Archive for May, 2009
May 20, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Last month, I suggested that April is the best time to visit the McGees. May is awfully nice, too. And our cherry trees bloom in June, so that’s also good.
Well, if you’re thinking about visiting, you’ll need to know how to get here. For that, we turn to Tara.
She was on the phone with a friend several days ago, trying to make plans for the friend to come visit and play for a few hours. Now, Tara is not very experienced on the phone just yet so it was funny to listen to her side of the conversation and try to imagine what her friend was saying.
After all the plans were settled, the friend needed to know how to get to our house. The friend lives right near school, about a half-mile from here. She must’ve asked for directions, and that’s when Tara furrowed her brows and thought for a few seconds. And then she offered these helpful instructions:
“You carefully curve a little. Then you go forward.”
So, there ya have it. Come visit us soon, won’t you? The directions are simple. 
May 19, 2009 at 11:31 pm
Been a while since I’ve done one of these posts, but the last week has brought several requests for photo usage and that reminded me to share some places where my Flickr photos have been used. I’ll start with a pic of our dog, Sparky, which is currently appearing on the home page of the Woof Report:
That won’t stay on the home page for long, but it’s also being used on this newsletter page. Go Sparky!
Here are others I’ve found:
- Beyond Phototips used my shot of footprints in the snow. It’s way down near the end of the article. On a related note, this same photo of mine will apparently be used in an Australian documentary that’s now in production. That was one of the email requests that came in this week.
- My uber-popular baseball photo appeared on ivorytowerz late last month.
- It also appeared on Bargain Briana.
- A photo I took of the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile was used on Wide Open Wallet way back in March.
- And my “The End” photo appeared on Through the Illusion.
May 17, 2009 at 12:38 am
You’ve probably heard the Coldplay song, “Fix You.” Great song. It’s a relationship song, and Chris Martin is presumably singing to his wife about how he’ll take care of her and make things better when they’re bad. Thus, the title of the song.
Now, Chris Martin’s not the world’s best lyricist, but there’s a line in this song that never fails to make me gulp:
Tears stream down your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down your face
And I….
Tears stream down your face
I promise you I will look for my mistakes…
That line in bold kills me. Shivers every time I hear it. Sometimes tears. Because sometimes you have to fix yourself before you can fix anyone else.
I think the world would be a helluva lot better place if more people looked for their own mistakes rather than looking for someone else’s.
May 9, 2009 at 3:20 pm
I ordered my Google Profile Business Cards at about 1:30 am PT on May 1st, right after I wrote the story about them on Search Engine Land. And here we are, 7 business days later, and my cards have arrived.
Not sure exactly what I’ll do with them, since I haven’t bothered to do much with my Matt McGee Google profile page. Plus, I already have biz cards for Small Business Search Marketing, the four local blogs that Cari and I write, and even @U2. It’s not like I’m desperate for more business cards, but seemed kinda cool to be one of the first to order the Google cards.
