No photo morning for this red head. I overslept. Now I need to do my morning routine and put together an office chair and go visit mom.
There is a park near mom’s place (cleverly named The Park. True story) and maybe I’ll stop and take a pic or two on the way home. We will see.
But first: shower and breakfast.
We are supposed to get some rain tomorrow, but the morning weather forecast looks good. That means another morning of picture taking goofiness.
Where should I go?
No idea.
I need to put an office chair together and I need to do some grocery shopping and I need to visit my mother. Does any of that help me come up with picture taking ideas? No, not even a little bit.
I have two days off coming up. A Friday and a Monday. One of those days (weather permitting) will include some time in Boston and/or Cambridge. I’m going to try to recreate this little bastard again:
I also want to go to a few places I don’t think I’ve ever visited with a camera. It’s all dependent on the weather, of course, but it really just means that I don’t want to go to the city tomorrow.
Tewksbury? Lowell again? Billerica? Concord? Who knows. I’ll tell you once I figure it out.
Happy trails, eh?
I took my digital camera to a spot on The Merrimack River this morning. I’m using this film shot here in solidarity.
I’m in the office today. Not my office but another of my company’s buildings that is 35 miles further from home. The first 10-15 miles of the commute was brutal. After that it was just a matter of trying to go fast enough to make up for some of the lost time. I got to the parking lot with a couple of minutes to spare.
Speaking of the parking lot, I have never seen it this full. Even pre-pandemic, I never saw this place packed the way it is. There is a conference here today. We are not going to it, but we are involved in a couple of things that are sort of related to it. I’m the guy hiding in a conference room, sitting as far away from everyone else, and only removing my mask to consume sustenance.
I really want to go home now.
Yesterday was Tuesday, so you know what that means… It’s weigh in day. The numbers were excellent. I am down 5.4 pounds. Can you dig that crazy sound, or what? I am 4.2 pounds away from flipping my total weight’s hundreds column. If next week is as good as this week was… then we could be a week away from that wonderful moment. To quote Clark W Griswald, “Hallelujah. Holy shit. Where’s the Tylenol?”
It’s been a tough week food wise. I wrote about the stomach problems I had on Monday. Yesterday I was okay on that front, mostly, but I came up super short of my protein goal. I need 60 grams a day and I only got to 50. I will remedy that today, thank you very much.
I am working in the office for the second half of the day. My new hire lives in the mid-west and he is in town so we’re going to meet up with him after work and actually exist in person. That means I am going to a public place where people are. I’m okay with this even through my nervous Covid-19 paranoia. It just means I will have to deal with my Covid-19 paranoia, you know? We’re going to get some dinner and that means I will have to order something and then not eat most of it. I plan to bring my little digital scale and not over do it. I’ll have the stop watch on my phone too. They are all going to laugh at me, but I’m okay with it because I lost five and four tenths pounds this week.
I don’t think I ever purposely took a pic with a blurry background using my DSLR’s kit lens. So I did it tonight, just for schitzengiggles.
Isn’t that the nicest thing?
A footbridge over the Rail Trail in Methuen. I found it on Google Maps and the entrance is close to the MSPCA facility, but it looks like it might be on private property. Oh well.
