tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15314055Fri, 25 Oct 2024 06:38:31 +0000BirthdayPartyhttp://loganboyd.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Logan)Blogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15314055.post-6955062533876239329Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:29:00 +00002010-10-26T12:29:40.088-05:00I’ve just completed 1 full year with having only 1 parent. I always got along in different ways with each of them. You know when you call home and mom answers the phone so you talk to her a while and tell her the stories you’d tell your mom. Then she passes the phone to dad and you talk about dad things like golf, weather and food. I miss having those conversations. They were never really deep http://loganboyd.blogspot.com/2010/10/1-year.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Logan)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15314055.post-2356832860450808798Sun, 04 Apr 2010 00:25:00 +00002010-04-04T19:26:58.141-05:00My Canon 7D arrived earlier this week and today I got my first chance to check it out. I had my 100mm f/2.8 macro lens and headed over to the Zilker Botanical Garden. There were quite a few people walking around with everything from pro Canon and Nikon gear to the $150 ultra-slim portables that you throw in your pocket. We also a nervous bride who was trying to find some shade while not letting http://loganboyd.blogspot.com/2010/04/botanical-garden.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Logan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15314055.post-3871617154342659762Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:58:00 +00002010-04-04T20:32:36.398-05:00Tim Boyd was born on September 22nd, 1948 and before the age of 23 he married my mom, Beth. 5 years later, I was born and my brother Brad followed 5 1/2 years after that.   With just a high school education and a year in a local vocational college, Dad only had 2 jobs after the age of 18. He spent 18 years working for the City of Opelousas Power Plant followed by 22 years as proprietor ofhttp://loganboyd.blogspot.com/2009/10/timothy-james-boyd-1948-2009.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Logan)11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15314055.post-7865056762856304171Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:33:00 +00002010-04-04T20:35:56.013-05:00I’ve had this box in my closet for years now. It started out as a big empty box and as of now it’s a big full box. You’ll find Christmas Cards from my mom, an old LSU Tiger stuffed animal, notes from girls back in high school and ticket stubs. One of the things I like about blogging is it helps me to remember things I’ve done or places I’ve been or people I’ve seen. So I decided to create a http://loganboyd.blogspot.com/2009/10/ticket-stubs.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Logan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15314055.post-630233693136534032Sun, 04 Oct 2009 01:00:00 +00002010-04-04T20:37:32.325-05:00I remember my first time in the new Dallas Cowboys stadium for 2 reasons. The first reason being that I was there less than 24 hours ago and the second and bigger reason being the 180 foot wide screen that sits above the field. I drove up to Dallas early on Saturday morning to watch LSU beat Georgia in a last minute comeback. Texas A&M was playing Arkansas in the Southwest Classic in what http://loganboyd.blogspot.com/2010/04/i-remember-my-first-time.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Logan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15314055.post-6950203682651822931Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:02:00 +00002010-04-04T20:57:55.441-05:00Summer 2009 has come and gone and it was definitely in my top 5. I enjoyed so many days on the lake and nights in downtown Austin.    Austin is starting to make up for all of the rain that didn’t fall over the past few months. As central Texas starts to get colder and wetter, I’m starting to think of the places I’d like to go. I did get to travel to Miami and spend some time in the http://loganboyd.blogspot.com/2009/09/summers-gone.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Logan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15314055.post-3417749024979117275Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:02:00 +00002009-09-25T01:30:08.386-05:00BirthdayPartyOn September 18th, 2009, I was 1/3 of a century old. I decided to make a t-shirt, invite a bunch of friends to go out downtown and make the most of this faux birthday celebration. Thanks to everyone who came out to have fun. Here a few of the pics. http://loganboyd.blogspot.com/2009/09/turning-33.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Logan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15314055.post-3306209332282404064Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:28:00 +00002009-09-25T01:41:54.349-05:00  Alan Ruck... Alan is the guy who played Cameron in Ferris Bueller's Day Off People fairly often point out that they think I look a lot like Cameron.   http://loganboyd.blogspot.com/2008/09/alan-ruck.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Logan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15314055.post-4775900601989947583Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:17:00 +00002009-09-25T11:50:02.866-05:00 Lance Armstrong at the start of the Nike+ Human Race 10K Lance Armstrong cooling off as he runs past the Bob Bullock Museum Sea of red shirts running through a cooling station on Congress Ave Matthew McConaughey after the finish of the Nike+ Humanhttp://loganboyd.blogspot.com/2008/08/blog-post.