Hmmm...

I am really bad at thinking of stuff to post about, so... if you have any ideas for me, besides the weather and my health... (I'm not running a smalltalk blog... although that might be an interesting experiment.) let me know.

Hm...

I can't decide on anything to blog about... which is saying either that I'm having a hard time deciding between a flurry of ideas, or I'm bombing around inside my head like Pooh trying to catch a butterfly (which is the idea).

Now, micro-blogging on the other hand, I can handle moderately well... such as Twittering/Tweeting/Twirping/saying-what-you're-doing-in-140-characters-or-less... I change activities or have interesting thoughts often enough to update that at least once a day (William woke up; William went to bed; William woke up; William went to bed; William woke up in the middle of the night because he had an interesting thought... while sleeping... and went back to bed; William just played his guitar so loud that even his drummer of a little brother complained... uh... yeah.)

For your information, I'm "working" right now... I just don't really have any work to do. I'm manning an office, and getting paid awfully well for it, too... for a 17 year old who is still in high-school. Maybe I should start doing web coding in my free time... then I could make a complete killing... get paid for sitting here waiting for the phone to ring, and code away while waiting. Frankly, I think that'd be a bad idea- I already spend too much time on the computer... no sense actually getting paid for it, then I might just spend more time on it, and become a complete nerd. Well, since nothing else is happening or coming to me, I'll just post this now... Maybe another one will come later today, who knows.

I'm not saying what it's about... because then it wouldn't be so funny.

http://deltackett.com/2008/12/31/removing-obstacles-in-your-life/

... read it and laugh... or... read it and wonder, if you happen to live in Paraguay or some place like that... because, yes, that really happens.

You paid what???

I went to Circuit City today- they are having a closing sale... and everything I wanted to get was a whopping 10% off!!! But- the kicker is: it looked like half the stuff was gone! People actually bought the stuff at only 10% off!!!

Maybe it's just me, but it seems kinda stupid.

I then went to EMS... 70% off there... seems like a better deal to me.

Other funny thing: the Canon Rebel XSi kit I was looking at- Circuit City: $800 ($720 after sale); B&H Photo & Video: $650, free shipping (no sale) ...hard choice.

The tree

So... I have several pictures of this tree. It is conveniently located for taking pictures to test aperture settings and shutter speeds... this happened to be the nicest of them... and I felt like making another post. So here it is- the tree.

12th Night

So... on the 4th, 5th and 6th, the Southern Maine Association of Shakespearean Homeschoolers (a.k.a. SMASH) put on 12th Night, and for the first time since I can remember... I wasn't in the play as an actor. I got to do the lights, in a sense... it came to pass that I ended up as lighting assistant, because I wasn't able to make the dress rehearsal, and the other guy who was doing the lights managed to make all the performances on time!

In the spare time that resulted, I took pictures of the first night... did something the second night (I don't remember what- probably just read off the changes to Nick... the other guy...) and the third night, I filmed the production. (Next time around, I'm going to get a better recording... I don't know how, but I will. Even if I'm acting.) I missed a few lines because of operator error (i.e. the camera wanted to make me wait, and didn't get done before the scene change was done...) Anyhow, I shall see what I can do with the video, and perhaps post a few sections of it. (We had an excellent fool.)

So, a few of the pictures:


The "madly used" Malvolio... in a minute of deep contemplation.


Fabian... every mischief-making villain needs a good mustache, eh?


Sebastian- the hero with the mustache... (I think I have a better one that I will replace it with.)


Maria- this girl was amazing... excellent first time acting!


Maria again... I do believe this was her explaining how alike her writing was to Olivia's.


Malvolio takes on Sir Toby Belch's late night revelry.


I still have another roll of shots, and a few that might look a lot better in Black and White... I'll try and put them up later...

I have a camera, and (I think) I know how to use it!

That would kinda describe it... my dad is letting me use his Pentax Spotmatic IIa, which is a rather cool (if old) SLR camera, and I recently got a roll developed... it didn't come out quite as I hoped (the film I found was probably long past its expiration date... and frozen), but the pictures it didn't ruin come out with an interesting texture to them... like so:
My dog, Duchess...