Saturday night

A short note.

I have in mind an FO entry, one I have been meaning to write for a week or two, but I’m sort of tired and thinking that I should just go to sleep and NOT stay up all night again. I’ll go pick up my prescriptions tomorrow, so that will be off my mind. Today was rather a nice day, after a week of rainy gray skies, so I think I’ll get the camera out – the last post reminded me of how much I like to show off the things I take pictures of, the joy I feel in the reponses my pictures get.

I’ve been taking pictures since I was ten, and have taken more than a few classes in Photography. Digital Cameras have changed the experience quite a bit – no more waiting for the prints to come back from the developers, and my darkroom is on my desk, in the computer – so.much.easier.

A quiet day, mostly. I read almost all day, a nice way to pass the time, getting up every so often to go out on the balcony or to the convenience store. I drove just 4 miles today – saving that gas.

A high school friend whom I hadn’t heard from since 1980 got a hold of me last night via email, and we wrote back and forth. I wrote a long email this morning and sent a copy of my Kobe Quake experience to him – you’ve read it, maybe; I’ve posted it a few times here, mostly on January 17th, the date of the quake. Turns out I’ve found it on misc. earthquake sites too – the old "eyewitness account" of a city heavily damaged. That quake was – hard to believe – a thousand times LESS powerful than the March 2011 quake in Tohoku that wrecked that nuke plant and sent a tsunami in and over coastal cities in NW Japan.

( The Richter Scale of earthquake power is logarithmic; each whole number increase is one thousand times stronger than the number before. The Kobe quake was, in my area, a 7.1 quake )

Short note my ass.

 

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