I’m up in Canada! The drives were long but fun, be praying for Katie as she gets car sick a little and in the back seat going home will definitely be hard. We just got here yesterday. Its a nice little house/condo type place and has an amazing view out the back windows. I’ll post some pictures a little later, along with a travel video maybe. Oh, and hooray for no cell phones just emails.

We just got done with breakfast and are probably going to go for a gondola ride in a little bit. Been keeping up with the olympics too, but its weird watching them from another country. Even with everything in english, they cover different things. Props to Michael Phelps, first ever with 8 gold medals. It was impressive to watch him win the 100m Butterfly. Hundreths, unreal.

Here’s that picture. Enjoy.

I haven’t posted in a very long time. Sadly I’ve been so distracted with life that I started to lose sight of what is really important in my life. God, family, Katie and then the rest of it all. I have so much to say right now, I’m not really sure how its all going to come out, so if I ramble I hope you understand.

First off, I need lots of prayer right now. My finances are shot and I’m really not sure how God is going to come through on this one, but my heart knows He can and will take care of me. I have a few doors to explore right now and 2 that are very open. So I am praying my way through all of the job stuff.

Kuzoa is doing ok now. For those who know what happened, please keep Jason and Kuzoa in your prayers, for both are destined for great things and I pray that I can help in any way right now and in the future. I am not going to explain anything on here. Thanks to those who have been lifting Kuzoa, Jason and me up.

I’m working from home right now. Doing small web jobs to keep the income kinda there. But that is shotty at best. And only mixes home and work for me and makes it a little confusing. I’m going on a trip to Canada here this next week and am looking forward to being out of country and turning my phone off. Sorry, but international rates are nuts. I plan on reading a lot and not really being online. Not sure if I’ll even really turn my computer on up there. I think its time for a computer fast, (thanks Heidi ).

I’m looking into a couple of missions trips coming up too, and would love to go serve. I’ve been such a home-body lately that I’m almost frustrated with myself. I need to go see what God has for me, and I can’t tell that from where I’m at currently.

I haven’t posted a gallery lately for a few reasons. One I haven’t had the inspiration for one… with my camera still broken I’m just getting tired of looking through all my old pictures and choosing. I want to expand. Try new things. Go to new places. I want to start doing videos with legit equipment. I’ve just got to get a chance somehow. Secondly I have just got my big computer setup and working again. That is the one with all my pictures.

In summary. I’m 22 now and feel like I’ve hit a brick wall where I’m at. Please just pray for me.

Thanks. Love - .dub

Wow… So I was doin pretty good keeping you guys up to speed for a little while there, but sadly have gotten behind.

Well, first off, my sister gets married in 4 days 10 hours from right now! Yikes! I’m super excited for her and at the same time as this all sets in it is kinda weird too. She’s been moving stuff out recently to their new apartment and I know that is hard for her. We’ve always been a close family and so I am sure it is hard for her to realize that this is her last week at home.

Secondly, I bought a car!! Its a ‘96 Civic coupe. 5 speed with a 7″ touch screen cd/mp3/dvd player. I’m pretty excited about it because it was a really good buy, for more then just the sweet deck installed. Its a solid car and pretty much all stock. The klutch is good and it drove really well. I’m going to get it later today.

This last weekend SPO did 2 programs. One on Sat at the Union Gospel Mission (my mom’s workplace) and then at Ecclesia Sun night. Both were amazing and went off great. We just finished a new song too, Justin Timerlake’s “Losin My Way”, which I play the lead in. It was a lot more then I honestly expected when I first started doin it, but God does His thing through me and thats all I want.

Ok, now for this week’s gallery. I’m sorry I missed last week and I’m taking my camera in to get fixed today! Yay! This week I decided to do one on fire. With summertime camping trips and fires happenin, this seemed like a fitting time to toss up one with some fire. Enjoy!

» Fire Gallery - Monday Gallery 7-7-2008

Well, its the last installment of Las Vegas ones. 2008. There’s really not much for pictures, but you can watch a recap video below as well. Enjoy what little there is, its the last of Vegas

» Las Vegas 2008 gallery

Las Vegas ‘08 Collage from .dub on Vimeo.

I bought this yesterday. It took me forever to decide, but I’m glad I got this one. This could be a bad thing for saving money, but oh well.

So, I got busy with some clients yesterday and didn’t have time to put this together. I will hopefully be moving my photos onto an external hard drive soon and thus will be able to work on them from home with my new laptop. Soon.

This weeks gallery is a Las Vegas gallery again. Since I left 2 weeks ago now. I have not been able to stop thinking about the city and the people. So when I pulled up adobe lightroom this week and saw my shots from SPO’s ‘07 trip, I just wanted to post them. No edits, no crops, no funky color changes… just cleaned up some dust spots (I’m still a photographer ;D) and exported the gallery. I hope it gives a slightly better view of what Vegas is to me. To SPO.

Monday Gallery - 6/9/2008 - Las Vegas 2007

So this weekend has been pretty crazy. I must say. This last week was pretty busy at work and such, but then the weekend came about.

Friday night was sweet, went and saw Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. It was a fun Indiana closeout movie. Signed off the story. Harrison Ford is always awesome. Shia LaBeouf did awesome as well.

Saturday I went to get some mirrors for SPO. These beasts -

And then we got to do this to get them out.

It was an awesome experience. And a lot of hard work. We got out with only breaking one mirror and in 3 hours. It was a pretty good day.

Today I got joshandkassi.us launched! I am so stoked to have it done for my sis and bro-in-law. The wedding is gonna be amazing. With another develop due tonight and a good practice here at SPO, its gonna be a good weekend.

I’ve been working on my sister’s wedding site for about 3 months now. Obviously only as I could, but it is nearing completion quickly. I finished the WP theme today. Now I just need Kassi’s help with building in the content pages. It should be launched in the next couple of days. With all luck. Here’s a preview at the future, joshandkassi.us.

I am home and was finally able to put together another Monday gallery. This weeks subject is Las Vegas. It seemed fitting after being there last weekend. I centered in on 2006, as it was the first year I had my 20D there and it seemed fitting for nostalgic purposes. I’ll put up an ‘07 as makup for last weeks soon. Hope you guys enjoy!

» to the Las Vegas 2006 gallery

Being home has been nice. A little frustrating trying to get back into the groove of things, but i’m getting there. The first couple days were the worst but after this weekend, I think I’ve reset completely.

I need to catch up on some sleep still. Some how. I prob just need to slow down, but that prob won’t happen. Oh well. Soon I’ll be able to. Tonight will be a good night for it I think.

Last of all, work. I have put in quite a few hours lately. And more are to come. Business at kuzoa.com is picking up, so thats nice. Also I’ve got a lot of side jobs that are keeping me busy, in a good way. Those side jobs got me my mac a week ago. I am loving it too. Well, I’m off to go design some stuff. Check out my vegas videos!

PS - Sorry about the lack of monday galleries. I’ll put one together tomorrow.