Fun times with Spenser and Parker
- 9 years ago
On a trip to check out game stores to the west of Pennsylvania to find the strong points and weak points of other stores to optimize their store and find underpriced games to get a profit boost, they stopped in my area. Wanting a break from the multiple days of road travel, they were interested in doing a few things off the side such as exploring and activities like bowling. On the agenda:
1. Their initial arrival. I wanted to capture the moment of their arrival and I captured it quite well.
2. Deek's Pizza. This is one of my top favorite pizza places of all. Rhombus Guys was considered, but I changed it to Deek's knowing that they're high-rated.
3. (not shown) Astrophotography, round 1. Ever since I got that fancy camera, I've been wanting to get outside of the city to do some quality astrophotography. The results were more than worth it.
4. KVLY-TV and KXJB-TV transmitters. I suggested to them about the tallest structures in North America being less than an hour away, and these structures are over 2000 feet tall. The travel there and back is covered as well. Other sights include a construction zone with the rebar pulled out, a yield sign with bullet holes in it, and a pair of dust devils.
5. Bowling. 3 games were played, but they were only covered in part. The last part of this, however, is the best part - 3 strikes in a row (by each of us), an amazing shot by Spenser, then the highlight of it all - the funniest shot made by Parker to conclude the game.
6. (not shown) Space Aliens. I took photos, but forgot to record video. The Space Aliens in Fargo looks like you're walking into an UFO-like space ship. The usual guy-in-a-costume is present, the costume being the alien outfit. I saw a small rip/tear in the back of it.
7. (not shown) Astrophotography, round 2. The second attempt at astrophotography. This was kind of the same as before, but on the north side of town instead of the south side, to get the junk lights on the same side of the sky. In both cases, I had too many clouds and a waxing gibbous moon which really hurt the potential. Still, I managed to get down to about magnitude +9 or so.
Because Daily Motion had to reduce the maximum file size to 2 GB from the 4 GB they had, the video quality is pretty bad.
1. Their initial arrival. I wanted to capture the moment of their arrival and I captured it quite well.
2. Deek's Pizza. This is one of my top favorite pizza places of all. Rhombus Guys was considered, but I changed it to Deek's knowing that they're high-rated.
3. (not shown) Astrophotography, round 1. Ever since I got that fancy camera, I've been wanting to get outside of the city to do some quality astrophotography. The results were more than worth it.
4. KVLY-TV and KXJB-TV transmitters. I suggested to them about the tallest structures in North America being less than an hour away, and these structures are over 2000 feet tall. The travel there and back is covered as well. Other sights include a construction zone with the rebar pulled out, a yield sign with bullet holes in it, and a pair of dust devils.
5. Bowling. 3 games were played, but they were only covered in part. The last part of this, however, is the best part - 3 strikes in a row (by each of us), an amazing shot by Spenser, then the highlight of it all - the funniest shot made by Parker to conclude the game.
6. (not shown) Space Aliens. I took photos, but forgot to record video. The Space Aliens in Fargo looks like you're walking into an UFO-like space ship. The usual guy-in-a-costume is present, the costume being the alien outfit. I saw a small rip/tear in the back of it.
7. (not shown) Astrophotography, round 2. The second attempt at astrophotography. This was kind of the same as before, but on the north side of town instead of the south side, to get the junk lights on the same side of the sky. In both cases, I had too many clouds and a waxing gibbous moon which really hurt the potential. Still, I managed to get down to about magnitude +9 or so.
Because Daily Motion had to reduce the maximum file size to 2 GB from the 4 GB they had, the video quality is pretty bad.