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Rainy Monday.
Oct. 7th, 2013 01:24 pmMy office has no windows so I can't actually SEE the rain, but I hear it on the roof so I know it's there. I kinda like that.
Wow, so I won the LJ-Photophile poll! Not the one I mentioned a few weeks ago, this was a catch-up poll from a few months back. Funny how it works, I was WAY more proud of the seagull-at-sunset photo than I was of the passionflower photo, but people went nuts over the flower and it ran away with the poll. I find it interesting that the things I think are my best work and what other people think are my best don't always--or even often--overlap. In other news, I can't find a single photo I want to vote for in the latest poll. Most of them are snapshots, and the one that wants to be amazing was posted in quite low resolution as part of a massive dump of pics, neither of which I want to encourage by voting for it. If that makes sense. Anyway.
Speaking of seagulls at sunset, I just now booked my outbound flight for a trip to California next week! Kind of short notice, but I've had to wait for some other folks to get their shit together to pick dates and whatnot. So presently it looks like California next week, Birmingham and Detroit the week after that, and then Indianapolis in early November. Travellin man! Since California is such a long trip, I'm contemplating adding a vacation day to the itinerary so I can see some more sights out there. Maybe even a Disneyland day, I guess we'll see. I'd love to visit Sequoia Nat'l Forest, but hello GOP government shutdown. Anyway, I ran the idea by the wife, we'll see what she says before I book the return flights.
Weekend was pretty good. Saturday morning the wife headed downtown for some training on being a Girl Scout troop leader. Maybe I mentioned she's trying to get a troop going for the girls and some friends of theirs. The timing was bad because I had booked a photoshoot for the afternoon, way out in Christmas (about 45 minutes from home). But the Girl Scout training is only offered once a month, so she didn't want to miss it and have to wait a month. But she also didn't want to turn around and head to the park as soon as she got home--if she'd even get home on time, which was questionable. So that left me alone with the girls, and the prospect of dragging them along to the shoot, or leaving them home alone until she got back. Neither option sounded very good. But it thankfully worked out--luckily the client was an old acquaintance and a friend-of-a-friend, so I got that friend to meet us all at the park with her daughter, and she watched the kids play while I did the session. Whew. Good thing too, because before our friend showed up, Amy didn't want to even let me put her down. Would have made trying to work a photoshoot pretty darn tough, without even mentioning the utter-lack-of-professionalism angle! But it went well, and I even got everything edited by Sunday evening. Quick turnaround! And the client was ecstatic with the photos, so all's well that ends well.
Sunday we had no plans, so mainly we stayed home and I sweated a lot. Hopefully that's the last summer-like weekend for a while! Anyway, I worked some more at unearthing a big plant from the pool area (we want to replace the stuff in that plant bed with butterfly-friendly things), helped the girls sand and stain our woodworking projects from a few weeks back, and worked at cleaning the garage. That was sort of a big deal, we cleared and rearranged enough stuff to allow us to fit both vehicles in there. It's extremely tight with both of them inside, but it makes me feel better. The main crime in our area is vehicle burglaries--usually unlocked cars, but occasionally smash-and-grab jobs--and my new car is too nice to subject to that sort of nonsense. So I'll sleep better knowing they're both snug inside. Plus it's better for the car itself, of course! While cleaning the garage I found a piece of wood countertop I forgot I had, so I came up with the idea of extending the surface in my workshop while also moving a metal shelving unit to a better location. Might work on that evenings this week, should be fun. :)
And that's about it for now, I guess. Work is going along despite my best efforts to do as little of it as possible. I've been steadily catching up on Breaking Bad and was quite sad when they demolished the Winnebago. Sorry if that was a spoiler! :) Back to it, hope everyone is having a swell day!
Wow, so I won the LJ-Photophile poll! Not the one I mentioned a few weeks ago, this was a catch-up poll from a few months back. Funny how it works, I was WAY more proud of the seagull-at-sunset photo than I was of the passionflower photo, but people went nuts over the flower and it ran away with the poll. I find it interesting that the things I think are my best work and what other people think are my best don't always--or even often--overlap. In other news, I can't find a single photo I want to vote for in the latest poll. Most of them are snapshots, and the one that wants to be amazing was posted in quite low resolution as part of a massive dump of pics, neither of which I want to encourage by voting for it. If that makes sense. Anyway.
Speaking of seagulls at sunset, I just now booked my outbound flight for a trip to California next week! Kind of short notice, but I've had to wait for some other folks to get their shit together to pick dates and whatnot. So presently it looks like California next week, Birmingham and Detroit the week after that, and then Indianapolis in early November. Travellin man! Since California is such a long trip, I'm contemplating adding a vacation day to the itinerary so I can see some more sights out there. Maybe even a Disneyland day, I guess we'll see. I'd love to visit Sequoia Nat'l Forest, but hello GOP government shutdown. Anyway, I ran the idea by the wife, we'll see what she says before I book the return flights.
Weekend was pretty good. Saturday morning the wife headed downtown for some training on being a Girl Scout troop leader. Maybe I mentioned she's trying to get a troop going for the girls and some friends of theirs. The timing was bad because I had booked a photoshoot for the afternoon, way out in Christmas (about 45 minutes from home). But the Girl Scout training is only offered once a month, so she didn't want to miss it and have to wait a month. But she also didn't want to turn around and head to the park as soon as she got home--if she'd even get home on time, which was questionable. So that left me alone with the girls, and the prospect of dragging them along to the shoot, or leaving them home alone until she got back. Neither option sounded very good. But it thankfully worked out--luckily the client was an old acquaintance and a friend-of-a-friend, so I got that friend to meet us all at the park with her daughter, and she watched the kids play while I did the session. Whew. Good thing too, because before our friend showed up, Amy didn't want to even let me put her down. Would have made trying to work a photoshoot pretty darn tough, without even mentioning the utter-lack-of-professionalism angle! But it went well, and I even got everything edited by Sunday evening. Quick turnaround! And the client was ecstatic with the photos, so all's well that ends well.
Sunday we had no plans, so mainly we stayed home and I sweated a lot. Hopefully that's the last summer-like weekend for a while! Anyway, I worked some more at unearthing a big plant from the pool area (we want to replace the stuff in that plant bed with butterfly-friendly things), helped the girls sand and stain our woodworking projects from a few weeks back, and worked at cleaning the garage. That was sort of a big deal, we cleared and rearranged enough stuff to allow us to fit both vehicles in there. It's extremely tight with both of them inside, but it makes me feel better. The main crime in our area is vehicle burglaries--usually unlocked cars, but occasionally smash-and-grab jobs--and my new car is too nice to subject to that sort of nonsense. So I'll sleep better knowing they're both snug inside. Plus it's better for the car itself, of course! While cleaning the garage I found a piece of wood countertop I forgot I had, so I came up with the idea of extending the surface in my workshop while also moving a metal shelving unit to a better location. Might work on that evenings this week, should be fun. :)
And that's about it for now, I guess. Work is going along despite my best efforts to do as little of it as possible. I've been steadily catching up on Breaking Bad and was quite sad when they demolished the Winnebago. Sorry if that was a spoiler! :) Back to it, hope everyone is having a swell day!
