Work goes on at four hundred miles an hour, but more smoothly. Four hundred miles an hour without so many bumps is better, but better than what?

I have this urge to buy another lens for the camera. Another two lenses for the cameras. This has been a tug of war of sorts, but one of these days I'm going to spend a whole lot more money than I should on something I don't really need. Nikon has a 28 - 70mm f 2.8 zoom that is one of those must have items for people with more money than brains..., or talent. And the f 2 105mm, the one they say is so nice, would probably be..., nice. I used almost nothing else when I was shooting in the seventies, probably because back then that's the only lens I owned, I'm not sure why I haven't acquired one by now. I would use them both, replacing the 35mm - 70mm f 2.8 zoom and the f 2 135mm I use so extensively now. The other ten or so are just so many lumps of exotic glass I happen to have sitting in my closet. So much for buying another car.

A DVD copy of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai arrived today, along with Decade, a Neil Young CD collection, Dark Side of the Moon and the first two Roxy Music albums. I don't care what you say about Neil Young. There's a Janis Joplin - Big Brother and the Holding Company DVD on the way as well. I suspect an old friend took part in the production. Funky old nostalgia stuff, but, you know, I'm four beers into the evening and I'm feeling fine.