I went up to Furman yesterday to shake off some of the photographic cobwebs and shoot the annual spring scrimmage. It was an obnoxiously beautiful day in South Carolina, which made me wish that I’d gotten out of bed a couple of hours earlier than I did so that I could have spent more time out in the sun. After 7 straight days of cold and rainy days, it was a great way to start the weekend.
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The shooting went about as I thought it would. My sports reactions are rusty after 4 months off, but I managed to get a few decent shots. Also walked around the campus for a couple of hours after the scrimmage, and it was just about impossible to take a bad shot. Every flower on the planet was in full bloom and the university grounds are pretty gorgeous anyway.
I finished a few easy projects at work last week and will be starting a fairly major one on Monday – for the second time. I originally began this particular project in November, but when I sent some questions about it to the client, he blew me off. So I tabled the thing. Now the client is ready to give it another shot, so – for all intents and purposes, I’m starting over. I don’t remember a thing about it or what I’ve already done with it.
I won’t get much of a start on it, however, because I’m leaving for Michigan on Wednesday for the brass band championships. I spent a good portion of last week trying to get the word out about the contest to as many people in the Grand Rapids area as possible, which ended up being amazingly annoying when I suggested that we buy some radio spots on the local NPR station. While everyone on the board agreed that this was a good idea (well, every one of them who weighed in with an opinion), none of the executive committee wanted to actually pull the trigger and kept pushing it back to me. I finally got the president to say, “You’ve done all the groundwork, so go ahead and do it.”
So I did. Unfortunately, the bill (for $350) will be coming to me. I dearly hope that the executive committee is more decisive about paying ME than they were about paying the radio station.
Today, I’m just processing some of the photos from yesterday and chilling out. I’ll do some grocery shopping later and perhaps practice my tuba for a bit. Might even get crazy and mow the lawn – but mostly, I’m just planning to lie in bed and do nothing.
TWD