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Non-Random Observations That Seem Random

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(© 2007 Dawnne Gee) I have not had a good summer and early fall. Not that I mean to complain, or even excuse myself. I’m behind on work, I’m behind on some personal goals, and there were some projects that #1 Son and I had intended to complete this summer, and here it is a week after the first frost, and not only are those projects not finished, but they were never begun. Naturally, I beat myself up over this virtually all day every day, but I’ll get over it.

One of the reasons I feel like I’m riding the fine line between depression and simple angst is because I’m continually tired. I’m in pretty good physical shape (heck, thanks to taking up TaeKwonDo last winter with #1 Son, I’m in much better shape today than I was last December), but we simply don’t have enough referees out here to cover all the soccer games that are going on. As one of the instructors, I’m going to have to help come up with a way to curtail our attrition and to recruit more adults into serving The Game. For the past several weeks, I’ve averaged 13 or 14 games every six days, and most of those being High School or Men’s League.

Eh. Waaaah. I’m tired, go figure. Sorry, I don’t mean to whine. But it’s somewhat relevant to everything else that’s going on. Try as I may to get enough sleep, eat right, and stretch before and after games, I’m still getting up tired each morning. It’ll thankfully be over in a few more weeks, but in the meantime, I worry about what I’m doing to my liver with so much ibuprofen in my system, heh.

I’ve got another wedding to shoot tomorrow, and I get to meet the Power and Influence behind tramplingrose first, which is kind of cool. We’re going to do coffee together before I head over to “Touchdown Jesus” to shoot the wedding. In my previous visits to Brookings, SD, I don’t recall having seen this particular church, so I’ll make sure to get a good shot of it for all my photoshoppy friends to play with. ;-)

Which reminds me, I guess I better make sure all the camera batteries are fully charged.

I’m sorry I haven’t gotten more kitten photos uploaded. They sure are growing fast. It’s pretty hard to shoot ‘em playing when there’s not someone else around to keep them somewhat together and focused, and they have, for the most part, taken the fine advice of the older cats and pretty much snooze when it’s only me around. And in the evenings, as you know, I’m usually out refereeing, often with #1 Son, and it’s even harder to shoot then, heh.

I’m hoping that come the end of October, I’ll essentially be caught up on everything and moving forward again with some of my personal goals, which include the redo of our business site, and finishing some metaphysical studies. I really do want to incorporate the metaphysical stuff up here to a greater degree. It’s not quite what most people think it is. I’m certainly by no means one of those overtly-esoteric patchouli-smelling who does little more than philosophize on everything to the abject ignorance of reality, but I do find some interesting insights to the world we live in and life in general that aren’t really found by other means.

The photograph is from late last January, the morning after an overnight storm which rimed all the trees and plants from the south (left). I always get in these kind of moods before winter.

Anyway, wherever you are, and whatever you’re doing, do it well. Peace to you all.

of farewells and returns

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i am back among the living….not that San Antonio seemed populated by zombies or anything. but when we got up yesterday morning, the very first thought that crossed my mind was “It’s time to get back home.” i suppose a body could infer a lot from that, and i’m sure it would mostly be true. in short, after a twenty-year absence, this trip to San Antonio was not “going home” for me.

obviously, while i was gone, i didn’t manage to blog. i tried to one day, but the restaurant was so crowded and noisy, i couldn’t really write, so i gave it up. it was a funny scenario: the Hyatt in downtown San Antonio charged something like $10/day for wireless internet, but this restaurant adjacent to the hotel on the River Walk, Mad Dogs, had free access. plus, their provider had a $4.95/day offering for unlimited secure access if you wanted that. personally, i found it more entertaining, and just as cost-effective, to spend a couple of hours downstairs trying to catch up on email and the blogs and forums i participate in while nursing a pint or more of Stella Artois or Guinness. much more satisfying than paying $10 per day to a corporate conglomerate of hotel chains.

but that was later, and now i’ve gone all out of order. as you can probably imagine, i have a ton of stuff to do today. i’ll be using the photos from Saint Louis and San Antonio to settle into a workflow with Adobe Lightroom: it’s not really ready for digital asset management, but it’s got legs, and some of my friends in the profession have already developed pretty comprehensive workflows for it that fit in with iView. but in the meantime, i’ve got invoices and statements to run, clients to meet with, and print orders to expedite, so i’ll be back with more later.

in the other meantime, so to speak, here is one photo from the River Walk. i took along pretty much every lens i have, but the River Walk as a general subject truly lent itself marvelously to being photographed with the Lensbaby 3G.