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26
Apr 15

Catching up

The most simple post in the book, the one that puts extra photos here and calls it content. If this is somehow the first time you’ve seen this one, this is a perfect example of placeholder nonsense.

One of the better truck paint jobs, for my dime. Pig bursting through the back, a call to action. You’d be hard pressed to top that.

This was just before sunset last night at the ballpark.

I know this is just a feature of this species of tree, but at first glance you see this and you think “Not yet, leaf. This is only April.”

This one isn’t too bad for a cell phone shot from the hip and cropped within an inch of its life:

There’s this field I know that is delightfully un-mowed and if you catch it just right, you can get dramatic scenery on the earth and in the sky:

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25
Apr 15

Sleepy Saturday

I’m not ashamed to say it. I slept in. Very, very late. We went to a baseball game.

Before the game I sprawled out on the floor to stretch my back and shoulders and promptly fell asleep.

At the park we sat through a brief weather delay, during which I shot this video:

It is a Hyperlapse video — and you don’t hear about those much any more for some reason. That’s a little over three minutes of clouds moving directly overhead. I slapped some music on it and uploaded it from my phone because we live in an interesting time where you can record video on a super computer that spends most of its time in your pocket. And not only can you record video there, but you can speed it up, slow it down, edit it and do any number of other great things to that video, all from your telephone.

And then I uploaded it to YouTube because we live in an interesting time where we upload a lot of things to YouTube. And now it is here, because this is where all of my things land.

When play resumed we saw Auburn sweep their first conference series in three years, we went for dinner and then came home.

I’m thinking about going to bed at a reasonable time, too.

It has been that kind of day.

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19
Apr 15

Catching up

The weekend post with … the extras. You haven’t already seen these on the site so you can see them here now. So we’ll get right to it.

I like that someone took the time to print up a slip of paper and slide it into this little name holder. You seldom see that sort of dedication, but our friend Sally Ann is dedicated … to her recipes, it seems.

I’m also interested in the nicks on the Remington Rand sticker. Remington Rand split off of Remington Arms and made things like office equipment and electric shavers. They’d add companies that made adding machines and binders. During the war they made pistols and in the 1950s they got into the electronic computing business. Sperry Corp., a mainframe company, bought Remington Rand in 1955 and then merged in 1986 with business equipment maker Burroughs to form Unisys, which now measures their financials in billions and employs more than 22,000. Odds are you have a Unisys products in your home.

Bet you didn’t see that coming when this started with a recipe box.

Took this in the stairwell beneath my office. It was a dreary day, looked like this, felt like this and opaque windows captured it all:

Dewayne, our friend the balloon maker, made an Akbar action figure:

Allie is posing for you. Every now and then she likes to be famous on the Internet.

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18
Apr 15

Day at the park

Enjoyed a doubleheader of baseball today. The first game was at noon, and A-Day was going on across the street. It was a busy afternoon, with people still filtering in at the end of the first game and staying through the second.

Like these guys:

The home team got beat in the first game, prompting the rally caps in the late innings. If you didn’t wear a cap you go with the rally sunglasses.

Auburn blanked Ole Miss in the second game 14-0 to take the series. We watched online as the Auburn gymnasts earned a sixth place finish at the national championships and the softball team won just down the street. Also, there was the win-either-way nature of A-day game. It was a fine day to be a sports fan.

Pizza for dinner, kitty cuddles after that. Think I’ll go read myself to sleep now.

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12
Apr 15

Catching up

We traveled. Uber to the airport. Delta from Tampa to Atlanta. A shuttle from the airport to the car. And then the car down the freeway home. All of that so I could take off my suit and then mow the lawn just ahead of the rain. And now this, catching up, with extra photos from the trip.

This is the first of the electronic waiter pagers I’ve seen. It was in the hotel lobby, a place with big palm trees, no apparent ceiling and a pretty decent music selection. I wanted to press one of the buttons to test the response time, but then I would have to order something …

And that would have been silly considering how much of our dining was done during the trip at the Colombia Cafe. It is located in one of the city’s museums, sort of a welcome center location. And above us there was great neon, like this guy:

I wanted to bring the baseball player sign home. The airline said no. Maybe I should have taken the train:

And now some of the great ceramic work adorning the outside of the Colombia, in Ybor City. Fine detail, terrific food. I’d go back again — oh wait! We did!