I have an amp and a pedal board at Mike the Bass Player’s house already. Pretty sure there are a bunch of mic stands too. I packed the bare minimum. A mic and a cable. Two guitar cables and an over drive pedal. One electric guitar. One pack of emergency strings.
Assuming my amp works… I’m ready to play.
Now I just have to finish the work day and drive to Mike’s house. I’m ready, kids!
Finally! While I was cooking my lunch on the grill today I got a picture of one of the birds living rent-free in one of the bird houses!
Now I need to see if there are baby birds in there too.
Scenes from lunch time.
I filled the bird feeders and did a photography exercise.
The same view, with different depth of field.
Example #1, aperture set to f2, shutter speed set to 1/5000 seconds, ISO set to 800 (because that is the speed of the film in Dad’s camera right now).
Example #2, aperture set to f8, shutter speed set to 1/500 seconds, ISO still at 800.
Final example, aperture set to f16, shutter speed set to 1/100 seconds, ISO again at 800.
So the lower the aperture number (lower numbers mean wider aperture, so f2 is as wide as my lens gets and f16 is as narrow as it gets) the shallower the depth of field and the less of the image that is in focus. Get it?
Lily and I have a new game. I try to make the bed and she tries to get under the blankets while I make the bed. I won today by keeping her out. She won yesterday. It’s a thing we do now.
The whole photo a day challenge thing gets pretty lame on the one day per week I work in the office. It’s usually just a picture from the highway, or from the parking lot at work, or of my desk, or something lame like that.
Just sharing a couple of scenes from the back yard today, while I was cooking a hamburger on the grill.
First, there is a bird living in this bird house! Jen and I have both seen it!
Second, Robin still does not know how to deal with me being outside. She freaks out when I talk to her through the window.
Also, that window is super dirty. I should hose it down.
Raise your hand if you put vocals onto five songs this morning before work.
*Robert raises his hand*
I didn’t need to hide in the car. I did it at my desk in the cellar. Five songs with vocals. That’s 10% of the 50/90 goal. Not bad, red head.
The mouser takes a much needed afternoon nap.
We rented a dumpster for the weekend. I had a ton of crap in the yard that needed to be dumped, and a ton of crap in the cellar that also needed to be dumped. Renting a small dumpster is what we do when we find ourselves in a situation like this.
They delivered it on Friday. I worked off and on filling it up on Friday through Sunday. They are supposed to pick it up today. The window they gave us is 9:00am to 5:00pm. That window is going to close in less than an hour (the clock says it’s 4:13 right now).
What the heck are they waiting for? Come and get the damn dumpster. I want to put our cars back into the driveway. They’ve been parked on the street since Friday morning. I know it’s been raining heavily all day, but should that stop the pickup? I wouldn’t think so. Let’s get this done, shall we?
Subject change
It’s been almost a week since I did a couch to 5k run. I am not sure when I am going to get back to it. I will get back to it, that’s a promise, I just don’t know when. I also think I am going to redo the entire last week. Instead of picking up where I left off, week three, workout two, I am going to start at week two, workout one. I feel like I need to do some rebuilding. I still want to finish this process. I just don’t have a lot of confidence in my ability to get there. We’ll see.
Subject change
I just want to go out and take pictures of stuff. Film, digital, whatever. I want to do it first thing in the morning when the sun is out. For almost the entire month of June and so far in July there have been few if any mornings with sunshine. It’s infuriating and utterly depressing. Why? I can’t remember the last sunny weekend morning. The forecast for this coming weekend is already saying cloudy and rainy. It’s hard to do this shit on a weekday, but even those are always cloudy and rainy. This Spring was the Spring of suck, and the Summer is becoming the Summer of suck. I just want to scream.
At least I can fill the creative void with some music. I just don’t want to. I want to split the difference. Music and photos together, not one or the other. Blah!
