Checking in with the lazy ladies on this Tuesday evening.
Robin and Lily
Author: robertjames1971
I'm wicked tall.
Indicted Again
Third time is the charm? This is the one I’ve really wanted. String him up by his treasonous toes.
He’s still going to win the nomination by a landslide though because half of the people in this country are at best fascist sympathizers. There is no America left to save. Not really.
Say Your Prayers
Dig what I just saw in the back yard wild kingdom…
Looks like a praying mantis to me. I Googled “brown praying mantis” and sure enough, there are brown praying mantises. Groovy. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of these for real before. What an ugly SOB (though not as ugly as a house centipede, those bastards look like pure, unadulterated evil). I would have squished it, but I think she could probably take me in a straight up fight.
Is That New?
Is that giant fallen tree branch new? Has it been there for ages and I am just seeing it for the first time or did it fall since the last time I was in the back yard, two days ago?
I Want an X-Wing
If I could have any ship from Star Wars as a personal ride, I would probably chose an X-Wing. Only because I am not a gear head and I think Millennium Falcon maintenance would likely be beyond me.
X-Wing on film:
X-Wing on digital (with a cameo from BB-8):
This post is just an excuse to post another film shot because I am anxiously awaiting an email saying that the two rolls of film I shipped to the lab last week are done. That’s all this is. Also, X-Wings are cool.
Typical
Seeing as it’s only 7:30am right now, I don’t think I can call whether today has been typical or not. How about yesterday?
Yesterday was pretty typical. Jen and I both worked from home and had quiet days over all. That was fairly typical. I hit all of my health goals. That was pretty typical, thankfully for my health I guess. Jen and I had dinner together. That being typical is the one shining up side of the pandemic sending us all home. Now we get to have dinner together almost every night at a nice decent hour. The atypical days being the days where one of us has to work from the office.
The atypical stuff revolved around my stomach. I had a bad issue at lunch and another one at dinner. I can’t say such a gastric bypass side effect fun is uncommon, but as I get better at all of this it is thankfully becoming less common. That is good over all, but yesterday was annoying. Neither issue was too bad yesterday, but they were both there.
So over all, everything was pretty typical yesterday. I’ll take it.
More Bad Family News
We lost my mother’s older sister late last year. We lost my mother early this year. Today we found out that my mother’s older brother is going into hospice. He has kidney and heart issues and his fight is coming to an end.
Nine months ago there were four siblings in my mother’s family. Now we have to prepare ourselves to lose a third. This sucks.
Let’s Go to Boston
What do you say, wanna go into Boston for a post-dinner walk tonight? I do!
Full discloser, I only have something like three film photos left over from the one previous time I had a film camera in the city with me, and those three pics (including this one you see here) are awful and a total waste and not at all worth sharing, but I really want to share something new because that’s what I do with these film photo things, right?
Anyway, here are a couple that have already been shared… just cause.
So what do you say, wanna go into town for a walk tonight? Let’s go!
One goal for a photo walk in Boston is to try to recreate this photo. I took this with my old Kokak point and shoot back in 2005 and I want to do it again and possibly improve it? I want to do it on film and on digital.
f5.6, 1/750th, iso 80.
Morning Photos and Car Music
I pulled double duty this morning and it might throw off my whole day.
I went out early for car music, but on my way there I stopped downtown for some film photos. I took my Nikon and Dad’s zoom lens and finished the roll that was in the camera. I went to the dam and our little downtown shopping area and took a few pictures. I did not bring my mirrorless camera, but I did bring my point and shoot, just so I could have something to post here.
The sunlight was really nice for a change. It was a good day to go out.
After a short trip downtown I went to the movie theater parking lot and put vocals on three songs. I could have done two more but my voice was starting to get tired and I wanted to get home for some breakfast and a shower before work.
The one thing I failed to do this morning was my 30 minutes of exercise. I am going to have to get that in a piece at a time throughout the day. I failed to close my exercise ring on Saturday, and I failed to close my move ring (calorie counter) on both Saturday and Sunday. That ends today. No more missing rings, even if I do have a day where I am feeling sick. August starts tomorrow and I want another perfect month.
Until then, here’s the obligatory clock pic.
Describe Myself
How do I describe myself. The answer to that question has actually changed quite a bit of late.
Traditionally the answer was really tall, really fat, really red. The really tall still applies. Thankfully for my middle aged hair the really red applies too. For now at least. I have to think the days are numbered on that front though.
The really fat piece of that though… after over 50 years I can’t really describe myself that way anymore. At least not outwardly so. While the gastric bypass surgery has had the desired effect on my actual weight, there is still the question of my mental state. I still feel like that morbidly obese guy I used to be. Is that body dysmorphia? Probably. It’s just harder to change my mindset than it was to change my actual weight.
Those are just a few of the things that define me enough that I would describe myself that way to someone else. There are other things as well. I’m a husband, a step father, a son, a brother, an uncle. I am a computer programmer. I play guitar, I like to mess around with photography. I live in Massachusetts and am fiercely proud of it.
I would like to describe myself as a good person, but am I? I see myself failing in that respect often. I hope that I have an accurate picture of myself, though they say that people who suffer from depression often have an accurate view of themselves while people who don’t often have a too rosy self view. I’m not sure what to make of that, but you can do whatever with it. I try to be a good human. Sometimes I pull it off. Sometimes I don’t. I guess I see the attempts as a defining characteristic of myself.
Really though, all you need to know is that I am really tall and really red and I used to be really fat. That should suffice.
Inside the Red Head's Head 