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| The Tiffster |
One of the things I like about my local watering hole is that I get to meet a lot of college-age folks. One of my favorite ex-bartenders, who’s moved out of state, stopped back in and seems to be doing really well. That kept me out later than I’d planned, but it was a good time.
Plus I’ve got the next week and change off from work. I’m pretty happy with work at the moment, but it’s still nice to have a break. I’ve got a metric assload of work to do when I get back to it next year, but for now, I don’t have to think about that, and can ponder the deep realities of the bar-scene in my neighborhood.
- As I mentioned before, shooting with a film camera with waist-level finder got me thinking about photography differently. Now I read Leica M8 Revisited and think
Ooh!
Of course I haven’t even gotten out of the house with a camera for over a week, so I’m not sure a new toy is exactly what I need. Spare time, maybe, but… [luminous] - For the pot luck at work last Thursday, I used Alton Brown’s Coq au Vin Recipe except used pheasant instead of chicken. It turned out pretty tasty, except I forgot about the fact that the rampaging hordes start eating early. At 11am, the bird still hadn’t cooked off the bones, and there wasn’t time to thicken the sauce. It was still tasty, but if people had waited until 11:30 or 12, I think it would have been a lot better.
- The Lakota, Descendants of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse break away from US, withdrawing from treaties they say the US has repeatedly broken. Parts of the Dakotas, Wyoming, Montana and Nebraska may become part of a separate nation. [metafilter]