My Sweetie

Still sick.  Fever hit 103.5 last night.  Sweated out the sheets twice last night.  Even Blossom doesn't want anything to do with me.

I realized that although it's very minor in the scheme of things, the thing I dislike the most about where we live is the lack of good food nearby.  The closest good sushi is 25 minutes away, same for a whole foods, and for my favorite food, Vietnamese, we're probably talking an hour (Arlington).  My sweetie Skippy was nice enough to get me some last night on his way to pick up Blossom.  It was kind of like cheap Chinese, you're glad to eat it, but you know better stuff is out there.

Weight: 196.2

I Dare You

Sick as a dog. Still. Hate it.

I dare you to watch Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years without crying at least once. Let me know if you didn't cry so I'll know where to send a card of condolence and an electric blanket to warm your frozen heart.

Smelly Memories

I loved living in DC.  I did not love walking by a Starbucks and being assaulted by the nasty overwhelming odor of coffee.  I've never liked coffee.  I've never tasted coffee.  The closest I've come to tasting coffee is an accidental (small) spoonful of coffee ice cream that I thought was chocolate.  So you can imagine my relief when Starbucks stopped all that smelly nonsense and you couldn't even tell they sold coffee the air was so clean.  Well evidently they have had enough of that and they are going to grind their beans in-house again.  Sigh.

The robot cat i.e. Welcome to my Digital Photography expansion!

Now that I've got some more experience with Digital Photography I've decided that I would expand this blog by making it a Digital Photography Blog also.  The name still fits and you'll get more posts!

Here are my first subjects.  When I saw this scene I ran to get my camera as this cat never ever sits in a lap like that, I'm telling you this girl had her hypnotized.  The picture turned out way too dark but with a little Photoshop magic it looks much better.  Obviously I didn't do anything about the room clutter.

[Nikon D300, 18-200mm VR zoom lens at 18mm, 1/25 of a second at f/3.5 and ISO 100, hand held.]

A first and a second

This is the closest I've seen Blossom sleep to any other animal in the house. But then, a day of playing does make her awfully tired, so she isn't too picky about where she sleeps, as long as it's close to one of her Daddys.
As for the second, Blossom got picked as Doggie of the Week again. But of course!

The Hon Princess

Deb's party was a great success and ended with some unintended nudity (you know who you are, cute ass). Here is the cake, almost 4 feet high!

My apologies

I tend to forget that a certain sector of my audience likes the gorey stuff (hi Sarah and Ruth!) so here is a wonderful picture of my shaved knee three days after surgery. I think I'm done with the drugs and hopefully I'll be able to get back in the water on Friday. The Doctor seems optimistic that the surgery helped and in 8 to 10 weeks he'll do the other knee. By then it will be way too hot to bike :-( but at least I'll be ready for the fall. By the way, that's Stevie's tail saying hi on the left side of the picture. Sarah has taken to calling him "Stevil" as he has a bit of a growling issue, especially when it concerns other cats trying to horn in on his catnip.

Today is Deb's big birthday shindig at our house, wait til you see the cake!

MacBook for Sale

We're doing a little consolidation of machines here in the house and I'm putting up my MacBook for sale at $1400.

Model: MacBook 15"
Color: Black
Processor: 2.16 GHZ Intel Core Duo
Memory: 2 GB 667 Mhz DDR 2 SD Ram
Hard Drive: Serial ATA, 160 GB
Optical Drive: Matshita DVD-R
Display: 15" LCD
Graphics: GMA 950 (mac resolution 1280x800)
AirPort Extreme: Built-in
Bluetooth: Built-in
Camera: Built-in
OS: Mac OS X 10.5.2 Tiger
AppleCare: Until August 2010

Oh Ellen, you're so funny, Oh Sally, you're such an idiot

So you've heard about the Governor of Oklahoma, Sally Kern? Evidently she thinks we gays are trying to indoctrinate two year olds and feels strongly that we are THE biggest threat to civilization, more so than terrorism and Islam. A great write-up is on Duane Moody's site here. Even Ellen DeGeneres has something to say about it. She almost never talks about gay things here but you just can't help but love her for how she handles this...

Surgery, blech

At least I got to come home a day early from Pittsburgh.

I had knee surgery this morning. Not totally sure how it went, I'll see the Doctor tomorrow and find out.

The medication they gave me at the hospital is wearing off....

Work and School, Work and School

Here I am again in Pittsburgh. I've had pretty good Sushi. I've had excellent Vietnamese. I've been taking online Photoshop classes (since my Digital Photography teacher does not know what the hell he is doing) from lynda.com. I take them when I wake up. I take them at night. I'd take them during the day but that's when I'm working.

The good news is I'll be back in NYC in the next few weeks. My camera can't wait!

I'm thinking about starting a Digital Photography Blog with the goal to post one new picture that I've taken every day and talk about things photograpy-related. I'm trying to decide if it should be just a part of this blog (it would be sharing after all) or if I should start a separate blog. Opinions welcome.

Rick Astley would never...

Many thanks to Electroqueer...