Therapy according to Storm

We were driving in the car yesterday, and Storm said something silly, and I responded with "Are you INSANE?!?" Several quick turns of phrase later found me singing "Insane in the Membrane" by Cypress Hill, while Storm countered with "Frontier Psychiatrist" by The Avalanches.

Partway through I interrupted Storm to ask if she knew what therapy was.

"Sure. That's when you are insane in the membrane, so you go to a place, and they give you a squeezy thing that squeaks*. And you squeeze it all day long so it's eyes pop out it's ears pop out until its dark outside. Then they give you a doll and you have to scream and punch it until it's head blows off. It's supposed to help calm you down."

* I think she is referring to one of those Martian squeeze toys
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So there you have it.

Absense

I've not been posting much lately, been kind of laying low. This month has been really bad for some of my friends and coworkers, and I'm trying not to draw the gods attention to me, lest they decide to throw some plagues my way too. Being empathetic, the crapstorm has been psychically exhausting. I'm not the type to "reach out" when I'm having a hard time, I tend to draw inward. So that's the other reason for the silence.

I didn't get much photography done the last few weeks due to Melanie being at the festival. Yesterday was my first "day off" where I could head out on my own to explore and clear my mind. I located one "Hogskin Branch Falls" (here) and spent some time photographing there. After I finished I put the camera to the side and leaned against the stone and moss under the falls. As hot as I was, and as much as I had been needing to get out, this was just what the doctor ordered. I then took my squishy self back to my car, picked up Storm from Mel's shop, and went looking for photography backpack.

I wanted a backback because while my current sling pack is handy, after a while it starts making my back hurt. It's a fair amount of weight to be hanging off-center on one's body all day. I picked up a nice backpack at a really stupidly high price (in my defense, they are all priced stupidly high) and got the major stuff put inside yesterday evening. I think I want to add some pockets in one of the interior spaces... it lacks nooks and crannies.

I've started several projects lately, including trying to get UltraVNC working, starting a photo book, making another Google Gadget, working on some possible collaborations with a hiking website, a framed art website, and others, and seriously contemplating "what's next". I don't know if that last counts as a project. It's as hard as one.

Anyway, I've got some photos to post, I'll be doing that next.

Drawing spider

Big post of Infrareds

This is the color as it comes out of the camera, after I set a custom white balance so they aren't pure red


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Nighttime shots

I shot these the other night, while on a short walkabout from my table at the Acoustic






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