This weekend is going to be a good one, and here’s why:

• I get to most of it with my girlfriend.
• I’m going to a gospel concert.
• I’m going to eat three great home-cooked meals.
• I’ll be done with my Christmas shopping.
• It’s just after 9 a.m. Friday, and I’m about to leave work – starting my weekend early.

Do you have big plans for the weekend?

When I visit with my dad and my brother-in-law, they tend to talk about building projects.

Believe it or not, it’s already the second weekend in January. Time certainly flies when you’re too busy to take a rest.

All right, photographers. The third weekend of the month starts today, which means it’s time for a shootout. I was hoping there might be a little snow on the ground, to make the pictures a little wintrier. But I guess warm sunny days will have to do.

All right. I mentioned it in my last blog post, and I asked for suggestions and got none. Instead of waiting to hear when others think we should set a photography weekend, I’ll do it myself. I suggest this weekend as the first in a monthly series of photo shoot-outs.

This weekend, I spent about 15 minutes talking to a friend of mine about how best to make it seem like his roommate lost an eye in a tragic ultimate Frisbee accident. Then I spent the next three hours getting schooled in multiple games of croquet.