After a nice dinner (well, drinks and appetizers) catching up with Sydney, I made it home early enough that I finally had time to start getting photos off of my camera and ready for editing. I even added one quickly to Pixelog. The perk to using the skins with the latest photo? You knew that before I told you.
Tonight I will edit the few photos from the last Lager Rhythm gig. Then the Original Blurker will be happy with me again.
I didn’t have to go and buy film earlier. I had a roll of 100 speed Fuji in my purse. It should be noted that I didn’t have a single camera in my purse that required film – just the G2 and my pencam – but I still had a roll of film in there. I’m wondering what that says about me?
By the way – I am posting this using Zempt. Zempt was a “Cookie Crumb” a few weeks ago, and I pointed out that you could use it to post to your MT powered blog offline, but I never got around to installing it. I finally did, and I would like to officially say IT ROCKS! And for those of you that always want a way to spell check your posts, Zempt has it. That, along with a lot of other cool features. Download it.
Now I’m off to hang out with the girls, playing with the Lomo. I’ve already shot half a roll of film, and I hope to finish it by tomorrow morning so I can have it developed before lunch. I can’t wait to see the results!
Weeks ago, I won a Lomo for dirt cheap over on eBay, and it has taken forever to get here from the Ukraine, but it has finally arrived! Now I’ll have to go get film at lunch and go out snapping before the thunderstorms begin this afternoon. Any suggestions, tips or tricks you want to share – I would love to hear them!
A few months ago I read somewhere (probably on Anil Dash’s site) that the New York MTA was doing away with subway tokens. I’ve always wanted to visit NYC, and it made me sad to think that by the time I finally got there, tokens would be a thing of the past. A shout for help to Andrea and she promised to send me two tokens – one for me and one for Jason.
She mailed them back in May, but I have been so busy I keep forgetting to check my post office box. This morning I wanted to drop off my check to my insurance agent, and the post office is just around the corner, so I finally stopped. Not only did she send me a regular token, she sent me this really cool set of tokens with coins from 1953, 1970, 1980, 1986 and 1995. It rocks! I’m so giddy I can’t even put in to words how much this excites me – I love it! Thank you *so* much, Andrea! I truly appreciate it.
I talked earlier today about my energy level. I have so many things I want to do, and there never seems to be enough time to do it all. Tonight as I read a few of my favorite creative blogs, I realized one of the main issues that is bothering me.
I have bottled up creative energy that I’m not allowing to flow.
I started to figure it out last night, as I read one of my “Back in Time” posts from 2002. I’ve seen it before in my own writing, but never really figured it out until now. My writing lately sucks. Ok, maybe it doesn’t suck, but it has been seriously lacking. Reading through my old writing, I sense the void in my writing of the past several months.
I’ve said many times in the past 6 months that I want to change. I keep saying that things will be changing around here, and yet they never do. Some of that ties in to the fact that with my job now, I don’t have the time online (or the energy to be online) that I used to have.
Mike is also a factor in all of this. He is wonderful, and I’m glad he has a blog too. He can share in the online aspect of my world. However, a year ago my blog was my outlet. My place to vent, my place to rant, my place to share. Now I share a lot of items with him that I say I am going to blog about later, but I never get around to writing about it.
I miss writing like that. I miss pouring out my thoughts in to words. Now that I recognize these things, I can try to work on it. It may not be every day, but more than the present. That would make me happy.
I have also said for some time that I blog for myself, not for anyone else. I used to write whatever I wanted to about my feelings. Now? I had a moment last night when I was watching TV and thought about something I wanted to blog about. I knew it was potentially a topic that could explode in to a flame war on me though – and I told Mike about it and that I wouldn’t write about it. Today I realized how frustrating that is. I want to write what I think and what I feel. I care about the people reading my site, but I don’t care enough to sacrafice my feelings.
Add on top of my desire to write the fact that I want to take better photographs and all of the other projects I want to finish, and I have a lot to do. But I can do it. Knowing what I need to do is the biggest step, and while the fluff posts will still exist, expect things to turn around here from time to time. I have a lot inside still that I want to share.