Weren’t we in Burlington, VT just the other day?
Why yes, yes we were. And tomorrow, I’m going back. My step daughter needs help with something and I’m dropping everything and running to her aide.
So Friday through Monday in Vermont, then Friday in Vermont, and next week we’ll have Thursday in Vermont as well. Sounds like a lot of driving for ol’ Robbie, dontcha know!
I love it!
On the way home, on a pit stop.
Graduation road trip weekend is coming to a close. I’ve been packing up our stuff and loading up the car. Harry went home with his dad yesterday so it’s just me and Jen and Nana this time.
Bellana is coming to the hotel to have breakfast with us. Bonus time! After that we will check out and head South.
All in all it was a great weekend, celebrating Bellana and her fellow UVM graduates. Congratulations to the class of 2023!
Both of my step kids are students at the University of Vermont. My step son gave us a quick tour of some of one campus while leading us to my step daughter’s ceremony of the day.
Check out my step daughter, getting honored by her college. I promise she’s in this photo.
I promise she’s in this one as well, though she’s a smidge on the blurry side.
We just came from the college of arts and sciences award ceremony. Bellana was recognized for completing the honors college thesis paper and defense.
I am so proud I might spontaneously combust.
We are going to take her out to dinner tonight because it’s also her 22nd birthday. It’s just a big day all around.
We are at the hotel. No interesting pics yet, but these exist so here they are.
I just packed a backpack full of camera gear. Three cameras, two 35mm and one mirrorless, four lenses in total, and six fresh rolls of film. Also a shit load of various Apple chargers, a small food scale, and a couple of camera chargers.
Tomorrow I’ll put my MacBook Pro and probably my iPad into the bag too. Then I need to pack a bag full of protein bars and go to the grocery store to buy a shit load of water bottles and sugar free gatorade to put into a cooler that I want to keep in the car. I need to get ice too.
The only other thing left to pack is one collared shirt that I washed earlier today that is hang drying in the cellar. Tomorrow morning I’ll throw that in the suitcase.
Oh yeah! I also need to pack a travel shaving kit, a tooth brush, and some deodorant.
All of this for four days in Vermont.
Totally worth it. I can’t wait.
I am on a four day weekend. I am also suddenly super exhausted.
I don’t think those two things are related but who knows, maybe they are?
Happy four day weekend. We’re goin; road trippin’, babie!
Bad reactions to food on Sunday and Monday. Migraine on Tuesday. Bad stomach aches all day on Wednesday. Mostly okay except for a bad lunchtime food reaction on Thursday. What does the shit roulette wheel have for us on Friday?
Another stomach ache. But it feels different today. It’s not an oh I think I might be hungry kind of ache. Today it’s more like a you are disagreeing with something you ate last night kind of ache. Lots of gas, eating doesn’t help at all. I’ve had eight ounces of water, a protein bar, and a little protein snack. Still feeling it pretty much exactly the same as when I woke up.
Shit.
The good news though is that I have watched the season two premier of Yellowjackets. You know that show, the single most fucked up thing on television at this point in time? Yeah, that one. Great freakin’ show that is seriously disturbing while also really funny. No spoilers but the first episode was excellent and the last second reveal at the end… ewwww.
I checked the forecast for the weekend. Guess what’s not going to be out in the morning on either Saturday or Sunday. Go on, guess. You know it… the sun. No sunrise pics for me this week. It’s getting to the point where I might start taking this personally.
If we go to California in the fall, should I think about making a photo book for fun? Not like, oh I took a bunch of pictures so let’s throw the best ones into a book type of thing. More like planning out what I want to see in it and then trying to take pics that make it happen. Something like that. I’m sure I can get that done super cheap through Shutterfly or something. Maybe I can talk Jen into going up to the mountains a lot this summer and I could do something similar there. Just a thought. I like projects sometimes, you know? Like creative projects and stuff. I’m old, leave me alone.
The cats are in the cellar with me but they are avoiding me. I don’t think they like me very much. Sad face.
Unrelated productivity note: I am watching a youtube video of a guy using a folding camera from 1940 with a discontinued film format that expired in 1970. He’s in his home office talking about how he handled the ISO on the expired film and he’s standing in front of a white board that’s hanging on his wall. That’s super cool, of course. The stand out thing though, is that he has a Texas Instruments TI-83 calculator velcro’d onto the white board. Oh my god my nerd brain just exploded with how awesome that is! KaBoom!
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