Lunchtime flora shot from yesterday.

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I’m in the shower this morning shampooing my hair… got the radio going and stuff as usual when all the sudden, the music cuts off and the lights go out. There are no windows in my bathroom and the door is closed so now it’s pitch black. Nice. I had just gotten into the shower so I still had the majority of my showering to do. I was able to finish anyway since I knew where everything was without looking. Yeah, I’ve got skillz.

After I got out, I checked my breaker box to make sure something didn’t inadvertantly trip. It was fine. I looked outside and none of my neighbors seemed to have power either so it wasn’t just me. Next challence was how to dry my hair. I can’t just let my hair air-dry. If I do, I’ll end up looking like one of those kids in a hunger-relief campaign poster. All I’d need to do is get an empty bowl with some bits of oatmeal in it and sqat down next to a dried up creek.

But I digress.

Being the technofile I am, I realized that hey - I’ve got a serious backup power system for my main computer at home. SCHWING! I plugged my hair dryer in and… was kind of disappointed. I had power, but not enough power to run the dryer like it normally runs. So after all that, I had what I called “Pilgrim Hair” - dried it the way the Pilgrims did… without electricity. In the end, I got my wig looking passable but had to use more hair products to accomplish what normally doesn’t take much.

How’s THAT for a start to my day! This will impress you - even with all that, I was only about 10 minutes late for work. The power did come on just as I was about to leave. I still don’t know what caused all this but I suspect a nearby susbstation went BOOM.

The weather was awesome today. So awesome that me and some co-workers ate lunch outside by the river at Jemisons. I quickly finished my lunch and took off with my camera to get some shots of plants and people in the park. I got a few that I’ll post later.

It was laundry night tonight. Jeans and towels.

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After all the bee excitement this morning, the rest of the day seemed fairly dull. The story on the bees was that somehow they got into an old chimney in my office building. This chimney no longer opens into a fireplace anywhere so there wasn’t a problem inside. The plan was to get the queen out and move the swarm into a bee house/hive/whatever and get them relocated. Unfortunately, the queen was down too deep to get to so as a result, had to get rid of them before they caused more problems. There were some painters across the street re-doing the outside of a home (our office is in a historic district) and the army bees were flying over there trying to sting them a few days ago. That’s what got all the attention.

Tonight I worked on photography stuff for a good bit then took a break and played my drums. That was relaxing believe it or not. I also took a stab at cleaning my office more, mainly getting rid of old books in my bookcase. Eric stopped in to get a copy of the music Kyle and I recorded over the weekend so he could work up a bass part for it. We’re making pretty good progress. Hopefully we’ll be ready to get Charity recording again soon. There are some things that have to be done though before it’s ready for public consumption. Copyright stuff. As soon as I can post a clip, I’ll get one up here.

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Here’s a snapshot of yours truly as I myself was taking photos of our bee extravaganza this morning.

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The queen was about THIS big! LOL!

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Old honeycomb!

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Got a big basin of…

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Needed some of this…

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Had a bit of a bee “issue” on top of my office building this morning.

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That was one weird movie. It had funny parts but overall it was just… well, weird. I actually did find myself being entertained at times but at the end, you’re left feeling like you’re not sure if you enjoyed it or not.

Anyway.

Things at the office were suprisingly mundane for a Monday. This is not a bad thing. Kevin informed me that the last few days of Lobsterfest (at Red Lobster) are about to be over and that we need to get in one good dinner there - so at 6:00, me and Burns met up there and stuffed our faces. It was scrumptious. When the grazing was over, I hauled Kev over to Kyle’s to track a keyboard part for the song we’ve been working on. After Kyle wired everything up using all kinds of adapters and converters, Kev was able to record without incident. Also, I had to sing again. I didn’t mind at this point. We’ll soon get Charity back in there to re-record her vocal track once we’re done.

Wrapped up the evening watching the aforementioned movie back at Kevin’s. That was about it.

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