These pictures will load a lot faster, I actually paid attention to compressing them this time.

My room. I used to have a bunch of posters and things, but I took them down before I left for college and they got lost somewhere. My mom is running a little mini-greenhouse underneath my books :-)	The hallway outside my room. I had to hold the camera at an angle to get as much of the hallway as I wanted in the picture, and I straightened it out afterwards. Digital photos rock :-)	The living room and front door. I used to play that piano (almost) every day, but I stopped taking lessons before coming to college.
Looking the other way, into the "new room." We added it the first time we remodeled the house, can you tell from the funny way the ceiling goes?	A view of the new room. Once we added the new room, we kinda stopped using the living room for much of anything.	Looking into the kitchen. The kitchen was the second remodel. It was really small before, now it's really big.
My mom is a really good cook, and she uses the kitchen a LOT. Having this much counter space is great when cooking, not so great when cleaning.	Here's a picture my mom painted. It's my favorite of hers.	The house from outside. Notice the nicely mowed lawn (guess who mowed it ;-)
Looking toward the house from the peach grading station next door. We have lots of big giant palm trees around the house.	The station's forklifts are nice compared to the ones we use in the field, much newer.	The view from the driver's seat. Driving around with all these things obstructing your view takes some getting used to. I've spent a lot of time in these seats.
A trailer full of empty bins. They're tied down with steel cables so they don't go flying off when they're being driven down the freeway.	We store a lot of bins at the station. This is less than half of the maximum I've seen there.	These bins are each 4'x4'x3', and they weigh about 1100 pounds when they're full of peaches.
This machine takes full bins of peaches, raises them about 10' in the air, turns them almost upside-down, and just dumps all the peaches out, onto a conveyor belt. Some of them are then picked as a random sample for the peach graders to test.	This scale is used to weigh the trucks that come in. I'd like to see what it looks like underneath :-)	This is a pallet of props, used to prop up the peach trees. If their limbs aren't propped up, the peaches are so heavy that they break the whole tree apart. Behind is an almond orchard. Almonds are actually closely related to peaches. Almonds in their hulls look a lot like peach pits, and if you break open a peach pit you will find something that looks kind of like an almond (but it's poisonous, so don't eat it!)
One of the prettier weeds we have. This is just behind our house, at the edge of the peach orchard. This picture turned out really nice, I have a wallpaper-quality version here.	This picture is my current wallpaper, the colors this camera captures are awesome. Wallpaper version here.	A peach orchard. You can see the props holding up the trees.
Here's a bin in the field. They are spread out so there are anywhere from 4-12 trees per bin.	You can see the water covering the ground; the orchard is being flooded for irrigation. When the peaches are almost ripe, the ground can't be allowed to really dry out or the peaches will stop getting bigger.	Peaches on the tree.
Peach close-up. The red color comes from the sun, I guess it's sort of like sunburn except it doesn't hurt the peaches. Peaches in the shade don't get red like this. (this one is only in the shade temporarily)	Yet more peaches. Imagine a whole tree loaded like this; is it any wonder they need props to keep from falling over?	The canal bank. Here's where we get all the water we need to flood those fields.

Here are a bunch of pictures of the apartment I was sharing with Ed while working at LaserFiche, and even a couple of the LaserFiche building itself. Unfortunately I waited until the day I was coming home to take these, so while the apartment is nice and clean for the pictures, I wasn't able to get any pictures inside the LaserFiche building or of any co-workers. Even Ed was gone, so I couldn't get a picture of him in the apartment either. Oh well.

Entering the apartment. There were four apartments in the building, ours was on the bottom floor left side. Notice the painted-over numbers. They were in the middle of painting the building. Many of our windows were painted shut, and one day I found our screen door in the back had also been painted shut. Luckily it yielded to a bit of persuasion.	Here's a view of the inside. To the right are the dining room and kitchen. To the left are the bedrooms and bathroom. In the middle is the living room. They had a cool Star Wars poster :-) Also, a cool fishtank.	The Fishtank. We had to feed these fish a lot. They were fun to watch, very colorful and very energetic. The biggest one would always chase around the smaller ones, until it ran into the grumpy black one. Then it would stop short and back away slowly, whistling nonchalantly. In the picture, their eyes are glowing because of the flash, they don't look that weird in real life.
Here's the room I slept in. All the stuff on the walls is theirs. The poster on the right with the cars is really cheezy, it plugs in and the car headlights and neon signs light up and blink :-)	Jonothan Amos, one of the students who lives in this apartment, is a gun buff. He has Guns & Ammo magazines and catalogs for guns all over the apartment. This impressive collection of ammunition was displayed on a little shelf on one side of the room.	A shot of the other side of the room. We left all their posters and random things like surfboards just how we found them.
Here's the TV area, except the TV is gone. Their TV had weird funky color patterns going on, so we used Ed's TV. I took it back to Mudd before I left, though. Ed is too busy playing SWG to watch TV. All we ever used it for was to play Halo, anyway :-)	Outside of the building.	I never noticed how cool this tree was until I looked at this picture after I got home.
There were oil pumps in the oddest random locations. This is just on the other side of the block from LaserFiche. The picture was taken from the top of the LaserFiche parking garage. If you look closely, you can see the infamous congestion of the 405 in the background.	An interesting perspective on LaserFiche's sign.	The front of the LaserFiche building. Too bad it was closed that day.

Some people have been complaining that I don't have any pictures up here. Well, they can't complain any more! ;-) These are just some random pictures that I took tonight and a few days ago. I'm not claiming they're super interesting or anything.

My room. Case 221.	My desk.	My desk in extreme closeup.
My bed. Notice the nice quilt my mom made for me :-)	Foothill Apartment A. Liz, Andrea, Krislin, and Aileen live here. They do a lot of cooking. There's always something good to eat here.	Foothilll apt. A sink. After Saturday night dinners there are always lots of dishes to do here (this is nothing in comparison).
Brian and Jordan sitting on couches at apt. A. The balloons on the ceiling are left over from Jon's birthday party.	Jordan and Krislin at apt. A. After this year, the apartments are going to be torn down to make room for the new dorm "Sontag", so this is the last year apt. A will exist.	This is Michelle. She doesn't like to have her picture taken ;-)