January 31

There's no dilemma that can't be solved if we just sit around and stare at our belly buttons long enough.

January 30

Reality is here now.
A delightfully unpleasant notion at its best.
I'm a little shaky.
Looking ever onward.
To the future I belong.
I'm on my way.

January 29

When are you gonna come down
When are you going to land
I should have stayed on the farm
I should have listened to my old man

You know you can't hold me forever
I didn't sign up with you
I'm not a present for your friends to open
This boy's too young to be singing the blues

So goodbye yellow brick road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can't plant me in your penthouse
I'm going back to my plough

Back to the howling old owl in the woods
Hunting the horny back toad
Oh I've finally decided my future lies
Beyond the yellow brick road

What do you think you'll do then
I bet that'll shoot down your plane
It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics
To set you on your feet again

Maybe you'll get a replacement
There's plenty like me to be found
Mongrels who ain't got a penny
Sniffing for tidbits like you on the ground

--Elton John

January 28

Everything seems kind of wonky (in a good way) today.

January 27

Snowed off and on from about 5am. Rain started around 2.30, 3.00pm. Freezing rain followed shortly thereafter. Boo. Oh well, whatevs.

January 26

Monday night madness. Woot. Luckily, all the beaters seem to stay away from Dixie when it's in good shape. So I skied it all night.

January 25

I didn't do a lot today. Played the force unleashed for a couple hours while Lily napped. Then I played it again from the time she went to bed until midnight-ish. The control scheme is ok, but the camera is teh suck, as is the targeting system. There ya have it, the unofficial, two sentence video game review from Bill. As for todays picture, one of these I am not, but it was almost midnight and I needed to take a photo.

January 24

So I drove up to Murray's Fly Shop in Edinburg to check out some fly rod building info. Picked up a sweet little book so that hopefully by spring time I can have my own 4 weight rod built for about $100. On the way back I drove through the covered bridge at Meem's Bottom if you're headed south on Rte. 11 I think it's the first road on the right after you cross the bridge and head out of Mt. Jackson. There's a big row of Oak trees lining the road so it's pretty hard to miss. I couldn't get out of the car because I had Lily with me so I took the photo while I was rolling through the bridge at about 5-10mph.

January 23

What a weird Friday. Took some cool photos, edited some cool photos from the last two days, so not an absolutely weird day until I got back to the office and found out that I don't get an interview until Thursday morning. Friday is my last day, so I appreciate the expediency (*add much snark to this whole sentence) with the whole process as well as the person from HR who managed to lose my internally submitted application. How does that happen? Not only did I hand deliver hard copies, I even turned in electronic copies of my resume and internal application by email. Is the deleted items folder to hard to find? Whatever. I need a job and it would be nice to stay within the company. It even sounds pretty easy. I've never done phone sales but I've done sales and it's always been a cakewalk for me. Who knows though with the way things are going for other folks on the photo team who are looking to join sales. Anyhoo, enough random ranting from me. Have a cool still life.

ScribeFire

So I'm bored and poking around on the internets and playing with firefox and I stumbled across this spiffy add on for firefox called ScribeFire that lets you edit your blog(s) directly from any firefox webpage.  The editor is built right to firefox, so if you're like m and tend to do some copying and pasting regularly, you don't have to tab back and forth.  I am amused.

January 22

So we've got these two pumpkins on our porch that we went and picked a week or two before All Saints Day and they've been sitting there ever since. Lily painted them if you're wondering about the crazy purple spots. Also, I think some of Canon's software/hardware developers/designers still ride the short bus. What's up with not keeping the .cr2 file extension the same from one camera to the next, thus negating my CS3 and making me use their crappy digital photo pro software unless I have find a bunch more cash sitting around to throw at them and either upgrade to CS4 or get my hands on LR2? Stupid Canon. If only they didn't make such nice cameras. Also, stupid Adobe for not supporting CS3 any more after less than 3 years on the shelf and because CS4 is soo much (and by soo much, I mean marginally) better.

January 21.

Another day with a wonky computer, but we also had Wingfield walk around in his bare feet in the snow for a photo shoot for work. This was the after effects. Notice the bright white spots where he's already lost circulation.

January 20

Sorry this took so long. My compy has been acting kind of wonky and I've had issues with my memory card reader.

January 19

Some days the world just feels all upside down.

January 18

I got nothing to say about today.

January 17

Still life. kind of an homage to Sally Mann.

January 16

Okay, so today's picture got taken after midnight, but I had to wait for my cakes to finish baking. Homemade Red Velvet cake for Lily's Birthday.

MIL

Mother in law was here so I didn't get around to posting anything the last few days. I've got the photos. They're on flickr. I'll be posting 4 days worth of photos here soon.

January 15

I need to laugh and when the moon is out
I've got something I can laugh about
I feel good in a special way...
--Beatles (and me).

January 14

Money minus Sanity? Or Sanity minus Money?