Author: robertjames1971

I'm wicked tall.

Backyard

Obligatory I-went-out-to-the-back-yard-to-fill-the-bird-feeders photo shoot.

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See that light in the basement window? That’s my desk. Fascinating? Why, yes. Yes it is.
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No birds came out of the bird house, but I could hear some chirping coming from inside.

Describe Yourself… Again

Daily writing prompt
How would you describe yourself to someone who can’t see you?
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Didn’t we just do a writing prompt to describe ourselves? Like… three or four days ago?

So the answer is simple. You can’t see me, right? Picture Stephen Hawking’s brain, Jimmy Carter’s emotional range, and a youngish Brad Pitt’s body… only a lot taller.

That’s about as clear a picture* as I can give you without visual assistance.

*yeah, yeah, that’s the ticket. Not sarcastic at all. Crystal clear.

Sleepy Wednesday Night

Today has been a long day. I am tired. I had a little problem eating dinner tonight but after a little more than an hour break after coughing up a small ocean of foamie saliva, I was able to eat the last of my protein goal. I have hit all of my health goals today so it’s good in that case. Now I just need to get some sleep.

I haven’t done any music challenge work in two days. Tomorrow I’ll get back into it, I promise. There’s so much left to do. I think I can say I am behind the pace of my three previous 50/90 successes. I’ll catch up soon enough.

The long range forecast is calling for good weather this weekend. Maybe some post-sunrise golden hour photography? I keep thinking about going into the city and walking around the Back Bay. It might be odd doing it that early in the morning, but the plus side is I should be able to get in and out of town easy enough, and I might even get some street parking, and I won’t need to worry about crowds looking at me funny. Yeah, maybe a 6:00am photo walk up and down Boylston and Newbury streets? That could be fun. I could do that on Saturday morning, then maybe Kenmore Square or the theater district on Sunday? Who knows.

For tonight though, I am trying to finish a Doctor Who season three serial from 1965. I am starting to get close to the end of the run for the first Doctor. The NuWho binge watch started season seven earlier tonight. I am starting to get near the end of the run for the 11th Doctor. I am ready for both of them to change. Tomorrow morning while I exercise before work though, it will be the musical episode of Star Trek: Brave New Worlds with songs written by Kay Hanley and Tom Polce of Letter to Cleo. I can’t wait to see what they come up with.

Photo a Day Challenge

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Most Wednesdays, my work from the office day, have crappy pointless pics for the photo a day challenge. This morning I took a minute to try and do something a little cooler. Just a little cooler. Note that I turned the volume up full blast, which implies that the amplifier was most definitely not switched on when this was taken. I would have blown the walls out of the room if it had been playing at this volume.

I am down to the final month of my fourth consecutive photo a day challenge. Do I want to do next year’s entirely on film?

Traditions

Daily writing prompt
What traditions have you not kept that your parents had?
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There aren’t a lot of family traditions that my parents kept that I do not. The big one that comes to mind is religion. My parents were raised catholic and they raised the three of us to be catholic. Somewhere along the line I realized I didn’t believe any of it. Even when I was going to church every Sunday as a kid, I don’t think I believed any of it. I went through the motions, but I never felt it. My brother is still faithful. My sister… I don’t really know one way or another. Me? Atheist. The tradition I don’t keep is going to church.

Rant beginning

I thought the whole priests-systematically-raping-children-then-covering-it-up-for-each-other thing would have brought more people to my way of thinking, but I also thought fascists running the government would have brought people to my little corner of the political spectrum (closer to it at least) but that didn’t seem to happen either, so what do I know.

Rant over. Sorry.