Allergy drugs so I can breathe at night and not keep Lis awake with my snoring: $20
Dealing with our pain-in-the-ass mail-order pharmacy: priceless.
February 9
2009, meet 1999.
I took advantage of Circuit City’s going out of business to buy myself a new pocket-sized camera. It will see use primarily for this very Project 365 (in fact, it did for yesterday’s photo), but I will also use it for travel & social events where the DSLR is a chore.
The venerable old Coolpix 950 has served me well — it went with me to a lot of places, including Africa, and took thousands of shots with very few hiccups. Its 2 megapixels are more than sufficient for web work, and even 10 years old it takes a fine photograph. It was state of the art when new. But by modern standards it is huge, slow, and heavy.
The new camera is much smaller, much snappier, has a very nice screen, and a quite useful 28-280mm (equivalent) zoom range. I hope it serves me as well as its predecessor.
February 8
We had a beautiful day today, with sunshine & highs near 50 melting some of the excessive snow buildup. A day like today can’t help but improve your mood.
February 7
We continue to look at a lot of houses, in order to keep on top of the market so when we finally do sell we can act quickly.
One of today’s houses has a nice kitchen:
Yes, fisheye… the walls are not curved 🙂 I like to use the fisheye for these house-hunting shots because it gives a good representation of the feel of the room and captures a lot in a single shot.
February 6
Lis has a late-running program at work tonight. My plans for the evening:
February 5
Frosty ice crystals on the bedroom storm window this morning.
February 4
I saw something exciting on my way out of work this evening…
The Sky!!!
In a color other than black.
February 3
I commuted by train today. Despite this being a quite minor storm, the Red Line still had problems; thus I spent a total of 5 hours commuting today.
Here’s the Quincy Center T station from our office:
February 2
Groundhog day! I did not see my shadow today… in fact, there was ocean-effect fog & clouds on the south shore this morning as I approached Quincy. And despite the lengthening days, it was dark already as I left work. After a long day, I am glad to see the following sight:
Who needs a Stairway to Heaven? I’ve got an elevator down to the first floor, the car, and home.
February 1
Well, I made it one whole month with Project 365! I can’t say every picture is as interesting or as artistic as I might have hoped, but each day has a photo taken on that day. Let’s see if I can keep it up.
Today’s photo is about house-hunting. Some houses deserve to have stone lions along the walkway. They are grand homes, the type of country place where you’d visit a wealthy uncle for a week and have your own room with a fireplace, and the staff would wake you at 10 for breakfast.
The house where we saw this lion (and its partner) was not such a house. It is a nice house, lovingly modified and decorated by someone whose priorities are quite different from our own. But it does not deserve a lion.