Lunaya Pravda

And some more pictures, this time of the LeMay Museum in Spanaway taken back in October. If you can believe it, we didn’t get to see all the cars - not yet, anyway - at least one building wasn’t open that day.

Visited the family in Eugene this past week, and used the down time to mess around with my camera some more.  This time I focused on monochrome options and learning to recognize the best objects for spot metering.

Seen at UW yesterday:

I’m busier than a twelve-peckered dog at the moment, but I thought I’d post that my cacti are still alive.  No overwatering… yet.  And I have photographic evidence of their survival.  The succulent on the right has grown some three inches since I got it - I’m very proud.
I’ll also note I’m having a blast [...]

Against all that is ingrained in me, I’m trying, once again, to keep a few cacti in the house.  Given my past history with cacti, I’m clinging desperately to the idea that these poor plants aren’t doomed.
I blame nature shows.  Here I am, watching some program about all things desert-y, and the narrator starts describing [...]

The Snark Of The Week Award goes to Brad at WendyMcElroy.com:
A few months ago it became trendy to refer to nationalization of banks as “pre-privatization.” Now, from Mike “Mish” Shedlock, I learn that someone has declared the economy to be in the “pre-recovery” stage.
I suppose by this reasoning the current U.S. wars are “pre-victory,” [...]

Related to the previous post, it just so happens that The Register-Guard publishes maps of police calls every day, and has been for some months now. So, just to check their article containing all the ridiculous police whining about a lack of time for traffic stops, I recorded the daily numbers of traffic stops [...]