Sunday

I have been in a creative mood lately. Hence blog visual changes, some new Dremeling on an olllllld project (the same one I was working on last August :-P), reading philosophy and history (I picked up A Study of History again), and a little picturing here and there.

The folks and I went to a baptism Sunday, which was on the west dock, where K and I embarked on our little kayaking trip. It was considerably hotter yesterday (in the mid-90s), so it was a little less comfortable, I suppose, but we had a good time chatting with some friends and I managed to snag a few pictures:



I actually found out after the fact that I had some dust on the lens that was obscuring things. This is a double-plus-ungood situation, and I rectified it when I got back home and realized that it was a problem.

There was therefore a shortage of usable shots. I suppose I could've gimped them to fix it, but none of the pictures was really worth it. A few of the shots were nice, and I've put them all up above.


I also neglected to mention that we're probably going to have a new subcontractor at the studio in September. He seems like a really quality guy; he teaches Filipino martial arts (including stick fighting). I think we meshed pretty well, and he seemed very like-minded. Less about business, more about the art, and I like that.

His daughter might look to train with us, too, which would be another student, and D has some friends who just started also. (They're actually adult human beings!) This is a great thing, since it means that we may actually experience some growth this summer into the fall, which will probably be a first for this (anti-profit) organization.


Work, for whatever it's worth, is still there. I'm enjoying the environment, and also the prospect of two weeks off. I'm looking at a new project soon, working with C# (a fairly new language for me) and a telephony API. It shouldn't be a big deal, since I think we're just going to be modifying the back end interface code for a database. It should be muy interessante. The development will be remote, I think, in all likelihood. That should be interesting.

I may even get to play with Mono, a C# compiler for Linux.


With all this said, though, I think it's time for me to make like a baby and find something else to read. I ran through Hood like it was yesterday's newspaper, so I'm going to have to hunt for something else in the library.