If you didn’t know, it’s super easy to find out if an egg is spoiled. If it floats in tap water, it’s a dud.
This bad egg is the first image I posted on the new photography sharing app called Glass. (Nice name!)
The app is subscription based, but that means it’s free of all the garbage so prevalent in social media. Photos are front and center and interaction comes in the form of conversation. (There are no likes.)
I’m still wrapping my head around it. Do I post old vacation photos that seem extra good? Or do I share snapshots of life while it’s happening?
I’ll figure it out at some point.
Every time I pass this Budget Host motel on Central Parkway I marvel at the sign and overall condition of the property.
My friend Erik says we should buy a motel and make a go of it. Others have the same idea, but upscale. I’m fairly certain ours would lower the bar in an appropriate way.
Most of the screen-printing equipment has found a new and wonderful home, but we have a few bits left that we’re keeping for good measure.
Like this screen of Bubba for instance. I figure it will make a lovely piece of art for a wall someday.
The days are blurry. During the week I’m juggling projects. Weekends are for decompressing.
In this instance, it involved floating in a pool, soaking up sunshine, slathered in SPF with a wide brimmed hat.
August 1, 2021.
We were having a cocktail on the patio.
Light was refracting at the bottom of this super cheap IKEA cocktail glass.
I asked Casey to use his phone’s camera as I was without all technology.
Thought it was pretty.
I was in Camp Washington to take down some of the Reform America vinyl lettering that covered the front windows of Wave Pool. I wasn’t there for the installation, but just trying to chip away at these letters gave me immense respect for Cal, Eli and crew for getting it up at all.
In hindsight? This was an incredible undertaking and I’m proposing we avoid such installations in the future!
I did the best I could with wobbly legs and made some progress, but the letters way up the top were beyond my capability. Once I packed up supplies and ladder I did a loop through the gallery to see some of the art.
Good stuff.
Above: Erika Nj Allen’s Respira
Things will be very boring here for a while.
Example, I’ve resorted to adding a wired mouse to my favorites area.
(And in hindsight, I wish all those favorites were simply posts from this journal flagged as such, but that’s for some future day.)
I’ve half a mind to fast forward through these last 30 days and just catch up to today. Only thing that will be undocumented is lots of pictures of food and Edie, and lots of dealing with things and steeling with resolve.
Normally I’d have started the day with a Zoom workout, but I jumped right into work instead.
Other things have reverted upon return. We’re back to remote working and doing pickups instead of going inside stores.
Oh, and I didn’t go into details about the haircut I had before vacation. It didn’t go well. I’m fine with going back to using clippers at home.
Unlocking the door to my apartment, Edie’s greeting was tinged with skepticism and intrigue. There was a month’s worth of scents on my luggage, so she started inspection there before checking me out to see if I was the same person I was before. (To answer that particular question, one really needs to specify a time span.)
Extra bonus: My neighbors Kathryn and Terry left a surprise on the counter with carb-filled goodies as a welcome home from “Keto Mountain.”
It was good to be home.
Casey watched Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (his first viewing!) while I sobbed through Supernova — double masked, flying from SFO to SLC to CVG.
Considering the shift in variables, personal travel by plane will subside for the moment. (Sigh.)
It was fun while it lasted, and it shall be fun again.
In the meanwhile, here are some views along the way.
It was possible to adjust our route from the coast and hit up Apple Park on the way.
Once I found out this was happening I got very excited.
I’d always wanted to visit Apple at some point and pay homage / tip my hat to the company that opened doors for realizing ideas so early in life.
They have a visitors center at the edge of the circular spaceship building with a store and viewing platform. Every detail and surface (particularly the stair case rails) were exquisite.
It was hard to see much of the main building from this vantage, but still… some micro-bucketlist item was checked off and I was thankful for the moment. (Plus also it was fun to see the new iMac colors IRL.)
