Day 1

Finally, the first day!  I chose today since it is my birthday (seemed like a good starting point).

Pictured here, the presents I got from my beautiful wife, Katie.  The pie is pecan, and is my favorite (and tasted exquisite as well).  The picture is the card she gave me.  The socks seem kind of silly, but I actually have always liked getting socks as presents - maybe something to do with my dad liking socks as presents.  Finally the little blue box contains headphones so that I can listen to music while I study, since I keep asking to borrow Katie's headphones (I lost mine a while ago).  I chose this picture because it seemed representative of the awesome birthday I have had (thanks to Katie making delicious food and walking to the store with me).

Till tomorrow!

Final Day

Starting tomorrow I will be posting at least once a day, and will be including pictures with the posts for the 356 challenge!  I am pretty excited about it!

However, tomorrow also marks the real beginning of the semester.  Super fun.  Trying to figure it all out is weird, especially since by the end of it I will have graduated!  Real world, I am on the fast track towards you!

Till tomorrow!

Freedom from German

Yesterday I took the German placement exam for my school...I got a great score.  I needed two semesters of German, but I got three.  I would post a picture, but couldn't figure out how to best explain all of that in pictures.

In other news I found purple Tulips today and bought them for my wife.  I was pretty stoked, because she loves Tulips, and I had never seen them in purple before.  I would post a picture of them on here, but my wife already beat me to the punch and has one posted, so I thought I would wait for a bit...maybe try and post a "I can't believe these are still alive" picture later this week or early next.

Wintery Break

Today it is snowing outside.  This would normally be terrible on a Monday, but since I have the day off, I am pretty good with it.  I just finished almost all of my homework for the week and am sitting here admiring the snow.  It is quite beautiful when you don't have to spend long periods of time out in it!

I am super excited for starting the challenge next week, and keep seeing possible opportunities for pictures that I could take, but I am being good and waiting to start the challenge.  Instead of taking and commenting on a photo, I am working on my resume so that I might begin applying for something called a "real job"....  Not the most interesting thing I have done, but it is a step forward, which is always nice.

Post 0

I am Thomas.  I am  currently preparing to do a 365 day photo challenge (though technically this year it will be a 366 day challenge).  I am going to keep track of my progress through this blog, intending to post at least one picture a day everyday for a year - though I allow for the possibility that some days might just merit an extra picture. I thought it might be good in this "Post 0" post to explain a little about me and such.

Who am I?
I am a senior in Computer Science at the University of Wyoming, and am in my final semester.  I am happily married, and we hope to begin our new lives in May when I finally graduate.

Why am I doing this?
I am doing this for a few reasons.  The first is to have something to do for a year to maintain some kind of consistency.  The second is that I feel like taking a picture a day because I think it sounds like something interesting to do.  The final, and most important reason, is that a lot of things in my life are going to be changing, and I wish to document it in some way, and I feel that this will be my method.

What do I hope to get out of it?
I hope to achieve a sense of accomplishment, as well as having a photographic documentation of my year, and various things I thought were important or interesting from it.

I start this year of documentation on Monday, January 23rd.  I am really looking forward to it, and I might "cheat" and post something before then (like a picture of me), but on the 23rd I will be maintaining the posts at one a day (though I tend to be up till the wee hours, so some might technically be posted the day after).


Finally I would like to provide a link to a great project that inspired me to start this photo blog, the Day Zero Project.  It is a great idea, and I have also just recently begun a list over there.  I recommend that people go there and try out their own 101/1001 list!

-Thomas