Tahquamenon Falls Video

Brady — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:05:00 +0000

I haven’t figured out what to blog about what I finally did for my vacation this summer, but I did put together a quick video from the trip to Tahquamenon Falls. Enjoy!

Top 10 Moments in 2008

Brady — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:45:00 +0000

I’m going to try to do this in as few words as possible

10- Voting for Mitt Romney

The fact that I had a choice to vote for a Mormon for President. Awesome!

9- Convincing my nephew in less than half an hour that we could be friends

That was quicker than my dad won him over.

8- Geocache #600

A walk in the woods, in the snow, with friends. Priceless.

7- Ceder Point

Proof that when I am dead, I will be buried in an amusement park. (I actually had fun at the amusement park that day!)

6- Hiking in the Big Horns

The view from the top. The real top.

5- The Regency Ball

Who knew that English Country Dancing was so much fun?

4- Tweleve Reunion

You probably wouldn’t understand… But it was awesome.

3- Kayaking the Huron

Ever heard “Peace like a River”? Well, that, except, with a river.

2- Thanksgiving Turkey

It tasted just as good as it looked.

1- Turkey Trot

A goal completed!

Happy Halloween!

Brady — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:07:00 +0000

So, probably not the most timely of posts. I’ve been fighting with my computer, my browser, and Blogger to get these photos uploaded. I have finally vanquished the computer gnomes that prevented this post.

I’ve officially been 29 for 12 days now, but I wanted to post about what I did on my birthday. I had a wonderful time, thanks in great part to some wonderful friends. I took the day off, to take advantage of the quirkiness of Ford’s holiday schedules and work my way into a 5 day weekend.

I had been having a hard time trying to schedule a get-together with friends. The timing was just off. Someone took it on themselves to organize a breakfast at the Northside Grill. I’m still not entirely sure who it was, but I am very grateful to that person or persons. I would have never thought about breakfast. The waitress brought out a brownie cake with candles for both me and Seth who shares my birthday. Brownies at breakfast. Who’da thunk?

The second plan of the day was to go hiking after Friday Forum. I had managed to convince Jonathan that he should come hiking, as it would probably be one of the last great days of the fall. Together we persuaded Amy to join us, and Amy brought Jin.

We drove out to Pinckney Rec, and it was a beautiful day! The leaves were still colorful and mostly still on the trees. The temperature was perfect for hiking! We set out on the Crooked Lake trail, a five mile hike. Amy and Jonathan weren’t on vacation like I was, so they walked part of the trail with me and then went back and did important things, while I did my best to wear out Jin.

Jin and I did fairly well together. I think he didn’t realize that there might be squirrels off trail. He did get a little impatient with me when I stopped to take pictures. Right towards the last half mile of the trail, Jin noticed something off trail. Unfortunately, we were at the top of a steepish hill, and the squirrel or woodland creature or whatever was at the bottom of that hill. It was a fun ride down.

The final part of the day was the Monster Ball. I had been intending to exercise my birthday right to not dress up on Halloween, but it came to me that I should go as Dr. Horrible. I posted the video a few posts back to get a few of my friends up to speed, because i knew many wouldn’t really know who I was.

I think I pulled it off fairly well. For an internet meme that not many people around these parts had heard of, I only had to explain myself a few times. My welding goggles and my freeze ray made it.

One of the events at the Monster Ball was a Mr. and Miss Monster Ball 2008 talent contest. The HSAC had invited a few people to participate, Mike and Brian notably. I was not in the original set of contestants. However, someone didn’t show, and I got asked at the last minute if I could do something so there was an even number of guys and ladies in the contest. Fortunately, I had my iPod in my car with the sound track for Dr. Horrible on it.

I quickly put together a lip sync to the Laundry Day / My Freeze Ray song. I convinced Amy to be the Penny to my Billy. She had seen the show, and knew what was going on. We ran through it once before the show, me listening to the iPod and narrating the actions as we went along. The lip sync went well and got a rousing round of applause.

Somehow, against Mike’s rendition (and real singing) “The Monster King” and Brian’s excellent song about vampires, the crowd gave its approval to my obviously lip-synced song and crowned me Mr. Monster 2008. Still no real idea how that happened.

Kara Stowers, dressed as Kimmy Gibler, was crowned Miss Monster Ball. It was a fantastic way to end the night. Thanks to all who shared a part of their day with me. I couldn’t have picked a better day

Bucking Mule Falls

Brady — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:14:00 +0000

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Tahquamenon Falls Video

Top 10 Moments in 2008

Happy Halloween!

Bucking Mule Falls