Adjusting That Mindset

I got up from my desk and walked out to the kitchen to heat up the air fryer and start cooking some lunch. When I walked back into Harry’s room, Robin Sparkles was laying down on the day-bed. I reached into my pocket for my iPhone and then stopped myself. My Z5 was literally three feet away. If I want to start using the real camera instead of my phone camera then I actually have to stop reaching for my phone, right?

I picked up my Z5 and snapped a picture of Miss Robin. There. Let’s adjust that mindset, Robbie. Let’s do it. Let’s get back to using the real camera instead of the iPhone camera. I need to get a new point and shoot if I am going to move away from the iPhone again. Something pocket sized, and no one makes those anymore. At least they don’t make decent ones anymore. Well… Nikon doesn’t make them anymore. Ugh.

Anyway, here’s a cat.

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My Camera is Back

I haven’t had my Nikon Z5 available for the last week and a half. When my step son is home in Vermont I work from home at a desk in his bedroom. When he comes home to stay with us I stay out of his bedroom and work from home at a desk in the cellar. For the last week and a half he has been home with us. At the time he came home, my Z5 (and both of my film cameras) were in his room on the desk. They stayed there while he was home because I don’t like sneaking into his space, probably because I feel a little guilty about using his room for work.

He went back to Vermont yesterday so I’m back in his room today and I have my cameras again! Today’s photo a day picture is a mirrorless sucker!

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I also moved the plants that are clipped from my step daughter’s plant back into his room too. They spent the week and a half in the living room on the bay window. The cats ate a couple of leaves off of one of them.

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I want to try to use the mirrorless camera for the every photo over the last month of the current photo a day thing, but I doubt I will be able to do that. I’m too dependent on my iPhone. sorry.

Who Knew?

As random subject matter posts go… this is one.

The inner lining of our shower curtain was getting pretty ratty. I thought it was time to replace it. Over the weekend I went to Target and bought a new one. I didn’t get around to actually hanging it until last night.

It didn’t fit.

It was way too small. Every shower curtain we’ve bought since we moved into the house has had 12 curtain ring holes. This one had 10. I still put it up, just to see what would happen, and it is not long enough to cover our entire shower.

So… shower curtain sizes are not standardized? Who knew? I totally did not know that. You mean all the shower curtains I’ve purchased in my life have been the correct size by accident? Really? Is that where all of the luck I’ve been hoping for when I play the lottery has been going? Have I been the luckiest shower curtain shopper in America all this time without really knowing it?

Guess I’m going out shower curtain shopping again after work tonight.

2024 50/90 Challenge Day 28/90

Remember that goofy, pointless goal I mentioned a couple of times? The one where I wanted to get 20 songs mixed and finished before the month of July ended?

Yeah, I totally did it. I mixed three songs yesterday, bringing my total finished song count up to 20. That’s two (2) RPM Challenge rules albums in 28 days. That was fun. As a cherry on top, I also added two more song ideas. That brings the total pipeline count up to 28. And there are still two full months to go!

Optimistically, that means that things look good.

Realistically, it just means that there is plenty of time for me to fall off the wagon and blow this thing.

Welcome to August, music lovers.

Too Good Not to Share

I saw this on Threads today and I think it is too good not to share. It’s very fitting.

This is the post where I first saw it, but there is a comment stating that the person who posted it did not create it… so I don’t know who to give credit for it. Sorry.

Up to No Good

It was a little after 5:00am. I walked into the living room and saw this:

If ever there were two creatures who were caught in the act of being up to no good…

The question is… what kind of trouble were they about to get into? Sneaky little furballs.

2024 50/90 Challenge Day 27/90

I started day 27 with six songs ready to mix. I mixed three of them. If I can mix the last three on day 28 that will be the RPM Challenge equivalent of a double album in the month of July. I have 17 songs finished right now. Three more will put me at 20. A double album would be fun, don’t you think?

17 down, 33 to go.