Personal reflections on my life and experiences.
They yell at him because he was coach here, manning the helm in the famous Pit, and he left and became coach there instead, in the pavilion where Wooden built a dynasty, where making just the Sweet Sixteen is pretty much a failure. They yell at him for only winning two-thirds of his schedule,...
Read more →For Valentine’s Day night, I did what comes natural to me. I watched Return of the Jedi, to round out my revisit to the original three films in the franchise. I was about two-thirds of the way through the film when it dawned on me… Darth was a cold mean man because his heart...
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Last night, I recalled I still had a set of neutral density filters in my camera bag I had never used before, and most specifically, and ND-10 filter that I had picked up on sale a month ago at Amazon. I determined I’d go somewhere after work this evening and give the ND-10 filter...
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It was a true Monday today. I came home tonight and sat down to watch a TV program to step out of it all for an hour, but, like my eyes of late, my hearing related to the TV is not so good at times as well. I don’t know if the issue is...
Read more →Today, for whatever reason, I decided it was the most important time ever to get some stuff out of the house, and that stuff I needed to remove meant the clothes I had separated out years ago- not days, or weeks, or even months ago, but yes, years ago- which have sat all this...
Read more →Another Saturday morning at the coffee shop. The breakfast was tasty and energizing, but I return to my standard state here. Another perusal of previously written words on a project. Another rabbit trail off onto Wikipedia and the Boeing website for more B-17 information. Another gathering of random facts. It took 108 planes over...
Read more →I worship You, Lord, God of all beauty, Who has given, by thought and word, the severe majesty of mountains and valleys, sunlight kissing the young woman’s face, the satellite’s view into dark infinity, cool air on my neck on a hot afternoon, layers of violins striding over deep cello, the elevating hug of...
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I thought I’d walk up Central a little this evening after work to see if there was anything worth shooting. I am still trying to understand the exposure triangle and how to use the camera’s settings out of Automatic mode to get a nice picture. The light was golden on the tall buildings north...
Read more →Excerpt, an Interview with Alvin Voll, Director of Product Development at Raleigh Razor Corporation. — “What I have found in my work is that I am like the parent, and the products I help to produce are like my children. My goal is to protect and raise those children so that they become good...
Read more →Tonight, the resurgent Lobo men’s basketball team hosted Boise State for a game with some significance to the conference results. Boise was in second place in the Mountain West Conference, two games ahead of a third place Lobo squad. A win for UNM meant they would shave a game off of Boise’s lead over...
Read more →It was surprising to hop on my phone last night and discover that in this year’s Super Bowl, the underdog team with the backup quarterback pulled out the win. I was happy, if only because that meant New England lost. At one time I had no problem with the Patriots being a winning team,...
Read more →When Morris Safford left the convenience store, it was drizzling steadily. He, for some reason, wore only a windbreaker over his thin cotton shirt and a pair of khaki slacks that day. His socks were thick to cushion his poorly-circulating feet, but they were soaking in the wet droplets striking his ankles where the...
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I enjoyed a nice adventure this morning by joining an Albuquerque photography Meetup group at the Rio Grande Nature Center. We met at the Visitor’s Center parking lot this morning, and then were guided by a staff member on a loop walk north and then south in the Rio Grande Bosque. The main interest...
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From my afternoon walkabout, messing with manual mode and the light meter. It was the best thing I shot. There is a wooden wall around a residential property near work that is painted like this.
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It was a good day at work: quiet, slow progress made on projects. My eating has slipped a little the last two days- sugar has found me a few times more than it should have, including in a raspberry mocha today- but that’s okay. I did have a talk with Tim this afternoon that...
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I got up at 4AM this morning to try and get outside before the super moon started eclipsing and then blood mooning after that. Last night, I laid out everything I thought I needed for the morning on the table in the living room: the camera bag, a portable chair, a tripod, headlamp, mittens,...
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