Hey, I went to the gym today after work!

It might not seem like a very big deal, but it's the first time in a long, long time and I really need to be consistent with it. Luckily I went at a good time and it was relatively empty. There were about 5 or six other guys in there and one woman.

Yesterday I brought the digital camera to work. I haven't shot any infrared shots in a long time and I noticed that I'd left my infrared filter in my backpack. I rarely carry that filter around with me, and so I must have left it in the backpack a few weeks ago and forgotten about it. So because it was suddenly available I decided to use it for a few shots at work.

The first photo is shot of an urban neighborhood where I was working on some trees. I really like the way clouds look in infrared which is why I like this picture. There's lens flare from the sun in the image, but I kinda like it there.

These next photos are of one of the trucks we use at work. It's dumping a load of wood chips. I shot the image at about 1/8th of a second which is the reason for the motion blur of the truck.

I think I'm going to go downtown this Saturday instead of doing the garage sales. I haven't dropped off my film yet from a few weeks ago when I brought the medium format to Steveston and I'm really wanting to see the results.

I'm considering going out to Tim Horton's right now for doughnuts and a submarine sandwich for my lunch at work tomorrow. Hmmm. I would like some timbits right now.

Ciao!

The big parkinglot sale was a huge success! I sold lots of items and there were a few thousand people that came through there. My best friend L. was really happy because I sold a lot of her stuff too.

Most of the people there were pretty friendly. I parked beside an older gentleman and it turns out he was somewhat interested in photography and so we ended up chatting for a while. It made the time go by faster. I bought some nice German stoneware mugs from him that are very nice. They have "Lufthansa" printed on them. I'm not sure if they're coffee cups or beer mugs. They look rather small to be beer mugs. I'm using one right now to drink tea.

I'm feeling a lot better now. I took the whole week off and I'm not feeling dizzy anymore. Maybe a little here and there, but nothing like it was earlier in the week. I'll be going back to work tomorrow.

I think this weekend went by a little too fast. I've been very busy all weekend. I can't be too greedy though, I did have a week away from work. Just wish I'd felt better but then I guess it would actually be 'skipping work' wouldn't it.

I took lots of pictures at the parking lot sale. I met a really pretty bird there named "Thumper". He was great because he could talk and he learned how to repeat things you said to him very quickly. He's a white Moluccan Cockatoo Cacatua moluccensis. Thumper really enjoyed looking at my camera. His owner said he likes to hear the shutter sound cameras make. My digital camera has no shutter sound, so I turned on the artificial shutter noise for him. He loved it! Almost instantly he began to mimmic the sound of the shutter. It's amazing. He's missing some feathers on his chest because he has a habbit of pulling them out his owner said. Other than that, he's still a lovely bird.

Ok, I'm off to bed now. Here's some photos from the weekend. Click on the image if you want to see a large size.

Gnite.

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I went for a good bike ride this afternoon. If anything I pushed it a little. I'm rather tired of not feeling very well, and so in defiance I got on the bike and rode for about an hour or so. It's been a frustrating week, because I'm still not feeling 100%. I keep getting this vertigo feeling here and there throughout the day. I went to the doctor yesterday and he thinks I might have an inner ear infection, but he's not sure. He gave me a perscription for vertigo.

So I've actually missed a whole week of work.

Tomorrow I'm participating in a big parking lot sale. The city is opening one of the parking lots at a rec. Center and people can come and park their cars and sell stuff out of their trunk. There will be hundreds of people there. It should be interesting. Tonight I have to get organized. I'm selling a bunch of my friend L.'s stuff too.

Have a good weekend.

-Ciao!

I woke up this morning thinking I maybe should have gone to work, but I'm glad I didn't go. Later in the day I was stuck by the same ugly dizzy feeling I've been having for the past few days. I get a headache with it and sometimes nausia too. I don't like it. I hope that tomorrow morning I will feel well enough to go to work. I guess I must have some kind of bug. There is something going around right now as several people have been off work in the past few weeks.

So I had a somewhat busy day today anyway. I went to the mall to get some groceries, picked up some prints from Black's and forgot to get cat litter at Wall Mart, so I had to drive back to the mall later in the afternoon.

I also listed some items on Ebay--something I haven't done in a while--and I scheduled them to start on the weekend. I have a lot of stuff that needs to go on Ebay.

Well, I better go get some sleep now.

Ciao!

I stayed home from work today, still not feeling well. I must have some kind of bug I guess. It's a drag. Hopefully I'll feel better tomorrow.

I got email from my lovely J.S. from Ontario this morning and that made my whole day, as well as email from her friend S. who sent me some more great photos! Thank you both! ;-)

Here's some photos from today with the webcam.





Here's some from the car show on the weekend and one of me from Steveston. My friend A. took that one while I was shooting some cow pictures with the medium format camera.













Ciao!

I'm at a friend's place right now and I just noticed that none of my images are showing up in my journal here. It's not your computer, it's the image host Village Photos that's been up and down a lot lately. It bugs me because it's a service that I pay for. Usually they are very good, but I guess because of the upgrading they've been doing they've had quite a few problems lately.

I still fill a little ill today. Last night I was feeling pretty sick. I don't know what I ate that made me ill. Today I'll just have to take it easy and eat simple food.

OK, I'm off.

Ciao.