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Blog-a-Day Month 2017

Saturday, November 25, 02017

I may have warned readers that this was coming, but every year in December I try to write at least one blog post per day. It’s not anything official or endorsed or recognized in any way, but each year I pull thirty topics out of my hind-quarters and splot them onto the virtual pages of this website. On the last day of the month, day thirty-one (in case you were suddenly feeling a math headache coming on because of that last sentence) I post my big annual round up, year in review, New Years List of all my anecdotal thoughts and reflections on the year that was and hopes for the year that will be. For some reason these have been getting increasingly pessimistic. I wonder why. But, I digress… anyhow: December. A blog-a-day. No rules. No topics. No focus. No plan. Just me trying to write something to sum up my thoughts as the year comes in for it’s final approach and landing. Stay tuned.

Posted in: asides & shorts blogger Tagged: blog every day blog-a-day december

Reloaded: One Last Thing Edition

Tuesday, November 29, 02011

A “reloaded” post is a quick-clipped summary of a bunch of small things from the past few days. I want to write them down, but I am either lacking in (a) details or (b) time. That’s just how it goes sometimes. Enjoy.

Year Two

As much as I try to avoid talking about my work here, I do spend a good chunk of each weekday there so the occasional bit of slippage is bound to happen. That said, mentioning the offhand fact that exactly one year ago today I was on my way downtown for my first day is just a passing point of interest for those curious about my state of employment, et cetera. In other words, today — sometime after I leave the coffee shop across the road and meander over to my office itself — will mark the start of year two. Who’da’thunk?

Project Overload

Having the occasional Friday off is bad for my sanity. The whole compressed work-week thing means that I get to take every other Friday as an earned day off, the result of which is that (while my afternoons are booked up toting Claire around) my mornings have been occupied with the normal park-my-ass in a cafe and write blog drivel kinda stuff. This is okay, except for those moments when I’m feeling time-flush are not the best moments to outline in detail all the wonderful projects I’d like to take on. For example, claiming in multiple places that I’m going to be the verbose blogger in December might seem like a good idea in a quiet Starbucks with no other obligations than pecking out such random ideas into my keyboard, but in the days following, the reconciliation of the time commitment with the much busier life of mine seeps in. In other words, somethings gotta give. I haven’t figured out what that something is yet, but the deadline for give is approaching fast. Heck, I barely have time to play video games, let alone write an essay every day.

The Holiday Music Onslaught

…has begun. To mixed reviews. Just saying.

Posted in: meta & methods work & business Tagged: blog-a-day music one year later overloaded reloaded work anniversary

Reloaded: Super-Wide Angle Edition

Friday, November 25, 02011

A “reloaded” post is a quick-clipped summary of a bunch of small things from the past few days. I want to write them down, but I am either lacking in (a) details or (b) time. That’s just how it goes sometimes. Enjoy.

Tree & Cold

The downtown business association last weekend held it’s annual tree-lighting celebration, where the forty-one foot spruce that will adorn the pedestrian strip in front of City Hall was set to power and all ten-thousand-ish (or so they claim) lights were turned on. Santa rolled the countdown and it was quickly followed by a sparkling fireworks display. Karin was sick, but Claire and I braved the bitter, bitter cold — a chilly and windy minus twenty-five Celsius below zero — and stood out in the Churchill Square with a couple hundred other hearty souls to watch the show. Numb fingers and toes not only prompted me to buy some real winter boots (finally) but caused us to flee the square as quick as we could following the fireworks and dash into the relative warmth of the underground train station. Unfortunately a technical issue left us standing on the platform for near forty-five minutes — a state for which Claire had a patience that started low and quickly diminished as low as the outside temperature — before our adventure netted us a seat on a Southbound train towards home.

Fisheye

This past week was my birthday, a fact for which I raise more fuss online that most other places in my life. My lovely wife and daughter paid homage to my photography addiction and provided me with the simple gift of the Lensbaby Fisheye Optic insert for that Lensbaby system I’d picked up over the summer. Viewers of my photo collection or my (still) ongoing photo-per-day project will very obviously see an uptick in random quality fisheye-style images as I discover the possibilities of the lens through the upcoming weeks of winter photo opportunities.

Dayhome-ish

At the risk of sounding frustratingly vague, I’m going to just say that it’s been a tough couple weeks for childcare and being a rational parent around our house. About ten days ago we were forced to reconcile two very different sets of information and make a significant life decision based on the word of our four-year-old daughter, admittedly (since she has an imaginary friend and believes monsters the size of her finger live in her mattress) is not a beacon of clear and rational thinking at this stage of her life. Ultimately, we deduced that the possibility of some safety concerns she was narrating to us in the evening — which have no place being publicly inventoried here — were more likely to be occurring than not occurring at her day home, and we’d be better off failing on the side of safe parenting by moving her. It’s a heart-wrenching sort of decision to make, and it was not made lightly. And the pieces — so to speak — are still somewhat in motion even now.

Let’s just say it’s been a distracting couple of weeks.

December Plans

It being just a few short days until the last month of this year creeps up on us, and as has been the tradition on this blog in years past (though not last year as I wasn’t really writing at all then) I have a couple of December traditions. The first and most involved of those has been a blog-a-day project that occupies a little bit of random, un-themed and unfocused post-space herein. I’d use the excuse that I’m already doing a photo-a-day project and this seems too much work, but looking back on past years, my December blog-a-day efforts always seemed to accompany a photo-a-day anyhow… so, no difference. I’m thinking I’m not only going to take a stab at maintaining that effort on this blog — a post per day for every day in December — but I’m going to emulate it over at my FooBarn blog (which is likely to be the more difficult effort of the two.)

The second effort of the month, of course, is the annual New Year’s post. I usually start poking at that shortly after my birthday each year and nudge it along over the course of December. Right now I’m reviewing my questions — and I’ve already added three new ones. If you have any suggestions, now’s the time.

Posted in: fatherhood photography weather Tagged: birthday present blog-a-day celebration child care cold day-home decorations fireworks fisheye photography freezing frustrations holidays lens new years reloaded safety

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