photographs and random miscellaney from my brain
Yet another in my pile of largely “decorative” cameras. I think it might still actually work, but it’s incredibly difficult (and expensive) to find film that fits, and in the age of the digital camera, it doesn’t seem to be worth the effort. But still a pretty cool looking piece that cost me $5 at a tag sale (I bargained the guy down from $10!).
I’m sure I’ve posted a photo of this as part of another 365 project, but there are only so many tchochkes in my apartment to take pictures of at the last minute when I’m hunting for a subject at 11:30pm. So there will be repeats. hopefully they will have different framing/editing/whatever so that it’s clear that they’re not actually just duplicates of the old photos.
In any event, magnetic kitchen timer stuck to the fridge, because my kitchen is so tiny that I buy anything I find that allows me to reduce the clutter/crap on the countertop.
random candle feature from the back wall of Dos Caminos, where I had dinner tonight with friends I haven’t seen in forever!
American flag, received at my grandfather’s funeral almost exactly 10 years ago.
Work has been a little busy lately, so I’m going to the “things sitting on my desk” well already. Bluetooth speaker. Invaluable when traveling (at the destination – I’m polite enough to use headphones during the actual travel portions of the trip!).
It’s a two-fer today, since I fell down on the job last night. So…a theme.
I don’t know how it started, but I’ve ended up with a collection of mugs from all of my (grown-up) jobs. But they’re starting to turn into bad omens after not one, but two(!) law firms that I previously worked for have gone bankrupt following my departure. At least I have this lovely commemorative swag.
First, I worked at Reid & Priest as a summer associate in 1998, the summer it merged with Thelen, Marrin, Johnston & Bridges. I left Thelen Reid & Priest in 2003 with a group, and it went belly up in 2008-2009 after it merged with another firm that (at least according to the stories I’ve heard) saddled it with unmanageable debt.
The firm I moved to and stayed at quite happily until they kicked me out in a misguided effort to save money by firing profitable associates was Dewey Ballantine, which eventually became Dewey & LeBoeuf, and which finally, last year, became an object lesson in how to turn a highly respected law firm with a 100-year history into an industry joke.
A little delay in getting this posted, thanks to a major server outage last night at my hosting provider. Things seem to be back up and running this morning, so…fingers crossed. Cute cocktail stirrers that I ended up with. Now I just need to have more cocktail parties to utilize them!
While my SLR will forever remain my primary camera, I’m going to spend some time experimenting with more mobile options – in particular because I’ll be more likely to remember to take pictures if I don’t wed myself to the “fancy” camera over my iPhone 5. More mobile tools also means not having to wait until I get to my home computer to edit/upload. This was taken with my iPhone, uploaded to Dropbox to share with my iPad, then edited on the iPad with snapseed (drama filter and frame) and iWatermark (copyright bug). Now posting to my blog with the WordPress app.
My traditional weekender breakfast, consisting of an espresso and a bottle of pellegrino. And squatting at my favorite non-chain local cafe/coffee shop/wine bar for a few hours.
I’ve been periodically contemplating starting a new 365 project, despite the fact that I’ve failed to complete any of the group projects that I’ve participated in in the past. Maybe a self-directed one will work better. At the very least, I’ll only be disappointing myself if I fail (again).
In the spirit of getting things started with tomorrow as day 1, here’s a preview. Took myself to PJ Clarke’s for New Year’s Eve lunch (because I’m off of work). They have very fancy ketchup here.
I realized the other day that I had a few albums of photos that I had never gotten around to uploading. Given the delay, and the interest in these photos largely to myself and no one else, I went through and plucked out just my favorites. Most are from the country, but they should all be fairly self explanatory. Really, I just like them because I think they’re pretty.
