It’s another lazy grey day, and since I’ve been working on photographing and scanning, and not entertaining Miss Brown, like I’m supposed to, she got disgusted with me and retired to her favorite napping spot. Of course, just as she was finally settled and starting to fall asleep, I decided it was the perfect time to take her picture. I’m mean that way.
I’m really starting to get tired of the rain and the fog and the endless grey, grey, grey. The sky actually cleared for about ten minutes this afternoon, but it didn’t take long for the clouds to come back and cover up all that lovely blue. And, of course, the forecast calls for more rain tonight and tomorrow. Ugh.
About the only nice thing I can say about the weather is, at least we haven’t had an ice storm. Yet.
Shells, Bones, and Stones, Kodak EasyShare DX4530 with blue Holga SSFS-120 filter
Shells, Bones, and Stones, Kodak EasyShare DX4530 with red Holga SSFS-120 filter
Shells, Bones, and Stones, Kodak EasyShare DX4530 with grey Holga SSFS-120 filter
Letter Stamps, Kodak EasyShare DX4530 with grey Holga SSFS-120 filter
Ivy, Kodak EasyShare DX4530 and Keystone 60 Second Everflash
Duck, Kodak EasyShare DX4530 and Keystone 60 Second Everflash
Field, Kodak EasyShare DX4530 and Keystone 60 Second Everflash
You can see why I have a hard time getting my letter stamps oriented in the right direction. It might help if I put them back in the box correctly!
It was foggy again. Pea soup fog, and it lasted all morning. Compare today’s view to one below it, taken last week. There wasn’t even a trace of the theater building visible today.
Today
Last Week
I shot these with my Kodak EasyShare through the viewfinder of an old Keystone 60 Second Everflash camera. Of course, I didn’t try it until after it was dark out, and so there wasn’t enough light to shoot without flash. I want to try it again, with natural light, because I think this might be a fun lomo-ish sort of toy to play with.
Since you’re obscuring the viewfinder, there’s no way to tell exactly what you’re shooting. You just kind of have to aim and pray.
The Keystone is a Polaroid clone. There’s a built-in timer on the side of the camera. It takes the old peel apart pack film, which I’m amazed to find out is still being manufactured and sold. I’ll have to give this one a try when I get a little extra cash.
And speaking of Polaroids, I figured out the overexposure problem with the little Land camera I’ve got. It needs a filter, because the modern 600 film that’s currently available is waaaaay too fast for it. So, there’s more to play with there, too, when I get a chance.
I’ve been a bad blogger lately. Most of my free time has been taken up with genealogy crap. I’ve also been inundated with a spectacular amount of blog spam. I’ve installed several filters on the back side, but a large volume of spam is still getting through. Not to the blog itself, but I get e-mail notifications for all the ones that the back-end filters miss. That number has gone up to hundreds each day, which means I’ve had to filter my e-mail, too. Some of the notifications for legit comments have gotten lost in that mess. Not the comments themselves, just the notifications.
That’s all by way of explaining why I did not realize there were comments. Oops!
And now, another random pee-chur from last Sunday. This one without pretty cyan skies. I don’t know why I’m fascinated with electric poles and pylons, but I am. It’s hard to believe that something so primitive could have such a huge impact on our everyday lives.
My messy coffee table slash work bench. It used to be a desk, but I took the legs off and turned it into a coffee table. It weighs about a million pounds and is really beat up, but it’s functional and I don’t have to worry about trashing it because, hey, it’s already trashed.
It sleeted, iced, and snowed last night. This morning, there was just a thin film of snow on the patio, so it doesn’t seem to have amounted to much. Right now, I can hear water dripping outside, so it must have warmed up. I should go out and clear the little bit of snow that’s left on my car’s windshield and front bumper, but I’m not feeling too motivated in that direction. Maybe I’ll do it when I check the mail.
Taken from the 3rd floor of the Wells Library.
I looked out the south windows, and could see the sun coming up, so I went out in the hallway and took a couple of pictures. As I was going back to my desk, I was facing the north windows, and the view there could not have been more different. It was foggy and wet, without a hint of orange or pink anywhere to be seen.
It’s about 11:30pm now, and the sky is spewing ice. Not good! Thankfully, I don’t have to go in tomorrow.
I took this yesterday, and then tarted up a little bit in Photoshop (I added lots of cyan, because, um, I felt like it). There were some amazing rolly-polly clouds with fringy bits along one edge.
Today, it’s been wet and gross. It’s rained all afternoon and evening, and it’s supposed to keep raining until midnight, with the temperatures dropping all night until they reach the low teens. Aieee! I hope the rain stops before the temperature dips too much, because I’d rather not deal with a bunch of ice.
I finally got around to buying my poor fish some aquarium plants this morning. I briefly considered getting a Betta (I just absolutely adore them), but was too disgusted by the way the fish at PetCo looked. One entire display of Bettas was dead, and another was about 75% dead, with the live ones looking near to it. Their fins were all clumpy, which is from some disease that I can’t remember the name of.
I realize I got there at opening time, and that the little PetCo elves were still running around doing cage cleanings and feedings, and I’m sure they would’ve pulled the dead fish off the floor eventually. But, that’s not the problem. That many dead fish indicates that something is very wrong.
Ugh. That is just one of many reasons I don’t shop there unless I really need to. If there were anywhere near me that carried aquarium supplies (and that didn’t sell puppies and kittens!), I’d shop there. As it is, PetCo now has ferrets, in addition to birds and rodents and lizards. And the cashier said that the ferrets had come in sick, too. Not cool.
So now I feel even worse about spending $30 at their store. I shouldn’t have done it, but I was starting to get a serious guilt complex about my poor fishes’ naked aquarium.
The fish weren’t fazed one little bit by me groping around in their tank. That surprised me. As soon as the plants were in, they started exploring them, and when they were done with that, they went back to scrounging for leftovers in the marbles. They’re awfully good fish.
Next, to procure a plecostomus. I think there’s probably enough algae and crud accumulated now to make a decent habitat for one.
red paper boat 