Books, check ‘em out. Some books are history, some are religious.

Lol, WoWtard…

Got addicted?  Gotta go cold turkey?  Freak out.

Nasty little details, the things you don’t see on TV.

Usted puede besar mi asno.

Now sir, you can return to your shithole and work on your own problems.

What a day.   I’m not sure I really want to talk about it, so I’ll just babble for a while just to add some filler.  Woke up late today, and was very sore from yesterday.  God, I’m out of shape.  Hauled a bunch of rock down to the pile and had a beer.   Work, well, I’m still technically working right now.  Doing a long protracted database process from remote, on a cell card.  AT&T sucks balls.   Enough of that, rule 1.

Found out my rodent control either sucks balls, or is over fed on dry food.  They’re now on rations to see which.  Found a mouse cowering in my basement, so I took the cats over and plopped them down in front of it.  They turned and looked at my like “What?”.  I had to put it down myself with a pellet gun.  Way to go guys.  Let that shit happen again and shit will get real, real quick.  Like living indoors?  Start doing your damned job.

Then there’s static.  Thought I’d cleared it, but no.  Just less ambient noise.  Not the same.

Think I’ll turn in now.  Tired of typing.

Well, introductions have been made.  Mom brought Kinsee down this evening and we introduced her and teh kittehs.  Kinsee was uber cool about the whole thing, and never growled or barked.  Teh kittehs on the other hand were a bit freaked out.  Sasha was more mellow about it than Sophia.  I think once they get over the whole cat/dog fear thing they’ll be ok.  Kinsee was like, whoa, cats, ok whatever.  It’s going to be interesting seeing who sleeps in the bed this weekend.

Got me some rodent control tonight.  Sophia and Sasha.  A special thanks to Melinda and her mom for letting me have these guys.  I now have some company in the evenings.  Sasha is Sophias mother, so they get along great.  Sophie is still a kitten, while Sasha is a bit more mellow.  I’m sure Kinsee and teh kittehs will get along great, but I’m not sure about the introductions and the hurt feelings at first.

Sasha:

And Sophia:

I’m finally back.  It’s been seven months since my crapper crapped out, and now it’s finally fixed.  Seven months of sleep dep, sirens, a constant hum, and a high density of people in general were really starting to wear me down.  I can’t say enough for my Mom for letting me stay with her, she’s super.  But I’m really happy to get back to my happy place.  I still have a bunch of work to do down here, especially with finally getting everything in its place.  Now I have to get some rodent control.

I finally broke down and got a dSLR camera.  My Nikon Coolpix S550 is handy, but it’s still a point and shoot pocket cam.  A step up is my Canon S5IS, and it’s pretty badass for a point and shoot, but it’s not a dSLR.  The S5 has a couple of limitations, most notably an inability to save in any format other then jpg.  Also, the lens it has is all it will ever have, and some other limitations.

Anyway, I picked up a Nikon D3000.  It’s not a top of the line cam, but it’s the most advanced cam I have, and I have a lot to learn about photography in general, so I’ll grow into it.  Digital cams really made photography en mass to the masses, via computers.  The drawback is that the cams do most of the photography, and people are generally a conveyance and a trigger mechanism, and not much more.

I really want to learn about composing pix, as well as doing digital darkroom processing (not just shooping stuff).  Well, I just did my first two HDR images.  Here they are:

I think they turned out pretty good for my first try.  If you’re wondering what the hell HDR is, it’s High Dynamic Range Photography.  There’s books and all kinds of info on the net about it.  I used the D3000 shooting in RAW mode for the input images.  Then did the HDR merging in Photomatix, with final post processing in Adobe Lightroom.

HERE is my HDR gallery.