of days so I've enjoyed having the top down.<br />
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Hung out, ate dinner, giggled, laughed, kicked the soccer ball around, built an awesome lego house with Peyton, grabbed some photos, and then returned home to see my sweetie.<br />
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Hope you all had a good day, utnil tomorrow...<br />
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-Darron<br />
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[2009.03.28] Replaced original post with one more POTD worthy. -2nd time doing this.](https://photos.smugmug.com/Daily-Photo-Posts/Darron-Daily-2008/i-BRkKQ9Z/1/bacdb0e1/Ti/DSC_5363-Ti.jpg)
![2009.03.20 (Fri) - Finally Friday [SP, Day 6]<br />
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Had a good day, got to work at 6AM sharp and had nothing but trouble most of the morning. Was having some wierd issues with the Telerik Controls, couldn't get the Asynch Postbacks working properly on a new grid I've added. Ate lunch at my desk and continued to power through it until I got it working when my system locked up. I hadn't checked my code in all day so I lost everything. I locked my system and walked out the door at 4PM and didn't look back.<br />
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So, the plan this weekend? Don't think about work until Monday morning!<br />
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I arrived home to find the house bustling with people, Jen and Ricky were composing a new song. They were playing guitar and singing, B, R, and I watched some TV until they left and then I took the family to Strings for dinner. After that we drove to central Roseville, top of the parking garage on Vernon street and watched the trains. I grabbed this SP shot before we had to take off for home.<br />
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I'm going to a Mens bible study in the morning with Joseph H, gotta read a few chapters so I am ready. I'll spend the rest of my evening sitting and reading with Robin. <br />
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Until tomorrow,<br />
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Darron](https://photos.smugmug.com/Daily-Photo-Posts/Darron-Daily-2008/i-6JvP59N/1/11baa63b/Ti/DSC_5413_fp-Ti.jpg)
![2009.03.21 (Sat) - [SP, day 7 and final]<br />
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Had a really good day, Joe introduced me to his Saturday men's Bible study group and I spent a couple hours with them studying Gensesis 21-24. They begin each study with prayer, going around the room and each man saying a prayer for the man to his left. Being new to the group I felt a little nervous and somewhat intimidated but I got through it okay. The study experience was great and I look forward to becoming a regular member.<br />
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After Joe dropped me back off at home we all ran to Denny's for brunch, then came home and watched Peyton for Kayla and Chris so they could do some shopping for Peyton's B-day. (2yrs April 4) We took her over to visit with Mel and Craig and then ran to Toys R Us to get some b-day ideas with her. We picked up a folding chair for her, a little umbrella, and some Duplo blocks for our (g-parents) house and then returned home to work on building an awesome lego house! Peyton destroyed our masterpiece when she decided it was time to clean up, just picked it up and dropped it back into the container and giggled histerically as it crumbled. <br />
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Later Kayla and Chris returned to steal her away from us, Jen and Ricky showed up and hung out for a bit before Corey arrived after getting off work. I took off for a bit to try and get my last self portrait for this weeks series. I don't know why I decided to so sp and must say I am glad it is over.<br />
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Hope you all had a great day, god bless you all.<br />
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Until tomorrow...<br />
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Darron](https://photos.smugmug.com/Daily-Photo-Posts/Darron-Daily-2008/i-m5kBgvg/1/ddd0a111/Ti/DSC_5584-Ti.jpg)
![2009.03.24 (Tue) - Had a pretty good day today, took the VERY long way into work today. I wanted to check in on a few smaller church buildings during the morning sunrise so I wandered all over the place on my way into work. None of them were all that photogenic so I eventually just gave up. I hit highway 50 near Watt Avenue and headed East toward work. I got to Bradshaw and noticed the Capital Christian Center just off the freeway and turned off to grab a shot.<br />
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Work was good, we have officially started writing code, whoo hooo! Paired up with Rob on some of the Rapid Application module and spent most of the day back and forth on his system and mine.<br />
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After work I grabbed some dinner, then took off with Brandon to get haircuts. After that I spoke to my Father for a bit, then Pat for a good long time and just now getting the chance to post my daily.<br />
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Hope you all had a great day, good to see all you smuggers on facebook. John, GetFillmore, and the others that have added me to their friends list... It's good to be in touch with you all.<br />
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Until tomorrow,<br />
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Darron<br />
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[3/28/2009] Utimately I didn't like the photo I posted for this day and I decided to end the weekly series in favor of shooting subjects based on inspiration without any contraints... Replacing the original post with one from the other day. - 1st time doing this.](https://photos.smugmug.com/Daily-Photo-Posts/Darron-Daily-2008/i-vcHt2R8/2/868bb7cd/Ti/DSC_5601-Ti.jpg)
Rick Willis
on December 5, 2010Nice Color and Comp...
Karina Boese
on April 4, 2009After I read the caption... now I'm thinking.. I think you should make your Daily's into a book & include the caption for your children. :)
That will be so priceless! Note on shot: very nice & bold!
306887Verbeast
on March 17, 2009Gorgeous!
Guest
on March 16, 2009I Love this Shot! And You! You are not the Bad Guy. Lov R
Michael Weitzman (186879micalngelo)
on March 16, 2009Beautiful.......
Pearls
on March 16, 2009Wonderful sunny yellow, such great detail. Family! What are you gonna do with them, except love them. I will be praying. Thanks for giving us a glimps into your lives.
219352dedmanshootn
on March 16, 2009this is beautiful! i'll be rpaying for y'all
44229shutterbuglady
on March 16, 2009Bright and sunny shot! I have a similar one taken last October but yours is better. :-)
James Hill
on March 16, 2009Bright and cheerful! Come on now, you know you want to play with some SPs, they can be fun.
studio721
on March 16, 2009Very beautiful shot with great light, color and detail. Wonderful!