Bobs blog

Hi everybody, this is my first ever blog post.  (Wow, you say, with a sarcastic lilt.)  Why don’t I start by telling you a  little about me.

Family

Me, Wife, Daughter #1, Daughter #2, 2 cats and 1 good ol’ dog.  Since we are kinda’ private people I won’t say much about them, other than acknowledging their existence.  I will post photos of them from time to time to prove they do exist.

Work

Ahh, this I can talk about.  I am employed by Image Studios.  We are a full service studio offering photography, video, post production retouching and soooo much more.  Go ahead and click on the Image Studios link to check us out, you know you want to.  I am a Photoshop retoucher which means I get to make our photographers already great images even better.  Or sometimes the Image is um….   not so great and needs some lovin’ up.  Thats when I get to have some fun.

I photograph weddings, events, or basically whatever somebody is willing to pay me for.  My site can be viewed at www.bobcashmanphotography.com.  I also do sports action, team, and individual photos.  Its hockey season now so I get to stand on the ice for up to 20 hours on a weekend.  This is more a test of will than anything else.  How much cold can one human endure.

Play

This category could go on and on and on.  I will keep it to my faves.

Favorite sport to play, tennis.  Am I any good?  Well….  good enough that it is fun for me and challenging for my opponent.

Best game for the Nintendo Wii, Mario Cart Wii, for now anyway.  I highly recommend racing via WiFi.  You race real people from anywhere in the world in real time.  You think you’re good racing the computer then you race real people and get your @&& kicked.

Camping.

My wife and I used to go into the forest and set up in the dispersed sites.  Imagine a 10 to 15 acre lake with only one camp site, set in the middle of the Nicolet National Forest in Wisconsin.  Or maybe take a goat path road (trail really) back to a trout stream where you see no other people for days.  That’s what we did.  Now with kids, we stick to state parks.  Its like camping on the freeway during rush hour but we have fun anyway.

Bicycling is great around here.  Many abandoned railroad beds have been converted to cycle trails in the Rails To Trails program.  Check out that link.  I do a lot of cycling with my family but mostly around town.

My warm weather ride is a Genuine Buddy 125 scooter.  Yea, yea, I know!  But it will do 60 mph on a flat and gets 85 mpg doing it, plus two wheels is infinitely more fun than four wheels.  I expect to put around 4000 miles on the scoot in 2009.