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The Best of 2018

    The following is a smattering of images taken while I'm doing stuff on the weekends in the year 2018 (in chronological order). They are representative of the best events, not the best photography.

1/1 - Chillin with the new Christmas toys.
1/12 - Got enough computers at my desk?
1/14 - Friendship level 10. Haha!
1/19 - Check out Jaime & Anthony's new place!
1/20 - Glance screen mode used to be so great. Still nothing quite like it.
1/21 - Movie night party! Yay!
1/23 - Sweet sunset today!
1/27 - My favorite tablet PC finally has a hefty metal stand to hold it up.
1/28 - Lunch with Harry
1/29 - Getting ready for a RetroPie building party!
1/30 - Let me build a working Lumia 1020 from the parts of 2 non-working Lumia 1020's.
1/31 - Yay, it's a Pho night!
2/1 - Yeah, I get that it's 2018, but running SNES games on a Lumia 1020 from 2013 is still cool.
2/3 - Awe yeah, we built some awesome retro gaming consoles!
2/4 - Little A found the upside down horse!
2/4 - It's Superb Owl Sunday!
2/8 -Ana Segura's Fashion showcase with some model friends.
2/8 - Style Fashion Week sure is crowded.
2/10 - Rolls Royce Fashion Week is lots of fun.
2/10 - Oh, we got Couture Fashion Week, too!
2/10 - How's that hair at Couture Fashion Week?
2/12 - What's the first game Mason wanted to play on the RetroPie? Yep, Pong!
2/11 - Family time!
2/11 - More cousins hanging out, wearing purple like Grammy wanted us to.
2/12 - My mom's side of the family (mostly).
6/21 - Let's go curling!
2/21 - Look who else showed up at the curling club!
2/25 - Yes, cell phones are different from toast.
2/27 - Hey, my graceful degredation web development skills are pretty great!
2/28 - This was a cool Microsoft Tech Summit in NYC.
3/1- Weird Al Yankovic couldn't come out to dinner 'cause he had to be on TV, but one of his band members did.
3/1 - Of course the Weird Al concert was awesome.
3/2 - Trying out the new Wacom PC at the Illustrators Society was really cool!
3/7 - While playing chess with Little A, we put the horses in a coral.
3/13 - Little A made a collage of my pictures for the wall over her bed and it's awesome!
3/15 - Dinner with Natardia & Fernanda?
3/17 - Gotta make use of those Restaurant Week specials.
3/17 - It's sad that nobody like the new Star Wars movies and Toys R Us is going out of business.
3/18 - Toxic Avenger & Toxic Tutu double feature? Woo hoo!
3/23 - Yay, Matt & Kristen are visiting NYC!
3/23 - We took in an interesting show.
3/24 - Matt really wanted to see that Space Shuttle.
3/24 - Ink48 has a really nice rooftop lounge, huh?
3/27 - The Skype call intro from the director of photography of "Isle of Dogs" was really cool.
3/27 - More nose picking, Soung?
3/31 - None of our models showed up for this photoshoot, so we started asking random people in the park if they wanted to pose.
3/31 - After a morning of photos, we're hungry.
4/1 - Awe yeah, bicycling over the GW bridge!
4/2 - Snow!? But it's spring time!
4/8 - It's cold, but still a nice day for a ride.
4/10 - The video vortex movies at the Alamo are always fun.
4/14 - Another nice day for some riding.
4/16 - Meeting Greg Sestero after his new movie "Best Friends"
4/18 - Eugene was stuck in Westchester & bored so I invited him to install Linux on a few old computers.
4/18 - Motorola has such a nice press demo area this time.
4/18 - Hello Moto!
4/19 - The crazy foreign movies at the Alamo are so much fun.
4/21 - We're good at selfies.
4/21 - Hanging with Alicia Witt.
4/22 - More bicycling!
4/23 - Gonna see "The Warriors" on the big screen for the first time.
4/28 - Ready to builld your own game console?
4/28 - Yeah, we're geocaching!
4/28 - Me and Cousin Amy found Paper Mason
4/28 - Dinner at the hibachi place (Chopsticks)
4/28 - More video games tonight!
4/28 - Snuggling with the penguins
4/29 - Mason gets to learn about all sorts of old games at the Trevor Museum!
5/1 - Will the Huawei P20 Pro replace my Lumia 1020?
5/2 - There's a special menu for the Avengers movie.
5/4 - Natardia stopped by for a quick bite at the local diner.
5/5 - A fun fashion show for Yonkers Art Weekend.
5/6 - Doing some photos with Angelina in the park.
5/6 - We'll do some pictures with Brana, too.
5/9 - Someone left the window pretty wide open at the office today.
5/9 - The bike sites near the flat files at work.
5/10 - The flash doesn't work on this phone so I need an external one.
5/12 - The Honey and Amber ball was a lot of fun! Latvia's centenial celebration.
5/13 - More adventures of red bike... at the top of a dam.
5/17 - Deadpool 2 movie time!
5/20 - It's bicycle Sunday on the parkway, but Harry wants ice cream.
