Photo a day challenge #339/365.
The Girls
Author: robertjames1971
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Light House
Curious
- I don’t know why, but I am curious about vegetarianism. Not really, just sort of. Where do vegetarians get their protein? I’ve done some Googling and the answers I’ve found don’t make me want to try it, but a small part of my already teeny tiny brain wants to spend a week test driving. I think the idea of Impossible Burgers, or whatever they are called, are part of the attraction. Could I go veggie if I trick myself into thinking I am eating meat? Does that defeat the purpose? I am betting that going that route would be too expensive anyway.
- What did I eat last night that triggered stomach pain this morning? Is yesterday’s migraine somehow involved? I can’t imagine how, but this is the second migraine in a row that was followed by stomach issues the next day.
- Can I get my two Doctor Who binge watches to the point where they both switch Doctors this weekend? The NuWho probably can. I’m mid-way through season seven and it switches from #11 to #12 at the start of season eight. The original series will be tougher. I have half of season three to get through, and the switch from #1 to #2 happens on the third serial of season four. I might be able to do it… probably not.
- When we go to Bar Harbor next weekend will we be able to pull off a sunrise from Cadillac Mountain? That’s the first spot in the continental United States to see the sun rise, but it hits really early and it involves driving to the top of a mountain. I don’t know if we’ll be able to get there in time and still get some sleep.
- We are going to Bar Harbor next weekend (as just stated) and back to Orlando next month. Where else should we travel to? Probably nowhere as it’s all too expensive, but there are so many places still to see.
- How long will I keep playing this wordpress.com daily writing prompt game? No clue.
Ira Allen
Change of Plans
My last post was spit balling photography plans for this weekend. Well, the current plan is no photography plans for this weekend. We’re going to Maine next weekend. I’ll do some shooting then. That’ll probably be it for the summer. I’m just pulling the plug on the whole concept for a while.
Weekend Photo Plans?
It’s Friday night. I’m sitting in the living room watching some Doctor Who (new series, season seven episode four co-starring the guy who played Arthur Weasley and it’s great to see him) and I am trying to think of where I should take my camera this weekend.
I want to do a lot of music this weekend and I want to spend some time on a work project that’s due on Monday, but I also want to take the camera out shootin’ too.
Boston. When? Sunday morning is supposed to be sunny. That seems like the best bet. It’s supposed to be cloudy around sunrise tomorrow and then clear up later so Sunday feels like the better bet, assuming the forecast doesn’t change or magically become inaccurate.
Where to on Saturday morning then? Downtown Lowell? That train track in Andover? Find another light house? The river walk in Lowell? Minuteman National Park in Concord?
I just don’t know. I don’t know what I want to shoot and I don’t know how to figure it out. I only know that I want to shoot something. Film and digital both. Oodles of photos, that’s the goal. But where?
Migraine Fun
It’s only been six days since my last migraine. I went upstairs to start making my lunch today and out of nowhere I got spanked with another one. Shit. Migraines during the work day are the worst of all. My vision was effected for about 50 minutes but it’s more or less recovered now. I don’t have much in the way of pain yet. I took some Tylenol just as things were starting to go wrong and that sometimes stops the pain. Fingers crossed it works today.
I took a candle pic for today’s photo a day. Mostly because I was afraid my defective head would get in the way so I took a picture of whatever was right in front of me when my eyes started coming back to normal.
Graduation
There was one photo from Bellana’s graduation that I was really hoping would come out. It was the only picture I took with Dad’s Pentax K1000 that I had sincerely wished was taken with my Z5. I wanted to see the results immediately. Instead, I had to wait.
It came out fine…
I knew it was going to require a huge crop to get what I was after, but I got it. Grainy goodness and all. I am really happy it worked out.
Random Acts of Kindness
I looked up today’s question last night before I went to bed so that I could think on it a bit. Unfortunately, nothing is springing to mind that doesn’t involve money, and that feels kinda icky to me. We’ve done the occasional thing like paying for the people in line at the drive through behind us, or at the toll booth behind us, or little surprise things like that. Nothing really important, just petty little money things.
I would say the best thing we’ve done, that also involves money, used to happen at Christmas time. The pandemic has put an end to the tradition over the last few years, but eventually we’ll do it again. We used to pick a restaurant at random, a week or two before Christmas, and go out to dinner. We would then leave the waiter/waitress a massive tip. Like a 200-300% tip, depending on the dinner bill itself. We would then dash out as quick as we could so that we’d be in the car and gone before the waiter/waitress would see what we left.
Do random Christmas gifts to hard working people count as random acts of kindness? I think so, in the true sense of Christmas, but in the actual Christmas spirit of gross consumerism? I don’t know. It works for me, I guess.
Month 15 Weigh In
Today is the 4th of August. 15 months ago today I went under the knife and had my guts rearranged forever. It’s been a crazy 1.25 years, let me tell you.
The monthiversary is my weigh in day now. After a year of weeklies I cut back to just monthlies and today is the day. How did I do?
I did well, I think. I can say definitively that I am still maintaining. My weight is down quite a bit from last month but it is still above the lowest point. Last month I was at 213. Today I am at 207.4. I am down 5.6 pounds this month for a post-op total of 224, and a since-the-first-weigh-in total of 244.6 pounds. Glorious. My BMI is 25.2, which means that I am technically still overweight, but only by a couple of pounds. I can live with that.
I had given up on my vague goal of dropping below 200 pounds and reaching the mythical “onederland.” When I was over 210 last month it seemed like something that was unobtainable. Now? Today? Seven and four tenths pounds doesn’t seem like that much to lose, does it? Not really. If I dipped below 200 I think I would still be able to consider myself maintaining. It’s only four pounds and change below my lowest point.
Naw, let’s just stay the course and not be tempted by magic numbers. Until next months, friends. Happy weigh in day.
Inside the Red Head's Head 