Photo of the Week #5

This is my blog-writing gear: I don the feathered cap, and quill in hand, painstakingly transcribe my thoughts to papyrus. The document is then scanned and faxed to a small monastery in southern France where a team of friars take turns typing the text into Notepad. The file is then emailed back to me, which I copy and paste into Blogger. So if it seems that I don't post very often, you now know the reason.

Bonus alternate post:
One of my favorite hobbies is calligraphy. I picked it up a few years ago and have practiced off an on ever since. I'm not the best, but it's something I enjoy and I find it surprisingly relaxing. I am a big font fanatic, so I suppose calligraphy is a natural extension of that. Or is it the other way around?

I've found a few uses for it, which is always exciting. My graduation announcements were addressed in calligraphy, and I have filled out the marriage certificates of two of my friends. That was especially neat because it's something they'll have and cherish for a long time. Maybe sometime soon I'll post a few examples...

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Now playing: ORESKABAND - Chuck
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Photo of the Week #4

There is a cat on my shed!

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Now playing: ai otsuka - Sakuranbo (Original)
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Photo of the Week #3

Snow? No, no dahling; we don't do snow anymore. In the midwest, it's ice or nothing.

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Now playing: Beirut - Nantes
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Photo of the Week #2

Amassing pirate-related stuff is an obsession hobby of mine. It will most certainly be the subject of many future posts. The lighting here turned out a bit harsh on the lower right edge of the table, but for the most part I like it. No Photoshop retouching this time!

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Now playing: The Unseen - Paint It Black
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Photo of the Week #1

I think I'm going to try to post a photo of something, anything, at least once a week. And so, this is the first such post!

I took this as I was leaving work yesterday. The sky was a beautiful blue color, and these clouds were amazing. I suppose that's the trade-off with Missouri weather. We can go from 58 and sunny to 29 and snowing in a day* but you get wonderful cloudscapes, sunrises, and sunsets from time to time. I could definitely do without the random and severe weather changes, but this is a fair deal, at least in my opinion.

And yes, I did 'Shop this photo a bit. The colors weren't exactly how I remembered them, and I'd rather upload a file that's a few dozen kilobytes instead of a few megabytes, because honestly? That's way too many bytes.

Also! FoxyTunes is awesome, and the fact that social networking sites and things like Blogger can interact with it totally rocks my socks.

*This just happened last week. For serious.

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Now playing: Gogol Bordello - Start Wearing Purple
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