{"id":2,"date":"2009-11-22T13:43:15","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T18:43:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-11-27T11:22:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T16:22:13","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hoohaa.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to A &#8216;lil HooHaa.<\/p>\n<p>As I reach the middle-age years (not there yet, but creeping in), I&#8217;ve found I don&#8217;t know much about myself. I&#8217;m still learning as I go through the process of life.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had tomatoes hurled at me for much of my life and I&#8217;m sick of getting hit by them, so I&#8217;m ducking now and hoping I find a great path in life.<\/p>\n<p>This blog will be part of that.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a potpourri of my world. Photography. Life. Geocaching. Sports. Disc golf. Homebrewing. Anything else. Real world. The war against bad grammar and Internet shorthand. I&#8217;ll even throw in some good old-fashioned journalistic things at times.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, whatever is on my mind.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s funny, sometimes it&#8217;s serious, sometimes it&#8217;s random.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no niche here because there&#8217;s only a few things I know to be fact in this world:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The three most beautiful things in the world are a perfectly poured pint of Guinness, a freshly cut and lined baseball field and a sunset over a large body of water.<\/li>\n<li>Cold-cheese pizza is a delicacy.<\/li>\n<li>The flight of a disc golf disc is really amazing to watch.<\/li>\n<li>Going fast is fun.<\/li>\n<li>Craft beers rule.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m also always in search of the perfect hot dog.<\/p>\n<p>This blog is basically my little corner of the Internet where I can talk about whatever. I keep it pretty easy, so hopefully it&#8217;s a place readers will feel welcome to come back, visit and comment.<\/p>\n<p>A little about me: I&#8217;m an award-winning journalist who is no longer in newspapers. So this site (and my other: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rattlingchains.com\" target=\"_blank\">RattlingChains.com<\/a>) are my avenues to continue writing. This site, as noted above, will have a bit of everything. But it&#8217;s a way for me to still do some journalistic pieces, yet just write for the sake of writing.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, about the top saying. No, this isn&#8217;t a food blog. That saying comes from a baseball game. After newly acquired Hunter Pence scored a winning run for the Phillies, he was interviewed on field and asked what he was thinking. His response? &#8220;Good game, let&#8217;s go eat.&#8221; It spread like wildfire in Philly and me and another friend have bounced it back and forth with different things in the first part. Then I decided to put it on the blog and that&#8217;s where it&#8217;s stayed. Here&#8217;s the original clip of Pence:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Twitvid video player \" src=\"http:\/\/www.twitvid.com\/embed.php?guid=6MN9I&amp;autoplay=0\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Other Items<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As an avid geocacher, I&#8217;ve been on the podcast &#8220;Cache-a-Maniacs&#8221; two times, once as a guest on the normal show and once during a live show during GeoWoodstock 9, which was held in Western Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Episode 107: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cacheamaniacs.com\/cam-ep-107-softball29\" target=\"_blank\">softball29\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Episode 228: <a href=\"http:\/\/cacheamaniacs.com\/cam-ep-228-live-at-geo-woodstock-ix\" target=\"_blank\">Live at GeoWoodstock IX<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/profile\/?guid=21172d89-293d-4034-80ef-9ee4f814e3c3\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Profile for softball29\" alt=\"Profile for softball29\" src=\"http:\/\/img.geocaching.com\/stats\/img.aspx?txt=The+hunt+is+on!&amp;uid=21172d89-293d-4034-80ef-9ee4f814e3c3&amp;bg=2\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;m extremely big into photography. I consider myself a serious amateur. I really enjoy seeing things in a different light, which is what taking photos does at times. Whether it&#8217;s a beautiful view, sports action shots or something else, the camera can help tell a story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You can see a lot of my work by clicking the link below and going to my Flickr site.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/14946803@N06\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"hoohaaphotos. Get yours at bighugelabs.com\" alt=\"hoohaaphotos. Get yours at bighugelabs.com\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bighugelabs.com\/profilewidget\/randomint\/a40d00\/ffffff\/14946803%40N06.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These are blogging awards I&#8217;ve been given at some point or another.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/29760317@N08\/11084973566\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2829\/11084973566_c3c853ce98_n.jpg?resize=320%2C289\" width=\"320\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Awarded the Liebster Award by Mike of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joefloggers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Floggers<\/a> on Nov. 16, 2013.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 314px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dudewrite.blogspot.com\/2012\/07\/week-six-superheroes.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: none; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-user-drag: none;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-KaNARP02bLY\/T_v6WLREPRI\/AAAAAAAAAvQ\/_dtbr81um7U\/s1600\/man-card-4.jpg?resize=304%2C186\" width=\"304\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winner of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dudewrite.com\/2012\/07\/week-six-superheroes.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dude Write<\/a> Chairman&#8217;s Choice Man Card for Week Six of Dude Write. July 2012.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hoohaa.com\/?p=3179\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-i2gde-Vs-rY\/TyahntS_2bI\/AAAAAAAAAKs\/mGEj0e3AH04\/s1600\/VersatileBloggerAward.png?resize=200%2C200\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Given to A &#8216;lil HooHaa by Jonna over at Tattooed Mommie in Jauary 2012.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>This and that<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogwithintegrity.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"BlogWithIntegrity.com\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blogwithintegrity.com\/badges\/BWI_150sq.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 9px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;\">&lt;a href=&#8221;http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/14946803@N06\/&#8221;&gt;&lt;img src=&#8221;http:\/\/bighugelabs.com\/profilewidget\/randomint.compact\/00d01d\/ffffff\/14946803@N06.jpg&#8221; border=&#8221;0&#8243; alt=&#8221;hoohaaphotos. 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