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That Would be OK Too I got two rolls of slides back yesterday and there are one or two pictures that I can use, which, as I've said, has been worrying me lately, running out of material for this journal. Felt good to get them. I do like going out with a camera and tramping through the crowds, looking for something to strike my eye or my fancy or my left foot. I do like getting them back and putting them here on this page. Still gives me a charge after almost two years, which I didn't necessarily expect when I bought that camera and some film one year ago last June. My history with these passions is sporadic. Ten thousand miles an hour and then the brick wall. A crash dummy of passions and good intentions. So good. Won't question it. Get some more film. Tomorrow we go to lunch at a restaurant chosen by MW, first class dim sum. Looking forward to it. MW's interests include food and restaurants and her choices are always good. Gets me out of the office. Pumps the blood. I'll bring the digital camera and shoot pictures for the journal. See if I can get a decent exposure of a pot sticker, maybe take some notes, write down the names instead of wolfing everything down in the usual unconscious haze so I can describe them properly, refer to them as something other than "those little round lumpy things with the pork filling that taste so good". I have a section on this site: Good under $10 lunches in Oakland. Downtown Oakland near the City Center. If anyone has looked at it, there are two entries, one of which still needs to be posted. I won't blame that on this journal, although it takes a lot of time to write, but I won't take it down either. Something tells me I'll get to it one of these days real soon now, that it has some purpose and its something that I'll eventually pursue. Same with the railroad. It's OK for them to hang around. There have been times when I've cooked. I live alone, so its not altogether something that makes any sense. Right now my refrigerator has ten different kinds of mustard in it, a four pack of Guinness draft in cans and an empty butter dish. Really heavy usage in the last year might include some frozen chicken pieces in the freezer, some potatoes in the cupboard and a package of peas. This is not unusual for a bachelor, I guess, the subject of jokes, but this has not always been the case and that's why there's a recipe section that will one day take on life as well. Might not be today, might not be tomorrow, but it will. I am, however, going to do a little redesigning over the weekend. Some small incremental changes in the home page and the journal menu. They need work. I also liked the way the reprint of Rob Morse's column looked in yesterday's entry. Thinner column of type, break things up a bit with a little bold lettering. Don't want it to look like a newspaper necessarily, I don't think, but I'd like to experiment. Maybe when I get into the PhotoShop class next week everything will morph into something totally different and that would be OK too. |
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