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The Road Home
The train to Oakland leaves at 9:45 so 
the Sole Proprietor sits at the station watching all the first class
passengers standing in line. The Sole Proprietor does not quite
understand this line business, the ticket has the car and compartment
number written right on it, yet all these folks are waiting in line
for the booth to open and get a boarding pass, luggage in hand. Is
it better to be standing? Have they been sitting drinking
coffee all morning and now they need to stretch? Could be. The Sole
Proprietor thinks they've learned to like this standing in line business,
that they've been trained by experts to the point when they see someone
waiting, they fall right in behind. The Sole Proprietor
isn't altogether rational on this subject, so you shouldn't pay too
much attention. He sits watching as they pick up their passes,
gets up when the line is gone, gets his pass and boards the train.
A good trip. The sun was actually shining this morning
The trip was fine. There are a couple of pictures of a magic show given
There are issues here he needs to think about. Is it really OK to put someone's picture up without their knowledge? Taken on a train? It wouldn't be OK if he were making money on the picture, of course, selling it for use in an ad, for example. It's OK to shoot pictures of people in public and run them in a newspaper as long as you don't write anything untruthful about them. That's fair use and if it didn't exist there wouldn't be any pictures in the newspapers. But again, in a common area parlor car on the train? How about pictures of his fellow workers at a going away party held in a tavern? Is that OK? He's been thinking about that. One of the reasons for the take them off if there's any question about it policy.
This posting of journal entries on the road is a little
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in Seattle when he woke up. Coffee with his aunt before taking a taxi
to the station. Another part of the ritual, coffee with his aunt in the
morning before leaving for the train or airport. In the past his uncle
Vic and aunt Fran have left early on the Monday morning after the party
as well, but much earlier, before the Sole Proprietor has gotten out of
bed and so it's just he and aunt Vivienne over coffee, talking about
the day and how the weekend has gone. A small thing, but important. The
day holds and it gets nicer as they roll south. The night is clear
and cold and you can see the snow on the trees flashing in the train
lights as you pass.
by Mike the Magician. Each train has an entertainer on board and although
targeted toward the kids, with a few glasses of wine in you it works just
fine for the adults as well. It was a good excuse to shoot pictures of the
surrounding crowd reacting to the magician. Point at the magician, move the
camera just before you shoot to an interesting face and pull the trigger.
Another advantage of the digital camera is that people will ask the Sole
Proprietor about it, is it a digital camera? His response is to take a
picture of the person asking and then to show it to them on the screen.
They like that and can't really complain that he's taken their picture
without their permission. Anyone who might see their picture on his site,
of course, should they feel it inappropriate, can simply request that he
take it off, no arguments, no asking for reasons why.
more complicated than he'd imagined. It would be just fine if he could
skip sleeping altogether and spent the hours after midnight transferring
pictures from his camera to a laptop, sizing them and fitting them for
the page. How do you like the original layout? One on the left, one on
the right, one on the left, one on the.... It is possible this needs some
rethinking. He'll see how it goes for the rest of this month. With two
long weekends coming up and jury duty on the horizon, he might get through.
He hadn't thought about this jury duty thing. Do you suppose they let you
take pictures from the jury box?