Long time readers of my LJ may have noticed a dearth of photography over the winter... For whatever reason, I've been in a long creative funk. I haven't stressed too much (at least publicly) because these things happen, and eventually they do end. I went on a photowalk with a camera club the other weekend and got a couple of decent shots, and ( Read more... )

Ever since I started shaving regularly for Movember, I've not really been happy with the process... which is part of why I grew a beard in the first place. So, yesterday, off the web to do some research on shaving. I discovered two things mainly... The first is that there is a lot of information on the web on just about any topic you care to name ( Read more... )

Busy, busy, busy...

The week past:

• Wensday:  All day long at the county fair, alternating wandering about with working the desk in the photo competition area.  So far, of the photo's I took, there's a dismaying lack of keepers.
  
  
• Thursday: Cleaning house in the AM, and our friends Chas and Andy arrived from out-of-town.  Up late chatting and catching ( Read more... )

Yeah, I know, first world problems and all that... But August is going to be one busy month, lurching from one thing to the next.

August 3-5 Summer MadnessThe annual Baronial Picnic - and I'm in charge of the meat for the feast... Brenda will be staying home to deal with a sick piggie, so I have to camp by myself.

August 11-12 Photographic entries ( Read more... )

I haven't posted in a couple of weeks, so it's time for a quick catch-up on some of the highlights...

• We went over to Seattle for the Smokin' in Seattle EGGfest. A whole day of hanging out with fellow eggers and sampling many fine dishes cooked on the Egg.
• While there, we went over to Ikea and bought a new set of dinner dishes. We've been looking ( Read more... )

I'm installing a trial version of some photo-editing software. It was interesting to watch the last five years go by (nothing older on this machine) as it crawled my catalog and created thumbnails.

On the other hand, it was very disconcerting considering the cultural connotations of "having your life flash in front of your eyes". (Especially when ( Read more... )

It's been a busy week so far, two nice warm days to get out into the shop, and today crawling through a backlog of email and projects at the computer and I still haven't had a chance to write and post on the weekend... Plus it's a three meeting week! (Tues, Fight Practice, Wens, Culinary Guild, Thurs, Wyverns ( Read more... )

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Oh boy, do I have days like this...


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*If* you put too much soap in the washer, and *if* you have a decent shop vac, and *if* you use said shop vac to suck up the excess foam/water from the washing machine - it *will* make a credible attempt at vacuuming up the laundry as well.