Author: robertjames1971

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Upping My Game

Check out the nerd, upping his film stock game to some real stuff. We are going to be out late tonight so I want to use something fast, and I want to see if I can have fun with that halation thing all the YouTube film channels talk about.

I’m hoping 36 shots with little haloes around the light sources, but I’m going to end up with 36 indecipherable blurry messes.

Work History

Daily writing prompt
What jobs have you had?
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I’ve had a ton of jobs. All but one being crappy, menial, grunt work. All but two, maybe. Maybe three. I don’t know. I’ve had so many there is no way I’ll remember them all while writing this.

  • I was on the clean up crew for an organization that ran a weekly BINGO game. I was 14 when I started and by the time I was 18 (I think) I was in charge of it
  • I worked part time as a groundkeeper/janitor while I was in high school
  • I was a loader at the UPS Northern New England Hub
  • I worked for Northeast Broadcasting School supervising student access to the audio recording facility
  • I worked at a sporting goods retail chain’s warehouse as the guy who processed all of the non-clothing item returns
  • I had a bunch of temp jobs including working for a moving company and a pet supply mail order chain as an order picker/packer
  • I worked as a long term temp in the shipping and receiving office of a company that sold medical devices. Anesthesia delivery units, to be precise. I was there three summers in a row and the last summer I was in charge of the department.
  • I worked for a lab in the computer science department of UMass Lowell. My “job” was to put on a talk show on the campus radio station, WULM 91.5 FM. The rest of the time my “job” was to have a place to do my home work.
  • My first job out of college (the last time) was a programmer/analyst for a software company that makes systems used by hospitals. Nine years later I was promoted to supervisor. In two months I’ll have my 20th anniversary with the company

That’s the gist of it. I’m sure I forgot a few things along the way. I was a janitor more than once, but I am not going back in to edit the list now. I hope you are fascinated by my endless string of less-than employment.

Around the Hotel

We went to Hollywood Studios for the morning but went back to the hotel for a break and some food. As always on these Disney trips, I start the day with film, shoot one roll, then switch to digital. Well, this morning I didn’t even get through half a roll. When we were wandering around the hotel I switched to digital, partly just to have a photo a day pic for today.

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We are still undecided on what to do tonight. We might be going back to Hollywood Studios. We’ll see.

Emphatic

Daily writing prompt
Do you practice religion?
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Spoiler: This is going to piss a lot of people off. I am not sorry.

The answer is no. Emphatically no. I don’t believe in fairy tales, never mind worship them. I’ve made that pretty clear about 1,000,000 times in the past. The answer here is as no as a no can get.

No.

Negative.

Not even a little bit.

Never again.

Never, ever.

That is the final word from me on this subject. I don’t care what anyone else thinks or believes.