TRAX whizzing by.
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High school football at the Utes staduim at sundown last week.
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A Day in the Life of 2 Ts

A Day in the Life of 2 Ts
There has recently been some interest in more information about the Bluff project house I helped build. Click this link to view a PDF book about the house that I put together with some other students. It's best viewed two pages at a time, as if it were a real book. Enjoy.

Just a random update to keep you interested. It's been a long couple of days so I haven't been taking many new photos.
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Vegas.
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Reader's choice award!

A Day in the Life of 2 Ts

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The nearly full moon last night outside the architecture building. I love my camera. I took this picture hand-held (no tripod) and it doesn't even look blurry.
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Here's a full view of the new drapes.
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We also installed new drapes in the back room last weekend. All from IKEA of course.
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We put handles onto our cabinets a little while ago. It's strange how such a little thing can make a big difference.
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Terri took this really nice photo of Denali. Terri made Denali pose like she was at a fashion shoot, all angled and looking over her shoulder and smiling. Terri can't accept that deep down, Denali would really rather still be wearing her spiked collar.
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I say a nice rainbow on my way up to the university today. The stop light I was at had just turned green, so I wasn't able to zoom in on it. You can barely see it above the mountains, but it was nice.
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Terri and I babysat for our friends Kyle and Julie today. This is Braylon, and he's out cold on my lap.
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The view from the foot-hills north east of the city.
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This is the old Utah Ore Sampling building in Murray, Utah. I was almost eaten by a big pit bull while taking this photo.
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This picture is a few days old (it was taken on the 25th), but this is what the architecture school parking lot looks like at midnight on a snowy night. This snow is all gone now, it felt like 80 degrees on Saturday, but it was nice while it lasted. This is a good indication that there is some good snow happening in the mountains.
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Yesterday's sunrise over the University's baseball field
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SLC Trax ride

Architectural video analysis of a ride on the SLC TRAX from downtown to UofU campus.

Terri and I were thinking about getting another dog this weekend (me more than her). We found these really cool dogs up for adoption. They were both Redbone Coonhounds. Beautiful dogs, you should look them up. It's a good thing we didn't get one, because later in the night we found out we already have a good coonhound. I let Denali out and before I could think Denali already had this raccoon in the tree. It was incredible. The coon was on our deck and Denali had no problem following it down the steps, across the driveway and up the tree. Just like a coonhound. (For those that don't know, Denali is our blind Jack Russell Terrier.) At first I thought it was the cat that used to hang around our house when we first moved in, but then I finally got a glimpse of it in the tree. We had to coax Denali back inside, because while she had surprise on her side at first, the raccoon, if it decided to come down from the tree, would probably have the upperhand. Terri, meanwhile, had barracaded herself in the computer room, afraid that the raccoon would blow past me in the doorway and go after her. I later found her looking up "raccoon danger" on the internet.
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Denali and Buddy

I don't know if you've seen the Petsmart commercials with the dog who won't let their toy out of their sight, but Terri and I couldn't resist getting Denali the toy in the commercial. She loves it, and as expected, always knows where it is. She can't resist the fact that it has two different squeakers in it.
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Our utility closet sans furnace and water heater.
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Here's some more Salt Flats. I think this one looks like a really good water color painting.
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Sunrise at the Salt Flats. 7:47am.
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Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah. 6:52am. Incredible.
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In the spirit of Halloween, Terri's surgeon dyed her toes orange after her ankle surgery today. (Really though it's just blood and iodine, which makes it a little more gross Halloween than cute pumpkin toes halloween.) She's doing really well. The surgery only took about an hour and a half. She has to wear this boot for a few weeks, but she is able to walk on it already without crutches which is pretty amazing. Thanks for all the get well wishes.
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Here I am with the birthday girl. I was tempted to throw her into the river for a little float down the falls, but for some reason Terri wanted to stay dry on her birthday.
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We went on a great hike yesterday to Buttermilk Falls state park
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Terri and I are in NY visiting my parents and celebrating her birthday. It is a beautiful place to be during the Fall.
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Today we had an incredible experience and opportunity to watch a master Japanese carpenter create a complex wood joint.
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Another photo from our fall hike.
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Vote for Us!

Our Bluff house project is up for an AIA award. Please vote for us. http://extras.sltrib.com/specials/AIAcontest/#
We are the second one on the top row (the green and grey house in the desert.)

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Ashley, these are about a block from our house. These units in the photo are across the street from a park and are within walking distance to the light-rail line and the baseball field. The weather here is nice right now. It's been pretty warm, in about the 70's and low 80's.
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Not a bad day to be in the mountains.
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Here's a picture from our hike in Mill Creek Canyon today. It was spectacular. For the last couple of years I've always just missed the peak colors here in Utah. Terri and I finally timed it right this time.
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Here what they look like without the wood and nice aluminum windows.
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These are the cool new apartments going up near our house. We wish these were the ones going up right next door, but no such luck. It's been funny hearing people talking about these because for the longest time they looked pretty bad. A lot of people I've heard mention these thought they were going to be storage units or something. I was hoping that they were going to do something nice with them. They started putting up the wood today and it looks really nice.
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A close-up of the trees below.
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These three trees alway turn yellow together. I drive by them in the morning on my way to school. I had to stand in the middle of the street for this photo so I was rushed and didn't get the exposure that I wanted.
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DesignBuildBLUFF

DesignBuildBLUFF
A new site for the Concrete competitionwhere we recieved an honorable mention is up.
https://www.acsa-arch.org/competitions/concrete/honorable.html

Here's the view from the deck that I'm hoping to build the guardrail for. Not a bad view.
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Part of the spread from the baby shower Terri hosted yesterday.
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The Wasatch Mountains at sunset as seen from the architecture building.
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Cool music dude

Today on the train up to school I got to see what this other guy was listening to on his iPod. It went from some group called Vision (I think), to Enya, to REM, to Smashing Pumpkins, to Soul Asylum. Sweet.

DSLR for sale

I'm selling this camera and accesories. http://saltlakecity.craigslist.org/ele/210072688.html
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Canon SLR for sale

This Camera is for sale.
http://saltlakecity.craigslist.org/ele/210078091.html
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By special request from Terri. Here she is with her old roommate.
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I don't know if they're back from their honeymoon yet, but here's another one of Karla that Terri and I both like.
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This is one photo from a bunch I took for my friend Kyle a while ago of him and his new boy.
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This is my first attempt at a new digital photography technique. It's called HDR, and is pretty interesting.
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It's starting already! We got our first snow of the season. Over 6 inches fell in the mountains yesterday.
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A Day in the Life of 2 Ts

A Day in the Life of 2 Ts
In response to my sister's comment...
This is why I freaked out when the Mantis turned around and attacked me. Click here
Terri, you might not want to look.

Found this monster in our yard today. I picked it up and then it attacked me. Freaked me out and made me late for Denali's eye check-up.
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Someone asked on a previous photo what kind of camera my new one is. It's a Canon. But since I don't know who asked, I won't divulge any more, you might try to steal it from me.
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Here's our nice table center piece from Karla and Rick's wedding.
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This is the Target building in downtown MPLS. The top of this puts on a light show every night. The building is pretty standard during the day, but it really "lights up" at night.
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