5/23 - Not impressed with the LG v35 ThinQ like at all.
5/24 - Just drinking some milk like Luke Skywalker does.
5/25 - Visiting M.J. at work in Maine
5/25 - Concert time from Little A!
5/25 - Little A and her pony
5/26 - Check out this fog we got out here.
5/26 - It's a rainy day. Let's go bowling!
5/26 - Playing Cherry Commander with Little A is so much fun!
5/27 - Gotta cut the soup before you eat it.
5/27 - Little A is practicing her photography on mom.
5/28 - Let's make some rhubarb muffins for breakfast.
5/28 - Little A wears a t-shirt with a picture of her brother on it all the time.
5/30 - Checking out the Moto Z3 Play today.
6/2 - Fashion party on a boat!
6/7 - Checking out the Blackberry Key 2 launch event!
6/8 - I crashed the Pocketnow podcast!
6/9 - Exploring an abandoned building with Anna & Emily
6/10 - We went white water rafting and it was awesome!
6/10 - Survived the river
6/15 - Natardia's having nachos. What of it?
6/16 - Oh, it's the Mermaid Parade day.
6/21 - Jules decided to visit me at work for lunch.
6/22 - Anna wanted some pictures with my motorcycle... and balloons.
6/22 - Let the June Birthday parties begin!
6/23 - June Birthdays continues in the Hamptons.
6/23 - How many can we fit in the hot tub?
6/23 - A little cloudy, but it's still a nice day in the Hamptons.
6/23 - The bow of the boat is a nice place to relax.
6/29 - Just got an awesome HP zBook x2 serious mobile workstation to review.
6/30 - The June Birthdays continue at the beautiful Governor's Island!
7/4 - Rolling around Manhattan for the 4th of July is pretty nice!
7/8 - Ranking and editing photos at a nice cafe after our photo shoot.
7/10 - Video Vortex nights are great!
7/15 - Rolling over the GW bridge again!
7/18 - Testing out the Samsung Moon Walk VR thing.
7/19 - A jazz picnic at Lyndhurst. Sweet!
7/20 - My day job offices have moved to this nice building.
7/21 - Doing some interior photos for a lighting designer was pretty cool.
7/22 - Dropping Angelina off at the train after she finished work.
7/28 - Kevin threw an awesome picnic party by the lake.
7/28 - So yeah, we went to the local Dominoes grand opening party.
8/1 - At least they're trying something different with the Samsung Tab S4.
8/4 - Playing in Cousin Keith's awesome basement.
8/4 - My nephew loves the old computer I gave him.
8/5 - Gotta have that sunblock when visiting the lake.
8/11 - Doing a little morning photo shoot with Angelina.
8/11 - I saw the sign.
8/14 - We saw, "They Live" in an actual theater!
8/16 - Jazz picnic thursdays are pretty nice.
8/18 - Summer Streets events are great if you can get there before it gets crowded.
8/19 - Doing a Diaspora Models photoshoot in the rain.
8/25 - It's the Jazz Age Lawn Party at Governor's Island!
8/25 - Gorgeous day to lay in a hammock.
8/26 - Times for the Dobbs Dawghouse motorcycle ride.
8/26 - Hey look, Christine's walking by! And she's still using that awesome old Nokia Lumia 820.
8/28 - Alicia Witt's in town again to play some piano and hang.
9/1 - Here's Dasha after a morning Diaspora Models photo shoot.
9/1 - Alright, lets have some lunch.
9/6 - Hey look, I found Cori at the bagel place near work!
9/7 - Doing some hot air ballooning with Cousin Amy.
9/7 - High school reunion at the Sterling Fair. Wow!
9/8 - More Sterling Fair with the cousins!
9/9 - New Zealand Fam mixing with Maine Fam at Massachusetts Fam for the first time.
9/9 - More high school reunionizing!
9/9 - Let me just stick my nephew to the velcro wall here.
9/9 - It's great to have the Maine girls at the Sterling Fair today.
9/9 - We took a picture in real life instead of in Minecraft this time.
9/9 - More high school reunion at the Fair!
9/15 - College reunion time!
9/15 - Checking out the alumni art show.
9/15 - Black fly larvae and invasive karp sushi for lunch. Why not?
9/16 - The Diaspora models are getting interviewed.
9/22 - Joe had a little fashion show at the McLean Ave Festival.
9/23 - Lots of cool dresses by Olga.
9/23 - We had an awesome fashion brunch party at Vella's!
9/23 - We saw "The Last Dragon" and met the writer and star.
9/30 - Dress rehearsal time.
9/30 - Checking out the rooftop lounge at Ink48 after we all had lunch downstairs.
10/2 - The Microsoft Surface Press event was a bit disappointing.
10/5 - My friends dressed as the Baseball Furies for Comic Con.
10/5 - Hi Alicia! How are you enjoying promoting Lore at Comic Con?
10/6 - The Judges and the Mandalorians?
10/7 - Hey, I found Rosy at Comic Con too!
10/7 - Kevin O brought his whole family to Comic Con.
