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Uncharacteristic Blue skies in the Victorian splendor that is Leeds, so time to share a bacon, and sausage sarnie. It hit the spot!

Even better, it makes them sleep

Some Malaysian fare with the better half at Houston's PHAT Eatery. They have a roti starter that's pretty special. Malaysian curries do nothing for me so I ordered some pepper beef dish and the wifey some tofu noodle something or another. HS

Just a few shots from August with friends. Looking at statistics, almost all the time I just used the respective base ISOs, very few were above 800. All the qualities modern sensors have - they just aren't necessary to have especially with fast optics and I haven"t even applied AI noise reduction. Used the EF 24/1.4 II which I find quite hard to frame with (28-35-40 might be my sweet spot) and one of the most ridiculous vintage portrait lenses. Quite heavy, slow and hard to focus, optically the softest I own, loads of aberrations, flaring, all sorts of things. But it is imposing, especially with the recently acquired hood, and it does produce some pleasing shots with distinctive colours and soft background blur. (but so do many others) The R6 Mark II might have improved colours over the R6, but I am still not completely happy with it. Strangely, this does not apply to video, where I get 'full Canon colours', so it is still those LR Profiles not working well, otherwise this it is strong money in all aspects, but an EOS R, R6 or R8 might be even better value (R5 is best overall). In contrast, D700 just looks really good to me. I might retract the 'film-like look', simply has consistently good colours, providing a great base for faster editing (used the Nikon DX2 profile this time). I have some gripes with the AF and weight (especially if I find a 28/1.4 which will add more). But less than 300$ with 50/1.8G seems hard to beat, I will probably dump all of my gear that is cheaper. With the Zf, Df seems to be getting cheap, seen not so pretty ones for as low as 600$ body only. Not sure about the grip, but otherwise it might provide an even better sensor in a smaller, lighter body with a bit better AF (just one pointer where my GAS is heading...)

Decided to try my hand at chicken parm. Pan friend, panko crusted thin chicken breasts, on the grill side burner to limit indoor mess. Always better by sunset light. Baked with homemade tomato sauce with mozzarella and parmesan cheese. One cutlet was left cheese free for Lily who claims that she's becoming lactose intolerant. All agreed that it was excellent.

I could start my own glory hole business!

While I can't say it's the most exciting erection I've come across, it is quite interesting.

Long way to go but to quote my favorite band, "at least I am enjoying the ride."

It has been a rough week at work. I decided to attempt mental floss on the way to work and kick my own ass.

Good man, Mike.