Ney's Photobucket Update

This post is only and all for telling you about my recent update and reorganization of my online photo album at http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v289/rkillam/

I have changed how I organized my pictures. Most of what I'm about to share will mean nothing to those who don't remember how it was organized. However, I am excited about the new structure and features.

CHANGES:

1. When you jump into my photobucket, you'll see some CAPITALIZED albums; those are the most recent and current pics that I have uploaded. If you are a regular visitor (once every two weeks), you can just click on those and be assured that you are viewing the newest additions. I no longer share the date I upload, except for the video album, since I don't add too many of those. The CLICK HERE FOR MOST RECENT album will show you my latest family uploads.

2. If you are not a regular visitor (once a month or less, or "when you remember to"), you will find all the standard family images archived in the Pics from 2006 album, or even the "Pics from 2005" and eventually "Pics from 2007." Then from there, you can view our pictures by each month. But really, for anybody, if you're really bored, you can look up the archived pics for fun.

3. You will also see that I have included my favorite family pictures from the first half of this 2006 year in the Favs from Jan-June 2006 album. These are not new. They were just for fun. I just pulled them from the albums already archived in the "Pics from 2006" album.

4. And now for the most exciting change to our photobucket! I added a brand new feature! I have been waiting to do this for a long time - at least intentionally since the beginning of July. But I have always had an idea of doing something like this, at least just for fun. You will now find a brand new feature album entitled My Collections for 2006.

Inside, you will find much more interesting, and what I would like to consider, creative shots - namely, My Eyes. But, if nothing else, at least they are new features added to our online photo album. Actually, these pictures will generally be timeless, meaning that the date of their capture is irrelevant.

But remember, these are absolutely silly shots. I may add more meaningful shots later, but I may not.

To get to my photobucket at any time, just click on the link in the sidebar of our blog here.

Remembering Murph

Yesterday was Murph's birthday. He was born in 1977. He died in the summer of 1997, at age 19. It will be ten years next summer since his death. 10 years! Man, time flies. And I still ask myself, what would he be doing today? I'm not sure, but I know he'd still be making people laugh! What a goofy guy; he was fun. We all had fun together.

I don't really remember my first memories of meeting him. Actually, maybe I do. I think we were in the youth room at our MWC on a Sunday morning, and somebody - Joel or his mom - deliberately introduced us to each other. I can't say we hit it off right away, but we certainly did enjoy each other's company and comraderie.

For we did end up deciding to room together as we headed off to our first year of college at BBC. I can't say that was something we dreamed about doing, but, as we both admitted to each other, we were glad we had each other to room together. We both knew we'd rather know who our roommate was gonna be than to leave it to the college to pick.

We had only met that senior year of high school, I think. And we only saw each other during church activities and events. So my first strong, lasting memory with him was during our youth group's annual March break trip. We hung out together during that week. I think we were both glad to have each other to hang out with. There weren't too many other guys our age still in the youth group at that time.

I took a lot of pictures of him during that week. The pictures are still very vivid in my mind. I remember having a picture of us taken with our arms around each other. We were both wearing baseball caps. We looked like dorks. But I think we were both glad that we had each other to look and feel like dorks together. I also remember a shot of him sitting at an arcade game.

That week will stand out as my fondest memory of him. He was funny, goofy, and fun to be around at college, but as roommates, we drove each other nuts. I'm sure it was mainly because of me. I hate thinking of myself like this, but I'm afraid I'm very high maintenance. I like my life and things just so. Actually, I like my space and to be alone. That's probably why it never worked out with any of my roommates.

There are a lot of memories from that first year of college I would like to share, but I don't feel so moved to do so. Perhaps Bry... will pick up where I left off. He and Murph hit it off, and enjoyed each other's company immensely that first year.

Murph, we miss you.