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Logan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15314055.post-81257595652028721Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:52:00 +00002009-09-25T11:38:59.531-05:00They say things always come in 3s but yesterday I had something happen twice. Maybe today it will happen again and round out my theory. The first incident happened when my friend Randy relayed some information to me from his mom. She's been watching the Olympics like Billions of others have and apparently thinks that I look like Michael Phelps. Now I'm a pretty good swimmer, heck I was evenhttp://loganboyd.blogspot.com/2008/08/do-i-look-like-this-guy-they-say-things.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Logan)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15314055.post-3341369951551353047Sat, 03 May 2008 23:00:00 +00002010-04-08T20:42:09.434-05:00 I spent Saturday out in Manor at the Austin Polo Club. It was an awesome day with weather topping out around 80 degrees and a cool breeze blowing through the polo field. Although the Austin Polo Club team didn't win, it was a good match. The field has been newly renovated and has 12" boards lining both sides. The only other match that I've seen didn't have the high boards so the ball goes http://loganboyd.blogspot.com/2008/05/ils-sont-partir-i-spent-saturday-out-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Logan)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15314055.post-2178140319757704208Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:25:00 +00002010-04-04T19:39:57.654-05:00On January 11th, 2008 I lost my job... I had been at Rush Enteprises for nearly 7 years and now it was time to go do something different. The following day I hopped on a plane to Guadalajara, MX with a 1-way ticket and decided to go see some places that I had never seen. I stayed 2 days in Guadalajara at the Intercontinental Presidente as I planned out the next few days of my journey. I http://loganboyd.blogspot.com/2008/04/end-of-era.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Logan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15314055.post-5120391736493190671Wed, 05 Jul 2006 20:18:00 +00002010-04-04T19:40:55.125-05:00Sunday morning I had brunch with Rafi at a sidewalk cafe near his house. I ordered the buttermilk pancakes with bananas and strawberries but actually got the lemon ricotta pancakes which were very good. We had a big meal planned for that evening so brunch was perfect to hold me over til then. Every now and then you see someone who's eyes are so beautiful that you can't look away. Well, a young http://loganboyd.blogspot.com/2006/07/jamaica-sunday-morning-i-had-brunch.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Logan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15314055.post-5984898850917813996Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:41:00 +00002010-04-04T19:41:25.028-05:00Friday morning I woke up with plans to see a few things. After turning on my computer to check email, work email, and get an idea of what subways to take to which stops I was out the door. The only thing that screwed me up is that my laptop's time clock is 1 hour behind so when I thought I was leaving the apartment at 9:04 it was really 10:04 and about half a block down the road I realized that http://loganboyd.blogspot.com/2006/07/bodies-friday-morning-i-woke-up-with.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Logan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15314055.post-847683524391947895Fri, 30 Jun 2006 07:00:00 +00002010-04-04T19:45:41.016-05:00My first 24 hours in New York... This is a big place, I mean in most downtowns you have a handful of buildings taller than 20 stories but here you can walk for 50 blocks and every single block has enormous skyscrapers. We had dinner at a cozy little Italian place on Wednesday night near Rafi's apartment. He actually has a pretty nice place on the Upper West Side. I was expecting smaller, it's http://loganboyd.blogspot.com/2006/06/big-apple-my-first-24-hours-in-new-york.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Logan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15314055.post-8680913282715366629Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:19:00 +00002010-04-04T19:44:39.522-05:00I found my way out of LAX and onto the 405 South. I was headed towards Long Beach and down to Ocean Blvd to the Hilton there. The hotel was really nice and had a massive lobby area. If you like sitting on stylish furniture in rooms with 30 foot ceilings then you would've liked this place. I had a room on the top floor, #15 with a good view, although this area is mostly industrial with lots of http://loganboyd.blogspot.com/2006/06/california-sans-humidity-i-found-my-way.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Logan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15314055.post-2451200798516397698Sat, 10 Jun 2006 21:00:00 +00002010-04-04T19:47:30.038-05:00As a young teenager, I would often play 36 holes of golf in a day and they would be separated by a cheeseburger served to me by Simon. Those days were half my lifetime ago, the course was Indian Hills CC in Opelousas, LA and Simon was our favorite bartender. This day of 36 holes was different, we tee'd off on the first 18 at the Milwaukee Country Club at 8am sharp, after a good breakfast. I had http://loganboyd.blogspot.com/2006/06/36-holes-as-young-teenager-i-would.