Married In Ohio » Doggie-style

HNT – 330

Midwestern City Boy — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 05:00:42 +0000

As you know, today is the last day for Half Nekkid Thursday. Today is our 330th and final post. California Girl and I have thoroughly enjoyed participating as posters and as followers. We want to give our heartfelt thanks to Osbasso for organizing and running it for almost seven years. That is a monumental achievement. California Girl and I wondered how to best commemorate our final HNT. We thought about taking photographs in a variety of places; but nothing seemed worthy. Ultimately, we decided that the best tribute would be to highlight our HNT photos over the years. For the finale, we created a Flash movie of all of our primary HNT photos. The picture changes faster than normal so it’s not too long.

Get Adobe Flash player to see this video.

We’ve also included a Flash movie of all of our alternate HNT photos. It’s slightly longer than the first movie; but, together they contain every still photograph that we’ve ever posted for Half Nekkid Thursday.

Get Adobe Flash player to see this video.

Happy New Year. To find out what Half Nekkid Thursday is all about, visit Osbasso. And while you are there, please thank him for creating such a fun way to spend the early hours of Thursday morning.

Two For Tuesday – 316

Midwestern City Boy — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 04:30:39 +0000

I know that it is very late but I still almost didn’t get this post up. Nothing notable; just one of those occasions where I’ve been simultaneously busy at work and at home which doesn’t; leave much if any time for blogging. We still had or photo session on Tuesday. If fact, I even edited the photographs for posting. I just didn’t; get the rest of the post ready; and we always like words to accompany our pictures. Anyway, now you can put away the violin; here are our “Tuesday” photos.

Two For Tuesday – 315

Midwestern City Boy — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 04:50:18 +0000

Halfway through the NFL season and the Bengals have a better record than the hated Steelers who are coming to town on Sunday. We showed our team spirit last month; but, at the time, California Girl did not have a new jersey. We always enjoyed our matching shirts, so, when I was doing errands near the mall earlier this week, I stopped in and got her a new #14. Our #9 and #85 jerseys have been permanently retired. We hope that the totally dysfunctional team chemistry they created is gone forever too. In a turnabout for last time, California Girl is wearing her new spirit wear and I am the one who is jerseyless. For the first time in many years, it’s fun to be a Bengals fan in November.

HNT – 319

Midwestern City Boy — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:00:24 +0000

We mentioned yesterday that we would probably be posting more videos now that we have a better editor. It’s really nice to be able to easily edit and transcode movies. Now that we’ve identified an editor, our biggest problem is the fact we can only make a 10-11 minute high definition movie or the resulting file is too big for the file system of the memory card. So we can’t capture as much of our sessions as we would like. Even after editing, the clips are HUGE and much too big to post; but it’s nice having them for our library.

We wanted to post a single move for today; unfortunately, the file was too large to post so we are splitting it up into three sections. Unlike some of our creations in the past, these clips all have good audio. We hope that the videos aren’t loading too slowly for you to enjoy.

Get Adobe Flash player to see this video.

For some help creating movies to test the features of your new video editor talk to your significant other. To find out what Half Nekkid Thursday is all about, visit Osbasso.

HNT – 308

Midwestern City Boy — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 04:00:48 +0000

It has been a while since we posted some photographs with both of us in the picture. So here are a couple of photographs of us trying to forget about the events of Monday night.

For some help when you really need to forget about life for a while talk to your significant other. To find out what Half Nekkid Thursday is all about, visit Osbasso.

HNT – 299

Midwestern City Boy — Thu, 26 May 2011 04:00:52 +0000

California Girl and I have been following the weather a lot more closely after all of the devastating storms that have been happening across the country. We still had our weekly photo session; but, were limited since it was in the middle of a tornado watch that we didn’t want to completely ignore. Here is more of the set that we began in the previous post. The sun will have to come out sooner or later.

For a good time during a tornado watch talk to your significant other. To find out what Half Nekkid Thursday is all about, visit Osbasso.

Two For Tuesday – 290

Midwestern City Boy — Thu, 19 May 2011 03:30:31 +0000

As we mentioned in our last post, we do not like people who download and reposting our photos on other websites; but we thought that our first photo in today’s set should show reiterate our feelings.

Of course we’re also posting some our customary NSFW nekidness. Here is a photo of Midwestern City Boy without California Girl. (She was in the bathroom getting her diaphragm.)

And, even though it’s late and almost time to publish our Thursday post, we’re posting three photographs rather than two since the first photo was only for a few people.

Two For Tuesday – 271

Midwestern City Boy — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 02:00:14 +0000

It’s become something of a tradition (except when we forget) to post a Flash movie of all the pictures we used for the previous year’s Two For Tuesdays in our first Two For Tuesday post of the new year. We originally posted a Digital Photo Frame with all of the photographs from the year’s TFT posts for our last post in December; but decided it worked better if we did it in January. It takes a long time to compile our “Year In Review” post which we also post the first week of the year, so it’s nice to have something which doesn’t require any editing to balance things. So here is a Flash movie of all of the pictures we used in 2010 in our Two For Tuesday posts. We’ve started transitioning to the FLV format instead of Windows Media; but plan to continue using the SWF format for slide shows.

Get Adobe Flash player to see this video.

