Skipping a Year

Yesterday I posted something about how I used to do New Years day posts where I posted one picture from each month as a year in review kind of thing. I said I was still thinking of doing one for 2023.

I just went through my Flickr trying to decide which pics to use for the post…

…and it turns out that most months don’t have anything worth highlighting. It was a nice quiet year but photographically? There are long stretches of time where there’s nothing special to look back on. There are lots of guitar pictures and lots of cat pictures and not a whole lot else.

Oh well. Let’s try to make 2024 a little more visually interesting, m’kay?

Maybe I am just old and uninteresting now. Not that I was ever very interesting to begin with.

How Are We Doing?

Hey folks. How is it going? Are we all doing all right tonight? It’s Friday the 13th, has the universe thrown you any curve balls?

Today has gone okay for me. I found out my nephew has Covid. Sigh in frustration. I hope he’s okay, and I hope he kicks it way faster than I did. I don’t want him to be sick for three weeks the way I was. I have a whole new perspective on this particular plague and somehow it makes everything worse.

I had another one of those empty stomach things that I wrote about last night. Usually it hits about three hours after eating. Today it hit two hours after I finished lunch. I had a snack and thought I would be okay until dinner, but an hour later it came back. Weird. That’s the first time this issue was not predictable. I didn’t eat dinner until 7:00, which was about an hour after the stomach ache came back. We’re going to have to keep an eye on this tonight. I don’t want any weirdness. Unpredictable weirdness is not as fun as you’d think.

Jen and I just watched this week’s episode of Loki. Season two episode two. At lunch today I was poking around news.google.com and I was almost spoiled about seven times. I am going to have to be more careful on Fridays for the next four weeks.

I just checked the weather for the weekend. It is going to be clear at sunrise tomorrow and clear just after sunrise on Sunday. There must be photos this weekend. It’s a necessity. I have a lot of stuff on my agenda and I’m booked pretty solid. Still, from a mental health standpoint a photowalk somewhere must happen. The mornings are getting cold and there are only so many more opportunities left before the winter ruins everything. I have to take advantage of this. Ocean sunrise and maybe some Merrimack River stuff tomorrow and then either around town on Sunday or maybe finally spend an hour or two walking around the city? Boston at sunrise on a Sunday should be easy to social distance, shouldn’t it?

Like I said, there is a lot on my plate this weekend. I need to make time for some creative stuff. I’m still feeling a little shell shocked from the covid journey so my brain needs to stretch its figurative legs a little.

Here’s hoping we can make something happen this weekend. Assuming Friday the 13th lets us through the day, right?

No Pics

I just drove to Cambridge and back to pick something up at Jen’s favorite electronics store. I tried taking stop light pics in the city but everything came out a blurry disastrous mess.

Sorry to let you all down. I’ll do better in the future.

One Free Day

I had a day’s worth of comp time banked last week when my boss suggested I use it or lose it. When do I need to use it by? Asks me. End of the month says he. Well, far be it from me to turn down a four day weekend, I booked the day after Memorial Day. Aka, tomorrow.

Now what? My beloved will be at work, the kids will be at school. How should I spend the day? I was reserving it for possible yard work if it rained all weekend, but I got the yard work done yesterday. I am free and clear tomorrow.

I have three ideas. I just need to pick one.

Obviously idea #1 is to flake the day away. Watch some tube, a movie or whatever. That’s probably what I’ll do, but I’d like to at least think about doing something more involved.

Idea #2 is music. I’ve got a lot of in progress recordings that could be polished off over the course of a full business day. That would be nerd-hobby productive, and therefore acceptable to my nerd brain.

Idea #3 is to have a photo day. Take the camera somewhere and take a pile of new pictures to feed the Flickr. But where? Boston is the obvious place. Harvard Square in Cambridge? Maybe some places near home like the Spicket or Merrimack rivers? I don’t know. It sounds like a good idea.

Which do you suggest, oh Internet?

Posterous (ie Twitter) can Kiss My Fat Ass

The whole reason I started using wordpress.com was because I could host images on posterous and have them auto post to wordpress. Of course it took just a few weeks before those pics I sent to posterous started showing up in my wordpress storage counts. Then after a couple more weeks the posterous auto posting stopped working. Yeah, that was nice, huh? Now this week we find out that posterous’ parent company, twitter, is closing up the shop and posterous is going away.

I am afraid to see how much of my free wordpress storage space I have used. I have to be more diligent about using Flickr to host images.