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Because I had nothing else to do I decided to build a smoker out of an old filing cabinet I had. Smoke is coming out of it. I think that means it works. It doesn't get quite hot enough though. I'll have to throw another burner in the lower drawer, meat racks are in the upper drawer, or will be in a day or so.

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Some 8 years and a day later there's new steps in the backyard. I should have the railing up within a day or two.

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Some 8 or so years ago when we bought this house we noted a few things would need to be replaced, like every single wire in the house, every bit of plumbing, the furnace, the water heater, the roof, and definitely the back steps. Some 8 years or so later it's the turn of these steps to be replaced with newer, better, faster. One last photo, and then the hammer and prybar came out.

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There's a little note book in which I write letters to her. It's the third or fourth notebook, I can't remember. Fourth, I'd guess.

A friend texted me for the first time in months, years maybe. I had scanned my calendar earlier today and made a note of her birthday and how I should text her then, or earlier, it had been a while.

"Why haven't you called?"

"Well, that's a 2 way street. Why haven't you called?"

And then it was all punctuated with a "good bye."

Final, like.

I guess that's that.

18-8-25

Playing with ND filters. Might be fun. Might be a gimmick. I haven't decided yet.

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Spotted this beautiful vintage Rocky Mountain out in the wild today.

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Dario Pegoretti died today. 62 years old. Arguably the best bicycle frame builder there ever was. I owned one of his frames for a bit. It was the best bicycle I ever owned. And he was part of what inspired me to put my own name on a bicycle.

18-8-22

"Digital photography is not interesting for me." - Elliott Erwitt.

This is digital. It's a picture of flowers, well, mostly one flower, and maybe a day or two late into the bloom cycle. I don't know.

It's pretty, or pretty enough. Shot with a wide enough lens with a close enough focus range on a lark on a side street. And there it is.

I feel like it's time to change gears a bit, but I'm not sure how. Film? Elliott would say so. A different film camera? Maybe. I've got a good one that I haven't hardly used (is that a double negative?), and a short 35mm lens that would fit on it nicely.  So there's that. Guess I'll figure it out tomorrow. Or the day after.

18-8-21

The smoke lingers.

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Little brother, with his little brother. This on the eve of Nikon making an announcement regarding a mirrorless full frame camera. Full frame may be about to get smaller too. More out of less can only be a good thing.

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Stayed in this quaint little cabin in the interior. It was beautiful.

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I spent some of the evening cleaning cameras. Sensor swabs. Lens polishes. And a test shot. This test shot.

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Bread.

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I've started to read the last Salinger book available for reading, as in, the one I haven't read yet. Steinbeck wrote a whole bunch of stuff over the years. I won't be left wanting for another classic author to read after finishing Salinger, not with Steinbeck in the wings. And there's a (very) short list of Raymond Carver books I haven't read yet, though I find satisfaction in rereading the Carver books I've already read.

I'm sure Steinbeck used a typewriter the first time these words were written. I'm happy to have made a machine repeat this event.

"One suits a moment in drunkness." Magnetic poetry moments.

We are what we are. And there's no fighting it. And, if we're lucky, we get to embrace it.

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You are beautiful.

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