christine gacharna | a Northern Virginia photo B L o G » nothing to do with anything http://christinegacharna.com/blog maternity, newborn, baby, children + family Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:44:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 the flying fish http://christinegacharna.com/blog/2010/07/06/the-flying-fish/ http://christinegacharna.com/blog/2010/07/06/the-flying-fish/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 03:41:00 +0000 christine http://christinegacharna.com/blog/?p=4597 This morning, I photographed a flying fish. Timmy is the dive coach at Walden Glen. Kids at the pool adore Timmy; wherever he is on the pool deck, there’s a crowd of kids of all ages surrounding him, trailing after him, trying to get his attention.

Sometimes, the crowd starts to chant, “Belly-FLOP! Belly-FLOP! Belly-FLOP! …” And when that happens, Timmy fearlessly climbs the board, sails up into the air and comes SMACK down belly-first into the water! He climbs out of the water sporting white welts on his arms, the skin on the front of him good and reddened. It’s one of the coolest, craziest summer traditions around.
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my view from Puerto Rico …
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]]> http://christinegacharna.com/blog/2010/04/09/puerto-rico/feed/ 1 day 7. and counting. http://christinegacharna.com/blog/2010/03/10/day-7-and-counting/ http://christinegacharna.com/blog/2010/03/10/day-7-and-counting/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:18:59 +0000 christine http://christinegacharna.com/blog/2010/03/10/day-7-and-counting/ UPDATE: The question isn’t will my drive fail, but rather when will my drive fail? Here’s the link to the post Ray remembers; my days of losing my life in a hard drive failure are long behind me. I continue to use SuperDuper and iDefrag weekly.

issue: NIVIAD card fail
model: MacBook Pro
warranty status: quality program E1

my laptop is behind the Genius Bar at the Apple Store getting repaired. the meltdown occurred late Wednesday evening & the soonest I could get an apointment was Friday, so in all fairness I’m counting total days lost.

can’t edit RAW files or open QB Pro on an iPhone. yet.

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a license plate on a parked car caught my eye so I put my car in park and jumped out, ran around the front and over to the right and snapped a picture for my friend. horns are honking (among other gestures) and busy people are crazy — they have places to go. I know. so do I.

it was worth traffic distractions to get this shot for my friend — in hindsight, the effort gave us a good laugh, even if the wrong numbers rendered the photo moot (her love is an A-10 pilot.) I can’t keep those A- and F-plane number sequences straight. the Cs are easy, they come with word associations (Nightingale, Tube of Pain, Willing & Able etc.)

if you are a BMW aficionado, live in Northern Virginia and fly an A36, let me know and I’ll get you a print. :)

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