Friday Four-Plus #15
Lake Huron Sunrise 2
It's Friday and I have a stinking suspicion I should be doing something blogworthy. I've actually gone "public" with the Central Illinois Photoblog now and I've been posting my tush off over there because I have so much spare time. On to the regular non-photo Friday content now.
1. My love of my home continues to shrink. I think we've got some issues in our upstairs bathroom that causing water to leak in behind the shower. And I think we're building a fertile area for mold. And I think it's getting to the point where we're going to abandon the upstairs shower for the basement shower. And then I think I'm going to have to rip the upstairs shower out and see what damage we've got. And if the damage is bad, we'll have to replace framing. And then we'll put a real shower in. The interesting thing I guess is there was only one shower in the house when we moved in five year ago - we converted the upstairs. I'm just not thrilled with how it was done - we didn't put in a real shower unit. There's a system where you can glue big sheets of "tile" to the wall - and they overlap and blah, blah, blah. After five years, it isn't holding up. The joys of home ownership. On the bright side, our new guest room is empty - which means it can fairly quickly be painted and guest-y things can be moved in (like the bed etc.). Let's see how long that takes.
2. In the bad-to-worse area, my computer at home is really crashing a LOT. I'm pretty convinced that I should waste a week or two totally reinstalling everything - starting with Windows XP. I think - with the possible exception of my sound card - the hardware is fine. On the bright side, I can get rid of a lot of stuff I probably don't need on my computer. I'm going to hold on until the middle of November, and then start from scratch.
3. Looks like I'm going to hang about 15 pieces of my work at the Bertha Frank Center in Morton for about a month in mid-November too. This is the performing arts center in that little bedroom community of Peoria. One of the people responsible for getting artists to hang their work in the building is a former PAG Photo Student so she tracked me down. I was going to do this in February - but they had someone back out so I said that I would step in. I'll start working on organizing that this weekend - my last supposed quiet weekend before Thanksgiving. Shhhh.
4. I can't wait for this darn election to get here - both for the implied change I think will come and for all the whining on everyone's parts to come to an end. I just want to be able to drive over all the signs along the side of the road on Nov. 5. I'd prefer to do it smiling but I'll do it regardless. I can't remember being any more grumpier then I've been, politically speaking, the last eight years. I just hope that change does come and that it's real - and not lip service. And that the 40% of my retirement I've lost finds a way to come back and that I still have a job in three months. We can do so much better. What a comfort to know we can send Dick Cheney back to Wyoming - at least metaphorically. A tough thing to do to one of my favorite states but we all must carry the load.
5. There's a very real chance I'll be doling out justice in a Tazewell County courtroom next week. That's right - I've been called to jury duty - for the first time since moving out of Peoria. My county is pretty peaceful - maybe when I dial in over the weekend I will find out I don't have to come in on Monday. Every day on jury duty is a day without pay for me so boooo - no jury duty.
6. Alright - let's wrap this sucker up. I have to go shoot a publicity shot for the NCHS fall play tonight. It's taken me all day to write this; I'll be darned if work doesn't keep getting in the way. The picture above: one of my favorite Monday Morning Mackinac images. I miss the place and would just love to be back there right now. Sigh.