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Logan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15314055.post-6143588244963793811Fri, 09 Jun 2006 12:28:00 +00002010-04-04T19:48:11.481-05:00There are times in life when you're surrounded by a handful of good friends and everyone's having a good time and you'll remember the evening for a very long time, and then there are the experiences you have with people you'll probably only meet once. This weekend would be defined by the latter. I'm sitting in my nice room at the Milwaukee Country Club on a Thursday evening. I had a great dinnerhttp://loganboyd.blogspot.com/2006/06/milwaukee-in-june-there-are-times-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Logan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15314055.post-5927356650444370842Mon, 20 Mar 2006 20:10:00 +00002008-04-07T10:06:35.670-05:00I-10After a 3 day weekend in Louisiana for my cousin's wedding and a small family get together, I headed west on I-10 towards Austin. About 40 miles outside of Houston, the traffic on the interstate came to a halt and didn't appear to that it would be clearing quickly. I turned to the navi system to try and find another route. The only way around the mess that I could find was to detour about 17 http://loganboyd.blogspot.com/2006/03/i-10-after-3-day-weekend-in-louisiana.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Logan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15314055.post-9201936153377962545Fri, 03 Mar 2006 14:27:00 +00002010-04-04T19:49:49.158-05:00Well it was Christmas in February for me as I decided to upgrade my camera equipment. I decided to sell my old Canon EOS 20D camera body and get the new Canon EOS-1D Mark II N. My new Canon arrived on Wednesday and within an hour or so of getting the package at work I received an email from one of the companies that I shoot pics for asking me to cover an event this evening. I spent about 5 hours http://loganboyd.blogspot.com/2006/03/digital-photography-well-it-was.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Logan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15314055.post-3827115601811957109Wed, 01 Feb 2006 10:09:00 +00002008-04-07T10:08:56.553-05:002006 Toyota PriusI've been in one of those moods for a while now where i've wanted to get a new car. I've looked around and researched a lot of models. Lexus ES330, Lexus LS430, VW Passat TDI, Mercedes E320 CDI and Toyota Prius.You can probably guess from the title of this post what I ended up with. Today I bought a 2006 blue Toyota Prius package #8 which includes navigation, blue tooth, voice http://loganboyd.blogspot.com/2006/02/2006-toyota-prius-ive-been-in-one-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Logan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15314055.post-113832584960650685Fri, 27 Jan 2006 01:36:00 +00002006-10-02T00:31:36.666-05:00 Here's a picture of ally sitting on my old SeaRay 200BR at my first house in Austin.  http://loganboyd.blogspot.com/2006/01/heres-picture-of-ally-sitting-on-my.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Logan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15314055.post-6029737465286614469Tue, 24 Jan 2006 00:13:00 +00002010-04-04T19:51:37.136-05:00My cell phone plan renews in 30 days and Verizon is being nice enough to let me get a new phone at $100 off the lowest advertised price of any phone they carry. I plan on stopping by a store on my way home today and seeing what my next gadget will be. I know that the megapixels of cell phone cameras have been increasing to where they are now more than 2MP on some phones. For me, taking pics with http://loganboyd.blogspot.com/2006/01/cell-phones-my-cell-phone-plan-renews.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Logan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15314055.post-2682667806987934019Mon, 03 Oct 2005 13:00:00 +00002008-04-07T10:30:23.990-05:00ManlyOn Saturday we again went down to the harbor and took a ferry over to Manly to watch and photograph some surfing. Manly's slogan is "Seven Miles from Sydney, a Thousand Miles from Care..." It wasn't a great day for swells but the beach was nice to walk on and the 30 min boat ride over to Manly was nice for site seeing. It's cool how the inner waters just open up into the dark blue waters of http://loganboyd.blogspot.com/2005/10/manly-on-saturday-we-again-went-down-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Logan)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15314055.post-6389567500162663618Mon, 03 Oct 2005 00:19:00 +00002008-04-07T11:55:26.643-05:00Port DouglasFor Thursday we thought about taking another snorkeling trip with a different company but instead decided to rent a car and drive up the coast to Port Douglas and back.We rented a very small car with automatic transmission. I can drive a stick but I've never driven one with my left hand nor had I driven on the left side of the road and I figured doing both for the first time in the http://loganboyd.blogspot.com/2005/10/port-douglas-for-thursday-we-thought.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Logan)0