I went to Virginia Beach the weekend of the 20th. I wanted to catch up with an old friend that I had not seen in two years. I need to get up there again sometime and catch up with Jason as well. We are thinking about maybe taking our vacation up towards the Philadelphia area so maybe that will work.
The pictures are posted here.
I had written earlier that I was showing my photographs at a local art gallery called the "Nodo Artist Network." I finally sold a print on Thursday. Yippee!!
You know I have a very loving wife. Saturday we went to a couple of music stores. I have an idea that I want to photographs of some musical instruments. Ideally I wanted a violin, a saxophone, and a french horn. I think my style of close in shots might be interesting to shoot with these pieces.
The first store was Sam Ash Music. They could rent me the violin and sax for $180 a piece for a year. Not quite what I had in mind. I only need it for a few days or so. However, they did have this really cool red acoustic guitar that was on sale for $65.00 So I left without the other pieces, but came home with a guitar. I figure that I only need to sell two pictures of it to pay for it..:). Marlene wants to hang it on one of the walls. Did I mention it's red?
The second place was called Music and More. They let me rent a sax for $39.00. It is actually a rent to own thing, but I can return it in three months with no extra charges. Now I only need one picture to cover this expense.
Neither place had the french horn. I am currently bidding on a used one on Ebay. I am also bidding on a starter 4/4 violin. They both cost about $10-15 a piece with shipping being about $30.00. So I hope to have those shortly.
I have added an album in the gallery page which contains my first test shots with the pieces. TI have decided to use this album as a "scratch pad" of images where people can comment and vote.
I have installed a new Gallery program on the website. Check it out.
This is in honor of Jason's birthday yesterday
rpm -i -replacepkgs ftp:/ftp.oldguy.com/oldjason.rpm
rpm -u where is Christie Brinkley.rpm
ssc christie brinkley.prm http://www.jasonscomputerroom.com/lockeddoor
echo on
chmod christie brinkley -777 remove top
finger (boy there are too many options with this one..:)
strings - christie remove strings
spank -jason (a couple of dozen times) and one to grown on
unzip http://www.jasonscomputerroom.com/lockeddoor/oldjason.rpm -with christie
echo off (this is a famliy site)
gzip -relaxed jason
rpm -u ftp:/ftp.jclark.org/newjason.rpm
date (jason got older yesterday)
Echo Happy Birthday Guy
Somehow Sean and I hardly ever entertain. The friends we have in Charlotte generally have children so they prefer to have us visit them.
Relatives are all yonder and far so we generally plan visits to them.
So yesterday it was a wonderful novelty to get out the wedding china and glasses for dinner with Sean's aunt Jenny and uncle Luther.
Luther and Jenny live in Winston Salem and sort of invited themselves, although I quickly seized on Jenny's casual mention of wanting to come visit.
I meant to ask Sean, but forgot, to take a picture of the table before dinner because it really did look lovely. After dinner it didn't look so lovely anymore. Dinner was tasty and that tends to leave crumbs...
There's not much else newswise going on in these parts. The weather's turned and this weekend has been sunny and warm as opposed to last weekend's snowfall (it didn't last long) and predictions of dire icey winterey conditions.
We went to another gallery crawl on Friday night to "man Sean's area". Although there were a few more people out than the last event 2 weeks ago it was still relatively slow. Those photos look so incredible in the black gallery frames with wide white mats. I have to convince Sean to put up a few in our own home since somehow the larger the print size is the more impressive. Mr. Sean would prefer to sell a few of the gallery prints before donating some to his wife's collection, however.
Home in Vancouver news: my sister Tilly is working far too much overtime now that she feels the sting of a mortgage. Tsk tsk Tilly there are years left to pay this thing off.
My mom just celebrated her 71st birthday and is still looking fabulous. My mom has her flower calendar set up really well. Birthday in January, her daffodils come up in February, she gets flowers at Easter in March/April, then mother's day in May and shortly afterwards her own garden's blooms are up. Somehow Mom manages flowers year-round.
My Dad's hip surgery date has been set for Feb 17th. This is good news since he was going to have to wait another 5 months initially. I'm sure it will all go smoothly and we'll keep him in our thoughts and prayers.
Hulda and Ernst Kischnick have made it to South America for their 3-month stay and have been safely delivered into the hands of relatives according to the latest report.
And that's pretty much it for news -- if you've got any let us know so I can as Pops would say "vvrite dat down".
M.