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Is Patches Sick?

I am in the waiting room at a veterinary hospital in Lawrence. Patches was breathing funny and making a weird noise as she prrred. She was also sort of hitching her back with each breath and she seemed to be walking a little funny.

Jen called a vet hospital and told them we were coming. I drove over with Patches in the cat carrier sitting on the front seat. It’s about 28 degrees Fahrenheit tonight. I wonder how long it’s been since Miss Kitty has felt cold like that.

I’m worried about her but I’m also pretty sure I’m overreacting. Not that I know what I’m talking about. She’s also 15 years old so she’s pretty elderly. I’m still convinced she’s going to live five more years at least, but I hate to see her struggling.

The staff took her away from me as soon as we came in the door. I’m sitting in a waiting room, hoping she’s being a good kitty for the docs.

Bonus Pic

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I’m so happy about a roll of fill getting to the lab that I am posting a second picture today! Also, this is one that was just a test and isn’t even a little bit interesting so why not post it as a bonus!

When I was first playing with Dad’s camera and trying to learn how to use a camera that didn’t have an Auto setting, I took a bunch of pictures of the keyboard that used to be in the living room in an attempt to figure out how to get a shallow depth of field and a nice blurry background. 99% of those tests were with my DSLR, but here’s one on film. Fascinating, eh?

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The 2008 Point and Shoot

Last week I was looking for something in the film draw in my desk and I saw my old point and shoot. It’s a Casio EX-S10. I bought it just after Jen and I got engaged, back in 2008. I used to sneak it into concerts. I stopped using it in 2015 or so because I couldn’t find the charger and the battery was as dead as a door nail.

When I setup the new mirrorless camera on christmas day I stole the memory cards from my DSLR and my Nikon point and shoot. At lunch today I went looking in my camera bag to see if I could find any old, forgotten cards to put back into the point and shoot. There was a pocket in the bag that I seem to have forgotten about because when I opened it up, there was the Casio charger!

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The engagement point and shoot is about to live again!

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I checked the memory card and there were about 100 pictures on it. There were a few from our 2014 Niagara Falls trip, a bunch from our friend Carolyn’s wedding, and a few from one of the monster snow storms that pummeled us back in February 2015. All of the keepers were already on my Flickr account, including this one:

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I doubt I will use this camera very much going forward, but I will use the memory card. The biggest, forgotten card in my camera bag was 2 gigs. I had put it into the Nikon point and shoot, but immediately replaced it with the 4 gig card that was in the Casio. Four gigabytes on the Nikon gives me about 460 photos. That’ll due for now. Eventually I want to get two seriously huge cards for the Z5. The little Nikon can get the 16 gig card back when that happens, and the DSLR can get the 32 gig card back as well.

The moral of the story here though is, the little Casio point and shoot is going to live again!

Merrimack River

robertjames1971's avatarRob Shoots Film

I’ve posted a bunch from this spot already, but here’s an unshared shot. I will go back here again. I’d like to try it in black and white.

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I shipped a roll of black and white film out for developing last week. I haven’t heard anything back yet. My fingers are crossed I will get them before the end of this week so I can make sure using Dad’s lens with my camera will be okay for Disney World. I’m starting to lose hope, though there is still plenty of time. Hopefully I’ll get the email saying they received the film today.

Like I said, fingers crossed.

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Vermont, Not Georgia

ADDENDUM: That’s christmas eve, not christmas even. Sorry.

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Despite what the sign says, this was taken at a rest stop in Vermont, not in Georgia.

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I took a handful of film pictures of our christmas even and christmas morning celebrations. I also got my first mirrorless camera, which is also my first full frame digital camera and I am totally smitten.

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Pajamas

For the last few years Jen has been buying matching christmas pajamas for the family. To say it’s adorable is the understatement of the decade. Each time she’s done it I have had to exclude myself because I was too fat to find pajamas that fit me. I’m not a pajama guy in general so I didn’t mind too much, but I did feel bad about myself and left out. This year, 200 pounds later, Jen included me. I’m sitting here typing this, having just finished my day’s 30 minutes of exercise, wearing those christmas pajamas.

The irony here is that Jen bought them a couple of months ago and they are way too big for me. It is truly a christmas miracle.

Merry christmas, everyone.

Merry Christmas

robertjames1971's avatarRob Shoots Film

It’s 6:00am on Christmas morning! Why the hell am I awake?

Remember when I used to post pictures that my father took back in the 80’s without ever finishing the roll of film and I had them developed in 2022 and they were green messes of messy? There were two semi-usable pics in that roll that I saved for today. I tried to clean them up in GIMP a little… not that it helped, or that I knew what I was doing.

Anyway…

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HoHoHo!

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Christmas Eve

Hello and welcome to christmas eve! It was 55 degrees out yesterday and it’s 10 degrees out right now. That’s a 45 degree swing in about 15 hours. Hooray! Also, I have a bad stomach ache this morning. It’s all winning today, left and right. Hooray!

I have more cookies to bake today. I am finished with today’s exercise. What else. Don’t think I am going out to take christmas eve pics because, as mentioned, 10 degrees Fahrenheit. I am certainly not going to the ocean. To hell with that frosty noise.

Okay, time to start the day. HoHoHo

Also, Jen sent us this a few minutes ago. Apparently Santa Claus gets a fighter escort from NORAD in both the US and Canada. Nice of the red suited dude to slow down for them, right?