Vacation

Heat


Jan Panek once told me that retirement is exhausting, and occasionally you just have to get away on vacation. Linda and I are leaving for Cape Cod tomorrow for that reason. Look forward to doing some photography, some geocaching, some art galleries, some whalewatching, and eating some seafood.

Went to New Orleans last weekend for the POE meeting. Had a nice time walking around the French Quarter Thursday afternoon, and again early Sunday morning. Shot some film - HP5 in the Olympus 35RC - and processed it in Rodinal. Negatives look pretty good - look forward to printing a few. Nice dinner with the IAS publications crowd on Thursday night at Ralph & Kacoo's. The meeting itself was long and tedious, but I came away with some ideas that we need to implement in the Magazine.

When I got back I found that I had over 200 e-mails, most of which were pro forma announcements from APUG, RIT Photoforum, or spam. Ugh.

Found that some bozo had posted a comment on a couple of entries of the blog that amounted to little more than a group of porn links. For some reason, Blogspot's instructions for clearing comments didn't work, so for now I've had to disable the comment function.

Registration for the confererence looks to be about on track with previous years, and I think we have passed the minimum number of hotel rooms. Whew! That doesn't mean that we don't have more hustling to do, but it feels good to know that we are not facing a totaly disaster. Of course, we have the problem that the company that was going to do the companion's program has announced that they will be going out of business at the end of April. Bob Smith is working with them to develop an alternate program using another company.

Monday night Linda complained that her computer wasn't working. To make a long story short, the wireless connection had come undone and I couldn't get it restarted. Spent three hours on a chat circuit with Linksys last night troubleshooting the problem - eventually had to switch the wireless connection to a static IP address. I asked the Linksys tech why it worked just fine for 6 months, and then wouldn't work at all. His answer - "I really don't know". What a sense of comfort that brings!

This image is one of the first that I did with the Crown Graphic. I've always presented it as a contact print - it really doesn't need to be big.