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.
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.
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.
First off, as a caveat, I have seen Jurassic Park. I have read Jurassic Park. No way in hell I would ever bring back a dinosaur, no sir, no how, no chance.
Having said that…
If I had to bring back a dinosaur I would want to find something small enough that if I needed to I might be able to kick it’s ass in a fight. Given, as previously stated, that all of my dinosaur knowledge comes from reading Jurassic Park, I would probably go with the Compsognathus. That’s the little guy in the movie that acts as a scavenger. Sure there’s a scene somewhere in the book, and the second movie I think, where they eat a person, but they are supposed to be the size of a turkey.
Here’s what the wikipedia has to say about them:
Compsognathus is a genus of small, bipedal, carnivorous theropod dinosaur. Members of its single species Compsognathus longipes could grow to around the size of a turkey. They lived about 150 million years ago, during the Tithonian age of the late Jurassic period, in what is now Europe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compsognathus
That is my first thought. I wonder though, is there a small plant eating dinosaur I could go with? Let’s ask the google.
Acrotholus audeti is a plant eating dinosaur, about 40 kilograms and about six feet long. That’s a bit bigger than I would like, but it’s a veggie-saurus so maybe it evens out. It could take me in a fight, but it wouldn’t eat me. So maybe that’s the winner.
Still though, as previously stated. Don’t bring dinosaurs back. Just because you can do a thing, doesn’t mean you should. Just like Ian Malcolm said.
Movie theater parking lot car music, but I’m really late and the movie theater is open. This might get weird.
It’s 4:35am. The sun will come up at Hampton Beach at 5:31. I should be there. The cameras are packed along with a couple of extra rolls of film that I do not expect to need, I have a breakfast of protein bars in a bag, my morning vitamins are being taken with some sugar free Gatorade as I type this, my defective tripod and a folding chair are still in the car from last time. I am going to need a nap when I get home, but other than that I think we’re good to go.
Let’s go sunrise chasing and cross our fingers that the cloud cover is minimal like the weather app says it should be. The question again is, where do I stop on the way home for bonus photo time? I’m thinking downtown Lowell. We’ll see.
The sun will come up at Hampton Beach tomorrow at 5:31am. If I am going to get there in time I have to leave the house by 4:50 at the latest. I would have to be out of bed by 4:20 or so.
Can I do another sunrise shoot? The second one in a week?
I’m pretty tired tonight… but I think I will pack the cameras into a backpack before bed tonight. You know, just in case.
Photography is fun, isn’t it?
Doctor Who is gonna be jealous.
I’ve been binge watching the two Doctor Who shows with a vengeance. Last night I made the mistake of getting distracted by other shows. Season two of Foundation started a few weeks ago. I know Azimov readers hate it and all, but I am not an Azimov reader and I enjoyed season one. I watched the first episode of season two last night. When I was fishing through the Apple video app looking for it I saw a link for Silo and, well… I had to start that too. Now on top of that, season two of Good Omens comes out today so I have to watch that one too.
Doctor Who is still the TV priority, apart from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which I watch as soon as the new episodes are released, but I am going to have to share TV time with some other shows as well. I also want to get back to Severance and Party Down and Star Trek: Deep Space 9 and The X-Files.
Our television cup runneth over, right? Sheesh!
ADDENDUM: Yup, this is my last reblog. Now the question is, does the film blog die a slow death as the main blog starts getting all the film posts? That seems likely. Thanks for nothing, wordpress.com.
Addendum: WordPress.com seems to have changed the reblog editor. Doesn’t this just suck? Next time I’ll put the image first and see how that goes, but if it’s not going to display the image in the reblog snippet, I am not going to cross post anymore. The image is the whole point. Shit.
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