Married In Ohio » Weekday fun http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog The life and times of a happily married couple in Ohio. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:53:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 HNT – 330 http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2011/12/29/hnt-330/ http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2011/12/29/hnt-330/#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2011 05:00:42 +0000 Midwestern City Boy http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2011/12/29/hnt-330/ 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.

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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.

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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.

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]]> http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2011/01/04/two-for-tuesday-271/feed/ 2 2010 A Year In Review http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2011/01/03/2010-a-year-in-review/ http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2011/01/03/2010-a-year-in-review/#comments Mon, 03 Jan 2011 23:00:15 +0000 Midwestern City Boy http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2011/01/03/2010-a-year-in-review/ 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.

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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.

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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.

]]> http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2011/01/03/2010-a-year-in-review/feed/ 2 A Break With Tradition http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2010/10/19/a-break-with-tradition/ http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2010/10/19/a-break-with-tradition/#comments Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:42:48 +0000 Midwestern City Boy http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2010/10/19/a-break-with-tradition/ We usually take our vacations at exactly the same time each year so it is really weird being on vacation in October. We’re really enjoying it. So much in fact that were considering taking one next February or March to help chase off the winter blahs.

I’m lying in bed “typing” this on my Droid watching California Girl slowly wake up. It just doesn’t get any better than this. (California Girl’s diaphragm case is next to the bed for easy access.)

We’re taken some cool photos for Two For Tuesday; but probably will not be posting them until Wednesday or later since I so do not want to sit at a computer and edit them.

]]> http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2010/10/19/a-break-with-tradition/feed/ 6 Two For Tuesday – 219 http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2010/01/05/two-for-tuesday-219/ http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2010/01/05/two-for-tuesday-219/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:35:18 +0000 Midwestern City Boy http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2010/01/05/two-for-tuesday-219/ If you have been following us for awhile, you may remember that we posted a Digital Photo Frame with all of the photographs from the year’s TFT posts in December of 2007. We didn’t get around to it for 2008 until last July. We probably should have done this last week for the last Two For Tuesday of 2009; but, since California Girl’s Amazon Kindle is since such a cool gadget, we posted photographs of us with it instead. Here is a Flash movie of all of the pictures we used last year for Two For Tuesday. We usually post .WMVs; but SWF format worked well the first two times we did this. The file is smaller and (almost) everyone can play it.

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P.S. We’re still using an older version of JW Player. Please let us know if it doesn’t work for you.

]]> http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2010/01/05/two-for-tuesday-219/feed/ 7 2009 A Year In Review http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2010/01/04/2009-a-year-in-review/ http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2010/01/04/2009-a-year-in-review/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:30:01 +0000 Midwestern City Boy http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2010/01/04/2009-a-year-in-review/ January
Did a lot of tinkering with the number of posts on the front page to speed up page load times. Finally I wrote a plugin that shows all posts published in the last seven days on the home page.
Created and published our favorite HNT photo post of the year.

February
Got California Girl a nice skirt and blouse set for her birthday.

Neglected to mention that Married In Ohio celebrated its fourth anniversary.
Survived one of those good news, bad news situations where the “good news” was that the bad news wasn’t as bad as it could have been.

March
Went over 2,000,000 Visitors which is a lot for us.
Created and published one of our favorite Two For Tuesday photo posts of the year.

April
Created and published our favorite HNT video post of the year.
Updated our theme to support threaded comments.
Posted a true click through HNT.

May
Posted our version of Jack Dawson and Rose DeWitt Bukater on the Titanic.

Celebrated our 21st wedding anniversary by going to dinner at our favorite restaurant.

June
Reminisced about the days that we used to watch us having sex in the mirror.

Had some good pool weather for one of the few times this past summer.

July
Posted a video edition of our Independence Day Sex series.

[Video]

Posted a Digital Photo Frame with all of the TFT photographs from 2008.

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August
The Girl passed her driver examination and got her driver’s license.
I weighed 164 pounds on the scale at the doctor’s office.

September
Repaired the car that The Girl drives after it dropped dead and smoke started coming form underneath the hood.
Visited a college with The Girl. Realized how close we are to becoming “empty nesters”.

October
Had a LOT of problems after upgrading our server to PHP 5.3. The upgrade also broke our OpenId sever too.
Started working on the project from hell at work. It’s still radioactive.

