scattered updates
It's weird to be focusing on photos and videos instead of the press of rentals -- I find myself more inclined to drift off into websurfing when I am not actively out staging and unstaging apartments or chivvying Mr. Geniality into coming along to shoot videos.
That is probably also at least somewhat a blue funk symptom, but it's hard to say where the boundary is.
Anyway, Mr. Geniality lost his voice late last week, so I've shot some videos entirely without him (which are, generally speaking, not great) and some with him walking behind me and narrating softly to give me a timing framework (my cinematography is much better on those). He's been to see a doctor and has some steroid medication now, so hopefully he'll be better by next week and we can do some audio-only voiceover tracks for our advertising/video guy to edit over the visuals.
Alternately, I will just have to get better at doing my own narration-for-the-sake-of-timing and we'll have another batch of videos that need voiceover tracks. *hands*
We have one apartment currently staged, and I think I will take photos tomorrow if the weather isn't too dire -- it's supposed to be rain and thunderstorms all day and there's a flash flood watch over the whole region. I might try video as well, but we think the incoming tenant will not arrive until August so we should have some time to spare. Otherwise I have two key pick-up appointments and one building tour for a person who rented a room entirely via email and wants to get a look at the building now that they're briefly in Ithaca. That might wind up cancelled if the weather is too awful, in which case I will direct them toward our pre-recorded virtual tours on YouTube.
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In non-work news:
1. I have started reading Arkady Martine's A Desolation Called Peace, and thus far I'm enjoying it a lot.
2. I did some review-checking and spreadsheet updates for Nick, because he likes to track the percentage of his ARC readers who leave reviews but doesn't want to risk trying to read the reviews himself for the sake of his mental health.
3. Garden report: I have picked and eaten a lot of raspberries and black raspberries. (Yum!) One of my bell peppers has not only bloomed but is setting fruit, and some others plus my jalapenos are preparing to flower. My squash and zucchini are blooming, though I think none have yet set fruit. My tomatoes are growing enthusiastically. And the bleepity-bleeping mulberry tree is FINALLY almost done dropping its infernal fruit on my back porch and seeding my container garden with a literal hundred thousand invasive sprouts.
4. I attended various church Board of Trustees meetings on Wednesday and Thursday evening.
5. Happy discovery: a local Indian takeout place in a food court on the Commons (they offer four entrees, basmati rice or naan, and vegetable samosas and pakoras) has reopened and I can once again buy lunch there. :)
6. Last night I woke up around 2:30am with an excruciatingly painful charley horse in my right calf. I got the muscle to unstick after about a minute, but it's been sore and achey all day and I am worried I may cramp up again tonight. Hopefully some stretches will help.
And I think that's about it for now. If you want to comment on this post, you can do so over here on Dreamwidth, where there are currently (
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That is probably also at least somewhat a blue funk symptom, but it's hard to say where the boundary is.
Anyway, Mr. Geniality lost his voice late last week, so I've shot some videos entirely without him (which are, generally speaking, not great) and some with him walking behind me and narrating softly to give me a timing framework (my cinematography is much better on those). He's been to see a doctor and has some steroid medication now, so hopefully he'll be better by next week and we can do some audio-only voiceover tracks for our advertising/video guy to edit over the visuals.
Alternately, I will just have to get better at doing my own narration-for-the-sake-of-timing and we'll have another batch of videos that need voiceover tracks. *hands*
We have one apartment currently staged, and I think I will take photos tomorrow if the weather isn't too dire -- it's supposed to be rain and thunderstorms all day and there's a flash flood watch over the whole region. I might try video as well, but we think the incoming tenant will not arrive until August so we should have some time to spare. Otherwise I have two key pick-up appointments and one building tour for a person who rented a room entirely via email and wants to get a look at the building now that they're briefly in Ithaca. That might wind up cancelled if the weather is too awful, in which case I will direct them toward our pre-recorded virtual tours on YouTube.
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In non-work news:
1. I have started reading Arkady Martine's A Desolation Called Peace, and thus far I'm enjoying it a lot.
2. I did some review-checking and spreadsheet updates for Nick, because he likes to track the percentage of his ARC readers who leave reviews but doesn't want to risk trying to read the reviews himself for the sake of his mental health.
3. Garden report: I have picked and eaten a lot of raspberries and black raspberries. (Yum!) One of my bell peppers has not only bloomed but is setting fruit, and some others plus my jalapenos are preparing to flower. My squash and zucchini are blooming, though I think none have yet set fruit. My tomatoes are growing enthusiastically. And the bleepity-bleeping mulberry tree is FINALLY almost done dropping its infernal fruit on my back porch and seeding my container garden with a literal hundred thousand invasive sprouts.
4. I attended various church Board of Trustees meetings on Wednesday and Thursday evening.
5. Happy discovery: a local Indian takeout place in a food court on the Commons (they offer four entrees, basmati rice or naan, and vegetable samosas and pakoras) has reopened and I can once again buy lunch there. :)
6. Last night I woke up around 2:30am with an excruciatingly painful charley horse in my right calf. I got the muscle to unstick after about a minute, but it's been sore and achey all day and I am worried I may cramp up again tonight. Hopefully some stretches will help.
And I think that's about it for now. If you want to comment on this post, you can do so over here on Dreamwidth, where there are currently (
comments)