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While movies and TV shows make it look like married guys go crazy when their wife leaves town, reality is far different. Between office work, photography jobs, and dealing with the wreckage of our mid-demolition apartment, I’m too busy to throw Old-School style parties and unleash my inner party guy. One stereotype is true though. I miss Taryn every time she travels. Her abscense unbalances things. Even the cats pace the apartment in the mornings looking for her.For those of you keeping track, we’re still house shopping. Lots of possibilities, but nothing that grabs both of us. We’re even considering building something custom. As I hinted at above, the renovations at our place are still going on. As I left for work yesterday morning, a young guy in a dust-mask was going ballistic on the wall surrounding our circuit breaker panel with a ballpeen hammer. Good morning to you too, Buddy.The basement studio is no more … long live the studio. It’s looking like the space Kurt and I were talking about is going to work out. We’ll know more in a week or so, but he’s pretty confident that we’ve got it. I’m really looking forward to moving into a less ramshackel space. It’s exciting to have an opportunity to make a space to work and be creative in. I plan on spending a lot of time there, so enlightened self-interest will probably inspire some DIY upgrading and decorating.

Have you ever heard of Pandora.com? It’s a streaming music site, and I’m totally digging it. I’m working late tonight, with the lights off, and as I work on my tech-geek tan I’m also rocking out to Imogene Heap and Cake radio. Beat the heck out of commercial radio. It ranks up there next to Aurgasm.us for musical goodness.

For those of you who remember me talking about the Challenge: Portrait the Raleigh Flickr Group did a few months ago, we have news. The schedule at April & George is full through the end of the year, so we’re planning on having the show sometime early next year. I’ll be working with the group to work out the printing and framing, and share the opening night announcements when they’re ready. In the meantime, there’s that pesky book I was working on…

IMAGE: Taryn and I were driving the beltline the other day, just running errands. She had her el cheapo sunglasses on that we’d picked up in the mall a while back. The weather was beautiful and we had the top down on the Cabrio. I just dug the reflections.

I don’t know which one is more futile to hunt!  Taryn is knocking herself out looking for a new home for us, and it just seems like it takes an excessive amount of time and effort.  It feels like she’ll like a place and I won’t, or I’ll like it and she won’t, or we both will like it… but it will have a “fundamental flaw” that neither of us want to deal with.  It would be nice to catch a break sometime soon. 

Speaking of breaks, I was able to replace my broken camera late last week.  I’m now shooting with a Canon 30D, which is proving to be a pretty sweet rig.  It’s got all the features of my dear departed 20D plus a few useful extras, like a larger LCD, a smaller spot-meter, and both luminance and RGB histograms.

IMAGE: A local restaurant closed a while back and the space sits vacant.  Normally the blinds would be drawn or the windows covered by paper, but they’re not, and this statue stands facing a busy street.  While I can see the “Christmas Story Leg Lamp” humor, my first impression is one of melancholy.

I’ve realized that I’m (A) too busy, and (B) that this blog is pretty unfocused.  As such, I’m switching to a once-a-week posting schedule, with guaranteed new posts on Monday mornings.  I may put up the occassional midweek item, but they’ll be the odd job.  So until Monday…

IMAGE: Whiteboard + Cameraphone = Bad Cartoons