2010 A Year In Review

Midwestern City Boy — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 23:00:15 +0000

January
Had an occasion to do the Snoopy Dance because of something that happened at work.
Took a cool photograph of California Girl with the flowers she received at The Girl’s last senior night.

We reviewed the proofs of The Girl’s senior photographs and made our selections. It was a bit discomforting how rapidly her high school days were winding down.

February
Commemorated the fifth anniversary of MarriedInOhio.Com.
MarriedInOhio.Com went over 2,500,000 visitors.
Took some neat photographs for Two For Tuesday and Half Nekkid Thursday in the aftermath of a huge snowstorm we had.

March
The Girl had an epiphany and decided where she wanted to attend college. It hadn’t really started to sink in how different things were going to be without any kids around.
Decided to see if I could hold up a hat with no hands for Two For Tuesday.

Worked on a special project for California Girl that kept me busy in the evenings. We still found time for our weekly photo session.

April
Changed the image in the “About Us” area of our sidebar. We haven’t changed much wanted to create a new one since the photograph was many years old. We posted the candidates that we were considering for Half Nekkid Thursday.

Went on a 900 mile round road trip with The Girl for an out of state soccer tournament. Then two weeks later, watched The Girl win the last trophy of her club soccer career.

May
Celebrated our 22nd wedding anniversary. Went out to eat at our favorite restaurant. Posted a photo from our anniversary dinner for Two For Tuesday.

The Girl graduated high school. Then the next day, she registered for classes in the fall and got her college ID.
Got a new camera. Took nekkid photographs of ourselves to test it out.

June
Wore boxing gloves in one of our more interesting Two For Tuesday posts.
The swimming pool is still where we retreat when things aren’t going as well as we would like in the real world.
For Half Nekkid Thursday we did a documentary of our bedcam setup.

July
Created and published our favorite HNT photo post of the year.
Practiced being empty nesters. Posted a NSFW tour of our home for Two For Tuesday culminating with a grand finale in the study for Half Nekkid Thursday.

Photographed and posted a lot of pictures of California Girl in a bikini showing her summer tan lines for Two For Tuesday and HNT.

August
Finally got an Android smartphone. California Girl got a Droid too. We should have upgraded years ago!
Installed a special, mobile friendly theme for Androids and iPhones.
Took both kids to school and officially became empty nesters. Posted about our first pizza night without kids for Two For Tuesday.

September
Posted some cool sexting photographs for Half Nekkid Thursday.

Watched The Girl play soccer at the next level in college. We’re not in Kansan any more, they play rough.
Got another new camera. Again took some NSFW photographs of ourselves to test it.

October
Discovered that I still own a hairbrush despite not needing to use one in years.
Went to Florida for vacation. Posted some photos from our trip for Two For Tuesday and Half Nekkid Thursday.

Added a new hard drive to the server. The old one was getting filled up since we have posted so many pictures over the years.

November
Took another “instant favorite” photograph of California Girl.
California Girl changed the color of her hair. Heather was the first person to notice.

Decorated the Christmas tree on the Saturday after Thanksgiving now that both kids are in school. Posted a NSFW Christmas card style photo for Two For Tuesday.

December
Made an animated slide show of some of our recent photographs using JavaScript.

Click here to stop the animation. We also posted a more traditional slide show for our Christmas tree Half Nekkid Thursday.

Get Adobe Flash player to see this video.

California Girl and I both got new glasses. We featured them in an artistic Two For Tuesday post.

Created our and posted first high definition video for Two For Tuesday. It was also our first movie in FLV format.

Get Adobe Flash player to see this video.

MarriedInOhio.Com went over 3,000,000 visitors, a milestone we noted in our Christmas Wish Half Nekkid Thursday post. It’s definitely not 2005 anymore so we removed our hit counter widget.

Two For Tuesday – 269

Midwestern City Boy — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 03:45:09 +0000

We’re on Christmas vacation and busy holiday preparations, so we’re posting a video from this past summer that was never converted to a suitable size/format for the web. The video was taken outside in a nearby park during our Fourth of July vacation. With Tuesday being the first day of winter and today being one of the shortest days of the year it seems strangely appropriate to post something from one of the longest days of the year. And, it’s taken a while but we’ve finally gotten with the program and started creating videos in .FLV format.

Long time readers know that we have always preferred creating .WMVs since they are the smallest files; an important feature considering our limited bandwidth. Unfortunately, the Windows Media Encoder 9 tool that we had been using was out of date and I was unable to find preset configuration files or create new configuration settings that worked well with high definition video as an input source. That’s one of the big reasons that we haven’t posted a movie (as opposed to a slide show) in a long time. With the virtual retirement of our venerable 750Z, all of our new videos are HD.

FFmpeg, the program we used to convert from AVI to FLV is very flexible and infinitely configurable; but it is definitely not for the faint-hearted. It took 16 tries to create a video that wasn’t too big and was still an acceptable quality. (We’ve saved the settings so we’ll have them for the next time.) The movie is large (almost 5MB) so please be patient. We thought now was a good time to sneak in a high-definition video since a lot of people are on vacation for the holidays and we don’t expect as much traffic as usual. Hopefully, you’ll think it was worth the wait.

Get Adobe Flash player to see this video.

P.S. This is our first post of a FLV video. Please let us know if you have any problems playing it.