Ah! It's a sunny day today! I checked the forecast and it looks like it's going to be nice weather through the weekend. That makes me very happy.

I got up early today (about 6:30am) because I went to bed early last night--well, not 'to bed' specifically, I actually fell asleep on the living room floor with some pillows in front of the TV. I don't know how I'm able to comfortably sleep on the floor like that, but it's something I've always been able to do. It's funny, because the cat's always like it when I fall asleep in the floor. They usually come and sleep with me.--So I've been watching a little TV, checking email and surfing the net a little. I think I'll take a drive and see if there are any yardsales out there this morning.

Sometimes I like to shoot abstract photos. I don't do it very often, but for me it's kind of like meditation. The normal set of tools my physical self uses to perceive an image are replaced by an alternative, subconscious metaphorical set. The resulting perception, which is always different every time I look, is spiritually soothing and momentarily relieves me of this reality.

Wow, the weekend seemed really short. It's been really rainy weather, so I didn't get out much.

Today I took some photos of things I'm going to be auctioning on Ebay. I got one item listed, but I still have two more things to put on there.

I'm selling one of my film cameras. I have mixed emotions about it. It's my always faithful Canon EOS 630. I really love that camera, but I haven't really used it that much at all since I purchased the EOS 10D last summer. I thought I'd be using them both, but I'm finding I use the G2 a lot more than the EOS 630 as well. For casual use, it's more sensible.



I think one of the main reasons I'm getting rid of it, is because I really need a new printer. I Canon has a nice one that's on sale right now for about $200.00 and Epson has a similar one. I don't really have the extra cash right now, so I have to juggle some equipment around in order to get the stuff I need.

So yeah, the Canon EOS 630 will probably be listed tomorrow after work.

It's funny because I was in the house all day and most of this evening, but I knew I had to go to Safeway to get some food stuff for work tomorrow. I was putting it off all afternoon. Finally I went there at 10:30 PM. Perhaps it's just me, maybe I was being cranky, but tonight I was noticing the high prices of food and it really got me pissed off. It's as if I had some kind of epiphany or something--I mean, it's not like I haven't shopped there before and spent unreasonable prices on food--but tonight it struck me hard, and I was rather shocked my the ridiculousness of it all. There I was, about to buy a carton of eggs and I noticed the price; $4.69 for 12 large organic eggs. Now, should we really be paying $4.69 for a carton of eggs? It pissed me off and made me wish the person who decided they should be priced so high, was standing there beside me. I'd really like to know how anyone could believe that is fair price for eggs.

I thought that organic eggs came from chickens that are free range. Shouldn't they cost less? It bugs me that we (those of us who choose to eat healthy, wholesome food) have to pay more for it. When did this happen? Why?

Well, before I end up writing a novel on the subject, I should really get to bed. I gotta get up at 5:30 AM. I should have been in bed a few hours ago. Got the 'Sunday night blues' again.

Gnite

For those of you who have a special person to be with;

Happy Valentine's Day!

It's raining today. I have to go into town to pick up some proofs from a roll of
120 I dropped off last week for processing. I'll probably hook up with J. (my
photojournalist friend) and have coffee. I haven't seen him in a while.

Today was another beautiful day, too bad I had to work! I had the camera out with me again yesterday and I got some shots of the first flower of the year. Nature never ceases to impress me. Beautiful.

It was a nice day today--relatively sunny and warm--and it didn't rain. Work and business as usually (except about half our crew is off on sick leave). My favorite part of today was lunch break. We went to the Shadbolt Center at Deer lake. It's a beautiful area, Deer Lake, and there's lots of old heritage buildings scattered around there. For those of you that don't already know, The Shadbolt Center is named after the great Canadian international artist Jack Shadbolt.

I took the camera out on my lunch break and walked down to the lake. Everything looked amazing, because there was a thin level of fog that extended up beyond the trees, and the sun was shining through the mist. I wished I could just take the rest of the day off and stay at the lake taking photos. Sadly, I get only half and hour for my lunch break. I did get these shots though:









And here's Ceperly House (Burnaby's haunted art gallery).


T. came down to the lake with me and posed for some photos:


And T. got a shot of me too:


Later, after lunch, we had to go use the crane truck to pick up some logs from a big cedar tree that a contractor cut down. We have some really big trees here on the west coast, and this tree was no exception:













I finished the afternoon tea with a nice cookie bear that I purchased from the cafeteria at the Shadbolt Center.



He didn't taste as good as he looked. That little red heart candy of his got wedged in between my teeth. Oh well. I've had worse.

Right now I'm installing a new operating system in my file server computer. It's just an old P2 300, but it will make a good file server for the big guy. I'll probably put music files on there.

Ok, I'm off to bed soon.

-Gnite.