Cat Silhouette
Category: photography
Guilt a Day
This is just me using the photo a day thing to try and guilt myself into playing guitar one of these days. It’s probably not going to work.
Temporary Housing
The plant population has to be rehoused, temporarily. It will get afternoon sun instead of morning sun.
Flop
She just flopped down between us. There was about three inches of space and she took it all.
Speaking of Critters
When I came upstairs this morning to start packing up for the drive to the office, Robin the cat jumped up on the table by the dining room window and looked like she was posing for me. I took out my phone to snap a pic and she ran away.
Three minutes later she changed her mind and came back to do the whole super model cat* walk thing. I managed two pics. That’s all she let me take.
When it comes to shooting with a model, consent is everything.
*Pun very much intended.
Big Critter
Woke up to this scene in the backyard:
Musta been a big critter. Is a deer big enough to do that? Probably. My first thought, and Jen’s first thought too, was a bear… I don’t think we have bears around here. I’m 99.999% sure we don’t. Still… a bear would be big enough. I’m probably overreacting to the size requirements though. I bet it was a fox or a coyote. Maybe a deer. Who knows.
I just know I need a new bird feeder post now. Oh well. To amazon.com we go.
What the Hell is That?
When I went outside this morning I saw something weird.
What the hell is all that blue stuff in the sky? Where is the normal grey and awful looking stuff up there? I don’t get it. Blue sky? Does not compute.
Late
I didn’t get a chance to break for lunch until 2:15 today. An hour and 15 minutes later than I was hoping. Ugh.
Driving Home Last Night
A couple of pics from the drive home last night. Both are in Haverhill, MA.
No reason. I just felt like posting them.
Finally!
The search for a new singer for the band is over. The new singer is our old singer. He’s back and it’s fantastic! It probably means we won’t be changing the name now, but I can get over that.
It was like riding a bike tonight, especially given that my guitar playing sucked. Well, I was doing fine for about 25 minutes and then my fingers decided they were toast and they stopped doing what I wanted them to do. I expect that my sloppy playing on Stevie Wonder’s Superstition will cause the ghosts of Jeff Beck and Stevie Ray Vaughn to haunt me tonight.
That’s okay, We’ll get back into shape soon enough. I seriously want us to book a gig for October or November, just to push us back into form. We had one practice tonight and now we’ll be off for the next two weeks. We need to spark some serious motivation, you know? Let’s book a gig!
As for gear notes, I played my Les Paul Standard through my Vox AC15. I have a sneaking suspicion that is going to be my primary rig for the near future. I put my clone of a ProCo Rat pedal onto the board and completely forgot that it, like the Vox amp, has it’s tone control backward (it cuts rather than boosts) so when I was trying to make the tone less trebly I was actually making it more trebly. I’ll fix that next time… if I remember that I did things backwards. We’ll see.
Inside the Red Head's Head 