I’ve gotten into the habit of snapping the occasional low-quality photo on my phone, and figured it would be neat to have an online destination for the ones I want to keep. So I’ve set up a mobile uploads album in my gallery. Here’s a taste:
I’ve occasionally seen these traps set up on trees outside my condo. The corn is hooked up to a bell, but I have no clue who could be listening for it to ring. The other day I spotted a squirrel next to one, frozen to the point where I thought it was a decoy or something.
Here’s a shot of my new commute across Lake Washington on a relatively clear day. The commute has been pretty painless so far, minus a couple times there were blockages on the bridge. Even on the far more common grey days I find the sight of the water manages to get the endorphins releasing in my brain, which is nice. The second shot is on the way home on a rainy day… there’s apparently a pot of gold at the bottom of Lake Washington.
Work has been stressful in a good way… we are beseiged with challenges but I am rising to them. I’m currently geeking out on some tough computational geometry problems, the kind I haven’t worked on in a couple of years. I wouldn’t want to have to deal with them on a regular basis but it’s cool knowing my expertise is what’s making all of this possible for them.
We had two performances of Improvise Your Own Adventure last weekend. I wound up being one of the main characters in the second one, and I thought it went pretty well. We left a couple of main threads of the story dangling, but on the whole I thought we did some respectable storytelling. My Theatresports team lost in its third weekend, but I’ve got another shot with another challenging team this weekend, so that’ll be fun.
Fiddler rehearsals continue as well. I ran “Miracle of Miracles” for the first time. It’s got a long way to go… thankfully there’s time.
Dan.