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Dinner omelet...

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Wrapped (bagged) Suzy's presents, and Suzy's presents to Penny and May because Suzy is all paws. It's gettin' festive in Fairfax!

Breakfast omelet

I like the CFA2 so much I want to give it a separate PSU to move the transformer away from the amp circuit. The PSU chassis came in a few days ago. Still debating if to go dual-mono with 2 GRLV.

These are best for trolling forums...

Ahhh, I see no beer in that picture, just sayin'. Christmas came a bit early today. Lance received a Russian National Team shirt and I received something bitter. Not pictured is a custom crafted Justin level finish FIE foil blade personalized by the manufacturer. The entire Italian olympic foil team and some of the Russian men's olympic foilists have changed over to use Franchini foil blades exclusively. We are honored to have him do this for Lance.

If you haven't watched a tour of the International Space Station, this one is pretty entertaining.

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9.6! That second lady takes her Christmas seriously!

A story in 3 parts.

I was as that tour in Birmingham UK. Absolutely superb from beginning to end. So glad I saw him perform on stage. If you don't have the DVD of that concert rush out and buy it.

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Made some cupcakes this evening for the office Christmas party tomorrow

Orphan Black. Watching the first season on Amazon. Great start, and I heard it just gets better.

For the first time in ...for-fucking-ever, I'm actually taking some photos, editing them and posting them online. Wrangling Flickr for the first time in years is an amusing and frustrating experience. I've hated the "new" UI for years now, and I find accomplishing fairly basic tasks with it to be a right royal PITA. Several of the large groups where I was a member have disappeared completely (RIP the hugely active Macintosh group). I barely remember how to embed images via Flickr at this point. IMG_1505 Edit 2 Infrared photo I took 5 years ago almost to the day, with my IR-modified 5D and my 35mm F/2. The 35 has a broke AF motor, but that has never stopped me from using it. I spent ages converting this image to black & white with a high contrast blue filter and then duotoning it in Photoshop. IMG_1852 Ancient historical of a ferry boat ...in the spring of 2016. As I have been doing a bunch recently, I converted this image to black & white and duotoned it in Photoshop. IMG_1848 Edit 2 One of my old favorite tricks, taking the law of thirds to its illogical end. Lots of ocean texture. Mangled heavily in Photoshop to make it look like a historical remnant. IMG_1853 Edit 2 Faux Large Format Shot: The Shenandoah, as photographed from a ferry. Converted to black & white and duotoned in Photoshop. Cropped to 4:5, which is still my favorite aspect ratio. IMG_1917 Edit 1 The most recent shot of the bunch, I took this last May during my previous visit to MV. I only got around to editing it this week. Converted to black & white using a yellow filter and then duotoned in Photoshop.

Red Lane was an icon in Country music. He penned many hits, including Merle Haggard's Hungry Eyes and Tammy Wynette's 'Til I Get It Right. He was also known for Train songs and it seems his has left the station. RIP Red.