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Half Done with 2009
I'm nearly 100% sure that no one reads this so-called newsletter of my life. I thought of just giving it up in August, since that would be the seventh year anniversary of me writing here. But I think that I'm still doing this as a record of what happens in my life. As such I'm going to shake things up and make some changes to this page.
Vista Drive has new pictures in Color and Black & White, as well as a new addition to Snapshots. I've decided to fold the Travels section into Snapshots, because it makes more sense (to me anyway).
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Afterthoughts : This Past Month
I'm trying a little something different this month. I take a lot of random pictures when I head out of the house. I like that because it's like a journal kept in pictures. The pictures I take help me remember the moment all the more. It's like a memory is trigged when I see a picture of a place I was at that particular moment. So, in the spirit I give you this past month.
Crowell dinner club eating dinner at IHOP
May 8 - The first meeting of the Crowell Public Library employee's dinner club. In attendance: Carrie, Ed, Shazia, Vicki, Lourdes and myself. My hankering for pancakes inspired my co-worker Shazia to suggest us forming a dinner club where we eat at different places, while venting about the job, our lives, and anything else that comes to mind. Our first stop, since I got everyone thinking of pancakes, was IHOP.
First picture with new ELPH Powershot SD-780
May 9 - A few months back my Canon ELPH camera died. I didn't have the money to replace it right away, so I figured I'd wait. Then just a few weeks back I got $50 from Amazon for being such a "great" customer. Blame my dentist for the extra amount of cash I had to spend on my credit card. Suffice to say, fifty bucks isn't enough to buy a digital camera. But, combine that money with $56 in coins and now you're talking about knocking down the price a bit. So I went and bought a new camera, a Canon ELPH Powershot SD-780 IS. It's a tiny little camera with a lot of nice features, and 12 megapixels. The compact size is ideal for me because I wanted to have a camera that I could literally take anywhere. The above picture is the "first" official picture taken. I say official because I took a couple of my desk, but deleted those pictures.
South Pasadena Library
May 20 - The Glendale library penny pinchers have done a "good" job at keeping their budget "down." Because of that they had a little extra money at the end of the fiscal year. So they asked the pages, including me of course, if we wanted to work extra hours. To spend that leftover money before the next fiscal year starts in July. Because of all that I have been working some extra hours on Tuesdays. When I first started working these two jobs I worked Tuesdays 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. That's what I've been working these last few Tuesdays, and will be until the end of June. In between I have three hours to "kill." So I leisurely eat my lunch, then take a side trip to the South Pasadena library. There's a nice big lawn in the back (pictured above) that makes for a nice setting. A co-worker pointed out how silly it is for me to work at one library in the morning, spend a couple of hours sitting around at another library, only to then go to a third library to work in the evening. Yeah, it's a bit crazy, but what else am I supposed to do?
L.A. public library, aka Central library
May 30 - Saturdays have become very important to me because of the extra hours I've been working. On the last Saturday of May I decided to head downtown for a meal and a book. The book was the excuse for the meal, and then the meal became the excuse of a walk around downtown. Suffice to say Clifton's is a great place for a meal. The walk tired me out, but it's a good tired, and I got a lot of pictures to show for it.
That's this past month in pictures.
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Etcetera : Apropos Postsecret
At one time I kept five online journals. I still update three of those on a constant basis. Of course a few of them have changed over the years. The Vista Observer was once a journal of online articles that I found interesting. Today that is my photo journal, where I post pictures I take that perhaps tell a story. I don't mind people I know not reading my journals, since I write them for myself. Though, there was a time when I was writing for an audience, instead of just for myself. Today not having friends and family read that stuff is fine by me, because I can truly vent my feelings. But what I do hate is when someone I know doesn't take a few moments of the time they are online to check out my photos. I take their indifference as a personal affront. But, I can't force people to visit Vista Drive. I've decided that I'm not going to mention my photography to my friends, family, or co-workers. If some of them stumble upon it then that's fine, but I'm not going to put the effort into getting people to visit and then have them "forget," or "not find the time."
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