http://www.timothylarson.com Be More Interesting Sun, 14 Feb 2010 01:16:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_327" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Loose Ends"][/caption] If you know me at all, you know that I'm not the best conversationalist in the world... and I'm not the best at conveying my ideas by talking about them. I like to surprise people with the things that I do.  Rather than talking about something ... http://www.timothylarson.com/2010/01/27/tying-up-loose-ends/ Wow, where does the time go.  Over the summer it was a lot easier to take the time to keep this up to date. In my free time over the last few months I've been working on things like, financial responsibility, guitar (again,) and this month, my free time is going ... http://www.timothylarson.com/2009/11/14/proacademy-series-event-lighting/ [caption id="attachment_314" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Jalapeno Cheese Brats from Stittsworth's Nymore Food Mart"][/caption] On July 2, I decided to stop in to Stittsworth's Nymore Food Mart, a local meat mart that is just a few blocks from my house. I have friends that have had high reviews of Stittsworth's brats, so I decided ... http://www.timothylarson.com/2009/07/10/july-2-let%e2%80%99s-eat-jalapeno-cheese-brats/ [caption id="attachment_309" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Zuppa Toscana - Based on the Olive Garden's famous soup!"][/caption] For the month of July, I am focusing on improving my cooking and baking skills! This is a really fun one, because I love good food, and this gives me an excuse to eat really well. On July 1 ... http://www.timothylarson.com/2009/07/10/310/ [caption id="attachment_299" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Atlanta based photographer Zack Arias 6 degrees of separation experiment"][/caption] On a random note, I was reading Zack Arias's blog today and thought I'd throw this out there for him.  He's doing a little social networking experiment playing with the 6 degrees of separation theory. He's got two ... http://www.timothylarson.com/2009/06/28/does-anyone-know-anyone-who-may-know-anyone-or-have-connections-to-coldplay-or-ditty/ [caption id="attachment_291" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Boss RC2 Looper"][/caption] Earlier this month, I decided to get a new pedal, the Boss RC2 Loop Station.  This is a fun little pedal.  It can be used for live performance, however, practice is the main reason that I decided to get it (so far, it's been ... http://www.timothylarson.com/2009/06/28/my-gear-boss-rc2/ [caption id="" align="alignright" width="247" caption="Is my practice getting too routine?"][/caption] I need some motivation.  I've been trying to practice my guitar every day, but it's really easy for me do the same things over and over, not challenging myself to try and learn new things. The last week or so, for my ... http://www.timothylarson.com/2009/06/18/stretching-times/ [caption id="attachment_263" align="alignright" width="300" caption="DigiTech RP500"][/caption] If I were to have chosen my effects, I probably would have gotten individual pedals and built the effects that I wanted, however, I signed up for Musician's Friend's Weekly Gear Giveaway and won the DigiTech RP500. (Unfortunately, Musician's Friend no longer does the Weekly ... http://www.timothylarson.com/2009/06/05/my-gear-multi-effects-processor-digitech-rp500/ [caption id="attachment_236" align="alignright" width="200" caption="My electric guitar."][/caption] Welcome to the month of June!  I couldn't wait for this month to get here...  As you may know, every month I pick a topic to focus on.  Meaning I spend my free time and money trying to learn or improve myself in one ... http://www.timothylarson.com/2009/06/02/june-strings/ I had been doing really well, riding my bicycle to work every day this month... at least until the weather started getting cold, rainy and windy... then I was out of town for a week doing video production work at Pursuit '09 for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Granted, I did bring my ... http://www.timothylarson.com/2009/05/29/progress/