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Yesterday was bookshelf day. We went to Ikea in the early afternoon and picked up a 6′x6′ shelf unit for the office. We’ve been painfully low on storage space and I wanted to put an end to it. The original plan was to move our current (and much smaller) bookshelf somewhere else, while the new [...]

Tonight is going to be a late night. I’m sitting around babysitting some stuff for work. Could go as late as 5am. Ugh. At least I’m not expected to show up at work tomorrow. I’ll just work remotely for a few hours tomorrow. In the non-work front, I have a huge boner for Marvel Zombies. [...]

I rarely ever play around with black & white, but I really liked the contrast and decided to snap off a few shots. I was on the southbound orange line platform at the Downtown Crossing train stop. “The T” (as our public transport system is known by) is notoriously anal about people not taking pictures [...]

I came off of on-call last Wednesday. It wasn’t as bad as it could have been, but I’m certainly glad it’s over. Last week we got a new kitty. Corinne’s been volunteering at MSPCA nearby and wanted to get another one. Unfortunately, he’s wearing a cone/e-collar right now because he scratched a nasty wound onto [...]

I’m on call right now. Each person in my group goes on call about once every two months for a week. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn’t. Friday, for instance, sucked. I got engaged at about midnight and ended up getting done around 6:30am on Saturday. No fun. I think I’m finally squared away with [...]

Left work early & took advantage of the nice weather and sunshine, I figured I’d wander around and try to shoot some flowers. There’s not a lot to be found quite yet given how cold it’s been, but I had a few to choose from and snapped a few I liked. I can’t wait until [...]

As an assignment for my photo class, we’re tasked with taking some portraits with only window light. I’ve never really made any real efforts at portraits before and I’m not that good at post-processing with skin tones. Anyway, here’s a few that I took on Saturday. I think I’m going to try to re-work the [...]

This weekend was pretty decent. Started out after work on Friday where I went into Harvard Sq. to get some new plugs and to meet up with Corinne after work. We wandered for a bit and got some much-needed food. I took some pictures of Corinne Saturday afternoon for my photo class that started up [...]

I uploaded a TON of underwater pics last night from our recent trip to Grand Cayman. I’ve done _zero_ processing to these – they’re the direct JPGs out of my PowerShot. Even very minor post-processing would help a lot, but I just didn’t have it in me last night… so expect a lot of blue! [...]

…plugs made of tiger’s eye are extremely delicate. Dropping them onto a hard surface results in shattering. Try not to do this. Now I have to try to find some time to get back to Harvard Sq. and get some more plugs. I should just stick to durable (and mildly bouncy-if-dropped) wood. And no, this [...]