Round like a fishbowl

I wore green by accident today and didn't remember the day until I went out and saw other folks in green. My grandmother, who's no longer with us, gave this to me years ago.



How they did this is just very pleasing to me somehow. The bit of whimsy is especially appreciated by me in an area that's very paved over, with very little greenery or growing stuff. (My neighborhood has more trees and grass than this one.)


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Something small but rattling came to me today. I've been taking photos of the vary large and very thick statue at the Jaquillard & Strunck site in Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery for nearly 20 years. See? It towers over me and I never take close-ups of its face.

While looking at the larger version of one of my recent photos I noticed a long prominent scratch above and to the side of its mouth. ( photo )

I had no idea that was there! When I looked at other photos of it in recent years at that magnification, that mark was there. So I went back to some older and far less high-definition photos and saw what might be an indication of it in 2010 and possibly 2008, but the photos weren't close and are a bit squidgy looking at higher magnifications. This... actually bothers me! I had no idea that was there. I have no idea how or when it occurred. Just... weird.

After barely going anywhere or shooting anything for almost two months due to snow, severe cold, and feeling crappy, I started photographing again this week. I have some morning light cemetery shots and started putting up some daytime window display shots from when I was in the city for a doctor's appointment. The ones I just posted are all warm weather clothing while it was literally snowing and sleeting on me. (With the wind, I couldn't shoot and hold an umbrella simultaneously, so it was literally snowing and sleeting on me. It took hours for the fur ruff on my hood to dry out.) That was the day when the temperature started in the 60s F and ended up feeling like the 20s by nightfall. I'm visible in the reflection in some of those window shots.

You can see the 11 window display photos and 22 cemetery photos at my Flickr.

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"Lost Doctor Who episodes found in 'eclectic' collection"

The BBC has some nerve calling this guy's collection "ramshackle" when they personally deleted everything. At least he stored them, unlike you folks.

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I drove about 15 miles to grocery shop in Westbury only to have Whole Foods and Trader Joe's not have the things I came for, so I trekked a little further away to Jericho and Plainview. The Plainview Trader Joe's is so much nicer and has a better selection than the ones I usually go to. It also played Depeche Mode's "Behind the Wheel" and Howard Jones' "Life in One Day" while I was there, which gives it extra credit.

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House of Pain's "Jump Around" always gets me bouncing, but Pitbull and Lil John's "Jumpin'" takes the sample and adds a lot more party and booty shaking. Every time "Jumpin'" plays while I'm driving, I'm dancing in my seat.

Due to migraines and ridiculous allergies lately, I've been sleeping much more and haven't been online or writing as much. Pair that with how I wasn't going anywhere as much due to all the snow sticking around and making parking less reliable, I have less new stuff to talk about.

Even with higher temperatures and a lot of rain, we still have some mounds of the stuff, but parking is getting easier to find.

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It's Irish soda bread season in NY. The Stop & Shop version, heretically, didn't have caraway seeds, but Trader Joe's did, even if I cringe at them calling theirs the Blarney Scone.

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I had my annual eye exam last week, something especially important for someone with Chiari, which means they're very concerned with how my retinas are doing. For some reason, the pupil of my left eye stayed dilated hours longer than my right. They can't have put that much more dilating fluid in my left eye. My youngest niece saw it when I picked her up from college and was very concerned for me.

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I received a notice from Kia of a recall for my Forte. It said they first sent a notice for it to the original owner in 2021 but nothing was done. So, I got this voluntary emissions and transmission recall done as well as two anti-theft things for free. The Kia service people seemed decent and competent, unlike all of the Hyundai people I used to deal with.