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I rarely stick my foot in my mouth like I did last night. During a business meeting one of the younger, more energetic members was disruptive and someone else called him on it. He ignored them, so I opened my big mouth:

“Hey, dipshit!”

That got his attention and he became childish and said, “Well you guys just have your meeting!”, and ran from the room (did I see tears?). It’s actually pretty funny when I think about it…

So I made my amends to him about ten minutes later and told him that I shouldn’t have said it, and I was wrong. He barely shook my hand, couldn’t look me in the eye, and mumbled something about letting bygones-be-bygones. Oh well…In this case I’ll settle for progress because I was less than perfect.

On better news, I just finished my first paper for this semester. It’s a discussion on the role of youth culture in the rise of early fascism in Italy and Germany. It came in at just over 11 pages, and it reads very well. So that’s finished.

Above are two new b/w pictures I have manipulated with Digital Image Pro. I am trying to adjust the contrasts to simulate the tonal qualities of platinum gelatin prints. I think I captured some of the richness. There’ll be more to come!

Johnnyboy

My new camera arrived this morning in the mail from B&H Photo in The Big City and so far I am very pleased and a little intimidated with the thing. It has been a long time since I have used a real SLR camera and the added digital gizmos tend to make me a tad nervous. You can be sure I’ll be asking my friend Aravis about some of the workings…I can see why some people didn’t like the unit already. There are a couple of manual setting switches that are a bit awkward, but I’ll get used to them.

The cable guy has come and gone, and left a new cable extension in what will be my mother’s new bedroom, i.e. downstairs in what used to be the guest bedroom. The telephone man comes tomorrow to do essentially the same thing.

Above are two pictures taken with my new Canon Rebel XT. One is called ‘Elephant Nuts’ and the other is ‘Sweetie Pie’. On both I used the autofocus, but set the ISO and so on my self. This camera is several steps up from the little point-and-shoot Canon I have.