It’s alive!
February 13th, 2007 @ 22:32 by NormMonkey
It hears sounds
It sees sights
It imagines, creates, dreams
Yet AZROLB remains in darkness
No longer
The creature is awake
NEWS UPDATES
* Gym: Good friends P&M and I have gone halfies on a great monstrous piece of gym equipment. I plan to stop by our little gym on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The rest of the time I will eat Beefcake 2000 and do my steroids like a good little boy;
* Photos: I’ve decided that the Olympus E-500 is a gadget lover’s delight. The designers of its user interface have gone to great pains to put power and configurability into the hands of the user. It’s the linux of SLRs. So much so that even I can’t remember all the options, so I’m working on a cheat sheet for it;
* Helicopterland: haven’t gotten much practise in lately. I think I’ll be switching to practising in the morning before work. There’s also Tuesdays and Thursdays, assuming I don’t fall unconscious from unanticipated Beefcake-steroids crossmixing side effects;
Aside from that, much of my spare time and weekends has been spent enjoying the company of my Favourite Blue Devil, the Grinning Monkey herself, the most Firma of all the Terra:
You won’t believe how long it took me to build that chair for this picture
Who Says Art Isn’t Functional?
For example, last weekend we celebrated C’s not-going-to-Borden-right-away-day with a toga party. We added booze and porn, and surprise! Metric candlestickloads of fun ensued! D won first prize for most tortured individual. D was in the lead for best spillage with his combination salsa toss and bowl break, but FBD took the grand prize by soaking two people AND a couch AND spilling precious booze with a single drink knocked over.
For your viewing pleasure:
(Togas + Porn) * Booze = Fun
I took maybe 5 or 6 photos but of course, the best of the bunch was the first one where I forgot to reset the camera’s whitebalance from where I’d last left it. Damn you Murphy. If you click the pic you can compare the original to the processed version you see here. Aside from leaving way too much red in the shadows (the wooden furniture appears to be an entirely different kind of wood than it really is) I think I did a half-decent job of recovering my WB mistake.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Bitter Singles Day is tomorrow. I’ll be celebrating with my hunnybunnysmoochiepieloverbearsnugglewuggles this weekend. Next week is the Barenaked Ladies concert and you can bet your banana that I’m supermegajumbo excited about it, too. Following that is a mysterious trip to Toronto. Oh, did TO not get bolded? I daresay I owe the world-class city an apology. Or a non-sarcastic voice, at least.
These all have two things in common: I want to write about them all in my little diary here, but I will either forget or procrastinate doing so until all I can remember are three words: “it was fun”. I will share these words with you later. In the meantime, be good and don’t do anyone I wouldn’t do. Thing. Anything.
