Bare Naked Larry

Sunday, April 03, 2005

On The Roll – Part I

I was at a stop light earlier today, rolling down the windows to take in some nice fresh-air on the first really nice day of the year here in Champaign, Illinois when I saw a convertible with the top down. To be honest it had been such a long dreary fall and winter I’d forgotten I could put my own top down until I saw the other convertible –- so I put the top down in kind and rolled along on some errands. It then further occurred to me that maybe I should be doing something more active to take advantage of the nice weather.

I had downloaded Picasa just yesterday and had planned on spicing up my blog with more photos, so the weather offered the perfect opportunity for gathering them. I returned home, strapped on my skates, left my apartment and roller-skated up 1st street toward the University clicking photos all the way, going into overdrive on the University Quad clicking away at the sea of people. By the time I was back home I had about 200 photos. Many of them were ruined by motion blur, so I pared them down, and it came out to 99 photos.

I may post a longer description of the journey later in Larry’s Life, but for now I have uploaded the Picasa created album to my server and am putting a link to it here -- “On The Roll – Part I”

I was out about an hour, skated about a 5 mile circuit from South First, crossed over on Armory Road to the University Quad, exited pass the Alma Mater statue, across Wright, back down Green Street in Campus Town, back to 1st and back home past the Stadium and Assembly Hall to my Windsor and 1st located apartment at Ashton Woods.

So if you have any friends in Champaign that might have been out April 3, 2005 you might see them in the album. This could be considered a Where’s Waldo of sorts. Should anyone see anyone they know I hope you will post a comment with their name and the picture number they are in.

Since the album of photos takes about 10 Meg, I’m not sure how many albums I should post on JayTV.com. I’m sure Ian won’t mind this one, but it may not be up forever if I post more albums (which is the plan). This one will be up at least a month or two in any event, so enjoy.