So I again apologize for another incredible absence from posting. Even though I didn’t do One-Act this year, my early February has just been jam-packed with things happening it seems.

Speaking of One-Act, it was an interesting season this year. Beth and I went to watch the Section 3[A] One-Act competition in Redwood Falls on February 2. It never ceases to amaze me the incredible talent that’s on display every February in Southwest Minnesota. The section competition is almost always more interesting to watch than the Sub-Section competition, mostly due to the amount of fine-tuning that’s been done to each production (in contrast to just a week earlier at the previous contest). For $12, Beth and I watched eight really amazing productions. I’d highly recommend catching theatre in this sort of format.

One thing we didn’t do this year was travel to watch the State Festival. It’s the first time I’ve missed it in the last seven years. In a way it was nice — I didn’t have to arrange for the trip to take place (even if it were only for Beth and I) — but I also missed not seeing the incredible theatre during the two-day event. We’ll see — maybe next year. Beth and I were considering going for one day, but then the school whose performance we would’ve tried to see didn’t make it to the festival, so the ultimate desire wasn’t really there to do all that driving (six hours round trip) just for one day. So we skipped it this year.

Other than that, I’ve been keeping busy. The unfortunate thing is that I can’t really say how. Not that I’m keeping anything a secret — it just seems as though I’ve always been busy as of late. But, I’ve taken quite a few pictures, hung around with Beth and Kirstin, and doing the daily grind as usual. Those three activities take up most of the weekdays.

I think the problem I’ve had lately is in my weekend time. We’ve been gone off and on each weekend (namely on Saturdays, which are my Power Days for getting random things done) for several weeks now, so the household pile (read: massive pile of things in the office here at home) hasn’t been tackled.

This is a project for later this week and this weekend. I did manage to get the better part of my desk cleared off last week, which was very much a welcome change. But, I need to do some serious things here now. Filing, organizing, and throwing. At this point in time, I’m considering taking a day off later this week to tackle the project.

I’m not really a fan of taking days off to do random things like that, but now is as good a time to take a day or two as any. I’m more than on schedule (actually, somewhat ahead of schedule) at the office, we’re in the middle of a release cycle (last update was in January, next will be in mid-March), and I haven’t spent a weekday away from the office (short of holidays) for a while now. So we’ll see what happens. If we get some more serious snow tomorrow (Wednesday) night and into Thursday, I might just use that as the convenient catalyst. 🙂

I recently dug out a bunch of old pictures (and more importantly, developed negatives). I’m going to look through the negatives and get them redeveloped as digital prints (not actually reprinted, since I don’t need another copy) sometime in the next few weeks. Now is a good time to get that done since it’s after the Christmas season and before the prom and summertime season. That, and I found out from the gal who runs the photo department at Benson’s that it’s basically just a straight (small) hourly charge to do the work…

It will save me vast amounts of time and effort (as opposed to scanning hundreds of images). That is worth a small fee, since I’d be looking at weeks of scanning in my free time. So that’s cool. I’m excited, since it means I can expand my Flickr collections even further!

And speaking of Flickr, I uploaded image number 4,000 tonight. Seeing as how my official Flickr birthday is on February 24 (the day I uploaded my first image), I think that’s fairly impressive. 🙂 One might actually call photography a ‘hobby’ of mine!

Which leads me to the next mini-topic, the subject of this post’s image. My image was chosen as the KMRS/KKOK Photo of the Day today! Go me! I don’t win anything for it (short of the fame), but I am entered into the monthly drawing for a free photo frame. Still, I had to do a screenshot of it!

And that’s about all I have to ramble about tonight. I promise — I’ll try to be better about posting more frequently in the next few weeks. Things should settle down a bit now…at least I hope! 🙂

So until next time…

“I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.”
– Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)

–MZ