November
Added a visitor map to the blog that showed where their visitors were from. Check it out in the sidebar just below the local weather.
Took some fun photos of California Girl changing one of the spotlights in the kitchen

Posted one of my one of my favorite photographs of California Girl for the week of Thanksgiving’s HNT.

December
Published an illustrated post explaining our “bedcam”setup”.

Got a new HDTV to replace our old one which started smoking and had a burning electrical smell.
Created and published the fourth edition of our Christmas Vacation Sexseries.

]]> http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2010/01/04/2009-a-year-in-review/feed/ 4 Two For Tuesday – 193 http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2009/07/07/two-for-tuesday-193/ http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2009/07/07/two-for-tuesday-193/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:00:48 +0000 Midwestern City Boy http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2009/07/07/two-for-tuesday-193/ Longtime readers may recall that we posted a Digital Photo Frame with all of the photographs from the year’s TFT posts in December of 2007. We had intended to do the same thing at the end of 2008 but were so busy enjoying The Boy being home from college and the rest of our Christmas vacation activities that we didn’t get to it. Since the beginning of July is the midpoint of the year and we were on our summer vacation it seemed like an appropriate time to create the 2008 version. So here is a Flash movie of the pictures we used last year for Two For Tuesday. We usually post .WMVs; but SWF format worked well when we did this before. And everyone should be able to play it without any problems.

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Unlike the .WMVs which we post that you have to click on and open in a separate window, I embedded a Flash-based video player since it only loads the movie when you press play. I can do the same thing for .WMVs but embedding Windows Media Player eats TONS of bandwidth since it always downloads the movie even if you never play it. And Silverlight Media Player is not cross browser/cross platform friendly.

P.S. I am using an older version of JW Player since I was unsure about the licensing of his new player. It’s working perfectly for us even in Firefox 3.5. Please let us know if you encounter any errors.

]]> http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2009/07/07/two-for-tuesday-193/feed/ 0 Four Times In One Day http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2008/07/30/four-times-in-one-day/ http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2008/07/30/four-times-in-one-day/#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:45:21 +0000 Midwestern City Boy http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2008/07/30/four-times-in-one-day/ I wasn’t really thinking much about it as it happened; but I realized when I was reflecting on things during my run earlier today that California Girl and I had sex four times on Tuesday. Once in the morning before I left for work. Once in an unnamed outdoor location to be revealed in our next HNT post. Once at the conclusion of our Two For Tuesday photo session. And once when we went to bed Tuesday night. Three or four times would not be extremely rare for us for us for a Saturday; nut it’s a lot for a weekday that I spent a full day at work. That’s one of the reasons that I like participating in Half Nekkid Thursday. Having a regularly scheduled weekday photo session encourages us to slow down, relax and take some times for ourselves. And have some fun sex at a time when we might not do so otherwise.

]]> http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2008/07/30/four-times-in-one-day/feed/ 2 Late For Work http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2008/03/24/late-for-work-2/ http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2008/03/24/late-for-work-2/#comments Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:15:04 +0000 Midwestern City Boy http://www.marriedinohio.com/blog/2008/03/24/late-for-work-2/ I “overslept” today which is a polite way of saying that I spent some quality time with California Girl this morning. I wonder if the people I work with have any idea what we do when we are “sleeping”. I’m probably in a better mood that usually when I first arrive in the office; but other than that, I am unaware if there are any other outward signs. I try not to look guilty when I get to work; but, some days, I can’t help but laugh when I think what I was doing while the early arrivers were tapping away on their keyboards. The Monday after Easter is not as hectic as a typical Monday since many people are away on spring break. The morning’s activities may it a very relaxed. :)

I can hardly wait until May when California Girl and I can resume our summer schedule. I don’t need to get up and out early in order to get the kids to school, so, there are always a lot of mornings like this one. If it was an everyday occurrence, I probably would not appreciate it as much. Days like today are precious since days like today are so rare when school is in session. Even though we both have to work, California Girl and I can still have fun while the kids are on break. The skies got cloudy as the day went on; but we certainly put a bright sunny morning to good use. Hopefully tomorrow will be another sunny day.

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We’ve had three snow days in the past two weeks. Unfortunately, none of them have been on Monday (or Friday). What do you do when you unexpected don’t have to be at work first thing in the morning? I hope that you have as much fun as we do.

BTW: The kids are almost out of snow days; but I wouldn’t mind another one before the weather starts to get warm again.

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