Birthday

Today is my brother's birthday. His comes one week ahead of mine. I decided a while back not going to throw a brithday party this year, at least not like I have done the last couple of years. It's good enough that Sanctuary is open late on the 5th of August - that will be my birthday party. There is just nothing noteworthy about turning 34. Next year, however, I have plans. Prior to the all the remarkable things we take absolutely for granted (clean water, closed sewers, refigeration, garbage collection, effective medices, et al.) the average lifespan of a human being was about 35. Next year is going the be my "death day". This year, however, I think I'll just buy myself the new camera I was looking at yesterday and accost everyone with it at Sanctuary.

And now for the work rant du jour

I need to relax. I think the secret to surviving my time here is to coast through it as much as I can. I've got to stop feeling guilty about getting paid to wait for other people, jump through hoops designed to protect the lazy from the incompetent, and all the other corporate inertia. It's not my problem. My problem is to stay out of trouble and keep my cheques coming in and not go crazy in the process. I'm just selling my time, that's all. I need to adjust to that. I'm slowly learing how to do this. Corporate life isn't about excellence, it's about carefully orchestrated mediocrity.

New toy and new painting

Nicole

So I went ahead and bought the camera and it rocks! What you see here is a reduced photo of the painting of Nicole as it currently stands. No more fooling around to scan paintings in multiple passes. I can finally get decent pictures of my larger stuff for my portfolio. I'm so excited! Yay!

Not exactly high art

Four second exposure with the new camera! This is very fun!