10/12 - We're shooting the Diaspora Models competition.
10/12 - So are we!
10/12 - C&C Music Factory performed at the Diaspora Models competition!
10/12 - All the ladies are here for the show.
10/12 - Congratulations to the winners!
10/18 - I was excited for the Samsung Galaxy Book 2 press event since I really liked the original. This one has an ARM CPU though.
10/23 - Out for some rooftop lounge photos.
10/27 - Time for the Photo Plus Expo.
10/27 - Lots of Photographer friends are here.
10/28 - I found Angelina in Westchester again.
10/30 - It's Natardia at the diner again.
10/30 - The RED Hydrogen One phone I ordered 1.5 years ago finally arrived. Turns out it's awful.
11/1 - Welcome to Hawaii!!
11/2 - We gotta check out a Luau today.
11/3 - Alright, I guess I'll go parasailing.
11/3 - Rainbows all the time here, huh?
11/4 - Dinner with a view.
11/4 - Took a big tour of Pearl Harbor.
11/5 - Just hanging by the edge of a smoking volcano crater.
11/5 - Get to the chopper!
11/6 - Waiikiki is so nice.
11/7 - We made it to New Zealand!
11/8 - The awesome new Huawei Mate 20 Pro was waiting for me in New Zealand.
11/8 - Drinks with the New Zealand Family.
11/9 - Checking out some outdoor sculpture in Auckland.
11/9 - Are we sure this is part of the art show?
11/9 - Having hammock problems with NZ cousin Jaime.
11/10 - My first "left side of the road" driving lesson.
11/10 - Off to see some New Zealand beaches.
11/11 - Cousin Krissy and I went to Hobbiton and it was awesome.
11/11 - Photos weren't allowed in the glow worm caves so they had to fake it for us.
11/12 - More beaches to see.
11/13 - Time for an awesome lunch at the Sky Tower.
11/13 - Let's play on the see-saw!
11/14 - We're underwater at the Aquarium!
11/15 - The luge at Skyline Rotorua!
11/15 - Pretty nice view up here.
11/16 - The Polynesian Spa in Taupo was awesome, but smelly.
11/17 - Orakei Koraku is pretty awesome!
11/17 - Don't touch that stuff.
11/18 - Meeting up with Vinnie at the hotel before his show.
11/18 - Taking the cousins to an awesome concert in New Zealand.
11/18 - My Naughty By Nature friends got us all back stage passes to hang out. It was awesome!
11/19 - I'm in Wellington NZ now.
11/20 - Totally gotta tour the Weta Workshop.
11/20 - The Te Papa museum in Wellington is pretty amazing.
11/21 - I got to meet Sonia in Wellington who does a lot of the 3D camera work at Weta Digital.
11/22 - The Gibb's Farm sculptures were very cool!
11/23 - Phew! We hiked up Rangitoto!
11/24 - Waiheke is pretty amazing, but the hills to get here are crazy steep!
11/25 - Gardening on these hills requires mountain climbing harnesses and ropes.
11/25 - Exploring the old WWII forts.
11/26 - Climbed the Lion Rock in Piha by the black sand beaches. It was pretty dangerous.
11/27 - The Pop-Up Globe Auckland show of "Taming of the Shrew" was really fun.
11/28 - Breakfast with Jamie 'cause we're leaving NZ soon.
11/28 - When you eat Fish & Chips on the beach, the birds get a little crazy.
11/28 - We didn't get to go for an actual Lime Scooter ride in NZ, so I had to pretend for a picture.
11/28 - It's STILL WEDNESDAY, but now we're in Hawaii.
11/20 - Rented a scooter to tour Oahu. Yay!
11/29 - While I was taking tripod photos, local surfer girls with their own scooters were laughing at me.
11/29 - Great way to see the island, but I should have got a bigger bike for the highway.
11/30 - Scoping out some of the other gorgeous hotels in Wai Ki ki.
11/30 - Not good for sailing today, so I rolled around Wai Ki Ki on a Biki bike.
12/1 - Last day on Wai Ki Ki.
12/8 - Definitely time for some Pho at Saigonese.
12/9 - Checking out some art at the NY Public Library.
12/11 - Joe's got a little Christmas party going on over here.
12/15 - We're in a winter forest in the Oculus.
12/15 - Doing a photoshoot in a snow globe!
12/15 - I missed most of the cool stuff at Val & Liga's party, so we just hung out at the bar.
12/19 - We actually had a Christmas party at the new office.
12/22 - I'm getting Natalya to be a model at the Winter Lantern Festival tonight.
12/23 - The Untermyer Garden's Grand Illumination was really nice, too!
12/25 - Christmas dinner with a very small portion of the family.
12/26 - Uh oh, my nephew got a giant penguin for Christmas!
12/26 - This guy had an awesome time with the penguin scavenger hunt.
12/26 - Mom get's Uncle Brad's Waiheke window view to hang on the wall.
12/27 - We spent all day at the Trevor Museum about 80's video game culture.
12/29 - Lunch with Ray on the way back to NY.