norico’s Neighborhood

最近、「いい発見」をした事はありますか？どんなことを発見したか教えてください。

何気なく、自分の会社の製品を検索してみると、あちら、こちらのnet shopで取り扱ってもらってたこと！

うれぴー（何時の時代の言葉なんだよ）（笑）

atsushi さんに Lively,com というのを教えてもらったので、さっそく My Room 作ってみたよ。憧れのアフロにした。

Mt_lively

クシが良いなあ。

Pam and I were in Arlington for the wedding of a good friend of ours and were only staying a mile from the cemetery so we decided to visit the morning of the wedding.  It was blazing hot, but we still enjoyed our trip.  

I remember seeing the Changing of the Guard in high school mainly because some lady would not stop talking and two soldier escorted her away from the ceremony. 

I think I appreciate it more, especially seeing the number of headstones for people my age or younger who have died in Afghanistan, Iraq or in other places. 

Here are the best of the photos I took of the ceremony.  These are culled from about one hundred original shots.

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Guarding the tomb.

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Caught this right before he finished executing a turn by clicking his heels together.  He then announced that everyone should remain standing and silent during the ceremony out of respect for the dead buried here and the unknowns represented by them.

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Heading back to the entrance to check on the arriving replacement guard.  Everything happens on a 21 second count (representative of the 21-gun salute given to fallen soldiers at their burials.)  This especially comes into play as you focus on the officer inspecting the new soldier.  He will make a turn and click his heels and you hear a matching click from the left, which is the soldier guarding the tomb turning to march down to to the other end of black mat. 

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Inspecting the rifle.  The crispness and precision of all their movements can only be the result of thousands of hours of practice.

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Rifle is OK.

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Inspecting the uniform.  Again, in counts of 21 seconds.

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The new guard has passed inspection, time to make the change.

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Old guard has stepped off the mat.

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Preparing to change.

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Again saluting the unknowns.

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The new guard is in place.

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Near the end of the ceremony. 

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Do you live in or around Cincinnati, Ohio? If so, you're in luck because Scott and the Queen City Voxers Group have organized a Vox user meetup!

Ault Park Map

If you do attend the meetup, have a great time and please take lots of pictures and send them to me so I can post them in Team Vox for everyone to see!

Thank you so much to Scott for organizing this meetup. Wish I could be there!

~daisy

From the recently posted Comic-Con Thursday schedule:

1:00-2:00 Torchwood—Writer Russell T Davies (Doctor Who), executive producer Julie Gardner (Torchwood), writer Steven Moffat (Doctor Who), and actors John Barrowman, Gareth David-Lloyd, Naoko Mori and Burn Gorman discuss their creative process and experience on working on BBC America’s highest-rated show ever—Torchwood— followed by a Q&A session. Ballroom 20

At Neil and Heather's reception, during dancing funtime, Jeff and Kyla's son was running in circles around the dancing people, and when I was plastered on caesars, this was incredibly entertaining, so I decided to take video of it. Partway through, this girl comes by and we talk a bit. She leaves, and I'm like "who the hell was that?"  It was only after thinking for a moment longer that I recognized the resemblance to Dee, and realized that it was Victoria. Dude, how the hell was I supposed to know, last time I saw her, she'd been 3 feet high. (shrug)