Photo a Day Challenge

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Most Wednesdays, my work from the office day, have crappy pointless pics for the photo a day challenge. This morning I took a minute to try and do something a little cooler. Just a little cooler. Note that I turned the volume up full blast, which implies that the amplifier was most definitely not switched on when this was taken. I would have blown the walls out of the room if it had been playing at this volume.

I am down to the final month of my fourth consecutive photo a day challenge. Do I want to do next year’s entirely on film?

Traditions

Daily writing prompt
What traditions have you not kept that your parents had?
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There aren’t a lot of family traditions that my parents kept that I do not. The big one that comes to mind is religion. My parents were raised catholic and they raised the three of us to be catholic. Somewhere along the line I realized I didn’t believe any of it. Even when I was going to church every Sunday as a kid, I don’t think I believed any of it. I went through the motions, but I never felt it. My brother is still faithful. My sister… I don’t really know one way or another. Me? Atheist. The tradition I don’t keep is going to church.

Rant beginning

I thought the whole priests-systematically-raping-children-then-covering-it-up-for-each-other thing would have brought more people to my way of thinking, but I also thought fascists running the government would have brought people to my little corner of the political spectrum (closer to it at least) but that didn’t seem to happen either, so what do I know.

Rant over. Sorry.

Indicted Again

Third time is the charm? This is the one I’ve really wanted. String him up by his treasonous toes.

He’s still going to win the nomination by a landslide though because half of the people in this country are at best fascist sympathizers. There is no America left to save. Not really.

Say Your Prayers

Dig what I just saw in the back yard wild kingdom…

Looks like a praying mantis to me. I Googled “brown praying mantis” and sure enough, there are brown praying mantises. Groovy. I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of these for real before. What an ugly SOB (though not as ugly as a house centipede, those bastards look like pure, unadulterated evil). I would have squished it, but I think she could probably take me in a straight up fight.

I Want an X-Wing

If I could have any ship from Star Wars as a personal ride, I would probably chose an X-Wing. Only because I am not a gear head and I think Millennium Falcon maintenance would likely be beyond me.

X-Wing on film:

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X-Wing on digital (with a cameo from BB-8):

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This post is just an excuse to post another film shot because I am anxiously awaiting an email saying that the two rolls of film I shipped to the lab last week are done. That’s all this is. Also, X-Wings are cool.

Typical

Daily writing prompt
Was today typical?
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Seeing as it’s only 7:30am right now, I don’t think I can call whether today has been typical or not. How about yesterday?

Yesterday was pretty typical. Jen and I both worked from home and had quiet days over all. That was fairly typical. I hit all of my health goals. That was pretty typical, thankfully for my health I guess. Jen and I had dinner together. That being typical is the one shining up side of the pandemic sending us all home. Now we get to have dinner together almost every night at a nice decent hour. The atypical days being the days where one of us has to work from the office.

The atypical stuff revolved around my stomach. I had a bad issue at lunch and another one at dinner. I can’t say such a gastric bypass side effect fun is uncommon, but as I get better at all of this it is thankfully becoming less common. That is good over all, but yesterday was annoying. Neither issue was too bad yesterday, but they were both there.

So over all, everything was pretty typical yesterday. I’ll take it.

More Bad Family News

We lost my mother’s older sister late last year. We lost my mother early this year. Today we found out that my mother’s older brother is going into hospice. He has kidney and heart issues and his fight is coming to an end.

Nine months ago there were four siblings in my mother’s family. Now we have to prepare ourselves to lose a third. This sucks.

Let’s Go to Boston

What do you say, wanna go into Boston for a post-dinner walk tonight? I do!

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See the Duck Boat?

Full discloser, I only have something like three film photos left over from the one previous time I had a film camera in the city with me, and those three pics (including this one you see here) are awful and a total waste and not at all worth sharing, but I really want to share something new because that’s what I do with these film photo things, right?

Anyway, here are a couple that have already been shared… just cause.

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So what do you say, wanna go into town for a walk tonight? Let’s go!

One goal for a photo walk in Boston is to try to recreate this photo. I took this with my old Kokak point and shoot back in 2005 and I want to do it again and possibly improve it? I want to do it on film and on digital.

f5.6, 1/750th, iso 80.

Hancock Tower in Boston