It’s Friday night. The weekend is here. Thank fuck, you know? The weekend… finally.
We have nothing going on this weekend. I have to pick something up at the drug store but other than that… nuttin’.
Man, is that weird or what? It’s been a long time since we’ve had a weekend with nothing going on.
Like… weird, right?
I don’t think I have recovered from all of the driving last week. Somehow I feel like I am not terribly tired but at the same time I am terribly exhausted. I don’t get it. I just want to nap, I think.
Well, I want to nap but I also want to put a roll of film through my new camera so that I can find out if it works or not. Functionally I think it is working fine. The question is whether or not it leaks light. I won’t know that until I get a roll of film developed.
I have a doctors appointment tomorrow morning (my annual post-gastric bypass check in with my surgeon) and I was thinking of taking a quick stop along the Merrimack River in Lowell, MA on the way home. I checked the weather though… rain. Shit. I guess I’ll take the camera with me when I go on the off chance I get lucky. We’ll see. If not I might be able to take it for a walk through the bird sanctuary in Methuen on Saturday. We’ll see.
In other news, the new Star Wars movie comes out in just under two weeks. Friday May 22nd sees the release of The Mandalorian and Grogu. I would like to see it opening night, but as long as I get to it on opening weekend I will be happy. I asked my wife and my step daughter if they want to go. I hope so. I don’t like going to the movies alone, but I will. I could always drive up to Burlington, VT again (see previous posts for recaps of the million and a half drives to Burlington I’ve taken in the past 2+ weeks) and see it with my step son, assuming he’s interested. He might not be. I don’t know. My family isn’t quite as in love with Star Wars as I’ve been since 1977. In love is the wrong phrase… clinically obsessed is probably more accurate.
Okay, back to work with you, Sir. This is the way.
Friday May 8th. Yeah, it’s my birthday. Again. I’m 55 years old. I am divisible by 11.
It’s our only full day in Michigan. I might write up the reason for this trip at some point, but not today. Suffice to say we spent a long day here (and even though it is after 10pm and I am super old, the day is not over). Tomorrow we go home. We will cross the US/Canadian border two more times but one time will be at a new location.
There is a teeny tiny possibility that we might stop very briefly at Niagara Falls. The first time my Dad ever let me shoot a photo with his SLR (a Pentax K1000) was at Niagara Falls. I have a film camera here with me but it’s not Dad’s K1000. Still, it would be fun to take a shot or two of the Canadian falls on film again.
Speaking of SLR’s, I have one coming from eBay at some point next week. I had planned to wait a few weeks before I went out to shoot film again, but now I’ll need to shoot a test roll through the new camera so I can get it developed and prove everything works (oh please let everything work) before I take it out for real. That will hopefully happen next weekend. Fingers crossed.
Until then, I have a long, long drive on the books for tomorrow. An hour or so North of Detroit to a half hour North of Boston. Wish me and my wife and my step son luck on this crazy journey.
We drove across Quebec and Ontario for ten hours or so and then crossed back into the US in Michigan.
Now Jen and I are in the hotel room where the WiFi doesn’t work. I’m Sad because the three rolls of film I shipped out last week have been developed, scanned, and uploaded to The Darkroom site and I can’t get them onto my laptop.
Crud
I shipped off three rolls of film for developing two days ago. If things go well I’ll have a few more on Tuesday.
Winter is over, folks. It’s time to blow absurd amounts of money on film photography. Bring it on!
I mean… winter is sort of over. It is still pretty cold out. I went to the store this morning and wore a winter jacket. I’m wearing a fleece jacket while sitting in the living room at home. Still… 35mm and 120 film rolls are out in the mail. It’s that time again!
In other news, in about two hours we’re going to leave the house and drive to the airport in Boston. From there we’re driving back to Burlington, VT and then driving home again. It’s going to be a long day of driving. Maybe I should bring a film camera with me. No… not today.
It is that time of year again. The time where my loyal readers (all zero of you) start getting inundated with posts where I say something like, just you watch… tomorrow I’m going to go to the ocean and take pics of the sunrise.
I haven’t taken a photo-walk or anything like that since last August. Eight months. I have the day off tomorrow and the forecast calls for clear skies at sunrise. Let’s do this!
The way this works is… I say I am going to go to the ocean to take pics of the sunrise the next day, and then the next day arrives and I stay in bed. That’s how these things usually go. Will that be the case this time?
Probably.
Work kicked my ass today.
That was a tough one.
I have to get through tomorrow (Thursday). If I can do that in one piece I will get to Friday and I have Friday off. I desperately need tomorrow to not suck. I need things to not fall apart for just one day.
I think we can pull this off. Let me rephrase and say I hope we can pull this off.
Yikes, bro.
Hey look, it’s Spring in New England or something.
Lily and Robin are pretty sure the orange nazi ass clown staged it all last night.
Both kids are here tonight so it’s game night and I won.
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