Yes, indeedy. We got a dusting of snow around Atlanta last night – enough to be noticeable when I left for work this morning, but it was mostly gone by mid-afternoon. Work today began with a lot of promise – I finished up a couple of projects that had been shoved at me Tuesday – but ended with a whimper when I completely lost interest in coding and started reading about how to build a tilt-shift lens using an old medium-format lens, a plunger, and some glue. Then I spent even more time reading about tilt-shifting in general – how it works, what happens to depth of field, etc. Fascinating stuff, but I got nothing done in terms of work. Maybe I’ll have more energy tomorrow.
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| New Hope Cemetery Dunwoody, GA |
I practiced my tuba tonight for the first time in close to a week. Sounded okay. I’ll take it. Now I’m looking around for a trumpet method book so I can dig into the tenor horn a bit more seriously.
I’ve been trying to figure out something interesting to do this weekend. Chris and Betsy are pretty much booked, and I’m really jonesing to go someplace where I can take some decent photos. I’ve read that there’s a pretty cemetery in Rome, GA, so I could drive up there and check it out; but I’ve also got this weird idea in my head to find some “ghost towns” around the state and visit them. I know where a couple of them are between where I live and Dahlonega, GA (site of the country’s first gold rush), and I’ve read about a couple more within a 2-3 hour drive. I’m just not sure how interesting they’ll be. I mean, if there are actually abandoned building there are stuff, that’d be completely cool, but if it’s just foundations, well…
There’s also the possibility of going to a beach somewhere. Savannah has a cemetery that I’ve wanted to see for years, and the weather down there on Saturday is supposed to be amazing. Jekyll Island, GA, is always a fun place to visit. The coast of SC is only about a 5-hour drive.
Or I could grab a tent, a lantern and some food and go find myself a nice quiet piece of forest somewhere – though it might be a bit chilly in the mountains this weekend.
Nothing’s going to happen anyway if my renter doesn’t give me some cash tomorrow. I got carried away on my bills earlier this week and overpaid a few of them – effectively leaving me broke until next payday. Oh yeah – my property taxes went up again last year, so my escrow payments also went up (about $75 more a month). Oh, joy.
Am hoping to get to bed pretty early tonight, so I guess I’ll slap a picture in here and call it good.
TWD