2 posts tagged “baslow”
It has been pointed out to me that my weblog is short on the details of daily life so here are some facts about what has been and will be going on:
- My back, which had been doing fine for a long time, has been giving me trouble for the last few weeks. I spend most evenings applying heat.
- Bev and I spent Sunday in bed -- well, in several beds; we were at the local Sleepy's trying out mattresses. We are finally getting rid of our loft-bed futon, acknowledging that our aging bodies need something more supportive, and purchasing a down-to-earth bed. We'll probably be buying a Simmons something-or-other.
- Bev, Ruth, and I are flying to Oberlin, Ohio on Friday to see Joel perform in -- get this -- "Omniumgatherum", the first Theater-Arts-department-sponsored production in which he has been asked to participate. Until now he has only been involved in student-initiated (lower budget, unofficial) productions so this is a big deal. The play is a post-9/11 meditation depicting a bunch of somewhat comic characters representing various points of view sitting around a table and talking while they eat. Joel will play a firefighter who was at the World Trade Center on 9/11.
- I have purchased an inexpensive laptop for my brother (who is slightly brain-damaged and schizophrenic -- a crappy combination) and will be trying, over the next few months to configure it to his needs. First and foremost I will be stripping out Windows and installing Linux. Since his financial circumstances don't allow broadband I'll probably be setting up some sort of prepaid dial-up which should give him enough access to collect email and maybe gather a day's worth of newspaper stories. I will uninstall Instant Messaging software, probably browsers, things like ftp and finger which could be the source of problems. I'll load up on games, maybe find a simple money-tracking program, download some ebooks, etc. Then I will have to teach him how to use all this stuff.
- Ruth returns to school after a week off today
- Ruth will also start rehearsals for "Anything Goes" soon. She has been cast as the ingenue, "Hope", which is a change for her. She normally plays more assertive and/or broadly comic characters. This will give her a chance to extend her range.
There's more but I have to get to work. Besides, too much domesticity in one post isn't healthy.
For years I have been taking photos of members of my family and posting them to flickr for all to see. Most of these are candid photos. I have caught everyone in strange expressions but most of all I have caught my wife contorting her face in any number of...interesting...ways. I have not resisted, nay, have requested, that similar numbers of pictures of me be taken and promised to post every one of them. There have been no takers, however.
Last month we bought a new camera, a Canon SD 600, as an early Christmas present. The idea was to have it in time for Ruth's performances in "The Taming of the Shrew" since, if I mastered it in time, it was supposed to take better pictures in low light. I was far from a master of the camera but the pictures came out satisfactorily, given the adverse conditions under which they were taken.
Bev, it turns out, is more comfortable taking pictures with this camera than she was with the other (providing I work out all the settings for her). As a consequence, at brunch last Sunday, she finally agreed take the camera from me and take a whole bunch of pictures. Several were of me and, lo and behold, she caught me in various candid poses. As promised, I have posted them all to flickr and, as a bonus, I feature a few here.
Looking at them I cannot help but think "WHO IS THIS GUY?"
Last month we bought a new camera, a Canon SD 600, as an early Christmas present. The idea was to have it in time for Ruth's performances in "The Taming of the Shrew" since, if I mastered it in time, it was supposed to take better pictures in low light. I was far from a master of the camera but the pictures came out satisfactorily, given the adverse conditions under which they were taken.
Bev, it turns out, is more comfortable taking pictures with this camera than she was with the other (providing I work out all the settings for her). As a consequence, at brunch last Sunday, she finally agreed take the camera from me and take a whole bunch of pictures. Several were of me and, lo and behold, she caught me in various candid poses. As promised, I have posted them all to flickr and, as a bonus, I feature a few here.
Looking at them I cannot help but think "WHO IS THIS GUY?"
